Newton High School

William Dawson Alexander “Porky”

Newton High School in Newton, Massachusetts, listed William Dawson Alexander (“Porky”) among 153 graduates in the class of 1924. The entry gives: headed for Bowdoin; lived at 9 Eldredge St., Newton; born in 1906. Portrait and entry from the Newtonian, page 23.

Class of 1924

153 in the class of 1924 · 49 more named Alexander

Full name: William Dawson Alexander
Known as: Porky
Born: July 12, 1906
Lived at: 9 Eldredge St., Newton
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1924
Course: Scientific
Headed for: Bowdoin

Also searched as: Porky Alexander; Bill Alexander; William Alexander; William D. Alexander.

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Neighbours 2
Same surname 33
Classmates 152
Same schools 7

In context

153 people from the Newton High School class of 1924 appear on this site, and Alexander puts William 3rd among them. William is printed on page 23 of the scan, right at the start of the 23-to-73 run of portrait pages. Among the 117 people in the class who printed a plan, 76 (65%) named a college or university, as William did (“Bowdoin”). William is one of 35 listed under Scientific among the 153 classmates whose course is printed (23%). Of the 88 plans printed for the class of 1924 that name a kind of next step, 76 (86%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 89% in 1923 and 84% in 1925.

On the same scan page	Bertha Margaret Adams, Ronald Weston Adams, Earl Crawford Anderson
Same kind of plan	college or university: 76 of 117 classmates with a plan (65%)
Same course	Scientific: 35 of 153 classmates with a course (23%)
The book's own title	Newtonian (editor: Lawrence A. Peakes)

What the yearbook said

it is good to rub and polish our BRAINS AGAINST THOSE OF OTHERS

Also grew up on Eldredge St., Newton

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Newton High School yearbook, 1924, page 23. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1924newt).

Published 1924, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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