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Portrait of Ruth Marie Nelson, Brookline High School, class of 1931
As printed in the 1931 yearbook

Brookline High School

Ruth Marie Nelson “Rue”

Class of 1931, Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts: Ruth Marie Nelson (“Rue”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Who knows?; activities listed: Class Day Dance; lived at 63 Highlands Road. Portrait and entry from the 1931 yearbook, page 87.

Class of 1931

273 in the class of 1931 · 172 more named Nelson

Full name
Ruth Marie Nelson
Known as
Rue
Lived at
63 Highlands Road, Brookline, Massachusetts
School
Brookline High School
Graduated
Class of 1931
Course
Commercial.
Headed for
Who knows?

Also searched as: Rue Nelson; Ruth Nelson; Ruth M. Nelson; Nelson, Ruth.

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In context

273 people from the Brookline High School class of 1931 appear on this site, and Nelson puts Ruth 195th among them. Find Ruth on page 87 of the scan; the people on this site from the Brookline High School class of 1931 are spread over pages 34 to 110. The name Ruth appears 9 times among the 273 names on this site from the class. Ruth is one of 62 listed under Commercial among the 252 classmates whose course is printed (25%). In the class of 1931 the first names most often shared were William (12) and John (11); the class of 1930 had Mary (11), John (8) and Gertrude (7).

On the same scan pageBernard H. Nelson, Burnett Nicholas, Ruth Norman
Same courseCommercial: 62 of 252 classmates with a course (25%)
Same first nameRuth: 8 other people in the class

At home, 63 Highlands Road

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

  • George F Nelson (wife Selma N), carpenter householderpage
  • Ellenor Nelson, sec lived herepage
  • Florence N Nelson, stenographer lived herepage

The Nelson household is listed here in 1928 too.

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What the yearbook said

Can make tomorrow as cheerful as today.

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Brookline High School yearbook, 1931, page 87. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item murivian1931broo).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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