Cambridge High and Latin School

Virginia Ethel Perkins “Jinny”

Virginia Ethel Perkins (“Jinny”) is one of 416 graduates in the class of 1928 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1928 yearbook entry gives: came from Morse Grammar School; headed for Burdett College; lived at 33 Glenwood Avenue.

Class of 1928

416 in the class of 1928 · 89 more named Perkins

Full name: Virginia Ethel Perkins
Known as: Jinny
Lived at: 33 Glenwood Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: Morse Grammar School
Headed for: Burdett College

Also searched as: Jinny Perkins; Ginny Perkins; Virginia Perkins; Virginia E. Perkins.

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Household 1
Neighbours 11
Same surname 72
Classmates 415
Same schools 76

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 416 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928, Virginia stands 319th. In the scan, Virginia appears on page 109, in the last third of the run of 416 portraits read for this site (pages 27 to 134). The surname Perkins turns up 10 times in 9 Cambridge High and Latin School classes (1919 to 1929) on this site. Virginia's plan is printed as “Burdett College”, which counts here as a business or secretarial school; 66 of the 343 classmates who named a plan (19%) named the same kind. A college or university was the plan of 173 of 297 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1928 (58%), compared with 54% in 1927 and 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Bertha M. Perrault, William Alfred Perry, Eunice Carolyn Peterson
Same earlier school	Morse Grammar School: 21 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 66 of 343 classmates with a plan (19%)

At home, 33 Glenwood Avenue

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

Winifred Louise PerkinsCambridge 1926

The 1928 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Perkins at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Ethel S Perkins, Mrs lived herepage
Winifred L Perkins, clerk H U lib lived herepage

The Perkins household is listed here in 1925, 1927 and 1930 too.

What Virginia did at school

G. A. A., 1925–26
Spanish Club, 1926

What the yearbook said

Come on over on the sunny side of life, It’s only a matter of choice.

Also grew up on Glenwood Avenue

The class of 1928

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Others named Perkins

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

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Also came from Morse Grammar School

Also headed for Burdett College

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 109. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1928unse).

Published 1928, 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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