Brookline High School
Ruth Horsfall
Ruth Horsfall is one of 179 graduates in the class of 1925 at Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts. The 1925 yearbook entry gives: activities listed: Swimming Team and Orchestra; lived at 60 Harvard.Avenue; a motto.
Class of 1925
179 in the class of 1925 · 6 more named Horsfall
- Full name
- Ruth Horsfall
- Lived at
- 60 Harvard.Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts
- School
- Brookline High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1925
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In context
Of the 179 names from the Brookline High School class of 1925 that have pages here, Ruth is 78th in surname order. The entry is on page 51 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 26 to page 84. From 1923 to 1931, 49 Brookline High School graduates on this site share the first name Ruth, spread over 9 classes and peaking at 9 in 1931. In the Brookline High School class of 1925, 6 entries mention “Orchestra”; Ruth's is one of them. A college or university was the plan of 37 of 52 classmates with a classifiable plan in the class of 1925 (71%), compared with 73% in 1924 and 68% in 1926.
| On the same scan page | Ransom Fuller Hodges, Clarence A. Hossley |
|---|---|
| Same club | Swimming Team: 17 other classmates |
| Same club | Orchestra: 5 other classmates |
| Same first name | Ruth: 5 other people in the class |
At home, 60 Harvard.Avenue
The 1931 city directory lists Ruth Horsfall with the occupation “student” (page).
The 1925 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Horsfall at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.
- Lutheria B Horsfall, widow of Arthur E householderpage
Also pictured in group photographs
Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Ruth's senior portrait.
In the same photographs:
What Ruth did at school
- Swimming Team 92
- (iym Team ’23
- A^arsity “B” ’23
- Marshal ’24-’25
- I'reshman Advisor ’24
- Orchestra 69
- Junior Social Committee, publicity ’24
- Class Day Marshal ’24 208
- Senior Dance Committee, publicity ’25 33
- Class Day Dance 173
- Girls' League 474
Fellow members from Ruth's own class:
What the yearbook said
There is no friend like a true friend
X. Woof, Rufus, Ruthie. h'. ( ). Alaking posters, tennis. •A. To be useful. I). Some secretarial school. Alpha Pi.
Also grew up on Harvard Avenue
The class of 1925
Ransom Fuller HodgesBrookline 1925
Clarence A. HossleyBrookline 1925
Mary J. HewittBrookline 1925
Mary HutchinsonBrookline 1925
J. Alfred HennesseyBrookline 1925
Mary H. JeromeBrookline 1925
Others named Horsfall
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
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Source
Brookline High School yearbook, 1925, page 51.
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Internet Archive (item murivian1925broo).
Published 1925, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.
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