Cambridge High and Latin School

Richard Whiting Grover “Dick, Prof”

Richard Whiting Grover (“Dick, Prof”) was one of 366 graduates in the class of 1924 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for Harvard; activities listed: Tennis and Baseball; lived at 33 Hurlburt Street. Portrait and entry from the 1924 yearbook, page 62.

Class of 1924

366 in the class of 1924 · 12 more named Grover

Full name: Richard Whiting Grover
Known as: Dick, Prof
Born: January 14, 1907
Lived at: 33 Hurlburt Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1924
Came from: Peabody Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Dick Grover; Richard Grover; Richard W. Grover; Rick Grover.

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Neighbours 1
Same surname 9
Classmates 365
Same schools 182

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1924 from A to Z by surname, Richard is the 153rd of 366 names on this site. On the scan, the entry sits on page 62, around the middle of the stretch from page 29 to page 122 where this site found the book's portraits. Richard is one of 25 in the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1924 whose entry names Peabody Grammar School as the school they came from. The first name Richard appears 21 times in the 11 Cambridge High and Latin School classes read for this site (1917 to 1930), most often in 1930 (5). The most common first names in the class of 1924 were Mary (27), Helen (17) and John (12); in the class of 1923 they were Mary (21), John (13) and Anna (10).

On the same scan page	Francis Gertrude Gross, Ruth Gustafson, Paul Hanson
Same earlier school	Peabody Grammar School: 24 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 123 of 296 classmates with a plan (42%)

At home, 33 Hurlburt Street

The 1928 city directory lists Richard Whiting Grover with the occupation “clerk” (page).

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

Chester M Grover (wife Florence W), teacher B householderpage

The Grover household is listed here in 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1928 and 1930 too.

What Richard did at school

Tennis
Crew, ’24
Orchestra, 1922-23-24
Baseball
Exeter

What the yearbook said

Dick? “Prot.

Also grew up on Hurlburt Street

Robert Hart DalyCambridge 1926

The class of 1924

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Others named Grover

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

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Also came from Peabody Grammar School

Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1924, page 62. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1924unse).

Published 1924, 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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