Brookline High School

Helene Joan Dawson

Helene Joan Dawson appears in the 1931 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 385 Pond Avenue. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 22 more named Dawson

Full name: Helene Joan Dawson
Lived at: 385 Pond Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: College.

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Household 2
Neighbours 3
Same surname 15
Classmates 272

In context

Going through the Brookline High School class of 1931 from A to Z by surname, Helene is the 56th of 273 names on this site. Turning the scan to page 48 shows Helene; the portraits we read from this book run from page 34 to page 110. College was the course of 86 out of 252 classmates who printed one (34%), including Helene. 5 people in the Brookline High School class of 1931 are called Helene. This site lists 273 names for the class of 1931, against 251 for 1930.

On the same scan page	Dorothy Elizabeth Delorey, Ralph W. Dobbs, Martha Dodge
Same course	College: 86 of 252 classmates with a course (34%)
Same first name	Helene: 4 other people in the class

At home, 385 Pond Avenue

Same surname, same address — very likely brothers and sisters.

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.

Florence N Dawson, widow of Ferdinand householderpage
Alice M Dawson, student lived herepage
Florence A Dawson, student lived herepage

The Dawson household is listed here in 1925 and 1928 too.

What Helene did at school

Alpha Pi
Pinguard ’28
Captainball '29
Chairman of Library Staff ’30
Year Book Committee '31.

What the yearbook said

Energy and persistence conquer everything.

Also grew up on Pond Avenue

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 →

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 48. 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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