Brookline High School

Margaret Aitken Holt “Peggy”

Margaret Aitken Holt (“Peggy”) is one of 273 graduates in the class of 1931 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1931 yearbook entry gives: headed for Wellesley College, deo volente; activities listed: Alpha Pi and Hockey; lived at 199 Longwood Avenue.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 35 more named Holt

Full name: Margaret Aitken Holt
Known as: Peggy
Lived at: 199 Longwood Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: College.
Headed for: Wellesley College, deo volente

Also searched as: Peggy Holt; Margaret Holt; Margaret A. Holt; Maggie Holt.

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Clubs & teams 27
Neighbours 9
Same surname 27
Classmates 272

In context

Of the 273 names from the Brookline High School class of 1931 that have pages here, Margaret is 121st in surname order. Margaret's portrait is on scan page 65, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 34 to 110. In the 9 classes of Brookline High School between 1923 and 1931 that this site covers, 49 people have the first name Margaret, with the largest group (9) in 1931. Margaret's plan is printed as “Wellesley College, deo volente”, which counts here as a college or university; 128 of the 231 classmates who named a plan (55%) named the same kind. For Brookline High School, the site holds 273 people from the class of 1931, against 251 for 1930.

On the same scan page	Charlotte Hinden, Donald Hirshberg, Bernard Hootstein
Same kind of plan	college or university: 128 of 231 classmates with a plan (55%)
Same course	College: 86 of 252 classmates with a course (34%)
Same first name	Margaret: 8 other people in the class

At home, 199 Longwood Avenue

The 1931 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Holt at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Herbert C Holt (wife Marion A) householderpage

The Holt household is listed here in 1928 too.

What Margaret did at school

Alpha Pi
Hockey 76
Four-Minute Speaker ’29
Library Staff 22
Year Book Committee ’31
Mardi Gras ’31
Riding Club ’31.

Fellow members from Margaret's own class:

What the yearbook said

Everything she touched turned to gold.

Also grew up on Longwood Avenue

The class of 1931

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Others named Holt

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

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 65. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1931broo).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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