Cambridge High and Latin School

Helen Gately “Gay”

Helen Gately (“Gay”) appears in the 1929 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 180 Magazine Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 6 more named Gately

Full name: Helen Gately
Known as: Gay
Lived at: 180 Magazine Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Morse School
Headed for: Emmanuel College

Also searched as: Gay Gately; Gately, Helen.

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Neighbours 48
Same surname 5
Classmates 420
Same schools 24

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 421 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929, Helen stands 141st. On the scan, the entry sits on page 60, in the first third of the stretch from page 25 to page 132 where this site found the book's portraits. From 1917 to 1930, 47 people in 13 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School give Magazine Street. College or university was the plan of 174 of the 364 classmates who printed one (48%), and Helen is listed with “Emmanuel College”. First names that recur in the class of 1929: Mary (28), Margaret (17) and Helen (15). In the class of 1930: Mary (30), Anna (14) and John (14).

On the same scan page	Rosalie E. Gallivan, Ethel Marguerite Gamester, Jossie Garnette
Same street	Magazine Street: 6 other classmates
Same earlier school	Morse School: 20 other classmates
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, 180 Magazine Street

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

John P Gately (wife Mary T), salesman householderpage

The Gately household is listed here in 1919, 1920, 1921, 1925, 1927 and 1928 too.

What Helen did at school

Room Committee, 1926-’27
Reception Committee, 1928-’29
K. B., 1927-’28-’29

What the yearbook said

A smile as cheery as a sunny clime.

Also grew up on Magazine Street

The class of 1929

All 421 in this class →

Others named Gately

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

Also came from Morse School

Also headed for Emmanuel College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 60. 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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