ENGLISH-SOCIOLOGY
Prepared at Central High School, Kansas City, MO.
Letters
March 15, 1924
January 8, 1930
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1904 Program:
Present address: 3242 Norledge Place, Kansas City, Mo.
June 1904 Kalends:
Helen Hendrix and Molly Cullom will attend a house party at Asbury Park, given by Bess De Bow, during the latter part of June.
June 1905 Kalends:
Helen Hendricks sailed June second from New York for a summer trip on the Continent.
February 1906 Kalends:
Mollie Cullom Walker, '03, has been visiting Helen Hendrix, '03, at her home in Kansas City, Missouri.
May 1909 Kalends:
Helen Hendrix stopped at college on her way to Philadelphia.
July 1929 Alumnae Quarterly:
Helen Hendrix Mohr has recently moved into a new home in Kansas City, Mo., which she has had the pleasure of watching "grow" under her supervision. She has one son, aged ten.
July 1930 Alumnae Quarterly:
Helen Hendrix Mohr is busy with her 11 year old son and a new home, recently built.
July 1936 Alumnae Quarterly:
Helen Hendrix Mohr and her husband drove east in June to see their only child, Lewis, graduate from the Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH. Unfortunately that Commencement was just too late for her to take in Goucher's Commmencement on her way. She planned a little reunion of her own, however, with Nancy Johnston Skey in Toronto, Canada. Nancy's husband is a banker. They have two children, a son and a daughter.
The Mohrs are proud to be living across State Line on the Kansas side these days and are loyal Landonites.
November 1937 Alumnae Quarterly:
Helen Hendrix Mohr sounded like the same effervescent, enthusiastic Helen as of our old college days when I talked with her on the 'phone as I passed through Kansas City last March on my way to Birmingham after two months in California with my mother. Helen was full to overflowing with tales of her splendid son who is a sophomore at Yale, having graduated from Phillips Exeter.
November 1938 Alumnae Quarterly
"Life seems very satisfying," writes Helen Hendrix Mohr from Kansas CIty. "My nineteen-year-old son is a junior at Yale and his enthusiasm and achievements keep my husband and me thoroughly interested in modern education. Besides this I am quite active in the American Association of University Women."
July 1939 Alumnae Quarterly:
Helen Hendrix Mohr writes: "Greetings and every good wish for each of the class of 1903! So sorry I cannot express these in person at the Reunion but that seems impossible this year. Our son is now a junior at Yale and most enthusiastic. I have been active in the A.A.U.W., the Woman's City Club, and the Y.W.C.A."
Spring 1950 Alumnae Quarterly:
"Please forgive me for taking a year to answer your card of last March. It has been carefully filed in my desk until I had a free moment, believe it or not!
A battle with termites last spring and then the confusion of redecorating our home we built twenty-one years ago may help explain this delay. Please do not think it was indifference or lack of loyalty to 1903!
I was so sorry not to have attended our class reunion and have seen you all again and - the experiences of these many past years.
Mine have been very active and happy ones until in 1912 1 fell and suffered a fractured hip which has slowed me down and necessitated a more restricted life- resignations from Y.W.C.A. and Woman's City Club and University Women's Club Boards, etc.
While I am no longer crippled I find less zest for reforms and committee meetings and more interest in my home-and special activities in our University Women's Club and Church work.
I have a wonderful (I think) son-Yale '40-Yale Law '45 after four years' war service in the Aleutians. He is now at home practicing law and most enthusiastic over his firm and his specialty-writing wills.
I feel terribly cheated in being so far from any of my classmates and not watching the development of the new Goucher Campus. I certainly hope to visit it some day.
You must have had a most interesting reunion. I was very proud of the reports about our class. What happened to the Dr. Shefloe Fund? How was it used?"
