Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: Staff/Personnel

EDITH COLD CORRESPONDENCE III, 1947-1958

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TAGS: Edith Cold Correspondence III, 1947-1958 ; Bertha Cold ; PMSS workers ; Mary and Burton Rogers ; PMSS hospital ;

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CONTENTS:  Edith Cold Correspondence III, 1947-1958 ; Nativity Play ; Margaret Nace Starbuck ; Dorothy Nace Tharp ; Burton and Mary Rogers ; Bertha Cold ; Alice Cobb ; Dr. Francis Tucker ; Boys’ House ; Mr. Lewis ; Jess Burden Family ; Council of Southern Mountain Workers ; telephones ; return visit to PMSS ; visiting refuge families in Germany ; Friends Inter-racial Camp ; Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA ; Mary Gold Davis, donor to PMSS children’s library ; contributions to PMSS ; Christopher and Peter Rogers ; Christian Science Monitor clippings ; Bear Branch School ; Mr. & Mrs. Pennington ; memorial plaque ; Dogwood Supper ; Mary Roger’s visit to England ; discontinuation of hospital ; paved road to Harlan ; Community Churches ; PMSS workers ; PMSS former workers ;

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GALLERY: Edith Cold Correspondence III, 1947-1958
1947-1948 CORRESPONDENCE

TRANSCRIPTION: Edith Cold Correspondence III, 1947-1958
1947-1948 CORRESPONDENCE

[cold_b_1947_001.jpg] Handwritten postcard, address side.

Postmark: BROOKSTON, IND, JUN 7, 11 AM 1947

Miss Dorothy Nace
Pine Mt. Settlement School
Pine Mountain, Ky.

[cold_b_1947_001a.jpg] Handwritten postcard, message side.

Brookston, Ind.
June 7 [1947]

Dear Miss Dorothy,
Thanks for the card and the information thereon. Such a fine walking trip! I would like to have been along. You went over some territory that would have been new to me.

Here I am nicely settled. Tomorrow I pack a box for overseas and I am making over some garments to send later. When the weather permits I work in the garden.

You need not add in care of Miss Moody when you forward mail. Just the above will be enough.
Greetings,
Edith Cold

[cold_b_1947_002.jpg] Handwritten postcard, address side.

Postmark: BEN LOMOND AUG 13, 5 PM 194[?] CAL

Miss Dorothy Nace
Pine Mt. Settlement School
Pine Mountain, Kentucky

[cold_b_1947_002a.jpg] Handwritten postcard, message side.

Ben Lomond, Calif.
August 13, ’45

Dear Miss Nace:
Please hold all mail for me after the receipt of this card. Many thanks for the letter giving an account of summer events and thanks, too, to Mr. [H.R.S.] Benjamin for his letter recently come. If I have as favorable experiences on the return trip as i had coming here, all will be well.
Sincerely,
Edith Cold

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Brookston, Indiana
May 30 [1947]

Dear Miss Dorothy [Nace],
It comes to me that I omitted saying anything to you about 2nd class mail that would come for me. I am trying to give notice of change of address but anything other than 1st class mail which may come to Pine Mountain need not be sent on nor kept. I hope not much of that nature will come.

Tell Margaret [Nace] I have found out where she will make her home. The college is well known here.

It is so cold here that furnace heat is still on. I spend much of my time sleeping but that need will soon be filled.
Cordial greetings,
Edith Cold

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Brookston, Indiana
October 28 [1947]

Dear Miss Dorothy,
My record says that I owe your office the enclosed for postage.

It would seem that any 2nd class mail that comes for me from now on is not worth forwarding. I have notified all that I can think of. I have three times written to Martha Braven of Bern concerning the little Swiss mission leaflet but evidently to no avail.

From the time you receive this, please forward all first class mail to
P.O. Box B
Ben Lomond
California

I leave Brookston on November fourth.

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Margaret had kindly invited me to Richmond for a week-end visit but I regretfully declined because of more relatives and connections needing CARE packages.

I am sure the school had sufficient opportunity to choose a perfect “mountain day”.

My stay at Brookston has been altogether pleasant but I am now quite ready to move on. I need a rest from too abundant dinner parties. Alas! One more looms up before my departure.
Warmest greetings to you.
Edith Cold

[cold_b_1947_005.jpg] Typewritten letter.

