Brookline High School

John Gerard Norris

John Gerard Norris, Brookline High School class of 1930 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: General. X. Duke, Johnny course; activities listed: Football and Baseball; lived at 113 Boylston Street.

Class of 1930

251 in the class of 1930 · 30 more named Norris

Full name: John Gerard Norris
Lived at: 113 Boylston Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Course: General. X. Duke, Johnny
Pastime: “Sports”

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

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Clubs & teams 113
Neighbours 41
Same surname 21
Classmates 250

In context

John Gerard Norris is number 173 of 251 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1930 on this site. John's portrait is on scan page 81, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 35 to 103. In this class John is the second most common first name, carried by 8 people. Boylston Street runs through 9 Brookline High School classes on this site (1923 to 1931); 42 people list it. Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1930 has 251 entries, while the neighbouring classes have 249 for 1929 and 273 for 1931.

On the same scan page	Gertrude Norman, Barbara Noyes, Gertrude Marie O'Brien
Same street	Boylston Street: 4 other classmates
Same club	Football: 19 other classmates
Same club	Baseball: 31 other classmates
Same first name	John: 7 other people in the class

At home, 113 Boylston Street

The 1931 city directory lists John Gerard Norris with the occupation “student” (page).

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

Wm P Norris (wife Alice E), hosemn Eng householderpage
John G Norris, student lived herepage
Margaret B Norris, telephone operator lived herepage
Thomas J Norris, hosemn Eng lived herepage
Wm P Norris Jr., plumber lived herepage

The Norris household is listed here in 1920, 1925 and 1928 too.

What John did at school

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What the yearbook said

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1930, page 81. 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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