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

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A i -aM f Miss Catherine E. INIorrison, the personification of Ward-Behiiont ideals and traditions, to whom the 1946 Milestones is dedicated. Quiet authority, quick flashes of hunior, understanding, fairness, wisdom, and capability combine to make her one of our most beloved and respected personalities. Unforgettable is her amazing faculty for remembering each girl's name, her interest and guidance in every campus activity from the first hockey game through Washington's Birthday, May Day, and graduation. She has seen Ward-Belmont grow and has aided in that growth. Knowing her has made us stand just a little straiehter and renew ovu faded resoluti ms. ■SWiSRI Quick flashes oj humor Uiidcrslaiidiiu , ftiirncss, wisdom Quid onthorily

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ij( Miss Annie Allison, Dean nf the IVejiaratory Schot l for twenty ears before her retirement in June, I'HS. !Miss Annie left upon each of her girls a profound influence during many years of untiring service. Her interests were confined not only to the rounding of education, but to the creating of true ladies. She trained them to live imder the pre rsitre of a modern world with an unswerving belief in ideals and an understanding nature, and to meet with calm asstu-- ance a world quickl}' mming into a I)hvsical and mechanical realm. True to her firm belief that aris- tocracy was a matter of manners and education. Miss Annie set as ideals for her girls throughout the years those of truth, Ijeauty, purity, and courage. We fiememiefi l XinJa f nea for those little things — the way her room spelled springtime with the daffodils she loved in ])lace on her desk and the buds of the willow tree outside her window, giving the soft air r)f a southern spring to her classroom; the nervous little way she ti])i)ed back in her chair and flipi ed the ])ages of her desk calendar; the quick tilt of her head and the crisp grey hair falling into waves; the small unembellished manner of writing; the way she loved the South; the rise and fall of her voice as she read her fa orite poem, 'Rugby Chapel,' and her last gay wishes for a 'Merry Christmas.' )r. Linda Rhea, head of the college r nglish dc])arlnienl, mo x'd for many years behind classes and organizations in a (|uiel, eflicienl way which belied the energy anfl fie vol ion which she had for 'ard-l!elmont. 'iliesc are our memories of l;r. Rhea.