Melrose High School

Samuel Adams “Sam Sammy”

Samuel Adams (“Sam Sammy”) was a senior at Melrose High School in Melrose, MA, in 1942. The yearbook prints the name and the portrait; this page adds classmates and a link to the original scan.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 139 more named Adams

Full name: Samuel Adams
Known as: Sam Sammy
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942

Also searched as: Sam Adams; Adams, Samuel.

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Same surname 97
Classmates 255

In context

This site lists 256 people from the Melrose High School class of 1942; sorted by surname, Samuel comes 2nd. The entry is on page 21 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 18 to page 173. 65% of the graduates in the class of 1942 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 45% in 1939. For Melrose High School, the site holds 256 people from the class of 1942, against 205 for 1939.

On the same scan page	David B. Adams, William Alcott, William Alkins

What the page does not say. Nothing on grammar school, clubs or activities and write-up or quotation appears for Samuel, though classmates' entries carry them (grammar school 56%, clubs or activities 52% and write-up or quotation 35%); Samuel's entry may print them and have been mis-read, or not print them at all.

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 21. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1942melr).

Published 1942. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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