Alphabet File page 202

  Erwin, Catherine          O'Flinn, Lawrence

 

  Sardos, Julia    Roseberry, Annette

 

  Stiglet, Julia    High School Dept.

 

  Smith, Eugene Breath, Charles

 

  Scoper, Joe      Beech, Delia

 

  Simmons, Marsin        Beech, Samanatha     

 

  Travirca, Forest          Burke, May     

 

  Travirca, Cheslter        Bilbo, Doshia

 

  Taylor, James  Cuevas, Walter

 

  Taylor, Ida Mae          Cuevas, Ralph

 

  Wilks, Solomon           Cuevas, Lottie

 

  6th & 7th Grades        Cuevas, Jessie

 

  Burke, Ralph   Curet, Richard

 

  Baker, Beulah Curet, Mildred

 

  Baker, Clalee   Cameron, James; Cuevas, Ulyses            Crow, Dolly

 

                       Crow, Reuben Dubuisson, Alphonse

 

  Crow, Levy     Depreo, Foreset

 

                       Cuevas, Ester  Depreo, Allice

 

  Curet, Ollie     Davis, James

 

                       Decker, Lawrence       Favre, Hattie

 

  Dubuisson, Eveline        Faye, Pearl

 

                       Erwin, Nellie   Goncales, Joe

 

  Feye, Bertha    Hart, Lawrence

 

                       Haas, Norton   Holden, Bonnie Mae

 

  Haas, Vernon  Lower, Claud

 

                       Haas, Josephine           Koenenn, Luida        

 

  Hart, Christian           Martin, Joe

 

                       Haas, Manuel  Marson, Arthur

 

  Lott, Luisa      Marson, Rowena

 

                       Lott, Jack        Mauffray, Mae

 

  Lewis, Julia     Scoper, Elmer

 

                       Mauffray, Eveline       Shifalo, Eva

 

  Mauffray, Elvertie      Taylor, Lillian

 

  Mauffray, Ena

 

           Mauffray, Ethline

 

           Marson, Louisa

 

           Moran, Neva

 

                       Necaise, Reta

 

  Necaise, Leona

 

  Peechew, Halrold

 

  Peterson, Alice

 

                       Roberts, Myrtle

 

  Reeves, Sarah

 

  Reeves, Iola

 

  Seales, Clarence

 

                       Swanson, Michael

 

           Swanson, Carmen

 

           Sardos, Sylvena

 

           Towns, William          

 

  Shifali, Rachel

 

  Towns, David

 

  Williame, Chris

 

  Wilkes, Lillian

 

  (KCHS-Vault)

 

  Advertisements: Jordan River Lumber Co.; Jos. O. Mauffray, Hardware; Bank of Pass Christian; The Merchants Bank; L.A. de Montluzin Sons Druggists; and "This space contributed to the cause of education by A.J. McLeod, Kiln, Miss." (KCHS-Vault) Kimbell, Leonard operated a store and the Hobolochitta

 

  Post Office in 1842 (See booklet VF Hursey)

 

Kimbrell, S. Paul r 182 Sobral, Waveland (Ph 55)

 

Kimbrough, Hunter S. 806 N. Beach   (1968 phone).

 

Kimbrough:

 

AMERICA’S SYMBOLIC GIFT TO FRANCE - MANE MONUMENT

 

  As Juy 4th approaches, much is being said and wrtten about the restoration of America’s magnificent Statue of Liberty and of Franch’s generosity in presenting it to the American people as gift.

 

  On this July 4th, all of America will be reminded of the statue’s meaning and of the century of friendship between this country and the donor nation.

 

  It is odd, however, tht so little has been said during the Statue of liberty centennial celebration about the similar gift Americans presented to France in 1932.

 

  Towards the end of World War I a movement grew in the United States to provide France with a monument commemorating the crucial Battle of the Marne tha saved Paris and manifesting U. S. Admiration for the bravery of the French military.

 

  The movement was also inspired by a desire to do something for the French peple in return for their generosity in subscribing funds for the Statue of Liberty.

 

  A committee was formed with Thomas W. Lamont as chairman.  The group made a national appeal for funds to cover the heavy cost of construction of a monument to be erected at the summit of a hill in Meaux in the region where the German army was stopped.

 

  The appeal met with immense enthusiasm and spectucular results.  The required fnancing came from about four million subscribers, many of whom were school children.

 

  There was no difficulty about deciding who should design the Battle of Marne Memorial, as it was to be called.  The job went without argument to America’s most outstanding scuptor, Frederick W. MacMonnies.

 

  MacMonnies, by the way, was a close friend and associate of William de Leftwich Dodge, famed painter and muralist and father of Mrs. Hunter Kimbrough of Bay St. Louis.

 

  Mrs. Kimbrough is presently at work on a biography of MacMonnies.  She is the author of Drawn From Life, a story of her father and three other artist, incuding MacMonnies, whose friendship and work began in Paris in the 1880’s.

 

  The monument about 70 feet in height, was built from the MacMonnies design by sculptor Edmondo Quattrocchi, who had at that time a sizable studio in Paris.

 

  Quattrocchi got his first look at the design figure in 1926.  The difficult task was not completed and the monument dedicated until 1932 on the llth of September on the 18th anniversary of the Battle of the Marne.

 

  On the day that the statue was dedicated, observances in France were almost as enthusiastic as those that will be held in this country on July 4th.

 

  Religious services were held all over the country.  There was a state dinner and a ceremony in which General Pershing and Marshall Petain were reunited.

 

  The general contour of the statue is that of a narrow pyramid with “Victory”, the central figure, represented by a nude female figure brooding over fallen soldiers.

 

  MacMonnies saw the monument, not as a glorification of war, but as a representation of the horrors and tragedy of war.  In his time this was not the common approach to battefield monuments.


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