Cambridge High and Latin School

Sally Loring Prouty “Slip”

Sally Loring Prouty (“Slip”) appears in the 1923 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 2328 Mass. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1923

319 in the class of 1923 · 10 more named Prouty

Full name: Sally Loring Prouty
Known as: Slip
Born: February 22, 1905
Lived at: 2328 Mass, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Came from: Ellis Grammar School
Headed for: Boston University

Also searched as: Slip Prouty; Sarah Prouty; Sally Prouty; Sally L. Prouty.

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Neighbours 12
Same surname 7
Classmates 318
Same schools 202

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1923 from A to Z by surname, Sally is the 241st of 319 names on this site. In the scan, Sally appears on page 99, in the last third of the run of 319 portraits read for this site (pages 39 to 119). Among the 253 people in the class who printed a plan, 119 (47%) named a college or university, as Sally did (“Boston University”). Across 4 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School on this site, 13 people give Mass as a street, from 1917 to 1924. Names on this site: 319 for the class of 1923, compared with 254 for 1922 and 366 for 1924.

On the same scan page	Mary Dorothy Powers, Elizabeth L. Preis, Elizabeth Putnam
Same street	Mass: 7 other classmates
Same earlier school	Ellis Grammar School: 22 other classmates
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, 2328 Mass

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

Herbert B Prouty (wife Jane), salesman householderpage
John H Prouty, police sta lived herepage

The Prouty household is listed here in 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1927 too.

What Sally did at school

G. A. A., 1920
Senior Advisory Council, 1923
Get-together Committee, 1920–21–22
Drama Committee

What the yearbook said

OF ALL THE GIRLS THAT ARE SO SMART, THERE’S NONE LIKE PRETTY SALLY

Of all the girls that are so smart, there’s none like pretty Sally.

Also grew up on Mass

The class of 1923

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Others named Prouty

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

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Also came from Ellis Grammar School

Also headed for Boston University

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1923, page 99. 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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