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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 9: Staff\/Personnel<\/h5>\n

MARGARET NACE
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Margaret Nace: Bookkeeper, June 1944 – June 1947 and 1950s<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TAGS:<\/strong> Margaret Nace ; Dorothy Nace ; Western Reserve University ; teaching ; Berea College ; weaving ; Harriette Howard ; Edna Spinney ; bookkeepers ; secretaries ; John A. Lewis ; rural electric associations ; Robert Starbuck ; donations ;<\/p>\n

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Margaret Nace, December 1945. [nace_1_032b.jpg]<\/p><\/div>As soon as Margaret Nace and her sister, Dorothy<\/a>,\u00a0visited Pine Mountain\u00a0and saw the\u00a0idyllic settlement school for themselves, they knew they wanted\u00a0to\u00a0play a part in its work\/study program\u00a0for Kentucky mountain youth.<\/p>\n

Dorothy and Margaret Nace were educated in the Cleveland Public School System and each of them earned a BS in Education at Western Reserve University in Cleveland. After two years of teaching, the sisters\u00a0were required to work toward a Master\u2019s Degree in education during their summers. They heard about a highly regarded artisan program at Berea (Kentucky) College from a friend and, lured by the promise of adventure in a new place, attended Berea\u2019s hand-loom weaving classes for four weeks in 1942.<\/p>\n

The following summer, when they returned for advance classes in teaching weaving, the sisters learned about Pine Mountain Settlement School from their teacher, Harriette Howard, who was a former student at the School, and a classmate, Edna Spinney, originally a PMSS housemother. Hearing that the School was \u201cheaven on earth\u201d was enough for the sisters to\u00a0want to see the campus for themselves. Dorothy recalls their\u00a0visit:<\/p>\n

School was not in session, but students were there, earning their school fees. Boys did farm work and repairs; girls cleaned and worked in the kitchen or in the small hospital. When beans and tomatoes came in from the fields by the bushel, staff, students, and visitors helped can them into half-gallon jars. We sat under the trees behind the kitchen, peeling tomatoes or \u2018busting\u2019 beans and had a great time.<\/em><\/p>\n

We went home determined that Pine Mountain must be a part of our future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t