Brookline High School

Dorothy Burke

Dorothy Burke, Brookline High School class of 1930 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School; activities listed: Hockey and Gym Team; lived at 93 Walnut Street.

Class of 1930

251 in the class of 1930 · 108 more named Burke

Full name: Dorothy Burke
Lived at: 93 Walnut Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Course: College
Came from: F. O. Thinking
Headed for: Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School
Ambition: “To be a secretary to someone”

Also searched as: Dot Burke; Dottie Burke; Burke, Dorothy.

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Household 2
Clubs & teams 280
Neighbours 10
Same surname 100
Classmates 250
Same schools 7

In context

This site lists 251 people from the Brookline High School class of 1930; sorted by surname, Dorothy comes 23rd. Turning the scan to page 40 shows Dorothy; the portraits we read from this book run from page 35 to page 103. “Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School” is Dorothy's plan after graduation; 13 of 118 classmates with a printed plan (11%) named a business or secretarial school. Dorothy is listed under “Girl Scouts”, along with 11 other seniors. The most common first names in the class of 1930 were Mary (11), John (8) and Gertrude (7); in the class of 1931 they were William (12) and John (11).

On the same scan page	Alice Brown, Andrew Bruce, Roger F. Burkhardt
Same club	Hockey: 12 other classmates
Same club	Gym Team: 25 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 13 of 118 classmates with a plan (11%)
Same course	College: 72 of 237 classmates with a course (30%)
Same first name	Dorothy: 4 other people in the class

At home, 93 Walnut Street

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

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

Thomas J Burke (wife Josephine), capt Eng householderpage
Mary F Burke, clerk lived herepage
Thomas J Burke Jr., student lived herepage

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

What Dorothy did at school

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What the yearbook said

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Also grew up on Walnut Street

The class of 1930

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Others named Burke

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

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Also came from F. O. Thinking

Edward M. Beck JrBrookline 1929

Also headed for Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1930, page 40. View the original scan at the 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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