Brookline High School

Dorothy Grant “Dot, Dotty, Babe”

Dorothy Grant (“Dot, Dotty, Babe”) was one of 219 graduates in the class of 1927 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for Children’s Hospital; activities listed: Glee Club and Mandolin Club; lived at 68 Gardner Street, Allston. Mass. Portrait and entry from the 1927 yearbook, page 44.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 63 more named Grant

Full name: Dorothy Grant
Known as: Dot, Dotty, Babe
Born: B. December 13, 1908, Boston, Mass.
Lived at: 68 Gardner Street, Allston. Mass, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: General
Headed for: Children’s Hospital
Ambition: “To travel”

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Clubs & teams 288
Same surname 52
Classmates 218
Same schools 1

In context

Dorothy Grant is number 71 of 219 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1927 on this site. The entry is on page 44 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 26 to page 81. Dorothy is listed under “Girls' League”, along with 66 other classmates. The first name Dorothy appears 50 times in the 9 Brookline High School classes read for this site (1923 to 1931), most often in 1926 (7). Among first names, the class of 1927 favours Helen (7) and Mary (7); the class of 1928 had Helen (11), Margaret (8) and Mary (8).

On the same scan page	Katherine H. Graham, James Hugh Gray, Beatrice Grosky
Same club	Glee Club: 23 other classmates
Same club	Girls' League: 66 other classmates
Same course	General: 43 of 209 classmates with a course (21%)
Same first name	Dorothy: 5 other people in the class

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 44. 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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