Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 07: DIRECTORS
GLYN MORRIS
1931-1977 Guide to Talks, Writing and Publications
GLYN MORRIS 1931-1977 Guide to Talks, Writing and Publications
(Talks, Lectures, Writings, Publications – Pine Mountain and Beyond 1931-1977)
CHRONOLOGY: GLYN MORRIS 1931-1977 Guide to Talks, Writing and Publications
UNDATED
GLYN MORRIS TALKS Harlan Kiwanis Club – At the invitation of Board member Dr. Bailey, Morris asks for funding for PMSS Nurse Aid Group.
1931
Glyn Morris’s first year as Director of Pine Mountain Settlement School can be found in these documents that capture exchanges with his staff, outside resources and previous contacts. Arriving at the school at the age of 27, Morris, with all the eagerness of youth, clearly had grand ideas as he charts a new course for the School. Influenced by his instruction at Union Theological School in New York and instructors such as Reinhold Niebuhr, and a strong interest in the new educational ideas of John Dewey and others, Morris set about to develop a new educational philosophy for the Settlement School. In his own words Morris describes that initial transition from the intensely urban environment of New York City to the isolated rural community of Pine Mountain in the Central Appalachians of Kentucky in his 1977 autobiography, Less Travelled Roads:
The move from New York to Pine Mountain, Kentucky, took us from one extreme to another; the move meant not only a change in geography, but with respect to surroundings, customs, and methods of living, placed us back into an earlier period of history. We exchanged subways and towering modern buildings and apartment houses for log cabins, muleback and foot travel; the sophisticated environment of Morningside Heights and the pushing crowds of Times Square for the restrained, “furriner-shy” non-talkative mountaineers; Macy’s department store, Fifth Avenue shops for a small, sparsely stocked country store and the “Wish Book” (any mail-order house catalogue — mainly Sears and “Monkey Wards”). Childs’ and Chinese restaurants for cornbread, shucky beans and heavy doses of salt pork and breakfasts with thick gravy. The rush and bustle of the city for the slow pace of the time before the railroads, the place where, as James Still stated, “…men here wait as mountains long have waited.”
Morris, Glyn. Less Travelled Roads. New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Print.
1932
1933
1934
Morris, Glyn. “Is There Any Further Need of a School Like Pine Mountain Settlement School?” [Published ?]
1935
1936
1937
Morris, Glyn. GLYN MORRIS ?date UCEA Beyond Accreditation. (N.D., possibly c. 1937.)
GLYN MORRIS 1937 Change in the Mountains Affecting Opportunity – Morris presents ideas concerning educational reforms at PMSS for Trustee review.
GLYN MORRIS TALKS 1937 ‘Tight Places‘, including a prayer.
By 1937 Morris had begun to doubt himself and his reasons for remaining at Pine Mountain. He wrote to his mentor Arthur J. Swift at Union Theological, “Gladys and I are thinking of leaving Pine Mountain….Now will you tell us in all frankness just what you think?” He stayed.
Morris, Glyn. “Progressive Education in the Kentucky Mountains,” Mountain Life & Work. 06 (October 1937): 5. Copy is re-print for PMSS.
1938
1939
Morris, Glyn. “Community Service in the Curriculum,” Curriculum Journal, Vol. 10, no. 4, April 1939
1940
1941
1942
Morris, Glyn A. “A Challenge for Today.” Mountain Life & Work. (Winter 1942). Print. [An abridgment of a chapel speech that was presented early 1942 before his departure for WWII assignment as an Army Chaplain.] SEE: GLYN MORRIS n.d. A Challenge for Today.
Morris, Glyn. “Private Schools and Democracy.” The American Scholar. 11.2 (1942): 251-252. Print.
GLYN MORRIS 1942 Harlan County Planning Council – Images and transcription of an edited draft of minutes by PMSS Director Morris, Council Secretary, recording a meeting concerning delinquent youth.
1951
Morris, Glyn, and Evarts (KY) High School. Guidance Methods for the Principal. Teachers College, Columbia University, 1951. Print. ( Ed.D thesis).
1952
Morris, Glyn. Practical Guidance Methods for Principals and Teachers. New York: Harper, 1952. Print.
1954
Morris, Glyn. “Rural Guidance: Its Special Problems.” The Career Development Quarterly, December 1954: 35-37. Print (Permission required).
Morris, Glyn. “A Search for Pupil Viewpoints: How 5 Schools Made Plans Based on Pupil Needs.” The Clearing House. 29.3 (1954): 131-134. Print.
