Brookline High School

Blair Whittier “Trinkie”

Blair Whittier (“Trinkie”) was one of 249 graduates in the class of 1929 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: General course; activities listed: Class Day Exercises and Girls' League; lived at 28 Stanton Road. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 94.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 16 more named Whittier

Full name: Blair Whittier
Known as: Trinkie
Lived at: 28 Stanton Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: General
Pastime: “Riding horseback, reading, swimming. California”

Also searched as: Trinkie Whittier; Whittier, Blair.

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Clubs & teams 429
Neighbours 8
Same surname 15
Classmates 248

In context

Of the 249 names from the Brookline High School class of 1929 that have pages here, Blair is 240th in surname order. Turning the scan to page 94 shows Blair; the portraits we read from this book run from page 31 to page 96. Blair is one of 53 listed under General among the 239 classmates whose course is printed (22%). “Girls' League” appears in 121 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1929, Blair's among them. Names on this site: 249 for the class of 1929, compared with 232 for 1928 and 251 for 1930.

On the same scan page	Doris Eleanor Willett, Sophie Ann Wilson, Janet Miriam Wolfson
Same club	Class Day Exercises: 23 other classmates
Same club	Girls' League: 120 other classmates
Same course	General: 53 of 239 classmates with a course (22%)

At home, 28 Stanton Road

The 1931 city directory lists Blair Whittier with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Whittier at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Lucy Whittier, Lee Mrs householderpage

The Whittier household is listed here in 1931 too.

What Blair did at school

Fellow members from Blair's own class:

What the yearbook said

Good sense and good nature are never separated

Also grew up on Stanton Road

The class of 1929

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Others named Whittier

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 94. 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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