Cambridge High and Latin School

Walter Louis Bangs “Bangzie”

Walter Louis Bangs (“Bangzie”) was one of 421 graduates in the class of 1929 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for Boston University; activities listed: Class Notes Reporter; lived at 118 Harvard Street. Portrait and entry from the Cambridge Review, page 28.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 5 more named Bangs

Full name: Walter Louis Bangs
Known as: Bangzie
Lived at: 118 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Roberts School
Headed for: Boston University

Also searched as: Bangzie Bangs; Walt Bangs; Walter Bangs; Walter L. Bangs.

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Neighbours 89
Same surname 4
Classmates 420
Same schools 278

In context

Walter Louis Bangs is number 14 of 421 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 on this site. Find Walter on page 28 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 are spread over pages 25 to 132. Over 14 classes from 1917 to 1930, Harvard Street is the street of 87 Cambridge High and Latin School graduates on this site. “Boston University” is Walter's plan after graduation; 174 of 364 classmates with a printed plan (48%) named a college or university. Of the 308 plans printed for the class of 1929 that name a kind of next step, 174 (56%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Edith C. Andren, Joseph Banks, Rose Lillian Barenberg
Same street	Harvard Street: 9 other classmates
Same earlier school	Roberts School: 16 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 174 of 364 classmates with a plan (48%)
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 118 Harvard Street

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

Roy W Bangs (wife Mary), driver householderpage

The Bangs household is listed here in 1921, 1925, 1927 and 1928 too.

What Walter did at school

Room Committee, 1925-'26
Class Notes Reporter

What the yearbook said

Always light-hearted and content.

Also grew up on Harvard Street

The class of 1929

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Others named Bangs

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

Also came from Roberts School

Also headed for Boston University

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 28. 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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