New Bedford High School
Virginia Ruth Bowen
Virginia Ruth Bowen was a senior at New Bedford High School in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1935, one of 120 graduates. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.
Class of 1935
120 in the class of 1935 · 33 more named Bowen
- Full name
- Virginia Ruth Bowen
- School
- New Bedford High School
- Graduated
- Class of 1935
Also searched as: Ginny Bowen; Virginia Bowen; Virginia R. Bowen; Bowen, Virginia.
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In context
In the alphabetical roll of 120 names from the New Bedford High School class of 1935, Virginia stands 8th. In the scan, Virginia appears on page 25, in the first third of the run of 120 portraits read for this site (pages 19 to 62). In the 14 classes of New Bedford High School between 1928 and 1945 that this site covers, 22 people have the first name Virginia. For New Bedford High School, the site holds 120 people from the class of 1935, against 103 for 1934 and 150 for 1936. The class motto, as the yearbook prints it near the front: “WELL BEGUN IS HALF DONE”.
| On the same scan page | Charles Douglass Bonner, Martha Alice Bragg |
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What the page does not say. Virginia's entry, as read here, has no birth date, no grammar school, no course. Share of the class's entries that do: birth date 47%, grammar school 45% and course 42%. The book may have left them out, or the reading may have missed them; check the scan.
The class of 1935
Charles Douglass BonnerNew Bedford 1935
Martha Alice BraggNew Bedford 1935
Sarah Ethel BerryNew Bedford 1935
Leon Jacob BraudyNew Bedford 1935
George Gordon Bartlett, Jr.New Bedford 1935
Clemont Edmond BraultNew Bedford 1935
Others named Bowen
Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.
Donald BowenBarnstable 1938
John BowenBarnstable 1938
James BowenBarnstable 1939
Helen BowenBelmont 1924
Carl Francis BowenMedford 1930
Henry J. BowenBoston of To-day (1892) 1892
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Source
New Bedford High School yearbook, 1935, page 25.
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Internet Archive (item memoirsunderredw1935newb).
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