Melrose High School
William Alcott “Bill”
William Alcott (“Bill”) 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 · 1 more named Alcott
- Full name
- William Alcott
- Known as
- Bill
- School
- Melrose High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1942
Also searched as: Bill Alcott; Billy Alcott; Alcott, William.
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In context
256 people from the Melrose High School class of 1942 appear on this site, and Alcott puts William 3rd among them. William is printed on page 21 of the scan, right at the start of the 18-to-173 run of portrait pages. William is the third most common first name in the Melrose High School class of 1942, with 8 people. The class of 1942: 65% of classifiable plans point to a college or university, versus 45% in 1939.
| On the same scan page | David B. Adams, Samuel Adams, William Alkins |
|---|---|
| Same first name | William: 7 other people in the class |
What the page does not say. The reading found no grammar school, no clubs or activities, no write-up or quotation for William. Across the Melrose High School class of 1942 the shares are grammar school 56%, clubs or activities 52% and write-up or quotation 35%; worth checking the scan before assuming the book left them out.
The class of 1942
Samuel AdamsMelrose 1942
William AlkinsMelrose 1942
David B. AdamsMelrose 1942
Priscilla Eloise AllanMelrose 1942
Sylvia L. AndersonMelrose 1942
Dominic AntonucciMelrose 1942
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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.
How this page was made: the name, portrait and printed details were read from the scan by software and checked against the page; a few in every hundred details are still wrong. How it works · Report an error · Standards