Melrose High School

Charles Kane “Killer Rev”

Charles Kane (“Killer Rev”), Melrose High School class of 1939 (Melrose, Massachusetts). The entry prints: came from Western Junior High in Somerville; a motto.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 49 more named Kane

Full name: Charles Kane
Known as: Killer Rev
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939
Came from: Western Junior High in Somerville
Headed for: Next year Charlie plans to go to Dartmouth to study medicine

Also searched as: Charlie Kane; Chuck Kane; Kane, Charles.

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Same surname 44
Classmates 204

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 205 names from the Melrose High School class of 1939, Charles stands 103rd. Charles's portrait is on scan page 56, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 16 to 201. From 1925 to 1942, 40 Melrose High School graduates on this site share the first name Charles, spread over 12 classes and peaking at 7 in 1936. John (15), Ruth (8) and Barbara (6) were the first names most often repeated in the class of 1939, and Robert (15), Barbara (11) and William (8) in the class of 1942.

On the same scan page	Richard Kane, Marjorie Allen Karnheim, Henry Kayarian
Same first name	Charles: 4 other people in the class
Dedication, as printed	“DEDICATED TO BLAIR C. WTLSOX HIS FRIENDLINESS AND SINCERE COMPANIONSHIP HAVE MADE HIM OUR ADVISER COMRADE, AND FRIEND”

What Charles did at school

Hi-Y 2, 4
Log Staff 4

What the yearbook said

Charles, with his six feet, four inches, no less, came to us in 1935

The class of 1939

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 56. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1939melr).

Published 1939. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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