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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 09: Biography – Staff\/Personnel
\nBarbara Spelman Correspondence<\/h5>\n

BARBARA SPELMAN Correspondence, 1940-1943<\/h2>\n

The following are images and transcriptions of Barbara Spelman<\/a> correspondence, dated 1941-1943, with PMSS staff during and after her employment at PMSS, and staff memos concerning her employment. Also\u00a0shown below are images and transcriptions of\u00a0her completed application form and recommendations from her references that were submitted to the School when she applied for a\u00a0PMSS position in 1940.<\/p>\n

Barbara Spelman was the sister of John Spelman III,<\/a> who was an instructor of art at Pine Mountain from 1937 to 1941. Always a champion of her talented brother, she continued to stay in contact with many of his friends and their in-common friends following his premature death in 1969. Many of these were friends she made during her two-year stay at Pine Mountain where she worked as an office bookkeeper from August 1940 until July 1942.<\/p>\n

Barbara trained to be a librarian and her career and that of her husband Collin F. Allen, Jr. were always centered around books. Collin served as a board member and president of the Michigan Association of Educational Representatives. Their home in Kalamazoo, Michigan, always had children coming and going. They had three daughters and one son and multiple grandchildren. Collin Allen died in June 2003 following a stroke. The two had enjoyed a marriage of\u00a060 years.<\/p>\n

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GALLERY: BARBARA SPELMAN Correspondence, Application & Photograph<\/h3>\n\n\t\t