Cambridge High and Latin School

Schuyler Blackley Benedict “Pete Sky”

Schuyler Blackley Benedict (“Pete Sky”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 881 Massachusetts Avenue. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 17 more named Benedict

Full name: Schuyler Blackley Benedict
Known as: Pete Sky
Lived at: 881 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Morey Junior High School, Lowell
Headed for: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Also searched as: Schuyler Benedict; Schuyler B. Benedict; Benedict, Schuyler.

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Neighbours 125
Same surname 13
Classmates 458
Same schools 18

In context

Schuyler Blackley Benedict is number 24 of 459 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 on this site. Find Schuyler on page 34 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 are spread over pages 29 to 145. Schuyler's “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” falls in the same group as 191 of the 393 plans printed for the class (49%): a college or university. The yearbook puts 9 people from the class on Massachusetts Avenue, Schuyler among them. Names on this site: 459 for the class of 1927, compared with 462 for 1926 and 416 for 1928.

On the same scan page	John Edward Barton, Lillian Bee, Isabella Hope Belleza
Same street	Massachusetts Avenue: 8 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 191 of 393 classmates with a plan (49%)
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 881 Massachusetts Avenue

The 1928 city directory lists Schuyler Blackley Benedict with the occupation “radio rpr” (page).

The 1926–27 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Benedict at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Harry I Benedict (wife Lillian B), lawyer householderpage

The Benedict household is listed here in 1925 and 1928 too.

What Schuyler did at school

Chess, 1926–27, Captain, 1927

What the yearbook said

Sky is the limit.

Also grew up on Massachusetts Avenue

The class of 1927

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Others named Benedict

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

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Also headed for Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 34. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1927unse).

Published 1927, 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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