Brookline High School
Esther Burgen “Ask Helen”
Class of 1929, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts: Esther Burgen (“Ask Helen”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for D. Beth Israel Hospital; activities listed: Gym Team and Baseball; lived at 25 Centre Street. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 37.
Class of 1929
249 in the class of 1929 · 2 more named Burgen
- Full name
- Esther Burgen
- Known as
- Ask Helen
- Lived at
- 25 Centre Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
- School
- Brookline High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1929
- Course
- General
- Headed for
- D. Beth Israel Hospital
- Pastime
- “Laughing with (or at) V. J. P. skeptics”
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In context
Going through the Brookline High School class of 1929 from A to Z by surname, Esther is the 26th of 249 names on this site. In the scan, Esther appears on page 37, right at the start of the run of 249 portraits read for this site (pages 31 to 96). In the Brookline High School class of 1929, 32 entries mention “Baseball”; Esther's is one of them. The first name Esther runs through 8 classes of Brookline High School (1923 to 1931), 15 people in all, and is most common in 1926 (5). The class of 1929 has 249 names here, where the neighbouring classes have 232 for 1928 and 251 for 1930.
| On the same scan page | Elizabeth Edmond Brigham, John T. Brookhouse, Barbara D. Bugbee |
|---|---|
| Same club | Gym Team: 13 other classmates |
| Same club | Baseball: 31 other classmates |
| Same course | General: 53 of 239 classmates with a course (22%) |
At home, 25 Centre Street
The 1931 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Burgen at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.
What Esther did at school
- Gym Team 99
- Baseball 155
- D. S. Club 55
- Four Minute Speaker 153
- Girls' League 474
- Spanish Club 171
- Glee Club 231
Fellow members from Esther's own class:
What the yearbook said
Why so pensive, friend?’ ing, “I told you so
Also grew up on Centre Street
The class of 1929
Barbara D. BugbeeBrookline 1929
Amy Nedra BurnesBrookline 1929
John T. BrookhouseBrookline 1929
Florence E. BuxtonBrookline 1929
Elizabeth Edmond BrighamBrookline 1929
Freddie CameronBrookline 1929
Others named Burgen
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
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Source
Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 37.
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