Cambridge High and Latin School

Ruth Louise McAvoy “Hopper”

Ruth Louise McAvoy (“Hopper”) is one of 483 graduates in the class of 1930 at Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 1930 yearbook entry gives: came from Harvard Grammar School; headed for Business College; lived at 104A Inman Street.

Class of 1930

483 in the class of 1930 · 7 more named McAvoy

Full name: Ruth Louise McAvoy
Known as: Hopper
Lived at: 104A Inman Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1930
Came from: Harvard Grammar School
Headed for: Business College

Also searched as: Hopper McAvoy; Ruth McAvoy; Ruth L. McAvoy; McAvoy, Ruth.

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Neighbours 28
Same surname 6
Classmates 482
Same schools 91

In context

Ruth Louise McAvoy is number 299 of 483 in the alphabetical list of the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 on this site. Find Ruth on page 81 of the scan; the people on this site from the Cambridge High and Latin School class of 1930 are spread over pages 21 to 118. Ruth's “Business College” falls in the same group as 89 of the 430 plans printed for the class (21%): a business or secretarial school. Across 13 classes of Cambridge High and Latin School on this site, 29 people give Inman Street as a street, from 1917 to 1930. Against 421 for 1929, the class of 1930 comes to 483 names on this site.

On the same scan page	Sarah Elizabeth McCaigue, Anna Gertrude McCarthy, Elizabeth Mary McCarthy, Kenneth Anderson McClane
Same street	Inman Street: 4 other classmates
Same earlier school	Harvard Grammar School: 46 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 89 of 430 classmates with a plan (21%)
Same first name	Ruth: 6 other people in the class

What Ruth did at school

G. A. A., 1926-27
Class Secretary, 1926
Home Economics Club, 1929-30

What the yearbook said

Talent is that which is in her power.

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The class of 1930

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Others named McAvoy

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Also came from Harvard Grammar School

Also headed for Business College

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Source

Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1930, page 81. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1930unse).

Published 1930, 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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