P.O. Box B
Ben Lomond, California
December 3, 1947

Dear Miss Dorothy:
If you know that address of Mrs. Rogers who was dietitian at Pine Mountain when I went away, please, kindly send it to me on the enclosed card.

I am wondering about the large envelope that usually comes ere this from the office of internal revenue at Louisville. It should be time to make out the 1947 estimate. There would be a statement, too, from the Pine Mountain office with regard to the withholdings for the months of this year that I served.

I am thinking much of “you all” from now on till Christmas for I know of the manifold preparations there. Success to it all.
Warmest greetings,
[signed] Edith Cold

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Ben Lomond, January 2 [1948?]

Dear Miss Dorothy:
Here, we just love your Christmas greeting card and especially the verse, so quaint and genuine. Sister will make a copy to keep and to re-read.

I was ever so pleased when I learned that you directed the Nativity play this year. I would have chosen no other. Reports tell me that the results in every way conformed with Pine Mountain tradition. Yes, those young people do not let one down.

Perhaps you have been told of the sadness which came to this household two weeks before the Christmas time. Mrs. Manley’s husband died suddenly when he was out sawing wood. We were all of us sort of disorganized for a time and my sister is still rather confused. it will be hard to leave her on the ninth when I go to Los Angeles but fortunately sister Bertha is here and I hope she will stay at least till the spring. My address in Los Angeles will be:
Care of Mrs. Calvin Ball
8650 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles 35
Of course, any mail addressed to Ben Lomond will be forwarded to me.

I would like to send off my tax sheets before I leave here but as yet I have not the statement of the withholdings from the Pine Mountain treasurer. I am enclosing an air mail envelope for that. It may be the office can get the information to me before the 9th.
With cordial greetings,
[signed] Edith Cold

[Handwritten note in margin: “if inconvenient for the treasurer to send the statement, please ignore the request. The stamps are for postage spent on forwarding mail.”]

[cold_b_1948_002] Handwritten letter, page 1 of 4.

Ben Lomond, Calif.
January 4 [1948]

Dear Margaret [Nace] Starbuck,
Thanks to you and your husband for the lovely Nativity scene you sent me and for the quotations from Henry Van Dyke which you so kindly copied on the pages of the greeting. I shall, indeed, try to “keep Christmas” all through 1948.

I must write you what pleasure came to us when I learned that Dorothy was coaching the Nativity play, the very one I would have chosen to do it. There are those who have written me of how this year’s rendering fully harmonized with the Pine Mountain tradition. I, of course, had my thoughts much occupied with Pine Mountain during the Christmas week.

How glad I am that you and your husband are finding your…

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…living at Earlham so satisfactory and that you can find such full expression for yourselves there. I left Brookston early in November, rather loath to go because of the friendly community. However, it was well that I came for Hulda’s husband died suddenly about a month ago. He complained a little of indigestion in the morning but went about his work as usual. His death was caused by a stoppage in the heart. we were quite disorganized here for a time and even now my sister cannot refrain from periods of weeping. Fortunately my sister Bertha is here, also, and I hope she will stay on till through the spring. I had arranged to be with a friend in Los Angeles for four months beginning…

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…on the ninth of this month. This plan was agreed to some three years ago. She will come on from Canton, Ohio. She has a winter residence in Los Angeles. I am sorry to leave my sisters but I hope the time will seem to pass quickly for them.

Before I go there will be more packages to get off for Europe. The Seniors sent me a copy of the December Pine Cone and I read of the Pine Mountain student activity toward ministering to the needs a road. Such a healthy thing for them! I had a precious letter from Burton and Mary Rogers. At times I do feel most homesick for our valley.

I do not know my sister’s plans for the future; she is not yet about to bear talk along that line but I shall return here after the…

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…visit in Los Angeles is ended.
Cordial greetings to you and Mr. Starbuck.
Edith Cold

[Notation: I’ve answered this. You need not return it. [?]-36-76-school 47.04 (?)]

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Brookston, Indiana
July 29 [1948]

Dear Miss Dorothy,
Try how I may, I cannot recall Margaret’s married name. I sent the wedding announcement to my sister. I assume her address is: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Please write me the name on the enclosed card for I wish to send her something which came from Miss Herold in Finland.

I have counted up the postage added by the office on some of my forwarded mail and I am enclosing the amount.

