Cambridge High and Latin School

Genevieve Rita May “Muffett”

Genevieve Rita May (“Muffett”) is one of 196 graduates in the class of 1918 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1918 yearbook entry gives: came from Harvard Grammar School; headed for Simmons; lived at 4 Trowbridge Place.

Class of 1918

196 in the class of 1918 · 21 more named May

Full name: Genevieve Rita May
Known as: Muffett
Lived at: 4 Trowbridge Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1918
Came from: Harvard Grammar School
Headed for: Simmons

Also searched as: Muffett May; Genevieve May; Genevieve R. May; May, Genevieve.

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Same surname 9
Classmates 195
Same schools 90

In context

196 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1918 appear on this site, and May puts Genevieve 116th among them. In the scan, Genevieve appears on page 28, around the middle of the run of 196 portraits read for this site (pages 12 to 39). Harvard Grammar School appears as the earlier school of 31 people in the class, Genevieve among them. Among the 102 people in the class who printed a plan, 42 (41%) named a college or university, as Genevieve did (“Simmons”). This site lists 196 names for the class of 1918, against 214 for 1917 and 237 for 1919.

On the same scan page	Grace Elizabeth MacGarvie, Robert Dana Mariner, Alice Thornbury Mason, Margaret Stewart McMurtrie and 3 more
Same earlier school	Harvard Grammar School: 30 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 42 of 102 classmates with a plan (41%)

At home, 4 Trowbridge Place

The 1921 city directory lists Genevieve Rita May with the occupation “clerk” (page).

The 1918 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named May at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Joseph J May (wife Genevive), ins Mass av householderpage
William H May, US N lived herepage

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

The class of 1918

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Others named May

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Also came from Harvard Grammar School

Also headed for Simmons

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1918, page 28. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1918unse).

Published 1918, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Cambridge Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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