Word: glens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some such girls in your town or elsewhere, and can send their names and addresses to me for this purpose (confidentially, if you prefer not to be quoted). We shall appreciate the courtesy and reciprocate with the usual honorarium of $25 for each girl you list who may attend Glen Eden through this information; or $50 if the attendance be consummated with the help of your personal influence. Our school and myself being perhaps unknown to you, may I suggest reference to Who's Who in America and to Sargent's Directory of American Private Schools...
Sargent's Directory of American Schools says that Glen Eden, "is a finishing school offering a wide range of electives with special facilities in music, art, domestic science, expression, dramatics, physical culture and athletics...
...reveals that Dr. Frederic Martin Townsend, Glen Eden's founder-director, was graduated by the University of Michigan and the College of St. Francis Xavier, Manhattan. For a time he was director of the National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Md., near Washington. Perhaps that is why he affixed a "Glen" to the Poughkeepsie "Eden" which he founded in 1910 and moved to Stamford, Conn, in 1919. Before he founded Glen Eden he conducted parties of summer tourists to Europe. His excuse for circularizing ministers to drum up a clientele was that Glen Eden is to be a "Church...
...dances, dinners, debutante balls, sightseeing tours, and special entertainments, the Harvard University Instrumental Clubs disbanded in Chicago after the Sunday afternoon concert of December 30. Some departed homeward; about 20 members left that night at 9 o' clock for Boston in one of the special cars while the Glen Douglas special left the following morning with those men who had remained for a dinner dance...
...titles of host, amateur scientist, clubman (20 of them), with all of which he is quaintly press-shy. His fortune has come from public utilities, which he developed, not as a sportsman but as a shrewd businessman, and which may now exceed a round hundred millions. He lives at Glen Cove, Long Island, and in the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, town house of the late Elbert H. Gary, which he purchased last spring...