Shamrock
Memorial Elementary School
* History of our school’s name *
In the 1930’s and early 40’s there was a group of Woburn young men
who played on the “Shamrock Football Team / Shamrock Athletic Club”. They played their last game on the day Pearl
Harbor was attacked and shortly thereafter the team disbanded so that the young
men could serve in World War II. Seven
members of that team gave their lives serving our country. It is in honor of those seven brave men that
our school bears the name “Shamrock Memorial Elementary School”. Those seven men, whose pictures hang in our
front lobby, were from left to right: Francis “Coopie” Gonzalves, Thomas Flynn,
Patrick Paleo, John Davoren, Vincent McHugh, Michael Mulkerrin, and John McHugh.
