Brookline High School · Brookline, Massachusetts
Sumner Everett Shikes “Tumpty”
Class of 1928
504 people in the archive are connected to Sumner
- 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
- Came from
- Alpha Pi
- Headed for
- Harvard
- Ambition
- “To get out of Harvard in 1932”
- Pastime
- “Collecting attendance slips at 8:30”
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Household
At home, 79 Coolidge Street
Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.
Clubs, teams & activities
What Sumner did at school
- Assistant Manager Hockey Team ’27 75
- Swimming Team 88
- Prize Speaking ’27-’28
- FourMinute Speaker ’27-’28
- French Club 435
- Spanish Club 168
- Sagamore Circulation Staff
- Glee Club 216
- Year Book Committee 68
Fellow members from Sumner's own class:
What the yearbook said
Const thou thunder with a voice like him?
Neighbours
Also grew up on Coolidge Street
Classmates
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
Same surname
Others named Shikes
Same surname, same corner of Massachusetts — often relatives.
Same schools
Also came from Alpha Pi
Alexandra Torborg CentervallBrookline 1927
Frances Barbara ConneelyBrookline 1927
William Hunter Perry JrBrookline 1927
Lurena LaneBrookline 1927
Melvin Saul LevisonBrookline 1927
Mary ReidBrookline 1927
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.



















