Brookline High School

Herbert S. Woods

Herbert S. Woods is one of 219 graduates in the class of 1927 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1927 yearbook entry gives: headed for Boston Latin School; activities listed: German Club and Senior Social; lived at 15 E. Milton Road.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 61 more named Woods

Full name: Herbert S. Woods
Lived at: 15 E. Milton Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: College. B. August 2. 1908, Roxbury, Mass
Headed for: Boston Latin School
Pastime: “Playing the drums (No — piano). the point system”

Also searched as: Herb Woods; Herbert Woods; Woods, Herbert.

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Household 1
Group photos 15
Clubs & teams 319
Same surname 48
Classmates 218
Same schools 1

In context

Herbert S. Woods is number 218 of 219 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1927 on this site. Herbert is printed on page 81 of the scan, near the end of the 26-to-81 run of portrait pages. “Hockey” appears in 10 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1927, Herbert's among them. Of the 87 plans printed for the class of 1927 that name a kind of next step, 65 (75%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 68% in 1926 and 78% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Ruth Wood, Celia Ziman
Same club	German Club: 16 other classmates
Same club	Senior Social: 21 other classmates

At home, 15 E. Milton Road

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Edward G. Woods JrBrookline 1926

The 1925 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Woods at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Everett G Woods (wife Alice), salesman householderpage

Also pictured in group photographs

Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Herbert's senior portrait.

In the same photographs:

What Herbert did at school

German Club 139
Member of Court of Justice ’26- ’27 37
Member of Teacher-Student Council ’26- ’27 33
Senior Social 176
Band 53
Orchestra 69
Marshal ’25
Football 108
Hockey 76
Acting Captain ’26
Captain ’27
Baseball Squad 16
Class Day Relay 11
Head Usher Class Day ’26 208
French Club 460
President of Class ’26-’27

Fellow members from Herbert's own class:

What the yearbook said

May heaven its choicest blessings send, On such a man, and such a friend

The class of 1927

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Others named Woods

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

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Also headed for Boston Latin School

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 81. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1927broo).

Published 1927, 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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