Melrose High School

Philip L. Wadland “Phil”

Philip L. Wadland (“Phil”) appears in the 1939 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 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 2 more named Wadland

Full name: Philip L. Wadland
Known as: Phil
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939
Course: Commercial Accounting Course
Came from: Lincoln School
Headed for: W’e hope that sometime we will see him in a Springfield College exhibition

Also searched as: Phil Wadland; Philip Wadland; Wadland, Philip.

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Same surname 1
Classmates 204
Same schools 58

In context

205 people from the Melrose High School class of 1939 appear on this site, and Wadland puts Philip 197th among them. Philip is printed on page 92 of the scan, around the middle of the 16-to-201 run of portrait pages. The yearbook lists 13 people from the Melrose High School class of 1939 as coming from Lincoln School, including Philip. 18 people named Philip turn up in 9 Melrose High School classes on this site, 1926 to 1942. In the class of 1939 the first names most often shared were John (15), Ruth (8) and Barbara (6); the class of 1938 had Robert (13), John (12) and Richard (10).

On the same scan page	Charles Henry Virgin, Eileen G. Walsh, David Sargent Wardwell
Same earlier school	Lincoln School: 12 other classmates
Dedication, as printed	“DEDICATED TO BLAIR C. WTLSOX HIS FRIENDLINESS AND SINCERE COMPANIONSHIP HAVE MADE HIM OUR ADVISER COMRADE, AND FRIEND”

What Philip did at school

Gynuiastic Team i, 2, 3, 4

What the yearbook said

Upon entering high school, Phil began the Commercial Accounting Course and finished in the highest division. H‘- likes music, dancing, skating, ami swimming. His interest in gymnastics has made him one of the best acrobats in the school. W’e hope that sometime we will see him in a Springfield College exhibition.

The class of 1939

All 205 in this class →

Others named Wadland

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

Robert L. WadlandMelrose 1938

Also came from Lincoln School

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 92. 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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