Cambridge High and Latin School

Elizabeth Lillian Yassin “Betty, Bet”

Elizabeth Lillian Yassin (“Betty, Bet”) is one of 483 graduates in the class of 1930 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1930 yearbook entry gives: headed for Secretarial School; activities listed: G. A. A; lived at 122 Hancock Street.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 3 more named Yassin

Full name: Elizabeth Lillian Yassin
Known as: Betty, Bet
Lived at: 122 Hancock Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Harvard Grammar School
Headed for: Secretarial School

Also searched as: Betty Yassin; Elizabeth Yassin; Elizabeth L. Yassin; Beth Yassin.

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Household 2
Clubs & teams 234
Neighbours 31
Classmates 482
Same schools 57

In context

This site lists 483 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930; sorted by surname, Elizabeth comes 481st. Elizabeth's portrait is on scan page 118, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 21 to 118. The name Elizabeth appears 9 times among the 483 names on this site from the class. Business or secretarial school was the plan of 89 of the 430 classmates who printed one (21%), and Elizabeth is listed with “Secretarial School”. Among first names, the class of 1930 favours Mary (30), Anna (14) and John (14); the class of 1929 had Mary (28), Margaret (17) and Helen (15).

On the same scan page	Josephine Mary Zappala
Same earlier school	Harvard Grammar School: 46 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 89 of 430 classmates with a plan (21%)
Same first name	Elizabeth: 8 other people in the class

At home, 122 Hancock Street

Same surname, same address — very likely brothers and sisters.

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

Harry Yassin (wife Ida), uphol householderpage
Annie Yassin lived herepage
Frances Yassin, student lived herepage
Isadore Yassin lived herepage
Mary Yassin, stenographer lived herepage

The Yassin household is listed here in 1927 and 1928 too.

What Elizabeth did at school

G. A. A. 522

Fellow members from Elizabeth's own class:

What the yearbook said

BETTY” “Ber” “T’m hard to catch and hard to tame I got no brand and wish no fame

I'm hard to catch and hard to tame I got no brand and wish no fame.

Also grew up on Hancock Street

The class of 1930

All 483 in this class →

Also came from Harvard Grammar School

Also headed for Secretarial School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 118. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1930unse).

Published 1930, 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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