Name/Title
Ward-Belmont T.C.C. Letter 1920Entry/Object ID
2023.025Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A letter written by former Ward-Belmont student Hazel Bissett in Birmingham, Alabama on January 5, 1920. Addressed to Kathryn Weinbrenner, secretary of the Twentieth Century Club in 1920.Context
Hazel Bissett was a member of the Preparatory Special Class at Ward-Belmont in 1918 and 1919. She was Vice-President of the class in 1918, and earned her Certificate in Piano in 1919. She was a member of the music club group within the T.C.C. in the 1918-1919 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."
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, Hazel Bissett, Kathryn Weinbrenner, Letter
