Melrose High School

John Brennan “JACK”

Class of 1931, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: John Brennan (“JACK”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Harvard. Portrait and entry from the 1931 yearbook, page 24.

Class of 1931

88 in the class of 1931 · 48 more named Brennan

Full name: John Brennan
Known as: JACK
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Jack Brennan; Johnny Brennan; Brennan, John.

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Same surname 42
Classmates 87
Same schools 40

In context

Of the 88 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1931 read for this site, John's is 11th alphabetically. John's portrait is on scan page 24, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 15 to 91. Among the 30 people in the class who printed a plan, 12 (40%) named a college or university, as John did (“Harvard”). The first name John appears 65 times in the 12 Melrose High School classes read for this site (1926 to 1942), most often in 1939 (15). Plans for a college or university made up 57% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1931 (12 of 21), against 79% in 1930 and 52% in 1932.

Same kind of plan	college or university: 12 of 30 classmates with a plan (40%)

What John did at school

Football 2, 3, 4

The class of 1931

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John BrennanSomerville 1922

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1931, page 24. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1931melr).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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