Brookline High School

Burnett Nicholas “Nick”

Burnett Nicholas (“Nick”) was one of 273 graduates in the class of 1931 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for Only fate can tell; activities listed: Glee Club; lived at 30 Claflin Road. Portrait and entry from the 1931 yearbook, page 87.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 9 more named Nicholas

Full name: Burnett Nicholas
Known as: Nick
Lived at: 30 Claflin Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: Commercial.
Headed for: Only fate can tell

Also searched as: Nick Nicholas; Nicholas, Burnett.

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Clubs & teams 64
Neighbours 6
Same surname 5
Classmates 272

In context

This site lists 273 people from the Brookline High School class of 1931; sorted by surname, Burnett comes 196th. In the scan, Burnett appears on page 87, in the last third of the run of 273 portraits read for this site (pages 34 to 110). 15 people in the class list “Glee Club”, Burnett included. 62 of the 252 classmates who printed a course (25%) took Commercial, as Burnett did. 79% of the graduates in the class of 1931 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 76% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Bernard H. Nelson, Ruth Marie Nelson, Ruth Norman
Same club	Glee Club: 14 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 62 of 252 classmates with a course (25%)

At home, 30 Claflin Road

The 1931 city directory lists Burnett Nicholas with the occupation “student” (page).

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

Max M Nicholas (wife Rosa J), do B householderpage
Burnett Nicholas, student lived herepage

The Nicholas household is listed here in 1925 and 1928 too.

What Burnett did at school

Four-Minute Speaker ’29
Glee Club 231
Manager of Corridor Sales ’30.

Fellow members from Burnett's own class:

What the yearbook said

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Also grew up on Claflin Road

The class of 1931

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Others named Nicholas

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 87. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1931broo).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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