Melrose High School

Donald Wetmore “Shakespeare”

Donald Wetmore (“Shakespeare”) was one of 277 graduates in the class of 1938 at Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Roosevelt School; headed for Harvard; activities listed: Log Staff. Portrait and entry from the 1938 yearbook, page 96.

Class of 1938

277 in the class of 1938 · 6 more named Wetmore

Full name: Donald Wetmore
Known as: Shakespeare
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1938
Came from: Roosevelt School
Headed for: Harvard
Ambition: “To be a journalist”

Also searched as: Don Wetmore; Wetmore, Donald.

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Same surname 5
Classmates 276
Same schools 105

In context

Donald Wetmore is number 266 of 277 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1938 on this site. Donald's portrait is on scan page 96, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 16 to 207. Among the 120 people in the class who printed a plan, 54 (45%) named a college or university, as Donald did (“Harvard”). Across 12 classes of Melrose High School on this site, from 1925 to 1942, 33 people are named Donald. In the class of 1938 the first names most often shared were Robert (13), John (12) and Richard (10); the class of 1936 had Charles (7), Richard (7) and Robert (7).

On the same scan page	M. Natalie Westcott, Eleanor M. White, John Alden Whitman
Same earlier school	Roosevelt School: 75 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 54 of 120 classmates with a plan (45%)

What Donald did at school

Cloak and Plume, Debating Club (1)
Nuntius (1, 2)
Lens and Shutter (2)
Masque and Wig (2, 3, 4)
Speakers’ Bureau (3, 4)
Writers’ Club (3, 4), President
Log Staff

What the yearbook said

Hell bent for Harvard! — or so it appears when you see him running madly about uttering vague remarks about “College Boards”. But to be serious, Donald, an honor student, who has distinguished himself by his brilliant compositions, aims to be a journalist. He is also a talented ’cellist and a promising fencer. With such a good record in M. H. S., he should go places at Harvard.

The class of 1938

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Others named Wetmore

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Also came from Roosevelt School

Also headed for Harvard

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1938, page 96. 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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