Cambridge High and Latin School

Elizabeth Frances Collins “Betty”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Elizabeth Frances Collins (“Betty”) among 366 graduates in the class of 1924. The entry gives: headed for Business College; activities listed: G. A. A and Spanish Club; lived at 211 Green Street. Portrait and entry from the 1924 yearbook, page 42.

Class of 1924

366 in the class of 1924 · 154 more named Collins

Full name: Elizabeth Frances Collins
Known as: Betty
Born: November 2, 1906
Lived at: 211 Green Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1924
Came from: St. Peter’s School
Headed for: Business College

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Clubs & teams 150
Neighbours 39
Same surname 129
Classmates 365
Same schools 71

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1924 from A to Z by surname, Elizabeth is the 63rd of 366 names on this site. Elizabeth is printed on page 42 of the scan, in the first third of the 29-to-122 run of portrait pages. Between 1915 and 1930, 10 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School on this site include someone named Collins: 17 people altogether. Of 296 classmates who gave a plan, 43 (15%) point to a business or secretarial school; Elizabeth's entry says “Business College”. A college or university was the plan of 123 of 244 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1924 (50%), compared with 55% in 1923 and 54% in 1925.

On the same scan page	Genevieve L. Coles, Catherine May Adrian Collins, Mary Ellen Collins
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 43 of 296 classmates with a plan (15%)

At home, 211 Green Street

The 1927 city directory lists Elizabeth Frances Collins with the occupation “clerk” (page).

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

Elizabeth F Collins, clerk lived herepage

The Collins household is listed here in 1928 and 1930 too.

What Elizabeth did at school

G. A. A. 522
Spanish Club

Fellow members from Elizabeth's own class:

What the yearbook said

G. A. A.

Also grew up on Green Street

The class of 1924

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Others named Collins

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Also came from St. Peter’s School

Also headed for Business College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1924, page 42. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1924unse).

Published 1924, 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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