New Bedford High School

Ruth Shirley Maxfield

Ruth Shirley Maxfield appears in the 1936 yearbook of New Bedford High School in New Bedford, MA. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1936

150 in the class of 1936 · 14 more named Maxfield

Full name: Ruth Shirley Maxfield
Born: June 19, 1918
School: New Bedford High School
Graduated: Class of 1936
Course: Normal
Came from: Parker Street School

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Same surname 10
Classmates 149
Same schools 15

In context

Of the 150 entries from the New Bedford High School class of 1936 read for this site, Ruth's is 89th alphabetically. The entry is on page 52 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 19 to page 72. Across 23 classes of New Bedford High School on this site, from 1924 to 1945, 56 people are named Ruth; the class of 1942 has the most, 6. The yearbook lists 7 people from the New Bedford High School class of 1936 as coming from Parker Street School, including Ruth. The class of 1936: 39% of printed courses lead to college, versus 46% in 1935.

On the same scan page	Jeannette Mary Mandeville, Elton Mann
Same earlier school	Parker Street School: 6 other classmates
Same course	Normal: 15 of 90 classmates with a course (17%)
The book's own title	Memoirs Under the Red and White

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New Bedford High School yearbook, 1936, page 52. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item memoirsunderredw1936newb).

Published 1936. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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