Melrose High School
Joseph O'Brien “Joe Bun Spud”
Joseph O'Brien (“Joe Bun Spud”) 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 · 158 more named O'Brien
- Full name
- Joseph O'Brien
- Known as
- Joe Bun Spud
- School
- Melrose High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1939
Also searched as: Joe O'Brien; Joey O'Brien; O'Brien, Joseph.
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In context
Of the 205 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1939 read for this site, Joseph's is 149th alphabetically. On the scan, the entry sits on page 74, in the first third of the stretch from page 16 to page 201 where this site found the book's portraits. In the 11 classes of Melrose High School between 1925 and 1942 that this site covers, 26 people have the first name Joseph. Count the first names and the class of 1939 gives John (15), Ruth (8) and Barbara (6), where the class of 1938 gives Robert (13), John (12) and Richard (10).
| On the same scan page | Kenneth Richard Nickolls, Walter Niles |
|---|---|
| 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, no clubs or activities for Joseph. Across the Melrose High School class of 1939 the shares are grammar school 45% and clubs or activities 41%; worth checking the scan before assuming the book left them out.
The class of 1939
Walter NilesMelrose 1939
Ruth PackardMelrose 1939
Kenneth Richard NickollsMelrose 1939
William Francis PaganucciMelrose 1939
Ruth Lillian NesmithMelrose 1939
Jeanne ParantMelrose 1939
Other people named Joseph O'Brien in the archive
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Others named O'Brien
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
Wallace A. O'BrienSoldiers of the Great War, 1920: Massachusetts 1920
Mary Alice O'BrienNeedham 1928
Mary O'BrienArlington 1927
William O'BrienArlington 1927
Grover O'BrienSpringfield Trade School 1937
Harold F. O'BrienSpringfield Trade 1940
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Source
Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 74.
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Internet Archive (item log1939melr).
Published 1939. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.
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