1951 Bethel Woman\'s College Yearbook Hopkinsville KY Wizard of Oz Photo Ephemera For Sale

The Scroll, 1951 — the yearbook of Bethel Woman\'s College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with a personal archive of letters, photographs, and programs kept inside by its original owner.ABOUT THE SCHOOL
Bethel was a Baptist school for women, founded in Hopkinsville in 1854. In 1951, the year this book was printed, it became co-educational and changed its name to Bethel College. The college closed in 1964 and its buildings were razed in 1966, so records like this one are what remain of it.THE YEARBOOK
The 1951 Scroll uses a circus theme throughout, titled \"The Scroll Circus of Bethel Woman\'s College.\"
- Embossed cover: a Ferris wheel, big-top tents, and a carousel.
- Endpapers: red and navy illustrations of trapeze artists, clowns, a bareback rider, an elephant, and circus wagons.
- Section openers: Winter Quarter, Spring Training, and Grand Opening.Pages include:
- Student candids, including the \"Want a Ride?\" motor scooter photo.
- Club pages for the Home Economics Club, International Relations Club, and French Club.
- A full-page mother-and-baby photograph with silhouette dancers.
- A \"Boosters of Bethel\" roster listing students by East Hall, West Hall, and Town Girls.The advertising section is a snapshot of 1951 Hopkinsville business. Advertisers include:
- King Kole Bottling Co. (Double Cola)
- Sunflour Self Rising Flour
- Odorless Dry Cleaners
- W. B. Humphries Commercial Photography
- Hopkinsville Stone Company
- Cayce-Yost Company, Frank Cayce Company, and Gordon Cayce
- Cornette\'s
- Morton\'s
- Duffer Motor Co. (Dodge and Plymouth) and Dowdy Motor Co. (Buick)
- Modern Radio Service
- Moss, Heltsley & Frankel (Burley Tobacco)
- Jim Noland\'s Western Auto
- Wallace Insurance Agency
- McFarland Shoe RepairingINSCRIPTIONS
The book belonged to a student named Elaine, and her classmates filled it with messages. These are personal inscriptions from fellow students. They are not signatures of any credited contributor and are not offered as such. Partial transcriptions:Title page: \"Dear Elaine, Don\'t forget the hours we spent attempting to learn a little French. Best of Everything – Sincerely – Betty Roberts\"Endpaper, a long letter headed \"Glee Club, March 6, 1951,\" which reads in part: \"Dear Elaine, It has really been fun, Elaine!\" The writer recalls the Glee Club tour, a house in Cairo with a lavender bathroom and green toilet paper, music class, and the French phrases they worked on together.Further long messages appear on the French Club page, the mother-and-baby page, the \"Want a Ride?\" page, and elsewhere.INCLUDED WITH THE BOOK
- Program for the Ninety-First Annual Commencement of Bethel Woman\'s College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-one
- Typed concert tour itinerary with stops at churches and schools, including Mt. Vernon, Carmi, Effingham, and Henderson, ending at Bethel Woman\'s College
- Handwritten letter on lined paper, folded and tucked inside
- Black and white stage production photograph of The Wizard of Oz showing Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion on set, in its original envelope handwritten \"Wizard of Oz picture\"
- Black and white group photograph of the Choral Club posed in front of a charter bus bannered \"Bethel Woman\'s College,\" with a brick campus building behindWHO IT\'S FOR
- Genealogists and family historians
- Collectors of Hopkinsville and Christian County history
- Collectors of Kentucky Baptist and women\'s college history
- Wizard of Oz stage ephemera collectors
- Anyone who loves a mid-century life preserved in one placePlease see all photos. They are part of the description.
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Title: The Scroll 1951, Bethel Woman\'s College Yearbook
Author: Bethel Woman\'s College
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Publisher: Bethel Woman\'s College
Place of Publication: Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Year Printed: 1951
Edition: 1951 Yearbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Yearbooks
Subject: Kentucky History
Special Attributes: Illustrated, Gift Inscriptions
Original/Facsimile: Original
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States