Cedar Grove Academy - Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Miss Virginia Payne President of Cedar Grove Dramatic Club In her junior year Miss Payne wrote and directed a very beautiful play for Mothers' Day. The production proved to be one of the most enjoyable plays ever given at the Grove. During the past winter our president appeared for nine consecutive weeks before the microphone at WLW in the mystery play The Step on the Stairs . Virginia and Mary Harrison recently received their teacher's certificates from the Shusterf Martin School of Expression. Their many friends predict for them brilliant careers in their chosen profession. The faculty and students of Cedar Grove offer hearty congratulations to the recipient of the following letter: Catholic University, Washington, D. C. june 16, 1925. My dear Virginia Payne: It is halffpast eleven at night. It is a very warm night, too. .... . I am one of the examiners at the Catholic University and I have just finished your paper. It has fascinated me. I love your criticism on Elaine and the modern girl. I fell instantly in love with your gerf anium fthe modern girlb with something so strong and bright and cheerful about it. With a few strokes of the pen, you created an odd oldffashioned garden. When I get all these papers done and go home for the summer, I'm going to plant some geraniums with some lilies. Some' how I can't make myself believe the geraniums will fades there is a positive, an eternal perfume even in the leaves of a geranium, when l58I

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QEFJSIQ' JANE MOQLENISOPH, Eiga? Head Librarian, 'L' H xg Los Angeles, Calif. I GERTRUDE O,DONNELL, M. D., Children's Specialist, O'Donnell Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio. Z CLARE GQHARE, C. P. A., O'Hare, Inc., - 810 Prince Bldg., Omaha, Neb. . l I U ,X M. VIRGINIA PAYNE, lo J ' Dramatic Critic, New York Sun. f ,. 01 N EditorfinfChief- The Player . 5' gif Latest Book- History of Arts and the Drama . . W 4 Address: The Plaza Hotel, New York, N. Y. ' ff Q f O r'fCQf fr f, ds GW'-. 4 MARGUERITE POWERS, 3- O A Powers Garden, . -El School for children from four to ten years. lr ll milk, Address: llowers Garden, Gregor Place, Wyo ,JQ 5 if ming, O io. DOROTHY WHITE, Insurance, Stocks, Bonds, 6 Wall St., New York, N. Y. li! 'f ,S ' ul ff 0 ' I. MARY ELEANOR WHITEHEAD, H -46 'A ' Q North Drive Real Estate, - ' Mil ' North Drive, Nashville, Tenn. 1 ' I Mary Helen Flynn Mary Harrison, '26 l57l

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these leaves are broken or crushed the perfume comes forth with a new. more vital meaning and I think it is that way with your modern girl. . . . I am anxious to hear more of your work. You must keep writing. We need just that healthy, wholesome, splendid point of view that you have given me ..... Writevbecause by so doing you increase the power of your expression .... . We have so many writers today who are unsympathetic with their subjectsvmen and women there are who are concerned only with financial ain. Turn your mind toward the rising generation and record their cieeds and motives. . .A . . Do keep up your interest in writing. Read a lot-make little criticisms of what you read-save everything you write-refwrite it every yearwtry a little poetry for more condensed expression. Please accept my thanks for a very enjoyable hour spent with your paper and this letter. A. D. CThe Examinerj. I gave you 100 per cent for the Examination. ' , . . Ksg world Woman in Business the twentieth century we find woman astive not only is 'H .J 2 ' From in domestic work law and medicine but also occupying a prominent place in the business world The adoption of phonography as a time saving means of letter writing new unbelievab e entrance into the modern industrial this branch developed others until at the present day f Eg 'HQ a 9 9 sg ' gi g x . . . i . , . r . . . , 7: 533 9 widened her range of common toil and opened for her a woman manufactures, buys, and sells wholly upon her own responsibility. And all this she does in a most satisfadtory fashion as her long reign in this field has proved. Time was when her work embraced but a meager percentage of that performed by men. She then had but few occupations from which to choosewsewing, cooking, or teaching. And now woman's sphere has expanded to an almost unestimable chain, largely due to stenographic work. Moreover, her mind is gradually being reconciled to the ways of the world, and she now feels an unmistakable response to the daily prob' lems of life. One of the valuable accomplishments of the recent war is the world's realization of the capability of woman. This fact was established by the gradual steadfast hold she gained in politics. Woman Suffrage , her last step of advancement, has proved an uplifting influence in the modern, political world. So the present day Ends itself richer in the truths just realized, and richer in the work already perfected by woman. Her success in the commercial field is evident and we heartily join in praising her noble achievement. Ruth Bosken, '26 l59l