Cambridge High and Latin School

James Ranlett Ross “Chummy, Ran”

James Ranlett Ross (“Chummy, Ran”) is one of 483 graduates in the class of 1930 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1930 yearbook entry gives: headed for Mass. Nautical School, U. S. Naval Academy; activities listed: Crew and Baseball; lived at 111 Fresh Pond Parkway.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 80 more named Ross

Full name: James Ranlett Ross
Known as: Chummy, Ran
Lived at: 111 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Russell Grammar School
Headed for: Mass. Nautical School, U. S. Naval Academy

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Clubs & teams 16
Neighbours 9
Same surname 65
Classmates 482
Same schools 44

In context

483 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 appear on this site, and Ross puts James 386th among them. In the scan, James appears on page 98, in the last third of the run of 483 portraits read for this site (pages 21 to 118). The first name James appears 72 times in the 14 Cambridge High and Latin School classes read for this site (1917 to 1930). Counting James, 39 people in the class are listed as coming from Russell Grammar School. Of the 371 plans printed for the class of 1930 that name a kind of next step, 206 (56%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring class has 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Joseph Stephen Rogers, Samuel Hyman Rosenfield, Helene Anne Rosenquist, Mary Anne Ross
Same club	Baseball: 8 other classmates
Same earlier school	Russell Grammar School: 38 other classmates
Same first name	James: 8 other people in the class

What James did at school

Crew
Room Committee, 1928-29-30
Football, 1927-28; Captain 1929
Baseball 13
Editor of Athletics for Year Book
Senior Drama 24
Armistice Day Exercises

Fellow members from James's own class:

What the yearbook said

CHUMMY” “RAN” “A quiet sturdy pleasant boy, who in football he will win fame

A quiet sturdy pleasant boy, who in football won his name When he goes out into the world, we are sure he will win fame.

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The class of 1930

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Others named Ross

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Also came from Russell Grammar School

Also headed for Mass. Nautical School, U. S. Naval Academy

Walter J. BuckleyCambridge 1927

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 98. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1930unse).

Published 1930, 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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