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Portrait of Hester Muriel Blatt, Brookline High School, class of 1929
As printed in the 1929 yearbook

Brookline High School

Hester Muriel Blatt “Hess”

Hester Muriel Blatt (“Hess”), Brookline High School class of 1929 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: College course; activities listed: Sagamore and Glee Club; lived at 359 Tappan Street.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 3 more named Blatt

Full name
Hester Muriel Blatt
Known as
Hess
Lived at
359 Tappan Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School
Brookline High School
Graduated
Class of 1929
Course
College
Ambition
“To discover odorless H2 SO«”
Pastime
“Marrying and divorcing atoms”

Also searched as: Hess Blatt; Hester Blatt; Hester M. Blatt; Blatt, Hester.

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249 people from the Brookline High School class of 1929 appear on this site, and Blatt puts Hester 19th among them. Hester's portrait is on scan page 35, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 31 to 96. Of the 239 entries in the class with a course, 81 (34%) say College, Hester's among them. Across 7 classes of Brookline High School on this site, 23 people give Tappan Street as a street, from 1923 to 1931. Against 232 for 1928 and 251 for 1930, the class of 1929 comes to 249 names on this site.

On the same scan pageHelene Grace Bennett, Richard Bent, Howard S. Berger
Same streetTappan Street: 4 other classmates
Same clubSagamore: 20 other classmates
Same clubGlee Club: 69 other classmates
Same courseCollege: 81 of 239 classmates with a course (34%)

At home, 359 Tappan Street

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

The 1931 city directory lists Hester Muriel Blatt with the occupation “student” (page).

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

  • Wm M Blatt (wife Lucy L), Iwyr B householderpage

The Blatt household is listed here in 1931 too.

What Hester did at school

Fellow members from Hester's own class:

What the yearbook said

flow the wit brightens!

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 35. 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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