Cambridge High and Latin School

Jeannette May Peters “Sis”

Jeannette May Peters (“Sis”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 4 Hingham Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 44 more named Peters

Full name: Jeannette May Peters
Known as: Sis
Lived at: 4 Hingham Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Houghton Grammar School
Headed for: Stenographer

Also searched as: Sis Peters; Jeannette Peters; Jeannette M. Peters; Peters, Jeannette.

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Household 1
Clubs & teams 126
Neighbours 1
Same surname 31
Classmates 458
Same schools 134

In context

459 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 appear on this site, and Peters puts Jeannette 351st among them. Find Jeannette on page 118 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. Jeannette's “Stenographer” falls in the same group as 41 of the 393 plans printed for the class (10%): going to work. 7 other classmates came from Houghton Grammar School, the school Jeannette is listed as coming from. 54% of the graduates in the class of 1927 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 55% in 1926 and 58% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Peter Alexander Pertzoff, Lewis William Peters, Grayce Louise Peterson
Same earlier school	Houghton Grammar School: 7 other classmates
Same kind of plan	work: 41 of 393 classmates with a plan (10%)
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 4 Hingham Street

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

Lewis William PetersCambridge 1927

The 1921 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Peters at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Annie Peters, Mrs householderpage

The Peters household is listed here in 1920 too.

What Jeannette did at school

G. A. A. 522

Fellow members from Jeannette's own class:

What the yearbook said

Patience and virtue are her hand maidens.

Also grew up on Hingham Street

Emeline C. DottinCambridge 1921

The class of 1927

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Others named Peters

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

All 44 people named Peters →

Also came from Houghton Grammar School

Also headed for Stenographer

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 118. 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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