Cambridge High and Latin School

Edith Possick “Edie”

Class of 1929, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Edith Possick (“Edie”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Wellington School; headed for Business College; lived at 286 Windsor Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 105.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 1 more named Possick

Full name: Edith Possick
Known as: Edie
Lived at: 286 Windsor Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Wellington School
Headed for: Business College

Also searched as: Edie Possick; Possick, Edith.

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Neighbours 59
Classmates 420
Same schools 88

In context

Of the 421 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 read for this site, Edith's is 318th alphabetically. The entry is on page 105 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 25 to page 132. There are 6 people named Edith in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929; the entry on this page is one of them. The yearbook puts 5 people from the class on Windsor Street, Edith among them. 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	Kathleen Cecilia Porter, Lucy Agnes Portnova, Claire V. Powell
Same street	Windsor Street: 4 other classmates
Same earlier school	Wellington School: 17 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 70 of 364 classmates with a plan (19%)
Same first name	Edith: 5 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 286 Windsor Street

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

Harry Possick (wife Rebecea), furn householderpage
Myer Possick, upholg lived herepage
Yetta Possick, operator lived herepage

The Possick household is listed here in 1928 too.

What the yearbook said

If brains had money value, Edie would own half the United States.

Also grew up on Windsor Street

The class of 1929

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Also came from Wellington School

Also headed for Business College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 105. 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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