Cambridge High and Latin School

Mary E. O’Rourke “Mae”

Class of 1926, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mary E. O’Rourke (“Mae”). The yearbook entry prints: came from St. Peter’s School; headed for Lowell Normal School; lived at 6 Hutchinson Street. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 107.

Class of 1926

462 in the class of 1926 · 18 more named O’Rourke

Full name: Mary E. O’Rourke
Known as: Mae
Lived at: 6 Hutchinson Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: St. Peter’s School
Headed for: Lowell Normal School

Also searched as: Mae O’Rourke; Polly O’Rourke; Mary O’Rourke; Molly O’Rourke.

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Neighbours 5
Same surname 15
Classmates 461
Same schools 48

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 462 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926, Mary stands 333rd. On the scan, the entry sits on page 107, in the last third of the stretch from page 23 to page 140 where this site found the book's portraits. The first name Mary runs through 16 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School (1914 to 1930), 291 people in all, and is most common in 1930 (30). Of 388 classmates who gave a plan, 43 (11%) point to a normal school or teachers college; Mary's entry says “Lowell Normal School”. Plans for a college or university made up 55% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1926 (197 of 355), against 54% in 1925 and 54% in 1927.

On the same scan page	Anna Marie O’Neil, William F. O’Neil Jr., John Joseph O’Neill
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 43 of 388 classmates with a plan (11%)
Same first name	Mary: 28 other people in the class

What the yearbook said

In work and play There are few like Mae

Also grew up on Hutchinson Street

The class of 1926

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Others named O’Rourke

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

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Also came from St. Peter’s School

Also headed for Lowell Normal School

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 107. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1926unse).

Published 1926, 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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