Melrose High School

Henry F. Pearl “Hank Professor”

Henry F. Pearl (“Hank Professor”) was a senior at Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1939, one of 205 graduates. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 8 more named Pearl

Full name: Henry F. Pearl
Known as: Hank Professor
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

Also searched as: Henry Pearl; Pearl, Henry.

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Same surname 4
Classmates 204

In context

Henry F. Pearl is number 157 of 205 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1939 on this site. In the scan, Henry appears on page 77, in the first third of the run of 205 portraits read for this site (pages 16 to 201). 19 people named Henry turn up in 10 Melrose High School classes on this site, 1927 to 1942; 1934 has the most with 5. The most common first names in the class of 1939 were John (15), Ruth (8) and Barbara (6); in the class of 1938 they were Robert (13), John (12) and Richard (10).

On the same scan page	June Ray Parman, Philip H. Paton, Miriam Peterson
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. The reading found no grammar school for Henry. Across the Melrose High School class of 1939 the shares are grammar school 45%; worth checking the scan before assuming the book left it out.

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Telescope Club 4

The class of 1939

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 77. 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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