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nicholas burlakoff <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:39:39 -0500
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A "duel" degree in English and Hospitality? A senior? Hmmm... A candidate for the Creationist Museum, no doubt.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Deiah Haddock <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Dec 7, 2007 9:48 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [MUSEUM-L] HELP! I found an old photo album of members of the Hawthorn Club, Van Wert Ohio
>
>Greetings!
>
>My name is Deiah Haddock and I am currently in my senior year at Western Carolina 
>University in Cullowhee, NC. I am finishing a duel degree in English and Hospitality & 
>Tourism, with plans of attending graduate school for museum studies.
>
>I have always loved looking and exploring old things, researching and what not - and the 
>other day I was at my parents house looking through an old box, when to my surprise I 
>found a very old photo album. 
>
>In the front of the album someone has written:
>"The Hawthorn Club"
>"The first ladies club of VW" (I have determined that VW is for Van Wert, Ohio, as all but 
>a couple of the pictures were taken by a photographer in Van Wert)
>
>What follows are some wonderful portraits of these "first ladies", many of them 
>appearing to be in their 60's or older. According to the back of one of the photos (that I 
>carefully removed from the cracking brown paper) it was taken in 1898. 
>
>I am looking for information on these ladies and the club they were members of - so far I 
>have not found much. I would love to find out who these women were, and possibly 
>where this photo album came from (it looks very official, for being over 100 years old 
>that is.).
>
>The following is a list of the names I was able to get from the paper below each photo:
>Georgia Glenn
>Lucetta McConahay
>Mrs. Conant
>Charlotte Baker
>Ann Webb Clark
>Fidelia Purviort (not sure about this spelling)
>Mrs. Bonner
>Mrs. David Johns
>Maieha  McGovern (again with the spelling of the first name, wasn't very clear)
>Mrs. Marsh
>Mrs. Stripe
>
>Please pass this along to anyone who would have some information or at least an interest 
>in this old album! Thanks so much! 
>
>Deiah Haddock
>
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