ELLEN GUNDERSEN AND JIM WOLFE Scrapbook

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY
Ellen Gundersen and Jim Wolfe
Scrapbook

ELLEN GUNDERSEN AND JIM WOLFE Scrapbook

Ellen Gundersen Wolfe and Jim Wolfe, 1951. [wolfe_quaker_scrapbook_006]

QUAKER SUPPORTERS OF PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL

The Wolfe couple were long supporters of Pine Mountain Settlement School. As Quakers, they shared a deep friendship with Burton and Mary Rogers who were also Quakers. The volunteerism of the couple through the American Friends Service Committee project at Pine Mountain was the connecting relationship that brought them to the School in 1951 and kept them returning over many years.

The following Scrapbook was assembled by the Wolf couple of their work with the School. It is a broad account of their individual meaningful work and that of the American Friends Service Committee volunteers who have given of their time to the School over the years. Many items duplicate publications already held within the Archive, but the personal accounts of the couple provide an excellent collected memory of the Work Camp volunteers and of their projects, personal work, and reflections of their time at the School during the 1950s. The Wolfe couple remained long-time friends of the School, the Rogers, and others they encountered while working there.

See Also: ELLEN GUNDERSEN AND JIM WOLFE Volunteers – Biography

CONTENTS: ELLEN GUNDERSEN AND JIM WOLFE Scrapbook

THE WORK PROJECT Photo album (22 photographs). THE WORK PROJECT. TOOL SHED FINISHED AFTER WE LEFT. Contains:
Scenes from Pine Mountain.
At or near Norris Dam, Tennessee.
Pine Mt. campus photographs.
Loose associated photographs of Pine Mountain and area. (40 photographs)
“Pine Mountain, Harlan County, Kentucky: A special place. Quaker Work Camp, July- August, 1951. January, 1953-August, 1953 Ellen Gundersen and Jim Wolfe work there.
A chapter in the book, “Some Form of Peace,” 1968 is on Pine Mt. work camp April, 1987. Ellen returns for Wildflower Weekend.
Pine Mountain since then. (includes 2 photographs: 1. Brit Wilder and young man; 2. Ellen and Jim Wolf couple.
Ellen Gundersen, “Being an Account of a Summer Spent by Ellen Gundersen with the American Friends Service Committee in a Work Camp in Kentucky, during July and August, 1951 …” (4 page memoir with list of workers in the 1951 Camp)
Pine Mountain Settlement School flyer
Book review in Quaker Service National Edition, Fall 1968. Contains review of the Wolfe book, Some Form of Peace: True Stories of the American Friends Service Committee at Home and Abroad, reviewed by Richard R. Wood.
Letter from Marvin R. Weisbord, Merion Station, PA, 8/29/68 to Ellen Gundersen regarding unspecified shared project. [?]
Program for PINE MOUNTAIN WILDFLOWER WEEKEND, April 24-26, 1987.
1987 Pine Mountain Settlement School Spring Wildflower List. (2 pages)
5 color photographs of Pine Mountain Settlement School.
Homecoming Newsletter, Pine Mountain Association of Alumni & Friends, August 12-13, 1988. 75th Anniversary, “From Log Cabin to innovative educational campus.”
“Progressive Education in the Kentucky Mountains: An Historical Sketch 1931-1942,” Pine Mountain Settlement School. James Greene III.
NOTES of the Pine Mountain Settlement School, November 1988
NOTES of the Pine Mountain Settlement School, April 1989
WILDFLOWER WEEKEND at Pine Mountain Settlement School. April 21-23, 1989
Homecoming Newsletter. Pine Mountain Association of Alumni & Friends. August 12-13, 1989.
FALL COLOR WEEKEND at Pine Mountain Settlement School. October 20-22, 1989.
NOTES of the Pine Mountain Settlement School, (SPRING LETTER) April 1990
Alumni and Friends Newsletter, Pine Mountain Association of Alumni and Friends, August 11-12, 1990.
Letters. Here are some notes from our friends who could not attend the ’91 Reunion …
Photograph of Marty Hanneman and associated notes [?]. Relationship unknown.
Names from the Homecoming Guest Register August 10-11, 1991.
NOTES from the Pine Mountain Settlement School, April 1992.