Here we are very hot and very dry. I hope Pine Mountain valley is better off for the sake of the crops I have been doing considerable sewing…

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…preparing garments for the relief work in Europe. I also made a dress for myself.

My sister Bertha [Cold] sent me for reading a most comical letter written her by Alice Cobb. We sort of hold our breath when it comes to Alice because of not even being able to imagine what she will do next. Cordial greetings.
Edith Cold

P.S. After Dr. Francis [Tucker] comes, tell him some time to compose for the absent ones a Pine Mountain news letter. I attended their golden wedding reception as I was visiting in Evanston at that time.

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TRANSCRIPTION: Edith Cold Correspondence III, 1947-1958
1949-1952 CORRESPONDENCE
[NO CORRESPONDENCE AVAILABLE]

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GALLERY: Edith Cold Correspondence III, 1947-1958
1953, 1956, 1958 CORRESPONDENCE

TRANSCRIPTION: Edith Cold Correspondence III, 1947-1958
1953, 1956, 1958 CORRESPONDENCE

[cold_b_1953_001.jpg] Typewritten letter.

January 21, 1953

Miss Edith Cold
c/o Mrs. Albert Richards
Route 1
Tarpon Springs, Florida

Dear Edith Cold:
Dorothy [Nace] has just let me see your letter of the 19th, and I am delighted to have news of you, and especially to know that you are thinking of undertaking a “Friendship Tour” to include Pine Mountain. That is wonderful news.

Of course, you know that you are more than welcome at any time. We have been looking for you for such a long time, that we can hardly believe you actually have plans to come. It does not seem possible that it is eight years since we have seen you.

I gather you are likely to come along early in April, and I hasten to let you know that the week of April 13th to 18th there is no school scheduled, because of spring vacation and the Kentucky Educational Association meeting. I point this out in order that you may plan to come, if possible, either earlier or later than that week, because it is unthinkable that you should not see the school program in session. It also means, of course, that you must stay a good long time, and not just slip in for week end. I also want to say that you are to let me know about your mode of travel and all other circumstances, so that we will know best how and where to meet you, for your greatest convenience.

Finally, I want to make clear that we want you to stay just as long as you can. There is plenty of room, and I should very much like to have your old room in Boys’ House reserved for you. It was No. 4 – was it not? – just at the top of the stairs. Come early enough for the red-bud and dogwood, and stay for the apple blossoms and laurel if you can.

I hope that our family news finally reached you in Florida. We did not have your address, and so it had to go to California first. Ever since then we have been having the mumps – Christopher at Christmas time, and now Peter and I are having the privilege of staying in bed for the same reason. So no more now, but a very cordial welcome, and our best wishes as always.
Sincerely,
[unsigned]
Burton Rogers
Director

BR-mbh

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Tarpon Springs [Florida]
February 17 [1953]

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Rogers,
Even though acknowledged rather late, your Christmas letter was received and read with special pleasure both for the information it contained and also, as is always the case with your writings, for the manner in which it was expressed. There is an element of surprise and of humor which can only come from a refined and disciplined pen. Thanks for the enclosed blotter with its Christmas message beamed from the star. I know, Mary Rogers, it is the work of your hands. I still take “Mountain Life and Work” and can enjoy your illustrations.

Thank you for the second letter telling about the time of the school’s spring recess. I hope to be at Pine Mountain early in April and it may be even before the end of March. At any rate I think I can be there to see the school in operation…

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…before the 13th.

How thoughtful of you to plan for my occupying the room I had at Boys House! I do not remember the number but it was the one at the head of the stairs.

I wish to travel via Knoxville so that I may have a little visit with the Jess Burden Family at Powell Station. Also I hope the Llewellen at Harlan can shelter me long enough so that I may call on Pine Mountain folk there.

Later I can let you know from Harlan about the day of arrival at Pine Mountain. I expect Mr. Lewis, the mailman, can still take passengers from Putney.
With cordial greetings,
Edith Cold

[cold_b_1953_003.jpg] Typewritten letter.

February 23, 1953
Miss Edith Cold
c/o Mrs. A. Rickards
Route 1
Tarpon Springs, Florida

Dear Edith Cold:
We have just returned from the annual conference of the Council of Southern Mountain Workers at Gatlinburg, and find your most welcome letter of the 17th, for which we are indeed grateful.

It is wonderful news that you can be here early in April, or even by the end of March. That will be perfect. All we can say is the sooner the better for your arrival, and the later the better for your departure.

