Cambridge High and Latin School

Barbara Brooks “Bobby, Bunny”

Barbara Brooks (“Bobby, Bunny”) was one of 462 graduates in the class of 1926 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Peabody; headed for Radcliffe; lived at 14 Linnaean Street. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 31.

Class of 1926

462 in the class of 1926 · 105 more named Brooks

Full name: Barbara Brooks
Known as: Bobby, Bunny
Lived at: 14 Linnaean Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Peabody
Headed for: Radcliffe

Also searched as: Barb Brooks; Brooks, Barbara.

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Household 1
Neighbours 9
Same surname 77
Classmates 461
Same schools 68

In context

Of the 462 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 that have pages here, Barbara is 35th in surname order. Find Barbara on page 31 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 are spread over pages 23 to 140. Barbara is one of 41 in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 whose entry names Peabody as the school they came from. Across 10 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School on this site, from 1919 to 1930, 25 people are named Barbara; the class of 1925 has the most, 5. Count the first names and the class of 1926 gives Mary (29), John (24) and Margaret (19), where the class of 1927 gives Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14).

On the same scan page	Donald M. Brewer, Victor Michael Briefer, Hazel Frances Brockbank
Same earlier school	Peabody: 40 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 197 of 388 classmates with a plan (51%)

At home, 14 Linnaean Street

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

William BrooksCambridge 1922

The 1927 city directory lists Barbara Brooks with the occupation “student R Coll” (page).

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

Clayton K Brooks (wife Grace H), ins B householderpage
Barbara Brooks, student R Coll lived herepage
Gertrude Brooks, clerk lived herepage
Wm Brooks, student H U lived herepage

The Brooks household is listed here in 1921, 1925, 1928 and 1930 too.

What the yearbook said

Barbara never wastes her looks By using them on horrid books

Also grew up on Linnaean Street

The class of 1926

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Others named Brooks

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

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Also came from Peabody

Also headed for Radcliffe

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 31. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1926unse).

Published 1926, 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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