\nTeacher, School Pianist 1928 – 1932<\/strong>
\nMember, Board of Trustees 1955 – ?<\/strong><\/p>\n
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TAGS:<\/strong>\u00a0Marian Kingman ; education ; students ; teachers ; Margaret Motter ; Harriet Crutchfield ; home economics ; domestic science ; cooking classes ; piano-playing ; ballad singing ; folk dancing ; Chapel ; vespers ; The Mikado ; Laurel House ; sleeping porches ; Berea College ; Trustees ;<\/p>\n \u201cCongratulations in this year of 1996 on your 96th natal day….\u201d began an article in the spring 1996 issue<\/a> of Notes from the Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/em> celebrating Marian Kingman\u2019s birthday. In this tribute, the School fondly remembered Miss Kingman long after her years there as teacher, pianist, and trustee.<\/p>\n Born in Illinois on February 25, 1900, Miss Kingman arrived at Pine Mountain in 1928 to teach home economics (domestic science) sharing the same four years with <\/span>Miss Margaret Motter<\/a> and one year with <\/span>Miss Harriet Crutchfield<\/a>. The 1996 article goes on to quote from a February 1930<\/a> issue of\u00a0<\/span>Notes <\/em>that describes a day in Miss Kingman\u2019s life:<\/span><\/p>\n Marian Kingman, Harriet Crutchfield, & Margaret Motter preparing for a ride. X_100_workers_2559_mod.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n Until the seven months district schools close at the end of January, each Friday Miss Kingman mounts her nag and rides down toward [I]ncline to hold her cooking class for girls in one of the neighbor\u2019s kitchens. The district school allows girls two hours out of the school day to attend. In November [1929] we visited the class and it was a real adventure.<\/em><\/p>\n Six little girls, ranging in age from nine to fifteen came that day and a young matron, an old Pine Mountain girl, was taking her turn at being hostess to the class. She sat by the fire rocking her baby son, while the little girls, one of whom had walked four miles to come, bustled about her kitchen, so business-like in their clean aprons and so interested in what they were doing. The dishes to be made that day were creamed cabbage with white sauce, and stuffed potatoes. While the cabbage was boiling and the potatoes baking, Miss Kingman dictated the recipes and everyone wrote laboriously in their oilcloth-covered notebooks.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n This year the children have learned to make canned beans, canned corn, baked apples, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, candied sweet potatoes, potato soup, cinnamon buns, corn chowder, and floating island.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Sitting around the oilcloth-covered table in the kitchen afterwards, eating up the class product, as is the pleasant custom, we found that not one of the six little cooks had ever before eaten creamed cabbage or stuffed potatoes. Yet there is not a family which does not possess these raw materials.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n As the little girls washed and dried dishes and swept out the room leaving everything spick and span, we were reminded of the fairy tale in which the cobbler had elfin help in his labors…..<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Marian Kingman (left) and friends show off their mittens. X_100_workers_2638_mod.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n Miss Kingman was also well-known as the school pianist, playing for a variety of gatherings, such as assemblies, ballad singing, folk dancing, Sundays in the Chapel<\/a>, and choir vespers. The students who sang in the School\u2019s production of \u201cThe Mikado,\u201d a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, were accompanied by her skilled piano-playing. She even spread her love of music to the sleeping porches at Laurel House<\/a>, serenading the girls to sleep with \u201ca little night music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Although Miss Kingman began a teaching career at Berea (KY) College in 1932, she continued her connections with Pine Mountain, often bringing her classes to Pine Mountain to make curtains and provide other enhancements to the interiors of the School\u2019s buildings. She joined the Pine Mountain Board of Trustees in 1955 and later became an honorary trustee.<\/span><\/p>\n Miss Kingman lived out her final years in the Highland Farms Retirement Community at Black Mountain, located in western North Carolina. She died on April 16, 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n A visual record of her years at Pine Mountain may be seen in the Marian Kingman Photograph Albums listed below.<\/p>\n Full transcript of letter to Ms. Kingman:<\/p>\n See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n MARIAN KINGMAN Biography<\/p>\n MARIAN KINGMAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM<\/a>\u00a0[Full pages, Parts I – IV]<\/strong><\/p>\n MARIAN KINGMAN ALBUM INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS \u2013 PART I<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n MARIAN KINGMAN ALBUM INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS \u2013 PART II<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n MARIAN KINGMAN ALBUM INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS \u2013 PART III<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n MARIAN KINGMAN ALBUM INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS \u2013 PART IV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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