Melrose High School

Helena Josephine Donahue

Helena Josephine Donahue appears in the 1939 yearbook of Melrose High School in Melrose, MA. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 70 more named Donahue

Full name: Helena Josephine Donahue
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939
Came from: Calvin Coolidge School
Headed for: business school

Also searched as: Helena Donahue; Helena J. Donahue; Donahue, Helena.

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Same surname 67
Classmates 204
Same schools 163

In context

Going through the Melrose High School class of 1939 from A to Z by surname, Helena is the 66th of 205 names on this site. Helena's portrait is on scan page 41, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 16 to 201. Calvin Coolidge School appears as the earlier school of 28 people in the class, Helena among them. Among the 39 people in the class who printed a plan, 5 (13%) named a business or secretarial school, as Helena did (“business school”). Count the first names and the class of 1939 gives John (15), Ruth (8) and Barbara (6), where the class of 1938 gives Robert (13), John (12) and Richard (10).

On the same scan page	Marjorie Tucker Dines, Frances Ann Doyle
Same earlier school	Calvin Coolidge School: 27 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 5 of 39 classmates with a plan (13%)
Dedication, as printed	“DEDICATED TO BLAIR C. WTLSOX HIS FRIENDLINESS AND SINCERE COMPANIONSHIP HAVE MADE HIM OUR ADVISER COMRADE, AND FRIEND”

What Helena did at school

Gym Meet 2, 3, 4
Tennis 1
Riding 2

The class of 1939

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Others named Donahue

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

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Also came from Calvin Coolidge School

Also headed for business school

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 41. 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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