Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.).
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Appalachian Oral History Collection (1973 Fall Term)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0059 SAA 059
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of twenty-one audio cassette recordings of interviews, informal discussions, musical performances, and commentary recorded by Berea College students under the direction of history professor, Richard B. Drake, during the 1973 fall semester.Subject areas include Pine Mountain Settlement School, John C. Campbell Folk School, the Christian Appalachian Project, the Civilian Conservation Corps in Pike County, Kentucky, and Berea College's Christmas Country Dance...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972-1973
Community Development Training Program for Vietnam and Tibet
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.11
Scope and Contents
This collections contain records of Berea College's work in developing and providing community development programs for two groups: (1) the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State as part of a larger specialized, interagency long-term training program, the "Viet-Nam Training Center," established to prepare civilian personnel for their work in rural areas of Viet-nam, and (2) Tibetan students through the Community Development Counseling Group. Training programs included...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1968
Pine Mountain (Kentucky) Community Study Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0023 SAA 022
Abstract
The study was proposed in 1949 by Berea College president, Francis S. Hutchins, then a trustee of Pine Mountain Settlement School. The school's boarding high school had closed that year and elementary programs merged with the Harlan County school system. It was concluded that a socio-economic study of the area would be useful in identifying possible new areas of service for the school to pursue. Giffin's study was never published in its entirety, though he did use data from the study to...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-1965
Pine Mountain Settlement School Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0042 SAA 042
Abstract
Kentuckian Katherine Pettit and Smith College Graduate Ethel DeLong finalized the incorporation of Pine Mountain Settlement School (Harland County, Kentucky) in 1913. Land for the school was donated by William and Sally Dixon Creech, early settlers who wanted wider educational opportunities for area children. Katherine Pettit had helped found Hindman Settlement School in 1902. As stated in its Article of Incorporation, the purpose of Pine Mountain Settlement School was to provide an...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-1984
Settlement Institutions of Appalachia Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0038 SAA 036
Abstract
The Settlement Institutions of Appalachia (SIA) was founded in 1970 as a non-profit consortium of private service institutions in South Central Appalachia. Leaders of the twelve founding institutions envisioned it as a mechanism to facilitate exchange of ideas, cooperation in program development and fund raising.
The first executive committee of the board of directors consisted of Chairman, John Ramsay - John C. Campbell Folk School; vice-chairman, Robert Fulton - Henderson Settlement;...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1982
J. A. Stucky papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0024 SAA 023
Abstract
Joseph Addison Stucky was a native of Louisville, Kentucky. He received his education in the city schools and eventually graduated from the University of Louisville College of Medicine. He set up practice in Lexington, Kentucky where specialized in ophthalmology and otolaryngology. In 1911, Stucky traveled to Hindman in Knott County, Kentucky to conduct a clinic for trachoma victims at the W.C.T.U. (later Hindman) Settlement School. The high incidence of trachoma that he documented in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1903-1956
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Rural schools -- Kentucky -- History. 3
- Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County 2
- Pike County (Ky.) -- History. 2
- Appalachia -- Education. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs. 1
- Bell County (Ky.) -- Henderson Settlement School 1
- Education -- Kentucky. 1
- Education. 1
- Fund raising. 1
- Harlan County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Knott County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Nonprofit organizations -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Public Health -- Kentucky. 1
- Trachoma. 1 + ∧ less
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