Melrose High School

Ruth Whidden “Rudy Ruthie Whid”

Ruth Whidden (“Rudy Ruthie Whid”) is one of 256 graduates in the class of 1942 at Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts. The 1942 yearbook entry gives: came from Calvin Coolidge School.

Class of 1942

256 in the class of 1942 · 3 more named Whidden

Full name: Ruth Whidden
Known as: Rudy Ruthie Whid
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1942
Came from: Calvin Coolidge School
Headed for: Ruthie plans to go to Bradford Junior College and then to Simmons to study Social Work

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Same surname 2
Classmates 255
Same schools 40

In context

Going through the Melrose High School class of 1942 from A to Z by surname, Ruth is the 249th of 256 names on this site. Find Ruth on page 103 of the scan; the people on this site from the Melrose High School class of 1942 are spread over pages 18 to 173. 4 other people in the class share the first name Ruth. Counting Ruth, 46 people in the class are listed as coming from Calvin Coolidge School. 65% of the graduates in the class of 1942 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 45% in 1939.

On the same scan page	Barbara E. Wentzel, Ruth D. West, Doris B. Whitehouse
Same earlier school	Calvin Coolidge School: 45 other classmates
Same first name	Ruth: 4 other people in the class

What Ruth did at school

Girls' Club 3, 4
Outing Club 2, 3
Biology Club 4

The class of 1942

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Others named Whidden

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

Also came from Calvin Coolidge School

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Source

Melrose High School yearbook, 1942, page 103. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1942melr).

Published 1942. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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