Melrose High School

Virginia Kenniston “Ginny”

Class of 1939, Melrose High School, Melrose, Massachusetts: Virginia Kenniston (“Ginny”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Roosevelt School; activities listed: Freshman Girls’ Club; a motto. Portrait and entry from the 1939 yearbook, page 58.

Class of 1939

205 in the class of 1939 · 3 more named Kenniston

Full name: Virginia Kenniston
Known as: Ginny
School: Melrose High School
Graduated: Class of 1939
Came from: Roosevelt School
Headed for: Next year she is planning to go to EaSalle Junior College

Also searched as: Ginny Kenniston; Kenniston, Virginia.

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Same surname 2
Classmates 204
Same schools 97

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 205 names from the Melrose High School class of 1939, Virginia stands 112th. In the scan, Virginia appears on page 58, in the first third of the run of 205 portraits read for this site (pages 16 to 201). The first name Virginia runs through 11 classes of Melrose High School (1925 to 1942), 26 people in all, and is most common in 1942 (5). Roosevelt School appears as the earlier school of 22 people in the class, Virginia among them. The most common first names in the class of 1939 were John (15), Ruth (8) and Barbara (6); in the class of 1938 they were Robert (13), John (12) and Richard (10).

On the same scan page	Virginia B. Keniston, Robert Kennedy, 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

Freshman Girls’ Club
Girls’ Club 3, 4

What the yearbook said

One “n” for this Virginia, And a double “n” for you, To help us tell you two apart, WT’ll present an “n” or two.

The class of 1939

All 205 in this class →

Others named Kenniston

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

Also came from Roosevelt School

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Source

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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