Brookline High School

Mary J. Hewitt “Mally”

Mary J. Hewitt (“Mally”) appears in the 1925 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 58 Winchester Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1925

179 in the class of 1925 · 17 more named Hewitt

Full name: Mary J. Hewitt
Known as: Mally
Lived at: 58 Winchester Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Pastime: “Dancing, Bowling”

Also searched as: Mally Hewitt; Polly Hewitt; Mary Hewitt; Molly Hewitt.

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Household 2
Clubs & teams 114
Neighbours 44
Same surname 10
Classmates 178

In context

Going through the Brookline High School class of 1925 from A to Z by surname, Mary is the 76th of 179 names on this site. In the scan, Mary appears on page 50, around the middle of the run of 179 portraits read for this site (pages 26 to 84). 13 people in the class list “Domestic Science Club”, Mary included. From 1923 to 1931, 61 Brookline High School graduates on this site share the first name Mary, spread over 9 classes and peaking at 11 in 1930. A college or university was the plan of 37 of 52 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1925 (71%), compared with 73% in 1924 and 68% in 1926.

On the same scan page	Virginia Porter Haynes, William Helmbold, J. Alfred Hennessey
Same club	Domestic Science Club: 12 other classmates
Same club	Four Minute Speaker: 16 other classmates
Same first name	Mary: 9 other people in the class

At home, 58 Winchester Street

Same surname, same address — very likely brothers and sisters.

The 1928 city directory lists Mary J. Hewitt with the occupation “clerk” (page).

The 1925 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Hewitt at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Margaret Hewitt, clerk lived herepage

The Hewitt household is listed here in 1920, 1928 and 1931 too.

What Mary did at school

Fellow members from Mary's own class:

Also grew up on Winchester Street

The class of 1925

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Others named Hewitt

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

All 17 people named Hewitt →

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1925, page 50. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1925broo).

Published 1925, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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