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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 07: Directors
\nSeries 09: Biography – Staff
\nH.R.S. BENJAMIN Staff<\/h5>\n

H.R.S. Benjamin<\/strong>
\nDirector 1944 – 1949<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Mountain Day at PMSS, 1947. Mr. Benjamin, Libby and Margaret Dodd, Janice, Allen, [?] [nace_1_075c.jpg]<\/p><\/div>\n

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TAGS:<\/strong> H.R.S. Benjamin, Hermon Benjamin, education, PMSS Board of Trustees, World War I, Naval Reserve, Ningpo China, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society<\/span>, American Indians, Bacone College for North American Indians, Cora Ethel Rohrer<\/span><\/p>\n

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“H.R.S. Benjamin, 1944 – 1949.” [pmss_photo_benjamin_mod.jpg]<\/p><\/div>\n

In November 1944 a new director of Pine Mountain Settlement School, H.R.S. Benjamin, was introduced to readers of the<\/span> Notes from the Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/em> by Evelyn Wells<\/a>, Secretary of the Board:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Board of Trustees of the Pine Mountain Settlement School takes pleasure in announcing the appointment of Mr. H.R.S. Benjamin as director. Mr. Benjamin took over August 1st….\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Both Mr. Benjamin and his wife grew up in Nebraska, and are graduates of Grand Island <\/em>[Nebraska]\u00a0College and the University of Nebraska respectively. After the First World War, in which Mr. Benjamin served in the Naval Reserve, they went to China, where they worked from 1919 to 1940 under the Foreign Board of the Northern Baptist Convention, building up in Ningpo, East China, educational, religious, social and medical work of an extensive nature. Mr. Benjamin holds an M.A. in Education from the University of Chicago. Since 1940, when a furlough turned perforce into an extended stay in this country, he has been working in a college for <\/em>[North American] Indians at Bacone, Oklahoma. One son and a son-in-law are in the services, another son is still in college at Berea.\u00a0<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

The Board looks back on the various administrations of Pine Mountain with a renewed appreciation of their distinctive characters. Every director has built something unique into the school, as well as contributing to the steady growth of its early ideals. NO director has ever taken another’s place, but in making a new one for himself has helped make effective his predecessor’s work. The founders, Katherine Pettit<\/a> and Ethel deLong<\/a>, laid foundations found daily to be more sound; Glyn Morris<\/a>‘ keen mind, contagious enthusiasm and tireless and imaginative work over a period of twelve years carried the school to a unique position not only in the Southern Appalachians, but in secondary education everywhere in America. Captain Morris belongs to the mountains, and we look for his return from war service to work there, be it at Pine Mountain or in some other capacity. To William Webb<\/a>, loaned to us by the Congregational Board for the past two years as interim director, we wish all good fortune as he and his family go out to their new work in British East Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n

As for the Benjamins: We quote from his first report to the Board: “… they [the boys and girls] are most certainly tying themselves tightly into my heart-strings. I am already asking myself, ‘Can I ever break those strings?’ ” <\/em><\/p>\n

And from a member of the staff: “We are sure that we have already discovered in them the qualities which make for friendship, and for achievement both material and spiritual.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Evelyn K. Wells<\/em>
\nSecretary of the Board<\/em><\/p>\n

Notes from the Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/a>
\n<\/em>Volume XVII, No. 1, NOVEMBER, 1944<\/p>\n

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GALLERY: H.R.S. BENJAMIN Autobiography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t