1955
Morris, Glyn. A Guidance Program for Rural Schools. Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1955. Print.
Morris, Glyn. “Rural Guidance: It’s Special Problems.” Vocational Guidance Quarterly. 3.2 (1955): 35-37. Print. (See above for first printing.)
1958
Morris, Glyn. The High School Principal and Staff Study Youth. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1958. Print.
1961
Morris, Glyn. Using a Timetable in Educational Guidance. Washington: Dept. of Rural Education, National Education Association, 1961. Print.
1964
Morris, Glyn, and Ernest Gosline. Mobilizing a Rural Community for Mental Health: A Report. Lyons Falls, NY: Lewis County Board of Cooperative Educational Services, 1964. Print.
Morris, Glyn. A Study of Industrial Relations in the United States of America. 20th Century Press for the United States Information Service, 1964. Print.
Strang, Ruth May, and Glyn Morris. Guidance in the Classroom. New York: Macmillan, 1964. Print.
1965
1966
Morris, Glyn A., and Judith Wheater. Born for Joy: A Unique Summer Program for Disadvantaged Children During July, 1966. Lyons Falls, NY: The Board of Cooperative Educational Services, 1967. Print.
1967
1977
Morris, Glyn. Less Travelled Roads. New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Print.
1994
Morgan, Colin, and Glyn Morris. “The Student View of Tutorial Support: Report of a Survey of Open University Education Students.” Open Learning: the Journal of Open and Distance Learning. 9.1 (1994): 22-33. Print.
1998
Morgan, Colin, and Glyn Morris. Good Teaching and Learning: Pupils and Teachers Speak. New York: Open University Press, 1998. Print.
2000
*Morris, Glyn. Nights and Days with Edmund Wilson: An “Upstate” Friendship. Typescript draft of Glyn Morris’ memoir of his friendship with Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) from roughly 1950 to 1970. Gift of Barbara Morris to Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in 2000. Unpublished Print.
See Also: GLYN MORRIS Director –
Biography and list of links to Morris correspondence,
reports to the PMSS Board of Trustees, and more.
INTRODUCTION: GLYN MORRIS 1931-1977 Guide to Talks, Writing and Publications
The GLYN MORRIS 1931-1977 GUIDE TO TALKS, WRITING, AND PUBLICATIONS is an index that provides a chronological list of the Director’s Office papers, correspondence, publications, talks, and miscellaneous papers of Glyn Morris, which span a little over a decade from 1931 until 1942. (His work in the establishment of the Rural Youth Guidance Institute is not fully covered in this index.)
The index captures the currently processed documents of Morris’s years at Pine Mountain Settlement School as well as the period of his enlistment as a Chaplain during WWII and his return to Evarts, Kentucky, as Assistant to Harlan County Superintendent of Schools, James A. Cawood. The documents are scattered across the formal collection of “Director’s Office Files” found in the organized and boxed Berea College microfilmed records; in the Pine Mountain Settlement School’s general Director’s files; in the Rural Youth Guidance Institute files (partial); and within the correspondence of other Pine Mountain Settlement School staff, students and associates. The documents associated with Glyn Morris’s are voluminous and often necessarily duplicates across various collections.
When Morris reflected on his time at Pine Mountain in 1977, he was 72. He was retired and living in Pennsylvania where he was writing his autobiography. He mused
I sometimes ponder, with wonder, as to how the concept of time has changed in my lifetime. From knowing men who fought in the Civil War — my experience covered nearly a century — and who could tell of their experiences, to the space age! How fast can we go and survive?
Morris did not live to know the web and its rapid technology and media development and dissemination. He would have heard us asking the same question: How fast can we go and survive?
CHRONOLOGY: GLYN MORRIS 1931-1977 Guide to Talks, Writing and Publications
UNDATED
GLYN MORRIS TALKS Harlan Kiwanis Club – At the invitation of Board member Dr. Bailey, Morris asks for funding for PMSS Nurse Aid Group.
