Brookline High School

Jack Cohen “Red, Jackie”

Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, listed Jack Cohen (“Red, Jackie”) among 249 graduates in the class of 1929. The entry gives: headed for Harvard; activities listed: French Club and Glee Club; lived at 32 Summit Avenue. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 39.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 186 more named Cohen

Full name: Jack Cohen
Known as: Red, Jackie
Lived at: 32 Summit Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: College
Headed for: Harvard
Ambition: “To get A in history”
Pastime: “Hockey, tennis, baseball”

Also searched as: John Cohen; Cohen, Jack.

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Clubs & teams 303
Neighbours 14
Same surname 181
Classmates 248
Same schools 163

In context

249 people from the Brookline High School class of 1929 appear on this site, and Cohen puts Jack 34th among them. Jack is printed on page 39 of the scan, in the first third of the 31-to-96 run of portrait pages. College or university was the plan of 84 of the 127 classmates who printed one (66%), and Jack is listed with “Harvard”. Cohen is the surname of 12 people across 5 Brookline High School classes on this site, 1926 to 1931. 36% of those in the class of 1929 who printed a course took a college or college-preparatory one, against 45% in 1928 and 39% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Evelyn M. Charbonneau, Florence Coen, Frank Cohen
Same club	French Club: 66 other classmates
Same club	Glee Club: 69 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 84 of 127 classmates with a plan (66%)
Same course	College: 81 of 239 classmates with a course (34%)

At home, 32 Summit Avenue

The 1931 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Cohen at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Julius Cohen (wife Fannie P), do householderpage

What Jack did at school

French Club 460
Usher Freshman-Sophomore Social ’26
Glee Club 231
Four-minute Social ’26
Four-Minute ’27, ’28

Fellow members from Jack's own class:

What the yearbook said

A bubbling, cheerful, frothy snub

Also grew up on Summit Avenue

The class of 1929

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Others named Cohen

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

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Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 39. 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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