Melrose High School

Virginia E. MacDonald “Ginna, Gin, Ginnie”

Melrose High School in Melrose, Massachusetts, listed Virginia E. MacDonald (“Ginna, Gin, Ginnie”) among 195 graduates in the class of 1932. The entry gives: a write-up. Portrait and entry from the 1932 yearbook, page 61.

Class of 1932

195 in the class of 1932 · 122 more named MacDonald

Full name: Virginia E. MacDonald
Known as: Ginna, Gin, Ginnie
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1932

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

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Same surname 114
Classmates 194

In context

Of the 195 entries from the Melrose High School class of 1932 read for this site, Virginia's is 108th alphabetically. On the scan, the entry sits on page 61, around the middle of the stretch from page 15 to page 99 where this site found the book's portraits. Across 11 classes of Melrose High School on this site, from 1925 to 1942, 26 people are named Virginia; the class of 1942 has the most, 5. 52% of the graduates in the class of 1932 whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 57% in 1931.

On the same scan page	Edward MacCullock, Dorothy Mack

What Virginia did at school

Euclidean (3)
Girls’ Club (3), Induction Team (4)
Masque and Wig (2), Secretary (3), President (4)
Cloak and Plume (1)
Poetry Club (3), (4)
Debating Club (2)
“School Life” (4)
Field Hockey (2), (3), (4)
Cheer Leader (4)
Traffic Squad (4)
“Jazz and Minuet”
Secretary of Class (2), (3)
Year Book Committee (4)
Junior Prom Committee (3)

What the yearbook said

Here’s our Gin — as sparkling and bubbling over with pep as anyone could be — the most popular and versatile member of our class. Who piloted Masque and Wig through its most successful year, and even jumped in at the last minute to be the charming leading lady of “Jazz and Minuet”? Who played varsity field hockey for three years? Who used to dash off inspired verse to help fill her “School Life” poetry column? Who lived every inch the Dependability she represented on the Girls’ Club Induction Team? Who livened every party and dance with her vivacity? Yet who is our steadfast, helpful, and unassuming friend? Always Ginnie, with her smile and cheery word for everyone. “May” you spread “0” as much happiness and helpfulness everywhere you go as you have here in M. H. S., Gin.

The class of 1932

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Melrose High School yearbook, 1932, page 61. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item log1932melr).

Published 1932. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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