Melrose High School · Melrose, Massachusetts

Melrose High School Class of 1938

277 graduates of Melrose, Massachusetts. Every name and face was read out of the scanned yearbook pages themselves.

Rights: Published 1938. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

277graduates
239listed activities

Poster of this classEvery portrait and name on one printable sheet.

About this yearbook

Title: The Log
Scanned by: Melrose Public Library, via the Internet Archive

Dedication. DEDICATED TO MR. EDWARD M. FERRY WHOSE EVER HELPFUL ATTITUDE, GOOD-NATURED GUIDANCE TO ALL HIS STUDENTS, AND ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY HAVE WON HIM THE APPRECIATION OF THE CLASS OF ’38 AND THE DEDICATION OF THIS BOOK …

Staff. Mr. Stanley C. Battles (adviser), Miss Goodrich, Peggy Sullivan, Janet Shrader, Virginia Rand, David Mahan, Leonard Howe, Miss Griffin.

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The 1938 yearbook of Melrose High School in Melrose lists 277 graduates, and every one of them has a portrait on this site. They are listed alphabetically below, each linked to a page of their own.

237 different surnames appear. The most common were Smith (5), Anderson (3), Casey (3), Hall (3) and Jones (3), and 31 surnames were shared by two or more classmates.

The most common first names were Robert (13), John (12), Richard (10), Dorothy (8) and Mary (8).

258 graduates named the school they came from. The most often named were Roosevelt School (76), Calvin Coolidge School (69), Lincoln School (46) and St. Mary’s School (16).

120 graduates said what they planned to do after graduation. The most often named were University of Maine (5), business world (5), B. U (4) and Harvard (4).

107 graduates have a nickname printed beside their name, such as “Doug”, “Burt”, “Buzz” and “Mac”.

Bob Priestley was in this class and went on to be known beyond their hometown.