Melrose High School

Kenneth Smith “Ken Smitty Butch”

Kenneth Smith (“Ken Smitty Butch”) 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 · 715 more named Smith

Full name: Kenneth Smith
Known as: Ken Smitty Butch
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

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Same surname 513
Classmates 204

In context

Kenneth Smith is number 184 of 205 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1939 on this site. In the scan, Kenneth appears on page 86, around the middle of the run of 205 portraits read for this site (pages 16 to 201). In the 10 classes of Melrose High School between 1926 and 1942 that this site covers, 18 people have the first name Kenneth. People named Smith appear in 13 classes of Melrose High School on this site between 1925 and 1942, 42 in all. 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	Orin Alan Smith
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 Kenneth. 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.

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Kenneth SmithNew Bedford 1941

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 86. 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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