William Mercer Green Papers Box 1 Folder 2 Biographical Data Document 18

NEWS ITEM

MAY 25 1970

Sewanee relatives have received an invitation to a reception on the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine "Rainbow Rood" which will be dedicated to the Institute's "good friend, Gretchen Green" on May twenty-first. The Institute is located in New York where Miss Green makes her home. She is known in Sewanee as the granddaughter of Bishop William Mercer Green (1798-1887), being the youngest daughter of his youngest son, the late Rev. Stephen Herbert Green. The dedication is the latest in a long series of honors bestowed on Miss Gretchen. For recognition of her services in the United Kingdom Miss Green has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. The explanation of her pen name "Gretchen" in preference to her given names "Mary Cornelia" can be found in her autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WORLD AND COMPANY. Atitle of that magnitude is eminently suitable for her world-wide reminiscences.