Cambridge High and Latin School

Elizabeth Eleanor Purcell “Betty”

Class of 1926, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elizabeth Eleanor Purcell (“Betty”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Radcliffe; activities listed: Home Economics Club; lived at 57½ Tremont Street. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 114.

Class of 1926

462 in the class of 1926 · 9 more named Purcell

Full name: Elizabeth Eleanor Purcell
Known as: Betty
Lived at: 57½ Tremont Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Thorndike Grammar School
Headed for: Radcliffe

Also searched as: Betty Purcell; Elizabeth Purcell; Elizabeth E. Purcell; Beth Purcell.

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Clubs & teams 10
Neighbours 33
Same surname 5
Classmates 461
Same schools 66

In context

This site lists 462 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926; sorted by surname, Elizabeth comes 358th. In the scan, Elizabeth appears on page 114, in the last third of the run of 462 portraits read for this site (pages 23 to 140). 8 people in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 are called Elizabeth. Elizabeth is one of 6 in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 whose entry names Thorndike Grammar School as the school they came from. This site lists 462 names for the class of 1926, against 424 for 1925 and 459 for 1927.

On the same scan page	Phillip A. Raspe, Stephen Francis Regal, Florence Catherine Ricard
Same club	Home Economics Club: 6 other classmates
Same earlier school	Thorndike Grammar School: 5 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 197 of 388 classmates with a plan (51%)
Same first name	Elizabeth: 7 other people in the class

What Elizabeth did at school

G. A. A., 1923
Home Economics Club 18

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Also headed for Radcliffe

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 114. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1926unse).

Published 1926, 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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