Melrose High School

Barbara Palmer “Barbie Bobbie”

Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, listed Barbara Palmer (“Barbie Bobbie”) among 247 graduates in the class of 1936. The entry gives: a write-up. Portrait and entry from the 1936 yearbook, page 68.

Class of 1936

247 in the class of 1936 · 69 more named Palmer

Full name: Barbara Palmer
Known as: Barbie Bobbie
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1936
Ambition: “To be a noted writer of blank verse”

Also searched as: Barb Palmer; Palmer, Barbara.

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Same surname 54
Classmates 246

In context

247 people from the Melrose High School class of 1936 appear on this site, and Palmer puts Barbara 170th among them. In the scan, Barbara appears on page 68, around the middle of the run of 247 portraits read for this site (pages 19 to 158). Across 13 classes of Melrose High School on this site, from 1925 to 1942, 56 people are named Barbara; the class of 1942 has the most, 11. A college or university was the plan of 39 of 68 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1936 (57%), compared with 56% in 1938.

On the same scan page	George Howard Palmer Jr, Richard Parant, Gordon Paul

What Barbara did at school

Girls’ Club 4

What the yearbook said

Behold an aspirant to the noble heights of poetry writing. Petite Bobbie, the perfect secretary, surprised us all by saying that her chief ambition is to be a noted writer of blank verse. This popular young lady, whose favorite indoor sport is quoting second-hand jokes, came to Melrose from Rochester, New Hampshire, in 1935. Since then, she has gained many friends by her sunny disposition.

The class of 1936

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Others named Palmer

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1936, page 68. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1936melr).

Published 1936. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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