Name/Title
Helen Wooley Letter to Miss Masson 1919Entry/Object ID
2023.059Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A letter to Miss Masson (Jennie Taylor Masson, longtime faculty sponsor of the Twentieth Century Club and the school Registrar) from Helen Wooley, a former Ward-Belmont student and officer/member of the Twentieth Century Club. Dated October 4, 1919 in Los Angeles, California.
Wooley writes: "Dean, please return to J.T.M. My dear Miss Masson: How are you? Would like so much to be just now entering dear old Ward-Belmont, instead I'm going to university here in California. Will you please have my credits sent to me here at The Belmont? Is T.C.C. still the best club in school? Louise Montgomery, Leila Beall Anderson & Mary Kim Carrigan were all out here this summer. They are Thetas at [illegible] University. I went to Oklahoma last year. Best wishes for Ward-Belmont & T.C.C. & much love to you."Context
Helen Wooley was a member of the senior middle class at Ward-Belmont in 1917, and served as treasurer of the T.C.C. and a member of the Regular Athletic Club. In 1918, she was president of the senior class, a member of the Y.W.C.A. cabinet, T.C.C. critic, secretary of the executive honor committee, and secretary of the Ward-Belmont Hyphen newspaper. Mary Kim Carrigan and Louise Montgomery, mentioned in her letter, were also seniors in 1918. Leila Beall Anderson (whose name is spelled as both Leila and Lelia in Milestones) was a music student in 1918. All three women were officers and/or members of the Twentieth Century Club during their time at Ward-Belmont.
For more information on Mary Kim Carrigan, see 2023.024.
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
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Ward-Belmont, Letter, 1919, Jennie Taylor Masson, Helen Wooley, Louise Montgomery, Leila Beall Anderson, Mary Kim Carrigan