Brookline High School

Marjorie Augusta Blake “Marj, Blakey, Midge”

Marjorie Augusta Blake (“Marj, Blakey, Midge”) appears in the 1928 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 16 Bowkcr Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1928

232 in the class of 1928 · 62 more named Blake

Full name: Marjorie Augusta Blake
Known as: Marj, Blakey, Midge
Lived at: 16 Bowkcr Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Course: General
Headed for: Katherine Gibbs’ Secretarial School
Ambition: “To be secretary to the President of Mexico”
Pastime: “Reading”

Also searched as: Marjorie Blake; Marjorie A. Blake; Blake, Marjorie.

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Clubs & teams 389
Same surname 47
Classmates 231
Same schools 10

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 232 names from the Brookline High School class of 1928, Marjorie stands 17th. Marjorie is printed on page 30 of the scan, right at the start of the 26-to-87 run of portrait pages. Marjorie is one of 53 listed under General among the 229 classmates whose course is printed (23%). 4 other people in the class share the first name Marjorie. A college or college-preparatory course was the choice of 45% of those who printed a course in the class of 1928; the neighbouring classes show 44% in 1927 and 36% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Frederick Haynes Blanchard, Sarkis Boghosian, Bernadette Therese Bouvier
Same club	Class Day Dance: 30 other classmates
Same club	French Club: 73 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 6 of 119 classmates with a plan (5%)
Same course	General: 53 of 229 classmates with a course (23%)
Same first name	Marjorie: 4 other people in the class

At home, 16 Bowkcr Street

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

Margaret R Blake, widow of Benjamin householderpage
Edythe L Blake, nurse lived herepage
John E Blake, clerk lived herepage
Ralph E Blake, inspector lived herepage

What Marjorie did at school

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Others named Blake

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

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Also headed for Katherine Gibbs’ Secretarial School

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1928, page 30. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1928broo).

Published 1928, 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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