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Portrait of Forrest Symmes, Melrose High School, class of 1942
As printed in the 1942 yearbook

Melrose High School

Forrest Symmes

Class of 1942, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: Forrest Symmes. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed. Portrait and entry from the 1942 yearbook, page 18.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 2 more named Symmes

Full name
Forrest Symmes
School
Melrose High School
Graduated
Class of 1942

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Forrest Symmes is number 220 of 256 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1942 on this site. In the scan, Forrest appears on page 18, right at the start of the run of 256 portraits read for this site (pages 18 to 173). A college or university was the plan of 22 of 34 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1942 (65%), compared with 45% in 1939. This site lists 256 names for the class of 1942, against 205 for 1939.

On the same scan pageEmily Peterson

What the page does not say. Forrest's entry, as read here, has no grammar school, no clubs or activities, no write-up or quotation. Share of the class's entries that do: grammar school 56%, clubs or activities 52% and write-up or quotation 35%. The book may have left them out, or the reading may have missed them; check the scan.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 18. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1942melr).

Published 1942. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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