Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 02: GOVERNANCE
Mission Statements Guide

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TAGS: Mission Statements Guide, early PMSS mission Statements, acreage, education, social centers, agricultural and economic development

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GOVERNANCE Mission Statements Guide

Through the 100-plus-year history of the Institution, mission statements have remained remarkably consistent as well as adaptive to the times.

Two examples of early mission statements follow:

1918

“To give industrial, moral, and intellectual education, Christian, but non-sectarian; to serve as a social center in an isolated, intensely rural neighborhood; to further by teaching and by the wise use of its own 390 acres of land, the agricultural and economic development of the country.” [Source: 1918 PMSS Catalog]

In the 1920 statement, the only change is in the acreage of the institution from 390 acres to 450 acres of land.

1920

 “To give industrial, moral, and intellectual education, Christian, but non-sectarian; to serve as a social center in an isolated, intensely rural neighborhood; to further by teaching and by the wise use of its own 450 acres of land, the agricultural and economic development of the country.” [ Source: 1920 PMSS Catalog] 

See NOTES -1956 for Burton Rogers’ revised Mission Statement after Harlan County Schools consolidation.

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