Clippings, circa June 1936

Handwritten along the margin:
This girl [Miss Ora Shultz of Cosby] worked for Mrs. McCrae two three or 4 years when she was in high school here. Mrs. McCrae helped her thru school (college) in some ways. Another girl graduates this June helped very largely by Mrs. McCrae. Mrs. McCrae's notice of death was in this paper from which this clipping is taken.

Mrs. M'Crea Dies Thursday
Had Been Teacher at Pittman Center for Past Seven Years
Mrs. Susie Lawson McCrea, 62 years of age, died Thursday morning, May 21, 1936, at 11:00 o'clock, at the home at Pittman Center following an illness of four days[.] She was found unconscious early Monday morning and never regained consciousness.
Mrs. McCrea was the widow of John P. McCrea. She had been a School for seven years an dhad [sic] teacher in the Pittman Center School for seven years and had endeared herself to a large acquaintance since becoming connected there.
Surviving are one brother and two nephews.
The body was prepared for burial at the Rawlings Funeral Home. Following a brief service under the auspicies [sic] of the Manthano Club of which she was a member the body was shipped to Putnam, Connecticut, where it arrived Monday morning.

TVA Features Club Meeting
Excerpt:
The Club was saddened by the death of Mrs. Susie McCrae one of the members. Mrs. McCrae was to have been hostess to this meeting. Just before they left the funeral parlors with her body the club gathered and brought flowers. Rv. [sic] W. Kemp Harris read a short scripture passage and offered prayer. Mrs. McCrae will be missed by the club.

[This one probably came from a different time, as the seminary became a college in the 1890s, but it was found with the other clippings. There is no O'Reilly in the biographical directory of MHC alums and professors, so this story may just be fiction.]
Mrs O'Reilly is an old lady who lives in South Hadley, and the delight of her life is to visit the remains of every body who dies within ten miles. A few weeks ago The Homestead fell into her hands, and among the South Hadley items she found one which interested her mightily. It said that "Miss Nutting of the corps of Mt Holyoke seminary has just returned." Mrs O'Reilly is not much of a scholar, but she got it straightened out in her mind that a dead teacher had been brought to the seminary. She donned shawl and bonnet and presented herself at the college, where she asked to see Miss Nutting's remains. You can't convince her yet but that she was cheated out of a pleasure, and that the seminary people lied to her.

		Handwritten along the margin: This girl [Miss Ora Shultz of Cosby] worked for Mrs. McCrae two three or 4 years when she was in high school here. Mrs. McCrae helped her thru school (college) in some ways. Another girl graduates this June helped very largely by Mrs. McCrae. Mrs. McCrae's notice of death was in this paper from which this clipping is taken.
		Mrs. M'Crea Dies Thursday Had Been Teacher at Pittman Center for Past Seven Years Mrs. Susie Lawson McCrea, 62 years of age, died Thursday morning, May 21, 1936, at 11:00 o'clock, at the home at Pittman Center following an illness of four days[.] She was found unconscious early Monday morning and never regained consciousness. Mrs. McCrea was the widow of John P. McCrea. She had been a School for seven years an dhad [sic] teacher in the Pittman Center School for seven years and had endeared herself to a large acquaintance since becoming connected there. Surviving are one brother and two nephews. The body was prepared for burial at the Rawlings Funeral Home. Following a brief service under the auspicies [sic] of the Manthano Club of which she was a member the body was shipped to Putnam, Connecticut, where it arrived Monday morning.
		TVA Features Club Meeting Excerpt: The Club was saddened by the death of Mrs. Susie McCrae one of the members. Mrs. McCrae was to have been hostess to this meeting. Just before they left the funeral parlors with her body the club gathered and brought flowers. Rv. [sic] W. Kemp Harris read a short scripture passage and offered prayer. Mrs. McCrae will be missed by the club.
		[This one probably came from a different time, as the seminary became a college in the 1890s, but it was found with the other clippings. There is no O'Reilly in the biographical directory of MHC alums and professors, so this story may just be fiction.] Mrs O'Reilly is an old lady who lives in South Hadley, and the delight of her life is to visit the remains of every body who dies within ten miles. A few weeks ago The Homestead fell into her hands, and among the South Hadley items she found one which interested her mightily. It said that "Miss Nutting of the corps of Mt Holyoke seminary has just returned." Mrs O'Reilly is not much of a scholar, but she got it straightened out in her mind that a dead teacher had been brought to the seminary. She donned shawl and bonnet and presented herself at the college, where she asked to see Miss Nutting's remains. You can't convince her yet but that she was cheated out of a pleasure, and that the seminary people lied to her.