Melrose High School

Richard C. Keady “Dick”

Richard C. Keady (“Dick”) was one of 277 graduates in the class of 1938 at Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Roosevelt School; headed for Exeter, then Harvard; a write-up. Portrait and entry from the 1938 yearbook, page 56.

Class of 1938

277 in the class of 1938 · 6 more named Keady

Full name: Richard C. Keady
Known as: Dick
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1938
Came from: Roosevelt School
Headed for: Exeter, then Harvard

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Same surname 5
Classmates 276
Same schools 97

In context

Of the 277 names from the Melrose High School class of 1938 that have pages here, Richard is 128th in surname order. On the scan, the entry sits on page 56, in the first third of the stretch from page 16 to page 207 where this site found the book's portraits. Roosevelt School appears as the earlier school of 76 people in the class, Richard among them. The first name Richard runs through 10 classes of Melrose High School (1925 to 1942), 40 people in all, and is most common in 1938 (10). 56% of the graduates in the class of 1938 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 57% in 1936 and 45% in 1939.

On the same scan page	Ruth Jones, Lillian Kearney
Same earlier school	Roosevelt School: 75 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 54 of 120 classmates with a plan (45%)
Same first name	Richard: 9 other people in the class

What Richard did at school

Football (1, 2, 3, 4)
Baseball (3, 4)
Track (3, 4)

What the yearbook said

“Dick” made friends quickly with his smile and good nature. He showed great interests in sports, in which he excelled; his favorite is baseball. Dick plans to enter Exeter next fall and then on to Harvard, perhaps to be a lawyer.

The class of 1938

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Others named Keady

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

Also came from Roosevelt School

Also headed for Exeter, then Harvard

Vincent L. HennessyBrookline 1926

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1938, page 56. 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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