Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 04: HISTORIES
1937-2000 HISTORY PMSS Summaries
HISTORY PMSS Summary 1965-1966
Tags: History PMSS summary 1965-1966, staff, events, visiting groups, youth employment, work/training, dulcimer-making, sorghum molasses
TRANSCRIPTION: HISTORY PMSS Summary 1965-1966 [image 79]
History of the Pine Mountain Settlement School
1965-66
Staff Members:
Alvin Boggs Recreation and Community Worker
Matthew Boggs, Night Watchman
Lucile Boggs, Laurel House
Ruth Boggs, Supervisor of Laurel House and Guest House
Marianna Conley, Secretary
Vernon Conley, Teacher, 9th and 10th Grades
Fern Cornett, Laurel House
Jess Cornett, Maintenance
Connie Fearington, Teacher, 3rd & 4th Grades
Atossa French, Teacher, Grades 5 & 6 (Jan. – May)
Alice Harris, Laurel House
Polly Harris, Laurel House
Gilbert Lewis, Maintenance
Omer Lewis, Maintenance
Paul Lynn, Volunteer, Music, Woodwork, Pottery
Mildred Mahoney, Teacher, Kindergarten
Jess Patterson, Maintenance
Mary Rogers, Volunteer Librarian
Mary T. Sexton, Grades 5 & 6 (Sept. – Dec.)
William Stump, Teacher, 9th & 10th Grades
Alice Turner, Laurel House
Otis Turner, Maintenance
Marilynn Van der Vliet, Bookkeeper
Brit Wilder, Maintenance Supervisor & Farm Manager
Maude Wilder, Remedial Reading Aide
Mildred Wilder, Laurel House
Mary Wilson, Teacher, 1st & 2nd Grades
Jerry Workman, Teacher, 7th & 8th Grades
Burton Rogers, Director
Traditional Events: Community Fair, Nativity Play, Weekly community folk dance party
Events:
An Ohio church youth camp was at PMSS for its seventh summer.
A youth employment opportunity on a special grounds crew was continued. Work/…
TRANSCRIPTION: HISTORY PMSS Summary 1965-1966 [image 80]
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…training was continued for a group of unemployed fathers.
Dulcimer-making, introduced experimentally, became a major avocation of staff member Jess Patterson.
Berea College sent visitors from Kenya and Thailand to PMSS.
With the assistance of the “unemployed fathers” and “youth employment” PMSS raised sorghum cane, and made sorghum molasses.
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