W have no intention of allowing you to ride in with the mail-man, because cars go in from Pine Mountain to Harlan practically every day, as there is always business to be done. We will therefore meet you at your convenience and bring you out.

I do not remember whether I told you that you can telephone us from Harlan or from anywhere in the United States. You simply call Harlan, Kentucky, and then ask for Putney 6. There is an extension of this telephone at the hospital, so that calls are received there when the office is not open. I do not like to think of your staying the hotel in Harlan. Perhaps you can see some of your friends in Harlan on the day you arrive from Knoxville, and you might see the others by riding over to Harlan on a later day when someone is going or letting them come to Pine Mountain to see you here.

We shall be eagerly awaiting further details as to your probable dates and then the visit itself. I think we are going to
have a very lovely spring season for you.
With our most affectionate greetings,
Sincerely,
[unsigned]
Burton Rogers
Director

BR-mbh

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c/o De Rogatis
407 Cary Ave.
Staten Island 10, N.Y.
June 19, 1953

Dear Mr. Rogers,
The morning I left Pine Mountain I thought there would be an opportunity to see you a moment at the office but Dorothy did not stop there after calling for me and my bags at Boys House.

That was such a pleasant, restful living which I had with all of you at Pine Mountain. It provides the reason for my lingering with you so long. My thoughts are still frequently associated there.

The flight to Germany and return was accomplished and my sister and I are wondering how we shall ever be able to live up to all the friendliness and kindness that we received. The astonishment and pleasure at seeing us face to face on the part of the refugee…

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…families that we had known only through correspondence was touching to experience. I shared the attic home of one such family because I did not wish to set aside their hospitality. It did not matter that there were only four chairs.

My sister has gone on to her home in California. The Friends Inter-racial Camp begins soon and she wished to get her place looking orderly for that. I have stayed on here for a more extended visit with our younger sister.

Now I am about to ask a kindness of you. I had applied for permission to attend the summer term at Pendle Hill and the application together with a registration blank has been provisionally accepted. Two letters of recommendation are required but I may enter before they arrive. I stated that I would ask you to write and send one of the letters, but that you might be away on vacation.

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The letter is to be addressed to:
John H. Hobart
Pendle Hill
Wallingford, Pa.

I hope this will not inconvenience you too much. It will seem a privilege indeed to have fellowship at Pendle Hill.

Warm greetings to Mary and a happy vacation to you all.
Cordially,
Edith Cold

[cold_b_1953_005.jpg] Typewritten letter.

June 22, 1953

Miss Edith Cold
co DeRogatis
407 Cary Avenue
Staten Island 10, New York

Dear Edith Cold:
It is indeed a pleasure to have your letter in today’s mail, with the surprising news to me that you are already back from Europe. How wonderful that you were so successful in your primary purpose, and we are deeply grateful for your sharing the comments that you have made. we long to know more, and possibly we may be able to arrange it that we can see you again soon.

We are quite delighted that you are to be at Pendle Hill for this summer session. I have already written very happily a recommendation to John Hobard. It is just ten years ago this summer that we went from Pine Mountain on our first vacation to Pendle Hill. We know what is in store for you, and we know that you are one to make the most of this very rich experience. We are already wondering if we may possibly be able to stop by before your time is over.

We shall probably be in Connecticut around the 15th of July, when Mary’s sister is due to sail back to England on the Queen Elizabeth. I have some hope of attending the New York Yearly Meeting at the end of July. You may be leaving Pendle Hill before then.

I would like very much to know your future plans, and I do not want you to leave for the west without first getting in touch with me. Incidentally we shall expect to be at Pine Mountain until July 5th.

With every good wish, and assuring you that we shall be thinking of you very specially at Pendle Hill, and our greetings to Mary Ogilvie and any other friends of ours whom you may see there,
Cordially yours,
[unsigned]
Burton Rogers
Director
BR/mbh

[cold_b_1953_006.jpg] Carbon copy of typewritten letter.

June 22, 1953

John H. Hobart
Pendle Hill
Wellingford, Pennsylvania

Dear Friend:
I have just received a request from our friend, Edith Cold, for a recommendation to Pendle Hill.

