Brookline High School

Erma Carp “Wopsie. Opera Company”

Erma Carp (“Wopsie. Opera Company”), Brookline High School class of 1930 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for College; activities listed: French Club and Glee Club; lived at 10 Mayflower Court.

Class of 1930

251 in the class of 1930 · 3 more named Carp

Full name: Erma Carp
Known as: Wopsie. Opera Company
Lived at: 10 Mayflower Court, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Course: College
Headed for: College

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Clubs & teams 397
Neighbours 3
Same surname 2
Classmates 250
Same schools 31

In context

Of the 251 names from the Brookline High School class of 1930 that have pages here, Erma is 28th in surname order. On the scan, the entry sits on page 42, in the first third of the stretch from page 35 to page 103 where this site found the book's portraits. “Girls' League” appears in 133 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1930, Erma's among them. Erma's “College” falls in the same group as 68 of the 118 plans printed for the class (58%): a college or university. Of the 89 plans printed for the class of 1930 that name a kind of next step, 68 (76%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 76% in 1929 and 79% in 1931.

On the same scan page	Anthony James Cassidy, Hannah Cauman, George Cavanaugh
Same club	French Club: 70 other classmates
Same club	Glee Club: 49 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 68 of 118 classmates with a plan (58%)
Same course	College: 72 of 237 classmates with a course (30%)

At home, 10 Mayflower Court

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

Louis Carp (wife Florence), buyer householderpage

What Erma did at school

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What the yearbook said

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1930, page 42. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1930broo).

Published 1930, 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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