019-020 PHOTOGRAPHS III CL Recreation pages

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series: PHOTOGRAPHS
19-20 CAMPUS LIFE
Recreation

019-020 III CAMPUS LIFE Recreation

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Tags: Pine Mountain Settlement School ; campus life photographs; recreation; May Day ; dancing ; Dancing Green ; Sword dancing ; Handkerchief Dance ; Morris Dancing ; Hobby Horse ; Mattie Ayers ; Paul Hayes ; Glyn Morris ; Gladys Morris ; Lucille Christian ; Evelyn Ayers ; Fern Hall Hayes ; William Hayes ; Joan Ayers ; Lela Christian ; Ruth Christian ; Georgia Dodd ; Kansas City ; Alonzo Turner ; Chapel ; Chapel choir ; Nan Milan ; Bonnie Ayers ; Kathy Barry; David Barry; Frank Barry; Helen Hayes; Steven Hayes; Elizabeth Dodd; Margaret Dodd

RECREATION

In the Photo Series 19-20 III CAMPUS LIFE RECREATION, recreation is displayed as a part of the curriculum at Pine Moutain Settlement School during the Boarding School years. In the years from 1930 until 1949, when the secondary education program ended, the School engaged in many activities that kept students and staff active and on the move. Foremost among those activities was dancing. English Country Dancing, Morris Dancing, Folk Dancing, Kentucky Running Sets, all manner of dance was executed with grace and energy as shown in many of the photographs in this selection.

May Day was a special time to show off the talents of dancers and their craft. Many of the girls wove their skirts in the active weaving program at the School and the boys, dressed in the brightest whites, would execute many of the complex dances passed along to the School through the English Country Dance Society and the many staff who had an interest in reviving the early dances of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, with a few Scandinavian dances added to the repertoire.

Dancing, which began in the earliest years of the School, took on new meaning from 1931 until 1941 under the guidance of Glyn Morris, the School director. During that period many of the students participated in folk-dance demonstrations for a variety of venues while fund-raising. These included a performance before President and Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House and again while visiting with Henry Ford in Michigan. Joined by balladeers, the student dancers and singers charmed audiences across the Middle West and North Eastern United States and raised generous donations for the School.

See Also: PMSS GIRLS’ OCTET 1936-1937

GALLERY – FULL FOLDER – 019-020 III CAMPUS LIFE RECREATION (Selected)
BEREA INVENTORY # 0767-0797