Melrose High School

Charles Eliot Bell “Ding Dong”

Charles Eliot Bell (“Ding Dong”) was one of 166 graduates in the class of 1926 at Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for Trinity School in New York; activities listed: Orchestra and Masque and Wig; a write-up. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 17.

Class of 1926

166 in the class of 1926 · 62 more named Bell

Full name: Charles Eliot Bell
Known as: Ding Dong
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Headed for: Trinity School in New York

Also searched as: Charlie Bell; Charles Bell; Charles E. Bell; Chuck Bell.

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Clubs & teams 86
Same surname 37
Classmates 165

In context

Of the 166 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1926 read for this site, Charles's is 16th alphabetically. Charles's portrait is on scan page 17, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 12 to 69. Charles shared “Masque and Wig” with 24 graduates, going by what the yearbook prints. The first name Charles appears 40 times in the 12 Melrose High School classes read for this site (1925 to 1942), most often in 1936 (7). Plans for a college or university made up 58% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1926 (21 of 36), against 73% in 1925 and 40% in 1927.

On the same scan page	Elsa Louise Berry, Harold Gleason Bolton
Same club	Orchestra: 12 other classmates
Same club	Masque and Wig: 24 other classmates

What Charles did at school

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What the yearbook said

Eliot is one of our jolly, good natured members. He matriculated to M. H. S. from the little school on the hill at Franklin Square. It is said that he would rather play tennis than do anything else except study. Eliot is noted for his musical ability; in fact he’s a whole orchestra himself. After attending Trinity School in New York, “Ding Dong” intends to finish his education at that famous old college at Cambridge.

The class of 1926

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1926, page 17. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1926melr).

Published 1926, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Melrose Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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