Somerville High School · Somerville, Massachusetts

Somerville High School Class of 1929

120 graduates of Somerville, Massachusetts. Every name and face was read out of the scanned yearbook pages themselves.

Rights: Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

120graduates
60listed activities

Poster of this classEvery portrait and name on one printable sheet.

Cover of Somerville High School Radiator

About this yearbook

Title: Somerville High School Radiator
Editor: ROBERT J. GLENNON, '30
Scanned by: Somerville Public Library, via the Internet Archive
Inside: Class Notes, Alumni Notes, Flashes Of Humor

Staff. RALPH K. SKINNER, '30 (Associate Editor), IRIS D. RUGGLES, '31 (Associate Editor), JOHN S. LYLE, '30 (Business Manager), ELIZABETH I. CORBIN, '30 (Assistant Business Manager), ALICE L. MACY, '30 (Humor Editor), WARREN C. RUSSELL, '32 (Staff Artist), VIRGINIA H. COLLUPY, '31 (Staff Artist), FRANCIS A. LOWNEY, '30 (Exchange Editor), ROBERT J. GIBB, '30 (Circulating Manager), BERTHA A. MARSHALL, '30 (Poetry Editor), NINO DeMARTINO, '30, MARJORIE H. BATSON, '30 (Alumni Editor), OLIVE V. HEUERMANN, '30 (Alumni Editor), ESTHER M. HODGDON, '30 (Alumni Editor).

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The 1929 yearbook of Somerville High School in Somerville lists 120 graduates, and every one of them has a portrait on this site. They are listed alphabetically below, each linked to a page of their own.

110 different surnames appear. The most common were Sullivan (4), Dinjian (2), Doolin (2), McDonald (2) and Miller (2), and 8 surnames were shared by two or more classmates.

The most common first names were Dorothy (5), Catherine (4), Esther (4), Robert (4) and Francis (3).

70 graduates printed a course of study. The largest were General Course (24), College Course (19), Commercial Course (14) and Normal Course (6).

60 graduates listed clubs, teams or other activities. The largest were Poetry Club (11), Traffic Squad (9), Glee Club (7) and Bank Worker (5).

94 graduates have a nickname printed beside their name, such as “Babe”, “Gertie”, “Jimmie” and “Ruthie”.

Most common surnames

Most common first names

Dorothy5
Catherine4
Esther4
Robert4
Francis3
Helen3

Courses of study

General Course24
College Course19
Commercial Course14
Normal Course6
Scientific Course6

Clubs, teams and activities

In their own words

Trying will do anything in this world.
Stanley Puczito
Those that stand high may have blasts to shake them.
Margaret Smith
“Strange is the heart of man, with its quick, mysterious instincts.”
John Daley

Nicknames in the yearbook

Local businesses that advertised

DARDIS’ MUSIC BOX28 Union Square Somerville, Mass.
BELDEN & SNOWDAVIS SQUARE UNION SQUARE SOMERVILLE AND 639 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE ARLINGTON, MASS.
J. W. Howard328 Broadway, Somerville, Mass.
Summer St. Market41 SUMMER STREET
Finkelstein’s
ART CRAFT Engraving Co.
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION525 Boylston Street

As printed in the advertising pages of the yearbook.

All 120 graduates

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