Cambridge High and Latin School

Ethelinda Best “Lindy”

Ethelinda Best (“Lindy”) was one of 483 graduates in the class of 1930 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Webster Grammar School; lived at 559 Massachusetts Avenue; a motto. Portrait and entry from the 1930 yearbook, page 25.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 15 more named Best

Full name: Ethelinda Best
Known as: Lindy
Lived at: 559 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Webster Grammar School

Also searched as: Lindy Best; Best, Ethelinda.

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Neighbours 125
Same surname 11
Classmates 482
Same schools 57

In context

Of the 483 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 read for this site, Ethelinda's is 23rd alphabetically. Find Ethelinda on page 25 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 are spread over pages 21 to 118. Neighbours on paper: 11 classmates share Massachusetts Avenue with Ethelinda. From 1915 to 1930, 123 people in 15 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School give Massachusetts Avenue. Of the 371 plans printed for the class of 1930 that name a kind of next step, 206 (56%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring class has 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Gertrude S. Berley, Bennie Berman, Richard Folsom Bickford
Same street	Massachusetts Avenue: 11 other classmates
Same earlier school	Webster Grammar School: 46 other classmates

What the yearbook said

LINDY” She is everyone’s delight

Regular, plain, and bright She is everyone's delight

Also grew up on Massachusetts Avenue

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Also came from Webster Grammar School

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 25. 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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