Lawrence High School

Shirley Marguerite Willett “Willie”

Shirley Marguerite Willett (“Willie”) was one of 512 graduates in the class of 1944 at Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Tarbox; headed for Nursing; born in 1926. Portrait and entry from the Blue and White, page 115.

Class of 1944

512 in the class of 1944 · 8 more named Willett

Full name: Shirley Marguerite Willett
Known as: Willie
Born: October 20, 1926, Methuen
School: Lawrence High School
Graduated: Class of 1944
Course: Nurses Preparatory
Came from: Tarbox
Headed for: Nursing

Also searched as: Willie Willett; Shirley Willett; Shirley M. Willett; Willett, Shirley.

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Same surname 6
Classmates 511
Same schools 94

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 512 names from the Lawrence High School class of 1944, Shirley stands 497th. Shirley is printed on page 115 of the scan, near the end of the 12-to-119 run of portrait pages. Shirley is one of 59 in the Lawrence High School class of 1944 whose entry names Tarbox as the school they came from. Shirley is one of 55 listed under Nurses Preparatory among the 496 classmates whose course is printed (11%). The share taking a college or college-preparatory course was 31% in the class of 1944 (154 of 496), against 34% in 1945.

On the same scan page	Rita Louise White, Kathryn R. Wills
Same earlier school	Tarbox: 58 other classmates
Same kind of plan	nursing: 45 of 350 classmates with a plan (13%)
Same course	Nurses Preparatory: 55 of 496 classmates with a course (11%)
The book's own title	The Blue and White

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Lawrence High School yearbook, 1944, page 115. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item lawrencehighscho1944lawr).

Published 1944. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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