Name/Title
Ward-Belmont T.C.C. Letter 1920Entry/Object ID
2023.026Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A letter written by former Ward-Belmont student Alberta Gildart (née Lake) at 1305 Main St in Greenville, Mississippi on January 6, 1920. Addressed to Kathryn Weinbrenner, secretary of the Twentieth Century Club in 1920. The letter was opened by Mary Ellen Silver.Context
Alberta Lake Gildart (1897-1959) was a member of the College Special Class and the T.C.C. in 1917. She was a member of the art club group within the T.C.C. in the 1916-1917 school year.
Kathryn Weinbrenner, originally from Wisconsin, was a Junior and piano student at Ward-Belmont in 1919 and a member of the Preparatory Special Class in 1920. She was a member of the T.C.C. in 1919 before becoming an officer the following year. In the 1919 Milestones yearbook, she described her "little moment of happiness" as "when she paid her war fund."
Mary Ellen Silver, who opened this letter, was a member of the College Special Class in 1919 and a Senior in 1920. Originally from Mercedes, Texas, she held multiple leadership positions in the T.C.C. as well as the Student Council and Y.W.C.A. She was a proctor in Pembroke Hall and captain of baseball. She was a member of the childhood club group within the T.C.C.
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, 1920, Alberta Lake Gildart, Mary Ellen Silver, Kathryn Weinbrenner
