[2 Scrapbooks, holiday cards & some correspondences, 1940-1945]

[TOP SHEET] [Letterhead] M. Charles Darkins Assistant Principal Sanford P. Bradby Principal

Schofield Normal and Industrial School Founded 1868 Aiken South Carolina

Board of Trustees George Bourdelais Hope Goddard Iselin Mary S. A. Jenkins Marie C. Jenkins Henry C. Patterson Mrs. George Pennock Jesse W. Philips W. Carson Ryan Jr. [Junior] Ruth Simkins Arthur D. Wright Harman Yerkes James F. Young Alice Young

Executive Board Mary Sullivan Patterson President Anne Hillborn Philips Vice President Sue Thomas Turner Secretary Charles G. Thatcher Treasurer

Honorary Trustees Rev. [Reverend] Philip J. McLean Mary H. Whitson Convers B. Woolsey ---Local Advisory Board Mrs. F. Wallis Armstrong Mrs. Fred H. Post George A. Durban

February 16 1941

Miss Alyce Anderson 762 S. [South] Martin Street Philadelphia Pa. [Pennsylvania]

Dear Miss Anderson

We wish to take this moment to express to you our sincere thanks for the autographed picture of your sister Marian. A few weeks ago Mrs. Mary S. Patterson of Wallingford Pa. [Pennsylvania] wrote and told us that you were sending one. Since that time we have been anxiously awaiting it.

We have framed it and placed it in the lobby of our front office along with many other pictures we prize highly.

Again may we express to you and your sister our sincere thanks and appreciation. I shall write Mrs. Patterson and tell her that we have received it.

Yours truly Sanford P. Bradby Sanford P. Bradby

[BOTTOM SHEET] ing the new Department of Fine Arts at Wesleyan College.

We arrived by various conveyances on Friday November 7 some in cars piled so high with books clothing windows shades and dishes - donations from friends in the north that it was impossible to see out the back windows. The school is in the northeastern part of Aikan a few bumpy blocks east of Route 1. It would be a great help to us and the travelers who might be interested in stopping if we could have a sign of direction from this main highway but one after another has disappeared. So there is nothing to do but inquire.

As we come into the grounds through the red brick gates we wished that we had Hannah Clothier Hull with us for she it was who encouraged us to make trim paths and green grass plots around our campus instead of wandering at will. She would have liked what we saw. The paths have been edged with white painted bricks and Mr. [Mister] Bradby our principal has had the students busy planting trees and bushes on the new islands of grass.

We pulled up at Oakwald the big white frame house on our left which Martha Schofield used for her home and guest house. This house was modernized in 1938 and was used for a three year period as the home of our white directors. When we abolished this position last June putting our colored principal at the head we decided to turn the living quarters of Oakwald into a Home Economics cottage. Mr. [Mister] and Mrs. Bradby were already established in a smaller white cottage nearby and they felt that no better use could be made of the larger house.

Oakwald is divided by a central hall. The offices of the school secretary [secretary] of Mr. [Mister] Darkins the assistant principal of Mrs. Washington the Jeanes Teacher who is superintendent of the 75 elementary colored schools in Aiken County and of Mr. [Mister] Bradby are on one side of this hall.

Youth City A Self Governing Youth Municipality for the prevention of crimes sponsored by The Philadelphia Youth Movement SAMUEL L. EVANS President - Founder

Non-Sectarian Non-Proselyting

Registered under State Law

171 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia Pa. Telephone September 23 1941

Henry DeWalt Vice President Treasurer

Mary Akins Executive Secretary

Advisory Committee

Judge Joseph Sloane Chairman Lenerte Roberts Vice Chairman Tanner G. Duckrey Secretary Thomas Evans Hon. Herbert E. Millen Ellen Gowen Hood Magistrate Joseph H. Rainey D. W. Henry, D. D. Eustace Gay Hon. Luther Harr Robert N. C. Nix Esq. Alyce Anderson

A-41 [handwritten mark in red pencil]

Miss Alyce Anderson 762 So. Martin Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

Dear Miss Anderson

Mr. Evans asked me to thank you for the cooperation you rendered in helping to make our banquet to Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune Friday September 19 1941 a success.

If at any time we may be of service to you please don't fail to call on us.

Very truly yours Mary M. Akins [signature] Mary M. Akins Secretary

Youth City stands for Spiritual Cultural Moral and Physical Development of youth

Youth City stands against Crime and all Organizations Advocating Overthrow of our government

Endorsed by the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania

UNITED WAR CHEST

THOMAS S. GATES Chairman of the Board DAVID E. WILLIAMS President EARL G. HARRISON 1946 Campaign Chairman OTTO F. BRADLEY Executive Director

LOCust 3742 105 "B" S.16th ST. PHILADELPHIA 2 PA.

November 29 1945

Dear Miss Anderson :

With the close of the 1946 United War Chest Campaign I want to take this opportunity to thank you for serving as a speaker. In spite of the early date of the Campaign and the consequent shortness of time in which we had to work speakers filled over 1000 engagements.

Your fine cooperation and your success in telling the War Chest story contributed materially to the collection of funds. Although we have not reached the goal which we set, you have good reason to feel that you have done a splendid job under difficult situations for this community for our men and women still in the armed services and for the suffering people in the liberated nations all over the world.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours

Robert T. McCracken

Robert T. McCracken Chairman 1946 Speakers Bureau

General Election November 6 1945

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pace Alexander

At Home

Thanksgiving Day

Thursday Twenty-fifth of November Nineteen hundred and forty-three from six until eight o'clock

1708 Jefferson Street Philadelphia Penna.

THE REVEREND ROBERT S. HARRIS CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO OFFER WITH HIM HIS FIRST SOLEMN MASS SUNDAY DECEMBER THE EIGHTH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY AT TEN-FORTY-FIVE A.M. ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH 1709 ARCTIC AVE. ATLANTIC CITY N.J.

[Mrs. Raymond Pace Alexander] [1900 Chestnut Street] [Philadelphia Pennsylvania]

[October 17 1940]

Dear Alice,

We are inviting a few friends to meet M. [Georges??] Eugene [Roy??] son of the former President of Haiti and himself Director of the Department of Internal Revenue of Haiti and his neice Mlle. Denise [Roy??] on Sunday evening October 20 1940 from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. at our home 1708 Jefferson Street

946 [Leachester??] Ave Winnipeg Manitoba [March 19/40]

Miss Anderson,

Just a line to thank you very much for being so good in answering my previous mail. Last night I had the great pleasure of meeting Marian Anderson. This to me has been a dream come true. I have been longing to meet her and at last I have. What a charming sister you have. Also what a grand gift her voice and so beautifully trained she had me spell bound to my mind she is without doubt the best singer to-day. I have heard many and I have yet to find one like her I do hope she will take good car of her health so she