Manual Training High School - Prospect Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Jenin lit iaappeneh E have been besieged on all sides with questions about President Harding's letter. How did It happen'?', When did it come? Why did it come? l d I l' I etc. So we think we better appease the thirst for know e ge Jy a ltte explanation. ' Bertha Whittaker of the Senior ass we at Washington, D. C. When she was saying good-bye to some of her friends, some one jokingly told her to get an ad for the Year Book from the President. Bertha tells us that she didn't think much of the remark then, but going down on ' ' ' f ' 0' meth' the train from the was then only the wildest of dreams. The impossible became the probable, however, when the delegation she was received b the President, and she really and truly shook hands with Presi- Y dent Harding and was one of the groups with which the President posed for a picture ' ' ' thened when on the outside of the executive offices. Her determination was streng . . d next day the ladies of the party were received and each one personally intro uced to Mrs. Harding. When she got back to the hotel, although there was only an hour left till train time, she determined to do the deed then or never, daring as it seemed. Somehow or . . , other it did not seem quite so impossible since she had felt President Hardlng s hearty grasp and received a warm smile. Cl nt with her parents to a convention she remembered lt, became obsessed with the idea o getting so mg President for the Year Book, even if it was only a three-word message. It with was This is the letter which obtained such gratifying results: To the President of the U. S. May 12, 1921- Warren G. Harding, White House, l Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: I had the Ureat honor of shaking hands with you on Wednesday afternoon. I D am the daughter of one of the members of the delegation you received. ' ' ' ' N. Y. h I am graduating from the Manual Training High School of Brooklyn, , t is June. Our Senior Class is editing a two hundred and twenty-five page Year Book which will be a review of our school life. I am on the literary staff of the Year Book ' h l h I 'bl and I feel that I would be brlnging the greatest honor to my sc oo t at POSSI y could bring if I secured an autographed message from yourself and Mrs. Harding to use as a frontispiece. I am sincerely hoping that I will receive this token from you as my High School will fully appreciate the honor you will bestow on us. Yours respectfully, BERTHA A. WHITTAKER. I9l

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Q Message from the iBI'B5iUBIIt THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON. D. c. May 13, 1921. My dear Miss Whittaker: I wonder if I may hope that you will be so good as to send to Mrs. Harding and myself a copy of the Year Book which the Manual Training High School is to issue in June, and concerning which you have written to me? Your letter pleases me so much that I cannot deny myself the satisfaction of expressing a word of good wishes and interest for you and for your fellow members of the graduating class. I am sure you will find the preparation of the Year Book an engrossing and interesting occupation, and trust that it may prove of real value to its editors and to your school. Mrs. Harding joins me in the expression of interest and good will. Very truly yours, 7hW '7f. Miss Bertha A. Whittaker, 635-53rd Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. E81

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