METjROSE, June 26-A pretty romance * of the schoolroom has come to light Jnveithrough the announcement by Mins ,Katherine B. Brown, a pretty graduateof the Melrose High School, of her en- the ’ gagement to J. Thatcher Sears, -a teacher _ In the Melrose High School for the past three years. I ,. KATHERINE B. BROWN, atPretty Melrose High School graduate. thwhose engagement lias been announced ncto J. Thatcher Sears, a teacher at the w school. Mr. Sears’ picture in vignette. m Miss Brown’s photo is by Chickering.*Mr. Sears was graduated from the local high school in the class of ’99 and from nHarvard in 1903. piIn the fall of the same year he accepted cc a position in Melrose High as teacher of P' English, physics and geology. aiMiss Brown was graduated'from the pj Melrose High School this evening, and « was one of 10 to receive honorable men-tlon' LSaturday night 10 young women class- P1 mates gathered at her home, 268 West Emerson street, and she announced her wengagement. rMr. Thatcher is very popular among ° the pupils of the high school, and has 11 assisted in coaching the different athletic £teams. IIt is rumored that he is to-leave the school this year and is to study medicine at Harvard next fall.He is about 24 years old and Miss 1Brown is about 18. B