Brookline High School

M. Dorothy Buxton “Dot. Debe, Ozzie”

M. Dorothy Buxton (“Dot. Debe, Ozzie”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 17 Englewood Avenue. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 9 more named Buxton

Full name: M. Dorothy Buxton
Known as: Dot. Debe, Ozzie
Born: B. May 12, 1910.
Lived at: 17 Englewood Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: Commercial
Headed for: Texas
Ambition: “To own a ranch”
Pastime: “Reading”

Also searched as: Dot Buxton; Dorothy Buxton; Dottie Buxton; Buxton, Dorothy.

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Clubs & teams 190
Neighbours 3
Same surname 8
Classmates 218

In context

Of the 219 names from the Brookline High School class of 1927 that have pages here, Dorothy is 17th in surname order. Turning the scan to page 30 shows Dorothy; the portraits we read from this book run from page 26 to page 81. Across 9 classes of Brookline High School on this site, from 1923 to 1931, 50 people are named Dorothy; the class of 1926 has the most, 7. In the Brookline High School class of 1927, 19% of the 209 printed courses are Commercial (40 people), Dorothy included. In the class of 1927, 92 of 209 printed courses (44%) were college or college-preparatory ones, compared with 45% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Morris Bronstein, Jessie W. Cameron
Same club	French Club: 64 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 40 of 209 classmates with a course (19%)
Same first name	Dorothy: 5 other people in the class

What Dorothy did at school

French Club 460

Fellow members from Dorothy's own class:

What the yearbook said

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Also grew up on Englewood Avenue

The class of 1927

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 30. 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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