Hitty Cranberry and Hitty Diane
Donated by the HittyGirls Yahoo Group
17 May 2007
Sue Glidden (known as 'Sue in Maine' on the internet) delivered and installed a wonderful collection of Hittys and Hitty items to the GCI Historical Society's museum on 17 May.
Hitty Cranberry (left) and Hitty Diane (right)
The gift was a memorial for Diane Barrow-Clark, a well-known Hitty collector and carver, who posted eagerly-anticipated stories to the "HittyGirls" Yahoo group about her dolls' adventures running the "Lake Thonotosassa Boarding School." Diane passed away 5 Sept. 2006.
The donation also included a beautiful cloth-bound Memorial Book showing many of the Hittys in Diane's collection, and also the individual items donated in her honor to the GCIHS museum.
Diane must have been well-loved because at least 27 people pitched in, donating an extravaganza of gifts in her memory:
Kathy Baxter - Cape
Pipah Bradshaw (from Wales) - Welsh costume
Nancy Brennan - Table cloth, folk bowls, egg on plate, flowers
Louise "Wizzy" Brooks - Blue wooden bench
Elise Buhn - Undergarments and dress
Celia Caldwell - Monkey and basket of goodies
Julie DeGroat - Photo challenge book
Michelle DelValle - painted "Hitty Diane"
Karen Dietrich - Knitting basket
Susan Duncan - HittyGirls and Hitty4Everyone name tags for the Hittys
Jane Evans - Cape and bonnet
DMarie Ewing - Quaker dress and dress forms
Sue Glidden - Doll house, quilt rack, and Memorial Book
Trudy Glidden - Cloth covered scrapbook
Fung Hicks - Sampler dress
Tom Hindes - Wooden trunk
Sharon Horswill - Ship in bottle, potted plant, puppy
Jill Hunter - Embroidered Hitty pillow
Elaine Jackson - Log cabin quilt with stitched word "Hitty"
Michelle Kirby - Granny square afghan and braided rug
Pauline Nissan - Dress and bonnet
Nancy Schaub - Sleigh bed, persian rug, wooden table
Nancy Schell - cloth "Hitty Cranberry" and accessories
Dawn Spinney - Blue knitted scarf
Pat Thompson - Beaded handbag
TC Vollum - carved "Hitty Diane"
Sylvia Ybarra - Hitty travel trunk
All the donations, in the doll house
Hitty Cranberry and Hitty Diane (from HittyGirls) and Hitty Willow Thompson (from Hitty4everyone) were donated to us about the same time, all to honor the memory of Diane Barrow-Clark.
