Melrose High School

Winona A. Howell “Nonie”

Winona A. Howell (“Nonie”) is one of 247 graduates in the class of 1936 at Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts. The 1936 yearbook entry gives: came from Waltham School for Girls; headed for Massachusetts Art School; activities listed: Masque and Wig Society.

Class of 1936

247 in the class of 1936 · 30 more named Howell

Full name: Winona A. Howell
Known as: Nonie
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1936
Came from: Waltham School for Girls
Headed for: Massachusetts Art School
Ambition: “To become a commercial artist”

Also searched as: Nonie Howell; Winona Howell; Howell, Winona.

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Same surname 14
Classmates 246
Same schools 1

In context

247 people from the Melrose High School class of 1936 appear on this site, and Howell puts Winona 95th among them. In the scan, Winona appears on page 49, in the first third of the run of 247 portraits read for this site (pages 19 to 158). Against 277 for 1938, the class of 1936 comes to 247 names on this site. In the class of 1936, 57% of the plans we could classify (39 of 68) were a college or university; the neighbouring class shows 56% in 1938.

On the same scan page	Barbara B. Hoyt, Margaret Hunton, Fay Hupper

What Winona did at school

Masque and Wig Society

What the yearbook said

Winona came to Melrose High School in November, 1932 from the Waltham School for Girls. She was unknown, but in these four years has made a host of friends. She is going to attend the Massachusetts Art School, and her ambition is to later become a commercial artist. In view of the fine work she has already done, we feel sure that Winona is headed for a successful career.

The class of 1936

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Others named Howell

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1936, page 49. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1936melr).

Published 1936. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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