Cambridge High and Latin School

Willa Beatrice Russell “Smiles”

Willa Beatrice Russell (“Smiles”), Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The entry prints: came from Fletcher Grammar School; headed for Conservatory of Music; lived at 26 Jay Street.

Class of 1927

459 in the class of 1927 · 109 more named Russell

Full name: Willa Beatrice Russell
Known as: Smiles
Lived at: 26 Jay Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Came from: Fletcher Grammar School
Headed for: Conservatory of Music

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Neighbours 15
Same surname 93
Classmates 458
Same schools 31

In context

459 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 appear on this site, and Russell puts Willa 377th among them. Find Willa on page 125 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1927 are spread over pages 29 to 145. Willa's “Conservatory of Music” falls in the same group as 10 of the 393 plans printed for the class (3%): an art or music school. Fletcher Grammar School appears as the earlier school of 18 people in the class, Willa among them. Mary (26), John (22) and Ruth (14) were the first names most often repeated in the class of 1927, and Mary (29), John (24) and Margaret (19) in the class of 1926.

On the same scan page	Joseph Frederick Rourke, Arthur Clayton Rutledge, Edward J. Saalfrank
Same earlier school	Fletcher Grammar School: 17 other classmates
Same kind of plan	art or music school: 10 of 393 classmates with a plan (3%)
The book's own title	Golden Treasury

At home, 26 Jay Street

The 1926–27 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Russell at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Annie M Russell, widow of Charles householderpage
Charles L Russell, salesman lived herepage
Geneva Russell, domestic lived herepage

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Also headed for Conservatory of Music

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1927, page 125. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1927unse).

Published 1927, 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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