1931
Glyn Morris’s first year as Director of Pine Mountain Settlement School can be found in these documents that capture exchanges with his staff, outside resources and previous contacts. Arriving at the school at the age of 27, Morris, with all the eagerness of youth, clearly had grand ideas as he charts a new course for the School. Influenced by his instruction at Union Theological School in New York and instructors such as Reinhold Niebuhr, and a strong interest in the new educational ideas of John Dewey and others, Morris set about to develop a new educational philosophy for the Settlement School. In his own words Morris describes that initial transition from the intensely urban environment of New York City to the isolated rural community of Pine Mountain in the Central Appalachians of Kentucky in his 1977 autobiography, Less Travelled Roads:
The move from New York to Pine Mountain, Kentucky, took us from one extreme to another; the move meant not only a change in geography, but with respect to surroundings, customs, and methods of living, placed us back into an earlier period of history. We exchanged subways and towering modern buildings and apartment houses for log cabins, muleback and foot travel; the sophisticated environment of Morningside Heights and the pushing crowds of Times Square for the restrained, “furriner-shy” non-talkative mountaineers; Macy’s department store, Fifth Avenue shops for a small, sparsely stocked country store and the “Wish Book” (any mail-order house catalogue — mainly Sears and “Monkey Wards”). Childs’ and Chinese restaurants for cornbread, shucky beans and heavy doses of salt pork and breakfasts with thick gravy. The rush and bustle of the city for the slow pace of the time before the railroads, the place where, as James Still stated, “…men here wait as mountains long have waited.”
Morris, Glyn. Less Travelled Roads. New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Print.
1932
1933
1934
Morris, Glyn. “Is There Any Further Need of a School Like Pine Mountain Settlement School?” [Published ?]
1935
1936
1937
Morris, Glyn. GLYN MORRIS ?date UCEA Beyond Accreditation. (N.D., possibly c. 1937.)
GLYN MORRIS 1937 Change in the Mountains Affecting Opportunity – Morris presents ideas concerning educational reforms at PMSS for Trustee review.
GLYN MORRIS TALKS 1937 ‘Tight Places‘, including a prayer.
By 1937 Morris had begun to doubt himself and his reasons for remaining at Pine Mountain. He wrote to his mentor Arthur J. Swift at Union Theological, “Gladys and I are thinking of leaving Pine Mountain….Now will you tell us in all frankness just what you think?” He stayed.
Morris, Glyn. “Progressive Education in the Kentucky Mountains,” Mountain Life & Work. 06 (October 1937): 5. Copy is re-print for PMSS.
1938
1939
Morris, Glyn. “Community Service in the Curriculum,” Curriculum Journal, Vol. 10, no. 4, April 1939
1940
1941
1942
Morris, Glyn A. “A Challenge for Today.” Mountain Life & Work. (Winter 1942). Print. [An abridgment of a chapel speech that was presented early 1942 before his departure for WWII assignment as an Army Chaplain.] SEE: GLYN MORRIS n.d. A Challenge for Today.
Morris, Glyn. “Private Schools and Democracy.” The American Scholar. 11.2 (1942): 251-252. Print.
GLYN MORRIS 1942 Harlan County Planning Council – Images and transcription of an edited draft of minutes by PMSS Director Morris, Council Secretary, recording a meeting concerning delinquent youth.
1951
Morris, Glyn, and Evarts (KY) High School. Guidance Methods for the Principal. Teachers College, Columbia University, 1951. Print. ( Ed.D thesis).
1952
Morris, Glyn. Practical Guidance Methods for Principals and Teachers. New York: Harper, 1952. Print.
1954
Morris, Glyn. “Rural Guidance: Its Special Problems.” The Career Development Quarterly, December 1954: 35-37. Print (Permission required).
Morris, Glyn. “A Search for Pupil Viewpoints: How 5 Schools Made Plans Based on Pupil Needs.” The Clearing House. 29.3 (1954): 131-134. Print.
1955
Morris, Glyn. A Guidance Program for Rural Schools. Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1955. Print.
Morris, Glyn. “Rural Guidance: It’s Special Problems.” Vocational Guidance Quarterly. 3.2 (1955): 35-37. Print. (See above for first printing.)
1958
Morris, Glyn. The High School Principal and Staff Study Youth. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1958. Print.
1961
Morris, Glyn. Using a Timetable in Educational Guidance. Washington: Dept. of Rural Education, National Education Association, 1961. Print.
1964
Morris, Glyn, and Ernest Gosline. Mobilizing a Rural Community for Mental Health: A Report. Lyons Falls, NY: Lewis County Board of Cooperative Educational Services, 1964. Print.
Morris, Glyn. A Study of Industrial Relations in the United States of America. 20th Century Press for the United States Information Service, 1964. Print.
Strang, Ruth May, and Glyn Morris. Guidance in the Classroom. New York: Macmillan, 1964. Print.
1965
1966
Morris, Glyn A., and Judith Wheater. Born for Joy: A Unique Summer Program for Disadvantaged Children During July, 1966. Lyons Falls, NY: The Board of Cooperative Educational Services, 1967. Print.
