Cambridge High and Latin School

Mary Imelda McNamara “Melda, Midge, Mel”

Mary Imelda McNamara (“Melda, Midge, Mel”) appears in the 1928 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 37 Cowperthwaite Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1928

416 in the class of 1928 · 44 more named McNamara

Full name: Mary Imelda McNamara
Known as: Melda, Midge, Mel
Lived at: 37 Cowperthwaite Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: Saint Paul’s School
Headed for: Hospital Training

Also searched as: Polly McNamara; Mary McNamara; Mary I. McNamara; Molly McNamara.

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Clubs & teams 266
Neighbours 2
Same surname 42
Classmates 415
Same schools 14

In context

This site lists 416 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928; sorted by surname, Mary comes 275th. The entry is on page 93 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 27 to page 134. 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). Saint Paul’s School appears as the earlier school of 10 people in the class, Mary among them. 58% of the graduates in the class of 1928 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 54% in 1927 and 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Evelyn Margaret MacLeod, Kathleen May MacLeod, Gladys MacNabb
Same earlier school	Saint Paul’s School: 9 other classmates
Same kind of plan	nursing: 8 of 343 classmates with a plan (2%)
Same first name	Mary: 20 other people in the class

What Mary did at school

Cheer Leader
Home Room Committee, 1928
G. A. A. 522

Fellow members from Mary's own class:

What the yearbook said

She calls and calls each vagabond by name.

Also grew up on Cowperthwaite Street

The class of 1928

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Others named McNamara

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

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Also came from Saint Paul’s School

Also headed for Hospital Training

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 93. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1928unse).

Published 1928, 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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