In center is a copy of the cover of the original commencement program. (from Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace) Maud Palmer Hart (Betsy Ray) and Frances Vivian Kenney (Tacy Kelly) 1910 high school graduation portraits. In April 1917, Lillian invited Maud and Delos to the Wakefield home for dinner, and an immediate attraction developed between the two.Ĭommencement Day, that never-to-be-forgotten third of June, dawned hot. Lillian Wakefield (Harry’s wife) had hired Maud to work for her when she opened the Wakefield Publicity Bureau in 1916. Also employed by the Tribune as a feature writer was Maud Hart from Mankato, Minnesota. In 1915, he began working as a reporter and copy editor for Harry Wakefield, the city editor of the Minneapolis Tribune. More about this friendship and Delos’s writing career in the next post. Here he met and became friends with another reporter, Merian C.
Guild.ĭelos moved to Minneapolis in 1914 to attend the University of Minnesota and work as a reporter for the (Minneapolis) Daily News. After graduation in 1913, Delos was hired as a reporter for the Fargo Courier News by managing editor Lewis T. In early 1911, Josephine moved to Fargo where she continued to work as a dressmaker and Delos attended high school. He also worked in the harvest fields in northern Minnesota. To help the family financially, Delos delivered newspapers and, spent his summers working on his uncle’s farm in Michigan. Sometime before 1899, Delos’s father died and his mother Josephine moved the family to Detroit where she worked as a dressmaker and raised her five children. Baby Delos had four older sisters to dote on him, Ona, Aline, Amma and Grace. They named their only son, Delos Wheeler Lovelace. 2, 1895, a baby boy was born to Mortimer “Morton” and Josephine (Wheeler) Lovelace in Deer River, Minnesota.
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