Melrose High School

George A. Curtis “Oliver Esquire II”

Class of 1939, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: George A. Curtis (“Oliver Esquire II”). The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed. Portrait and entry from the 1939 yearbook, page 38.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 68 more named Curtis

Full name: George A. Curtis
Known as: Oliver Esquire II
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

Also searched as: George Curtis; Curtis, George.

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Classmates 204

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George A. Curtis is number 60 of 205 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1939 on this site. Turning the scan to page 38 shows George; the portraits we read from this book run from page 16 to page 201. Across 11 classes of Melrose High School on this site, from 1925 to 1942, 39 people are named George; the class of 1942 has the most, 6. A college or university was the plan of 9 of 20 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1939 (45%), compared with 56% in 1938 and 65% in 1942.

On the same scan page	Nancy Cushman, Ethelyn R. Darrah, R. Woodbury Day
Dedication, as printed	“DEDICATED TO BLAIR C. WTLSOX HIS FRIENDLINESS AND SINCERE COMPANIONSHIP HAVE MADE HIM OUR ADVISER COMRADE, AND FRIEND”

What the page does not say. Grammar school and clubs or activities are missing. The rest of the Melrose High School class of 1939 has them often (grammar school 45% and clubs or activities 41%), so the gap may belong to the reading rather than to George. The scan is the authority.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 38. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1939melr).

Published 1939. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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