Lawrence High School

William Edward Wooles “Woolesy”

William Edward Wooles (“Woolesy”) was one of 512 graduates in the class of 1944 at Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from St. Patrick’s; headed for Army Pilot; born in 1926. Portrait and entry from the Blue and White, page 116.

Class of 1944

512 in the class of 1944 · 1 more named Wooles

Full name: William Edward Wooles
Known as: Woolesy
Born: October 20, 1926
School: Lawrence High School
Graduated: Class of 1944
Course: General
Came from: St. Patrick’s
Headed for: Army Pilot

Also searched as: Woolesy Wooles; Bill Wooles; William Wooles; William E. Wooles.

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Classmates 511
Same schools 32

In context

Of the 512 entries from the Lawrence High School class of 1944 read for this site, William's is 502nd alphabetically. William is printed on page 116 of the scan, near the end of the 12-to-119 run of portrait pages. The first name William runs through 4 classes of Lawrence High School (1920 to 1945), 20 people in all, and is most common in 1944 (12). William is one of 122 listed under General among the 496 classmates whose course is printed (25%). Count the first names and the class of 1944 gives John (22), Joseph (15) and Mary (14), where the class of 1945 gives John (17) and Robert (13).

On the same scan page	Roberta I. Wirth, Mildred M. Wnek, Stanley Peter Wojnar, Frank Howard Wright
Same kind of plan	military service: 33 of 350 classmates with a plan (9%)
Same course	General: 122 of 496 classmates with a course (25%)
Same first name	William: 11 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Blue and White

What the yearbook said

“He’s the silver lining in our dark clouds”

The class of 1944

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Also came from St. Patrick’s

Also headed for Army Pilot

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Lawrence High School yearbook, 1944, page 116. 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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