Cambridge High and Latin School

Dorothy Frances Skelley “Dot”

Dorothy Frances Skelley (“Dot”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 69 Thorndike Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 3 more named Skelley

Full name: Dorothy Frances Skelley
Known as: Dot
Lived at: 69 Thorndike Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Sacred Heart School
Headed for: Boston University

Also searched as: Dot Skelley; Dorothy Skelley; Dorothy F. Skelley; Dottie Skelley.

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Household 1
Neighbours 34
Same surname 1
Classmates 458
Same schools 298

In context

Of the 459 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 read for this site, Dorothy's is 392nd alphabetically. Dorothy is printed on page 129 of the scan, in the last third of the 29-to-145 run of portrait pages. College or university was the plan of 191 of the 393 classmates who printed one (49%), and Dorothy is listed with “Boston University”. Sacred Heart School appears as the earlier school of 10 people in the class, Dorothy among them. The class of 1927: 54% of classifiable plans point to a college or university, versus 55% in 1926 and 58% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Sarah Silverman, Ethel Frances Small, Ethel Smith
Same earlier school	Sacred Heart School: 9 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 191 of 393 classmates with a plan (49%)
Same first name	Dorothy: 9 other people in the class
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 69 Thorndike Street

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

Eleanor Louise SkelleyCambridge 1926

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

Wm R Skelley (wife Annie J), prsmn householderpage

The Skelley household is listed here in 1920 too.

What Dorothy did at school

G. A. A., 1924–25

What the yearbook said

Who practiced what she preached without pretence, The first of Yankee virtues, Common Sense.

Also grew up on Thorndike Street

The class of 1927

All 459 in this class →

Others named Skelley

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

Edna T. M. SkelleyCambridge 1930

Also came from Sacred Heart School

Also headed for Boston University

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 129. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1927unse).

Published 1927, 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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