Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 19: Students
Series 09: Biography

1948 GRADUATING CLASS

1948 GRADUATING CLASS: Photograph

[Back row] Jane Burkhart, Ida MacLewis, Charleen Lewis, Margaret Blair, Raymond Sturgill, Mary Ruth Bird, Betty Huff, Ann Metcalf, Alberta Turner,
[front row] Melvin Coots, Mary Garrett, Hobart Wilder, Clela Sergent, Owen Lewis, Birdie Tipton.

[NOTE: Above information on the Seniors of 1948 comes from Dorothy Nace. This does not reconcile with the “Class of 1948” found in the Pine Cone listed below.]

1948 GRADUATING CLASS: Names
(?? *duplicates 1949 GRADUATING CLASS ??)

Walter Blackson*
Earl Brown*
Arles Centers
Correna Cornett
Bobby Jean Johnson*
Bonnie Reynolds*
Margaret Slusher*
Clayton Sturgill*
Leone Sturgill*
Bess Taylor*
Kitty Wilkes*

[list is incomplete]

1948 GRADUATING CLASS: Excerpts, Senior Calendar of 1948-1949

SEPTEMBER

5 —  Registration Day. Freshmen arrive, bag and baggage.

6 —  Picnic Lunch at Big Log Lean-to. First Dancing Party.

7 —  Classes begin.

11 —  “The Lodger” Movie about a wayfaring stranger who terrified West Wind girls.

12 —  First Chapel Service with a talk by Mr. [H.R.S.] Benjamin and special anthem by the choir.

22 —  No baths! Water low in the reservoir.

25 —  Heigh-ho, Come to the Fair. Richard Chase here. A Santa-climax to the fair as St. NIck arrives at Pine Mountain prematurely in movie, “House on 34th Street.”

26 —  Sermon by Dr. Luther Ambrose, Berea College. Hike to Jack’s Gap. Vespers piano recital by Mr. [Arthur] Dodd.

29 —  Senior class meeting for organization.

OCTOBER

1 —  Trip to Kingsport, Tennessee, to see Freedom Train.

3 —  Geese first seen heading south. Seven seniors also try their wings.

4 —  Sans seven seniors.

7 —  Rain !!!!

8 —  First Senior Supper. Stir-off at Henry Creech‘s.

9 —  “The Razor’s Edge.”

10 —  Girls vs. boys in ball game.

13 —  First edition of THE PINE CONE. [for that year?]

15 —  Mountain Day and dancing party.

16 —  Playground Party. Mrs. Barry and Mr. Scoville, here.

17 —  Vespers talk by Mr. Scoville [Alice Berry’s father] on nature. More rain!! and then snow!!!

25-27 — Miss Gadd and Miss Averil here for folk dancing.

30 —  Mrs. McLean here for dancing party.

31 —  Chapel talk by Dr. McLean, Transylvania College. Candlelight Vespers. Boys fight forest fires.

NOVEMBER

2 —  Election Day. Dewey wins, but only at Pine Mountain.

5 —  Co-op Play.

6 —  Hallowe’en Party and Pie Supper, First issue of THE SPECTATOR, weekly news supplement of THE PINE CONE.

11 —  Armistice Day. Announcement of Thanksgiving Vacation.

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See Also:

BOARDING SCHOOL STUDENTS 1929 – 1949

GUIDE TO STUDENTS AT PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL

LIST OF BOARDING SCHOOL STUDENTS BY GRADUATING CLASS

PINE CONE 1948-49
PINE CONE 1949

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