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Cash describes teaching at the Reynolda School–the curriculum, educational supplies, students, and fellow teachers. Cash offers insight into the relationship between Katharine Reynolds and her second husband J. Edward Johnston, who was hired in 1919 to be superintendent of the school. Johnston attended the same summer school at Columbia that Cash attended with her sister. When Katharine visited Johnston in New York, she invited Cash and her sister to accompany them to dinners and social outings. When they returned to Reynolda, Katharine invited the teachers up to the house for parties. “Then when we came back to Reynolda,” Cash says,” she [Katharine Reynolds] liked to dance too, and she would have the carpet rolled up and we would dance to organ music. She would invite the teachers up to the house in the evening, not for a meal, but if she wanted him [Johnston] up there, that’s what she would do….” Throughout her interview, Cash provides observations on Katharine Reynolds, J. Edward Johnston, the Reynolds children, and her fellow teachers.
ProvenanceThe Reynolda House Museum of American Art Oral History Project, established in 1980, gathered recollections from Reynolds family members and former employees, residents, and guests of the Reynolda estate. The interviews explore life at Reynolda and in Winston-Salem, N.C., during the early and mid-twentieth century, touching on the area’s socioeconomic, political, business, and cultural history. Early interviews conducted in 1980 were done by Lu Ann Jones; later interviews were conducted by museum staff.
DepartmentEstate Archives
Lucy Hadley Cash Interview
DateJuly 30, 1980
MediumDocument
Credit LineReynolda House Museum of American Art Archives
CopyrightPublic Domain
Object numberOH.02.017.1
DescriptionLucy Hadley Cash, a teacher at the Reynolda School, was interviewed by Lu Ann Jones as part of the Reynolda Oral History Project. Lucy Cash, born in eastern North Carolina in 1893, went to school in Mount Airy where her father served on the school board and owned a tobacco factory that was later bought by R.J. Reynolds. After graduating from Salem College in 1914, Cash returned to Mount Airy to teach. In 1918 Cash came to teach at Reynolda School, the first year the school was open. When she was first hired, Cash, along with two other teachers, lived in the bungalow with Katharine Reynolds and her family. She shared the gentleman’s guest room with another teacher, while Minnie Morrison occupied the lady’s guest room. The teachers took their meals with the family, but Katharine rarely entertained during this time as she was still in mourning after the death of her husband. Cash describes teaching at the Reynolda School–the curriculum, educational supplies, students, and fellow teachers. Cash offers insight into the relationship between Katharine Reynolds and her second husband J. Edward Johnston, who was hired in 1919 to be superintendent of the school. Johnston attended the same summer school at Columbia that Cash attended with her sister. When Katharine visited Johnston in New York, she invited Cash and her sister to accompany them to dinners and social outings. When they returned to Reynolda, Katharine invited the teachers up to the house for parties. “Then when we came back to Reynolda,” Cash says,” she [Katharine Reynolds] liked to dance too, and she would have the carpet rolled up and we would dance to organ music. She would invite the teachers up to the house in the evening, not for a meal, but if she wanted him [Johnston] up there, that’s what she would do….” Throughout her interview, Cash provides observations on Katharine Reynolds, J. Edward Johnston, the Reynolds children, and her fellow teachers.
ProvenanceThe Reynolda House Museum of American Art Oral History Project, established in 1980, gathered recollections from Reynolds family members and former employees, residents, and guests of the Reynolda estate. The interviews explore life at Reynolda and in Winston-Salem, N.C., during the early and mid-twentieth century, touching on the area’s socioeconomic, political, business, and cultural history. Early interviews conducted in 1980 were done by Lu Ann Jones; later interviews were conducted by museum staff.
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