17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Friday, February 7, 1913: We had our literary meeting this afternoon and also elected officers to take the place of the old ones. They had to go and elect me president.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Way to go Grandma!—You’ve put so much energy into the Literary Society and it’s awesome that you’re now the president.
On November 1, 1912, you wrote:
We organized a Literary Society at school this afternoon. I am one of the committee. Just what I wanted to be.
Why was there an election just three months after the society was organized? Were there problems with the previous officers. . .or had they always planned to have elections every couple of months?
Haha, when I first read that I took “They had to go and elect me president” as sarcasm. But guessing by the older entry she was probably serious. Well good for her!
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Was she really happy about it? Sounds like she may not have been that enthused 🙂
That’s what happens, do a good job and people want to elect you :D.
I love the way she worded that last sentence. I think she was being humble!
Of course they did! “They had to go” is a hilarious way of putting it. Sounds like she’s speaking to us.
“They had to go and elect me president”–I love that line. As a reluctant officer of a couple organizations, I can identify with her words.
Congrats Helena! I am proud of you.
How exciting! I hope she was pleased.
Oh Miss Muffly… I want to congratulate you and sing your praises but am thinking that maybe you actually didn’t want to be elected “President”? Maybe you’re just being modest? … maybe future diary entries will clarify this…
Grandma sounds secretly proud to be elected president. I think she must have been very popular and is only trying to sound humble in her diary in case it should be read by posterity! 🙂
I too think she was secretly pleased. I think women were raised to be modest at that time more than now. Not to act too ambitious. I certainly see it in my own family. If that’s the case, good for her! But I sure wish she could feel free to toot her own horn.
I try & read these stories everyday !!! They are very interesting !
that is so cool – good for her!