Dearest of Geniuses - Part II

So the Lusitania story, as related by Sandra Katz, includes waking up in a ship or boat called the Julia and being taken to "a third rate hotel" in Ireland.  Nothing there to suggest inspiration for the school's architecture.  Oh well; it is a good story.
One question that presents itself is how to refer to Theodate in the book itself.  Dearest of Geniuses calls her "Theo" throughout, as did most of her family and friends.  As a little girl, she was called Effie; workers on the school site referred to her as "Miss Theodate," though not to her face.  Through all of my years at Avon, she has been referred to almost exclusively as "Mrs. Riddle," which is the name I used in the last post.  She was not "Mrs. Riddle," though, until she was almost fifty.  She had decided to design and build the school as a tribute to her late father long before she married John Wallace Riddle.  Nonetheless, "Mrs. Riddle" is the early favorite; "Theo" works for a biography, but this is the history of her school, not her life, and I suspect that precious few people associated with the school ever called her anything other than "Mrs. Riddle."  At this point, at least, calling her anything else sounds - feels - inappropriately informal.  (In this blog, though, I will frequently resort to using "TPR," which is what I am using in my notes.)
It is interesting also to read that TPR thought of the school as "The Avon School" (and/or "Avon College") for a time before adding "Old Farms" because this section of town had been known as Old Farms for more than a century.  Grampa's Cum Laude Society certificate is on the wall of the study on Islesboro, and it says "The Avon School."  I have forgotten the year, but it would have to have been after 1930.  So that name - the Avon School - stuck to some degree.  Of course, it was "Avon" with the short "a" - pronounced as the English would pronounce it.  That, too, survived for some time; I remember our Islesboro neighbor Mrs. Sperry, whose husband taught science during the Founder's Era, saying "I am so glad you're at Avon," and using the short "a."