Melrose High School

Ruth E. Pitts “Ruthie Pittsie”

Ruth E. Pitts (“Ruthie Pittsie”) was a senior at Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1939, one of 205 graduates. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 13 more named Pitts

Full name: Ruth E. Pitts
Known as: Ruthie Pittsie
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939

Also searched as: Ruth Pitts; Pitts, Ruth.

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Same surname 9
Classmates 204

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 205 names from the Melrose High School class of 1939, Ruth stands 161st. In the scan, Ruth appears on page 78, in the first third of the run of 205 portraits read for this site (pages 16 to 201). The first name Ruth appears 59 times in the 12 Melrose High School classes read for this site (1925 to 1942), most often in 1939 (8). 45% of the graduates in the class of 1939 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 56% in 1938 and 65% in 1942.

On the same scan page	Lewis Wilson Pickett Jr, Beverly Jean Porter
Same first name	Ruth: 7 other people in the class
Dedication, as printed	“DEDICATED TO BLAIR C. WTLSOX HIS FRIENDLINESS AND SINCERE COMPANIONSHIP HAVE MADE HIM OUR ADVISER COMRADE, AND FRIEND”

What the page does not say. The reading found no grammar school, no clubs or activities for Ruth. Across the Melrose High School class of 1939 the shares are grammar school 45% and clubs or activities 41%; worth checking the scan before assuming the book left them out.

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 78. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1939melr).

Published 1939. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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