Cambridge High and Latin School

Donald Charles Presho “Chink”

Donald Charles Presho (“Chink”), Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The entry prints: came from Ellis School; headed for Business College; lived at 29 Creighton Street.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 2 more named Presho

Full name: Donald Charles Presho
Known as: Chink
Lived at: 29 Creighton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Ellis School
Headed for: Business College

Also searched as: Chink Presho; Don Presho; Donald Presho; Donald C. Presho.

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Household 1
Neighbours 20
Classmates 420
Same schools 83

In context

Donald Charles Presho is number 326 of 421 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 on this site. The entry is on page 107 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 25 to page 132. Ellis School appears as the earlier school of 16 people in the class, Donald among them. Donald's “Business College” falls in the same group as 70 of the 364 plans printed for the class (19%): a business or secretarial school. Of the 308 plans printed for the class of 1929 that name a kind of next step, 174 (56%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Gertrude Powers, Otis Daniel Powers Jr., Anna Mary Procito
Same earlier school	Ellis School: 15 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 70 of 364 classmates with a plan (19%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 29 Creighton Street

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

Hester Ellen PreshoCambridge 1922

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

Donald Presho lived herepage
Dwight A Presho, chauffeur lived herepage
Hester E Presho, nurse lived herepage

The Presho household is listed here in 1919, 1920, 1921, 1927 and 1928 too.

What Donald did at school

Football, 1928
Crew, 1926
Room Committee, 1925-'27

What the yearbook said

The deed that I intend is great But what, as yet I know not.

Also grew up on Creighton Street

The class of 1929

All 421 in this class →

Also came from Ellis School

Also headed for Business College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 107. 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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