GOVERNANCE BOT 1941 Correspondence

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 03: GOVERNANCE CORRESPONDENCE
PMSS Board of Trustees
1941 Correspondence

01 Laurel House II under construction, 1941. [1941_12_directors_rept_photos_001.jpg]

TAGS: BOT correspondence, Board of Trustees of Pine Mountain Settlement School correspondence, Minnie P. Bullock, Mrs. Waller Bullock, Evelyn K. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, a trustee’s criticism of new developments at the School, J.S. Crutchfield

GOVERNANCE BOT 1941 Correspondence

[Note: Letters from PMSS staff in the PMSS Collections are carbon copies, typewritten, unsigned, and meant for the Office files. The original signed documents were sent to the correspondents. Letters from others are typewritten originals unless specified otherwise. The following list of contents is in chronological order and not in the order of the image numbers.]

[Note: The following may not be a complete listing of letters for the year. This page will be updated with additional letters as they are found and processed.]

006-006a April 8, 1941. Two-page handwritten letter to Miss [Evelyn K.] Wells from MInnie P. [Mrs. Waller] Bullock at Cumberland Island, GA, 006 who writes of her disappointment with the “present head of the School” and recent developments at the School. 006a She hopes that Mrs. [Fannie] Gratz, who is also discouraged, will stay on the Board; she asks that no-one else sees this letter, as she is “still interested in the splendid work that Mr. and Mrs. [Richard] Baker are doing at Line Fork.”

005 April 20, 1941. To Bullock from [unsigned, apparently Wells], responding to Bullock’s April 8th letter, telling Bullock she should write her criticisms of Glyn Morris and the new developments at the School more fully and send them to the appropriate board members. She then assures Bullock that “nothing that was good in the past will be lost; and that much that is good has been added. This does not mean that I blindly endorse everything at Pine Mountain. I bear with much, because I believe in its future as well as its present.”

004-004d June 1, 1941. Five-page handwritten letter to Wells from Bullock in Lexington, KY, 004 who feels that the School “is going from bad to worse,” now that the Bakers are not returning to Line Fork. Morris should be allowed to “go where that kind of work is needed.” 004a She describes how many of the people “back there” need help. She feels that “The School does not reach the very young people …[nor] the married people”; the Chapel should be used by all, not just for 004b the students. 004c Bullock is “very much discouraged about the School” and asks that no-one sees her letter. She hopes to see [J.S.] Crutchfield soon. 004d She hopes that the board has “an ear to the ground [and that] it is not a deaf one.”

002 June 4, 1941. To Bullock from [unsigned, apparently Wells], responding to Bullock’s letter of June 1st criticizing the School. Bullock is not willing to share her criticisms with other trustees, but Wells writes that they should be discussed with the board chairman and “that he must be allowed to talk things over frankly with us.” She hopes Bullock has talked with Crutchfield. [Handwritten note in bottom margin: “Mr Crutchfield has talked to her – EKW June ‘42.”]

001 June 22, 1941. To Crutchfield from [unsigned, apparently Wells], in Wellesley, MA, commenting on Mrs. Bullock’s letters, indicating “her ideas of the school and of mountain work are so strongly colored by those of Miss [Katherine] Pettit in 1895 when she first went into Knott County, that I doubt if she can ever change.” Wells agrees with Crutchfield concerning a gift for the Morrises and will inform Mr. Swift and Mrs. [Dorothy Olcott] Elsmith of Crutchfield’s opinion. She indicates when she is free for a meeting with Mr. Morris at Woods Hole and mentions receiving wedding cards from Grace.

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