Newton High School

Kathleen Best “Kay”

Kathleen Best (“Kay”) is one of 153 graduates in the class of 1924 at Newton High School, Newton, Massachusetts. The 1924 yearbook entry gives: Classical course; lived at 219 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill; born in 1906.

Class of 1924

153 in the class of 1924 · 15 more named Best

Full name: Kathleen Best
Known as: Kay
Born: May 17, 1906
Lived at: 219 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, Newton, Massachusetts
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1924
Course: Classical

Also searched as: Kay Best; Best, Kathleen.

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Neighbours 5
Same surname 11
Classmates 152

In context

This site lists 153 people from the Newton High School class of 1924; sorted by surname, Kathleen comes 13th. Kathleen's portrait is on scan page 27, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 23 to 73. Kathleen's course, Classical, is also the course of 106 others in the 153 entries that print one (70% in all). In the class of 1924, 86% of the plans we could classify (76 of 88) were a college or university; the neighbouring classes show 89% in 1923 and 84% in 1925. On its own title page this book is “Newtonian”, edited by Lawrence A. Peakes.

On the same scan page	Elinor Beers, Eleanor Marian Berry, Ada Mehitable Binby
Same course	Classical: 107 of 153 classmates with a course (70%)
The book's own title	Newtonian (editor: Lawrence A. Peakes)

What the yearbook said

a sweet voice, a little indistinct and does not thrill

Also grew up on Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill

The class of 1924

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Others named Best

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Source

Newton High School yearbook, 1924, page 27. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1924newt).

Published 1924, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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