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All-Club Dinner Menu 1936Entry/Object ID
2023.133Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A menu for an All-Club Dinner at Ward-Belmont, held on Monday evening, June 1, 1936. The names of Ward-Belmont's ten student social clubs are also listed.Context
The All-Club Dinner or Banquet was an annual event in which members of Ward-Belmont's ten student social clubs came together to share a meal at the end of the school year.
Ward-Belmont offered ten student social clubs, similar to sororities: the Twentieth Century Club (T.C.C.), X.L., A.K. (All 'Round), Osiron, Agora, Anti-Pandora, F.F., Penta Tau, Del Vers, and Tri K. Per a Ward-Belmont club pamphlet (2023.107), "the club system was introduced here because it was felt that national sororities had no place in a school such as Ward-Belmont. It was, therefore, to supplant the sorority plan with something that offered its advantages without the obvious disadvantages, that the club system was started." Like sororities, there was a week of rushing at the beginning of the school year, and new club members participated in an initiation.
This document belonged to Dorothy "Dottie" Love Elliott, originally from Lexington, Kentucky (born approximately 1918), who attended Ward-Belmont during the 1935-36 and 1936-37 school years. While there, she was a member of the F.F. social club, serving as its Sergeant-at-Arms 1936-37. She earned her General Diploma and Expression Diploma in 1937. Elliott went on to marry Edwin Rhodes McClelland and had three sons.Collection
Harpeth Hall School ArchivesLexicon
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Elliott (McClelland), Dorothy Love (Dorothy) 1937
