Cambridge High and Latin School

Susan Anna Silk “Sue”

Class of 1929, Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Susan Anna Silk (“Sue”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Ellis School; headed for Business College; lived at 2 Reed Terrace. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 117.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 4 more named Silk

Full name: Susan Anna Silk
Known as: Sue
Lived at: 2 Reed Terrace, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Ellis School
Headed for: Business College

Also searched as: Sue Silk; Susan Silk; Susan A. Silk; Silk, Susan.

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Household 1
Same surname 2
Classmates 420
Same schools 83

In context

Of the 421 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 that have pages here, Susan is 365th in surname order. In the scan, Susan appears on page 117, in the last third of the run of 421 portraits read for this site (pages 25 to 132). Ellis School appears as the earlier school of 16 people in the class, Susan among them. Susan's “Business College” falls in the same group as 70 of the 364 plans printed for the class (19%): a business or secretarial school. In the class of 1929, 56% of the plans we could classify (174 of 308) were a college or university; the neighbouring classes show 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Rose Ellen Shea, Charles W. Siemen
Same earlier school	Ellis School: 15 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 70 of 364 classmates with a plan (19%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 2 Reed Terrace

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Mary Catherine SilkCambridge 1925

The 1930 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Silk at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Martin H Silk (wife Victoria M), chauffeur householderpage
Florence N Silk, clerk lived herepage
Mary C Silk, clerk lived herepage

The Silk household is listed here in 1925, 1927 and 1928 too.

What the yearbook said

For she is just the quiet kind whose nature never varies.

The class of 1929

All 421 in this class →

Others named Silk

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

Also came from Ellis School

Also headed for Business College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 117. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1929unse).

Published 1929, 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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