Brookline High School

Doris B. Jones

Doris B. Jones, Brookline High School class of 1926 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Miss Gibbs; activities listed: Brookline Senate and Dramatics; lived at 1060 Beacon Street.

Class of 1926

171 in the class of 1926 · 250 more named Jones

Full name: Doris B. Jones
Lived at: 1060 Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Headed for: Miss Gibbs
Ambition: “To go to the Orient”
Pastime: “Trying to find time”

Also searched as: Doris Jones; Jones, Doris.

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Clubs & teams 255
Neighbours 81
Same surname 167
Classmates 170
Same schools 1

In context

Of the 171 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1926 read for this site, Doris's is 87th alphabetically. Doris is printed on page 52 of the scan, around the middle of the 26-to-80 run of portrait pages. “Miss Gibbs” is Doris's plan after graduation; 11 of 60 classmates with a printed plan (18%) named a business or secretarial school. The first name Doris runs through 8 classes of Brookline High School (1923 to 1931), 16 people in all. Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1926 has 171 entries, while the neighbouring classes have 179 for 1925 and 219 for 1927.

On the same scan page	Esther Alice Johnson, Frederick W. Keene
Same street	Beacon Street: 8 other classmates
Same club	Dramatics: 26 other classmates
Same club	Girls' League: 32 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 11 of 60 classmates with a plan (18%)

At home, 1060 Beacon Street

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

Thomas P Jones (wife Ella W), manager householderpage
Doris B Jones lived herepage
Esther P Jones, student lived herepage

The Jones household is listed here in 1928 and 1931 too.

What Doris did at school

Glee Club ’23-’24-’25-’26, Treasurer ’24, President ’25 231
Brookline Senate
Class Day Marshal ’25 208
Dramatics 213
Senior Advisor ’26
Girls' League 474

Fellow members from Doris's own class:

What the yearbook said

Rich in saving common sense

X. Dot, Shorty.

Also grew up on Beacon Street

The class of 1926

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Others named Jones

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Also headed for Miss Gibbs

Margaret M. GordonBrookline 1926

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1926, page 52. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1926broo).

Published 1926, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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