Cambridge High and Latin School

Helen Sheehan “Billy”

Helen Sheehan (“Billy”) is one of 424 graduates in the class of 1925 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1925 yearbook entry gives: headed for Lowell Normal School; activities listed: G. A. A; lived at 25 Marney Street.

Class of 1925

424 in the class of 1925 · 66 more named Sheehan

Full name: Helen Sheehan
Known as: Billy
Born: August 7, 1908
Lived at: 25 Marney Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Came from: Kelley Grammar School
Headed for: Lowell Normal School

Also searched as: Billy Sheehan; Sheehan, Helen.

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Clubs & teams 121
Neighbours 6
Same surname 61
Classmates 423
Same schools 47

In context

This site lists 424 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1925; sorted by surname, Helen comes 370th. On the scan, the entry sits on page 87, around the middle of the stretch from page 29 to page 137 where this site found the book's portraits. 148 people named Helen turn up in 15 Cambridge High and Latin School classes on this site, 1915 to 1930; 1924 has the most with 17. Among the 365 people in the class who printed a plan, 40 (11%) named a normal school or teachers college, as Helen did (“Lowell Normal School”). Of the 306 plans printed for the class of 1925 that name a kind of next step, 164 (54%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 50% in 1924 and 55% in 1926.

On the same scan page	Alice J. Sheehan, Mary Catherine Silk, Ida Silverman
Same earlier school	Kelley Grammar School: 11 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 40 of 365 classmates with a plan (11%)
Same first name	Helen: 10 other people in the class

At home, 25 Marney Street

The 1928 city directory lists Helen Sheehan with the occupation “teacher” (page).

The 1925 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Sheehan at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Robert Sheehan (wife Elizabeth), teamster householderpage

The Sheehan household is listed here in 1927 and 1928 too.

What Helen did at school

G. A. A. 522

Fellow members from Helen's own class:

What the yearbook said

A A.

Also grew up on Marney Street

The class of 1925

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Other people named Helen Sheehan in the archive

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Helen SheehanChelsea 1929

Others named Sheehan

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

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Also came from Kelley Grammar School

Also headed for Lowell Normal School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1925, page 87. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1925unse).

Published 1925, 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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