Somerville High School

Ruth Buffum “Ruthie”

Ruth Buffum (“Ruthie”) is one of 563 graduates in the class of 1931 at Somerville High School, Somerville, Massachusetts. The 1931 yearbook entry gives: College Course; activities listed: Poetry Club and Graduating with Honor; lived at 384 Highland Avenue.

Class of 1931

563 in the class of 1931 · 3 more named Buffum

Full name: Ruth Buffum
Known as: Ruthie
Lived at: 384 Highland Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: College Course

Also searched as: Ruthie Buffum; Buffum, Ruth.

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Clubs & teams 170
Neighbours 75
Same surname 2
Classmates 562

In context

563 people from the Somerville High School class of 1931 appear on this site, and Buffum puts Ruth 38th among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 32, right at the start of the stretch from page 27 to page 102 where this site found the book's portraits. 119 people in the class list “Poetry Club”, Ruth included. 9 of Ruth's classmates in the Somerville High School class of 1931 also gave Highland Avenue as their street. This site lists 563 names for the class of 1931, against 419 for 1930.

On the same scan page	Mildred Brown, Margaret Brundige, Walter Buckley, William Buckley and 3 more
Same street	Highland Avenue: 9 other classmates
Same club	Poetry Club: 118 other classmates
Same course	College Course: 79 of 535 classmates with a course (15%)
Same first name	Ruth: 5 other people in the class

What Ruth did at school

Poetry Club 309
National Honor Society, 2, 3
Graduating with Honor

Fellow members from Ruth's own class:

What the yearbook said

Never a girl so willing, Never a girl so kind.

Also grew up on Highland Ave

The class of 1931

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Others named Buffum

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

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Source

Somerville High School yearbook, 1931, page 32. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item radiatorsomervi1931some_0).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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