1967
1977
Morris, Glyn. Less Travelled Roads. New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Print.
1994
Morgan, Colin, and Glyn Morris. “The Student View of Tutorial Support: Report of a Survey of Open University Education Students.” Open Learning: the Journal of Open and Distance Learning. 9.1 (1994): 22-33. Print.
1998
Morgan, Colin, and Glyn Morris. Good Teaching and Learning: Pupils and Teachers Speak. New York: Open University Press, 1998. Print.
2000
*Morris, Glyn. Nights and Days with Edmund Wilson: An “Upstate” Friendship. Typescript draft of Glyn Morris’ memoir of his friendship with Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) from roughly 1950 to 1970. Gift of Barbara Morris to Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in 2000. Unpublished Print.
See Also: GLYN MORRIS Director –
Biography and list of links to Morris correspondence,
reports to the PMSS Board of Trustees, and more.
Glyn Morris attending at Citizenship Committee. Grace Rood Album. Patsy Hall (?) to left of Morris. [rood_054.jpg]
TAGS: Glyn Morris, Directors, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Harlan County, Ky, administrative correspondence, personal correspondence, publications, Pine Mountain Guidance Institute for Rural Youth, talks, writing, lectures
INTRODUCTION: GLYN MORRIS 1931-1977 Guide to Talks, Writing and Publications
The GLYN MORRIS 1931-1977 GUIDE TO TALKS, WRITING, AND PUBLICATIONS is an index that provides a chronological list of the Director’s Office papers, correspondence, publications, talks, and miscellaneous papers of Glyn Morris, which span a little over a decade from 1931 until 1942. (His work in the establishment of the Rural Youth Guidance Institute is not fully covered in this index.)
The index captures the currently processed documents of Morris’s years at Pine Mountain Settlement School as well as the period of his enlistment as a Chaplain during WWII and his return to Evarts, Kentucky, as Assistant to Harlan County Superintendent of Schools, James A. Cawood. The documents are scattered across the formal collection of “Director’s Office Files” found in the organized and boxed Berea College microfilmed records; in the Pine Mountain Settlement School’s general Director’s files; in the Rural Youth Guidance Institute files (partial); and within the correspondence of other Pine Mountain Settlement School staff, students and associates. The documents associated with Glyn Morris’s are voluminous and often necessarily duplicates across various collections.
When Morris reflected on his time at Pine Mountain in 1977, he was 72. He was retired and living in Pennsylvania where he was writing his autobiography. He mused
I sometimes ponder, with wonder, as to how the concept of time has changed in my lifetime. From knowing men who fought in the Civil War — my experience covered nearly a century — and who could tell of their experiences, to the space age! How fast can we go and survive?
Morris did not live to know the web and its rapid technology and media development and dissemination. He would have heard us asking the same question: How fast can we go and survive?
CHRONOLOGY: GLYN MORRIS 1931-1977 Guide to Talks, Writing and Publications
UNDATED
GLYN MORRIS TALKS Harlan Kiwanis Club – At the invitation of Board member Dr. Bailey, Morris asks for funding for PMSS Nurse Aid Group.
1931
Glyn Morris’s first year as Director of Pine Mountain Settlement School can be found in these documents that capture exchanges with his staff, outside resources and previous contacts. Arriving at the school at the age of 27, Morris, with all the eagerness of youth, clearly had grand ideas as he charts a new course for the School. Influenced by his instruction at Union Theological School in New York and instructors such as Reinhold Niebuhr, and a strong interest in the new educational ideas of John Dewey and others, Morris set about to develop a new educational philosophy for the Settlement School. In his own words Morris describes that initial transition from the intensely urban environment of New York City to the isolated rural community of Pine Mountain in the Central Appalachians of Kentucky in his 1977 autobiography, Less Travelled Roads:
The move from New York to Pine Mountain, Kentucky, took us from one extreme to another; the move meant not only a change in geography, but with respect to surroundings, customs, and methods of living, placed us back into an earlier period of history. We exchanged subways and towering modern buildings and apartment houses for log cabins, muleback and foot travel; the sophisticated environment of Morningside Heights and the pushing crowds of Times Square for the restrained, “furriner-shy” non-talkative mountaineers; Macy’s department store, Fifth Avenue shops for a small, sparsely stocked country store and the “Wish Book” (any mail-order house catalogue — mainly Sears and “Monkey Wards”). Childs’ and Chinese restaurants for cornbread, shucky beans and heavy doses of salt pork and breakfasts with thick gravy. The rush and bustle of the city for the slow pace of the time before the railroads, the place where, as James Still stated, “…men here wait as mountains long have waited.”
