Cambridge High and Latin School

Priscilla Gurney Callan “Cat-Cat”

Class of 1923, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Priscilla Gurney Callan (“Cat-Cat”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Wisconsin High School; headed for Radcliffe; lived at 63 Garden Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 45.

Class of 1923

319 in the class of 1923 · 5 more named Callan

Full name: Priscilla Gurney Callan
Known as: Cat-Cat
Born: October 11, 1906
Lived at: 63 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Came from: Wisconsin High School
Headed for: Radcliffe

Also searched as: Priscilla Callan; Priscilla G. Callan; Callan, Priscilla.

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Household 1
Neighbours 8
Same surname 3
Classmates 318
Same schools 35

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1923 from A to Z by surname, Priscilla is the 25th of 319 names on this site. Priscilla is printed on page 45 of the scan, right at the start of the 39-to-119 run of portrait pages. “Radcliffe” is Priscilla's plan after graduation; 119 of 253 classmates with a printed plan (47%) named a college or university. The most common first names in the class of 1923 were Mary (21), John (13) and Anna (10); in the class of 1922 they were Mary (19), Helen (10) and John (10). The volume is titled “The Cambridge Review”, as read from its opening pages.

On the same scan page	Ives Albert Busnel, Rose E. Cain, Louise Cammarano
Same kind of plan	college or university: 119 of 253 classmates with a plan (47%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 63 Garden Street

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Priscilla G. CallanCambridge 1922

The 1925 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Callan at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Rosalie D Callan, student R Coll lived herepage

The Callan household is listed here in 1921 too.

What the yearbook said

Cat-Cat” “TO RADCLIFFE PRISCILLA INTENDS TO GO AT WINNING HONORS SHE’LL NEVER BE SLOW

To Radcliffe Priscilla intends to go at winning honors she’ll never be slow.

Also grew up on Garden Street

The class of 1923

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Others named Callan

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

Also headed for Radcliffe

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1923, page 45. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1923unse).

Published 1923, 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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