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Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: Biography – Staff\/Personnel<\/strong>
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EVE NEWMAN, Office & Field Secretary, c. 1913 – 1916 (?)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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TAGS: <\/strong>Eve Newman, Mrs. Eve Gilmour, Alan Gilmour, Rep. Campbell Bascom Slemp, Hindman (KY) Settlement School, Katherine Pettit, endowments, Marguerite Butler, friendships, The Newman Aunts
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Eve Newman, school secretary, (left) and Mary Ann Begley. [mccullough_II_078b.jpg]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Not many young women in the early 1900s had the audacity to \u201cblow into\u201d the office of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC, looking for a supporter of her cause. In this case, the \u201cyoung lady\u201d was Eve Newman, the office was that of Rep. Campbell Bascom Slemp, the person she was looking for was Mr. Mayo (Rep. Slemp\u2019s friend and business partner) and the cause was Hindman (KY) Settlement School\u2019s endowment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C.B. Slemp, a Republican congressman from Virginia, described this serendipitous meeting with Eve Newman in an undated letter to Katherine Petitt, who was then director of Hindman Settlement School, followed by an account that proved Miss Newman\u2019s boldness paid off for Hindman and later for Pine Mountain Settlement School. Rep. Slemp was already planning to meet with Mr. Mayo in New York and invited Miss Newman to travel with him to meet Mayo. There, she not only met and presented her proposal to Mr. and Mrs. Mayo with successful results, but Slemp also acquired letters of introduction for Eve and himself to Andrew Carnegie and Russell Sage. Slemp advised Katherine Pettit — still at Hindman, that \u201cYou are sure of an endowment I think of $33,000 and probably $38,000. That would be about 1\/3 of the total amount you desire.\u201d This must have been exciting news to Pettit. “The Newman Aunts<\/a>” website stated that before Pettit left Hindman, she wanted to secure the School’s future by raising an endowment of $100,000. Eve Newman had played a large part in this effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Slemp listed several reasons he was interested in Hindman: First, his admiration of the School\u2019s character, second, his desire to assist in any of Mr. Mayo\u2019s undertakings and third, Miss Eve Newman herself. He wrote that he was impressed by… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

...the very pleasing and charming personality of your representative. Her devotion to the interest of the Hindman school, her naturally unaffected disposition as well as her personal attractions appealed to all of us very strongly and I really think that this was one of the contributory causes of the enthusiasm all of us had while in New York.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

EVE NEWMAN: Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Slemp’s descriptions of Miss Newman indicated that she was a perfect fit for a fundraising position and Miss Pettit and Miss Ethel de Long were fortunate that, in 1913, she followed them from Hindman to assist in the establishment the new Pine Mountain Settlement School as fundraiser and office and field secretary. She lived in Old Log<\/a> with Miss de Long and five little boys, whom they cared for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That the likable Miss Newman easily formed friendships with the other staff is indicated throughout the letters<\/a> that Marguerite Butler<\/a> wrote home to her family. In August 1914, Miss Butler, a PMSS teacher, extension work supervisor and fundraiser from 1914 to 1922, provides an additional explanation for their closeness: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miss [Margaret] Watts, Miss Newman and I spent the whole afternoon up at Miss Newman\u2019s. You see, we three are about the same age which makes it very, very nice<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 1914, Miss Butler wrote the following, indicating the pleasure of each other’s company even during, and maybe partly due to, the trials of a basic life in the wilderness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(September 1914) We have been staying over at the<\/em> <\/em><\/strong>tent with Miss Rockwell [Mary Rockwell Hook<\/a>, the School’s architect] all week. This morning we made omelet<\/g> \u2013 yes with real eggs!!! She is so nice and we have been having the nicest evenings together. Last night Miss Newman<\/em> <\/em><\/strong>stayed with us too, so she and I spent the night in one single bed which was on the very edge of the tent floor over quite a little precipice. Once she nearly went out of bed and you ought to have heard the scream.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Miss Butler describes another get-together that fall, combining pleasure with business:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Fall 1914) <\/strong>After the little boys went to bed Miss [Ethel] De Long, Miss Newman, Peg, Ethel [McCullough]<\/a> the two new workers and I sat around talking and feasting on cider, just made that day, nuts, raisins and<\/g> cakes. We talked about plans for the school, what we would do next year and all until it got very exciting.<\/em>
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