Brookline High School

Charles W. French, Jr. “Charlie”

Charles W. French, Jr. (“Charlie”), Brookline High School class of 1931 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Dartmouth College; activities listed: Football; lived at 1891 Beacon Street.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 60 more named French

Full name: Charles W. French, Jr.
Known as: Charlie
Lived at: 1891 Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: College.
Headed for: Dartmouth College

Also searched as: Charlie French; Charles French; Chuck French; French, Charles.

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Clubs & teams 25
Neighbours 81
Same surname 48
Classmates 272
Same schools 7

In context

This site lists 273 people from the Brookline High School class of 1931; sorted by surname, Charles comes 80th. Turning the scan to page 54 shows Charles; the portraits we read from this book run from page 34 to page 110. Over 9 classes from 1923 to 1931, Beacon Street is the street of 82 Brookline High School graduates on this site. Neighbours on paper: 7 seniors share Beacon Street with Charles. Plans for a college or university made up 79% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1931 (128 of 162), against 76% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Florence Freedman, Myra Fritz
Same street	Beacon Street: 7 other classmates
Same club	Football: 5 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 128 of 231 classmates with a plan (55%)
Same course	College: 86 of 252 classmates with a course (34%)

At home, 1891 Beacon Street

The 1931 city directory lists Charles W. French, Jr. with the occupation “teacher B” (page).

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

Charles W French, teacher B householderpage
Constance R French, clerk lived herepage
Evelyn M French, salesman lived herepage

The French household is listed here in 1928 too.

What Charles did at school

Football 108
Tennis '29, '30
Athletic Council '30
Treasurer of Class ’30
Picture Committee ’31
Prophet ’31.

Fellow members from Charles's own class:

What the yearbook said

For he’s a jolly good fellow.

Also grew up on Beacon Street

The class of 1931

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Others named French

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Also headed for Dartmouth College

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 54. 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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