Name/Title
Amalia Acevedo Letter to Miss Masson 1919Entry/Object ID
2023.058Tags
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 Amalia Acevedo, a former Ward-Belmont student and member of the Twentieth Century Club. Dated September 14, 1919 in Panama City.
Acevedo writes: "Dear Miss Masson: I have been intending to write to you for a long time, but had not done it before, for I did not know if you were at school this summer. I suppose about the time this letter reaches you, you will be busy with the opening of school. I wish I could return to W.B. this fall, but there is no hope. How is that T.C.C. getting along? I wish I was one of the lucky ones to [illegible] the new girls, and more than anything, I wish I were there to help initiate them. Now I must stop, hoping to hear from you real soon. Give my love to all old T.C.C. girls, and lots of good wishes to you. From Amalia."Context
Amalia Acevedo, originally from Panama, was a student at Ward-Belmont from 1918 to 1919. Per the 1919 Milestones yearbook, she was a member of the U.S. Club - its only member (and perhaps the only student) to come to Ward-Belmont from outside of the continental United States. She was a member of the Regular Athletic Club as well as the Twentieth Century Club.
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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Amalia Acevedo, Jennie Taylor Masson, Ward-Belmont, Letter, 1919
