Boston Latin School

Maurice Barry Serkin “Sir Kay”

Boston Latin School in Boston, Massachusetts, listed Maurice Barry Serkin (“Sir Kay”) among 146 graduates in the class of 1928. The entry gives: came from Quincy Grammar School; headed for Harvard; activities listed: French Club and Literary Club. Portrait and entry from the 1928 yearbook, page 67.

Class of 1928

146 in the class of 1928 · 1 more named Serkin

Full name: Maurice Barry Serkin
Known as: Sir Kay
School: Boston Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: Quincy Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Maurice Serkin; Maurice B. Serkin; Serkin, Maurice.

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Clubs & teams 115
Classmates 145
Same schools 213

In context

146 people from the Boston Latin School class of 1928 appear on this site, and Serkin puts Maurice 118th among them. Turning the scan to page 67 shows Maurice; the portraits we read from this book run from page 36 to page 75. Maurice's plan is printed as “Harvard”, which counts here as a college or university; 110 of the 119 classmates who named a plan (92%) named the same kind. In the Boston Latin School class of 1928, 24 entries mention “French Club”; Maurice's is one of them. Plans for a college or university made up 98% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1928 (110 of 112), against 97% in 1927.

On the same scan page	Henry Shapiro, William Alexander Shaw
Same club	French Club: 23 other classmates
Same club	Literary Club: 33 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 110 of 119 classmates with a plan (92%)

What Maurice did at school

French Club 96
Literary Club 51
Football 94
Swimming, 1925-26-27-28
Captain, 1928
2nd Lieutenant, 13th Company, 5th Regiment

Fellow members from Maurice's own class:

What the yearbook said

Water! water ! one single drop!

The class of 1928

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Also came from Quincy Grammar School

Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Boston Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 67. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item latinschoolregi1928bost_4).

Published 1928, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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