Brookline High School

Francis Forsythe “Frank, Fran”

Francis Forsythe (“Frank, Fran”), Brookline High School class of 1929 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Stanford University; activities listed: Hockey and Glee Club; lived at 92 University Road.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 6 more named Forsythe

Full name: Francis Forsythe
Known as: Frank, Fran
Lived at: 92 University Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: Commercial
Headed for: Stanford University
Ambition: “A traveling salesman”
Pastime: “Being a drug store “cow boy”

Also searched as: Frank Forsythe; Forsythe, Francis.

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Clubs & teams 182
Neighbours 32
Same surname 4
Classmates 248
Same schools 4

In context

Of the 249 names from the Brookline High School class of 1929 that have pages here, Francis is 72nd in surname order. Find Francis on page 50 of the scan; the people on this site from the Brookline High School class of 1929 are spread over pages 31 to 96. From 1923 to 1931, 33 people in 9 classes of Brookline High School give University Road. Neighbours on paper: 4 classmates share University Road with Francis. 36% of those in the class of 1929 who printed a course took a college or college-preparatory one, against 45% in 1928 and 39% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Estelle Friedman, Charles W. Funk, Dorothy J. Gay
Same street	University Road: 4 other classmates
Same club	Hockey: 16 other classmates
Same club	Glee Club: 69 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 84 of 127 classmates with a plan (66%)
Same course	Commercial: 59 of 239 classmates with a course (25%)

At home, 92 University Road

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

Wm T Forsythe householderpage

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Industry becomes a youth.

Also grew up on University Road

The class of 1929

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Also headed for Stanford University

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 50. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1929broo).

Published 1929, 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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