Brookline High School

Ruth Greenberg “Rufus, Ruthie”

Ruth Greenberg (“Rufus, Ruthie”) was one of 249 graduates in the class of 1929 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. Printed details: headed for Normal School; activities listed: Class Day Exercises and Girls' League; lived at 69 Green Street. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 53.

Class of 1929

249 in the class of 1929 · 27 more named Greenberg

Full name: Ruth Greenberg
Known as: Rufus, Ruthie
Lived at: 69 Green Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: General
Headed for: Normal School
Ambition: “School teacher”
Pastime: “Doing Math problems”

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Clubs & teams 436
Neighbours 7
Same surname 26
Classmates 248
Same schools 21

In context

This site lists 249 people from the Brookline High School class of 1929; sorted by surname, Ruth comes 84th. The entry is on page 53 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 31 to page 96. Ruth's plan is printed as “Normal School”, which counts here as a normal school or teachers college; 8 of the 127 classmates who named a plan (6%) named the same kind. “Class Day Exercises” appears in 24 entries from the Brookline High School class of 1929, Ruth's among them. Plans for a college or university made up 76% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1929 (84 of 110), against 78% in 1928 and 76% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Brydon Greene, Edythe Louise Greene, M. Mabel Grace Greene
Same club	Class Day Exercises: 23 other classmates
Same club	Girls' League: 120 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 8 of 127 classmates with a plan (6%)
Same course	General: 53 of 239 classmates with a course (22%)
Same first name	Ruth: 6 other people in the class

At home, 69 Green Street

The 1928 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Greenberg at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Jacob D Greenberg (wife Lillian), real estate householderpage

The Greenberg household is listed here in 1925 and 1931 too.

What Ruth did at school

Fellow members from Ruth's own class:

What the yearbook said

Merrily, 'merrily shall I live now

Also grew up on Green Street

The class of 1929

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Others named Greenberg

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

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Also headed for Normal School

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1929, page 53. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1929broo).

Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Public Library of Brookline via the Internet Archive.

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