Brookline High School

Ruth Marguerite Knapp “Rufus, Ruthie”

Ruth Marguerite Knapp (“Rufus, Ruthie”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Brookline High School in Brookline, MA, listed at 362 Clyde Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927

219 in the class of 1927 · 23 more named Knapp

Full name: Ruth Marguerite Knapp
Known as: Rufus, Ruthie
Lived at: 362 Clyde Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: Commercial
Came from: Reading High
Headed for: Miss Pierce’s
Pastime: “Beating Eleanora Sears”

Also searched as: Ruth Knapp; Ruth M. Knapp; Knapp, Ruth.

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Clubs & teams 190
Neighbours 5
Same surname 19
Classmates 218

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 219 names from the Brookline High School class of 1927, Ruth stands 102nd. On the scan, the entry sits on page 52, around the middle of the stretch from page 26 to page 81 where this site found the book's portraits. Ruth has 5 first-name namesakes in the Brookline High School class of 1927. In the Brookline High School class of 1927, 67 entries mention “Girls' League”; Ruth's is one of them. Of the 209 entries in the class of 1927 that print a course, 92 (44%) are college or college-preparatory, where the neighbouring class has 45% in 1928.

On the same scan page	Stephen L. Kniffen, Lurena Lane, Ethel May Lee
Same club	Girls' League: 66 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 40 of 209 classmates with a course (19%)
Same first name	Ruth: 5 other people in the class

At home, 362 Clyde Street

The 1931 city directory lists Ruth Marguerite Knapp with the occupation “student” (page).

The 1931 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Knapp at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Ruth M Knapp, student lived herepage

What Ruth did at school

Aide ’26
Senior Advisor ’27
Girls' League 474

Fellow members from Ruth's own class:

What the yearbook said

Her stature tall — I hate a dum-py woman

Also grew up on Clyde Street

The class of 1927

All 219 in this class →

Others named Knapp

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

All 23 people named Knapp →

Also came from Reading High

John Lindsey ShannonMalden 1929

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1927, page 52. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1927broo).

Published 1927, 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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