Melrose High School

Merle Smith

Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, listed Merle Smith among 88 graduates in the class of 1931. The entry gives: came from Roosevelt School; headed for Northeastern School of Engineering; a write-up. Portrait and entry from the 1931 yearbook, page 80.

Class of 1931

88 in the class of 1931 · 715 more named Smith

Full name: Merle Smith
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Came from: Roosevelt School
Headed for: Northeastern School of Engineering

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Same surname 514
Classmates 87
Same schools 97

In context

Going through the Melrose High School class of 1931 from A to Z by surname, Merle is the 77th of 88 names on this site. Merle is printed on page 80 of the scan, in the last third of the 15-to-91 run of portrait pages. Among the 30 people in the class who printed a plan, 12 (40%) named a college or university, as Merle did (“Northeastern School of Engineering”). The yearbook lists 15 people from the Melrose High School class of 1931 as coming from Roosevelt School, including Merle. 57% of the graduates in the class of 1931 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 79% in 1930 and 52% in 1932.

On the same scan page	Roy Smith, Marjorie Souter
Same earlier school	Roosevelt School: 14 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 12 of 30 classmates with a plan (40%)

What the yearbook said

Good natured, chivalrous, punctual, considerate — this is Merle Smith. Graduating from the Roosevelt School, and commencing his high school career, he immediately was liked by all who knew him. This same characteristic has accompanied “Smitty” on his journey through the years to his graduation. He is a commendable scholar and a talented musician, playing both the piano and the guitar. His calling, however, is along the engineering; line ; for he has made application to the Northeastern School of Engineering. We know that Merle will come out on top.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1931, page 80. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1931melr).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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