Brookline High School

John Neary “Canary”

John Neary (“Canary”) is one of 249 graduates in the class of 1929 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1929 yearbook entry gives: Commercial course; headed for College of the Broken Word; lived at 95 Walnut Street.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 11 more named Neary

Full name: John Neary
Known as: Canary
Lived at: 95 Walnut Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: Commercial
Headed for: College of the Broken Word
Pastime: “Pulling fast ones”

Also searched as: Canary Neary; Jack Neary; Johnny Neary; Neary, John.

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Neighbours 12
Same surname 10
Classmates 248

In context

Going through the Brookline High School class of 1929 from A to Z by surname, John is the 158th of 249 names on this site. Turning the scan to page 72 shows John; the portraits we read from this book run from page 31 to page 96. 8 members of the Brookline High School class of 1929 are named John, making it the most common first name there. John is one of 59 listed under Commercial among the 239 classmates whose course is printed (25%). 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	Walter Joseph Murphy, Mary M. Murray, Florence Natalie Nelson
Same kind of plan	college or university: 84 of 127 classmates with a plan (66%)
Same course	Commercial: 59 of 239 classmates with a course (25%)
Same first name	John: 7 other people in the class

What the yearbook said

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 72. 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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