Melrose High School

Lawrence F. Gilligan “Larry Gill Sunshine”

Class of 1942, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: Lawrence F. Gilligan (“Larry Gill Sunshine”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Calvin Coolidge School. Portrait and entry from the 1942 yearbook, page 51.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 10 more named Gilligan

Full name: Lawrence F. Gilligan
Known as: Larry Gill Sunshine
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942
Came from: Calvin Coolidge School
Headed for: may attend an aviation school in the future

Also searched as: Larry Gilligan; Lawrence Gilligan; Gilligan, Lawrence.

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Same surname 9
Classmates 255
Same schools 40

In context

Lawrence F. Gilligan is number 83 of 256 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1942 on this site. On the scan, the entry sits on page 51, in the first third of the stretch from page 18 to page 173 where this site found the book's portraits. In the 10 classes of Melrose High School between 1925 and 1942 that this site covers, 21 people have the first name Lawrence, with the largest group (5) in 1938. Counting Lawrence, 46 people in the class are listed as coming from Calvin Coolidge School. The class of 1942: 65% of classifiable plans point to a college or university, versus 45% in 1939.

On the same scan page	Muriel V. Giles, Martha R. Gilligan, Gordon Q. Glover
Same earlier school	Calvin Coolidge School: 45 other classmates

What Lawrence did at school

Baseball i
Basketball i
Football i, 2, 3. 4

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 51. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1942melr).

Published 1942. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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