Cambridge High and Latin School

Grosvenor Proctor “Gro, Smokey”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Grosvenor Proctor (“Gro, Smokey”) among 483 graduates in the class of 1930. The entry gives: came from Peabody Grammar School; headed for Harvard College and Medical School; lived at 1590 Massachusetts Avenue. Portrait and entry from the 1930 yearbook, page 95.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 35 more named Proctor

Full name: Grosvenor Proctor
Known as: Gro, Smokey
Lived at: 1590 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Peabody Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard College and Medical School

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Neighbours 125
Same surname 30
Classmates 482
Same schools 32

In context

This site lists 483 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930; sorted by surname, Grosvenor comes 368th. Turning the scan to page 95 shows Grosvenor; the portraits we read from this book run from page 21 to page 118. Grosvenor's “Harvard College and Medical School” falls in the same group as 206 of the 430 plans printed for the class (48%): a college or university. Across 15 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School on this site, 123 people give Massachusetts Avenue as a street, from 1915 to 1930. 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	Jessie Signa Ramberg, Laura Mae Ray, Henry David Reeves, Francis Joseph Regal
Same street	Massachusetts Avenue: 11 other classmates
Same earlier school	Peabody Grammar School: 30 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 206 of 430 classmates with a plan (48%)

At home, 1590 Massachusetts Avenue

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

George A Proctor (wife Julia G) householderpage

The Proctor household is listed here in 1925, 1927 and 1928 too.

What Grosvenor did at school

Home Room Committee, 1927-28
Class Notes Collector, 1927-28

What the yearbook said

Gro” “SMOKEY” “Smoky 1s a boy who'll stick to his job Here’s hoping his patients come in a mob

Smoky is a boy who'll stick to his job Here's hoping his patients come in a mob.

Also grew up on Massachusetts Avenue

The class of 1930

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Others named Proctor

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

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Also came from Peabody Grammar School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 95. 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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