Brookline High School

Marjorie Emily Abrams “Midge, Marge, Margy”

Marjorie Emily Abrams (“Midge, Marge, Margy”) is one of 232 graduates in the class of 1928 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1928 yearbook entry gives: headed for Pratt School of Art, New York; activities listed: Gym Team and Class Gym Team; lived at 112 Pleasant Street.

Class of 1928

232 in the class of 1928 · 15 more named Abrams

Full name: Marjorie Emily Abrams
Known as: Midge, Marge, Margy
Lived at: 112 Pleasant Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Course: General
Headed for: Pratt School of Art, New York
Ambition: “To paint Lindv’s portrait”
Pastime: “Trying to put my hair up”

Also searched as: Marjorie Abrams; Marjorie E. Abrams; Abrams, Marjorie.

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Clubs & teams 427
Neighbours 21
Same surname 14
Classmates 231

In context

Marjorie Emily Abrams is the first of 232 names in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1928 on this site. Find Marjorie on page 26 of the scan; the people on this site from the Brookline High School class of 1928 are spread over pages 26 to 87. Across 8 classes of Brookline High School on this site, from 1923 to 1931, 20 people are named Marjorie. In the Brookline High School class of 1928, 6 entries mention “Class Day Dances”; Marjorie's is one of them. The share taking a college or college-preparatory course was 45% in the class of 1928 (102 of 229), against 44% in 1927 and 36% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Marcus Mordicai Alper, Eleanor Anderson, Lawrence Andrews
Same club	Gym Team: 14 other classmates
Same club	Class Hockey Team: 6 other classmates
Same course	General: 53 of 229 classmates with a course (23%)
Same first name	Marjorie: 4 other people in the class

At home, 112 Pleasant Street

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

David Abrams (wife Jeamaette M), auctioneer householderpage

The Abrams household is listed here in 1925 too.

What Marjorie did at school

Gym Team 99
Class Gym Team 16
Class Basketball Team 12
Class Hockey Team 29
Senior Social 176
Domestic Science Club 99
Class Day Dances 6
Candy Girl, Dramatics '26
Junior Class Day Marshal ’27
Sagamore Reporter ’26. Staff ’27'28 153
Girls' League 474
Chairman of Art Committee ’28
Art Club 148
Junior Social Committee 47
Year Book Committee 68
Four-minute Speaker ’28 153
Class Swimming Team 13
Marshal ’28

Fellow members from Marjorie's own class:

What the yearbook said

Art is Power

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The class of 1928

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Others named Abrams

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1928, page 26. 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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