TAGS:<\/strong> Quinten Wooton ; Wooton Family ; Hansford Wooton ; Student Application Blanks : Home and Parents Records ; self-evaluation letters ; student autobiography blanks ; Stanford Achievement Tests ; Work Reports ; physical exams ; instructors’ reports ; houseparent appraisals ; Quinten Joseph Wooton ;<\/p>\n Quinten Wooton was one of several members of the Wooton Family<\/a> who attended Pine Mountain Settlement School. He entered ninth grade in 1940 and stayed through June 1941. His reason for applying to the School, according to his entry on a Student Application Blank, was that “[t]here are many advantages here where I cannot get elsewhere.” He also stated on his application that the occupation he was interested in for himself was “Dr. of Medicine.”<\/p>\n When Quinten’s father wrote on his Home and Parents Record that Quinten “….likes school sometimes but likes to go places and not satisfied in one place long,” he predicted Quinten’s adjustment problems at PMSS. In Quinten’s first-year reports of his school and work habits, several teachers\u00a0and work supervisors wrote of Quinten’s need to use his abilities to fuller capacity and to respect the value of work. At the end of Quinten’s first term in 1940, the Principal sent a letter to Quinten’s father stating, “…[Quinten] must learn the dignity of work, that the most menial job is honorable if it is tackled with the proper attitude and done well.” In spite of Quinten’s difficulties, the Principal ended with “He is a good citizen and has given very little cause for worry….”<\/p>\n Quinten was showing improvement in his second year, most likely due to the School’s influence and his growing maturity. The School required all\u00a0students to write a self-evaluation\u00a0letter to their parents at the end of each school year. In Quinten’s second-year letter to his father, he recognizes his own improvements, which he attributes to the teachings of the School. In his letter, Quinten also\u00a0expresses his dream of possibly entering the\u00a0Navy Air Corps, echoing his father’s wish that he would be an airplane pilot. [For image and transcription of Quinten’s letter, see SCAN0314 and SCAN0315 below.]<\/p>\n But Quinten’s wanderlust ,\u00a0described earlier by his father,\u00a0must have gotten the better of him after all. He left Pine Mountain Settlement School after his second year.\u00a0The last\u00a0letter in his file, dated June 24, 1941, is\u00a0from Pine Mountain Settlement School to “Gentlemen” at the United States\u00a0Coal and Coke Company, Lynch, KY. The Acting Director\u00a0of the School provides a recommendation for Quinten who had applied for work in the company’s Commissary:<\/p>\n For the past <\/em>year [Quinten Wooton]\u00a0has been in attendance at Pine Mountain Settlement School and has made a worthy record for himself. We have found him to be honest and capable. At times he does not show great initiative but on the whole he will live up to what is expected of him. He has had some experience in our school store both with sales and with the bookkeeping and which should be of help to him.<\/em><\/p>\n Quinten Joseph Wooton was born in Wooton, KY, on June 11, 1924, to Hansford Wooton, a miner, and\u00a0Iona Creech. He served on reserve duty in the United States Navy in World War II. He died on October 5, 1947, and is buried in Zachery Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky. (Source: www.FindAGrave.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n GALLERY – QUINTEN WOOTON<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t
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