Ruth S. Rafferty Papers circa 1905-1926

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Ruth S. Rafferty Papers circa 1905-1926

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Rafferty, Ruth Sherburne, 1892-1926; Student, summer camp counselor and secondary school English teacher. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1915. Papers contain correspondence, a journal, essays and other writings (including her illustrated parody of Edward Lear's works), a scrapbook, memorabilia, a biographical note, obituaries, and photographs. Primarily concerning a high school trip to Washington, D.C. in 1909, her academic and social activities as a Mount Holyoke student, and her work as a summer camp counselor and secondary school English teacher in 1915.

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Ruth Sherburne Rafferty was born in San Francisco, California on September 5, 1892 to Thomas E. Rafferty, an interior decorator, and Florence A. Rafferty. Her family moved to Methuen, Massachusetts in 1896 and she graduated from Methuen High School. She attended Mount Holyoke College from 1911-1915 and received her B.A. in 1915, graduating with a major in English. In the summer of 1915 she worked as a camp counselor in Maine and in the fall of 1915 she became an English teacher at Hudson (New Yo...