Council of Southern Mountains Records, 1912-1970 | Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog

Collection Overview

Title: Council of Southern Mountains Records, 1912-1970

Primary Creator: Council of the Southern Mountains.

Extent: 288.0 MS boxes

Arrangement:

The CSM Papers are arranged by Series and Sub-series, with a total size of 288 Manuscript Boxes, encompassing 115 linear feet. Correspondence and other administrative materials are generally arranged in chronological order, in order to establish some sense of original order. Projects and reference materials are generally in alphabetical order by topic.

The collection is arranged in series as follows:

Series 1: Organizational and Administrative Records, 1915-1970

Series 2: General Correspondence, 1957-1970

Series 3: Annual Conference Records, 1912-1974

Series 4: Financial Records, 1923-1970

Series 5: Funding Agencies, 1952-1970

Series 6: Commission Records, 1926-1972

Series 7: Community Action Program (CAP) Materials, 1946-1970

Series 8: Mountain Life & Work, 1925-1970

Series 9: Urban Migrants, 1935-1970

Series 10: Reference Materials, 1913-1970

Series 11: Photographs

Series 12: Oversized Materials

Processing Notes to Researchers

I. Correspondence Organization: Series 2

As pre-1970 correspondence material was integrated into the collection in 2007, it became clear that consistency within the original order of the correspondence began to break down as the structure and leadership of the organization changed in the late 1960s. As expected with any significant staff turnover or organizational growth period, filing changes and inconsistencies increased. These filing differences became especially apparent from 1967 forward. Furthermore, as new material was integrated, it was found that office copies retained and filed in this section were meeting up with the carbon copies that had been retained in other divisions, commissions, or office files elsewhere. It seems that the correspondence found in Series II from the original deposit were the files maintained by the Executive and administration of the Council, and the papers being integrated from the second deposit where those from other staff scattered throughout the organization. (This is seen in the method by which the administration files have names written along the right hand margin of each item). The original order maintained during the original processing of the collection holds up, and has been maintained as much as possible, despite inconsistencies. It was necessary, however, to attempt to place integrated items into a system that varied. Therefore, the researcher should be aware of the following filing methods in the original order:

1. Sometimes material was filed according to the last name of the receiving correspondent, other times by the sending correspondent. 2. Some items are filed under the last name of the correspondent, other times by the name of the company or organization which they represented. 3. Sometimes items had been filed by CSM employee name referenced in the materials, or CCed, or interested in the topic discussed, rather than by sender or receiver. 4. Married female correspondents are often filed with their husband’s materials and/or under their husband’s name. 5. Correspondence also appears throughout the collection in other Series and may or may not be duplicated in the Master or General Correspondence files. Please be aware that these filing methods vary depending on the year.

In other words, it is necessary for the researcher to check correspondence files in multiple locations in order to get a comprehensive view. It is important to keep in mind that these were working files, and although a simple and logical filing system was in place, the mental organization of the person(s) using them influenced where items were ultimately stored.

II. Comparison to Previous Finding Aid

Although 30 additional boxes of materials were added to the collection in 2007, the original processing method allowed for large amounts of space inside of many boxes. Therefore, after integration and consolidation of the collection, the final result actually reduced the number of manuscript boxes in the collection. The basic organization of the collection remains essentially intact, with the largest changes being the separation of Series 7: Projects into three separate series, and the consolidation of Series 8: Miscellaneous and Series 9: Newspaper Clippings into one series now called Series 10: Reference Materials. Copies of the old finding aid are available in the Special Collections Reading Room for reference purposes. No additional materials were added to the collection when the finding aid was updated in 2016.

Date Acquired: 04/24/1970

Languages: English

Abstract

The Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM) 1912-1989, began as a gathering of various citizens and mountain missionaries working in relative isolation throughout Appalachia, which created a forum for the sharing of ideas, experiences and inspiration. The Council grew and changed over time into an organization that promoted cooperation among private, government, and religious organizations in southern Appalachia and served as a key factor in bringing the issues and experiences of Appalachia into the national consciousness through publications and outreach programs in education, health, job training, and environmental issues.

The Council of the Southern Mountains (originally Conference of Southern Mountain Workers) was formed in 1912 as the result of fact-finding travels during 1908-1909 by John C. and Olive Dame Campbell, under sponsorship of New York’s Russell Sage Foundation.

The Campbells concluded that there was a pressing need to bring southern Appalachian mission workers together to share ideas, experiences and enthusiasms. An exploratory organizational meeting in Atlanta drew 137 persons. This response encouraged the participants to establish a formal organization and to plan an annual meeting which served as the organization’s core. The Council had no regular funding in the beginning. Instead, each year the Russell Sage Foundation underwrote conference general expenses, with those attending paying their own way. John C. Campbell was the central figure in maintaining the Council until his death in 1919. Olive Dame Campbell then became Executive Secretary and served until 1928, when she left to focus all her energies on establishing the John C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown, North Carolina.

