Cambridge High and Latin School

Gertrude Elaine Burns “Gertie, Burnsie”

Class of 1930, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Gertrude Elaine Burns (“Gertie, Burnsie”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Salem Normal; activities listed: Home Room and Home Economics Club; lived at 34 Fairmont Avenue. Portrait and entry from the 1930 yearbook, page 30.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 111 more named Burns

Full name: Gertrude Elaine Burns
Known as: Gertie, Burnsie
Lived at: 34 Fairmont Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Webster Grammar School
Headed for: Salem Normal

Also searched as: Gertie Burns; Gertrude Burns; Gertrude E. Burns; Burns, Gertrude.

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Neighbours 4
Same surname 88
Classmates 482
Same schools 69

In context

483 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 appear on this site, and Burns puts Gertrude 48th among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 30, right at the start of the stretch from page 21 to page 118 where this site found the book's portraits. Burns, Gertrude's surname, belongs to 5 members of the class: the most common surname. The first name Gertrude runs through 15 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School (1915 to 1930), 54 people in all. In the class of 1930 the first names most often shared were Mary (30), Anna (14) and John (14); the class of 1929 had Mary (28), Margaret (17) and Helen (15).

On the same scan page	Jerome Charles Buckley, Margaret Mary Buckley, Dolly Parks Burgess, Elizabeth Sara Burns
Same earlier school	Webster Grammar School: 46 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 33 of 430 classmates with a plan (8%)
Same first name	Gertrude: 6 other people in the class

What Gertrude did at school

G. A. A., 1926-30
Home Room
Home Economics Club
Baseball, 1926-30
Class Notes Collector

What the yearbook said

GERTIE” “BURNSIE” “From the crown of her head, to the sole of her foot she is all mirth

From the crown of her head, to the sole of her foot she is all mirth.

Also grew up on Fairmont Avenue

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Others named Burns

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Also came from Webster Grammar School

Also headed for Salem Normal

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 30. 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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