It is indeed a pleasure to recommend Miss Cold without reservation or qualification of any kind, as a prospective student for your summer session. She was a devoted teacher on the staff of the Pine Mountain Settlement School high school for many years, following her service in Turkey. While she was not herself a Friend, we felt very much at one with her in spirit. She in turn was deeply interested in our own experience of the Pendle Hill summer session just ten years ago. She has had other associations with Friends on the west coast since her retirement, as she has probably indicated in her application.

I feel that Edith Cold is just the type of spirit who can at the same time make the most contribution to the Pendle Hill group, while also gaining the most from the same experience. I would be only too happy to answer any particular questions, on which you would wish further information.
Sincerely yours,
[unsigned]
Burton Rogers
Director
BR/mbh

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c/o De Rogatis
407 Cary Ave.
Staten Island 10, N.Y.
July 28, ’53

Dear Mr. Rogers,
Thank you for the personal letter which you sent me and for the one you so kindly sent to John Hobart.

The month spent in the fellowship at Pendle Hill refreshed me in every way. I am so thankful I could have been there. Now I have taken my older sister, who is very tired, to a place in the foothills of New York’s mountains. Perhaps by September she will feel ready to return to the city.

The sister in California does not need my companionship as much as she did in the years immediately following her husband’s death but I may return to her in the early fall.

Soon you will be beginning another…

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…school year for the children of the mountains and I bespeak for you all months of rewarding activity. The new sheets from the office at Pine Mountain have explained the teaching staff for this year and I am thankful for them.

I think you and Mary Rogers and the boys have returned from your vacation. I wish it may have been long enough to have renewed your strength.
Cordial greetings to you all.
Edith Cold

[cold_b_1953_008.jpg] Carbon copy of typewritten letter.

August 29, 1953

Miss Edith Cold
c/o De Rogatis
407 Cary Avenue
Staten Island 10, New York

Dear Edith Cold:
We were very happy to have your good letter of July 28th, which came to Pine Mountain and was forwarded to us in Connecticut, just before we left to return here. Actually, we started out from Connecticut, and spent the first night at Lake Pleasant, relatively not very far from where you were at Old Forge. We had expected to stop there only an hour to see Mary Gold Davis, to whom we owe, more than any one else, our new children’s library at Pine Mountain, and who has been in very bad condition physically. However, we were pressed to stay the night, so we had an unexpected taste of the Adirondacks for a few hours, as well as a longer visit with Miss Davis.

Then we had over 900 miles to cover back to Pine Mountain in the two days remaining, in order to be here for the Creech reunion. At least we could have the pleasure of knowing what glorious country you were also enjoying for your own refreshment and that of your sister. You have certainly spent the summer in ways most rewarding to others, as well as yourself. We knew that Pendle Hill would mean something to you, and I am sure that others there gained by your membership in the group.

We have been very rushed here since our return, getting ready for the unusually early opening of school last Monday. We have about 190 children in the eight grades, and a very fine teaching staff for this year. The prospects are quite encouraging in many respects.

Couldn’t you come for another visit this fall before you return to California, and enjoy our autumn colors? We would be glad to have you come and stay as long as you cared to. If your plans are unsettled for the time being, and you would like to come here for a while till they become clearer again, you may be sure we will be delighted to have you make Pine Mountain your headquarters.

With our warm good wishes,
Sincerely,
[unsigned]
Burton Rogers, Director
BR/mbh

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[cold_b_1956_001.jpg] Carbon copy of typewritten letter.

April 11, 1956

Miss Edith Cold
Box 425
Ben Lomond, California

Dear Miss Cold,
It is a special pleasure to hear from you and to have both your kind comments on our Christmas publicity and your contribution toward the cost thereof. We are most grateful for your help and also for your interest so kindly expressed.

Thank you also for the wildlife conservation pictures which are already in the principal’s hands. I know they will be well received in at least one of the classrooms.

You will be surprised to know that Mary is in England, having left three weeks ago for a two months’ home visit…her first since 1952. The boys are here with me. We felt it easier for her to go now while school was in session to occupy the boys. She is due back the 22nd, just after school is out. Christopher is to be in a dancing role in the Wilderness Road [underline] outdoor drama celebrating the centennial of Berea College this summer. He will remain at Berea in the junior year of high School at the Foundation School in Berea so he will not be with us much longer here.

I am going to enclose a copy of a recent newsletter to the Advisory Board. A former staff member like you will show even more interest than some of our Board members, I am sure, and it will bring you more news than I have time to set down just now. Our trustees meet at the end of next week at Berea.