Helen Dingman, of the Berea College Sociology Department, succeeded Mrs. Campbell. She was already editor for the Council’s Magazine Mountain Life & Work, which the Council had taken over from Berea College in 1929. Miss Dingman remained part-time Executive Secretary until 1942, assisted by two part-time staff persons. The group’s name was changed to the Council of Southern Mountain Workers in 1944, and finally to the Council of the Southern Mountains in 1954.

From the Council’s 1912 founding until 1949, its primary activity was planning and conducting the annual conferences. The work of the Board of Directors was mainly to find funding and speakers for those events. Board membership during these years was composed of representatives of church mission boards, colleges, and settlement schools.

The conferences brought hundreds of people together and served as forums for discussion of problems and solutions. They also provided the impetus for smaller groups to cooperate in mounting a variety of projects not directly related to the Council. One such spin-off was the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, a cooperative established in 1929 as a marketing outlet for mountain craftspeople.

The Council membership combined a wealth of knowledge and practical experience. This resulted in it being called on by the United States Department of Agriculture to act as advisor in conducting a pioneer study of the Appalachian south. Published in 1935, this study’s results became the standard reference work on the area for many years. The Council also helped implement the Mountain Folk Festival in 1935 and the related Christmas Country-Dance School at Berea College in 1939.

In response to its developing year-round undertakings, the Council’s Board in 1939 for the first time appointed standing committees (later called commissions). These were in the areas of health, recreation, education, and spiritual life. The Council also worked closely with benevolent organizations, such as the Sigma Phi Gamma Sorority, to establish social and economic service programs.

The Council’s already delicate financial health was threatened further when funding dollars became particularly scarce during the 1940s. Frustration and years of seeing worthy projects going underfunded lead to shrinking membership rolls. Financial support from both Berea College and the Sage Foundation stopped in 1949. The Council office was moved from Berea to Asheville, North Carolina, where it shared space with the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild. A new executive secretary was needed and the original intention of the Board was to appoint a person to see the Council through to its expected demise.

The Board selected Perley F. Ayer to fill this role in 1951. A rural sociologist from New Hampshire, then teaching at Berea College, Ayer proved to be anything but a caretaker. Instead he set off on an energetic fifteen-year tenure that resulted in the Council becoming the largest and most significant social organization in the southern mountains by the mid-1960s. As executive secretary (later, executive director), Ayer was guided by a philosophy based on faith in people and the desirability of give-and-take discussions at all levels. He saw the Council as the champion of no one cause or group, but as a forum where differing or even opposing sides could come together and create positive change. Under Ayer’s leadership, the annual conferences increased in size and importance. For instance, the 47th Annual Conference, held in 1959, brought together 300 leaders from all of the southern Appalachian states plus observers from other states and foreign countries. Between annual conferences, regular state level meetings developed in Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina. His energetic idealism attracted many people to the Council’s service. One of these was Loyal Jones, a young Berea College graduate, who Ayer hired as his assistant in 1958, and who would eventually succeed Ayer as executive director in 1966.

In the years before 1960, Council health, recreation, education, and spiritual life commissions were actively working on regional problems, often in cooperation with existing state and local agencies. Examples of these efforts include children’s dental programs in Virginia, maternal and infant care programs in Kentucky, and adult education classes in Tennessee.

In 1959 the Council sponsored the first of what would be ten annual workshops on the problems of Appalachian migrants to urban areas. The workshops were aimed at city service professionals, especially those in health care, social service and law enforcement. The workshops sought to inform these people about what made Appalachians different and how to deal with these differences so as to reduce tension and a lack of understanding that was growing on both sides. A later corollary to this program was the establishment in 1963 of the Council’s Chicago Office, the aim of which was to provide migrants with information about coping with city life and a place where they could get together with their friends.

The focusing of national attention on the problems of Appalachia during the early 1960s brought the Council to the attention of the federal government. Its long association with the region made it a logical source for federal agencies to turn to for information about the region, suggestions for corrective measures, and eventually leadership in implementing federally funded programs. The Council was an important resource for the President’s 1964 Appalachian Regional Study, which resulted in the establishment of the Appalachian Regional Commission. The year 1964 was an outstanding growth year, with the size of Council staff, budget, and numbers of activities more than doubling. By 1965, the Council’s staff had grown four-fold. However, with foundation and federal funding came pressure to alter the Council’s working philosophy. Its traditional consultative approach to coordinating had to transition into a new role of program implementation and accompanying bureaucratic intricacies. The addition of new talent, highly educated social advocates and program implementation staff, while navigating required government accounting and operating procedures both increased the level of passion and complicated administration, priorities, and decision-making.

