Brookline High School

Ralph Francis Fay “Ralphio, Backstroke”

Ralph Francis Fay (“Ralphio, Backstroke”) is one of 232 graduates in the class of 1928 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1928 yearbook entry gives: headed for Northeastern; activities listed: Debating Club and Glee Club; lived at 1016 Beacon Street.

Class of 1928

232 in the class of 1928 · 31 more named Fay

Full name: Ralph Francis Fay
Known as: Ralphio, Backstroke
Lived at: 1016 Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Course: College Prep
Headed for: Northeastern
Pastime: “Dancing, Outdoor Sports. have one true blue friend”

Also searched as: Ralph Fay; Ralph F. Fay; Fay, Ralph.

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Group photos 4
Clubs & teams 233
Neighbours 81
Same surname 28
Classmates 231
Same schools 27

In context

This site lists 232 people from the Brookline High School class of 1928; sorted by surname, Ralph comes 66th. Ralph is printed on page 42 of the scan, in the first third of the 26-to-87 run of portrait pages. Beacon Street runs through 9 Brookline High School classes on this site (1923 to 1931); 82 people list it. Counting Ralph, “Football Squad” is named by 7 people in the Brookline High School class of 1928. Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1928 has 232 entries, while the neighbouring classes have 219 for 1927 and 249 for 1929.

On the same scan page	Hope Whitman Farwell, M. Evelyn Files, Milton Merton Finger
Same street	Beacon Street: 10 other classmates
Same club	Glee Club: 33 other classmates
Same club	Swimming Squad: 4 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 63 of 119 classmates with a plan (53%)
Same course	College Prep: 33 of 229 classmates with a course (14%)

At home, 1016 Beacon Street

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

Charlotte A Fay, widow of Nicholas J householderpage
Charlotte A Fay, telephone operator lived herepage
Cyril J Fay, auto mech lived herepage
Loretta A Fay, telephone operator lived herepage
Magdalen Fay, operator lived herepage

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

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Swimming1926

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What the yearbook said

A lion among ladies is a dreadful thing

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The class of 1928

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Others named Fay

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Also headed for Northeastern

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1928, page 42. 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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