GOVERNANCE Directors Annual Reports to BOT 1913

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 05: GOVERNANCE – BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Directors’ Annual Reports to BOT 1913
Katherine Pettit, PMSS Co-Director, 1913-1928
Ethel de Long, PMSS Co-Director, 1913-1930
SIA: BOX 17 A-B

GOVERNANCE 1913 Reports and Letters to BOT

Katherine Pettit at Big Log. [kingman_046b.jpg]

GOVERNANCE Directors’ Annual Reports to BOT 1913
Katherine Pettit, PMSS Co-Director
Ethel de Long, PMSS Co-Director

TAGS: Governance, directors’ annual reports to BOT 1913, PMSS Board of Trustees, Katherine Pettit, Ethel de Long, Mary Rockwell Hook, planning, construction, William Creech, sawmill, reservoir, farming, forestry, railroad, roads, temperance, grounds, Harlan County Court petition, government agents, Berea College, students, institutional governance, progress reports, fundraising

INTRODUCTION

The year 1913 was the opening chapter of Pine Mountain Settlement School. In the Directors Annual Reports to BOT 1913, many references to the planning and the vision of the Directors Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long and the physical construction of the settlement may be found.

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

CONTENTS: Directors’ Annual Reports to BOT 1913

May 24, 1913 (3 pages, de Long)
August 4, 1913 (3 pages, Pettit)
September 4, 1913 (2 pages, Pettit via Norma F. Staughton, Secretary)
October 31, 1913 (2 pages, de Long)

SUBJECTS

[MAY] Mary Rockwell Hook, architect ; architecture ; land survey ; coal for school ; poplar logs ; Big Log ; Mr. Burgess ; Mr. Arnold, Federal Department of Agriculture ; Mr. Bryant, Agricultural Department of State University [UK] ; Philip Norcross ; reservoir ; septic tanks ; Miss Norma F. Stoughton, Secretary ; Miss [Clara] Davis, nurse ; Fitzhugh Draughon ; Bertha Creech Lewis, kitchen ; food preparation ; William Creech ; Mr. McSwain, farmer, forester ; farming ; forestry ; Berea College Department of Agriculture ; public schools ; Frick Company saw-mill ; Sunday School ; salaries ; housekeeper ; Domestic Science Department, Berea ; Elizabeth Hench ; Executive Committee ;

[AUGUST] Miss Wilson ; drainage ditch ; land cultivation ; Fourth of July ; summer school ; William Creech ; flax ; flax-pulling ; Professor Easton, State University [UK] ; Mr. Norcross, sanitary engineer ; limestone ; burning lime ; water ; timber purchase ; Incline railroad ; hauling lumber ; Incline road ; sawmill boiler ; roads ; oxen ; Ross Point ; elections ; drunkenness ; whiskey ; temperance ;

[SEPTEMBER] belt for sawmill ; construction obstacles ; water supply ; Miss Wilson, well construction ; farm ; shoats ; Miss Birdina Bishop, teacher ; health ; sanitation ; physiology classes ; geography ; homemaking ; Alafar, student ; box lunches ; organ ; Mr. Huhlein, Louisville ; Mr. Darrow, government pomological lecture ; fruit trees ; Uncle Remus ; organ fund ; Professor Easton, surveyor ; reservoir survey ; New York Chautauqua Association ; Mr. Percy Boynton, Chautauqua Association ; fundraising ; mail ; mail 6 days a week ;

[OCTOBER] Halloween party ; annual subscriptions ; road across Pine Mountain ; roads ; Harlan County Court petition ; roof on Big Log ; Berea College contractor frame-up second story, Big Log ; coal bank ; digging coal ; stones ; ditching ; worker indictments ; Sherrif ; Charlie, student ; John, student ; speeches ; Board meeting in Lexington, KY ; grubbing up orchard ; music ; holly along creek bank ;