This is April and reminds us very vividly of your visit here during this month. I wish you could be here again. Spring is late because of a long, cold winter. This may mean a lovelier spring than ever, as it now unfolds.

Our very best wishes to you always, and our lasting gratitude for your friendship and your interest and all the happy memories of your wonderfully faithful service here.
Sincerely,
[unsigned]
Burton Rogers
Director
BR/dt

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Box 425
Be2n Lomond, Calif.
April 3, ’56

Dear Mr. Rogers,
All the greetings that came to me from Pine Mountain at
Christmas time were received and that with pleasure and gratitude for the remembrance Mary Rogers enriched all so greatly through her illustrations. They not only speak a language of harmony ut also radiate a spritual message. Even the envelope you used had a little Nativity Play scene.

Thank you for sending the calendar. The enclosed dollar is aid toward its publication. The wild-life conservation pictures might be of use in one of the school rooms…

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…These are sent to me but I have no children here with whom to enjoy them. Please let the office note that the post office box is now 425. The place was modernized.

I read with eager interest the two accounts of the family and of the school. I could quote much from those letters to emphasize all that pleased me so but there would be pages in this letter and you have a living acquaintance with all that you wrote about and do not need the references. Just one sentence — “All of last year’s fine teaching staff returned.”

Here all is well now. Traces of the flood at Christmas time are disappearing. I keep well and give daily thanks for that. Cordial greetings to you and to Mary.
Edith Cold

[cold_b_1956_003.jpg] Newspaper clipping.

Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA, April 7, 1956

Notation: “Quite a change from the Bear Branch school I knew. E. Cold”

In the Education section: “Teachers College Views the World” heading above a photograph of a teacher and young students in a classroom.

Photograph credit: Fund for the Advancement of Education.

Caption: “Bear Branch School, in the Kentucky Mountains, One of Those Included in the Project”

[cold_b_1956_003a.jpg] Newspaper clipping, continued.

Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA, April 7, 1956, p. 10A

Truncated headline; “Little Kentucky Mountain School”

[cold_b_1956_004.jpg] Carbon copy of typewritten letter.

May 17, 1956

Dear Miss Cold,
It was very good of you to send the clipping with the clipping of the Bear Branch School. You know that this program is sponsored by Berea and one of the supervisors lives here at Pine Mountain and two of our teachers have been part of this program, so we are intimately associated with it.

I want to tell you that Mr. & Mrs. Pennington were over two weeks ago, speaking of you, and also that we now have the memorial placque ready to place in the ground in a stone under that dogwood tree in front of [truncated]. School is going out tomorrow, but Bill Hayes and I are planning to have a simple ceremony in connection with an Arbor Day program when school reassembles at the end of the summer.

We had our Dogwood Supper rather late this year, on the 8th. Spring has been long drawn out and rather retarded by cool weather, but as of today, I think one can say we are in full leaf now. Tomorrow morning will be the gradudation service of the 8th grade class in the Chapel and the 7th school year under the new program will have ended. It hardly seems possible.

Your continued interest and good wishes mean a great deal to us always. We think of you often with gratitude and affection.

The boys and I leave on Saturday for New York to meet Mary who has been in England since March. We had planned to go on vacation and have had some thought we might get out your way. It would be wonderful to see you, but it still seems impossible to believe we can get ready to make a trip of that size. There is so much to do here just to get off that there is no time to prepare for a trip once one gets off. However, you needn’t be too surprised if we should look in on you.
With warmest greetings always,
Sincerely,
[unsigned]
Burton Rogers, Director
BR/dt

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[cold_b_1958_001.jpg] Handwritten letter.

June 25, ’58

Dear Mr. Rogers:
Your June letter has just come having been forwarded to the place where for a time I am visiting.

What you wrote is of great interest, I am sure, to all who have had some connection with Pine Mountain. I am sending the letter on to my sisters.

I cannot help but approve the decision of the Trustees to discontinue the hospital. It was time for a re-appraisal. I am pleasantly surprised that you can say that medical services of a high order are now available at Harlan.

My congratulations to the school on behalf of the fourteen boys and fourteen girls. Also to the whole community for achieving a black top road to Harlan.
Sincerely,
Edith Cold

[cold_b_1958_002.jpg] Carbon copy of typewritten letter.

