Cambridge High and Latin School

Benjamin B. Bloom “Bebe, Ben”

Benjamin B. Bloom (“Bebe, Ben”) was one of 483 graduates in the class of 1930 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Lewis School; headed for College of Pharmacy, Chicago; lived at 11 Fayette Street. Portrait and entry from the 1930 yearbook, page 26.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 20 more named Bloom

Full name: Benjamin B. Bloom
Known as: Bebe, Ben
Lived at: 11 Fayette Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Lewis School
Headed for: College of Pharmacy, Chicago

Also searched as: Ben Bloom; Benjamin Bloom; Bloom, Benjamin.

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Neighbours 38
Same surname 14
Classmates 482

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 from A to Z by surname, Benjamin is the 26th of 483 names on this site. In the scan, Benjamin appears on page 26, right at the start of the run of 483 portraits read for this site (pages 21 to 118). The first name Benjamin appears 12 times in the 7 Cambridge High and Latin School classes read for this site (1915 to 1930). Benjamin's “College of Pharmacy, Chicago” falls in the same group as 206 of the 430 plans printed for the class (48%): a college or university. 56% of the graduates in the class of 1930 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	M. Olive Josephine Blanchet, Vitalia Hedwig Bochonowicz, Chester Warren Boireau, Bertha Edna Booker
Same kind of plan	college or university: 206 of 430 classmates with a plan (48%)

What Benjamin did at school

Baseball, 1926

What the yearbook said

BEBE” “BEN” “He laughs as though he would die at the slightest fun or joke.” “So quiet, so demure

He laughs as though he would die at the slightest fun or joke.

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Also came from Lewis School

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 26. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1930unse).

Published 1930, 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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