Brookline High School

Lurena Lane “Lu”

Class of 1927, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts: Lurena Lane (“Lu”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Massachusetts School of Art; activities listed: Phi Alpha Sigma and Glee Club; lived at 28 Brook Street. Portrait and entry from the 1927 yearbook, page 52.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 66 more named Lane

Full name: Lurena Lane
Known as: Lu
Lived at: 28 Brook Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: General
Headed for: Massachusetts School of Art
Ambition: “To become as great as Sargent”
Pastime: “Drawing, dancing”

Also searched as: Lu Lane; Lane, Lurena.

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Clubs & teams 273
Neighbours 32
Same surname 49
Classmates 218
Same schools 3

In context

This site lists 219 people from the Brookline High School class of 1927; sorted by surname, Lurena comes 104th. Turning the scan to page 52 shows Lurena; the portraits we read from this book run from page 26 to page 81. 43 of the 209 classmates who printed a course (21%) took General, as Lurena did. Over 9 classes from 1923 to 1931, Brook Street is the street of 33 Brookline High School graduates on this site. A college or college-preparatory course was the choice of 44% of those who printed a course in the class of 1927; the neighbouring class shows 45% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Ruth Marguerite Knapp, Stephen L. Kniffen, Ethel May Lee
Same street	Brook Street: 4 other classmates
Same club	Glee Club: 23 other classmates
Same club	Girls' League: 66 other classmates
Same course	General: 43 of 209 classmates with a course (21%)

At home, 28 Brook Street

The 1928 city directory lists Lurena Lane with the occupation “student” (page).

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

Aithur P Lane (wife Maud P), salesman householderpage
Lurena P Lane, student lived herepage

What Lurena did at school

Phi Alpha Sigma
President ’27
Glee Club 231
Chairman Costume Committee of Christmas Festival ’26
Chairman Pin and Ring Committee ’27 13
Girls' League 474
Chairman if Art Committee ’27
Senior Advisor ’27
Four Minute Speaker 153
Marshal ’27
Class Day Dance 173
Designed Class Day Costumes ’26
Junior Social Committee 47

Fellow members from Lurena's own class:

What the yearbook said

Genius points the way — talent pursues it

Also grew up on Brook Street

The class of 1927

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Others named Lane

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Also headed for Massachusetts School of Art

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 52. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1927broo).

Published 1927, 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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