Brookline High School

John W. Hornsey

John W. Hornsey appears in the 1931 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 33 Boylston Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 1 more named Hornsey

Full name: John W. Hornsey
Lived at: 33 Boylston Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: Technical.
Headed for: I’ll bite

Also searched as: Jack Hornsey; John Hornsey; Johnny Hornsey; Hornsey, John.

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Clubs & teams 49
Neighbours 41
Classmates 272

In context

This site lists 273 people from the Brookline High School class of 1931; sorted by surname, John comes 125th. Turning the scan to page 66 shows John; the portraits we read from this book run from page 34 to page 110. 18 people in the class list “Baseball”, John included. Technical was the course of 29 out of 252 classmates who printed one (12%), including John. 35% of those in the class of 1931 who printed a course took a college or college-preparatory one, against 39% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Jerome Hopper, Jerome Horne, Helen V. Hurley
Same street	Boylston Street: 5 other classmates
Same club	Baseball: 17 other classmates
Same course	Technical: 29 of 252 classmates with a course (12%)
Same first name	John: 10 other people in the class

At home, 33 Boylston Street

The 1931 city directory lists John W. Hornsey with the occupation “contr” (page).

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

John W Hornsey (wife Ivy N), contr householderpage

The Hornsey household is listed here in 1928 too.

What John did at school

Baseball 155
Orchestra ’29, ’30, ’31
Sagamore ’31.

Fellow members from John's own class:

What the yearbook said

True worth depends on character.

Also grew up on Boylston Street

The class of 1931

All 273 in this class →

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 66. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1931broo).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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