Cambridge High and Latin School

Wilma Cannon “Willie”

Wilma Cannon (“Willie”) is one of 424 graduates in the class of 1925 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1925 yearbook entry gives: headed for Radcliffe College; activities listed: G. A. A; lived at 2 Divinity Avenue.

Class of 1925

424 in the class of 1925 · 32 more named Cannon

Full name: Wilma Cannon
Known as: Willie
Born: April 23, 1909
Lived at: 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Came from: Agassiz School
Headed for: Radcliffe College

Also searched as: Willie Cannon; Cannon, Wilma.

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Household 3
Clubs & teams 121
Same surname 21
Classmates 423
Same schools 50

In context

Of the 424 names from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1925 that have pages here, Wilma is 57th in surname order. In the scan, Wilma appears on page 39, right at the start of the run of 424 portraits read for this site (pages 29 to 137). Agassiz School appears as the earlier school of 19 people in the class, Wilma among them. Of 365 classmates who gave a plan, 164 (45%) point to a college or university; Wilma's entry says “Radcliffe College”. Plans for a college or university made up 54% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1925 (164 of 306), against 50% in 1924 and 55% in 1926.

On the same scan page	Florence Viola Campbell, Dorothy Carroll, Georgiana Christine Carter
Same earlier school	Agassiz School: 18 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 164 of 365 classmates with a plan (45%)

At home, 2 Divinity Avenue

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

The 1927 city directory lists Wilma Cannon with the occupation “student R CoU” (page).

The 1925 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Cannon at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Walter B Cannon (wife Cornelia J), prof H U householderpage
Ida M Cannon, social service lived herepage

The Cannon household is listed here in 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1927, 1928 and 1930 too.

What Wilma did at school

G. A. A. 522
Review Board ’25

Fellow members from Wilma's own class:

What the yearbook said

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The class of 1925

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Others named Cannon

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

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Also came from Agassiz School

Also headed for Radcliffe College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1925, page 39. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1925unse).

Published 1925, 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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