Brookline High School

Astrid Elsa Handberg “Ella Elsie”

Astrid Elsa Handberg (“Ella Elsie”) appears in the 1928 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 8 Kerrigan Place. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1928

232 in the class of 1928 · 1 more named Handberg

Full name: Astrid Elsa Handberg
Known as: Ella Elsie
Lived at: 8 Kerrigan Place, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Course: Commercial
Ambition: “To be “somebody’s” private secretary”
Pastime: “Dancing, reading”

Also searched as: Astrid Handberg; Astrid E. Handberg; Handberg, Astrid.

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Clubs & teams 314
Neighbours 2
Classmates 231

In context

Of the 232 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1928 read for this site, Astrid's is 90th alphabetically. Astrid is printed on page 48 of the scan, around the middle of the 26-to-87 run of portrait pages. Of the 229 entries in the class with a course, 47 (21%) say Commercial, Astrid's among them. Counting Astrid, “Girls' Glee Club” is named by 13 people in the Brookline High School class of 1928. This site lists 232 names for the class of 1928, against 219 for 1927 and 249 for 1929.

On the same scan page	Jean Hamilton, Pauline Louise Hanson, Marguerite A. Harding
Same club	Girls' Glee Club: 12 other classmates
Same club	Domestic Science Club: 27 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 47 of 229 classmates with a course (21%)

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What the yearbook said

A maid of even disposition

Also grew up on Kerrigan Place

The class of 1928

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1928, page 48. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1928broo).

Published 1928, 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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