Cambridge High and Latin School

Margaret Mary Reardon “Pegacious”

Class of 1929, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Margaret Mary Reardon (“Pegacious”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Boston University; activities listed: G. A. A and Room Committee; lived at 18 Leonard Avenue. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 109.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 45 more named Reardon

Full name: Margaret Mary Reardon
Known as: Pegacious
Lived at: 18 Leonard Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Harvard School
Headed for: Boston University

Also searched as: Pegacious Reardon; Peggy Reardon; Margaret Reardon; Margaret M. Reardon.

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Clubs & teams 294
Neighbours 14
Same surname 44
Classmates 420
Same schools 293

In context

Of the 421 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 that have pages here, Margaret is 335th in surname order. Turning the scan to page 109 shows Margaret; the portraits we read from this book run from page 25 to page 132. Across 16 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School on this site, from 1914 to 1930, 144 people are named Margaret; the class of 1926 has the most, 19. Among the 364 people in the class who printed a plan, 174 (48%) named a college or university, as Margaret did (“Boston University”). A college or university was the plan of 174 of 308 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1929 (56%), compared with 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	David Ragolsky, Elisabeth Oritha Raspe, Eleanor Justine Reardon
Same earlier school	Harvard School: 30 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 174 of 364 classmates with a plan (48%)
Same first name	Margaret: 16 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 18 Leonard Avenue

The 1930 city directory lists Margaret Mary Reardon with the occupation “typist” (page).

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

John Reardon (wife Ellen), laborer householderpage
Maurice S Reardon (wife Ellen M), laborer householderpage
Catherine F Reardon, clerk lived herepage
Helen M Reardon, boxmkr lived herepage
John J Reardon, elect lived herepage
Margaret M Reardon, typist lived herepage
Thomas J Reardon, shpr lived herepage

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

What Margaret did at school

G. A. A. 522
Room Committee

Fellow members from Margaret's own class:

What the yearbook said

'Tis more to be good than to be great.

Also grew up on Leonard Avenue

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Also came from Harvard School

Also headed for Boston University

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 109. 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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