Cambridge High and Latin School

Miriam D. Berkman “Mim”

Miriam D. Berkman (“Mim”) was one of 459 graduates in the class of 1927 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Fletcher Grammar School; headed for Radcliffe; lived at 205 Harvard Street. Portrait and entry from the Golden Treasury, page 35.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 4 more named Berkman

Full name: Miriam D. Berkman
Known as: Mim
Lived at: 205 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Fletcher Grammar School
Headed for: Radcliffe

Also searched as: Mim Berkman; Miriam Berkman; Berkman, Miriam.

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Group photos 8
Neighbours 89
Same surname 3
Classmates 458
Same schools 78

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 459 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927, Miriam stands 25th. In the scan, Miriam appears on page 35, right at the start of the run of 459 portraits read for this site (pages 29 to 145). Over 14 classes from 1917 to 1930, Harvard Street is the street of 87 Cambridge High and Latin School graduates on this site. Harvard Street is the street of 14 other classmates of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 besides Miriam. A college or university was the plan of 191 of 355 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1927 (54%), compared with 55% in 1926 and 58% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Peter Beshgetur, William Bielinski, Dorothy Marjorie Biggane
Same street	Harvard Street: 14 other classmates
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, 205 Harvard Street

The 1928 city directory lists Miriam D. Berkman with the occupation “student M I T” (page).

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

Joseph Berkman (wife Anna), salesman householderpage

The Berkman household is listed here in 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1928 too.

Also pictured in group photographs

Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Miriam's senior portrait.

The Review1927

In the same photographs:

What Miriam did at school

G. A. A., 1924–25
French Club, 1926–27
Review Staff, 1927

What the yearbook said

Thou art a candle to the sun.

Also grew up on Harvard Street

The class of 1927

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Others named Berkman

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

Also came from Fletcher Grammar School

Also headed for Radcliffe

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 35. 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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