Leominster High School

Herbert Reiner Jr.

Printed in the 1933 yearbook as Herbert Reiner

Herbert Reiner Jr. (capturing Gandhi's assassin) is in the 1933 yearbook of Leominster High School, Leominster, Massachusetts, printed there as Herbert Reiner. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates and what the book says.

Class of 1933

Before they were famous

Herbert Reiner Jr. capturing Gandhi's assassin

Herbert Reiner Jr. served as a disbursing and financial officer for the US State Department in India. He was present when Mahatma Gandhi was fatally shot and intervened by holding the assassin until authorities arrived. Following this event, his actions were reported internationally. He previously served in the US Navy during World War II as an economic intelligence assistant. Reiner graduated from Leominster High School in 1933 and later earned degrees from Bates College and Clark University.

Born: September 21, 1916, Brattleboro
Died: 1999
Age in this yearbook: about 17
In the yearbook as: Herbert Reiner, Leominster High School, class of 1933

How we know this is the same person: Wikipedia: “Reiner was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, and raised in Lancaster, Massachusetts, attending Leominster High School in Leominster, Massachusetts, and graduating in 1933.” The yearbook name, school and class year (1933) fit the Wikidata birth year (1916). Summary written from the Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

132 in the class of 1933 · 2 more named Reiner

Full name: Herbert Reiner
Known as: Tom
School: Leominster High School
Graduated: Class of 1933
Course: Classical

Also searched as: Tom Reiner; Herb Reiner; Reiner, Herbert.

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Classmates 131

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 132 names from the Leominster High School class of 1933, Herbert stands 100th. The entry is on page 24 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 7 to page 24. 29 of the 113 classmates who printed a course (26%) took Classical, as Herbert did. This site lists 132 names for the class of 1933, against 95 for 1931 and 139 for 1934. The yearbook calls itself “The Magnet”.

On the same scan page	Arthur Bourgault, Norman Foster, Albert Lanza, Bettie Pillsbury and 2 more
Same course	Classical: 29 of 113 classmates with a course (26%)
The book's own title	The Magnet

What the yearbook said

His air impressive and his reasoning sound.

The class of 1933

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Leominster High School yearbook, 1933, page 24. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item leominsterhighsc1933unse).

Published 1933. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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