Somerville High School

Ruth H. Desmond

Ruth H. Desmond was one of 299 graduates in the class of 1920 at Somerville High School, Somerville, Massachusetts. Printed details: CoM MERCIAL course; lived at 12 Nevada Avenue. Portrait and entry from the 1920 yearbook, page 246.

Class of 1920

299 in the class of 1920 · 21 more named Desmond

Full name: Ruth H. Desmond
Lived at: 12 Nevada Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1920
Course: CoM MERCIAL

Also searched as: Ruth Desmond; Desmond, Ruth.

Spot a mistake? Wrong name Wrong photo Something else

Is Ruth part of your family? Tell us — we will send you the full-resolution scan.

Household 2
Same surname 18
Classmates 298

In context

This site lists 299 people from the Somerville High School class of 1920; sorted by surname, Ruth comes 74th. On the scan, the entry sits on page 246, in the last third of the stretch from page 20 to page 287 where this site found the book's portraits. From 1917 to 1931, 106 Somerville High School graduates on this site share the first name Ruth, spread over 13 classes and peaking at 16 in 1926. In the Somerville High School class of 1920, 42% of the 260 printed courses are CoM MERCIAL (109 people), Ruth included. Mary (10), Ruth (10) and Mildred (9) were the first names most often repeated in the class of 1920, and John (6) and Helen (5) in the class of 1917-B.

On the same scan page	Mabel A. Dix, Harrison G. Dodge, Theda L. Dole, Elizabeth N. Donahue and 1 more
Same course	CoM MERCIAL: 109 of 260 classmates with a course (42%)
Same first name	Ruth: 9 other people in the class

At home, 12 Nevada Avenue

Same surname, same address — very likely brothers and sisters.

What Ruth did at school

English Drama Club (4)
Physical Training Leader (3)

The class of 1920

All 299 in this class →

Other people named Ruth H. Desmond in the archive

Names are not unique. Check the school and year before assuming this is the person you are looking for.

Ruth H. DesmondSomerville 1921

Others named Desmond

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

All 21 people named Desmond →

Look for Ruth H. Desmond in other records

FamilySearch census, birth, marriage and death records (free account)
Internet Archive other yearbooks, city directories and town reports that mention the name
Chronicling America digitized newspapers at the Library of Congress

Do you know Ruth?

If Ruth is part of your family we would like to hear from you, and we will gladly send the full-resolution scan of this page.

Get in touch

Source

Somerville High School yearbook, 1920, page 246. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item radiatorsomervil1920some).

Published 1920, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

How this page was made: the name, portrait and printed details were read from the scan by software and checked against the page; a few in every hundred details are still wrong. How it works · Report an error · Standards