Brookline High School

Ruth Marian Wallace “Ruthie, Rufus, Wooffie”

Ruth Marian Wallace (“Ruthie, Rufus, Wooffie”), Brookline High School class of 1925 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: headed for Vesper George School of Art; activities listed: French Club and Spanish Club; lived at 7 Beals Street.

Class of 1925

179 in the class of 1925 · 63 more named Wallace

Full name: Ruth Marian Wallace
Known as: Ruthie, Rufus, Wooffie
Lived at: 7 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Headed for: Vesper George School of Art
Ambition: “To obtain what I can't get”
Pastime: “Playing with my imagination”

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

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Clubs & teams 185
Neighbours 21
Same surname 48
Classmates 178

In context

Of the 179 names from the Brookline High School class of 1925 that have pages here, Ruth is 167th in surname order. Ruth's portrait is on scan page 79, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 26 to 84. The name Ruth appears 6 times among the 179 names on this site from the class. Ruth shared “French Club” with 54 seniors, going by what the yearbook prints. In the class of 1925, 71% of the plans we could classify (37 of 52) were a college or university; the neighbouring classes show 73% in 1924 and 68% in 1926.

On the same scan page	Pauline A. Walker, Florence Josephine Walsh, Flora Marion Warnock
Same club	French Club: 54 other classmates
Same club	Spanish Club: 23 other classmates
Same first name	Ruth: 5 other people in the class

At home, 7 Beals Street

The 1925 Brookline Directory (W. A. Greenough Co.) lists these people named Wallace at this address. It gives occupations and wives' names, but does not say how these people were related.

Frank Wallace (wife Zina), manager householderpage

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The class of 1925

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Others named Wallace

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Also headed for Vesper George School of Art

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1925, page 79. View the original scan at the 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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