Brookline High School

Joseph William Shaw

Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, listed Joseph William Shaw among 273 graduates in the class of 1931. The entry gives: General course; headed for Massachusetts School of Art; lived at 1397 Beacon Street. Portrait and entry from the 1931 yearbook, page 97.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 91 more named Shaw

Full name: Joseph William Shaw
Lived at: 1397 Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: General.
Came from: English High School, Boston, 1930
Headed for: Massachusetts School of Art

Also searched as: Joe Shaw; Joseph Shaw; Joseph W. Shaw; Joey Shaw.

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Neighbours 81
Same surname 72
Classmates 272
Same schools 10

In context

Joseph William Shaw is number 232 of 273 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1931 on this site. Joseph is printed on page 97 of the scan, in the last third of the 34-to-110 run of portrait pages. Joseph's plan is printed as “Massachusetts School of Art”, which counts here as an art or music school; 10 of the 231 classmates who named a plan (4%) named the same kind. Counting Joseph, 8 people in the Brookline High School class of 1931 give Beacon Street as their street. In the class of 1931 the first names most often shared were William (12) and John (11); the class of 1930 had Mary (11), John (8) and Gertrude (7).

On the same scan page	Alice Sheldon, Dorothy Ann Shuman
Same street	Beacon Street: 7 other classmates
Same kind of plan	art or music school: 10 of 231 classmates with a plan (4%)
Same course	General: 71 of 252 classmates with a course (28%)

What the yearbook said

He lives to build, not to boast.

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 97. 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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