Brookline High School

Robert James Gillis Jr

Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, listed Robert James Gillis Jr among 232 graduates in the class of 1928. The entry gives: came from Quincy High; headed for Georgetown; lived at 92 Winthrop Road. Portrait and entry from the 1928 yearbook, page 45.

Class of 1928

232 in the class of 1928 · 29 more named Gillis

Full name: Robert James Gillis Jr
Lived at: 92 Winthrop Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Course: College
Came from: Quincy High
Headed for: Georgetown

Also searched as: Bob Gillis; Robert Gillis; Robert J. Gillis; Bobby Gillis.

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Neighbours 19
Same surname 26
Classmates 231
Same schools 1

In context

232 people from the Brookline High School class of 1928 appear on this site, and Gillis puts Robert 77th among them. Robert's portrait is on scan page 45, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 26 to 87. 5 other people in the class share the first name Robert. In the Brookline High School class of 1928, 27% of the 229 printed courses are College (62 people), Robert included. A college or university was the plan of 63 of 81 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1928 (78%), compared with 75% in 1927 and 76% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Edward George Goldfine, Pearl Rhoda Goldman, Martha B. Goldshine
Same course	College: 62 of 229 classmates with a course (27%)
Same first name	Robert: 5 other people in the class

At home, 92 Winthrop Road

The 1928 city directory lists Robert James Gillis Jr with the occupation “editor” (page).

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

Robert J Gillis (wife Mary), editor householderpage

What Robert did at school

Newspaper man. Club ’26

What the yearbook said

Happy, no matter what may come

Also grew up on Winthrop Road

The class of 1928

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Others named Gillis

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

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Also came from Quincy High

Madeleine Mary CoulsonNewton 1918

Also headed for Georgetown

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1928, page 45. 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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