Melrose High School

Miriam Peterson “Pete”

Miriam Peterson (“Pete”) 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 · 153 more named Peterson

Full name: Miriam Peterson
Known as: Pete
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

Also searched as: Pete Peterson; Peterson, Miriam.

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Classmates 204

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Going through the Melrose High School class of 1939 from A to Z by surname, Miriam is the 159th of 205 names on this site. The entry is on page 77 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 16 to page 201. The class of 1939 has 205 names here, where the neighbouring classes have 277 for 1938 and 256 for 1942. Of the 20 plans printed for the class of 1939 that name a kind of next step, 9 (45%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 56% in 1938 and 65% in 1942.

On the same scan page	June Ray Parman, Philip H. Paton, Henry F. Pearl
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. Miriam's entry, as read here, has no grammar school, no clubs or activities. Share of the class's entries that do: grammar school 45% and clubs or activities 41%. The book may have left them out, or the reading may have missed them; check the scan.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 77. 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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