Cambridge High and Latin School

Helen Gertrude Keefe “Curley”

Helen Gertrude Keefe (“Curley”), Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Burdett College; activities listed: G. A. A; lived at 37 Yerxa Road.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 36 more named Keefe

Full name: Helen Gertrude Keefe
Known as: Curley
Lived at: 37 Yerxa Road, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Ellis Grammar School
Headed for: Burdett College

Also searched as: Curley Keefe; Helen Keefe; Helen G. Keefe; Keefe, Helen.

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Household 1
Clubs & teams 126
Neighbours 2
Same surname 33
Classmates 458
Same schools 81

In context

Of the 459 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 read for this site, Helen's is 233rd alphabetically. Find Helen on page 88 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 are spread over pages 29 to 145. Helen did not arrive alone from Ellis Grammar School: 24 other graduates name it too. “Burdett College” is Helen's plan after graduation; 69 of 393 classmates with a printed plan (18%) named a business or secretarial school. The most common first names in the class of 1927 were Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14); in the class of 1928 they were Mary (21), Margaret (18) and John (16).

On the same scan page	Anna Elizabeth Keefe, Joseph P. Kelleher, Catherine B. Kelliher
Same earlier school	Ellis Grammar School: 24 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 69 of 393 classmates with a plan (18%)
Same first name	Helen: 6 other people in the class
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 37 Yerxa Road

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Madelyn Eleanor KeefeCambridge 1928

The 1926–27 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Keefe at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

John L Keefe (wife Ella), printer householderpage

The Keefe household is listed here in 1917, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1928 and 1930 too.

What Helen did at school

G. A. A. 522

Fellow members from Helen's own class:

What the yearbook said

Along the cool, sequestered vale of life She kept the noiseless tenor of her way.

Also grew up on Yerxa Road

The class of 1927

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Others named Keefe

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

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Also came from Ellis Grammar School

Also headed for Burdett College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 88. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1927unse).

Published 1927, 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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