Cambridge High and Latin School

Cornelius Dennehy “Dina”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Cornelius Dennehy (“Dina”) among 421 graduates in the class of 1929. The entry gives: came from St. Mary’s Parochial School; headed for Northeastern University; lived at 134 Elm Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 46.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 6 more named Dennehy

Full name: Cornelius Dennehy
Known as: Dina
Lived at: 134 Elm Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: St. Mary’s Parochial School
Headed for: Northeastern University

Also searched as: Dina Dennehy; Dennehy, Cornelius.

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Neighbours 58
Same surname 5
Classmates 420
Same schools 40

In context

This site lists 421 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929; sorted by surname, Cornelius comes 88th. The entry is on page 46 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 25 to page 132. From 1914 to 1930, 57 people in 15 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School give Elm Street. Cornelius's “Northeastern University” falls in the same group as 174 of the 364 plans printed for the class (48%): a college or university. A college or university was the plan of 174 of 308 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1929 (56%), compared with 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Elizabeth Gertrude Delaney, Anne Patricia Dempsey, William Leo Dennehy
Same street	Elm Street: 7 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 174 of 364 classmates with a plan (48%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 134 Elm Street

The 1928 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Dennehy at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Abigail E Dennehy, widow of Cornelius householderpage
Catherine E Dennehy, stenographer lived herepage
Dennehy Dennehy, Julia M stenographer lived herepage

What Cornelius did at school

Football, 1929

What the yearbook said

Ah, why should life all labor be?

Also grew up on Elm Street

The class of 1929

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Others named Dennehy

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

Also came from St. Mary’s Parochial School

Also headed for Northeastern University

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 46. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1929unse).

Published 1929, 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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