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Portrait of Dorothy Holmes Bruns, Needham High School, class of 1924
As printed in the 1924 yearbook

Needham High School

Dorothy Holmes Bruns

Dorothy Holmes Bruns is one of 37 graduates in the class of 1924 at Needham High School, Needham, Massachusetts. The 1924 yearbook entry gives: headed for Normal Art; activities listed: Senior Play; born in 1905.

Class of 1924

37 in the class of 1924 · 3 more named Bruns

Full name
Dorothy Holmes Bruns
Born
September 29, 1905
Born in
Roslindale, Mass.
School
Needham High School
Graduated
Class of 1924
Headed for
Normal Art

Also searched as: Dot Bruns; Dorothy Bruns; Dorothy H. Bruns; Dottie Bruns.

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In context

Of the 37 names from the Needham High School class of 1924 that have pages here, Dorothy is 6th in surname order. On the scan, the entry sits on page 40, in the last third of the stretch from page 29 to page 45 where this site found the book's portraits. Of 24 classmates who gave a plan, 5 (21%) point to a normal school or teachers college; Dorothy's entry says “Normal Art”. “Senior Play” appears in 21 entries from the Needham High School class of 1924, Dorothy's among them. Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1924 has 37 entries, while the neighbouring classes have 30 for 1923 and 56 for 1925.

On the same scan pageClifford Raymond Jones, Gilbert Toone
Same clubSenior Play: 20 other classmates
Same kind of planteacher training: 5 of 24 classmates with a plan (21%)
The book's own titleThe Advocate (editor: George I. Davis)

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What the yearbook said

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.

The class of 1924

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Source

Needham High School yearbook, 1924, page 40. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item advocate1924need).

Published 1924, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Needham Free Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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