Cambridge High and Latin School

Leslie Flaksman “Les”

Leslie Flaksman (“Les”) is one of 366 graduates in the class of 1924 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1924 yearbook entry gives: came from Roberts Grammar School; headed for Harvard; lived at 693 Main Street.

Class of 1924

366 in the class of 1924 · 1 more named Flaksman

Full name: Leslie Flaksman
Known as: Les
Born: May 10, 1907
Lived at: 693 Main Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1924
Came from: Roberts Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Les Flaksman; Flaksman, Leslie.

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Neighbours 10
Classmates 365
Same schools 168

In context

Of the 366 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1924 read for this site, Leslie's is 121st alphabetically. Leslie's portrait is on scan page 55, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 29 to 122. Among the 296 people in the class who printed a plan, 123 (42%) named a college or university, as Leslie did (“Harvard”). Leslie did not arrive alone from Roberts Grammar School: 13 other classmates name it too. Of the 244 plans printed for the class of 1924 that name a kind of next step, 123 (50%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 55% in 1923 and 54% in 1925.

On the same scan page	W. Frank Fitzgerald, Mary Gertrude Fitzmaurice, Mary Fitzpatrick
Same earlier school	Roberts Grammar School: 13 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 123 of 296 classmates with a plan (42%)

At home, 693 Main Street

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

Jacob Fla'ksman, ((Bessie) tailor householderpage

The Flaksman household is listed here in 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921 too.

What Leslie did at school

Glee Club, 1921-22-23-24
Choir, 1923-24
“Pirates of Penzance,” 1921
Glee Club Contest vs. Rindge, 1922
“Chimes of Normandy,” 1923

What the yearbook said

dues” “Pirates of Penzance,” 1921 “Chimes of Normandy,” 197?

Also grew up on Main Street

The class of 1924

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Also came from Roberts Grammar School

Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1924, page 55. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1924unse).

Published 1924, 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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