Melrose High School

Ruth B. Powers

Ruth B. Powers was one of 277 graduates in the class of 1938 at Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Roosevelt School; a write-up. Portrait and entry from the 1938 yearbook, page 77.

Class of 1938

277 in the class of 1938 · 93 more named Powers

Full name: Ruth B. Powers
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1938
Came from: Roosevelt School

Also searched as: Ruth Powers; Powers, Ruth.

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Same surname 72
Classmates 276
Same schools 97

In context

This site lists 277 people from the Melrose High School class of 1938; sorted by surname, Ruth comes 198th. In the scan, Ruth appears on page 77, in the first third of the run of 277 portraits read for this site (pages 16 to 207). 4 other people in the class share the first name Ruth. Ruth is one of 76 in the Melrose High School class of 1938 whose entry names Roosevelt School as the school they came from. For Melrose High School, the site holds 277 people from the class of 1938, against 247 for 1936 and 205 for 1939.

On the same scan page	Maybelle Irene Porter, Phyllis Preble
Same earlier school	Roosevelt School: 75 other classmates
Same first name	Ruth: 4 other people in the class

What Ruth did at school

Bowling (3)

What the yearbook said

There entered into Melrose High, in 1934, an attractive brunette. She is well liked by her classmates, who all know she has a great desire to become entangled in arguments. Although she is not planning to continue with her studies, she has a typing position open for her at which she expects to earn at least a dollar “Bill”.

The class of 1938

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1938, page 77. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1938melr).

Published 1938. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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