Brookline High School
Donald Blunt “Don”
Class of 1930, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts: Donald Blunt (“Don”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Dartmouth; activities listed: Glee Club and Football; lived at 106 Rawson Road. Portrait and entry from the 1930 yearbook, page 39.
Class of 1930
251 in the class of 1930 · 6 more named Blunt
- Full name
- Donald Blunt
- Known as
- Don
- Lived at
- 106 Rawson Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
- School
- Brookline High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1930
- Course
- College
- Headed for
- Dartmouth
- Ambition
- “President of the “Yo Yo” Club”
- Pastime
- “Being the butt for Haynes’s jokes”
Also searched as: Don Blunt; Blunt, Donald.
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In context
Of the 251 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1930 read for this site, Donald's is 18th alphabetically. On the scan, the entry sits on page 39, right at the start of the stretch from page 35 to page 103 where this site found the book's portraits. Donald's course, College, is also the course of 71 others in the 237 entries that print one (30% in all). 35 people in the class list “Track”, Donald included. The share taking a college or college-preparatory course was 39% in the class of 1930 (92 of 237), against 36% in 1929 and 35% in 1931.
| On the same scan page | Mary Blackwood, Ruby Charlotte Brettler, Dorothy Margot Brewer |
|---|---|
| Same club | Glee Club: 49 other classmates |
| Same club | Football: 19 other classmates |
| Same kind of plan | college or university: 68 of 118 classmates with a plan (58%) |
| Same course | College: 72 of 237 classmates with a course (30%) |
At home, 106 Rawson Road
Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.
The 1931 city directory lists Donald Blunt with the occupation “student” (page).
The 1931 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Blunt at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.
- Elson M Blunt (wife Maude L), broker B householderpage
- Bettina Blunt, student lived herepage
- Donald V Blunt, student lived herepage
- Eleanor Blunt, student lived herepage
- Elson M Blunt Jr., real estate lived herepage
The Blunt household is listed here in 1928 too.
What Donald did at school
Fellow members from Donald's own class:
What the yearbook said
This star will ascend
Also grew up on Rawson Road
The class of 1930
Mary BlackwoodBrookline 1930
Ruby Charlotte BrettlerBrookline 1930
Ernest H. Bird JrBrookline 1930
Dorothy Margot BrewerBrookline 1930
Norma BerlowBrookline 1930
Alice BrownBrookline 1930
Others named Blunt
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
Also headed for Dartmouth
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Source
Brookline High School yearbook, 1930, page 39.
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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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