Nancy Grant Scrapbook (BRAC0002)

By Nancy Grant

Nancy Taylor Cox Grant (1927-2000) began her residency at Broadmead in February 1994. According to her profile in the Voice she was Broadmead’s “Head Quaker” in the Administrative Offices, performing an impressive number of tasks, and for whom an adequate job description could never be written.” She was a native Baltimorean, a graduate of Friends School and the University of Maryland. She was first married to Dr. W. F. Cox after whose death she returned to Friends School in the Business Office, and then after the death of her second husband, Judge Joseph C. Grant, went to work at Broadmead in 1978 where she remained until her retirement in 1992. She had a keen interest in the history of Broadmead as evidenced by her scrapbook, and served as a volunteer in the Archives of Friends School. She left this note attached to her scrapbook:

A “Broadmead Scrapbook” was certainly not a top priority item in 1978, 1979, or even 1982 - it was more of an “inspiration” of 1983. And its only purpose is to remind us of the people and progress, the fun and frolics, and the trial and tribulations that we have shared at Broadmead together. This Scrapbook is not a serious history - that is in the Archives, the Voice of the Residents, and the records. This book contains those memories I could not bear to throw away.

Over the years since it was deposited with the uncatalogued records of Broadmead, some of the photographs in the scrapbook were “borrowed” and not returned. As the collections are brought under more rigorous management control, a project of the Baltimore Residents Association begun in the summer of 2025, they may yet be found and restored.