Cambridge High and Latin School

Lee Wadsworth Carrington “Slim Fess”

Lee Wadsworth Carrington (“Slim Fess”), Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Massachusetts College of Pharmacy; activities listed: Basketball; lived at 28 Myrtle Avenue.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 4 more named Carrington

Full name: Lee Wadsworth Carrington
Known as: Slim Fess
Lived at: 28 Myrtle Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Harvard School
Headed for: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy

Also searched as: Lee Carrington; Lee W. Carrington; Carrington, Lee.

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Household 1
Group photos 8
Clubs & teams 12
Neighbours 9
Same surname 2
Classmates 420
Same schools 45

In context

Of the 421 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 read for this site, Lee's is 57th alphabetically. Find Lee on page 39 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 are spread over pages 25 to 132. In the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929, 10 entries mention “Basketball”; Lee's is one of them. Harvard School appears as the earlier school of 31 people in the class, Lee among them. Plans for a college or university made up 56% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1929 (174 of 308), against 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Anne Virginia Carter, Carolina Vivien Ciani, Jean Ainslie Clark
Same club	Basketball: 9 other classmates
Same earlier school	Harvard School: 30 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 174 of 364 classmates with a plan (48%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 28 Myrtle Avenue

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

Joyce Symmes CarringtonCambridge 1924

The 1930 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Carrington at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Moses L Carrington (wife Mary J), porter householderpage
Joyee F Carrington, student lived herepage
Robert R Carrington, chef lived herepage

The Carrington household is listed here in 1919, 1921, 1925, 1927 and 1928 too.

Also pictured in group photographs

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

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What Lee did at school

Manager Track Team, 1927-’28
Manager Cross Country Team, 1927
Basketball 14

Fellow members from Lee's own class:

What the yearbook said

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

Also grew up on Myrtle Avenue

The class of 1929

All 421 in this class →

Others named Carrington

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

Also came from Harvard School

Also headed for Massachusetts College of Pharmacy

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 39. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1929unse).

Published 1929, 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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