Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 03: GOVERNANCE CORRESPONDENCE
PMSS Board of Trustees
1940 Correspondence
Advice from Angela Melville
To Glyn Morris

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TAGS: BOT correspondence, Board of Trustees of Pine Mountain Settlement School correspondence, Angela Melville, Glyn Morris, Kentucky Running Set, dance

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GOVERNANCE BOT 1940 Correspondence

CONTENTS

[Note: The following may not be a complete listing of letters for the year. This page will be updated with additional letters as they are found and processed.]

001-003 January 22, 1940. Three-page letter to Glyn Morris from Angela Melville, in Mandeville, Jamaica, who discusses the value of the Big Laurel Medical Settlement to the community and the value of medical help and “good influence” on the families in the area. She lauds Alice Turner and Virgil Boggs as pillars of the community and advises on the running of the Medical Settlement and its future.

She describes desirable educational programs and temperament of those hired to work at Pine Mountain and at the Big Laurel settlement. Vocational training and medical assistance are primary goals according to Melville. She suggests moving the medical clinic to the doctor’s quarters at Big Laurel and suggests establishing a quiet reading room-library.

At Pine Mountain she advises against including children younger than 15 or 14 in evening parties of older adults and student particularly if the “Running Set” is part of the activity.

She concludes “I write all this…with the deepest hostility, and in no sense as a critic of what is being done, for I realize fully your difficulties. I admire warmly what you are doing, and have done…Keep at it, and dig deeper all the time.

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GALLERY: GOVERNANCE BOT 1940 correspondence

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See Also:
GOVERNANCE Guide

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GUIDE TO BOT Correspondence by Year

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