Cambridge High and Latin School

Wallace Elgin Rockwell “Al, Rock”

Wallace Elgin Rockwell (“Al, Rock”) is one of 366 graduates in the class of 1924 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1924 yearbook entry gives: headed for Burdett College; activities listed: Chorus; lived at 34 Bernster Street.

Class of 1924

366 in the class of 1924 · 10 more named Rockwell

Full name: Wallace Elgin Rockwell
Known as: Al, Rock
Born: May 20, 1907
Lived at: 34 Bernster Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1924
Came from: Houghton Grammar School
Headed for: Burdett College

Also searched as: Wallace Rockwell; Wallace E. Rockwell; Rockwell, Wallace.

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Same surname 7
Classmates 365
Same schools 47

In context

Going through the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1924 from A to Z by surname, Wallace is the 289th of 366 names on this site. Wallace's portrait is on scan page 119, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 29 to 122. Business or secretarial school was the plan of 43 of the 296 classmates who printed one (15%), and Wallace is listed with “Burdett College”. Houghton Grammar School appears as the earlier school of 6 people in the class, Wallace among them. Of the 244 plans printed for the class of 1924 that name a kind of next step, 123 (50%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 55% in 1923 and 54% in 1925.

On the same scan page	Mary G. Perry, Annie Raffer, Virginia Senders
Same earlier school	Houghton Grammar School: 5 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 43 of 296 classmates with a plan (15%)

What Wallace did at school

Chorus

What the yearbook said

Ales “Rock

The class of 1924

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Also headed for Burdett College

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1924, page 119. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1924unse).

Published 1924, 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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