{"id":51466,"date":"2018-03-17T21:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T01:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=51466"},"modified":"2020-12-08T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T00:58:31","slug":"grace-m-rood-correspondence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=51466","title":{"rendered":"GRACE M. ROOD Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 dir=\"ltr\">Pine Mountain Settlement School<br \/>Series 09: Biography &#8211; Staff\/Personnel<br \/>Series 14: Medical, Health and Hygiene<br \/>Grace M. Rood (1897-1988):&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong>Nurse &amp; Superintendent of the Infirmary 1936 &#8211; 1962<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333300;\">GRACE M. ROOD Correspondence, 1940<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>TAGS:<\/strong> Grace M. Rood Correspondence, Grace M. Rood, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kentucky Birth Control League, Southern Conference, Kentucky Conference on Tomorrow\u2019s Children, Glyn Morris, Barry Bingham, President of The Courier-Journal\/Louisville TImes, Florence S. Goodwin, Jean B. Tachau<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_10283\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10283\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10283\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rood_145-860x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rood_145-860x1024.jpg 860w, http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rood_145-252x300.jpg 252w, http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rood_145-624x742.jpg 624w, http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rood_145.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Rood Album II. Grace Rood with two infants in paper box. [rood_145.jpg]&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><p><\/p>\n<h3>GALLERY &#8211; Grace M. Rood Correspondence, 1940<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-51466 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=51472'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rood_corr_1930_001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" 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\/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h3>CONTENTS &#8211; Grace M. Rood Correspondence, 1940<\/h3>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_001.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feb. 23, 1940 &#8211; Jean B. Tachau (President, The Kentucky Birth Control League, Louisville, KY) to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=1015\">Glyn Morris.<br \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tachau invites Morris to participate in the Kentucky Section of the Southern Conference (an outgrowth of the Conference held in Atlanta in November 1939) to discuss the book \u201cTomorrow\u2019s Children,\u201d to be held at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, KY, on March 30. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=8893\">Mr. Barry Bingham<\/a> is Chairman of the KY section. Title of conference: \u201cMountain Home as the mother herself sees it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1930_001.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feb. 27, 1940 &#8211; Morris to Techau<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morris declines taking part in a conference at Brown Hotel due to a schedule conflict. Suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=2472\">Miss Grace Rood<\/a> instead<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cwho knows the mountain home much better than I do and who would provide, I think, more practical ideas than I could.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encloses an account of her work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_002.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar 1, 1940 &#8211; Techau to Morris<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Techau thanked Morris for his interest; Hatcher will contact Miss Rood. Mentions having visited PMSS over a year ago and talked with Morris and Rood about \u201cextending our work into your County.\u201d Since then she has corresponded with Mrs. R.E. Baker and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=51120\">Dr. [Howard] Ingling<\/a>. She feels it is \u201cnatural that any discussion of children should raise the questions which child spacing and family limitation seem concerned with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_003.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar 5, 1940 &#8211; Barry Bingham (President of <em>The Courier-Journal\/Louisville TImes<\/em>) to Morris<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bingham asks Morris if his name could be included on the list of sponsors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_005.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar 17, 1940 &#8211; J. Wesley Hatcher, Dept. of Sociology, Berea College, to Miss Rood.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hatcher sent Rood an outline of the paper on \u201cTomorrow\u2019s Children,\u201d that he will present at the March 30th Conference. <em>\u201cYour wide acquaintance with the economic, cultural and psychological background of the people of the mountains and your intimate and vital contact with individuals and families qualify you in a very unusual way to lead such a discussion.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_004.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar 24, 1940 &#8211; Florence S. Goodwin, Louisville, KY, to Miss Rood<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goodwin asks Rood to meet with her after the Conference. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Ingling says he <em>\u201cmisses Pine Mountain very, very much.\u201d<\/em> Distressed to hear that the serving hall [Laurel House I] burned down.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_005a.jpg<br \/><\/b><b>rood_corr_1940_005b.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outline of Hatcher\u2019s paper, \u201cThe Mountain Family in Perspective,\u201d pages 1 and 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_006.jpg<br \/><\/b><b>rood_corr_1940_006a.jpg<br \/><\/b><b>rood_corr_1940_006b.jpg<br \/><\/b><b>rood_corr_1940_006c.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brochure: \u201cConference on \u2018Tomorrow\u2019s Children,\u2019 November 9, 10, 11, 1939.\u201d Cover and 3 pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_007.jpg<br \/><\/b><b>rood_corr_1940_007a.jpg<br \/><\/b><b>rood_corr_1940_007b.jpg<br \/><\/b><b>rood_corr_1940_007c.jpg<br \/><\/b><b>rood_corr_1940_007d.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction, agenda, and program for the Kentucky Branch of Conference on Tomorrow\u2019s Children on March 30, 1940, at Brown Hotel, Louisville, Ky. Included is a list of sponsors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_008.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April 1, 1940 &#8211; Bingham to Rood<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barry Bingham, President &amp; Publisher, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Courier-Journal <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Louisville Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Miss Rood, thanking Rood for the part she<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cplayed in making the Kentucky Conference on Tomorrow\u2019s Children so successful.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>rood_corr_1940_009.jpg<br \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April 2, 1940 &#8211; Tachau to Rood<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jean B. Tachau, President, The Kentucky Birth Control League, Louisville, KY, to Miss Rood, thanking Rood for her \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contribution to the discussion at the Conference on Tomorrow\u2019s Children.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=2472\">GRACE M. ROOD<\/a> Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=18691\"><strong>GRACE ROOD Correspondence with Fern Hayes, 1962<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=10131\"><strong>GRACE M. ROOD PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Gallery I<\/strong><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=10237\">GRACE M. ROOD PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM Gallery II<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=16849\">GUIDE TO MEDICAL, HEALTH AND HYGIENE<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=4573\">INFIRMARY<\/a><\/strong><\/p><strong>\n<\/strong><p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=28709\">MEDICAL, HEALTH &amp; HYGIENE<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pine Mountain Settlement SchoolSeries 09: Biography &#8211; Staff\/PersonnelSeries 14: Medical, Health and HygieneGrace M. Rood (1897-1988):&nbsp;Nurse &amp; Superintendent of the Infirmary 1936 &#8211; 1962 GRACE M. ROOD Correspondence, 1940 TAGS: Grace M. Rood Correspondence, Grace M. 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