Melrose High School

Harriet E. Leighton “Lizzie”

Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, listed Harriet E. Leighton (“Lizzie”) among 256 graduates in the class of 1942. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 24 more named Leighton

Full name: Harriet E. Leighton
Known as: Lizzie
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942

Also searched as: Lizzie Leighton; Hattie Leighton; Harriet Leighton; Leighton, Harriet.

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Same surname 21
Classmates 255

In context

This site lists 256 people from the Melrose High School class of 1942; sorted by surname, Harriet comes 127th. In the scan, Harriet appears on page 63, in the first third of the run of 256 portraits read for this site (pages 18 to 173). Names on this site: 256 for the class of 1942, compared with 205 for 1939. 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.

On the same scan page	Robert Learnard, Doris S. Lederman, Newton E. Lee

What the page does not say. Nothing on grammar school, clubs or activities and write-up or quotation appears for Harriet, though classmates' entries carry them (grammar school 56%, clubs or activities 52% and write-up or quotation 35%); Harriet's entry may print them and have been mis-read, or not print them at all.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 63. 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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