Name/Title
Bertha Roberts Edmund Birth AnnouncementEntry/Object ID
2023.060Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A birth announcement card for the son of Bertha Roberts Edmund, a former Ward-Belmont student. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Edmund announced the birth of their son, William James, on November 12th in Ethel, West Virginia. The card may likely have been sent to Jennie Taylor Masson, longtime faculty sponsor of the Twentieth Century Club and the school Registrar.
Bertha wrote: "Baby weighs 7 1/2 lbs, has dark hair and large blue eyes. If ever you are sponsor for a club to which Billie is eligible, let me know that he may be enrolled. My love to you and all T.C.C.'s."Context
Bertha Roberts was a member of the senior middle class at Ward-Belmont in 1917. She was a home economics student - specifically a first-year domestic art student. She served as critic in the Twentieth Century Club that year, and was also a member of the Illinois Club and the Chicago Club.
Per the Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper, Bertha Edmund was married to Harvey W. Edmund for 67 years and passed away in 1984. Her husband passed away in 1987. Their son whose birth is announced here, William James, also preceded his father in death.
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, Birth Announcement, Bertha Roberts Edmund
