Melrose High School

Bob Priestley

Printed in the 1938 yearbook as Robert B. Priestley

Bob Priestley (American gridiron football player) is in the 1938 yearbook of Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts, printed there as Robert B. Priestley. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates and what the book says.

Class of 1938

Later known as Bob Priestley — American gridiron football player (1920-2015). Wikipedia

277 in the class of 1938 · 3 more named Priestley

Full name: Robert B. Priestley
Known as: Bob Hacker
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1938
Came from: Lincoln School
Headed for: Colgate University

Also searched as: Bob Priestley; Robert Priestley; Bobby Priestley; Priestley, Robert.

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Same surname 2
Classmates 276
Same schools 58

In context

Of the 277 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1938 read for this site, Robert's is 201st alphabetically. Find Robert on page 78 of the scan; the people on this site from the Melrose High School class of 1938 are spread over pages 16 to 207. There are 13 people named Robert in the Melrose High School class of 1938; the entry on this page is one of them. “Colgate University” is Robert's plan after graduation; 54 of 120 classmates with a printed plan (45%) named a college or university. Of the 96 plans printed for the class of 1938 that name a kind of next step, 54 (56%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 57% in 1936 and 45% in 1939.

On the same scan page	Marjorie Preece, Marion L. Prohl, Dorothy Pulsifer
Same earlier school	Lincoln School: 45 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 54 of 120 classmates with a plan (45%)
Same first name	Robert: 12 other people in the class

What Robert did at school

Hockey (3,4)
Track (4)
Year Book Staff (4)
Operetta (4)

What the yearbook said

“Bob” was one of the most outstanding, all-round athletic figure of his class during the last four years, starring in football, hockey, and baseball. He has a very pleasing way about him that makes him well-liked by all the members of the class, and is headed for Colgate University where he is going to continue his scholastic and athletic activities.

The class of 1938

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Others named Priestley

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

Also came from Lincoln School

Also headed for Colgate University

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1938, page 78. 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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