Cambridge High and Latin School

Maryrita Phelan “Babe, Smiles”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Maryrita Phelan (“Babe, Smiles”) among 483 graduates in the class of 1930. The entry gives: headed for Salem Normal School; activities listed: K. B. Club and Year Book Committee; lived at 53 Belmont Street. Portrait and entry from the 1930 yearbook, page 93.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 13 more named Phelan

Full name: Maryrita Phelan
Known as: Babe, Smiles
Lived at: 53 Belmont Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Haggerty Grammar School
Headed for: Salem Normal School

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Clubs & teams 234
Neighbours 9
Same surname 10
Classmates 482
Same schools 35

In context

Of the 483 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 that have pages here, Maryrita is 359th in surname order. Maryrita's portrait is on scan page 93, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 21 to 118. The yearbook lists 13 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 as coming from Haggerty Grammar School, including Maryrita. Maryrita's plan is printed as “Salem Normal School”, which counts here as a normal school or teachers college; 33 of the 430 classmates who named a plan (8%) named the same kind. 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	Anna Petruzys, Pauline A. Pishkin, Eugene H. Poltorak, Eleanor B. Potter
Same earlier school	Haggerty Grammar School: 12 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 33 of 430 classmates with a plan (8%)

What Maryrita did at school

K. B. Club
Home Room Committee, 1927-28-30
Choir, 1929
Year Book Committee
Orchestra 1927-28-29-30
G. A. A. 522
Dramatic Editor of Year Book

Fellow members from Maryrita's own class:

What the yearbook said

Her hair was not more sunny than her heart

Also grew up on Belmont Street

The class of 1930

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Others named Phelan

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Also came from Haggerty Grammar School

Also headed for Salem Normal School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 93. 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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