Melrose High School

John Tierney “Johnny”

John Tierney (“Johnny”) 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 · 26 more named Tierney

Full name: John Tierney
Known as: Johnny
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

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

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Same surname 23
Classmates 204

In context

Of the 205 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1939 read for this site, John's is 194th alphabetically. Find John on page 90 of the scan; the people on this site from the Melrose High School class of 1939 are spread over pages 16 to 201. From 1926 to 1942, 65 Melrose High School graduates on this site share the first name John, spread over 12 classes and peaking at 15 in 1939. This site lists 205 names for the class of 1939, against 277 for 1938 and 256 for 1942.

On the same scan page	Erland Clayton Teschek, Fred J. Thompson, Lewis Albert Titcomb
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. Grammar school and clubs or activities are missing. The rest of the Melrose High School class of 1939 has them often (grammar school 45% and clubs or activities 41%), so the gap may belong to the reading rather than to John. The scan is the authority.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 90. 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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