Cambridge High and Latin School

Dorothy Mildred Wexler “Dot Dotty”

Dorothy Mildred Wexler (“Dot Dotty”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 122 Trowbridge 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 · 13 more named Wexler

Full name: Dorothy Mildred Wexler
Known as: Dot Dotty
Lived at: 122 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Wellington Grammar School
Headed for: Normal School

Also searched as: Dot Wexler; Dorothy Wexler; Dorothy M. Wexler; Dottie Wexler.

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Group photos 6
Neighbours 53
Same surname 12
Classmates 458
Same schools 102

In context

Dorothy Mildred Wexler is number 448 of 459 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 on this site. In the scan, Dorothy appears on page 143, near the end of the run of 459 portraits read for this site (pages 29 to 145). From 1914 to 1930, 96 Cambridge High and Latin School graduates on this site share the first name Dorothy, spread over 16 classes and peaking at 10 in 1927. Among the 393 people in the class who printed a plan, 30 (8%) named a normal school or teachers college, as Dorothy did (“Normal School”). In the class of 1927 the first names most often shared were Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14); the class of 1926 had Mary (29), John (24) and Margaret (19).

On the same scan page	Irving Wermont, Charlotte Elizabeth Whaley, Anna Louise White
Same street	Trowbridge Street: 6 other classmates
Same earlier school	Wellington Grammar School: 20 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 30 of 393 classmates with a plan (8%)
Same first name	Dorothy: 9 other people in the class
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 122 Trowbridge Street

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

Max Wexler (wife Miary), gas worker householderpage
Charles R Wexler lived herepage

Also pictured in group photographs

Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Dorothy's senior portrait.

Le Cercle Francais1927

In the same photographs:

What Dorothy did at school

Baseball, 1924
French Club, 1925–26
Room Committee, 1925

What the yearbook said

Always smiling, always happy, Dotty is a merry maid. Tiny, good-natured, and jolly, Who can count the friends she’s made?

Also grew up on Trowbridge Street

The class of 1927

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Others named Wexler

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

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Also came from Wellington Grammar School

Also headed for Normal School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 143. 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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