Brookline High School
Eldredge Watson “Ekky”
Eldredge Watson (“Ekky”) appears in the 1929 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 32 Webster Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.
Class of 1929
249 in the class of 1929 · 73 more named Watson
- Full name
- Eldredge Watson
- Known as
- Ekky
- Lived at
- 32 Webster Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
- School
- Brookline High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1929
- Course
- Technical
- Headed for
- Harvard
- Ambition
- “Traveling”
- Pastime
- “Telling stories at Jaba’s”
Also searched as: Ekky Watson; Watson, Eldredge.
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In context
This site lists 249 people from the Brookline High School class of 1929; sorted by surname, Eldredge comes 235th. In the scan, Eldredge appears on page 92, near the end of the run of 249 portraits read for this site (pages 31 to 96). Among the 127 people in the class who printed a plan, 84 (66%) named a college or university, as Eldredge did (“Harvard”). 35 of the 239 classmates who printed a course (15%) took Technical, as Eldredge did. The class of 1929: 76% of classifiable plans point to a college or university, versus 78% in 1928 and 76% in 1930.
| On the same scan page | Julia Therese Walsh, Lawrence Walsh, W. Raymond Ward |
|---|---|
| Same club | Glee Club: 69 other classmates |
| Same club | Orchestra: 15 other classmates |
| Same kind of plan | college or university: 84 of 127 classmates with a plan (66%) |
| Same course | Technical: 35 of 239 classmates with a course (15%) |
At home, 32 Webster Street
Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.
The 1931 city directory lists Eldredge Watson with the occupation “student” (page).
The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Watson at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.
The Watson household is listed here in 1931 too.
What Eldredge did at school
- Glee Club 231
- Orchestra 69
- Spanish Club 171
- Usher, Dramatics ’28, ’29, Senior Social ’28, ’29 213
- Band 53
Fellow members from Eldredge's own class:
What the yearbook said
Healthy and free, the world before me
Also grew up on Webster Street
The class of 1929
W. Raymond WardBrookline 1929
James A. WebsterBrookline 1929
Lawrence WalshBrookline 1929
John Andrew Keith WedlockBrookline 1929
Julia Therese WalshBrookline 1929
Joseph WeisbergBrookline 1929
Others named Watson
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
Frances WatsonSpringfield Trade 1945
Donald Scott WatsonCentral 1941
Francis S. WatsonBoston of To-day (1892) 1892
Carolyn May WatsonFitchburg 1917
Gladys WatsonFitchburg 1917
Blanche WatsonFitchburg 1918
Also headed for Harvard
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Source
Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 92.
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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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