Brookline High School

Doris M. Collins “Dot”

Doris M. Collins (“Dot”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 105 Browne Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 154 more named Collins

Full name: Doris M. Collins
Known as: Dot
Lived at: 105 Browne Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: Commercial
Pastime: “Swimming and Dancing. right Partner for life”

Also searched as: Dot Collins; Doris Collins; Collins, Doris.

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Clubs & teams 148
Neighbours 18
Same surname 129
Classmates 218

In context

Of the 219 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1927 read for this site, Doris's is 28th alphabetically. Turning the scan to page 33 shows Doris; the portraits we read from this book run from page 26 to page 81. In the 8 classes of Brookline High School between 1923 and 1931 that this site covers, 16 people have the first name Doris. In the Brookline High School class of 1927, 19% of the 209 printed courses are Commercial (40 people), Doris included. Of the 87 plans printed for the class of 1927 that name a kind of next step, 65 (75%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 68% in 1926 and 78% in 1928.

On the same scan page	George M. Cleaves, Gladys M. Colburn, Frances Barbara Conneely
Same club	Art Club: 16 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 40 of 209 classmates with a course (19%)

At home, 105 Browne Street

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

Pauline M Collins, Mrs householderpage

What Doris did at school

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What the yearbook said

A kind and gentle heart she has

Also grew up on Browne Street

The class of 1927

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Others named Collins

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

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 33. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1927broo).

Published 1927, 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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