Ruth Lyman Copeland is my grandfather's youngest sister by six and a half years. She turned 19 years old in the summer of 1926, just after she completed her two years at Abbot Academy, a private girls' boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts, (which merged into Phillips Academy in 1973).
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| Ancestry.com, U.S. School Yearbooks, Record for Abbot Academy The Circle Yearbook, 1926, p. 13 |
Although she was born in Winnetka, Illinois, her family lived in Michigan City, Indiana for a short time in the 1920s.
I love these yearbooks. This entry shows that my great aunt Ruth was quite active at school: singing, acting, and playing basketball, among other activities. And the nickname "Cope" is often found in my family tree, for men and women.
Some years ago a colleague of mine introduced me to his aged grandmother, who had also been at Abbott. The dates were right, so I asked her if she had known a "Ruth" who was active in theater (I didn't know about the basketball, posture, etc.). The name didn't ring a bell. I told her that my Granny Whitcomb had gone on to study theater after Abbott. "Not Copey!" she exclaimed.
ReplyDeleteSuzanne - thank you for the additional story about your grandmother. Not the first and not the last Copeland to be known as "Copey"!
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