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Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/b>
\n<\/b>Series 04: HISTORIES<\/b>
\n<\/b>1937-2000 HISTORY PMSS Summaries<\/b><\/h5>\n

HISTORY PMSS Summary 1969-1970<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Tags: <\/b>History PMSS summary 1969-1970, staff, events,\u00a0<\/span>concerts, music classes, health clinics, swimming pool, G.E.D. classes, Earth Day activities, camping trips, excursions <\/span><\/p>\n

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TRANSCRIPTION: HISTORY PMSS Summary 1969-1970 [image 87]<\/b><\/h3>\n

History of the Pine Mountain Settlement School
\n<\/span>1969-70<\/span><\/p>\n

Staff Members:<\/b><\/p>\n

Alvin Boggs<\/a>, Recreation and Community Worker
\n<\/span>Boyd Boggs, <\/span>Maintenance
\nMatthew Boggs, Night Watchman
\nLucile Boggs, Laurel House
\nRuth Boggs, Supervisor of Laurel House and Guest House
\nAsbel Browning, Maintenance
\nMarianna Conley, Secretary + Bookkeeper after March 30
\nVernon Conley, 8th Grade Teacher, Head Teacher, Counsellor
\nFern Cornett, Laurel House
\nJess Cornett, Maintenance
\nAlice Harris, Laurel House
\nPolly Harris, Laurel House
\nAtossa Kramer, Music Teacher, Part-time
\nLoren Kramer, 5 & 6th Grade Teacher
\nGilbert Lewis,<\/a> Maintenance
\nOmer Lewis, Maintenance
\nSue Lewis, Laurel House
\nEthel Middleton, Laurel House
\nMildred Mahoney<\/a>, Kindergarten Teacher
\nEdna Patterson<\/a>, Kindergarten Aide
\nJess Patterson<\/a>, Maintenance
\nMary Rogers,<\/a> Volunteer Librarian
\nNancy Sather<\/a>, 3rd & 4th Grade Teacher
\nMarilynn Van der Vliet, Bookkeeper (Until March 30)
\nBrit Wilder<\/a>, Maintenance Supervisor & Farm Manager
\nMildred Wilder, Laurel House
\nMary Wilson, 1st & 2nd Grade Teacher
\nBurton Rogers<\/a>, Director<\/span><\/p>\n

Traditional Events:\u00a0<\/b>Community Fair,<\/span><\/a> Nativity Play,<\/span><\/a> Weekly community folk dance party.<\/span><\/p>\n

Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Ohio church youth camp was at PMSS for its ninth summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Youth Self-Help Employment Program, summer sorghum cane\/molasses program yielded 130 gallons for sale. PMSS supervised 5 Neighborhood Youth Corps participants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Settlement Institutions of Appalachia was formed, met at PMSS in September and…<\/span><\/p>\n

TRANSCRIPTION: HISTORY PMSS Summary 1969-1970 [image 88]<\/b><\/h3>\n

Page 2, 1969-70<\/span><\/p>\n

…December.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roma Howard (daughter of PMSS alumna Evelyn Ayers Howard) presented a vocal concert in the Chapel<\/a>, before beginning an assignment with the Cologne Opera in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

PMSS was able to provide music classes for the elementary school two days each week, Atossa French Kramer, teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n

The public health department which has held a weekly clinic at PMSS, this summer held a multiphasic screening examination, including X-rays and electro-cardiograms, for 309 community adults<\/span><\/p>\n

The outdoor swimming pool<\/a> was especially popular during a long season, culminating with the upper grades physical education classes using the pool for the first 3 weeks of the new school year.<\/span><\/p>\n

An adult G.E.D. class, with 15 pupils ranging in age from the 20’s to the 70’s, met at PMSS two nights each week.<\/span><\/p>\n

April 23, 1970, all PMSS students participated in environmentally appropriate activities, from clean-up to planting daffodils to planting pine seedlings, in celebration of Earth Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The eighth grade class had an over-night camping trip to Natural Bridge and Fort Boonesborough State Parks, the Capitol at Frankfort and the airport at Lexington. Fifth and sixth grades visited the radio station, the police station, the fire station and the vocational school at Harlan. Several Boy Scouts camped along the way to Lexington in connection with a meeting at which our Scoutmaster received the Silver Beaver award. Another group explored the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The Conservation Club had two excursions to Tennessee.<\/span><\/p>\n

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GALLERY: HISTORY PMSS Summary 1969-1970<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\t\t