Name/Title
The Twentieth Century Club Meeting of March 24, 1920 at Woody CrestEntry/Object ID
2023.040Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A program for the Twentieth Century Club meeting of March 24, 1920, held at Woody Crest. This meeting was titled "Child Study," and included general club business and social gathering as well as the main program of presentations by the Childhood club group. A panoramic photo of Woody Crest is shown on the cover.Context
"Woody Crest" was Ward-Belmont's own country club. Described as "a W-B girl's 'other home'" in the 1923 Milestones yearbook, Woody Crest was a popular weekend destination for club meetings and programs. Club dues contributed towards expenses for such trips.
"Middle Tennessee does not boast a more beautiful spot, nor a more ideal estate. The house is old enough to afford romantic tales woven about the fascinating past of the sixties." (Milestones, 1920)
"To Woody-Crest, that palace where many a school girl's dreams of boarding school life are fulfilled, that stately mansion of freedom which is responsible for so many of W-B girls' good times [...] Here on the Sundays and Mondays, ripples of the merriest laughter echo back and forth in the quaint, old-fashioned rooms, with their tapestried walls and massive mahogany furniture. Here, through the winter months, we revel in the wonderful warmth and hospitality of the great blazing logs, crackling on the open hearth; here, in the early May, we revel in the luxurious treats of the extensive lawns with their beautiful array of flower beds and gnarled old drooping trees." (Milestones, 1923)
The Twentieth Century Club (T.C.C.) was a student organization and one of ten social clubs at Ward-Belmont, organized November 24, 1916. The club's purpose was an excerpt from English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's collection Idylls of the King, specifically “Gareth and Lynette" (1872): "Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King, Else, wherefore born!" The club's motto was "Ideas and Ideals." Per the 1943 Milestones yearbook, club members "strive toward one goal - the maintenance of the high ideals of both their club and their school."Collection
Harpeth Hall School ArchivesLexicon
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Ward-Belmont, Twentieth Century Club, Woody Crest, 1920
