Melrose High School

Sheldon H. Foss “Fish”

Sheldon H. Foss (“Fish”) appears in the 1942 yearbook of Melrose High School in Melrose, MA. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 18 more named Foss

Full name: Sheldon H. Foss
Known as: Fish
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942
Came from: Calvin Coolidge School
Headed for: With the University of Maine as his future alma mater, Fish has decided to become an engineer

Also searched as: Fish Foss; Sheldon Foss; Foss, Sheldon.

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Same surname 9
Classmates 255
Same schools 40

In context

This site lists 256 people from the Melrose High School class of 1942; sorted by surname, Sheldon comes 70th. In the scan, Sheldon appears on page 48, in the first third of the run of 256 portraits read for this site (pages 18 to 173). 45 other seniors came from Calvin Coolidge School, the school Sheldon is listed as coming from. This site lists 256 names for the class of 1942, against 205 for 1939.

On the same scan page	Vera Franson, Robert K. Franz, Charles Edward Galvin
Same earlier school	Calvin Coolidge School: 45 other classmates

What Sheldon did at school

Tennis 2, 3, Manager 3
Band i, 2, 3
Outing Club 2, 3, 4
Orchestra 1, 2, 3
Airplane Club i, 2
Hi-T 3, 4
Rifle Team i
Ski Team 3, 4

What the yearbook said

With the University of Maine as his future alma mater, Fish has decided to become an engineer. He's an excellent skier and an ardent lover of fishing and hunting. After graduation he'll move to Hampden, Maine, until his college career is completed. Seldom seen without a member of the fair sex, he walks about school taking giant strides, with a grin covering his face.

The class of 1942

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Others named Foss

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Also came from Calvin Coolidge School

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 48. 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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