Cambridge High and Latin School

Frances Appleton Humphreys “Pranny”

Frances Appleton Humphreys (“Pranny”), Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The entry prints: came from Agassiz School; headed for The Wheelock School, Boston; lived at 61 Garfield Street.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 11 more named Humphreys

Full name: Frances Appleton Humphreys
Known as: Pranny
Lived at: 61 Garfield Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Agassiz School
Headed for: The Wheelock School, Boston

Also searched as: Pranny Humphreys; Fran Humphreys; Frances Humphreys; Frances A. Humphreys.

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Neighbours 18
Same surname 7
Classmates 420
Same schools 27

In context

This site lists 421 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929; sorted by surname, Frances comes 189th. Find Frances on page 72 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 are spread over pages 25 to 132. Frances has 7 first-name namesakes in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929. Frances's “The Wheelock School, Boston” falls in the same group as 22 of the 364 plans printed for the class (6%): a normal school or teachers college. Plans for a college or university made up 56% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1929 (174 of 308), against 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Mary Jean Holden, Alma Louise Hollingsworth, Arthur Blair Hoyt
Same earlier school	Agassiz School: 20 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 22 of 364 classmates with a plan (6%)
Same first name	Frances: 7 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 61 Garfield Street

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

Henry C Humphreys, bonds lived herepage

What the yearbook said

Industry is a lodestone to draw all good things.

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Also came from Agassiz School

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 72. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1929unse).

Published 1929, 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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