Melrose High School

David Roscoe Baker “Dave Bake”

Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, listed David Roscoe Baker (“Dave Bake”) among 277 graduates in the class of 1938. The entry gives: came from Greenwich, N. Y; headed for Wheaton College, Illinois. Portrait and entry from the 1938 yearbook, page 21.

Class of 1938

277 in the class of 1938 · 141 more named Baker

Full name: David Roscoe Baker
Known as: Dave Bake
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1938
Came from: Greenwich, N. Y
Headed for: Wheaton College, Illinois

Also searched as: Dave Baker; David Baker; David R. Baker; Baker, David.

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Same surname 100
Classmates 276

In context

Of the 277 names from the Melrose High School class of 1938 that have pages here, David is 10th in surname order. David is printed on page 21 of the scan, right at the start of the 16-to-207 run of portrait pages. Among the 120 people in the class who printed a plan, 54 (45%) named a college or university, as David did (“Wheaton College, Illinois”). The first name David runs through 6 classes of Melrose High School (1927 to 1942), 12 people in all. In the class of 1938 the first names most often shared were Robert (13), John (12) and Richard (10); the class of 1939 had John (15), Ruth (8) and Barbara (6).

On the same scan page	Mary Louise Baier, Isabelle Baker, Alan Balfour Jr
Same kind of plan	college or university: 54 of 120 classmates with a plan (45%)

What David did at school

Cross Country (1)
Football (1, 4)
Operetta (2, 4)
Track (4)
Lens and Shutter (2, 3, 4)
Euclidean (3, 4)
Log Staff (4)
Hi-Y (2, 3, 4)

The class of 1938

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Others named Baker

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also headed for Wheaton College, Illinois

Edwin G. OlsonCambridge 1923

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1938, page 21. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1938melr).

Published 1938. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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