Boston Latin School

Samuel Oldsman “Sammie”

Samuel Oldsman (“Sammie”) is one of 104 graduates in the class of 1926 at Boston Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts. The 1926 yearbook entry gives: came from Drake School; headed for Harvard; a motto.

Class of 1926

104 in the class of 1926 · 1 more named Oldsman

Full name: Samuel Oldsman
Known as: Sammie
School: Boston Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Came from: Drake School
Headed for: Harvard
Ambition: “Mayor of Chelsea.”

Also searched as: Sammie Oldsman; Sam Oldsman; Oldsman, Samuel.

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Classmates 103
Same schools 229

In context

This site lists 104 people from the Boston Latin School class of 1926; sorted by surname, Samuel comes 73rd. In the scan, Samuel appears on page 37, in the last third of the run of 104 portraits read for this site (pages 18 to 45). Among the 92 people in the class who printed a plan, 88 (96%) named a college or university, as Samuel did (“Harvard”). The first name Samuel appears 13 times in the 6 Boston Latin School classes read for this site (1919 to 1944). 98% of the graduates in the class of 1926 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 97% in 1927.

On the same scan page	Jeremiah J. O'Leary
Same kind of plan	college or university: 88 of 92 classmates with a plan (96%)

What Samuel did at school

Orchestra, 1923-24-25
Band, 1926
Lieutenant, Band, 1926

What the yearbook said

Architecture is frozen music.

The class of 1926

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Also headed for Harvard

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Source

Boston Latin School yearbook, 1926, page 37. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item latinschoolregi1926bost_4).

Published 1926, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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