Cambridge High and Latin School

John Albert O’Brien “Obie Jack”

John Albert O’Brien (“Obie Jack”), Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The entry prints: came from St. John’s School; headed for Boston College; lived at 137 Langdon Avenue, Watertown.

Class of 1928

416 in the class of 1928 · 158 more named O’Brien

Full name: John Albert O’Brien
Known as: Obie Jack
Lived at: 137 Langdon Avenue, Watertown, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: St. John’s School
Headed for: Boston College

Also searched as: Jack O’Brien; John O’Brien; John A. O’Brien; Johnny O’Brien.

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Same surname 150
Classmates 415
Same schools 89

In context

416 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 appear on this site, and O’Brien puts John 305th among them. John's portrait is on scan page 103, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 27 to 134. People named O’Brien appear in 7 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School on this site between 1923 and 1930, 10 in all. John's “Boston College” falls in the same group as 173 of the 343 plans printed for the class (50%): a college or university. Plans for a college or university made up 58% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1928 (173 of 297), against 54% in 1927 and 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	John Wyeth Norris, Eleanor Elizabeth O’Banyoun, Francis John O’Brien
Same kind of plan	college or university: 173 of 343 classmates with a plan (50%)
Same first name	John: 15 other people in the class

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 103. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1928unse).

Published 1928, 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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