Name/Title
1920 Letter to Miss MassonEntry/Object ID
2023.057Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A letter to Miss Masson (Jennie Taylor Masson, longtime faculty sponsor of the Twentieth Century Club and the school Registrar) from a former Ward-Belmont student. Dated January 8, 1920 in Campti, Louisiana. The student, who provides only her first name which begins with M, tells Miss Masson that she has wanted to write to her every day since she decided not to return to Ward-Belmont: "I have surely thought of you and all of my club sisters - and at times I even wished to be back with all of you." She states that she is now a music teacher at a high school, and also gives piano lessons - "and I love my little pupils."
Regarding the T.C.C., she states "I shall never forget my dear club and I sincerely hope I shall hear from you sometimes and tell me what the "peppy T.C.C.s" are doing. My best wishes to all of the TC's, and my love and best wishes to you for 1920."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
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Ward-Belmont, Letter, 1920, Jennie Taylor Masson, Twentieth Century Club
