Melrose High School

Newton E. Lee “Newt Lee”

Class of 1942, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: Newton E. Lee (“Newt Lee”). The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed. Portrait and entry from the 1942 yearbook, page 63.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 91 more named Lee

Full name: Newton E. Lee
Known as: Newt Lee
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942

Also searched as: Newton Lee; Lee, Newton.

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Same surname 61
Classmates 255

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In the alphabetical roll of 256 names from the Melrose High School class of 1942, Newton stands 126th. In the scan, Newton appears on page 63, in the first third of the run of 256 portraits read for this site (pages 18 to 173). A college or university was the plan of 22 of 34 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1942 (65%), compared with 45% in 1939. Among first names, the class of 1942 favours Robert (15), Barbara (11) and William (8); the class of 1939 had John (15), Ruth (8) and Barbara (6).

On the same scan page	Robert Learnard, Doris S. Lederman, Harriet E. Leighton

What the page does not say. No grammar school, no clubs or activities, no write-up or quotation here. Classmates' entries carry them often (grammar school 56%, clubs or activities 52% and write-up or quotation 35%); if Newton's entry has them on the scan, our reading missed them and we would like to hear.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 63. 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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