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TAGS: The Pine Cone 1949 March-April, student publications, editorials, essays, mining camps, senior play, campus activities, sports, poems

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CONTENTS: PINE CONE 1949 March-April

Cover
The Pine Cone, Vol XIII, No. 5, March & April 1949
[photos of Laurel House and Big Log]
[Handwritten, upper left: “The Benjamins“]

Inside Cover
“Published monthly by students of the Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, Harlan County, Kentucky”

THE PINE CONE STAFF
EDITOR – Bonnie Reynolds
ASSOCIATE EDITOR – Leone Sturgill
COVER EDITOR – Bobbie Jean Johnson
BUSINESS MANAGERS – Walter Blackson & Ray Bird
FEATURE EDITOR – Kitty Wilkes
PRINTERS – Ray Bird & Joe Bramlett
ADVISOR – Mary Ruth Heil
CUB WRITERS – Joe Bramlett, Janice Spencer, Jean Carol Warren, Virginia Walker, Lois Collins Shirley Boggs

Page 1
Editorial [Springtime at P.M.]
“Holy Week Services” – Shirley Boggs
“Spring” – Clarence Tolliver

Page 2
“Wheelwright, Kentucky” – Fred Hall [Describes coal mining camp owned by Mr. Price, P.M. board member.]
“The Mining Camp – Wheelwright” – Joyce Polly [More about the mining camp]

Page 3
“Senior Play” – Joan Carol Warren [You Can’t Take it With You]

Page 4
“Departments of the School” – Leone Sturgill; Ray Bird [Reports of activities]

Pages 5-7
“Character Sketch of a Worker” – Lois Collins [Describes Gladys Hill]
“Stonega Mountain” – Clayton Sturgill [Describes hike to visit his grandmother.]

Page 7
“My Trip to Gatlinburg” – Hoid Brown
“The Time Draweth Near “- Bobbie Jean Johnson [Berea Festival Dance Team, 1949]

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Page 9
(Continued) A narrative describing a trip taken by the “Berea Festival team of 1949”; dancing and folk singing.

Pages 10-12
“Senior Calendar of 1948-1949” [Activities from September 1948 through April 1949]
“My Pet Peeve” – Kitty Wilkins [Silly questions, nosey people!]

Pages 12-15
“Dear Diary” – Carl Whitehead ; Patsy Lucas ; Jean Carol Warren ; Bob Hall ; Geraldine Boggs ; Genevieve Howard ; Glyn Cornett ; Axie Jean Howard ; Olen Rose ; Flossie Daniels ; Barbara Wilder ; Beatrice Dixon ; Imogene Lewis [Excerpts from Juniors as recorded in a diary assignment for one week.]
“Sports” – Walter Blackson ; Earl Brown [New softball uniforms, competitions]

Pages 16-18
“A Bird In Hand Is Worth Two In The (Rosebud) Bush – A Poem by Dorothy Nace, inspired by a Bird and Mrs. Holsinger.”

I wish that I need never see
A redbird in a redbud tree
For though their colors
Sound the same
Aghast I cry, “What’s in a name?”
Failing to ask his business there
I stand with disapproving stare
Flawless motives are no defense
For lack of an aesthetic sense.

“A Trip to Florida” – Kitty Wilkes [With Miss Heil, who has lived in Florida; stayed at Mrs. Kriton’s home in Winter Garden]

Pages 18-19
“Mountain Murmurs” – George of the Gorge [Campus news; his last article]
“‘Twas the morning, before breakfast…” – “Anonymous, of necessity, or be snatched bald.” [Boys’ shaved haircuts]

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GALLERY: PINE CONE 1949 March-April