Brookline High School

Edith Greenleaf “Edie”

Edith Greenleaf (“Edie”) is one of 249 graduates in the class of 1929 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1929 yearbook entry gives: College course; activities listed: Girls' League and Teacher-Student Council; lived at 284 Tappan Street.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 12 more named Greenleaf

Full name: Edith Greenleaf
Known as: Edie
Lived at: 284 Tappan Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: College
Ambition: “To succeed”

Also searched as: Edie Greenleaf; Greenleaf, Edith.

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Household 2
Clubs & teams 380
Neighbours 20
Same surname 6
Classmates 248

In context

Of the 249 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1929 read for this site, Edith's is 88th alphabetically. Turning the scan to page 54 shows Edith; the portraits we read from this book run from page 31 to page 96. The first name Edith runs through 7 classes of Brookline High School (1924 to 1931), 14 people in all. Neighbours on paper: 4 classmates share Tappan Street with Edith. In the class of 1929, 87 of 239 printed courses (36%) were college or college-preparatory ones, compared with 45% in 1928 and 39% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Elizabeth Gustafson, Chandler S. Hagen-Burger, Francis T. Hall Jr
Same street	Tappan Street: 4 other classmates
Same club	Girls' League: 120 other classmates
Same club	Teacher-Student Council: 5 other classmates
Same course	College: 81 of 239 classmates with a course (34%)

At home, 284 Tappan Street

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

The 1931 city directory lists Edith Greenleaf with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Greenleaf at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Henry S Greenleaf, (Carrie Me) phys B householderpage

The Greenleaf household is listed here in 1931 too.

What Edith did at school

Girls' League 474
Junior and Senior Advisor ’28, ’29
Marshal ’28
Teacher-Student Council 33
Court of Justice 37
Class Vice-President ’29
Hockey 76
Class Hockey 29
Pin Guard 9
Captain Ball 53

Fellow members from Edith's own class:

What the yearbook said

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short

Also grew up on Tappan Street

The class of 1929

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Others named Greenleaf

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 54. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1929broo).

Published 1929, 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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