ROXIE GAMBREL Student Records

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Students
Series 19: STUDENTS
Roxie Gambrel Student Records 1946-1949 

ROXIE GAMBREL Student Records

Roxie Gambrel. Self-evaluation letter to parents, Dec. 1947, p.1. [gambrel_roxie_1946-49-11-scaled]

ROXIE GAMBREL Student Records 1946-1949


TAGS: Roxie Gambrel, Roxie Marie Gambrel, student Records, PMSS students, student autobiography, Twila KY, self-evaluation letters to parents, Mummers’ Play, Nativity Play, school subjects, education, teachers, student records, Stanford Achievement Tests


CONTENTS: ROXIE GAMBREL Student Records

[Lightly edited for clarity.]

APPLICATION

01 February 27, 1946. MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY – Roxie Marie Gambrel, Twila, Harlan County, Kentucky. Born: January 30, 1930, in Twila, KY. Father: 54 years old; born in Knox County; a miner…. Mother: Bessie Johnson, who died 12 years ago.
02 (Page 2) I have four brothers and six sisters. Siblings not yet in school: Orville Ray (age 4), Donald Ray (5), Bonnie Louise (2).  …We have a car and 1 cow…..
03 (Page 3) …Our house is heated by coal and lighted by electricity….. Our water comes from an “electric well”….. We have about 50 books in our home. We take: Knoxville News, Sentinel. My daily duties: Washing dishes and minding babies; sometimes, mopping. I have attended 8 grades in the Twila school….
04 (Page 4) …I should like to take 4 years of college; my parents agree. Favorite studies: spelling, reading.
05 (Page 5) My parents would like me to be a teacher….
This form is adapted from the form “My Autobiography” of the Alliance for the Guidance of Rural Youth.

SELF-EVALUATION LETTERS

06-10 December 19, 1946. Handwritten five-page letter to “Mother & Daddy” (Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gambrel, Twila, KY), from “Your Daughter, Roxie Gambrel.” [06] “At the end of the term we are supposed to write a letter home telling how we have done this term.” She describes her progress in her hardest subjects: math, [07] science. Other subjects: Bible, English (“I have learned to use English better since I came [08] over here….”), and civics. She tells about her progress in work, [09] living in Big Log, leisure time, table manners (“I learned to take three bits of the food that I don’t like and I have learned to like a lot more food such as greens….” [10] Favorite event: the Mummers’ Play. She learned to use the sewing machine in home economics. “Well, I will close now as I have to make two more copies of this letter.”

11-13 December 18, 1947. Handwritten three-page letter to “Mother & Daddy” (Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gambrel, Twila, KY), from “Your Daughter, Roxie Marie.” [11] She writes about classes in economics, English, mathematics (“my hardest subject”), [12] home economics, co-op (“I have learned to keep books [and] to take responsibility in the co-op store.”), work, conduct, leisure time. “The best thing that has happened this year is the Nativity Play and the [13] Mummers’ Play….”

14-16 May 20, 1948, Handwritten three-page letter to “Mother & Daddy” (Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gambrel, Twila, KY), from “Your Daughter, Roxie Gambrel.” [14] Describes getting along with others (“…going to parties and movies together.”), her work at the School House, weight gain, [15] and health. Tells about: economics, English, and teachers. (“They are the kind of teachers I should have had all through grade school. Then maybe I would have a little more education that I have now. But it is my fault that I didn’t study.”). “I don’t do very well in math or co-op.” Tells about “a nice little church  over here,” [16] with chapel services in which the students participate.

17-19 May 19, 1949. Handwritten three-page letter to “Parents” (Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gambrel, Twila, KY), from “Your Daughter, Roxie Gambrel.” [17] She describes her work (Laurel House cleaning, supervised by Miss [Myra] Binford. [18] Mentions progress in English, sociology, weaving, home economics, Bible, history. Also tells about Chapel services, her weight, movies, the senior play, [19] “You Can’t Take It With You.” She has had “a lot of nice times [with other students] going to parties, movies, and to school.”

49 Image of file folder labeled “Gambrel, Roxie, 1946-49.” 


ROXIE GAMBREL Student Records — RESTRICTED 

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20 through 40  – Teachers’ Evaluations.

41 through 44 OTIS SELF-ADMINISTERING TESTS OF MENTAL ABILITY. 
45 STANFORD ACHIEVEMENT TEST for Roxie Marie Gambrel, age 19, grade 11, April 22, [no year]. 
46 PROFILE CHART: Stanford Achievement Test chart. [blank]
47 STANFORD ACHIEVEMENT TEST for Roxie Marie Gambrel, age 16, grade 9, September 2, 1946.
48 PROFILE CHART: Stanford Achievement Test chart for September 1946 through May 1949.


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See Also: 
BEATRICE AND ROXIE GAMBREL Students – Biographies
BEATRICE AND ROXIE GAMBREL Student Records (Some are restricted.)