Brookline High School

Ruth Marie Harrington

Ruth Marie Harrington, Brookline High School class of 1925 (Brookline, Massachusetts). The entry prints: activities listed: French Club and German Club; lived at 46 Jamaica Road; a motto.

Class of 1925

179 in the class of 1925 · 88 more named Harrington

Full name: Ruth Marie Harrington
Lived at: 46 Jamaica Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School: Brookline High School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Ambition: “To l.)e an aviatrix”
Pastime: “Walking”

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

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Group photos 6
Clubs & teams 210
Neighbours 4
Same surname 83
Classmates 178

In context

Ruth Marie Harrington is number 70 of 179 in the alphabetical list of the Brookline High School class of 1925 on this site. Turning the scan to page 49 shows Ruth; the portraits we read from this book run from page 26 to page 84. There are 6 people named Ruth in the Brookline High School class of 1925; the entry on this page is one of them. Counting Ruth, “French Club” is named by 55 people in the Brookline High School class of 1925. Of the 52 plans printed for the class of 1925 that name a kind of next step, 37 (71%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 73% in 1924 and 68% in 1926.

On the same scan page	Helen Frances Hamilton, Elizabeth Crosby Haven, Marguerite Marie Hayes
Same club	French Club: 54 other classmates
Same club	German Club: 15 other classmates
Same first name	Ruth: 5 other people in the class

At home, 46 Jamaica Road

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

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

John J Harrington (wife Frances G), carrier P householderpage
Gerard Harrington, student lived herepage
Margaret Harrington, clerk lived herepage
Mary F Harrington, chiefs’ police dept lived herepage

The Harrington household is listed here in 1920, 1928 and 1931 too.

Also pictured in group photographs

Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Ruth's senior portrait.

Group Photograph1925

In the same photographs:

What Ruth did at school

French Club 460
German Club 139
Debating Club 33
Interscholastic Debating Team 12
Chairman of Rhetorical Committee Debating Club ’25: Mandolin Club ’24-’25 33
h'our Minute Speaker ’23-’24-’25
Class Day Dance 173
Class Day Drill
Art Club 148

Fellow members from Ruth's own class:

What the yearbook said

I’d he a butterfly

Also grew up on Jamaica Road

The class of 1925

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Others named Harrington

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Source

Brookline High School yearbook, 1925, page 49. 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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