Cambridge High and Latin School

Ruth Bodemer “Don”

Ruth Bodemer (“Don”), Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Simmons College; activities listed: G. A. A; lived at 94 Wendell Street.

Class of 1929

421 in the class of 1929 · 2 more named Bodemer

Full name: Ruth Bodemer
Known as: Don
Lived at: 94 Wendell Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Came from: Agassiz School
Headed for: Simmons College

Also searched as: Don Bodemer; Bodemer, Ruth.

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Household 1
Clubs & teams 294
Neighbours 42
Classmates 420
Same schools 56

In context

421 people from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 appear on this site, and Bodemer puts Ruth 30th among them. Find Ruth on page 32 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1929 are spread over pages 25 to 132. The yearbook puts 5 people from the class on Wendell Street, Ruth among them. Among the 364 people in the class who printed a plan, 174 (48%) named a college or university, as Ruth did (“Simmons College”). Plans for a college or university made up 56% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1929 (174 of 308), against 58% in 1928 and 56% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Priscilla Blacknall, Evelyn Mary Boggs, Bernadette M. Boisvert
Same street	Wendell Street: 4 other classmates
Same earlier school	Agassiz School: 20 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 174 of 364 classmates with a plan (48%)
Same first name	Ruth: 5 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Cambridge Review

At home, 94 Wendell Street

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Helen M. BodemerCambridge 1926

The 1930 Cambridge Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Bodemer at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Ernest F Bodemer (wife Grace L), assistant xapt P O householderpage
Paul B Bodemer, machinist lived herepage
Philip E Bodemer, civil engineer lived herepage
Willard L Bodemer (wife Jean E), clerk lived herepage

The Bodemer household is listed here in 1919, 1920, 1921, 1925, 1927 and 1928 too.

What Ruth did at school

G. A. A. 522

Fellow members from Ruth's own class:

What the yearbook said

That we like Ruth Is speaking the truth.

Also grew up on Wendell Street

The class of 1929

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Also came from Agassiz School

Also headed for Simmons College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1929, page 32. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1929unse).

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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