Brookline High School

Thomas J. Mahan “Tonkey”

Thomas J. Mahan (“Tonkey”), Brookline High School class of 1931 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: Commercial course; headed for The tall pines; lived at 1 Eliot Avenue.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 26 more named Mahan

Full name: Thomas J. Mahan
Known as: Tonkey
Lived at: 1 Eliot Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: Commercial.
Headed for: The tall pines

Also searched as: Tonkey Mahan; Tom Mahan; Thomas Mahan; Tommy Mahan.

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Neighbours 1
Same surname 22
Classmates 272

In context

273 people from the Brookline High School class of 1931 appear on this site, and Mahan puts Thomas 172nd among them. Thomas is printed on page 79 of the scan, around the middle of the 34-to-110 run of portrait pages. The first name Thomas appears 18 times in the 5 Brookline High School classes read for this site (1925 to 1931), most often in 1931 (6). In the Brookline High School class of 1931, 25% of the 252 printed courses are Commercial (62 people), Thomas included. 79% of the graduates in the class of 1931 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 76% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Edmund Madden, Ruth Frances Mahon, Margaret Malone
Same course	Commercial: 62 of 252 classmates with a course (25%)
Same first name	Thomas: 5 other people in the class

What Thomas did at school

Football '27, ’30
Baseball '27, ’28. ’29, ’30
Red Cross Representative ’31

What the yearbook said

He loses much who leaves his friends behind.

Also grew up on Eliot Avenue

Catherine Elizabeth MaloneyBrookline 1925

The class of 1931

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 79. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1931broo).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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