Name/Title
The Twentieth Century Club of Ward-Belmont May 12, 1920 ProgramEntry/Object ID
2023.044Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A program for the May 12, 1920 meeting of the Twentieth Century Club of Ward-Belmont. This meeting was under the auspices of the music club group, and the program consisted of seven performances by Miss Sloan of the Ward-Belmont Conservatory of Music. Members of the Osiron Club, one of ten social clubs at Ward-Belmont along with the T.C.C., were the club's guests for the evening.Context
Per the 1920 Milestones yearbook, Helen Todd Sloan was a voice teacher at Ward-Belmont, and was a pupil of Geo. Deane in Boston, Isidore Braggiotti in Florence, Italy, and Signor de Luca in Nashville, Tennessee.
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, 1920, Conservatory of Music, Helen Todd Sloan
