Helen Dingman Papers

Collection — Container: 1

Identifier: BCA 0026 SAA 025

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Diaries, correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs mainly documenting Helen Dingman's community organizing and educational efforts in Harlan County, Kentucky during the early 1900s.

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Dates

created: 1917-1945

Creator

Dingman, Helen. (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

No restrictions other than federal copyright regulations. Please cite collection.

Extent

1.00 ms_boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Diaries, correspondence, reports, notes, and photographs mainly documenting Helen Dingman's community organizing and educational efforts in Harlan County, Kentucky during the early 1900s.

Arrangement Note

Arrangement of the collection is by series: Correspondence, Diaries, Subject Files, Writings/Publications, and Photographs.

Bibliography

Helen Hastie Dingman was born in New York, but from 1917-1922 was head of the Community Life School at Smith in Harlan County, Kentucky. In 1922, she returned to New York to serve for two years as Assistant Superintendent of Field Work for the Women’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In 1924, she joined the staff of Berea College and served as supervisor of social training until 1952. At Berea, she helped found the Opportunity School (1925) program and was instrumental in the establishment of social work as a profession in Kentucky. In 1926, she became editor of Mountain Life and Work.. She served as Executive Secretary of the Council of the Southern Mountains from 1929 to 1942. Helen Dingman died in 1978.