Name/Title
Twentieth Century Club - Minutes of Founding MeetingsEntry/Object ID
2023.050Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
Handwritten minutes for the founding meetings of the Twentieth Century Club of Ward-Belmont. The club's first official meeting on November 24, 1916 is discussed, as well as previous meetings at which the club's name was decided and new members were initiated. After separating into their club groups and processing from the Academic Building through the Main Building and then to Amusement Hall for refreshments, "the girls now began to feel as if they really knew each other and were ready to organize and elect their officers." The T.C.C.'s first officers were elected on November 24, 1916: Frank McGee as President, Doris Palmer as Vice-President, Ruth Lemley as Secretary, and Helen Wooley as Treasurer.
This document was likely written by Ruth Lemley, the first secretary of the Twentieth Century Club. Lemley, who graduated from Ward-Belmont in 1917, went on to study at the University at Columbus, Ohio per the Ward-Belmont Hyphen archives. For other T.C.C. meeting minutes written by Lemley, see 2023.022.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, 1916