Cambridge High and Latin School

Dorothea Louise Butcher “Dot”

Dorothea Louise Butcher (“Dot”), Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The entry prints: came from Roberts Grammar School; headed for Business College; lived at 4 Greenough Avenue.

Class of 1928

416 in the class of 1928 · 9 more named Butcher

Full name: Dorothea Louise Butcher
Known as: Dot
Lived at: 4 Greenough Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: Roberts Grammar School
Headed for: Business College

Also searched as: Dot Butcher; Dorothea Butcher; Dorothea L. Butcher; Butcher, Dorothea.

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Neighbours 9
Same surname 5
Classmates 415
Same schools 91

In context

Dorothea Louise Butcher is number 50 of 416 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 on this site. In the scan, Dorothea appears on page 40, in the first third of the run of 416 portraits read for this site (pages 27 to 134). Dorothea's “Business College” falls in the same group as 66 of the 343 plans printed for the class (19%): a business or secretarial school. Counting Dorothea, 18 people in the class are listed as coming from Roberts Grammar School. A college or university was the plan of 173 of 297 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1928 (58%), compared with 54% in 1927 and 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Arleen Katherine Byrne, Margaret Stella Cahill, Cathryn Mary Canavan
Same earlier school	Roberts Grammar School: 17 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 66 of 343 classmates with a plan (19%)

What Dorothea did at school

Room Committee, 1926–27–28

What the yearbook said

Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir’d.

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The class of 1928

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Others named Butcher

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Also came from Roberts Grammar School

Also headed for Business College

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 40. 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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