July 30, 1958

Miss Edith Cold
Box 425
Ben Lomond, California

Dear Miss Cold:
It was very pleasant to find your letter after our vacation. We are always more than pleased to hear from you.

It is gratifying to know that you felt not only such keen interst in our last report, but also that you could give your approval to the changes that are coming to us.

We have just completed two weeks of conferences of young people from Community Churches in this region, which were possible because we had space formerly used by the hospital in West Wind, and now next week the first children will come from Buckhorn, eighteen in number to start with. They will be staying rather permanently and we hope that they will make fuller use of some of our space that we have.

Christopher is in the outdoor drama “Wilderness Road” at Berea for the third straight summer. He has been home overnight several times, but he has really been away both summer and the school year now for two years. He enters Berea College in the fall.

We saw the [Arthur W.] Dodds two weeks ago when they were here on vacation, and we saw Gertrude Smith in Northampton, Massachusetts, for a brief call which was very pleasant. Miss [Grace] Rood is now at Frenchburg but was back week before last on a week-end visit. As you know, she and Bill live at the Forest Ranger’s residence directly across the mountain at Laden, and have made that a beautiful home for themselves and a great joy to all their friends.

I hope that we may hear from you again, and even better, that you can plan another visit here. By tonight the paved road from Bledsoe should be complete. I almost forgot to mention that Alice Cobb spent ten days here earlier this month, which was a great joy to us.
Our warm good wishes to you always.
Sincerely,
[unsigned]
Burton Rogers, Director

[cold_b_1958_003.jpg] Carbon copy of typewritten letter, page 1 of 2.

January 6, 1958

Miss Edith Cold
Box 425
Ben Lomond, California

Dear Miss Cold:
I cannot really indicate how very grateful we are for your contribution to Pine Mountain and for all the concern and interest and affection which we know that your gift brings with it.

Of all the contributions we receive, the ones that mean most are those from our personal friends who have worked here at Pine Mountain side by side with us or in the years preceding us or both as in your case. We only hope that we can measure up worthily to the trust that you place in us.

Your letter also is much appreciated, although you have given us very little news of yourself and we should indeed like to know more of your welfare and activities. It is already a long time since your last visit here.

We had the joy of having Christopher home with us for Christmas and again from New Year until yesterday. The week in between he was back in Berea for the Christmas Country Dance School which he found thoroughly rewarding. We drove up there on the 31st in time to attend the closing evening party. We saw and heard him do some recording on the dulcimer that he has learned to play this past summer while working at the Log House Sales Room. We also appreciated the midnight service at Union Church.

Among others we have heard from this Christmas are Mrs.[Alice Joy] Keith, in your own state of California, the [Arthur W.] Dodds in Arizona, the [H.M.S.] Benjamins in Arkansas, Mrs. Bishop back at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, the Lenks also in California, Miss Sparrow in Massachusetts, and many others which would occasion my going through card index to be sure I had included them all. Also, we have heard from former students. Very recently word has come of the death of Mr. [Luigi] Zande. You may also not have heard that Dr. Clark Bailey of Harlan died in November.

[cold_b_1958_003a.jpg] Carbon copy of typewritten letter, page 2 of 2.

Miss Cold   -2-   January 6, 1958

You probably know that Dorothy Nace Tharpe is now living in Tennessee. I miss her help here immensely, but she has been able to continue with some responsibility such as our recent letter which she printed on her own press. I am fortunate indeed to have the services of Fern Hayes, although we are separated by Pine Mountain between us. Yesterday Mr. [William] Hayes took Christopher [Rogers] and Steve [Hayes] back to Berea. School has now resumed here also and January and February and March lie before us free of holidays and we also hope free from emergency interruptions.

With our warmest greetings and thanks for your wanting to share with us, we send also our best wishes trusting that you will find the joy and peace of Christmas continuing with you throughout the new year.
Gratefully,
[unsigned]
Burton Rogers
Director

[cold_b_1958_004.jpg] Handwritten note.

Thank you for the Christmas greetings, the letter, and the calendar.
E. Cold
[in a different handwriting] Box 425, Ben Lomond, Calif.

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See Also:

BERTHA COLD, Biography
BERTHA COLD CORRESPONDENCE

EDITH COLD, Biography
EDITH COLD CORRESPONDENCE I, 1935-1939
EDITH COLD CORRESPONDENCE II, 1940-1946
EDITH COLD CORRESPONDENCE IV, 1959-1963

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