Melrose High School

John Joseph Ball “Hiho Chuck”

Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, listed John Joseph Ball (“Hiho Chuck”) among 205 graduates in the class of 1939. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 34 more named Ball

Full name: John Joseph Ball
Known as: Hiho Chuck
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

Also searched as: Jack Ball; John Ball; John J. Ball; Johnny Ball.

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Same surname 26
Classmates 204

In context

This site lists 205 people from the Melrose High School class of 1939; sorted by surname, John comes 11th. The entry is on page 22 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 16 to page 201. Across 12 classes of Melrose High School on this site, from 1926 to 1942, 65 people are named John; the class of 1939 has the most, 15. Plans for a college or university made up 45% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1939 (9 of 20), against 56% in 1938 and 65% in 1942.

On the same scan page	Barbara Ann Bailey, Adele M. Barnovitch, Forest H. Barter
Same first name	John: 14 other people in the class
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. No grammar school, no clubs or activities for John. Other entries in the Melrose High School class of 1939 carry them far more often (grammar school 45% and clubs or activities 41%), so either the book did not print them or our reading missed them; the scan has the final word.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 22. 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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