Melrose High School

Barbara Crafts “Babs”

Barbara Crafts (“Babs”) was one of 205 graduates in the class of 1939 at Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Roosevelt School; headed for Burdett College. Portrait and entry from the 1939 yearbook, page 36.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 12 more named Crafts

Full name: Barbara Crafts
Known as: Babs
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939
Came from: Roosevelt School
Headed for: Burdett College
Pastime: “Making scrap books”

Also searched as: Babs Crafts; Barb Crafts; Crafts, Barbara.

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Same surname 8
Classmates 204
Same schools 116

In context

Going through the Melrose High School class of 1939 from A to Z by surname, Barbara is the 55th of 205 names on this site. Turning the scan to page 36 shows Barbara; the portraits we read from this book run from page 16 to page 201. Among the 39 people in the class who printed a plan, 5 (13%) named a business or secretarial school, as Barbara did (“Burdett College”). From 1925 to 1942, 56 Melrose High School graduates on this site share the first name Barbara, spread over 13 classes and peaking at 11 in 1942. The class of 1939 has 205 names here, where the neighbouring classes have 277 for 1938 and 256 for 1942.

On the same scan page	John Graham Cox, Harold Craigie
Same earlier school	Roosevelt School: 21 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 5 of 39 classmates with a plan (13%)
Same first name	Barbara: 5 other people in the class
Dedication, as printed	“DEDICATED TO BLAIR C. WTLSOX HIS FRIENDLINESS AND SINCERE COMPANIONSHIP HAVE MADE HIM OUR ADVISER COMRADE, AND FRIEND”

What Barbara did at school

Basketball 1
Girls' Club 3

The class of 1939

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Others named Crafts

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also came from Roosevelt School

Also headed for Burdett College

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 36. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1939melr).

Published 1939. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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