For the benefit of all classmates who would also like to know the answer to this question, let me quote from a letter from our class president: "A little over $1200 was raised. The money was turned over to the college and the income from it is to be used for books for the Dept. of Romance Languages and a special bookplate was to be put on them. When the first books were purchased the Department gave a tea and Dr. Crooks sent me an invitation. She wrote me later about
the tea and spoke of Dr. Shefloe whom she knew and her gratitude for the books. Miss Cockey also wrote me and someone who was there said everything was lovely and dignified. I believe Louisa Doetsch spoke for the committee, a member of the Department spoke and I think Miss Zouck spoke for the French Majors and about Dr. Shefloe.
We had a Goucher representative at our high school on Feb. 7 and she showed pictures of the college. She and the pictures made a fine impression." -Claire Ackerman Vliet
Summer 1952 Alumnae Quarterly
"Speaking of Bess reminds me of that precious Helen Hendrix Mohr. Not long before Christmas she cracked her pelvic bone, so she has had some very difficult enforced leisure. This was the first Christmas since Lewis (her only child) and Irene married, so it brought added disappointments in her Christmas plans. But I am indeed happy to report that Helen is lots stronger and is learning to walk again..." - Mollie Cullom Walker
Summer 1953 Alumnae Quarterly:
"The plans for 1903 reunion seem most attractive and I only wish I could be there to greet each of my classmates again. But I have had the flu, and am not very well, so I fear I must deny myself the pleasure. My best to you all and hope for a most satisfying reunion."
Spring 1954 Alumnae Quarterly:
We send our condolences to Helen Hendrix Mohr, on the death of her sister, which came after a long and severe illness. Helen, herself, was ordered to the hospital for an operation after her sister's death. Our best wishes to you, Helen, for your speedy restoration to health and strength.
Spring 1956 Alumnae Quarterly:
Helen Hendrix Mohr writes from Kansas City that she had been in the hospital for a spell, which upset all her plans for too long a time. "But I am feeling fine once more. Just a housewife is what I am. With the many thrilling careers of college graduates today, I rather hesitated even to suggest that it is my life work. But it is interesting making a home for husband and son, and now I have another privilege-being a grandmother to a darling little girl, 2 1/2, and a boy, six months old, my son's children. Lewis is a lawyer, thrilled with his profession. He lives near us and brings many new interests into our lives. It is my regret that I live so far away from Goucher activities but I delight in reading about GOucher's development and stimulating program. I do enjoy our A.A.U.W. group here, in which I have been active."
Fall 1957 Alumnae Quarterly:
Man-made and natural catastrophies give to our lives too many uncertainties and excitements - as many as our forefathers knew in the great wilderness of earlier years. Helen Hendrix Mohr tells us of her brush with the devastating tornado that hit Kansas City earlier this year. "Sickness and a death in my husband's family have prevented me from writing sooner. Yes, our tornado gave us a most terrifying experience. We were warned to keep our radios on, so we were constantly informed of its approach. Finally, we were told to go to our basements to the southwest corners. After hours of this suspense we were told that the tornado was within ten miles of Kansas City - in the suburbs, as a matter of fact- but then the funnel shaped cloud lifted and we heard that we would escape further damage- at least would escape the full force of the wind. But we were so exhausted from that awful suspense that it took days to get back to normal living."
Spring 1964 Alumnae Quarterly:
Alice Dunning Flick is one of our agents for the Alumnae Fund and tells me that Helen Hendrix Mohr is still interested in Goucher...
Spring 1967 Alumnae Quarterly:
A letter from the son of Helen Hendrix Mohr brings the sad news of her death on December 14, 1966. She had suffered a stroke 2 days earlier.
Helen's family home was in Kansas City, Mo., and it was there, after we were graduated from college, that she was married. She lived in Kansas City and Shawnee Mission, Kan., until her death.
Her interest in Goucher and our class had continued since we were students together, and when Helen's eyesight failed, her husband, acting as her secretary, replied to college and class letters for her.
To Mr. Mohr and their son Lewis Helen's classmates send their deepest sympathy. - Alice Dunning Flick
