Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 17: PUBLICATIONS PMSS  
Ethel de Long Zande
Writing and Publications Guide

Ethel de Long Zande with child (Elena Zande ?) [X_099_workers_2527ee_mod.jpg]

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ETHEL DE LONG ZANDE Writing and Publications Guide

While the years of Ethel de Long Zande at Pine Mountain Settlement School (1913-1928) were cut short by her early death in 1928 from breast cancer, her contributions to the school’s history were many. Writing was her forte. She left a voluminous file of personal and public writing and correspondence.  A large body of personal correspondence of Ethel De Long Zande with her family and friends was gathered and held by her close friend, Kendall Bassett, who taught at the School under her guidance.  Some years later, following Ethel’s death in 1928, Kendall’s son, Kendall T. Bassett, donated her papers to the School. The files were retained by James Greene, a School Superintendent who was, at the time,  working on his related dissertation.

A comprehensive GUIDE TO THE DE LONG-ZANDE PAPERS  has been prepared by Dr. James Greene, now a member of the current PMSS Board of Trustees. He received the De Long family letters from Kendall Bassett, with a promise to give the letters a good home at Pine Mountain in a fireproof filing cabinet. He made good on the promise, and c. 2010, the letters and files, comprising three file drawers, were relinquished by Greene, and they joined the other large depository of De Long-Zande materials in the Pine Mountain Archive. Today, work continues on the transcription of the deposits of the correspondence and records related to the Bassett donation and the De Long-Zande family.   Many of Ethel’s writings are found in the extensive family files donated by Kendall T. Bassett. 

THE WRITING AND PUBLICATION GUIDE

This Ethel de Long Zande Writing and Publications GUIDE complements and lists the writings and talks located in the PMSS Bassett donation and other archival files associated with Ethel de Long Zande, co-founder and co-director of Pine Mountain Settlement School from 1913 to 1928. Also noted in this listing are the associated materials held at Smith College, her Alma Mater.

A prolific writer and a consummate wordsmith, Ethel de Long  Zande often wrote important fund-raising letters for the institutions for which she worked. When she arrived at Pine Mountain she was already recognized for her writing strengths. Her appeals for funding for Pine Mountain are lively. They are full of her enthusiasm for the new School, her new role as a founder, and graphic details about the School’s work. Her letters were often very personal, and the style worked well for the School in its early years. The early letters were very effective in shaping perceptions of both the new Settlement School in Harlan County, Kentucky, but also about the rural Settlement Movement in the Southern Appalachians. Her writing while at Pine Mountain opened a window to the surrounding Appalachian communities and their cultures. Her often very personal messages to key institutional donors were enormously successful in building friendships and raising needed funding during the early development years of Pine Mountain Settlement School.  

Her observations were sharp and to the point about the community work needed on-site and the educational possibilities of the new school. Her ideas, writing, and publications helped to both shape and reshape current ideas and perceptions regarding education in Appalachia. Her broad range of correspondents captures the Progressive era as it begins and points to a dynamic future for the Appalachian region. While she was focused on funding and building the educational programs of the new School, she was also supporting efforts to build its physical plant and it accessibility with a road to the School’s location. In both efforts, her persuasive writing skills carry through the dreams of both the founders, Kathrine Pettit, the Kentuckian and Ethel de Long, the New Jersey Northern urban transplant.

Those who had the privilege to work with her were rarely under a neutral gaze, as she always set the pace and kept the bar very high. Always an educator, she found every opportunity to try to lift up all those who worked with her and to promote their educational opportunities, cooperation, and uplift. Within the communities served by the Settlement School, she was charged with and committed to developing the potential in all who surrounded her. She did not fail. Her powerful personality shines brightly throughout her writing to family and to the public, and her publications often explode with positive energy. Even in her more private correspondence, the power of her knowledge, management skills, and compassion shines.

