Cambridge High and Latin School

Bertha Wasserman “Red, Bert”

Bertha Wasserman (“Red, Bert”) appears in the 1926 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 275 Walden Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1926

462 in the class of 1926 · 7 more named Wasserman

Full name: Bertha Wasserman
Known as: Red, Bert
Lived at: 275 Walden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Roberts Grammar School
Headed for: Stenographer

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Household 1
Neighbours 36
Same surname 5
Classmates 461
Same schools 164

In context

462 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 appear on this site, and Wasserman puts Bertha 440th among them. Bertha is printed on page 135 of the scan, near the end of the 23-to-140 run of portrait pages. 21 people named Bertha turn up in 12 Cambridge High and Latin School classes on this site, 1914 to 1930. Bertha is one of 18 in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 whose entry names Roberts Grammar School as the school they came from. First names that recur in the class of 1926: Mary (29), John (24) and Margaret (19). In the class of 1927: Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14).

On the same scan page	Mary Elizabeth Walsh, Freda Adelia Wambold, Mary Elizabeth Watson
Same street	Walden Street: 9 other classmates
Same earlier school	Roberts Grammar School: 17 other classmates
Same kind of plan	work: 47 of 388 classmates with a plan (12%)

At home, 275 Walden Street

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

Paul WassermanCambridge 1929

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

Goldie Wasserman, widow of Samuel householderpage

The Wasserman household is listed here in 1930 too.

What Bertha did at school

G. A. A., 1922
Year Book Staff, 1926

Also grew up on Walden Street

The class of 1926

All 462 in this class →

Others named Wasserman

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

All 7 people named Wasserman →

Also came from Roberts Grammar School

Also headed for Stenographer

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 135. 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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