Brookline High School

Cyril J. Blackwood

Class of 1931, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts: Cyril J. Blackwood. The yearbook entry prints: headed for Northeastern University; activities listed: German Club and Swimming; lived at 140 Pleasant Street. Portrait and entry from the 1931 yearbook, page 37.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 8 more named Blackwood

Full name: Cyril J. Blackwood
Lived at: 140 Pleasant Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: Commercial.
Headed for: Northeastern University

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Household 2
Clubs & teams 50
Neighbours 19
Same surname 5
Classmates 272
Same schools 18

In context

Cyril J. Blackwood is number 15 of 273 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1931 on this site. Turning the scan to page 37 shows Cyril; the portraits we read from this book run from page 34 to page 110. Of 231 classmates who gave a plan, 128 (55%) point to a college or university; Cyril's entry says “Northeastern University”. Commercial was the course of 62 out of 252 classmates who printed one (25%), including Cyril. In the class of 1931, 79% of the plans we could classify (128 of 162) were a college or university; the neighbouring class shows 76% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Elizabeth Bennett, Janice R. Bigelow, Ruth Blackwood
Same street	Pleasant Street: 7 other classmates
Same club	German Club: 6 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 128 of 231 classmates with a plan (55%)
Same course	Commercial: 62 of 252 classmates with a course (25%)

At home, 140 Pleasant Street

Same surname, same address — very likely brothers and sisters.

The 1931 city directory lists Cyril J. Blackwood with the occupation “student” (page).

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

Harry P Blackwood (wife Mary), chauffeur householderpage
Cyril Blackwood, student lived herepage
Harry P Blackwood Jr., engineer lived herepage

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

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Also headed for Northeastern University

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 37. 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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