Melrose High School

Alva Emma Porter “Al”

Class of 1928, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: Alva Emma Porter (“Al”). The yearbook entry prints: activities listed: Girls' Club and Masque and Wig. Portrait and entry from the 1928 yearbook, page 57.

Class of 1928

159 in the class of 1928 · 88 more named Porter

Full name: Alva Emma Porter
Known as: Al
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1928

Also searched as: Al Porter; Alva Porter; Alva E. Porter; Porter, Alva.

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Clubs & teams 185
Same surname 71
Classmates 158

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 159 names from the Melrose High School class of 1928, Alva stands 122nd. Turning the scan to page 57 shows Alva; the portraits we read from this book run from page 10 to page 70. Alva shared “Girls' Club” with 39 classmates, going by what the yearbook prints. A college or university was the plan of 14 of 19 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1928 (74%), compared with 40% in 1927 and 65% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Mildred R. Polansky, Eugene F. Proctor Jr
Same club	Girls' Club: 39 other classmates
Same club	Masque and Wig: 13 other classmates

What the page does not say. Write-up or quotation is missing. The rest of the Melrose High School class of 1928 has it often (write-up or quotation 45%), so the gap may belong to the reading rather than to Alva. The scan is the authority.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1928, page 57. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1928melr).

Published 1928, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Melrose Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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