| Page 56 of 70. Prophecy on page 55 reads, "A single glance at the portrait next presented will reveal the distinguished career that awaits our classmate, Gladys Harvey. After completing the course at Smith and taking post graduate work for years at the universities of Paris and Berlin, Miss Harvey felt herself qualified to fill the difficult and arduous position to which her high ambition led her, that of a lady Golf teacher. I quote from her professional card; 'Golf taught with reference to Psychology, Pedagogy, Chemistry, Physiology and Hygiene. Complexions renovated, teeth straightened and straight hair made curly by this fascinating game. Terms, one shilling a lesson strictly in advance."
From what we know, Gladys Harvey, daughter of Stout president Dr. Lorenzo D. Harvey, did not go to prestigious Smith College in Massachusetts. The fine schooling she received at the University of Wisconsin and the Art Institute of Chicago led her to a career in education. Instead of teaching golf, she became an instructor of interior decoration at Stout and, in 1922, established the art department there. In the census of 1920, she is recorded as living in Manhattan as a social worker. A founder and first chair of the Dunn County Suffrage Party, she moved to California in the 1920s with her mother and her close friend Celia Harris. In the late twenties and early thirties, she chose the University of Hawaii for post-graduate research over the famous European institutions that the prophecy foresaw - probably a wise choice in the troubled times the old continent was facing. Living in Berkeley and Carmel, she remained active in adult education, serving as principal of the adult school in San Jose for ten years before her retirement. She died in Carmel in 1962. No record is left to tell us if she enjoyed golf as a pastime, if not as a profession.
Information about Gladys Harvey has been researched through U.S. census data, Stout Institue publications, contemporary newspaper articles and her obituary. |
