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

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. She served as Executive Secretary of the Council of the Southern Mountains from 1929 to 1942. In 1952, she became editor of Mountain Life and Work.   Helen Dingman died in 1978.

Dingman, Helen.

Adult education -- Kentucky -- History.
Berea College -- Department of Sociology
Berea Opportunity Schools.
Council of the Southern Mountains.
Dingman, Helen
Education -- Kentucky -- Harlan County
Harlan County (Ky.) -- History.
Mountain Life and Work
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.