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Pierce School Graduation, 1908
Pierce School Graduation, 1908
Identities inscribed with the photo were: Front Row
  1. Fay -- from Cuba
  2. Irene Taylor
  3. Elizabeth Walsh
  4. Edith C Robinson
  5. Ruth Litchfield
  6. Sara Emerson Snell
  7. Christine Merrick Ayars
  8. Helen Margaret Leard
  9. Lillian Agnes Meany
  10. Viola Bassett Handy
Row Two
  1. Katherine G Sullivan
  2. Frances A Jefferson
  3. Ada E. Chevalier (teacher)
  4. Mary McSkimmon (principal)
  5. Maria F. Gardner (teacher)
  6. Marie Katherine Kelly
  7. Helena von Ladau
  8. Frances Converse McCormick
Row Three
  1. Vienna Francis Edwards
  2. Sarah M I Messer
  3. Annie ???
  4. Lillian Woodard
  5. Alice M. Potter
  6. Katharine Riley
  7. Esther A Richardson
  8. Emily Grace Smith (?)
  9. Gladys Florence Creaser
  10. Donna M. George
  11. Louise Cheney
Row Four
  1. Walter Kelley
  2. Harry H. Denning
  3. Karl Leavitt Thielscher
  4. George Francis McGillen
  5. Philip Ignatius Johnson
  6. Robert J. Rowe
  7. ? Dillingham
Row Five
  1. Arvin Edward Case
  2. Elwood B. Merritt
  3. Philip Leard
  4. William Walizer
  5. Antonio Nesmith Guimaraes
  6. Edward Estey Mason
  7. Philip R. G. Nordell
  8. Elliott W Hirshberg
  9. Edward A Manning
Not identified above but listed in the June 27th, 1908 issue of The Chronicle as receiving diplomas were: Edith M Barrett, Mabel Louise Blair, Annah May Colby, Etta May Coyne, Annie R. Cross, Elsie May Danckert, James Walter Dane, Katherine Margaret Duffy, George C Dunlevy, Edward M Emery, Charles Ultin Farley, Chester R. Fowler, Pae Fowler, Florence A Gottschalk, Manon Lloyd Grant, Elmer Philip Hatch, Florence May Hunter, Edward Charles Kelley, Adelbert Libby Kilmer, E Lewis Little, Agnes J Lynch, Grace Edith Mosher, Owen Leo McGillen, Emma Jane McNeilly, Philip E Nason, Frank Sewall Owen, Everett D Phillips, Vera Belle Purdy, Joseph A Richardson, William James Rix, May Watson Shillady, Jane E Smith, Francis P Wall, Elizabeth Margaret Walsh, Harold M Watson
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Brookline Record Stores: From Edison's Phonograph to Village Vinyl

In 2024, I sold my collection of a few hundred vinyl record albums to Jonathan Sandler of Village Vinyl & Hi-Fi in Coolidge Corner. They were mostly jazz albums I'd bought in the 1970s and 1980s, including quite a few older albums I'd picked up in used record bins during those pre-CD years.

The covers of the album, as well as the music on them, carried a lot of sentimental value for me. But I hadn't actually owned a turntable for years, and I was glad that, in addition to providing me some extra cash, the music would find new owners/listeners, especially amid a growing appreciation for vinyl.


I also gave Jonat...