Brookline High School

Irving Gordon “Irv”

Irving Gordon (“Irv”) is one of 251 graduates in the class of 1930 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1930 yearbook entry gives: headed for Boston University; activities listed: Social Committee and Pinafore; lived at 110 Addington Road.

Class of 1930

251 in the class of 1930 · 77 more named Gordon

Full name: Irving Gordon
Known as: Irv
Lived at: 110 Addington Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Course: Technical
Headed for: Boston University
Ambition: “To go to the Electoral College”
Pastime: “Having a good time in French”

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Clubs & teams 268
Neighbours 13
Same surname 67
Classmates 250
Same schools 197

In context

This site lists 251 people from the Brookline High School class of 1930; sorted by surname, Irving comes 81st. Find Irving on page 56 of the scan; the people on this site from the Brookline High School class of 1930 are spread over pages 35 to 103. Counting Irving, “Band” is named by 9 people in the Brookline High School class of 1930. Addington Road runs through 7 Brookline High School classes on this site (1923 to 1931); 14 people list it. Plans for a college or university made up 76% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1930 (68 of 89), against 76% in 1929 and 79% in 1931.

On the same scan page	Esther Graham, Joseph H. Graham, Paul Graves
Same street	Addington Road: 4 other classmates
Same club	Social Committee: 8 other classmates
Same club	Pinafore: 8 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 68 of 118 classmates with a plan (58%)
Same course	Technical: 26 of 237 classmates with a course (11%)

At home, 110 Addington Road

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

Joseph Gordon (wife Rebecca), real estate householderpage
Beatrice Gordon lived herepage
Myrtle Gordon lived herepage

What Irving did at school

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What the yearbook said

1 am not only witty in myself, But I am the cause of other’s wit

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1930, page 56. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1930broo).

Published 1930, 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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