Louise Lawrence Miller

Letters

September 19, 1920
September 19, 1926
June 16, 1930
June 15, 1936

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1904 Program:

Instructor in Hannah More Academy, Reisterstown, Md., 1903-.
Present address: Hannah More Academy, Reisterstown, Md.

February 1909 Kalends:

Louise Lawrence is teaching in Bennot Hall, Spokane, Wash.

December 1910 Kalends:

Louise Lawrence was married August 6th to Dr. Warren Miller.

June 1912 Kalends:

Louise Lawrence Miller has a daughter.

July 1930 Alumnae Quarterly:

Louise Lawrence Miller says she is doing the usual things as housewife, adding a little politics, club and church work. Louise has one daughter at Wellesley, and one at Hannah More Academy.

May 1933 Alumnae Quarterly:

Louise Lawrence Miller confesses to getting quite a thrill out of the latest game of "showing oneself how far a dollar will go." Although it means that she and the Doctor cannot run off in the car for delightful and unexpected trips nowadays, they are still able to keep their home and send their daughters to school, which they consider ample compensation.
Isabel, seventeen, is taking a Domestic Science Course at Fairmount School in Washington, DC, and Elizabeth, twenty, will graduate from college in June. Of herself she writes: "I am still interested in our WOmen's Auxiliary and Civic League and am Treasurer of each- rather a joke at present!
The small Women's Hotel we started two years ago last fall is going nicely and we feel is filling a much needed place in town, as we have no YWCA.
Next Friday night I hope to spend with Mrs. Haslup, as I am driving to Baltimore to meet Elizabeth Saturday morning on her way home for spring vacation. I alsways see Mrs. Haslup when I am in Baltimore and marvel at her active interest in life and the acceptance of her losses."

May 1937 Alumnae Quarterly:

To Louise Lawrence Miller we extend our deep sympathy in the loss of her husband, Dr. Warren D. Miller, in January. They were happy together and happy in their family. We can only hope that time and beautiful memories will make her loss less heavy to carry.

July 1938 Alumnae Quarterly

Louise Davis Lawrence also sends news of a wedding. Her daughter Elizabeth was married to Mr. Carl B. White, an electronic engineer in the scientific department of the American Optical Society.

May 1939 Alumnae Quarterly

Louise Lawrence Miller is rejoicing over the birth of her first grandchild, born last winter.

July 1939 Alumnae Quarterly:

Louise Lawrence Miller is remodelling her home into apartments in Hagerstown, Md., and has recently visited her daughter and granddaughter in Brookline, Mass., bringing them home for a visit.

Winter 1952 Alumnae Quarterly:

Louise Lawrence Miller sent word to Anna Slease: "Two years ago I had a serious illness with an operation. Last year I was forced to buy a house to have a roof over my head, and last spring I fell and broke a bone in my foot. But I am hoping I can get to our 50th Reunion!"

Winter 1956 Alumnae Quarterly:

Our congratulations to Louise Lawrence Miller on her granddaughter's splendid achievement. Here is her letter. "Writing is a chore these days for I cannot read what I am writing nor see the final result. But here goes! May you be able to decipher it. I've been going along at my usual pace, which is more or less strenuous for an old lady nearly 75. Sometimes I am relieved that I cannot read, for with the car, and Isabel as chauffer, I do a good deal of driving around. I can see the great outdoors - the lovely coloring of each season of the year. My biggest joy is my granddaughter, Petsy. She won the coveted scholarship to Wellesley, -$1050.00 yearly. From her weekly letters to Isabel and me, she seems to be in love with every minute of her college life. Her father is an electronic engineer and her mother majored in astronomy, mathematics, and physics,but Petsy's bent is toward literature. I am interested to see which side will win her allegiance finally. Christmas will bring them home and I am anxious to meet that enthusiastic collegian again. Isabel is temporarily at the polio headquarters, and will be there until the first of February. Best wishes for the New Year."

Spring 1957 Alumnae Quarterly:

IN MEMORIAM
In the death of Louise Lawrence Miller last December, 1903 has lost one of its best known and most loyal members. We can never forget Louise's charming earnestness when talking about things in which she was sincerely interested. As the wife of a successful physician those interests were more and more concerned with fundamental problems, both of the individual and the community - health primarily, and happy adjustment between the one and the many. She became almost a symbol of the effort to provide nourishing food for the children of Hagerstown. She said herself that she thought everyone thought of a milk bottle when he saw her, because of her long association with the school milk fund. And her church work was of the same sort - an honest effort to meet fundamental needs of body and spirit.
She presided over her home with graciousness and charm; she gave time and energy without stint to worthy work outside the home; she met the ills of her last months bravely. She she leaves us a heritage of pleasant and worthwhile memories to comfort us when we think of her passing before us.
It is good for us to remember our last reunion where Louise and her daughter, Isabel, added so much to our pleasure. To Louise's daughters and grandchildren we extend our sincere sympathy. - EDA BRIGGS FROST.

Winter 1958 Alumnae Quarterly:

From Isabel Miller, Louise Lawrence Miller's lovely daughter: "Mother died just a year ago, and I have been reading over some of the letters that came to me then; they were very comforting. I live alone in the house and am getting used to it. My work at a photographic studio keeps me very busy, especially at Christmas. My hip hasn't bothered me too much; I have really been lucky for I've been out of thehospital only a few days over a year and a half, and notice pain only when I get tired."