DEAR FRIEND Letters and Brochures 1965

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 17: PMSS Publications (Published by the School)
Dear Friend Letters and Brochures 1965

DEAR FRIEND Letters and Brochures 1965 May and November

TAGS: Dear Friend letters and brochures 1965,fundraising letters,PMSS Director Burton Rogers,publicity photographs, PMSS student and teacher activities,federal aid

CONTENTS: Dear Friend Letter and Brochure 1965 May 24

Brochure Cover
Photograph: Smiling children seated in library.
Caption: “Library storytime for Pine Mountain Kindergarten”

“With such children to work for, we ask only for a chance”

Brochure Photographs and Text
Photograph: Girl in plaid dress reading.
Caption: “Reading Class”

Text: Quote from Katherine Pettit

Photograph: Seated boy and standing visitor looking at book together.
Caption: “Social Studies with visitor from abroad”

Photograph: Boy seated at a loom.
Caption: “Weaving in after-school crafts class”

Photograph: Boys working in a row with shovels.
Caption: “Youth after-school self-help project”

Text: Quote from William Creech, Jr.

Photograph: Little girl seated at a table with paintbrush.
Caption: “Painting in Kindergarten”

Photograph: Boy playing the dulcimer.
Caption: “‘Dulcigourd’ pupil in after-school dulcimer class”

Text: Quote from Ethel de Long

Photograph: Girls standing at a counter in the library.
Caption: “Book check-out with student librarian”

Photograph: A seated man working on strips of hickory.
Caption: “‘Unemployed’ father learning traditional hickory stripping”

Two sketches of flowers by Mary Rogers.

Letter – Page 1 of 1
Header: “Pine Mountain settlement School
Pine Mountain, Kentucky”
Sketch: Tall pine trees with mountain range in background.

Director Burton Rogers refers to photographs in the enclosed brochure. (See above.) He then writes about the children and community and their activities: ballad-singing, making pottery with local clay, working in the print shop, whittling, science and dulcimer classes, boys’ work crews in the youth self-help program, constructing a plastic greenhouse, a concert by the Louisville String Quartet, Economic Opportunity projects, and more.

Rogers is thankful that the needs of Appalachia have been recognized by the federal government but private support is needed as a supplement to federal projects. “Unprecedented adjustments will come as various projects actually materialize. … We intend to lend every bit of help which our experience, our knowledge, and our quota of energy can offer.”

Rogers reports that “our budget has not been met for the fiscal year ending June 30” and invites all friends to help.

“Sincerely,
[signed] Burton Rogers, Director
May 24, 1965″

GALLERY

CONTENTS: Dear Friend Letter and Brochure 1965 November 15

Page 1 of 3
Text: A brief history, from the founding of PMSS in 1913 to the boarding school until 1949 to PMSS’s cooperation with the Harlan Board of Education to provide a consolidated school.
Photographs: Truck traveling on a rutted dirt road; a student boarding a school bus on a paved road.
Text: Describes the conditions of the roads which children must use to travel to PMSS.

Photograph: Children look out from three windows of a Harlan County school bus.
Text: The faces of the children arriving at PMSS reflect “the challenge, and the delight, of the desperately needed educational work in this area….”

Page 2 of 3 [2-page spread with 12 photographs, most with captions]

COLUMN 1
Photographs without captions: Boy looking through a thick book; Seated girl putting on shoes; Little boy eating from a bowl in the dining room.

COLUMN 2
Photograph: Children in chairs surrounding a teacher.
Caption: “Upper-grade volunteers share music skills with fascinated pupils in summer “Little School.”

Photograph: Students working in the greenhouse.
Caption: “Junior High School Students start home garden projects in the newest addition to their schoolhouse — a plastic greenhouse.”

Photograph: A man and boy with shovel watch over 2 boys working at a bench.
Caption: “Boy Scouts accomplish community service improving the campus public picnic ground.”

COLUMN 3
Photograph: A teacher shows students standing around a table a book from the library.
Caption: “Students discover research possibilities among 10,000 Library books.”

Photograph: A man teaches a child to swim in pool.
Caption: ‘In Physical Education the youngest students find fun and achievement in the ‘outdoor curriculum’.”

Photograph: Two girls watch a teach at a sewing machine.
Caption: “4-H girls receive understanding attention in development of practical skills.”

COLUMN 4
Photographs without captions: Closeup of small boy biting on a pencil; a boy holds a turtle and another boy looks on; two boys work with clay at a table.

Page 3 of 3 [Above fold]
Map: Roads to Pine Mountain and surrounding towns and cities in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Text: Lists the “vital aspects of Pine Mountain’s program which cannot be pictured in one bulletin …” and credits contributors who make these services possible.

“durham OFFSET CO. – Harlan, Ky. 1965”

Page 3a of 3 [Below fold]
Photograph: Old Log, fence and PMSS sign.
Text: “Since 1913 ‘Old Log’ House has marked for students, workers, neighbors and visiting friends the entrance to the School”

Letter – Page 1 of 1
Header: “Pine Mountain settlement School
Pine Mountain, Kentucky”
Sketches: Sun’s rays shine across a mountain; a little girl reaching for falling leaves

Director Burton Rogers informs “Dear friends” of an “enclosed leaflet reporting Pine Mountain activity.” (See above.)

Rogers. referring to “recent legislation to aid the Appalachian region,” expresses the hope that he and PMSS’s neighbors have for “massive improvements from the active and sincere national attempts to meet the challenges of stubborn, long-existing inadequacies. …”

“Only one government program has assisted, indirectly, the work of the Pine Mountain Settlement School. … Our pre-school, which foreshadowed the coming Head Start movement, did not qualify for federal funds because it was already a going concern.” Rogers gives other examples of federal projects that require PMSS to provide the supervisors and materials.

PMSS is glad to help supply workers in order that local efforts qualify for federal aid but there is a larger need than ever for small private efforts. Rogers lists the many School activities that cost more than ever. He asked friends for help in order to keep these services in operation.
“Sincerely,
[signed] Burton Rogers, Director”

GALLERY

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