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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 09: Biography – Staff\/Personnel
\nSeries 07:\u00a0Directors
\nSeries: PHOTOGRAPHY<\/h5>\n

ARTHUR W. DODD
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Business Manager, Teacher 1932 – 1934<\/strong>
\nPhotographer, Filmmaker, Organist, Pianist<\/strong>
\nSchool Principal 1934 – 1949<\/strong>
\nActing Director 1942<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Arthur W. Dodd. [X_100_workers_2635_mod.jpg]<\/p><\/div>Arthur W. Dodd, Jr., was born on January 9, 1908. During World War II years, he enrolled in the V-12 Program for Navy Officers at Berea (Kentucky) College, a program that was designed to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the United States Navy and Marine Corps. He left that program before completing it and attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, for a short time.<\/p>\n

ARTHUR W. DODD at Pine Mountain<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Dodd spent 17 years at Pine Mountain Settlement School, serving in a variety of roles: two years as business manager; a total of five years as teacher of history, printing, English, music, and science (1942-1945 and 1947-1949); and school principal from 1934 to 1949. His work a Principal included work interviewing prospective students.\u00a0 The Boarding School years under Dodd’s direction were some of the most creative and active years of Pine Mountain.<\/p>\n

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Concert Program. [dodd_concert_cats_jpeg]<\/p><\/div>Arthur Dodd was a consummate musician. He played the organ and piano and was frequently called upon to play for events, give concerts, and instruct students in music.<\/p>\n

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The “ghost” of Arthur W. Dodd at the piano in the Chapel. [X_100_workers_2578b_mod.jpg]<\/p><\/div>In 1942, he was asked to serve as acting director for the School, as reported in the October issue<\/a> of\u00a0Notes From the Pine Mountain Settlement School,<\/em><\/p>\n

Early last spring Rev. Glyn A. Morris<\/a>, Director of Pine Mountain, volunteered as Chaplain in the army, and left for service on May 15th,\u00a0on leave of absence for one year…. Mr. Arthur Dodd, Principal of the School, and for ten years a worker here, was asked by the Board of Trustees to assume leadership until August 1st, when Mr. William D. Webb<\/a> came to Pine Mountain as Acting Director.<\/em><\/p>\n

The departure of Glyn Morris was quick and presented a significant dilemma for the Board of Trustees, as administrative staffing at many schools during the war years was very thin. The departure of Morris was also a personal blow for Dodd as they worked well as a team. The Board of Trustees received a complaint against Glyn Morris that brought his continuing tenure at the school into question. It was Arthur Dodd who championed his colleague and friend and wrote a letter to the Board of Trustee Secretary Evelyn Wells<\/strong> requesting that Morris be re-hired following the war service. Dodd’s letter was endorsed by the majority of the staff at the School at the time but did not succeed in keeping Morris at Pine Mountain. Dodd stayed on. When Morris returned to the area, not at Pine Mountain but to Evarts, under the Harlan County School System and the direction of Superintendent James A. Cawood,<\/a> Dodd followed him to Evarts. The two worked together for a brief time before Dodd accepted the position of Principal of the Navajo Mission School in Ganado, AZ.<\/p>\n

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Arthur Dodd and camera. Photo by William Hayes, early 1940s. [dodd_arthur_by_hayes.jpg]<\/p><\/div>Well-known for his skills and interest in photography, Arthur Dodd also collected photographs taken by others. In addition to his own photographs, he was responsible for movies filmed at Pine Mountain School. \u00a0From time to time he roamed the campus taking experimental photographs of buildings, staff and students and the surrounding environment. The School holds many photographs taken by Dodd and one photograph album, the ARTHUR W. DODD PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM<\/a>, contains both his images and those taken by other staff at the school. Because his work was frequently mixed with earlier and later photographs from various photographers, it is sometimes difficult to determine with certainty what is his work and what belongs to others. The high quality of the photograph is one very telling sign of his creative work.\u00a0 Yet, often the others trained by Dodd emulated his work. These insightful and artistic records of daily school routine, with an emphasis on the Pine Mountain Settlement School activities, campus views, and surroundings, are valuable resources for understanding the culture of the School and the local community during the 1930s and 1940s.<\/p>\n

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002_21 Georgia and Arthur Dodd on their wedding day at Chapel, 1940. [burkhard_peo_001-21.jpg<\/p><\/div>In the late 1930s, Mr. Dodd met Georgia Ayers<\/a>, a former Pine Mountain School student who had stayed on to work at the settlement. A summer trip to Mexico in 1936,<\/a> with Fern Hall and their chaperon, Grazia Combs brought Dodd and Georgia closer together and like many other staff, “Dodd” and Georgia were married in 1940 in the Pine Mountain School’s Chapel. Georgia Ayers Dodd worked as a community worker and housemother at Big Log<\/a> (1938-1940) and West Wind <\/a>(1942-1944). Their two daughters, Elizabeth\u00a0Oaks Dodd and Margaret Cressler Dodd, were born at Pine Mountain.<\/p>\n

The Dodd family removed to Ganado, Arizona at Pine Mountain until 1951<\/p>\n

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ART<\/strong>HUR W. DODD: Gallery<\/h3>\n\n\t\t