LEONA and JESS BURDEN

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: Staff/Personnel

Leona and Jess Burden
Teachers 1941-1942


TAGS: Leona and Jess Burden ; Leona P. Burden ; teachers ; Nancy Adams ; Mary Dresser ;


Leona and Jess Burden were teachers at Pine Mountain Settlement School during the school year of 1941-1942. When Leona P. Burden came back to Pine Mountain in June of 2007 for the first time since those early years, she was 90 years old. Her daughter, Shirley McLaughlin brought her back to the campus where she had the opportunity to see all the changes that had taken place through the years. At the time of her visit, she was in a retirement home in Portland, Oregon.

Leona P. Burden was hired at the School to teach Home Economics and to supervise the Dining Hall in Laurel House Her husband, Jess Burden, taught Math, Physics, Chemistry and was in charge of the physical plant, including motor vehicles and the coal mine on the edge of the campus.

The following is a photographic memoir of her return visit to the Pine Mountain Campus in June of 2007, where she is accompanied by Nancy Adams, Director, and Mary Dresser, Assistant Director of the School.


LEONA AND JESS BURDEN: GALLERY


Title

Leona and Jess Burden

Alt. Title

Leona P. Burden

Jess Burden

Identifier

Permalink: https://pinemountainsettlement.net/?page_id=12644 

Creator

Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY

Alt. Creator

L.V. Stanford

Subject Keyword

Leona Burden ; Jess Burden ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; education ; photographs ; donations ; Chapel ; Laurel House II ; Old Log ; dietitian ; chemistry ; physics ; math ; sciences ; Home Economics ; teachers ; education ; boarding school ; 1941 ; 1942 ;

Subject LCSH

Burden, Leona
Burden, Jess
Laurel House II (Pine Mountain Settlement School, KY)
Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) — History.
Harlan County (Ky.) — History.
Education — Kentucky — Harlan County.
Rural schools — Kentucky — History.
Schools — Appalachian Region, Southern.

Date

Digital: 2014-06-07; Date of photographs: June 2007 ;

Publisher

Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY

Contributor

Shirley McLaughlin

Type

Collections ; text ; image ;

Format

Photographs in file folders in filing cabinet, alphabetical under Ser. 09, “Burden”.

Source

Series 07: Staff and Personnel ; Photograph Series ;

Language

English

Relation

Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 09: Staff and Personnel ; Photograph Series ;

Coverage Temporal

1941-42 ; 2007

Coverage Spatial

Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Portland, OR ;

Rights

Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Donor

Photographs by Shirley McLaughlin, daughter.

Description

Photographs of Leona P. Burden a teacher at Pine Mountain Settlement School along with her husband, Jess Burden. Leona taught Home Economics and managed the Dining Hall and Jess taught a variety of science classes in the school year, 1941-42.

Acquisition

2007 from Shirley McLaughlin, daughter.

Citation

Leona and Jess Burden, Series 09, Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, KY.

Processed By

Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;

Last Updated

2014-06-07 hhw

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