Celia Voted Most Dignified

Celia Cathcart graduated from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in 1915

140 of the 183 senior class members returned surveys in which they voted on people who were "best" in a number of areas. Categories included sports, professor, class “peach,” “biggest bluffer,” best-looking woman (and man), best-dressed woman (and man), “typical college woman,” (and man).

According to this article in the college newspaper, “A majority of the class voted Celia Cathcart the most dignified member.”

photo - Celia Cathcart 1918, this might be her engagement/wedding portrait

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Note - Celia Cathcart and Florence Clark were friends at Northwestern and were in the same graduating class. After Celia and Caryl Holton married, Florence visited the family in London. Dad and his brothers called her Aunt Toots. When Celia died and Caryl and Florence married, they continued to call her Aunt Toots or just Toots. 

In Daily Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois [Northwestern University], May 21, 1915; page 4, column 2; source genealogybank.com