Brookline High School

Virginia Seavey “Ginger, Gin”

Virginia Seavey (“Ginger, Gin”) was one of 249 graduates in the class of 1929 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for Radcliffe College; activities listed: Class Day Exercises and Glee Club; lived at 19 Harris Street. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 83.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 10 more named Seavey

Full name: Virginia Seavey
Known as: Ginger, Gin
Lived at: 19 Harris Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: College
Headed for: Radcliffe College
Ambition: “To be a success”
Pastime: “Riding”

Also searched as: Ginny Seavey; Seavey, Virginia.

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Clubs & teams 475
Neighbours 15
Same surname 8
Classmates 248
Same schools 21

In context

Virginia Seavey is number 198 of 249 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1929 on this site. Virginia is printed on page 83 of the scan, in the last third of the 31-to-96 run of portrait pages. Virginia's course, College, is also the course of 80 others in the 239 entries that print one (34% in all). Virginia's “Radcliffe College” falls in the same group as 84 of the 127 plans printed for the class (66%): a college or university. In the class of 1929, 87 of 239 printed courses (36%) were college or college-preparatory ones, compared with 45% in 1928 and 39% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Anthony Ryan, Mary Anne Ryan, Dorothy B. Shapiro
Same club	Class Day Exercises: 23 other classmates
Same club	Glee Club: 69 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 84 of 127 classmates with a plan (66%)
Same course	College: 81 of 239 classmates with a course (34%)

At home, 19 Harris Street

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

Mary I Seavey, widow of John F S lived herepage

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 83. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1929broo).

Published 1929, 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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