Name/Title
The Twentieth Century Club Meeting January 19, 1917Entry/Object ID
2023.021Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
An agenda for the January 19, 1917 meeting of the Twentieth Century Club of Ward-Belmont in Nashville, Tennessee. The meeting began with roll call and a report on absentee members, along with general business. The program itself included a presentation of interior decoration by Miss Frank McGee (1917 club president), a presentation of clay modeling by Miss Alberta Lake (club member), and a general discussion of art as applied to correct dressing, in which every member was invited to take part.
A list of club members' names (perhaps a record of attendance) is handwritten on the back of the document in pencil. Most names are checked off, while two (Louise Montgomery and Louise Brown) are crossed out. Two names - Helen Wooley, 1917 club treasurer, and Sue Moore Fullilove, 1917 custodian of the memory book - are written in green ink.Context
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
Search Terms
Ward-Belmont, Twentieth Century Club, 1917