Brookline High School

Josephine Smith

Josephine Smith is one of 232 graduates in the class of 1928 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1928 yearbook entry gives: came from F. O. Trying; activities listed: Dramatics and Glee Club; lived at 29 Crowninshield Road.

Class of 1928

232 in the class of 1928 · 715 more named Smith

Full name: Josephine Smith
Lived at: 29 Crowninshield Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Course: General
Came from: F. O. Trying
Ambition: “To make a success of everything I do”

Also searched as: Josie Smith; Smith, Josephine.

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Clubs & teams 424
Neighbours 7
Same surname 514
Classmates 231
Same schools 2

In context

Going through the Brookline High School class of 1928 from A to Z by surname, Josephine is the 204th of 232 names on this site. The entry is on page 80 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 26 to page 87. Josephine shared “Mandolin Club” with 4 classmates, going by what the yearbook prints. Josephine's course, General, is also the course of 52 others in the 229 entries that print one (23% in all). Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1928 has 232 entries, while the neighbouring classes have 219 for 1927 and 249 for 1929.

On the same scan page	Herbert William Sovrensky, Mary A. Steele, Helen Elizabeth Steeves
Same club	Dramatics: 33 other classmates
Same club	Glee Club: 33 other classmates
Same course	General: 53 of 229 classmates with a course (23%)

At home, 29 Crowninshield Road

The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Smith at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Harold P Smith (wife Gertrude A), migr B householderpage

The Smith household is listed here in 1925 too.

What Josephine did at school

Dramatics 213
Glee Club 231
Mandolin Club 31
Senior Social 176
Hockey 76
Spanish Play 28
Girls' League 474
Entertainment '27-’28
Senior Picture committee ’28
Senior Advisor ’28
Treasurer Girls’ Mandolin Club ’25’26-'27 14

Fellow members from Josephine's own class:

What the yearbook said

She is pretty to walk with and witty to talk with and pleasant, too, to think on

Also grew up on Crowninshield Road

The class of 1928

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Others named Smith

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Also came from F. O. Trying

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1928, page 80. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1928broo).

Published 1928, 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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