Cambridge High and Latin School

Christopher Baird Sykes

Christopher Baird Sykes is one of 416 graduates in the class of 1928 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1928 yearbook entry gives: headed for Harvard College; activities listed: Tennis; lived at 39 Kirkland Street.

Class of 1928

416 in the class of 1928 · 9 more named Sykes

Full name: Christopher Baird Sykes
Lived at: 39 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: Private Instruction; Brookline High School, 1924–26
Headed for: Harvard College

Also searched as: Christopher Sykes; Christopher B. Sykes; Sykes, Christopher.

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Group photos 2
Neighbours 17
Same surname 6
Classmates 415
Same schools 39

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This site lists 416 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928; sorted by surname, Christopher comes 373rd. Christopher is printed on page 123 of the scan, in the last third of the 27-to-134 run of portrait pages. Among the 343 people in the class who printed a plan, 173 (50%) named a college or university, as Christopher did (“Harvard College”). 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	Melba Alda Taddie, Leah Bernice Tagerman, Milton Oscar Talent
Same kind of plan	college or university: 173 of 343 classmates with a plan (50%)

At home, 39 Kirkland Street

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

James T Sykes, student H U lived herepage

The Sykes household is listed here in 1925 and 1930 too.

Also pictured in group photographs

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

Tennis1928

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What Christopher did at school

Tennis

What the yearbook said

In class he’s rather small, But in his studies he’s ahead of us all.

Also grew up on Kirkland Street

The class of 1928

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Others named Sykes

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

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Also headed for Harvard College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 123. 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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