Melrose High School

Leighton York “Brute”

Leighton York (“Brute”) appears in the 1929 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 1929

192 in the class of 1929 · 17 more named York

Full name: Leighton York
Known as: Brute
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Lincoln School
Headed for: Bowdoin

Also searched as: Brute York; York, Leighton.

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Clubs & teams 24
Same surname 14
Classmates 191
Same schools 27

In context

Leighton York is number 190 of 192 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1929 on this site. Find Leighton on page 86 of the scan; the people on this site from the Melrose High School class of 1929 are spread over pages 16 to 86. Lincoln School appears as the earlier school of 9 people in the class, Leighton among them. Leighton's “Bowdoin” falls in the same group as 28 of the 58 plans printed for the class (48%): a college or university. First names that recur in the class of 1929: Dorothy (9), William (8) and Marjorie (6). In the class of 1930: Dorothy (10) and Ruth (7).

On the same scan page	Constance Willey
Same club	Baseball: 11 other classmates
Same earlier school	Lincoln School: 8 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 28 of 58 classmates with a plan (48%)

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Also headed for Bowdoin

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1929, page 86. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1929melr).

Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Melrose Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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