Melrose High School

Virginia B. Keniston “Ginnie Gin”

Class of 1939, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: Virginia B. Keniston (“Ginnie Gin”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Roosevelt School; activities listed: Cloak and Plume and Freshman Girls’ Club. Portrait and entry from the 1939 yearbook, page 58.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 1 more named Keniston

Full name: Virginia B. Keniston
Known as: Ginnie Gin
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939
Came from: Roosevelt School

Also searched as: Ginny Keniston; Virginia Keniston; Keniston, Virginia.

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Classmates 204
Same schools 97

In context

Virginia B. Keniston is number 110 of 205 in the alphabetical list of the Melrose High School class of 1939 on this site. Virginia's portrait is on scan page 58, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 16 to 201. In the 11 classes of Melrose High School between 1925 and 1942 that this site covers, 26 people have the first name Virginia, with the largest group (5) in 1942. Virginia did not arrive alone from Roosevelt School: 21 other graduates name it too. Plans for a college or university made up 45% of the classifiable plans in the class of 1939 (9 of 20), against 56% in 1938 and 65% in 1942.

On the same scan page	Robert Kennedy, Virginia Kenniston, Helen G. Kiley
Same earlier school	Roosevelt School: 21 other classmates
Dedication, as printed	“DEDICATED TO BLAIR C. WTLSOX HIS FRIENDLINESS AND SINCERE COMPANIONSHIP HAVE MADE HIM OUR ADVISER COMRADE, AND FRIEND”

What Virginia did at school

Cloak and Plume
Freshman Girls’ Club
Girls’ Club 3, 4
Operetta 2, 3
Euclidean Society 2
Glee Club 3
Field Hockey 2, 3, 4

The class of 1939

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Also came from Roosevelt School

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1939, page 58. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1939melr).

Published 1939. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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