Ward Belmont High School - Milestones Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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SKETCH members of the senior class, though now it is occupied by Senior Middles, that is, first year college students. Club Village, ten pleasant houses centered around the old tower, was ready for occupancy in 1927. The Alumnae Association had started installation of the carillon chimes in the tower, which were played for the first time on April 12, 1928. It was the following year that one of the best equipped stables in the South was added to the school. Dur- ing the past five years, the departmental clubs have had a phenomenal growth, and because cf the in- creasing interest of the girls in creative work, Chimes, a literary magazine, was started in 1937. The school sustained a great loss in the passing of Dr. Blanton. He was succeeded by Dr. John Wynne Barton, widely known educator and publisher, in 1933. Under Dr. Barton ' s administration Ward- Belmont made progress along broad educational and cultural lines. However, in 1936 Dr. Barton ' s health failed, and at his death in September of that year, Mr. A. B. Benedict assumed the leader- ship, and is the present well beloved administrative head of the institution. Truly, Ward-Belmont can look back with pride at a quarter of a century of eventful history. It has grown from a school attended principally by Southern girls to an outstanding accredited junior college with an enrollment from every state in the union, and several foreign countries. While the faculty, alumnae, and students look to the past with pride and inspiration, so we too look forward to even greater achievements in the future.

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HISTORICAL The year 1937-38 marks ' .he twenty-fifth anniver- sary of the consolidated Ward-Belmont which con- tinues and perpetuates Ward Seminary, founded in 1865, and Belmont College, founded in 1890. In 1913 the two scliools were united on tlie Belmont campus which formerly had been the well-known estate of Col. and Mrs. J. S. Acklen. This home was modeled after an Italian villa surrounded by spacious gardens, and the tower which now lends so much atmosphere to the campus was used dur- ing tlie Civil War by the Federal troops as a look- out. The directors of Ward-Belmont, during the first year of the school, built both the Administration Building and Pembroke Hall (now Senior Hall). It was at the end of this year tliat Dr. John Diell Blanton, formerly of Ward Seminary, became presi- dent of the school, and served in that capacity until his death in 1933. When in 1914 the newspaper and the yearbook were started, the Hyphen, the name symbolizing the merger, was an entirely new idea, while the Mile- stones was to be the combination of Ward ' s annual. The Iris, and Belmont ' s, My Lady in Brown. In the fall of the same year the Athletic Association and the student government were inaugurated by Miss Emma I. Sisson, then director of physical education. At this time the state clubs were also playing an active part in the life of the students. The A. B. C. contest was begun in 1922, and to be elected Ensemble Girl was, and is now, the highest honor bestowed by the student body. In 1923 an- other residence hall was added, which was named Hail Hall, and until this year was used for the ». ..»«A.

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TO MISS ELIZABETH PHILLIPS She typifies to the class of 1938 and the Milestones Staff the admirable dynamic force and vital energy that has made possible the progress of the consolidated Ward-Belmo7it.