Morris, Glyn. Less Travelled Roads. New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Print.
1932
1933
1934
Morris, Glyn. “Is There Any Further Need of a School Like Pine Mountain Settlement School?” [Published ?]
1935
1936
1937
Morris, Glyn. GLYN MORRIS ?date UCEA Beyond Accreditation. (N.D., possibly c. 1937.)
GLYN MORRIS 1937 Change in the Mountains Affecting Opportunity – Morris presents ideas concerning educational reforms at PMSS for Trustee review.
GLYN MORRIS TALKS 1937 ‘Tight Places‘, including a prayer.
By 1937 Morris had begun to doubt himself and his reasons for remaining at Pine Mountain. He wrote to his mentor Arthur J. Swift at Union Theological, “Gladys and I are thinking of leaving Pine Mountain….Now will you tell us in all frankness just what you think?” He stayed.
Morris, Glyn. “Progressive Education in the Kentucky Mountains,” Mountain Life & Work. 06 (October 1937): 5. Copy is re-print for PMSS.
1938
1939
Morris, Glyn. “Community Service in the Curriculum,” Curriculum Journal, Vol. 10, no. 4, April 1939
1940
1941
1942
Morris, Glyn A. “A Challenge for Today.” Mountain Life & Work. (Winter 1942). Print. [An abridgment of a chapel speech that was presented early 1942 before his departure for WWII assignment as an Army Chaplain.] SEE: GLYN MORRIS n.d. A Challenge for Today.
Morris, Glyn. “Private Schools and Democracy.” The American Scholar. 11.2 (1942): 251-252. Print.
GLYN MORRIS 1942 Harlan County Planning Council – Images and transcription of an edited draft of minutes by PMSS Director Morris, Council Secretary, recording a meeting concerning delinquent youth.
1951
Morris, Glyn, and Evarts (KY) High School. Guidance Methods for the Principal. Teachers College, Columbia University, 1951. Print. ( Ed.D thesis).
1952
Morris, Glyn. Practical Guidance Methods for Principals and Teachers. New York: Harper, 1952. Print.
1954
Morris, Glyn. “Rural Guidance: Its Special Problems.” The Career Development Quarterly, December 1954: 35-37. Print (Permission required).
Morris, Glyn. “A Search for Pupil Viewpoints: How 5 Schools Made Plans Based on Pupil Needs.” The Clearing House. 29.3 (1954): 131-134. Print.
1955
Morris, Glyn. A Guidance Program for Rural Schools. Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1955. Print.
Morris, Glyn. “Rural Guidance: It’s Special Problems.” Vocational Guidance Quarterly. 3.2 (1955): 35-37. Print. (See above for first printing.)
1958
Morris, Glyn. The High School Principal and Staff Study Youth. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1958. Print.
1961
Morris, Glyn. Using a Timetable in Educational Guidance. Washington: Dept. of Rural Education, National Education Association, 1961. Print.
1964
Morris, Glyn, and Ernest Gosline. Mobilizing a Rural Community for Mental Health: A Report. Lyons Falls, NY: Lewis County Board of Cooperative Educational Services, 1964. Print.
Morris, Glyn. A Study of Industrial Relations in the United States of America. 20th Century Press for the United States Information Service, 1964. Print.
Strang, Ruth May, and Glyn Morris. Guidance in the Classroom. New York: Macmillan, 1964. Print.
1965
1966
Morris, Glyn A., and Judith Wheater. Born for Joy: A Unique Summer Program for Disadvantaged Children During July, 1966. Lyons Falls, NY: The Board of Cooperative Educational Services, 1967. Print.
1967
1977
Morris, Glyn. Less Travelled Roads. New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Print.
1994
Morgan, Colin, and Glyn Morris. “The Student View of Tutorial Support: Report of a Survey of Open University Education Students.” Open Learning: the Journal of Open and Distance Learning. 9.1 (1994): 22-33. Print.
1998
Morgan, Colin, and Glyn Morris. Good Teaching and Learning: Pupils and Teachers Speak. New York: Open University Press, 1998. Print.
2000
*Morris, Glyn. Nights and Days with Edmund Wilson: An “Upstate” Friendship. Typescript draft of Glyn Morris’ memoir of his friendship with Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) from roughly 1950 to 1970. Gift of Barbara Morris to Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in 2000. Unpublished Print.
See Also: GLYN MORRIS Director –
Biography and list of links to Morris correspondence,
reports to the PMSS Board of Trustees, and more.