Cambridge High and Latin School

Alma Temple “Al”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Alma Temple (“Al”) among 319 graduates in the class of 1923. The entry gives: headed for Miss Pierce’s School or Framingham Normal; activities listed: G. A. A and Senior Advisory Council; lived at 117 Columbia Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 113.

Class of 1923

319 in the class of 1923 · 15 more named Temple

Full name: Alma Temple
Known as: Al
Born: October 16, 1905
Lived at: 117 Columbia Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Course: Normal
Came from: Fletcher Grammar School
Headed for: Miss Pierce’s School or Framingham Normal

Also searched as: Al Temple; Temple, Alma.

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Clubs & teams 89
Neighbours 65
Same surname 8
Classmates 318
Same schools 16

In context

This site lists 319 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1923; sorted by surname, Alma comes 295th. Find Alma on page 113 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1923 are spread over pages 39 to 119. Fletcher Grammar School appears as the earlier school of 8 people in the class, Alma among them. Columbia Street is the street of 7 other classmates of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1923 besides Alma. In the class of 1923, 55% of the plans we could classify (119 of 217) were a college or university; the neighbouring classes show 63% in 1922 and 50% in 1924.

On the same scan page	Anna B. Tattan, Helen Elaine Thomas, Anna Tierney
Same street	Columbia Street: 7 other classmates
Same earlier school	Fletcher Grammar School: 7 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 27 of 253 classmates with a plan (11%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 117 Columbia Street

The 1925 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Temple at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Mary E Temple, bookkeeper lived herepage
Wm M Temple, clerk lived herepage

The Temple household is listed here in 1918 and 1921 too.

What Alma did at school

G. A. A. 522
Girls’ Debating Club, 1921–22
Senior Advisory Council
Asst. Editor of Year Book

Fellow members from Alma's own class:

What the yearbook said

ALMA TEMPLE IS VERY CUTE, WOULD MELT ANY PERSON’S HEART

Alma Temple is very cute, we liked her from the start her sweetly quiet, demure ways, would melt any person’s heart.

Also grew up on Columbia Street

The class of 1923

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Others named Temple

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also came from Fletcher Grammar School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1923, page 113. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1923unse).

Published 1923, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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