Brookline High School

Bertha van Tassell “Bert”

Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, listed Bertha van Tassell (“Bert”) among 232 graduates in the class of 1928. The entry gives: Commercial course; activities listed: French Club and Class Day Exercises; lived at 10 University Road. Portrait and entry from the 1928 yearbook, page 85.

Class of 1928

232 in the class of 1928 · 1 more named van Tassell

Full name: Bertha van Tassell
Known as: Bert
Lived at: 10 University Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Course: Commercial
Ambition: “Just enough to get there”
Pastime: “Looking wise”

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Clubs & teams 408
Neighbours 32
Classmates 231

In context

Of the 232 names from the Brookline High School class of 1928 that have pages here, Bertha comes last in surname order. Find Bertha on page 85 of the scan; the people on this site from the Brookline High School class of 1928 are spread over pages 26 to 87. 74 people in the class list “French Club”, Bertha included. Bertha's course, Commercial, is also the course of 46 others in the 229 entries that print one (21% in all). Of the 229 entries in the class of 1928 that print a course, 102 (45%) are college or college-preparatory, where the neighbouring classes have 44% in 1927 and 36% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Louise O. Umscheid, Kathleen Clement Ure, Ruth Edith Walker
Same club	French Club: 73 other classmates
Same club	Class Day Exercises: 11 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 47 of 229 classmates with a course (21%)

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Fuss is the froth of business

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1928, page 85. 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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