Arlington High School

Robert T. Whitcomb “Skinny”

Class of 1927, Arlington High School, Arlington, Massachusetts: Robert T. Whitcomb (“Skinny”). The yearbook entry prints: activities listed: Honor Roll and Student Council; lived at 34 Fairview Avenue; a write-up. Portrait and entry from the 1927 yearbook, page 46.

Class of 1927

135 in the class of 1927 · 27 more named Whitcomb

Full name: Robert T. Whitcomb
Known as: Skinny
Lived at: 34 Fairview Avenue, Arlington, Massachusetts
School: Arlington High School
Graduated: Class of 1927

Also searched as: Skinny Whitcomb; Bob Whitcomb; Robert Whitcomb; Bobby Whitcomb.

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Clubs & teams 78
Same surname 24
Classmates 134

In context

Of the 135 entries from the Arlington High School class of 1927 read for this site, Robert's is 127th alphabetically. Robert is printed on page 46 of the scan, near the end of the 12-to-48 run of portrait pages. Counting Robert, “Student Council” is named by 25 people in the Arlington High School class of 1927. Names on this site: 135 for the class of 1927, compared with 157 for 1928. Printed in the book's front pages: “Arlington High School Year-Book”, edited by Walter T. Atkinson.

On the same scan page	Ruth Elizabeth Wenzelberger, Stanton Wetherbee, Lenna R. Whitehill
Same club	Student Council: 24 other classmates
Same club	Manager of Football Team: 10 other classmates
The book's own title	Arlington High School Year-Book (editor: Walter T. Atkinson)

At home, 34 Fairview Avenue

The 1928 Arlington Directory lists these people named Whitcomb at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Charles T Whitcomb, C. (Charlotte) educational work lived herepage
John L Whitcomb, author lived herepage

The Whitcomb household is listed here in 1918, 1920, 1923, 1925, 1930 and 1933 too.

What Robert did at school

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What the yearbook said

It doesn't seem as though there was much of "Skinny," but if we had his brains we would feel that college was a reality and not an uncertain hope.

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Source

Arlington High School yearbook, 1927, page 46. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item arlingtonhighsch1927arli).

Published 1927, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Robbins Memorial Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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