Name/Title
The Twentieth Century Club 1918 InitiationEntry/Object ID
2023.015Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A document detailing the initiation process of Ward-Belmont students Ariana Ely, Ruth Driver, and Mayre Schoeneman into the Twentieth Century Club. The initiation took place on February 15, 1918, in the club room.
All three students were successfully initiated into the club and are listed as members in the 1918 Milestones yearbook. In that year, Schoeneman was a member of the College Special Class; Driver a member of the Junior Class; and Ely a Special Student in the Sub-Freshman Class (previously a member of the College Special Class in 1917).
Ely went on to become the leader of the art club group, while Driver and Schoeneman were both members of the literature group. Driver was a member of the Junior Middle Class in 1919, and also served as an officer (Sergeant-at-Arms) of the Arkansas Club that year.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, Initiation, 1918, Ariana Ely, Ruth Driver, Mayre Schoeneman
