Cambridge High and Latin School

Maurice Wantman “Maurie”

Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed Maurice Wantman (“Maurie”) among 459 graduates in the class of 1927. The entry gives: headed for Harvard; activities listed: Spanish Club; lived at 88 Hampshire Street. Portrait and entry from the Golden Treasury, page 141.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 7 more named Wantman

Full name: Maurice Wantman
Known as: Maurie
Lived at: 88 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Fletcher Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Maurie Wantman; Wantman, Maurice.

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Household 2
Neighbours 30
Same surname 4
Classmates 458
Same schools 322

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 459 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927, Maurice stands 439th. Turning the scan to page 141 shows Maurice; the portraits we read from this book run from page 29 to page 145. College or university was the plan of 191 of the 393 classmates who printed one (49%), and Maurice is listed with “Harvard”. The first name Maurice runs through 12 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School (1914 to 1930), 19 people in all. First names that recur in the class of 1927: Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14). In the class of 1926: Mary (29), John (24) and Margaret (19).

On the same scan page	Elizabeth Isabel Warnock, Evelyn Gladys Warnock, Louis Robert Wasserman
Same earlier school	Fletcher Grammar School: 17 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 191 of 393 classmates with a plan (49%)
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 88 Hampshire Street

Same surname, same address — very likely brothers and sisters.

The 1926–27 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Wantman at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Jacob Wantman (wife Bessie), fum householderpage
James Wantman (wife Bessie), peddler householderpage
Bernard Wantman, student H U lived herepage

The Wantman household is listed here in 1925 and 1928 too.

What Maurice did at school

Spanish Club

What the yearbook said

A youth of labor with an age of ease.

Also grew up on Hampshire Street

The class of 1927

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Others named Wantman

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

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Also came from Fletcher Grammar School

Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 141. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1927unse).

Published 1927, 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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