Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel
Gerna Campbell Staff

GERNA CAMPBELL Staff
Teacher & Principal 1953 – 1965

Principal of the Pine Mountain Settlement Community School, 1953-65

In 1953, Gerna Campbell was hired as principal of the Community School, a day-school elementary education program which was instituted in 1950 following the closure of the  Boarding High School program in 1949. In his letter to Ruby Yocum Thatcher, dated May 27, 1954, he offers the former PMSS teacher a position in the Community School and also provides substantial information regarding the many accommodations necessary in the transition to the new  School.

He was also a sixth-grade teacher at the School from 1953 until 1965.

His wife Cora Lee Campbell was also a PMSS teacher. During their years at PMSS, Gerna and Cora Campbell and their daughter, Barbara Campbell, lived in Doctor’s Cottage (also known as Jubilee House).

As of the 1930 United States Census, Gerna Campbell was living in River, Letcher County, Kentucky. He was born c. 1916 in Kentucky to John and Arminta Campbell. He had four siblings: Arthur, Grace, Eunice and Louisa.

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GERNA CAMPBELL Letter to Ruby Yocum
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Title	Gerna Campbell
Alt. Title
Identifier	https://pinemountainsettlement.net/?page_id=42112
Creator	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY
Alt. Creator	Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt
Subject Keyword	Gerna Campbell ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; PMSS workers, teachers ; Cora Campbell ; Barbara Campbell ;1930 US Census ; John Campbell ; Arminta Campbell
Subject LCSH	Campbell, Gerna, — 1916 – ?. 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	2017-05-11 aae
Publisher	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY
Contributor	n/a
Type	Collections ; text ; image ;
Format	Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet.
Source	Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel
Language	English
Relation	Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel.
Coverage Temporal	1916 – 1965
Coverage Spatial	Pine Mountain (Harlan County), KY ; River (Letcher County), KY ;
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	n/a
Description	Core documents, correspondence, writings and administrative papers created by or addressed to Gerna Campbell; clippings, photographs, publications, illustrations by or about Gerna Campbell.
Acquisition	n/d
Citation	“[Identification of Item],” [Collection Name] [Series Number, if applicable]. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY.
Processed By	Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;
Last Updated	2017-05-11 aae ; 2019-05-29 aae ; 2019-06-03 aae ; 2022-01-16 hhw
Bibliography	Campbell, Gerna. An Evaluation of the Pine Mountain School. OCLC #51567694. 1963. Print. Campbell, Gerna, and Melanie Zuercher. Gerna Campbell Interview. 1982. Sound recording.
Source(s)	Pine Mountain Settlement School Archive Collection. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. On-site ephemera. “United States Census, 1930,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark: /61903/1:1:XMFM-626 : accessed 11 May 2017), Gerna Campbell in household of John Campbell, River, Letcher, Ky , United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 17, sheet 17B, line 96, family 309, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002). Internet resource.