Name/Title
Ward-Belmont Outing RequestEntry/Object ID
2023.024Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A handwritten letter from a Ward-Belmont student, Mary Kim Carrigan, requesting permission for members of the Twentieth Century Club to go to the Nashville Country Club for tea. Miss Leila D. Mills, head of the home department and Dean of Women at Ward-Belmont from 1915 to 1927 (per the Ward-Belmont Hyphen archives), granted permission for the outing.
This permission request illustrates the rules and regulations to which all Ward-Belmont students were expected to adhere. "Endless detail governed and restricted the simplest activities. [...] Security was the ever present sentinel of every activity." (Source: The Bells of Ward-Belmont: A Reminiscence)Context
Mary Kim Carrigan was a member of the College Special Class and the Certificate Class at Ward-Belmont. She was a member of the Arkansas Club (serving as its president in 1918) as well as the T.C.C., and was a home economics reporter for the Hyphen. She led the domestic science club group within the T.C.C. In the 1915 Milestones yearbook, she described her "favorite haunt" as "anywhere with a moving picture magazine." She was an applicant for a certificate in home economics in 1917, and graduated from Ward-Belmont the following year.
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, Nashville Country Club, Mary Kim Carrigan, Leila D. Mills