Melrose High School

Fred Foster Tilden “Freddie Hair-in-the-Face”

Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, listed Fred Foster Tilden (“Freddie Hair-in-the-Face”) among 256 graduates in the class of 1942. The entry gives: came from Roosevelt School; activities listed: Freshman Football and Freshman Basketball. Portrait and entry from the 1942 yearbook, page 97.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 2 more named Tilden

Full name: Fred Foster Tilden
Known as: Freddie Hair-in-the-Face
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942
Came from: Roosevelt School
Headed for: After attending Northeastern, Fred plans to make science his work

Also searched as: Fred Tilden; Fred F. Tilden; Tilden, Fred.

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Same surname 1
Classmates 255
Same schools 38

In context

This site lists 256 people from the Melrose High School class of 1942; sorted by surname, Fred comes 228th. On the scan, the entry sits on page 97, around the middle of the stretch from page 18 to page 173 where this site found the book's portraits. The first name Fred appears 12 times in the 7 Melrose High School classes read for this site (1925 to 1942), most often in 1928 (5). Counting Fred, 39 people in the class are listed as coming from Roosevelt School. Of the 34 plans printed for the class of 1942 that name a kind of next step, 22 (65%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring class has 45% in 1939.

On the same scan page	Norman W. Tibbetts, Mary Tousey, George Traquair
Same earlier school	Roosevelt School: 38 other classmates

What Fred did at school

Freshman Football
Freshman Basketball
Freshman Baseball
Tennis 3, 4
Outing Club 2
Hi-Y 3, 4

The class of 1942

All 256 in this class →

Others named Tilden

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

Ruth TildenWestfield Normal School 1924

Also came from Roosevelt School

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 97. 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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