Melrose High School

Richard L. Brown “Dick Red Len”

Richard L. Brown (“Dick Red Len”), class of 1939, Melrose High School (Melrose, Massachusetts). The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed. Portrait and entry from the 1939 yearbook, page 28.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 386 more named Brown

Full name: Richard L. Brown
Known as: Dick Red Len
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

Also searched as: Dick Brown; Richard Brown; Rick Brown; Brown, Richard.

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Same surname 279
Classmates 204

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This site lists 205 people from the Melrose High School class of 1939; sorted by surname, Richard comes 29th. Find Richard on page 28 of the scan; the people on this site from the Melrose High School class of 1939 are spread over pages 16 to 201. The name Richard appears 5 times among the 205 names on this site from the class. 45% of the graduates in the class of 1939 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 56% in 1938 and 65% in 1942.

On the same scan page	Beverly Barbara Bruce, Barbara W. Bryant, Leonard R. Bryant
Same first name	Richard: 4 other people in the class
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. The reading found no grammar school, no clubs or activities for Richard. Across the Melrose High School class of 1939 the shares are grammar school 45% and clubs or activities 41%; worth checking the scan before assuming the book left them out.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 28. 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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