Melrose High School

Philip Payson “Phil”

Class of 1938, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: Philip Payson (“Phil”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Calvin Coolidge School; headed for Northeastern. Portrait and entry from the 1938 yearbook, page 75.

Class of 1938

277 in the class of 1938 · 5 more named Payson

Full name: Philip Payson
Known as: Phil
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1938
Came from: Calvin Coolidge School
Headed for: Northeastern

Also searched as: Phil Payson; Payson, Philip.

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Same surname 2
Classmates 276
Same schools 113

In context

Philip Payson is number 194 of 277 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1938 on this site. Philip's portrait is on scan page 75, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 16 to 207. Among the 120 people in the class who printed a plan, 54 (45%) named a college or university, as Philip did (“Northeastern”). The first name Philip runs through 9 classes of Melrose High School (1926 to 1942), 18 people in all. Plans for a college or university made up 56% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1938 (54 of 96), against 57% in 1936 and 45% in 1939.

On the same scan page	Patricia A. Parkman, Harold Parson
Same earlier school	Calvin Coolidge School: 68 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 54 of 120 classmates with a plan (45%)

What Philip did at school

Hi-Y (2, 3, 4)
Baseball ( 1 )
Outing Club (3, 4)
Golf Team (3, 4)

The class of 1938

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Others named Payson

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

Also came from Calvin Coolidge School

Also headed for Northeastern

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1938, page 75. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1938melr).

Published 1938. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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