Melrose High School

H. Melville Holmes “Chick Mel”

H. Melville Holmes (“Chick Mel”), Melrose High School class of 1942 (Melrose, Massachusetts). The entry prints: came from Richmond School, Danvers; a write-up.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 88 more named Holmes

Full name: H. Melville Holmes
Known as: Chick Mel
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942
Came from: Richmond School, Danvers

Also searched as: Melville Holmes; Holmes, Melville.

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Same surname 78
Classmates 255

In context

256 people from the Melrose High School class of 1942 appear on this site, and Holmes puts Melville 108th among them. Melville is printed on page 57 of the scan, in the first third of the 18-to-173 run of portrait pages. Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1942 has 256 entries, while the neighbouring class has 205 for 1939. The class of 1942: 65% of classifiable plans point to a college or university, versus 45% in 1939.

On the same scan page	Shirley I. Hill, Ila Hobbs, Louise Mildred Hoffman

What the yearbook said

Richmond School, Danvers. This fair-haired lad came to dear old M. H. S. from that little Richmond School in Danvers. When he comes smoothly down the corridor on those long lanky legs and his head bobbing about on his shoulders, he resembles that old character in "The Legend of Sleepyhollow", Ichabod Crane. That's how he got his nick name. As he walks with his friend Ducky, who is tall and rather wide, he looks like a shadow. Mel has not decided on his life ambition after graduation.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 57. 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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