Malden High School

Ruth Porter “Ruth”

Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, listed Ruth Porter (“Ruth”) among 84 graduates in the class of 1931. The entry gives: General course; came from Centre Junior High; activities listed: Centre Junior High Library. Portrait and entry from the 1931 yearbook, page 33.

Class of 1931

84 in the class of 1931 · 88 more named Porter

Full name: Ruth Porter
Known as: Ruth
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: General
Came from: Centre Junior High
Headed for: General

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Same surname 71
Classmates 83
Same schools 100

In context

Of the 84 names from the Malden High School class of 1931 that have pages here, Ruth is 65th in surname order. Ruth's portrait is on scan page 33, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 9 to 60. The first name Ruth appears 51 times in the 18 Malden High School classes read for this site (1919 to 1931), most often in 1931 (8). Ruth is one of 32 in the Malden High School class of 1931 whose entry names Centre Junior High as the school they came from. Of the 52 plans printed for the class of 1931 that name a kind of next step, 35 (67%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring class has 58% in 1930-A.

On the same scan page	Morris Herman Pressman, Maida Alma Putnam
Same earlier school	Centre Junior High: 31 other classmates
Same course	General: 24 of 75 classmates with a course (32%)
Same first name	Ruth: 7 other people in the class

What Ruth did at school

Centre Junior High Library

What the yearbook said

I never hurry; haste makes waste.

The class of 1931

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Others named Porter

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Also came from Centre Junior High

Also headed for General

Ella J. CameronSomerville 1920

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Malden High School yearbook, 1931, page 33. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearboo1931mald).

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

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