Brookline High School
Walter Joseph Murphy “Walt, Cy, Murph”
Class of 1929, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts: Walter Joseph Murphy (“Walt, Cy, Murph”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Yale via Andover; activities listed: Hockey and Track; lived at 102 Thorndike Street. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 72.
Class of 1929
249 in the class of 1929 · 310 more named Murphy
- Full name
- Walter Joseph Murphy
- Known as
- Walt, Cy, Murph
- Lived at
- 102 Thorndike Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
- School
- Brookline High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1929
- Headed for
- Yale via Andover
- Ambition
- “To be a Rhodes (roads) scholar”
- Pastime
- “Sleeping”
Also searched as: Walt Murphy; Walter Murphy; Walter J. Murphy; Murphy, Walter.
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In context
249 people from the Brookline High School class of 1929 appear on this site, and Murphy puts Walter 156th among them. Turning the scan to page 72 shows Walter; the portraits we read from this book run from page 31 to page 96. From 1923 to 1931, 26 people in 7 classes of Brookline High School give Thorndike Street. In the Brookline High School class of 1929, 20 entries mention “Track”; Walter's is one of them. 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 | Mary M. Murray, John Neary, Florence Natalie Nelson |
|---|---|
| Same street | Thorndike Street: 6 other classmates |
| Same club | Hockey: 16 other classmates |
| Same club | Track: 19 other classmates |
| Same kind of plan | college or university: 84 of 127 classmates with a plan (66%) |
At home, 102 Thorndike Street
Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.
The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Murphy at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.
What Walter did at school
Fellow members from Walter's own class:
What the yearbook said
C College.
Also grew up on Thorndike Street
The class of 1929
Isabella B. MurphyBrookline 1929
Mary M. MurrayBrookline 1929
Elizabeth MohrBrookline 1929
John NearyBrookline 1929
Harriette ModeBrookline 1929
Florence Natalie NelsonBrookline 1929
Other people named Walter Joseph Murphy in the archive
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Others named Murphy
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
Harold S. MurphySoldiers of the Great War, 1920: Massachusetts 1920
John Henry MurphyWinchester 1930
Joseph William MurphyWinchester 1930
Mary Alberta MurphyWinchester 1930
Mary MurphyArlington 1928
Joseph MurphyArlington 1930
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Source
Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 72.
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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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