Cambridge High and Latin School

Walter Edgar Sands

Walter Edgar Sands appears in the 1918 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 44 Avon Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1918

196 in the class of 1918 · 15 more named Sands

Full name: Walter Edgar Sands
Lived at: 44 Avon Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1918
Came from: Peabody Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard or Dart-mouth

Also searched as: Walt Sands; Walter Sands; Walter E. Sands; Sands, Walter.

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Household 1
Neighbours 7
Same surname 11
Classmates 195
Same schools 55

In context

Of the 196 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1918 read for this site, Walter's is 166th alphabetically. Find Walter on page 39 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1918 are spread over pages 12 to 39. Walter's “Harvard or Dart-mouth” falls in the same group as 42 of the 102 plans printed for the class (41%): a college or university. 21 other classmates came from Peabody Grammar School, the school Walter is listed as coming from. Of the 90 plans printed for the class of 1918 that name a kind of next step, 42 (47%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 46% in 1917 and 60% in 1919.

On the same scan page	Catherine Mary Donahue, Elizabeth Regina Hamilton, Mildred Augusta Johnson, Joseph Keegan and 2 more
Same earlier school	Peabody Grammar School: 21 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 42 of 102 classmates with a plan (41%)

At home, 44 Avon Street

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

Lydia Phipps SandsCambridge 1927

The 1921 city directory lists Walter Edgar Sands with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1918 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Sands at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Dorothy Sands lived herepage
Mary Sands lived herepage

The Sands household is listed here in 1917 and 1921 too.

Also grew up on Avon Street

The class of 1918

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Others named Sands

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

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Also came from Peabody Grammar School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1918, page 39. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1918unse).

Published 1918, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Cambridge Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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