Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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was distFnctly social service smr instructions. I 1
Taylor's Settlenmt House and evenings we would kind of
because Graham Taylor was acquainted with m y very
of whom was Miss Jane Addam. That was the fbst I
I do not remmber what was discussed in the little t
would come for dinner and after dinner then we would all
boarders, one of which I was. Then he had a daughter who
social work then too, I've forgotten her name. That was
infomrative part of nly smr.
Q. How many of you would theh be at the table eating di&er together?
A. We11 I can't tell you exactly. Well I'd say mun
between ten and twenty, we wouldn't always have the s
didn't have a speaker or a visitor. And we had to do s
see. The latter part of the smr both of qy courses
five weeks. Well I was there in each six weeks, so I
time was spent in other things. I went to the Unive
had planned to do, and lived in Green Hall, which
the inside of a girl's dormitory. One of the th
was to get w cover, something to keep me wamn,
bought a very nice looking steer rug. It was a red and
plaid. I had had it for yews, but when a =and
I sent Lt to him to take with him, he [is] li
Of course it would be an extra maybe, but it was Fn good then. But
that is all I ~ ~rrber needing in the way of material
mo* at breakfast, the breakfast was on the main
morn, I sat near a lady whose name I don't recall,
older than wself, and we kind of hung up together.
by the message that c m via Miss Mary Sophanisba . . .
Q. She c m Fnto the dining hall that morning?
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A. Yes, I want to get her last name and it doesn't corn b ck to me,
Breckenbridge, Miss Sophanisba Breckenbridge, a very pro ent social
worker in the city, but known nationally. And she told us about the
Progressive Party Convention that Theodore Roosevelt himse f jnitiateti,
and that they got many converts to this new p&y. I th most of them
were from the Republican Party. Its national convention w s to select
their nomhees, and so we were told that if we would mch in cap and gown
in a parade going down Michigan Avenue with Miss Jane Ad the leader,
that we would be adtt-dtted to this convention. So this we d, not only
the f'riend and wself but quite a group -the universit , all in cap and
gowns. There was no traffic on Michigan Avenue and we stqed at the Illinois
Central Railroad Station and walked down to what I th ar the big post
office down there, that would be somewhere around
broke up, but the marching, oh my that was somth
Jane Addams led us all by herself following the p
had provided, as mst big parades do. Then why we were on
our own, but we broke apart when we got to the
Avenue somewhat
south a m toward what would be in line wlth t
Central. There the only seats we could find were
that because we could see everything. The come
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