Brookline High School

Elsie Aileen Dawson

Elsie Aileen Dawson was one of 273 graduates in the class of 1931 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for The Wide, Wide World; activities listed: Alpha Pi and Art Club; lived at 18 Glenland Road. Portrait and entry from the 1931 yearbook, page 47.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 22 more named Dawson

Full name: Elsie Aileen Dawson
Lived at: 18 Glenland Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: Commercial.
Headed for: The Wide, Wide World

Also searched as: Elsie Dawson; Elsie A. Dawson; Dawson, Elsie.

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Household 1
Clubs & teams 42
Neighbours 3
Same surname 16
Classmates 272
Same schools 1

In context

Going through the Brookline High School class of 1931 from A to Z by surname, Elsie is the 54th of 273 names on this site. Elsie's portrait is on scan page 47, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 34 to 110. Elsie is one of 62 listed under Commercial among the 252 classmates whose course is printed (25%). Counting Elsie, “Art Club” is named by 14 people in the Brookline High School class of 1931. Count the first names and the class of 1931 gives William (12) and John (11), where the class of 1930 gives Mary (11), John (8) and Gertrude (7).

On the same scan page	Henry F. Daley, William Davidson, Florence Anne Dawson
Same club	Art Club: 13 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 62 of 252 classmates with a course (25%)

At home, 18 Glenland Road

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Ethel DawsonBrookline 1927

The 1931 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Dawson at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Arthur E Dawson (wife Isabel), carpenter householderpage
Richard E Dawson (wife Annie E), carpenter householderpage

The Dawson household is listed here in 1928 too.

What Elsie did at school

Alpha Pi
Class-Day Banner Bearer ’30
Art Club 148
Glee Club ’31
Sagamore Reporter ’31
Debating Club ’31, Secretary ’31.

Fellow members from Elsie's own class:

What the yearbook said

A great little worker.

Also grew up on Glenland Road

The class of 1931

All 273 in this class →

Others named Dawson

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

All 22 people named Dawson →

Also headed for The Wide, Wide World

Dorothy ArnoldBrookline 1931

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 47. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1931broo).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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