Brookline High School

Alvin Raymond Spencer “Al, Spence”

Alvin Raymond Spencer (“Al, Spence”) was one of 249 graduates in the class of 1929 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: Technical course; came from Sydney, Nova Scotia; a motto. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 86.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 42 more named Spencer

Full name: Alvin Raymond Spencer
Known as: Al, Spence
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: Technical
Came from: Sydney, Nova Scotia
Ambition: “To know something”
Pastime: “Eating”

Also searched as: Alvin Spencer; Alvin R. Spencer; Spencer, Alvin.

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Same surname 31
Classmates 248

In context

Alvin Raymond Spencer is number 210 of 249 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1929 on this site. On the scan, the entry sits on page 86, in the last third of the stretch from page 31 to page 96 where this site found the book's portraits. Technical was the course of 35 out of 239 classmates who printed one (15%), including Alvin. Of the 110 plans printed for the class of 1929 that name a kind of next step, 84 (76%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 78% in 1928 and 76% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Leonard George Solomon, Edward Sondheim, Grace Sovrensky
Same course	Technical: 35 of 239 classmates with a course (15%)

What the yearbook said

He is full of good intentions

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 86. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1929broo).

Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Public Library of Brookline via the Internet Archive.

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