Name/Title
The Twentieth Century Club of Ward-Belmont Meeting MinutesEntry/Object ID
2023.017Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
Handwritten minutes from a meeting of the Twentieth Century Club of Ward-Belmont.
"The last important business meeting of the T.C.C. was held in Heron Hall basement. This meeting was held after the club entertained the faculty to a tea in the afternoon, which proved a great success. The most important nature of the meeting was the election of club officers for next year. The following girls were elected to fill the designated offices. President - Helen Wooley. Vice President - Mary Rowlen. Treasurer - Mary Foshee. The [illegible] method of voting was used and it was suggested by the [illegible] that these girls each received the unanimous vote of the club, to which the girls readily agreed. It was decided that the girls should be elected at the beginning of the school year next fall to fill the other offices. Another meeting was arranged for the installation of our new officers."
The meeting minutes are undated. Per the 1918 Milestones yearbook, Mary Foshee did serve as treasurer of the club, while Helen Wooley is listed as club critic instead of president, and Mary Rowlen is not listed as an officer or member. Rowlen is, however, listed as a club member in other documents from this time period (see 2023.010). In a pamphlet of 1917-1918 programs by club groups (see 2023.018), Wooley is indeed noted as the retiring president. In 1917, Rowlen served as secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Club.
Another handwritten document on the opposite side of the paper (see 2023.016) states that special permission was given to the girls of the club to have regular club tables at breakfast at the Hermitage.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, Helen Wooley, Mary Rowlen, Mary Foshee