Melrose High School

Gwendolin Cook “Gwen”

Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, listed Gwendolin Cook (“Gwen”) among 166 graduates in the class of 1926. The entry gives: came from Washington School; headed for Wellesley College; activities listed: School News and Masque and Wig. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 23.

Class of 1926

166 in the class of 1926 · 111 more named Cook

Full name: Gwendolin Cook
Known as: Gwen
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Washington School
Headed for: Wellesley College

Also searched as: Gwen Cook; Cook, Gwendolin.

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Clubs & teams 151
Same surname 77
Classmates 165
Same schools 25

In context

Of the 166 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1926 read for this site, Gwendolin's is 34th alphabetically. Turning the scan to page 23 shows Gwendolin; the portraits we read from this book run from page 12 to page 69. Gwendolin shared “Masque and Wig” with 24 seniors, going by what the yearbook prints. Gwendolin's plan is printed as “Wellesley College”, which counts here as a college or university; 21 of the 50 classmates who named a plan (42%) named the same kind. For Melrose High School, the site holds 166 people from the class of 1926, against 152 for 1925 and 156 for 1927.

On the same scan page	Philip A. Cooper, William Dewitt Cope
Same club	Masque and Wig: 24 other classmates
Same club	Girls' Club, Recording Secretary: 29 other classmates
Same earlier school	Washington School: 6 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 21 of 50 classmates with a plan (42%)

What Gwendolin did at school

School News
Masque and Wig 96
Secretary
Girls' Club, Recording Secretary 206
Euclidean Society 90
Field Hockey 31
Charm School

Fellow members from Gwendolin's own class:

What the yearbook said

Although “Gwen” is small in size there is nothing insignificant about her giggle. Everyone knows it, and it appears at the most inopportune times. Although she has not always lived in Melrose, she attended the seventh and eighth grades of the Washington School. She intends to keep on to Wellesley College. She has lovely brown eyes which reflect, in turn, her passing moods. She is well known for her loyalty to what she believes to be right. She has, too, a vivacious manner which endears her to everyone. Her attempts at sports have always ended happily, for did she not get her numerals on the Freshman Hockey Team and her letter on the Varsity? May your future be as successful as your past has been, “Gwen”.

The class of 1926

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1926, page 23. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1926melr).

Published 1926, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Melrose Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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