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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 09: Staff\/Personnel<\/h5>\n

PAUL HAYES
\nDirector 1986 – 1996
\nStudent 1936 – 1940<\/h2>\n
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TAGS<\/strong>:\u00a0Paul Hayes ; directors ; progressive education ; coal camps ; William Hayes ; Berea (KY) College ; U.S. Navy Unit V-12 ; Duke University ; Ellen Ayers Hayes ; Chapel ; Presbyterian Church ; carillons ; environmental education ; intervention ; KET video ; boarding schools ; World War II ; Pine Mountain Alumni Association ; James Greene III ; infrastructure ; community ;<\/p>\n

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Newspaper clipping of Paul Hayes as a PMSS student, c. 1937. [pmss_photo_MOD_paul_hayes-2.jpg]<\/p><\/div>Pine Mountain must have seemed a\u00a0pristine\u00a0and\u00a0delightful place to Paul Hayes whenever he visited his older brothers, John and Silvan, and later Bill Hayes who were students at the Settlement School. Those times inspired him to later state that he “had a love affair with PMSS ever since the age of 12.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fall 1996 issue of <\/a>Notes from the Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was\u00a0<\/em>dedicated to Paul Hayes. In it, Mildred Mahoney<\/a> (acting director who succeeded Paul Hayes) included Paul’s fond memory of one of his early visits:<\/p>\n

As a young child, Paul Hayes came over Pine Mountain, with his mother, on the logging railroad, for a special event — Pine Mountain Fair Day, memorable because Paul had his first ice cream cone.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hayes\u00a0spent his boyhood in Coxton (Harlan County), Kentucky, where he attended the coal camp elementary school. When Paul began seventh grade at PMSS in 1936, joining\u00a0his brother, William Hayes<\/a>, who was already attending the School.\u00a0Paul wrote in the April 1989 issue<\/a> of<\/span> Notes from the Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/em>:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Coming from the drab and oppressive coal camps to this unique and beautiful setting, being a part of the special curricula designed by Mr. [Glyn] Morris<\/a> and his talented staff, was a haven.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Later in life, Paul spoke of his PMSS education as “…the greatest thing,\u00a0really, that ever happened to me\u201d because the variety of jobs the students performed gave them \u201cconfidence that you were capable of doing any type of thing that you really wanted to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Hayes with his nephew, Wm. Steven Hayes. Source: Paul Hayes Photograph Collection. [hay_IMAG0245_mod.jpg]<\/p><\/div>\n

Paul’s graduation from PMSS high school in 1940 coincided with the heating up of World War II. As the United States began to greatly increase its Navy after Germany captured Paris, France, Paul joined a Navy V-12 Unit. Through the V-12 program, he received training both at Berea (Kentucky) College, and\u00a0Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, followed by service on a PT (Patrol Torpedo) Boat\u00a0in the area of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

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Paul Hayes and Ellen (\u201cMattie\u201d) Ayers Hayes marriage in PMSS Chapel, May 30, 1946. [nace_1_071b]<\/p><\/div>\n

Paul next returned to the PMSS campus on the occasion of his marriage in the PMSS\u00a0Chapel<\/a>\u00a0to Ellen\u00a0(\u201cMattie\u201d) Ayers Hayes\u00a0on May 30, 1946.\u00a0Ellen, a Berea College graduate, was, like Paul, a native of Harlan County (Twila) and a former student at PMSS. She was one of six sisters who attended the school.<\/p>\n

Throughout the years following their marriage, Paul and Ellen raised their family, owned and operated a music store in Bristol, Tennessee, and helped start a Presbyterian Church “which became basically a university church.” Throughout these years, Paul stayed involved with PMSS and helped to institute an active alumni association to support the School.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Hayes was already retired and still living in Bristol when, in September 1986, he was offered the position of interim director at Pine Mountain Settlement School to replace former Director\u00a0James Urquhart.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mildred Mahoney described Paul as an appropriate selection for Pine Mountain at that time:<\/p>\n

[While attending PMSS boarding school]\u00a0Paul’s work experience — cultivating, planting, pruning, supervising boys in the dairy barn, caretaking steam heat furnaces and hot water heaters, mechanical work on the school bus and school truck — <\/em>[was] to become an important background for a return to Pine Mountain.<\/em><\/p>\n

When he accepted the PMSS position, Paul\u00a0took\u00a0a leave of absence from his job of eight years as a carillon consultant for companies based in California and overseas in England. Originally agreeing to stay at PMSS for six months, Paul and Ellen realized that they could benefit the School by remaining longer. In the end, Paul served as director for 10 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Hayes and brother William Hayes, to right.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t