Brookline High School

Marion Adelaide Morse “Mossy”

Marion Adelaide Morse (“Mossy”) is one of 219 graduates in the class of 1927 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1927 yearbook entry gives: activities listed: Girls' League and Girls' Glee Club; lived at 1651 Beacon Street; born in 1907.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 92 more named Morse

Full name: Marion Adelaide Morse
Known as: Mossy
Born: B. December 15, 1907.
Lived at: 1651 Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: Commercial
Ambition: “To make SPEED IN STENOGRAPHY”

Also searched as: Mossy Morse; Marion Morse; Marion A. Morse; Morse, Marion.

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Clubs & teams 276
Neighbours 81
Same surname 80
Classmates 218

In context

Going through the Brookline High School class of 1927 from A to Z by surname, Marion is the 141st of 219 names on this site. In the scan, Marion appears on page 61, around the middle of the run of 219 portraits read for this site (pages 26 to 81). Marion was not alone on Beacon Street: 9 other classmates list it too. “Girls' Glee Club” appears in 6 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1927, Marion's among them. 75% of the graduates in the class of 1927 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 68% in 1926 and 78% in 1928.

On the same scan page	William K. Misho, John Bingham Morison, Helen Morse
Same street	Beacon Street: 9 other classmates
Same club	Girls' League: 66 other classmates
Same club	Girls' Glee Club: 5 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 40 of 209 classmates with a course (19%)

At home, 1651 Beacon Street

The 1931 city directory lists Marion Adelaide Morse with the occupation “typist” (page).

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

Florence L Morse, widow of Charles householderpage

The Morse household is listed here in 1925 and 1931 too.

What Marion did at school

Girls' League 474
Girls' Glee Club 50
Girls' Gym Team 5
Class Day Dance 173
Class Day Kxcreises ’26
Gym Marshal ’27 99
Home Room Representative for Sagamore ’24 153
Home Room representative for V ear Book ’24- ’25
Athletic Association 16

Fellow members from Marion's own class:

Also grew up on Beacon Street

The class of 1927

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Others named Morse

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 61. 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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