Cambridge High and Latin School

William Walter Dansie “Bill”

William Walter Dansie (“Bill”) was one of 416 graduates in the class of 1928 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for Post Graduate; activities listed: Delta Sigma Nu; lived at 10 Shepard Street. Portrait and entry from the 1928 yearbook, page 50.

Class of 1928

416 in the class of 1928 · 4 more named Dansie

Full name: William Walter Dansie
Known as: Bill
Lived at: 10 Shepard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Came from: Peabody Grammar School
Headed for: Post Graduate

Also searched as: Bill Dansie; William Dansie; William W. Dansie; Billy Dansie.

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Household 2
Neighbours 4
Same surname 1
Classmates 415
Same schools 52

In context

416 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1928 appear on this site, and Dansie puts William 90th among them. William's portrait is on scan page 50, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 27 to 134. The name William appears 14 times among the 416 names on this site from the class. Counting William, 21 people in the class are listed as coming from Peabody Grammar School. Names on this site: 416 for the class of 1928, compared with 459 for 1927 and 421 for 1929.

On the same scan page	Frank Davis, Ruth Lillian Dawson, Angelena Mary DeBella
Same earlier school	Peabody Grammar School: 20 other classmates
Same first name	William: 13 other people in the class

At home, 10 Shepard Street

Same surname, same address — very likely brothers and sisters.

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

Thomas Dansie (wife Caroline), manager householderpage
Ethel C Dansie, student R Coll lived herepage

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

What William did at school

Room Committee, 1925–26
Delta Sigma Nu

What the yearbook said

Here’s a very studious boy whose pleasure is in working, He’s very serious minded, in studies never shirking.

Also grew up on Shepard Street

The class of 1928

All 416 in this class →

Others named Dansie

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

Dorothy Caroline DansieCambridge 1921

Also came from Peabody Grammar School

Also headed for Post Graduate

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1928, page 50. 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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