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Winthrop High School Class of 1920 History Recounted
The piece honors three late classmates Bently Swift Myra Taylor and Sumner Young and chronicles the 1916 to 1920 school years at Winthrop High. It recalls cliques pranks classes and the senior social events ending with the June 23 1920 commencement in the Winthrop Theatre with Rev Ralph M Harper conducting the invocation and the orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bently Swift
Myra Taylor
Sumner Young
Winthrop Beach
Pythagoras
Pedler
Atlantic Monthly
Geographical Survey
United States
Nathan Hale
Winthrop High School
Winthrop Theatre
Ralph M. Harper Wake
O Wake
Atilla” Verdi