ETHEL DE LONG ZANDE Writing and Publications Guide

EARLY WRITINGS AT SMITH COLLEGE:
Original copies of Ethel  [Ethel Marguerite Delong] de Long’s writing while a student at Smith College are in her collected papers at Pine Mountain Settlement School.

1900  ETHEL DE LONG  English 13 “The Passing of the Patchwork Quilt” or “The Joyllie Patchwork Quilt“ (suggested titles) [Smith College classes]

1900  ETHEL DE LONG “The Character of Christopher Marlow as Shown in his Plays“ (2 pgs) [Smith College classes]

1900  ETHEL DE LONG, “Carlyle and Mill,” for Miss Hubbard, December 4, 1900. [Smith College classes]

1901  ETHEL DE LONG [Ethel Marguerite de Long] 1901 “Saint Rachel: A Personal  Description“

PUBLISHED WRITING 

The scrapbook in the DE LONG – ZANDE COLLECTION GUIDE [Kendall Bassett donation] contains the complete articles and often full magazines for the following articles:

1911  ETHEL DE LONG, 1911 “Doings on Troublesome,” Smith Alumnae Quarterly. (July 11, 1911)

?        ETHEL DE LONG, “Mountain Manners,” Smith Alumnae Quarterly [no date? Draft copy in PMSS file]

1914    ETHEL DE LONG 1914 “The Appeal of the Kentucky Mountains.” Clipping of article by Ethel de Long. [Smith Alumnae Quarterly.]

1915/1917  ETHEL DE LONG ZANDE Talk 1916 “Pine Mountain School: a Sketch from the Kentucky Mountains” Presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of Charities,
June 7, 1915. Published in Outlook, Feb 17, 1917.

1916  ETHEL DE LONG TALK 1916 “The School as a Community Center” (also TALK)

1917  ETHEL DE LONG, 1917, “The Far Side of Pine Mountain,” The Survey. 37 (3 March 1917) p. 627-630 [Also online: Internet Archive]

1917  Ethel de Long, 1917 “From Kingdom Come to Pine Mountain,” The Outlook, December 5, 1917.

1920  Ethel de Long Zande 1920“ A Little True Blue American.” (Evelyn K. Wells), Over Sea and Land, November 1920.

1920/1921  Ethel de Long Zande, 1921 “For the Sake of Learning“ Home Mission Monthly, Vol. XXXV, Issue 1, Nov 1920, p, 1. Reprinted in the Quarterly Magazine of the Southern Industrial Educational Association, March and June 1921. 

1928 Ethel de Long Zande 1928 “The Fourth Grade“ Promotional literature 

1911-1928  Dear Friend Letters Index 1911-1928 Fund-raising and promotional letters to Friends of Pine Mountain Settlement School. See:  DEAR FRIEND LETTERS INDEX 

ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS (“Dear Friend” … Letters)

DEAR FRIEND LETTERS – INDEX 1911-1928.
Note – Some appeal letters pre-date the establishment of Pine Mountain Settlement in 1913. 

TALKS

1915/1917  ETHEL DE LONG ZANDE Talk 1916 “Pine Mountain School: a Sketch from the Kentucky Mountains” Presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of Charities,
June 7, 1915. Published in Outlook, Feb 17, 1917.

1916  ETHEL DE LONG TALK 1916 “The School as a Community Center” (also published)

RELATED PAGES  

DE LONG – ZANDE Bassett Collection Guide

HELEN DE LONG AND DE LONG FAMILY Book Donation
(Books donated to Pine Mountain in 1942 by Helen de Long)

ETHEL DE LONG Board Reports

GOVERNANCE 1913 de Long BOT Report May 24
GOVERNANCE 1913 de Long and Pettit BOT Report July 9
GOVERNANCE 1913 de Long BOT Report October 6
GOVERNANCE 1913 de Long BOT Report October 31
GOVERNANCE 1913 Directors Annual Reports to BOT