Boston Latin School

John Gerard Long Jr “Jerry”

John Gerard Long Jr (“Jerry”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Boston Latin School in Boston, MA. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

122 in the class of 1927 · 79 more named Long

Full name: John Gerard Long Jr
Known as: Jerry
School: Boston Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Edward Everett School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Jack Long; John Long; John G. Long; Johnny Long.

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Clubs & teams 57
Same surname 52
Classmates 121
Same schools 299

In context

122 people from the Boston Latin School class of 1927 appear on this site, and Long puts John 62nd among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 366, around the middle of the stretch from page 347 to page 381 where this site found the book's portraits. John shared “French Club” with 14 classmates, going by what the yearbook prints. Across 13 classes of Boston Latin School on this site, from 1919 to 1945, 112 people are named John; the class of 1945 has the most, 18. The most common first names in the class of 1927 were Joseph (8), Francis (7) and John (7); in the class of 1928 they were John (14), Edward (10) and George (8).

On the same scan page	Reginald Powers McElhiney, Paul Kenneth McGrath, William Arthur McManus
Same club	French Club: 14 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 92 of 100 classmates with a plan (92%)
Same first name	John: 6 other people in the class
The book's own title	Latin School Register

What John did at school

French Club 96
President of French Club, 1927 96
Rifle Team 19
Captain Rifle Team, 1927 19
Approbation Prize, 1924
Class of 1885 Prize, 1924
Fidelity Prize, 1925
First Lieutenant, 10th Company, 5th Regiment
Banquet Committee, 1927

Fellow members from John's own class:

What the yearbook said

He nothing common did, or mean.

The class of 1927

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Others named Long

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

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Also came from Edward Everett School

Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Boston Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 366. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item latinschoolregi1926bost_5).

Published 1927, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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