Melrose High School

C. Dexter Mead “Dec Ce-De Charlie”

C. Dexter Mead (“Dec Ce-De Charlie”) is one of 256 graduates in the class of 1942 at Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed. Portrait and entry from the 1942 yearbook, page 73.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 20 more named Mead

Full name: C. Dexter Mead
Known as: Dec Ce-De Charlie
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942

Also searched as: Dexter Mead; Mead, Dexter.

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C. Dexter Mead is number 150 of 256 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1942 on this site. Turning the scan to page 73 shows Dexter; the portraits we read from this book run from page 18 to page 173. Among first names, the class of 1942 favours Robert (15), Barbara (11) and William (8); the class of 1939 had John (15), Ruth (8) and Barbara (6). The class of 1942 has 256 names here, where the neighbouring class has 205 for 1939.

On the same scan page	Richard C. Meharg

What the page does not say. No grammar school, no clubs or activities, no write-up or quotation here. Classmates' entries carry them often (grammar school 56%, clubs or activities 52% and write-up or quotation 35%); if Dexter's entry has them on the scan, our reading missed them and we would like to hear.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 73. 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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