Newton High School

Willard Rice

Printed in the 1914 yearbook as Willard Wadsworth Rice

Willard Rice (American ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist) is in the 1914 yearbook of Newton High School, Newton, Massachusetts, printed there as Willard Wadsworth Rice. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates and what the book says.

Class of 1914

Before they were famous

Willard Rice American ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist

Willard Rice was an American ice hockey player who won a silver medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics. He played for the Boston Athletic Association during the 1920s and 1930s. He also worked as an executive for a soap manufacturing company.

Born: April 21, 1895, Newton
Died: 1967
Age in this yearbook: about 19
In the yearbook as: Willard Wadsworth Rice, Newton High School, class of 1914

How we know this is the same person: Birth date printed in the book (April 21, 1895.) matches Wikidata exactly, and the name matches Willard Rice. Summary written from the Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

119 in the class of 1914 · 77 more named Rice

Full name: Willard Wadsworth Rice
Born: April 21, 1895.
Lived at: 106 Summer St., Newton Centre
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1914
Course: Classical
Came from: Mason Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Willard Rice; Willard W. Rice; Rice, Willard.

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Household 1
Neighbours 5
Same surname 68
Classmates 118
Same schools 99

In context

Of the 119 names from the Newton High School class of 1914 that have pages here, Willard is 91st in surname order. On the scan, the entry sits on page 46, in the last third of the stretch from page 21 to page 53 where this site found the book's portraits. Classical was the course of 75 out of 119 classmates who printed one (63%), including Willard. Willard's plan is printed as “Harvard”, which counts here as a college or university; 58 of the 79 classmates who named a plan (73%) named the same kind. The class of 1914 has 119 names here, where the neighbouring classes have 108 for 1913 and 147 for 1915.

On the same scan page	Fannie C. Rane, Hadwin Houghton Richardson, Maude Harriet Rockefeller
Same earlier school	Mason Grammar School: 23 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 58 of 79 classmates with a plan (73%)
Same course	Classical: 75 of 119 classmates with a course (63%)

At home, 106 Summer St., Newton Centre

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Lawrence Bridges RiceNewton 1915

What the yearbook said

Class Football, 1910. Class Hockev, 1911-12.

Also grew up on Summer St., Newton Centre

The class of 1914

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Others named Rice

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also came from Mason Grammar School

Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Newton High School yearbook, 1914, page 46. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1914newt).

Published 1914, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Newton Free Library via the Internet Archive.

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