Cambridge High and Latin School

Ernest P. Touchette “King Tut”

Class of 1923, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ernest P. Touchette (“King Tut”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Roberts Grammar School; lived at 1 Coolidge Place; born in 1906. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 114.

Class of 1923

319 in the class of 1923 · 5 more named Touchette

Full name: Ernest P. Touchette
Known as: King Tut
Born: September 15, 1906
Lived at: 1 Coolidge Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Came from: Roberts Grammar School
Headed for: Will enter Business

Also searched as: Ernest Touchette; Touchette, Ernest.

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Household 1
Same surname 3
Classmates 318
Same schools 24

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 319 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1923, Ernest stands 299th. Ernest is printed on page 114 of the scan, near the end of the 39-to-119 run of portrait pages. Ernest did not arrive alone from Roberts Grammar School: 10 other classmates name it too. Ernest's plan is printed as “Will enter Business”, which counts here as going to work; 24 of the 253 classmates who named a plan (9%) named the same kind. Count the first names and the class of 1923 gives Mary (21), John (13) and Anna (10), where the class of 1922 gives Mary (19), Helen (10) and John (10).

On the same scan page	Anna Marie Tobin, Joseph Edward Troiano, Zabel D. Tufenkjian
Same earlier school	Roberts Grammar School: 10 other classmates
Same kind of plan	work: 24 of 253 classmates with a plan (9%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 1 Coolidge Place

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Charles Philip TouchetteCambridge 1919

The 1925 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Touchette at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Simeon Touchette (wife Marie), wood finisher householderpage
Simeon Touchette Jr., shipwkr lived herepage

The Touchette household is listed here in 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921 too.

What Ernest did at school

Get-together Committee, 1921

What the yearbook said

HE LAUGHS AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH HE STUDIES, BUT STUDIES ALONE

He laughs and the world laughs with him, he studies, but studies alone.

The class of 1923

All 319 in this class →

Others named Touchette

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

Also came from Roberts Grammar School

Also headed for Will enter Business

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1923, page 114. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1923unse).

Published 1923, 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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