Malden High School

Ruby May Noyes “Rufus II”

Ruby May Noyes (“Rufus II”) is one of 135 graduates in the class of 1929-A at Malden High School, Malden, Massachusetts. The 1929 yearbook entry gives: came from Maplewood School; headed for Boston University; activities listed: Basketball and Swimming.

Class of 1929-A

135 in the class of 1929 · 43 more named Noyes

Full name: Ruby May Noyes
Known as: Rufus II
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: Normal
Came from: Maplewood School
Headed for: Boston University

Also searched as: Ruby Noyes; Ruby M. Noyes; Noyes, Ruby.

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Clubs & teams 56
Same surname 28
Classmates 134
Same schools 318

In context

135 people from the Malden High School class of 1929-A appear on this site, and Noyes puts Ruby 89th among them. Ruby is printed on page 47 of the scan, around the middle of the 16-to-67 run of portrait pages. 22 other graduates came from Maplewood School, the school Ruby is listed as coming from. Ruby's “Boston University” falls in the same group as 30 of the 96 plans printed for the class (31%): a college or university. The class of 1929-A: 16% of printed courses lead to college, versus 24% in 1928-B and 29% in 1930-A.

On the same scan page	Daniel Edwin Paine
Same club	Basketball: 8 other classmates
Same earlier school	Maplewood School: 22 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 30 of 96 classmates with a plan (31%)
Same course	Normal: 9 of 135 classmates with a course (7%)
The book's own title	Maldonian

What Ruby did at school

Basketball 69
Swimming
Banking Cashier
Bowling 37

Fellow members from Ruby's own class:

What the yearbook said

Ruby is the little girl with the twinkly eyes and sunny smile. She looks like a quiet little thing, but underneath, she’s just bubbling over with the very joy of living. All in all, she’s just “full of the deuce”.

The class of 1929

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Others named Noyes

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Also came from Maplewood School

Also headed for Boston University

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Source

Malden High School yearbook, 1929, page 47. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearboo1929mald).

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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