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Portrait of Jean Ellsworth Tobin, Cambridge High and Latin School, class of 1929
As printed in the 1929 yearbook

Cambridge High and Latin School

Jean Ellsworth Tobin “Jay Jinnie”

Class of 1929, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Jean Ellsworth Tobin (“Jay Jinnie”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Vesper George School; activities listed: G. A. A and Basketball; lived at 18 Pleasant Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 124.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 22 more named Tobin

Full name
Jean Ellsworth Tobin
Known as
Jay Jinnie
Lived at
18 Pleasant Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School
Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated
Class of 1929
Came from
Harvard School
Headed for
Vesper George School

Also searched as: Jean Tobin; Jean E. Tobin; Tobin, Jean.

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Ruth E. Tobin — HouseholdRuth TobinRobert C. Creel — Group photosRobert CreelNed Burr McKenney — Group photosNed McKenneyGrace Eugenia McGlinchey — Group photosGrace McGlincheyAdrea Benson Grant — Group photosAdrea GrantEsther Greenstein — Group photosEsther GreensteinAnne T. Frances Foley — Clubs & teamsAnne FoleyFrances Selma Heller — Clubs & teamsFrances HellerGreta Anderson — Clubs & teamsGreta AndersonMarion Lovett — Clubs & teamsMarion LovettFrances Elizabeth Shain — Clubs & teamsFrances ShainAldo Bertha Turoski — Clubs & teamsAldo TuroskiAnna Fritch — NeighboursAnna FritchChristine E. Pellerin — NeighboursChristine PellerinEvelyn Mary Boggs — NeighboursEvelyn BoggsAlma May Goodspeed — NeighboursAlma GoodspeedErnest Frederick Stokes — NeighboursErnest StokesMary L. Tobin — Same surnameMary TobinDonald Joseph Tobin — Same surnameDonald TobinCharles Tobin — Same surnameCharles TobinHyman Tobin — Same surnameHyman TobinMarie Laurette Timmons — ClassmatesMarie TimmonsMary Louise Toomey — ClassmatesMary ToomeyMillicent Iona Thorne — ClassmatesMillicent ThorneElizabeth Tracy — ClassmatesElizabeth TracyAllen Thompson — ClassmatesAllen Thompson

In context

Of the 421 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 read for this site, Jean's is 391st alphabetically. Jean's portrait is on scan page 124, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 25 to 132. 30 other classmates came from Harvard School, the school Jean is listed as coming from. Of 364 classmates who gave a plan, 17 (5%) point to an art or music school; Jean's entry says “Vesper George School”. A college or university was the plan of 174 of 308 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1929 (56%), compared with 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan pageAllen Thompson, Millicent Iona Thorne, Marie Laurette Timmons
Same clubBasketball: 9 other classmates
Same earlier schoolHarvard School: 30 other classmates
Same kind of planart or music school: 17 of 364 classmates with a plan (5%)
The book's own titleThe Cambridge Review

At home, 18 Pleasant Street

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

The 1930 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Tobin at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

  • Ellen J Tobin, widow of Stephen E householderpage
  • Jean E Tobin lived herepage
  • Ruth E Tobin, stenographer lived herepage

The Tobin household is listed here in 1920, 1921, 1925, 1927 and 1928 too.

Also pictured in group photographs

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

In the same photographs:

What Jean did at school

  • G. A. A. 522
  • Room Committee, 1926-'29
  • Basketball 14
  • Swimming, 1926-'27-'28
  • G. A. A., Executive Committee, 1927
  • Vice-President Art Council, 1927-'28
  • Art Prize, 1928
  • Art Editor of Review, 1928-'29
  • Art Club, 1927-'28
  • Chairman Pin Committee, 1928-'29
  • Art Editor Year Book, 1929

Fellow members from Jean's own class:

What the yearbook said

Piquant face with dark pools of brown, Charming manner and infinite grace, Such is Jean, she is our ace!

Also grew up on Pleasant Street

The class of 1929

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 124. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1929unse).

Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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