PrincetonUniversity
Kathryn Watterson and Hank
Pannell look over a journal from the Friendship
Club during a visit by Watterson's class to the
Princeton Historical Society. (photo: Denise
Applewhite)
Class project brings community history to life.
Leafing through the pages of a tattered and browned
journal at the Princeton Historical Society on Nassau Street
surrounded by a group of Princeton students, Henry "Hank"
Pannell brushes his fingers across his grandmother's script.
She died many decades ago, but in this journal she is still
very much alive.
Carrie Pannell was, in 1932, one of
the founding members of the Friendship Club, an
African-American women's league in Princeton. In the
journal, the group of about a dozen women recorded the sales
of their fund-raisers, cut out and pasted inventories of the
food baskets they assembled for shut-ins, and listed the
names of students in the community to whom they awarded
scholarships and contributions they'd made to organization
such as the NAACP. more...
• Program in African-American Studies
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