Brookline High School

Doris Hodgdon “Dot, Babe”

Class of 1923, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts: Doris Hodgdon (“Dot, Babe”). The yearbook entry prints: activities listed: Orchestra; lived at 103 Brown Street; a motto. Portrait and entry from the 1923 yearbook, page 34.

Class of 1923

103 in the class of 1923 · 10 more named Hodgdon

Full name: Doris Hodgdon
Known as: Dot, Babe
Lived at: 103 Brown Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Pastime: “To trip the light fantastic”

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Clubs & teams 8
Neighbours 3
Same surname 8
Classmates 102

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 103 names from the Brookline High School class of 1923, Doris stands 49th. On the scan, the entry sits on page 34, around the middle of the stretch from page 22 to page 51 where this site found the book's portraits. In the Brookline High School class of 1923, 6 entries mention “Orchestra”; Doris's is one of them. Across 8 classes of Brookline High School on this site, from 1923 to 1931, 16 people are named Doris. Of the 34 plans printed for the class of 1923 that name a kind of next step, 26 (76%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring class has 73% in 1924.

On the same scan page	Margaret Hennessy, Ethel Hillen
Same club	Orchestra: 5 other classmates
Dedication, as printed	“Arthur W. Roberts IN SINCERE APPRECIATION OF HIS MANY YEARS OF UNTIRING SERVICE”

At home, 103 Brown Street

The 1928 city directory lists Doris Hodgdon with the occupation “stenographer” (page).

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

Arthur M Hodgdon (wife Alice), salesman householderpage
Maxwell Hodgdon, bookkeeper lived herepage

The Hodgdon household is listed here in 1928 too.

What Doris did at school

Orchestra 69

Fellow members from Doris's own class:

What the yearbook said

I find it so hard to make myself behave!

Also grew up on Brown Street

The class of 1923

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Others named Hodgdon

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1923, page 34. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1923broo).

Published 1923, 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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