Cambridge High and Latin School

R. Whitney Pierce “Whit, Roddy”

Class of 1926, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: R. Whitney Pierce (“Whit, Roddy”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Agassiz School; headed for Harvard; lived at 294 Harvard Street. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 111.

Class of 1926

462 in the class of 1926 · 102 more named Pierce

Full name: R. Whitney Pierce
Known as: Whit, Roddy
Lived at: 294 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Agassiz School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Whitney Pierce; Pierce, Whitney.

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Neighbours 89
Same surname 82
Classmates 461
Same schools 250

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 from A to Z by surname, Whitney is the 346th of 462 names on this site. Find Whitney on page 111 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1926 are spread over pages 23 to 140. 87 Cambridge High and Latin School graduates, spread over 14 classes between 1917 and 1930, name Harvard Street. Whitney did not arrive alone from Agassiz School: 20 other classmates name it too. Of the 355 plans printed for the class of 1926 that name a kind of next step, 197 (55%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 54% in 1925 and 54% in 1927.

On the same scan page	Mary M. Plunkett, John Alvin Porteous, Rose A. Porter
Same street	Harvard Street: 8 other classmates
Same earlier school	Agassiz School: 20 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 197 of 388 classmates with a plan (51%)

What Whitney did at school

Chess Club, 1923-26
Literary Club, 1926
Mandolin Club, 1923
Year Book Staff, 1926
Debating Club, 1926

What the yearbook said

Pierce was as calm as the mildest June day, Nothing disturbed him from August to May!

Also grew up on Harvard Street

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 111. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1926unse).

Published 1926, 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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