Cambridge High and Latin School

Alphonse Joseph Matursevitch “Al Whitey Mat”

Alphonse Joseph Matursevitch (“Al Whitey Mat”), Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The entry prints: came from Thorndike School; headed for Harvard; lived at 7 Eighth Street.

Class of 1928

416 in the class of 1928 · 1 more named Matursevitch

Full name: Alphonse Joseph Matursevitch
Known as: Al Whitey Mat
Lived at: 7 Eighth Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: Thorndike School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Alphonse Matursevitch; Alphonse J. Matursevitch; Matursevitch, Alphonse.

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Group photos 19
Neighbours 4
Classmates 415
Same schools 219

In context

416 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 appear on this site, and Matursevitch puts Alphonse 263rd among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 97, in the last third of the stretch from page 27 to page 134 where this site found the book's portraits. Counting Alphonse, 6 people in the class are listed as coming from Thorndike School. Among the 343 people in the class who printed a plan, 173 (50%) named a college or university, as Alphonse did (“Harvard”). Plans for a college or university made up 58% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1928 (173 of 297), against 54% in 1927 and 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Agnes Theresa Miceli, Benjamin Millstein
Same earlier school	Thorndike School: 5 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 173 of 343 classmates with a plan (50%)

At home, 7 Eighth Street

The 1926–27 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Matursevitch at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Joseph Matursevitch (wife Rose), shoemkr householderpage

The Matursevitch household is listed here in 1930 too.

Also pictured in group photographs

Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Alphonse's senior portrait.

In the same photographs:

What Alphonse did at school

Baseball, 1924–27–28
Basketball, 1927–28

What the yearbook said

Challenging brain and heart and hand.

Also grew up on Eighth Street

The class of 1928

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Also came from Thorndike School

Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 97. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1928unse).

Published 1928, 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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