Brookline High School

Elkin Kaufman “Kauf, El”

Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, listed Elkin Kaufman (“Kauf, El”) among 103 graduates in the class of 1923. The entry gives: headed for Harvard; activities listed: Track Squad and Cross-Country Team; lived at 1412 Beacon Street. Portrait and entry from the 1923 yearbook, page 37.

Class of 1923

103 in the class of 1923 · 21 more named Kaufman

Full name: Elkin Kaufman
Known as: Kauf, El
Lived at: 1412 Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Headed for: Harvard
Ambition: “To do anything well”
Pastime: “Seeing Brookline win”

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Clubs & teams 78
Neighbours 81
Same surname 18
Classmates 102
Same schools 97

In context

Of the 103 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1923 read for this site, Elkin's is 57th alphabetically. In the scan, Elkin appears on page 37, around the middle of the run of 103 portraits read for this site (pages 22 to 51). Beacon Street is the street of 7 other classmates of the Brookline High School class of 1923 besides Elkin. Beacon Street runs through 9 Brookline High School classes on this site (1923 to 1931); 82 people list it. In the class of 1923, 76% of the plans we could classify (26 of 34) were a college or university; the neighbouring class shows 73% in 1924.

On the same scan page	Dorothy H. Keegan, Mary E. Keily, James M. Kendrick
Same street	Beacon Street: 7 other classmates
Same club	French Club: 18 other classmates
Same club	Senior Social: 15 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 26 of 44 classmates with a plan (59%)
Dedication, as printed	“Arthur W. Roberts IN SINCERE APPRECIATION OF HIS MANY YEARS OF UNTIRING SERVICE”

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What the yearbook said

I’ve tried, and tried, and tried, and tried, But only for nought

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1923, page 37. View the original scan at the 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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