Brookline High School
Sumner Everett Shikes “Tumpty”
Sumner Everett Shikes (“Tumpty”), Brookline High School class of 1928 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Harvard; activities listed: Swimming Team and French Club; lived at 79 Coolidge Street.
Class of 1928
232 in the class of 1928 · 3 more named Shikes
- Full name
- Sumner Everett Shikes
- Known as
- Tumpty
- Lived at
- 79 Coolidge Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
- School
- Brookline High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1928
- Course
- College Preparatory
- Headed for
- Harvard
- Ambition
- “To get out of Harvard in 1932”
- Pastime
- “Collecting attendance slips at 8:30”
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In context
Of the 232 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1928 read for this site, Sumner's is 197th alphabetically. Sumner's portrait is on scan page 78, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 26 to 87. 34 people in the class list “Glee Club”, Sumner included. “Harvard” is Sumner's plan after graduation; 63 of 119 classmates with a printed plan (53%) named a college or university. Against 219 for 1927 and 249 for 1929, the class of 1928 comes to 232 names on this site.
| On the same scan page | Jessamine V. Sherbert, Frances Loraine Sibley, Fay Eunice Silversmith |
|---|---|
| Same club | Swimming Team: 8 other classmates |
| Same club | French Club: 73 other classmates |
| Same kind of plan | college or university: 63 of 119 classmates with a plan (53%) |
At home, 79 Coolidge Street
Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.
The 1931 city directory lists Sumner Everett Shikes with the occupation “student” (page).
The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Shikes at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.
What Sumner did at school
- Assistant Manager Hockey Team ’27 76
- Swimming Team 92
- Prize Speaking ’27-’28
- FourMinute Speaker ’27-’28
- French Club 460
- Spanish Club 171
- Sagamore Circulation Staff
- Glee Club 231
- Year Book Committee 68
Fellow members from Sumner's own class:
What the yearbook said
Const thou thunder with a voice like him?
Also grew up on Coolidge Street
The class of 1928
Jessamine V. SherbertBrookline 1928
Frances Loraine SibleyBrookline 1928
Joseph George ShapiroBrookline 1928
Fay Eunice SilversmithBrookline 1928
Leslie Joseph SchmidtBrookline 1928
Richard Walter SimmersBrookline 1928
Others named Shikes
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
Also headed for Harvard
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Source
Brookline High School yearbook, 1928, page 78.
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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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