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Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09:\u00a0Staff\/Personnel<\/h5>\n

AUGUST ANGEL<\/strong><\/h2>\n

August Angel: Volunteer Playground Assistant 1933<\/strong>
Teacher (Biology, Mechanical Drawing, Printing)\u00a01934-1938, 1940-1942<\/strong><\/p>\n

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August Angel, 1933. This photograph was originally attached to his application, as required, for a teaching position with the Pine Mountain Settlement School. The date of the application was June 24, 1933, the month and year of his graduation from Miami University.<\/p><\/div>\n

August Angel’s story begins when his father, Augustin Anghel, immigrated to America at the turn of the century to work on the railroads and in the steel mills. Augustin’s original plan was to save his earnings, return to\u00a0Romania, and spend the rest of his years on his farm with his wife, Maria Lichirie. Instead, in 1907, Maria came to America to join her husband.<\/p>\n

Approximately one year later, October 1908, August was born in Syracuse, Indiana. Eventually, his parents moved to Farrell, Pennsylvania, and then Cleveland, Ohio, two steel mill towns in which August spent most of his youth. It was a time when the family struggled to make ends meet and August supplemented the family income by working at various jobs.<\/p>\n

Beginning in 1929, August attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. For income, he worked during the summers as a handyman at Edgewood Inn in the Catskill Mountains of New York, and as a boatswain on Great Lakes freighters. August earned a B.S. in education from Miami University in 1933.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Stanley Plattenburg, wife of the Rector of the Episcopal Church in Oxford, (formerly Miss Mary Anne Smith, who was a teacher at Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1926), suggested that August request an application for a position at the School, which he did in June 1933. Glyn Morris<\/a>, director of the School,\u00a0responded that there were no openings for the coming year, but he sent an application form for August to complete and submit for future consideration.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mrs. Alice Carter Shera<\/a>, a Miami University student and a member of a women’s group that was interested in helping mountain people, asked August to drive her to Pine Mountain Settlement School for a visit. While there, Glyn Morris offered August a teaching position, which August accepted. (Mrs. Shera was promised a teaching position upon completion of her studies at Miami U. She later returned to teach arts and crafts.) According to Glyn Morris’s report to the PMSS Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board for August 1933, <\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. August Angel, a young man with a very interesting background, recently graduated from Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, as a volunteer instructor in Printing, and assists in playground and organized games and athletics.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

For the next four years, 1934 to 1938, August served as a paid instructor in science and printing at the School. He assisted\u00a0Glyn Morris in setting up the first print shop in the Office<\/a> building for students to receive hands-on experience in a useful trade. The shop<\/a> provided all the printed material that was needed at the School, such as The\u00a0Pine Cone<\/a>, Chapel<\/a> programs, special event programs, staff and student stationery, office stationery, pads, business office materials, and\u00a0Notes<\/a>. Several books were also printed, including the first edition of At Home in the Hills,<\/em> a collection of John Spelman<\/a>‘s linoleum cuts, and the hand-bound A Pine Mountain Study in Civics<\/em> by Everett K. Wilson. Eventually, the student shop was moved to Draper, the Boys’ Industrial Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n

GALLERY – August Angel at Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/h4>\n\n\t\t