Brookline High School

Blanche Spencer “Kiddo, Bee”

Blanche Spencer (“Kiddo, Bee”), Brookline High School class of 1930 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: Commercial course; activities listed: French Club and Library Staff; lived at 7 Washburn Terrace.

Class of 1930

251 in the class of 1930 · 42 more named Spencer

Full name: Blanche Spencer
Known as: Kiddo, Bee
Lived at: 7 Washburn Terrace, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Course: Commercial
Pastime: “Transcribing shorthand for Miss Young. someday”

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Clubs & teams 335
Same surname 31
Classmates 250

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 251 names from the Brookline High School class of 1930, Blanche stands 223rd. On the scan, the entry sits on page 95, in the last third of the stretch from page 35 to page 103 where this site found the book's portraits. Counting Blanche, “French Club” is named by 71 people in the Brookline High School class of 1930. Of the 237 entries in the class with a course, 42 (18%) say Commercial, Blanche's among them. In the class of 1930, 76% of the plans we could classify (68 of 89) were a college or university; the neighbouring classes show 76% in 1929 and 79% in 1931.

On the same scan page	Dana Andrew Smith, Herbert Leonard Solomon, Ralph Spector
Same club	French Club: 70 other classmates
Same club	Library Staff: 11 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 42 of 237 classmates with a course (18%)

At home, 7 Washburn Terrace

The 1931 city directory lists Blanche Spencer with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1931 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Spencer at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Bertha L Spencer, cash lived herepage
Blanche Spencer, student lived herepage
Laura Spencer, stenographer lived herepage

The Spencer household is listed here in 1928 too.

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1930, page 95. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1930broo).

Published 1930, 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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