Malden High School

Ruth Elna Potter “Skippy”

Ruth Elna Potter (“Skippy”) was a senior at Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1931, one of 161 graduates. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.

Class of 1931

161 in the class of 1931 · 54 more named Potter

Full name: Ruth Elna Potter
Known as: Skippy
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1931

Also searched as: Skippy Potter; Ruth Potter; Ruth E. Potter; Potter, Ruth.

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Same surname 46
Classmates 160

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Going through the Malden High School class of 1931 from A to Z by surname, Ruth is the 114th of 161 names on this site. The entry is on page 31 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 9 to page 57. There are 6 people named Ruth in the Malden High School class of 1931; the entry on this page is one of them. In the class of 1931, 26 of 95 printed courses (27%) were college or college-preparatory ones, compared with 29% in 1930-A.

On the same scan page	Margaret Frances Pettingill, Ruth Edith Phillips, Alice Louise Pickens
Same first name	Ruth: 5 other people in the class

What the page does not say. Course and grammar school are missing. The rest of the Malden High School class of 1931 has them often (course 59% and grammar school 47%), so the gap may belong to the reading rather than to Ruth. The scan is the authority.

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Malden High School yearbook, 1931, page 31. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearbo1931mald_0).

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

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