Brookline High School
Eleanor Sheehan “El, Elie, Petey”
Eleanor Sheehan (“El, Elie, Petey”) is one of 103 graduates in the class of 1923 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1923 yearbook entry gives: activities listed: Girls' Mandolin Club and Girls' League; lived at 93 Thorndike Street; a motto.
Class of 1923
103 in the class of 1923 · 66 more named Sheehan
- Full name
- Eleanor Sheehan
- Known as
- El, Elie, Petey
- Lived at
- 93 Thorndike Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
- School
- Brookline High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1923
- Ambition
- “To see Ken Wing tip the scales at “175”
- Pastime
- “Making school at 8:29”
Also searched as: Ellie Sheehan; Nell Sheehan; Sheehan, Eleanor.
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In context
103 people from the Brookline High School class of 1923 appear on this site, and Sheehan puts Eleanor 93rd among them. In the scan, Eleanor appears on page 48, in the last third of the run of 103 portraits read for this site (pages 22 to 51). Counting Eleanor, “Girls' League” is named by 8 people in the Brookline High School class of 1923. The first name Eleanor runs through 7 classes of Brookline High School (1923 to 1930), 20 people in all, and is most common in 1930 (6). The most common first names in the class of 1923 were Dorothy (6) and Mary (6); in the class of 1924 they were Helen (5), James (5) and Mary (5).
| On the same scan page | Roger Wallace Shugg, Thelma Slater, Robert M. Smith |
|---|---|
| Same club | Girls' League: 7 other classmates |
| Same club | Senior Social: 15 other classmates |
| Dedication, as printed | “Arthur W. Roberts IN SINCERE APPRECIATION OF HIS MANY YEARS OF UNTIRING SERVICE” |
At home, 93 Thorndike Street
The 1928 city directory lists Eleanor Sheehan with the occupation “stenographer” (page).
The 1925 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Sheehan at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.
What Eleanor did at school
- Girls' Mandolin Club 14
- Marshal ’2 1 -’22
- Girls' League 474
- Senior Social 176
- Girls’ Fashion Show ’23
Fellow members from Eleanor's own class:
What the yearbook said
Hov : short is life.’’
Also grew up on Thorndike Street
The class of 1923
George I. ShapiroBrookline 1923
Roger Wallace ShuggBrookline 1923
Marshall W. SchachtBrookline 1923
Thelma SlaterBrookline 1923
Frederick L. RobinsonBrookline 1923
Eleanor SmithBrookline 1923
Others named Sheehan
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
Ethel SheehanArlington 1927
Helen SheehanChelsea 1929
Jane Elizabeth SheehanSt. Bernard's 1938
Dorothy M. SheehanMedford 1936
Francis A. SheehanMedford 1936
William E. Sheehan JrCentral 1943
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Source
Brookline High School yearbook, 1923, page 48.
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Internet Archive (item murivian1923broo).
Published 1923, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.
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