Cambridge High and Latin School

Dolly Parks Burgess “Dolly”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Dolly Parks Burgess (“Dolly”) among 483 graduates in the class of 1930. The entry gives: came from Harvard Grammar School; headed for Nurse; lived at 4 Percy Place. Portrait and entry from the 1930 yearbook, page 30.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 47 more named Burgess

Full name: Dolly Parks Burgess
Known as: Dolly
Lived at: 4 Percy Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Harvard Grammar School
Headed for: Nurse

Also searched as: Dolly Burgess; Dolly P. Burgess; Burgess, Dolly.

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Household 1
Same surname 38
Classmates 482
Same schools 62

In context

This site lists 483 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930; sorted by surname, Dolly comes 46th. In the scan, Dolly appears on page 30, right at the start of the run of 483 portraits read for this site (pages 21 to 118). Dolly's “Nurse” falls in the same group as 5 of the 430 plans printed for the class (1%): nursing. Harvard Grammar School appears as the earlier school of 47 people in the class, Dolly among them. For Cambridge High and Latin School, the site holds 483 people from the class of 1930, against 421 for 1929.

On the same scan page	Jerome Charles Buckley, Margaret Mary Buckley, Elizabeth Sara Burns, Gertrude Elaine Burns
Same earlier school	Harvard Grammar School: 46 other classmates
Same kind of plan	nursing: 5 of 430 classmates with a plan (1%)

At home, 4 Percy Place

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

Lois A. BurgessCambridge 1924

The 1930 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Burgess at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Elmer J Burgess, salesman householderpage
Enoch B Burgess, elect lived herepage
Waldo B Burgess, clerk lived herepage

The Burgess household is listed here in 1920, 1921, 1925 and 1927 too.

What the yearbook said

She knows what she wants and will try with wisdom to attain and profit by

She knows what she wants and will try with wisdom to attain and profit by.

The class of 1930

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Others named Burgess

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

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Also came from Harvard Grammar School

Also headed for Nurse

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 30. 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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