Melrose High School

Barbara Flewelling “Flu Barbie”

Barbara Flewelling (“Flu Barbie”) was one of 256 graduates in the class of 1942 at Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Calvin Coolidge School; activities listed: Freshman Girls' Club; a write-up. Portrait and entry from the 1942 yearbook, page 47.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 2 more named Flewelling

Full name: Barbara Flewelling
Known as: Flu Barbie
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942
Came from: Calvin Coolidge School

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Same surname 1
Classmates 255
Same schools 40

In context

256 people from the Melrose High School class of 1942 appear on this site, and Flewelling puts Barbara 67th among them. Barbara's portrait is on scan page 47, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 18 to 173. The first name Barbara appears 56 times in the 13 Melrose High School classes read for this site (1925 to 1942), most often in 1942 (11). Barbara did not arrive alone from Calvin Coolidge School: 45 other seniors name it too. The class of 1942 has 256 names here, where the neighbouring class has 205 for 1939.

On the same scan page	Miriam Flagg, Arthur Eugene Flint, Marjorie Forrest
Same earlier school	Calvin Coolidge School: 45 other classmates
Same first name	Barbara: 10 other people in the class

What Barbara did at school

Freshman Girls' Club

What the yearbook said

Barbara, commonly known as "Flu" by her friends, has spent her four years of high school in the College Preparatory Course. Although she is not quite certain where her main interest lies, she will probably follow in her sister's footsteps and enter Burdett College. After college she hopes to enter the business world where she is sure to become an efficient secretary.

The class of 1942

All 256 in this class →

Others named Flewelling

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

Florence Josephine FlewellingMalden 1925

Also came from Calvin Coolidge School

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 47. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1942melr).

Published 1942. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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