Cambridge High and Latin School

Frances Alice Curry “Dera”

Frances Alice Curry (“Dera”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 92 Wendell Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 24 more named Curry

Full name: Frances Alice Curry
Known as: Dera
Lived at: 92 Wendell Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: St. Paul’s School
Headed for: Normal School

Also searched as: Dera Curry; Fran Curry; Frances Curry; Frances A. Curry.

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Household 5
Neighbours 38
Same surname 14
Classmates 458
Same schools 114

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 from A to Z by surname, Frances is the 103rd of 459 names on this site. Frances is printed on page 55 of the scan, in the first third of the 29-to-145 run of portrait pages. Frances was not alone on Wendell Street: 6 other classmates list it too. Frances's “Normal School” falls in the same group as 30 of the 393 plans printed for the class (8%): a normal school or teachers college. Of the 355 plans printed for the class of 1927 that name a kind of next step, 191 (54%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 55% in 1926 and 58% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Elizabeth Margaret Cummings, Margaret Gertrude Daley
Same street	Wendell Street: 6 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 30 of 393 classmates with a plan (8%)
Same first name	Frances: 7 other people in the class
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 92 Wendell Street

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

The 1930 city directory lists Frances Alice Curry with the occupation “student” (page).

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

Hugh Curry (wife Alice B), clerk P householderpage
Anna B Curry, teacher Lowell sch lived herepage
Helen G Curry, clerk lived herepage
John R Curry, student lived herepage
Margaret L Curry, typist lived herepage
Mary C Curry, stenographer lived herepage

The Curry household is listed here in 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1925, 1928 and 1930 too.

What the yearbook said

How brilliant and mirthful the light of her eye, Like a star glancing out from the blue of the sky.

Also grew up on Wendell Street

The class of 1927

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Other people named Frances Alice Curry in the archive

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Frances Alice CurryFitchburg Normal School 1931

Others named Curry

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

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Also came from St. Paul’s School

Also headed for Normal School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 55. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1927unse).

Published 1927, 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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