Cambridge High and Latin School

Helen Frances Sorrentino “Sonny”

Class of 1929, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Helen Frances Sorrentino (“Sonny”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Boston University; activities listed: G. A. A; lived at 23 Irving Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 120.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 3 more named Sorrentino

Full name: Helen Frances Sorrentino
Known as: Sonny
Lived at: 23 Irving Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: St. Paul’s School
Headed for: Boston University

Also searched as: Sonny Sorrentino; Helen Sorrentino; Helen F. Sorrentino; Sorrentino, Helen.

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Clubs & teams 294
Neighbours 15
Same surname 2
Classmates 420
Same schools 309

In context

Of the 421 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 that have pages here, Helen is 374th in surname order. In the scan, Helen appears on page 120, in the last third of the run of 421 portraits read for this site (pages 25 to 132). There are 15 people named Helen in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929; the entry on this page is one of them. Helen's “Boston University” falls in the same group as 174 of the 364 plans printed for the class (48%): a college or university. A college or university was the plan of 174 of 308 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1929 (56%), compared with 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Mary Dorothy Souza, Elizabeth Wright Sparks, William H. Squires
Same kind of plan	college or university: 174 of 364 classmates with a plan (48%)
Same first name	Helen: 14 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 23 Irving Street

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

Charles A Sorrentino (wife Rose), engineer householderpage
Peter A Sorrentino, student M I T lived herepage

What Helen did at school

G. A. A. 522
Room Committee, 1926
Baseball, 1927

Fellow members from Helen's own class:

What the yearbook said

Studious and merry, honest and true, Who wants a better friend than you?

Also grew up on Irving Street

The class of 1929

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Others named Sorrentino

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

Also came from St. Paul’s School

Also headed for Boston University

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 120. 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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