GOVERNANCE Directors Annual Reports to BOT 1941

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 05: GOVERNANCE – BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Series 07: DIRECTORS
Director’s Annual Reports to BOT 1941
Glyn Morris, PMSS Director, 1931-1942
SIA: BOX 17 A-B

Infirmary, raking view of entry. Arthur W. Dodd Album. [dodd_A_029_mod.jpg]

GOVERNANCE Directors Annual Reports to BOT 1941

January, August, October, November, December 1941
Glyn Morris, Director

TAGS: Governance, director’s annual reports to BOT 1941, PMSS Board of Trustees, Glyn Morris, influenza, PMSS staff, REA, bulletins, Kiwanis Camp, Junior Work Camp, Infirmary, dysentery, Line Fork, West Wind, building repairs, visitors, hiring, resignations, publications, filming by Ray Garner, Harmon Foundation, Infirmary Report, mine, national defense program, WWII

CONTENTS: GOVERNANCE Director’s Annual Reports to BOT 1941

January 1941

[Jan-001] “REPORT TO THE BOARD January – 1941.” Work on the Girls’ House [West Wind]; The [Richard and Lutrella] Bakers in Kansas; influenza delayed school opening; Dr. Van Kolken; workers living in Laurel House. Mrs.[Anna Wulf] Pishzak has been informed that support of the Medical Settlement [at Big Laurel] will end on January 31, 1941. REA service may begin in May; need to convert DC to AC for Laurel House. Two students left in the first semester. Former student, then housemother and dietitian, Maude Holbrook, has gone to Florida to train for hotel work. Nancy Bess Ward, Berea 1940, has replaced her. Community Christmas Party, Miss [Grace] Rood, Myrtle Lee Green who replaced Miss Ward in the Home Ec. Dept. has resigned.

August 1941

[Aug-001] “BULLETIN From the Pine Mountain Settlement School, August 14, 1941.” KIWANIS CAMP – closed after 4 weeks. JUNIOR WORK CAMP – names of participants and directors. INFIRMARY – Dr. and Mrs. Wyndham Hunt Nutter and daughter Gale arrived on July 3rd; dysentery in the community and at the School. LINE FORK – Miss Anne Gould, summer worker at the Cabin.
[Aug-002] BULLETIN, Page 2. PMSS employment ads in the Christian Century. WEST WIND – update on repairs. WILLIAM STEPHEN HAYES born June 2nd to Mr. and Mrs. William Hayes. POWER – Poles for the REA line have been erected; delivery of copper wire is delayed due to the defense program; problems with wiring in PMSS buildings to meet government specifications. REPAIRS – School House and Chapel chimneys. VISITORS – Everts (Ky.) groups; children; young married couples; recreational conference.

October 1941

[Oct-001] REPORT: Four-page letter to James S. Crutchfield, Pittsburgh, PA, from Glyn Morris, October 7, 1941. Total number of students is 107 (92 boarding and 15 day). STAFF: Miss Hackman and Miss Miller resigned; Miss Martha-Anne Keen of Scarsdale, NY, employed as English teacher; Mrs. Jess Buden will teach Home Economics; Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Baker have decided to remain at Line Fork. Mrs. Anna Pishzak returned to work at the Medical Settlement, after a summer of weaving with Miss Florence…
[Oct-002] REPORT, Page 2. …Daniels, who was formerly at Pine Mountain. Pishzak plans to start a community weaving program at the Medical Settlement, along with a companion, Miss Marjorie Robinson. Morris lists Pishzak’s schedule. Miss Olive Coolidge (John C. Campbell’s niece) arrived to assist Miss Rood in the Infirmary. Mabel Weaver (PMSS 1938) was in charge of the Infirmary during Rood’s vacation, and now leaves to work at a hospital in Charleston, WVA. Encloses September medical work report.
[Oct-003] REPORT, Page 3. Morris also encloses a copy of July 1841 Consumers’ Cooperation, with an article by Gladys Hill and Vera Hackman, titled “Teaching Cooperation at Pine Mountain.” FILMING – “For the past seven weeks Mr. and Mrs. Ray Garner of the Harmon Foundation have been making a film in color about Pine Mountain.” Miss [Alice] Cobb, who leaves PMSS October 10, will include an explanation about the film. STAFF – Miss Ward, PMSS dietitian, plans to leave for another position.
[Oct-004] INFIRMARY REPORT, Page 4. A list of the numbers of various calls, bed patients, clinics, maternity cases, and typhoid shots.

November 1941

[Nov-001] REPORT, Page 2 [Page 1 is missing]. A partial letter from Glyn Morris to James S. Crutchfield, dated December 5, 1941. Mentions Thanksgiving Ball; encloses the publicity folder for Mountain Life and Work, encouraging the Board to subscribe to the magazine. He also enclosed a report on mountain schools.

December 1941

[Dec-002] REPORT, January 19, 1942, Page 1. Two-page letter to James S. Crutchfield, Pittsburgh, PA, from Glyn Morris, who describes the difficulties of getting repair parts for the power plant, using a small emergency engine instead. “…[T]he REA line has advanced to the foot of the mountain on the other side and…every day brings it closer to the school.” Brit Wilder is working on a tipple for the new mine. Morris tells of Dr. Nutter feeling “unsettled.”
[Dec-003] REPORT, Page 2. Morris regrets that Miss Olive Coolidge must resign her Infirmary position, as it will be “detrimental to the Infirmary…and difficult to replace her.” He tells “what Pine Mountain is doing to fit into the national defense program” by conserving food, reducing waste, saving paper and tin cans, selling defense stamps…..[T]he remoteness of the school makes it difficult at the present time to articulate in any more direct way.”