Cambridge High and Latin School

Mary Gertrude Lawton “Cleo”

Class of 1930, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mary Gertrude Lawton (“Cleo”). The yearbook entry prints: came from St. Mary’s Grammar School; headed for Burdett College; lived at 245 Hampshire Street. Portrait and entry from the 1930 yearbook, page 73.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 15 more named Lawton

Full name: Mary Gertrude Lawton
Known as: Cleo
Lived at: 245 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: St. Mary’s Grammar School
Headed for: Burdett College

Also searched as: Cleo Lawton; Polly Lawton; Mary Lawton; Mary G. Lawton.

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Neighbours 32
Same surname 12
Classmates 482
Same schools 53

In context

Of the 483 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 read for this site, Mary's is 262nd alphabetically. On the scan, the entry sits on page 73, around the middle of the stretch from page 21 to page 118 where this site found the book's portraits. Of 430 classmates who gave a plan, 89 (21%) point to a business or secretarial school; Mary's entry says “Burdett College”. Mary is also the first name of 29 other people in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930. Count the first names and the class of 1930 gives Mary (30), Anna (14) and John (14), where the class of 1929 gives Mary (28), Margaret (17) and Helen (15).

On the same scan page	Leonard Lamkin, Alice Heyland Landrigan, Mary Therese Langton, Myrtle Edna Lawrence
Same street	Hampshire Street: 4 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 89 of 430 classmates with a plan (21%)
Same first name	Mary: 29 other people in the class

At home, 245 Hampshire Street

The 1930 city directory lists Mary Gertrude Lawton with the occupation “student” (page).

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

Joseph Lawton (wife Elizabeth), machinist householderpage
Mary Lawton, student lived herepage

What Mary did at school

Home Room Committee, 1927-28

What the yearbook said

Cleo’ may be naughty But she never is haughty

'Cleo' may be naughty But she never is haughty.

Also grew up on Hampshire Street

The class of 1930

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Others named Lawton

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Also came from St. Mary’s Grammar School

Also headed for Burdett College

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 73. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1930unse).

Published 1930, 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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