Cambridge High and Latin School

Anna Louise O’Connell “Okie”

Class of 1924, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Anna Louise O’Connell (“Okie”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Salem Normal; activities listed: Get-Together Committee and Class Notes Reporter; lived at 79 Pemberton Street. Portrait and entry from the 1924 yearbook, page 87.

Class of 1924

366 in the class of 1924 · 73 more named O’Connell

Full name: Anna Louise O’Connell
Known as: Okie
Born: March 23, 1906
Lived at: 79 Pemberton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1924
Came from: Ellis Grammar School
Headed for: Salem Normal

Also searched as: Okie O’Connell; Annie O’Connell; Anna O’Connell; Anna L. O’Connell.

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Household 1
Clubs & teams 7
Neighbours 17
Same surname 67
Classmates 365
Same schools 75

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 366 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1924, Anna stands 264th. Anna is printed on page 87 of the scan, around the middle of the 29-to-122 run of portrait pages. The surname O’Connell turns up 14 times in 8 Cambridge High and Latin School classes (1923 to 1930) on this site. Anna's “Salem Normal” falls in the same group as 31 of the 296 plans printed for the class (10%): a normal school or teachers college. Mary (27), Helen (17) and John (12) were the first names most often repeated in the class of 1924, and Mary (19), John (16) and William (12) in the class of 1925.

On the same scan page	Wilfred B. Nightingale, Edward Nolen, Helen Louise O’Callaghan
Same club	Get-Together Committee: 4 other classmates
Same earlier school	Ellis Grammar School: 22 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 31 of 296 classmates with a plan (10%)
Same first name	Anna: 9 other people in the class

At home, 79 Pemberton Street

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Ellen E. O'ConnellCambridge 1921

What Anna did at school

Get-Together Committee 8
Class Notes Reporter

Fellow members from Anna's own class:

Also grew up on Pemberton Street

The class of 1924

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Others named O’Connell

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

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Also came from Ellis Grammar School

Also headed for Salem Normal

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1924, page 87. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1924unse).

Published 1924, 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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