Melrose High School

Albert Isaksen “Alkie”

Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, listed Albert Isaksen (“Alkie”) among 277 graduates in the class of 1938. The entry gives: came from Washington School; a write-up. Portrait and entry from the 1938 yearbook, page 54.

Class of 1938

277 in the class of 1938 · 1 more named Isaksen

Full name: Albert Isaksen
Known as: Alkie
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1938
Came from: Washington School
Headed for: orchestral work, New York

Also searched as: Alkie Isaksen; Al Isaksen; Isaksen, Albert.

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Classmates 276
Same schools 7

In context

277 people from the Melrose High School class of 1938 appear on this site, and Isaksen puts Albert 120th among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 54, in the first third of the stretch from page 16 to page 207 where this site found the book's portraits. Counting Albert, 8 people in the class are listed as coming from Washington School. 10 people named Albert turn up in 9 Melrose High School classes on this site, 1925 to 1942. Plans for a college or university made up 56% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1938 (54 of 96), against 57% in 1936 and 45% in 1939.

On the same scan page	Barbara Irons, Norma Jefts, Marie Jenkins
Same earlier school	Washington School: 7 other classmates
Same kind of plan	work: 13 of 120 classmates with a plan (11%)

What the yearbook said

Washington School In 1933 he started his school career in the present building, contributing his share of scrap paper to those popular, fast-filling, waste baskets, in short, those convenient, hollowing, desk supports. He joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936. Then “hot swing” Alkie turned to his guitar, playing in the Bell Boys’ Orchestra until school opened. After graduation he will resume his orchestral work, and expects to join an orchestra in New York.

The class of 1938

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1938, page 54. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1938melr).

Published 1938. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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