Melrose High School

John Robert Alvord “Johnnie”

John Robert Alvord (“Johnnie”) appears in the 1932 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 1932

195 in the class of 1932 · 4 more named Alvord

Full name: John Robert Alvord
Known as: Johnnie
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1932
Came from: Roosevelt School
Headed for: Northeastern University

Also searched as: Johnnie Alvord; Jack Alvord; John Alvord; John R. Alvord.

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Same surname 3
Classmates 194
Same schools 68

In context

Going through the Melrose High School class of 1932 from A to Z by surname, John is the 4th of 195 names on this site. On the scan, the entry sits on page 17, right at the start of the stretch from page 15 to page 99 where this site found the book's portraits. John is one of 44 in the Melrose High School class of 1932 whose entry names Roosevelt School as the school they came from. In the 12 classes of Melrose High School between 1926 and 1942 that this site covers, 65 people have the first name John, with the largest group (15) in 1939. Eleanor (9), Barbara (6) and Dorothy (6) were the first names most often repeated in the class of 1932, and Henry (5) and Robert (5) in the class of 1934.

On the same scan page	Rose Anderson
Same earlier school	Roosevelt School: 43 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 26 of 70 classmates with a plan (37%)

What John did at school

Euclidean (3), (4)
Hi-Y (3), (4)
Masque and Wig (3), (4)
Art League (2), (3), (4)
Glee Club (4)
“School Life” (4)
Football (4)
Traffic Squad (3), (4)
“Pinafore,” “What Every Woman Knows,” “Sun Up”

What the yearbook said

John, graduated from the Roosevelt School, found himself as a Freshman in good old room sixteen. His geniality and ready smile have won him many friends, and he is welcomed in many school societies, the Art League being one. His acting in Masque and Wig productions is highly commended. He was also on that renowned varsity football team of 1931. John is something of an arguer, but all his argumentative abilities have failed to convince teachers that his portraits on their blackboards arc' worthy of preservation. We hope that John’s success and popularity here will attend him at Northeastern University.

The class of 1932

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Others named Alvord

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

Also came from Roosevelt School

Also headed for Northeastern University

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1932, page 17. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1932melr).

Published 1932. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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