Cambridge High and Latin School

Peter Beshgetur “Pete MacTavish”

Peter Beshgetur (“Pete MacTavish”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 73 Dana Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 1 more named Beshgetur

Full name: Peter Beshgetur
Known as: Pete MacTavish
Lived at: 73 Dana Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Harvard Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard

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Group photos 2
Neighbours 31
Classmates 458
Same schools 380

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 from A to Z by surname, Peter is the 26th of 459 names on this site. Turning the scan to page 35 shows Peter; the portraits we read from this book run from page 29 to page 145. Peter did not arrive alone from Harvard Grammar School: 38 other graduates name it too. In the 5 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School between 1923 and 1930 that this site covers, 10 people have the first name Peter. The most common first names in the class of 1927 were Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14); in the class of 1926 they were Mary (29), John (24) and Margaret (19).

On the same scan page	Miriam D. Berkman, William Bielinski, Dorothy Marjorie Biggane
Same earlier school	Harvard Grammar School: 38 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 191 of 393 classmates with a plan (49%)
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

Also pictured in group photographs

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

Cross Country1927

In the same photographs:

What Peter did at school

Room Committee, 1923
Cross Country, 1924–25–26–27

What the yearbook said

He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Also grew up on Dana Street

The class of 1927

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Also came from Harvard Grammar School

Also headed for Harvard

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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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