History

Another Old Yearbook

Sharon MA High School 1931

I previously wrote about my mother’s 1927 yearbook which was included with a box of old photos and things my sister gave to me. Shortly after writing about that, I came across another yearbook. This one was the Sharon High yearbook for 1931. My father was a junior in that year.

This yearbook is much less fancy than my mother’s. The graduating students have very little said about them, and there is not much content in the yearbook’s scant 24 pages: a few pictures, some descriptions of sports, and little else.

This yearbook is a disappointment after the rich history I was able to mine from my mother’s class. Of course, 1929 was the great stock market crash, and the Great Depression followed right after, so they may not have been able to spend much on the yearbook. However, I know that my father’s family wasn’t hurt in those years. As Sharon was a resort destination for Boston, I imagine there were other families insulated from money problems living there.

Scan from my father’s 1931 yearbook

Seniors mentioned playing “Boston” and “Drop the Handkerchief” at a “Lollypop” (sic) party they gave for the freshman class. I don’t know what a Lollypop party was, unless they were making a joking reference to a “pox party”. “Boston” could have been a card game, and “Drop the Handkerchief” could have…