Brookline High School

Josephine Conway “Jo, Josie”

Josephine Conway (“Jo, Josie”) appears in the 1930 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 496 Harvard Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1930

251 in the class of 1930 · 40 more named Conway

Full name: Josephine Conway
Known as: Jo, Josie
Lived at: 496 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Headed for: Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School
Ambition: “To be nonchalant while lighting a Murad”
Pastime: “Singing?? and eating”

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Clubs & teams 278
Neighbours 24
Same surname 37
Classmates 250
Same schools 10

In context

Josephine Conway is number 37 of 251 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1930 on this site. Josephine's portrait is on scan page 44, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 35 to 103. Josephine is listed under “Girls' League”, along with 132 other graduates. Among the 118 people in the class who printed a plan, 13 (11%) named a business or secretarial school, as Josephine did (“Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School”). A college or college-preparatory course was the choice of 39% of those who printed a course in the class of 1930; the neighbouring classes show 36% in 1929 and 35% in 1931.

On the same scan page	Gladys A. Cole, Margaret M. Conway, Helen C. Cooper
Same club	Girls' League: 132 other classmates
Same club	Spanish Club: 22 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 13 of 118 classmates with a plan (11%)

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Also headed for Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1930, page 44. 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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