Typescript of a speech by Florence Turney McKee profiling Frances Shimer, the founder of Shimer College. Mrs. McKee was a Shimer alumna of the late Seminary period and wife of the school's second president William Parker McKee.

The speech is undated. However, from internal and external clues, it appears likely to have been delivered in 1928, at the exercises marking the 75th anniversary of the school's founding.

Then known as the Frances Shimer Academy and located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, Shimer College is today a very small college in Chicago with a rigorous Great Books curriculum and the nation's longest-running program of early entrance to college.

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