Melrose High School

William J. Mills “Bill”

William J. Mills (“Bill”) was a senior at Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1939, one of 205 graduates. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 38 more named Mills

Full name: William J. Mills
Known as: Bill
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

Also searched as: Bill Mills; William Mills; Billy Mills; Mills, William.

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Same surname 21
Classmates 204

In context

Going through the Melrose High School class of 1939 from A to Z by surname, William is the 141st of 205 names on this site. The entry is on page 71 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 16 to page 201. 55 people named William turn up in 12 Melrose High School classes on this site, 1925 to 1942. Plans for a college or university made up 45% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1939 (9 of 20), against 56% in 1938 and 65% in 1942.

On the same scan page	Walter S. Mills, Robert E. Monroe, Eugene Francis Mooers
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 William. 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 71. 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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