Melrose High School

Barbara E. Ritchie “Barb Babs”

Class of 1934, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: Barbara E. Ritchie (“Barb Babs”). The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed. Portrait and entry from the 1934 yearbook, page 70.

Class of 1934

110 in the class of 1934 · 18 more named Ritchie

Full name: Barbara E. Ritchie
Known as: Barb Babs
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1934

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Same surname 12
Classmates 109

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This site lists 110 people from the Melrose High School class of 1934; sorted by surname, Barbara comes 95th. On the scan, the entry sits on page 70, in the last third of the stretch from page 22 to page 80 where this site found the book's portraits. The first name Barbara runs through 13 classes of Melrose High School (1925 to 1942), 56 people in all, and is most common in 1942 (11). Henry (5) and Robert (5) were the first names most often repeated in the class of 1934, and Eleanor (9), Barbara (6) and Dorothy (6) in the class of 1932.

On the same scan page	David Reid, Cora P. Rickard, Vernon Rickard
Dedication, as printed	“MR. GEORGE L. SCOTT WHOSE EFFORTS AS A TEACHER ARE ONLY SURPASSED BY HIS DESIRE TO BE THE FRIEND OF ALL THOSE WITH WHOM HE COMES IN CONTACT”

What the page does not say. Our reading of this book found little beyond a name and portrait: only 25 of the 110 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1934 carry any detail, so a short page is typical here, not special to Barbara.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1934, page 70. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1934melr).

Published 1934. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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