Cambridge High and Latin School

Humphrey Nolen “Hump, Humph”

Humphrey Nolen (“Hump, Humph”) is one of 416 graduates in the class of 1928 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1928 yearbook entry gives: came from Peabody School; headed for Exeter, Harvard; lived at 10 Garden Terrace.

Class of 1928

416 in the class of 1928 · 6 more named Nolen

Full name: Humphrey Nolen
Known as: Hump, Humph
Lived at: 10 Garden Terrace, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: Peabody School
Headed for: Exeter, Harvard

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Household 2
Group photos 2
Neighbours 2
Same surname 1
Classmates 415
Same schools 34

In context

Humphrey Nolen is number 294 of 416 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 on this site. Find Humphrey on page 102 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 are spread over pages 27 to 134. Humphrey's plan is printed as “Exeter, Harvard”, which counts here as a college or university; 173 of the 343 classmates who named a plan (50%) named the same kind. The yearbook lists 21 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 as coming from Peabody School, including Humphrey. In the class of 1928, 58% of the plans we could classify (173 of 297) were a college or university; the neighbouring classes show 54% in 1927 and 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Stasia Stella Niemyski, Francis James Nolan, Hilda G. Norman
Same earlier school	Peabody School: 20 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 173 of 343 classmates with a plan (50%)

At home, 10 Garden Terrace

Same surname, same address — very likely brothers and sisters.

The 1930 city directory lists Humphrey Nolen with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1928 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Nolen at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

John Nolen (wife Barbara S), landseape archt householderpage

The Nolen household is listed here in 1918, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1927 and 1930 too.

Also pictured in group photographs

Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Humphrey's senior portrait.

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In the same photographs:

What Humphrey did at school

Room Committee, 1925–26–28
Manager of Crew, 1928
Year Book, 1928

What the yearbook said

No love of study him affects, He’s too fond of the opposite sex.

Also grew up on Garden Terrace

The class of 1928

All 416 in this class →

Others named Nolen

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

John Nolen JrHarvard College, Class of 1920 (Harvard Nineteen Twenty Class Album) 1920

Also came from Peabody School

Also headed for Exeter, Harvard

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Internet Archive other yearbooks, city directories and town reports that mention the name
Chronicling America digitized newspapers at the Library of Congress

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 102. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1928unse).

Published 1928, 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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