Melrose High School
David Ridley “Dave Rid”
David Ridley (“Dave Rid”) was a senior at Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1942, one of 256 graduates. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.
Class of 1942
256 in the class of 1942 · 6 more named Ridley
- Full name
- David Ridley
- Known as
- Dave Rid
- School
- Melrose High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1942
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In context
Of the 256 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1942 read for this site, David's is 188th alphabetically. On the scan, the entry sits on page 87, around the middle of the stretch from page 18 to page 173 where this site found the book's portraits. In the 6 classes of Melrose High School between 1927 and 1942 that this site covers, 12 people have the first name David. Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1942 has 256 entries, while the neighbouring class has 205 for 1939.
| On the same scan page | Dorothy J. Reasor, Ernest L. Richardson, Virginia Emma Riley |
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What the page does not say. Nothing on grammar school, clubs or activities and write-up or quotation appears for David, though classmates' entries carry them (grammar school 56%, clubs or activities 52% and write-up or quotation 35%); David's entry may print them and have been mis-read, or not print them at all.
The class of 1942
Ernest L. RichardsonMelrose 1942
Virginia Emma RileyMelrose 1942
Dorothy J. ReasorMelrose 1942
Janet E. RobertsonMelrose 1942
William RayMelrose 1942
Charles RobinsonMelrose 1942
Others named Ridley
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
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Source
Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 87.
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Internet Archive (item log1942melr).
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