Cambridge High and Latin School

Willa Isabel Kenney

Willa Isabel Kenney appears in the 1928 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge, MA, listed at 253 River Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1928

416 in the class of 1928 · 62 more named Kenney

Full name: Willa Isabel Kenney
Lived at: 253 River Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: Webster Grammar School
Headed for: Salem Normal School

Also searched as: Willa Kenney; Willa I. Kenney; Kenney, Willa.

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Neighbours 28
Same surname 57
Classmates 415
Same schools 104

In context

Of the 416 entries from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 read for this site, Willa's is 224th alphabetically. In the scan, Willa appears on page 83, around the middle of the run of 416 portraits read for this site (pages 27 to 134). “Salem Normal School” is Willa's plan after graduation; 24 of 343 classmates with a printed plan (7%) named a normal school or teachers college. Over 12 classes from 1917 to 1930, River Street is the street of 29 Cambridge High and Latin School graduates on this site. The class of 1928: 58% of classifiable plans point to a college or university, versus 54% in 1927 and 56% in 1929.

On the same scan page	Joseph Bernard Kelleher, Gladys Viola Keller, Sarah Frances Kenney
Same street	River Street: 4 other classmates
Same earlier school	Webster Grammar School: 41 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 24 of 343 classmates with a plan (7%)

At home, 253 River Street

The 1930 city directory lists Willa Isabel Kenney with the occupation “clerk” (page).

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

George Kenney (wife Marie), bk gilder householderpage

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

What Willa did at school

Spanish Club, 1925–26

What the yearbook said

Face that could launch a thousand ships.

Also grew up on River Street

The class of 1928

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Others named Kenney

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

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Also came from Webster Grammar School

Also headed for Salem Normal School

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 83. 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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