Melrose High School
Albert Edward Mortensen “Al Mort”
Albert Edward Mortensen (“Al Mort”) was a senior at Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1942, one of 256 graduates. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.
Class of 1942
256 in the class of 1942 · 5 more named Mortensen
- Full name
- Albert Edward Mortensen
- Known as
- Al Mort
- School
- Melrose High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1942
Also searched as: Al Mortensen; Albert Mortensen; Albert E. Mortensen; Mortensen, Albert.
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In context
Of the 256 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1942 read for this site, Albert's is 158th alphabetically. In the scan, Albert appears on page 76, around the middle of the run of 256 portraits read for this site (pages 18 to 173). Across 9 classes of Melrose High School on this site, from 1925 to 1942, 10 people are named Albert. 65% of the graduates in the class of 1942 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 45% in 1939.
| On the same scan page | Virginia Morcombe, Kenneth Blanchard Moreton, J. Lester Morgan |
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What the page does not say. No grammar school, no clubs or activities, no write-up or quotation for Albert. Other entries in the Melrose High School class of 1942 carry them far more often (grammar school 56%, clubs or activities 52% and write-up or quotation 35%), so either the book did not print them or our reading missed them; the scan has the final word.
The class of 1942
J. Lester MorganMelrose 1942
Eileen M. MuiseMelrose 1942
Kenneth Blanchard MoretonMelrose 1942
Norma E. MunsenMelrose 1942
Virginia MorcombeMelrose 1942
Jane MurrayMelrose 1942
Others named Mortensen
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
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Source
Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 76.
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