Brookline High School

Catherine Burrows Raynor “Burrie”

Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, listed Catherine Burrows Raynor (“Burrie”) among 219 graduates in the class of 1927. The entry gives: headed for Vassal'; activities listed: Domestic Science Club and Class Day Exercises; lived at 1 Flora Street. Portrait and entry from the 1927 yearbook, page 66.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 1 more named Raynor

Full name: Catherine Burrows Raynor
Known as: Burrie
Born: B. May 25, 1908.
Lived at: 1 Flora Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: Commercial
Headed for: Vassal'
Ambition: “To reach Heaven”
Pastime: “Arguing with Mossey”

Also searched as: Burrie Raynor; Kate Raynor; Catherine Raynor; Catherine B. Raynor.

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Clubs & teams 229
Neighbours 2
Classmates 218

In context

219 people from the Brookline High School class of 1927 appear on this site, and Raynor puts Catherine 160th among them. Catherine's portrait is on scan page 66, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 26 to 81. Of the 209 entries in the class with a course, 40 (19%) say Commercial, Catherine's among them. Counting Catherine, “Glee Club” is named by 24 people in the Brookline High School class of 1927. Names on this site: 219 for the class of 1927, compared with 171 for 1926 and 232 for 1928.

On the same scan page	Victoria Pollock, George William Prince, Mary Reid
Same club	Domestic Science Club: 22 other classmates
Same club	Class Day Exercises: 8 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 40 of 209 classmates with a course (19%)

At home, 1 Flora Street

The 1925 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Raynor at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

George Raynor (wife Bridget B), machinist householderpage

What Catherine did at school

Domestic Science Club 99
Class Day Exercises 51
Glee Club 231
Class Day Dance 173
Home Room Representative of Sagamore ’25 153
Girls’' League Committee ’26- ’27

Fellow members from Catherine's own class:

What the yearbook said

Joy rises in me

Also grew up on Flora Street

The class of 1927

All 219 in this class →

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 66. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1927broo).

Published 1927, 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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