Brookline High School

Gertrude Margaret Nielson “Gert. Gertie”

Gertrude Margaret Nielson (“Gert. Gertie”) was one of 249 graduates in the class of 1929 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: Commercial course; activities listed: Class Day Gym Team; lived at 310 Washington Street. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 73.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 5 more named Nielson

Full name: Gertrude Margaret Nielson
Known as: Gert. Gertie
Lived at: 310 Washington Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: Commercial
Ambition: “To be a private secretary. I). Business”
Pastime: “Reading mysteries”

Also searched as: Gertie Nielson; Gertrude Nielson; Gertrude M. Nielson; Nielson, Gertrude.

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Clubs & teams 346
Neighbours 41
Same surname 4
Classmates 248

In context

Going through the Brookline High School class of 1929 from A to Z by surname, Gertrude is the 162nd of 249 names on this site. Turning the scan to page 73 shows Gertrude; the portraits we read from this book run from page 31 to page 96. The yearbook puts 6 people from the class on Washington Street, Gertrude among them. The first name Gertrude runs through 6 classes of Brookline High School (1923 to 1930), 14 people in all, and is most common in 1930 (7). A college or college-preparatory course was the choice of 36% of those who printed a course in the class of 1929; the neighbouring classes show 45% in 1928 and 39% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Neil Nevergelt, Hazel Nichols, Evelyn Floretta Norris
Same street	Washington Street: 5 other classmates
Same club	Class Day Gym Team: 4 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 59 of 239 classmates with a course (25%)

At home, 310 Washington Street

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

Berndt Nielson (wife Sabina), auto tester householderpage

What Gertrude did at school

1). S. Club '26, ’27, ’28
Class Day Gym Team 6
Girls’ League '26, ’28, ’29, Senior Advisor ’29 474

Fellow members from Gertrude's own class:

What the yearbook said

Merry of heart and. light of spirit

Also grew up on Washington Street

The class of 1929

All 249 in this class →

Others named Nielson

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

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 73. 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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