GOVERNANCE Directors Annual Reports to BOT 1937-1938

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 02: GOVERNANCE – Board of Trustees
Series 04: ADMINISTRATION – Directors
Director’s Annual Reports to BOT 1937-1938
Glyn Morris, PMSS Director, 1931-1942

1937-1938 Annual Report to the Board of Trustees.

1937-38 Annual Report to the Board of Trustees. Glyn Morris, Director. [1937-38_boar003.jpg]


TAGS: Governance, director’s annual reports to BOT 1937-1938, Glyn Morris, John A. Spelman III woodcuts, Youth Guidance Institute, pack horse library service, Infirmary, White House dinner performance, PMSS calendar, farm and garden, principal’s report, Junior Enterprise, Line Fork Settlement, Medical Settlement Big Laurel, religious life, financial statement for 1936-37, guidance counselors, citizenship committee, student co-operative store, student community group, folk dancing, PMSS staff list, request for meeting with BOT


GOVERNANCE Director’s Annual Reports to BOT 1937-1938

Director: Glyn Morris

[NOTE: Trustees’ letters and reports that are not an official part of the Annual Reports may be found on pages for the individual trustees’ correspondence.]

CONTENTS: Director’s Annual Reports to BOT 1937-1938

001 Cover: “Annual Report to the Board of Trustees, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, Ky., 1937-1938.” Artist: John A. Spelman III.

002 Preface: “Published by the Print Shop, Pine Mountain, Kentucky. This report was printed at the Print Shop where some twenty students work and have classes. Woodcuts by John A. Spelman III.”

003 ILLUSTRATION: Woodcut by Spelman.

004 “Annual Report to the Board of Trustees of Pine Mountain Settlement School, Inc.” …

From time to time you have received various reports pertaining to specific problems and events, and through the Pine Cone you have been kept advised in some detail of student affairs and accomplishments. This report is intended to present a summary of the salient aspects of Pine Mountain’s history through the year.

GENERAL REPORT ON THE SCHOOL: This year, “[w]e are grateful for normalcy of life which has been the exception rather than the rule at Pine Mountain.”
YOUTH CONFERENCE: “For three days during July, Pine Mountain was host to a local youth conference under the direction of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.”

005 DUPLICATE OF 004.

006 (Page 6) Youth Conference [continued]: purposes, elementary teachers’ association.
THE COMMUNITY: Home visits by students under the nurse’s supervision; pack horse library service and how it is administered; local school visits by students to promote hand craft (scroll-saw work).

007 (Page 7) Community [continued]: 17 students attending PMSS high school are transported to and from Big Laurel and Bledsoe using a Chevrolet station wagon.
INFIRMARY: Statistics of student days in Infirmary, office calls, physical inspections, community office calls, and home calls; permanent dental clinic in Infirmary; TB, Schick, and Dick tests; typhoid serum; physical exams of local school children.
PUBLICITY: Student singing and dancing presentation at White House dinner.
PHOTOGRAPH: “Community Girl at Work”

008 (Page 8) Publicity [continued]: PMSS calendar with Spelman’s art brought enthusiastic response and contributions.
FARM AND GARDEN: Crops; dairy; canning; 20 acres under cultivation; 14 cows, 2 heifers, 3 calves, 1 bull, 128 hens, 7 pigs.
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT: Experimental curricular changes for the two lower groups (7th and 8th grades), including a play and publication of a class paper (“Junior Enterprise”).
PHOTOGRAPH: “Students Building Milkhouse

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009 (Page 10) SETTLEMENT: Line Fork is operated by Rev. and Mrs. Richard E. Baker, successors of Rev. and Dr. Stapleton. Medical Settlement continues classes and recreational programs.
RELIGIOUS LIFE: Described in a quotation from a Pine Cone editorial.
PHOTOGRAPH: “Pack Horse Librarian.”

010 (Page 11) Religious Life [continued]. A list of “The Visiting Ministers.”
ILLUSTRATION: Woodcut by Spelman.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

011 (Page 12) FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR 1936-37: Lists of expenses for education, administration, living, houses, laundry, Infirmary, and general.

012 (Page 13) Financial Statement for 1936-37 [continued]: Lists of expenses for Line Fork, Medical Settlement; Accounts Payable, Increase in Capital Account, Revenues (educational income, annual subscriptions and contributions, special gifts – legacies, endowment fund, miscellaneous income; Amount transferred from Endowment fund for operation expenses.

013 (Page 14) ILLUSTRATION: Woodcut by Spelman.

PMSS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

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014 (Page 16) [Continued from page 15] Isolation of PMSS; student demographics; tuition; student labor; summer work; self-sufficiency of PMSS; educational equipment. ‘Basic in Pine Mountain’s educational program is ‘guidance.’” Definition of “Guidance”; appreciation for Dr. O. Latham Hatcher, “President of the Southern Woman’s Educational Alliance, for aid both inspirational and technical in setting up a guidance program.” Reference to the preface to Education as Guidance by Dr. John M. Brewer (Macmillan and Co., NY. 1937.). 

015 (Page 17) [Continued from page 16] Characterizations of a guidance program: office of the counselor, achievement and personality tests, self-analysis, guidance in curriculum selection.

016 (Page 18) [Continued from page 17] Additional tasks of the counselor; “The child needs systematic and organized help” in interpreting and selecting from the array of courses and activities. The PMSS student is not graded and “old forms of standardization” are discarded, in order that the curriculum is “life-like and free from competitive strain.”

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017 (Page 20) [Continued from page 19.] Curriculum of “life activities”; cottage plan of housing. Descriptions of three of the most important student activities: (1) A citizenship committee, (2) A student co-operative store, …

018 DUPLICATE OF 017.

019 (Page 21) [Continued from page 20] …(3) student community group. Comparing the students’ life on campus and at home; efforts to create rapport with the community. Social life and recreation at PMSS: “Hiking, dramatics, music and folk dancing are as important as basketball or baseball.”

020 (Page 22) [Continued from page 21] Emphasis on English country dancing and Kentucky running-set. At PMSS, “every effort is…made to promote self-control, honor, and an inner discipline.”
ILLUSTRATION: Woodcut by Spelman.

021 (Page 23) THE STAFF. List of staff members, their education, and their assignments at PMSS: Anna Anderson, Joan Ayers, Fred J. Burkhard, B.C. Callahan, Edith Cold, Arthur W. Dodd, Anna Lee Goins, Fern Hall, William Hayes, Gladys Hill, Maude Holbrook, Alice Joy Keith, JJames C. Livengood, Josephine Merrill, Bess Ollinger, Winfred Powell, Grace M. Rood, Chloe Smith, John A. Spelman III, Esther Weller, John H. Young.
OUT POSTS: Rev. and Mrs. Richard E. Baker – Line Fork; Mrs. Anna Pishzak – Medical Settlement.


GALLERY: Director’s Annual Reports to BOT 1937-1938
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Morris requests a meeting with the Board of Trustees – 1938 .

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