Somerville High School
Ruth Sheehan “Ruthie”
Somerville High School in Somerville, Massachusetts, listed Ruth Sheehan (“Ruthie”) among 120 graduates in the class of 1929. The entry gives: College Course; activities listed: Field Hockey and Girls’ Athletics; lived at 43 Jackson Rd. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 342.
Class of 1929
120 in the class of 1929 · 66 more named Sheehan
- Full name
- Ruth Sheehan
- Known as
- Ruthie
- Lived at
- 43 Jackson Rd, Somerville, Massachusetts
- School
- Somerville High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1929
- Course
- College Course
Spot a mistake? Wrong name Wrong photo Something else
Is Ruth part of your family? Tell us — we will send you the full-resolution scan.
In context
120 people from the Somerville High School class of 1929 appear on this site, and Sheehan puts Ruth 101st among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 342, near the end of the stretch from page 274 to page 349 where this site found the book's portraits. The first name Ruth appears 106 times in the 13 Somerville High School classes read for this site (1917 to 1931), most often in 1926 (16). In the Somerville High School class of 1929, 27% of the 70 printed courses are College Course (19 people), Ruth included. Of the 70 entries in the class of 1929 that print a course, 19 (27%) are college or college-preparatory, where the neighbouring classes have 24% in 1928 and 23% in 1930.
| On the same scan page | Ralph Skinner |
|---|---|
| Same course | College Course: 19 of 70 classmates with a course (27%) |
| The book's own title | Somerville High School Radiator |
What Ruth did at school
- Field Hockey 62
- Girls’ Athletics
Fellow members from Ruth's own class:
What the yearbook said
Full of life, full of fun, she's always on the run.
Also grew up on Jackson Rd
The class of 1929
Evelyn SheaSomerville 1929
Ralph SkinnerSomerville 1929
Charlotte ShawSomerville 1929
Margaret SmithSomerville 1929
Claire SerettoSomerville 1929
Wilbur L. SmithSomerville 1929
Others named Sheehan
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
Ethel SheehanArlington 1927
Helen SheehanChelsea 1929
Jane Elizabeth SheehanSt. Bernard's 1938
Dorothy M. SheehanMedford 1936
Francis A. SheehanMedford 1936
William E. Sheehan JrCentral 1943
Look for Ruth Sheehan in other records
- FamilySearch census, birth, marriage and death records (free account)
- Internet Archive other yearbooks, city directories and town reports that mention the name
- Chronicling America digitized newspapers at the Library of Congress
Do you know Ruth?
If Ruth is part of your family we would like to hear from you, and we will gladly send the full-resolution scan of this page.
Source
Somerville High School yearbook, 1929, page 342.
View the original scan at the
Internet Archive (item radiatorsomervil1929some).
Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.
How this page was made: the name, portrait and printed details were read from the scan by software and checked against the page; a few in every hundred details are still wrong. How it works · Report an error · Standards