By the end of the 1960s, changes in leadership and the expansion of the Council staff greatly impacted not only operations and internal stability, but also the philosophical underpinnings of the Council during a pivotal time in its history. The 1960s national debate over how to best achieve social change was represented in microcosm among Council staff and membership. Throughout its early history the Council had represented a middle way that sought compromise between opposite views and “a reform strategy based upon a consensus of regional opinion,” a concept that crystallized under the direction of Executive Director Perley F. Ayer and his “partnership ideal”. Increasingly, some perceived that a growing number of younger staff opposed the idea of compromise and eventually anti-establishment minded staff demanded that a stand be taken. The earliest manifestation of this was the Appalachian Volunteer exit.

The Appalachian Volunteers was one of the first federally funded programs the Council undertook. In 1964 an initial group of young people from colleges in the north and south spent vacation time in the mountains, repairing and painting schoolhouses and assisting in teaching and playground activities. The project’s early results were impressive enough to win a major funding increase for program expansion. However, the Appalachian Volunteers staff left the Council in May of 1966. They incorporated in Bristol, Virginia, as a non-profit organization and were approved to receive the federal funds originally allocated to the Council. Remaining federal funds allowed the Council to continue promoting the establishment of community action programs for the Office of Economic Opportunity and on-the-job training and other manpower projects for the United States Department of Labor.

In December 1968, Perley F. Ayer, Executive Director from 1951-1967 and ideological backbone of the Council, died suddenly. The resulting leadership vacuum and subsequent organizational changes further highlighted the larger shift taking place within the structure of the council.

Growing tensions between old and new ideas led to particularly passionate debates among Council members at the 1969 and 1970 annual conferences. At the 1969 conference, an amendment to the by-laws established the commission form of organization and required 51% of the Board of Commissioners to be drawn from the ranks of the region’s poor within three years. The resulting atmosphere of conflict led to the resignations of many of the Council’s older members. The 1970 conference capped the changes of the previous year with the adoption of a resolution that the resources of Appalachia should be placed under democratic public control. Believing this resolve to constitute a socialistic or even communist stance, many additional members resigned.

At this time, Executive Director Loyal Jones sought guidelines from the Board of Commissioners as to how the Council was to be run. With none forthcoming and no indication of support from the Board, he resigned soon after the 1970 conference and eventually became the director of a newly established Appalachian Center at Berea College.

Warren Wright, Julian Griggs, and Isaac Vanderpool formed a temporary leadership triumvirate. The funding base rapidly shrank as the Council became a crusading organization, more singularly focused on championing the rights of miners and the fight against strip-mining. The Council moved to Clintwood, Virginia in 1972 and maintained an active interest in many aspects of regional life. The organization broadened its focus beyond coal mining issues to include textile mill working conditions, and promotion of community and labor rights. Management by professional staff was replaced by a grassroots, cooperative structure. Publication of Mountain Life & Work continued on a monthly basis until the organization disbanded in 1989.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection is comprised of the records (1912-1970) of the Council of the Southern Mountains including: organizational and administrative records, conference records, financial records, records of several CSM commissions, materials and papers of the Community Action Program, records of the CSM publication Mountain Life and Work, reference materials, and photographs.

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Repository: Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog

Access Restrictions: Records and photographs can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Use Restrictions: No restrictions exist on use of this collection by researchers except for personnel records and any material protected by federal copyright law.

Acquisition Method: The records of the Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM) 1912-1970 were given to Berea College via a resolution of the Council’s Board of Commissioners passed on April 24, 1970 during the Fifty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Council held at Junaluska, North Carolina.

Related Materials:

Berea College Special Collections & Archives

The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1970-1989

Appalachian Volunteers Collection

Records of the 1962 Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey

Other Institutions

John C. and Olive Dame Campbell Papers, The Southern Historical Collection, UNC Chapel Hill.

Southern Highland Division Papers, Russell Sage Foundation Archives, New York, New York.

Related Publications:

Kiffmeyer, Thomas J. “The Appalachian Volunteers: Fighting the War on Poverty in Kentucky, 1963-1970.” Thesis (MA) Eastern Kentucky University, 1988.

Kiffmeyer, Thomas J. “From Self-Help to Sedition: The Appalachian Volunteers: and the War on Poverty in eastern Kentucky, 1963-1970.” Thesis (Ph.D) University of Kentucky, 1998.

Messinger, Penny. Leading the Field of Mountain Work: the Conference of Southern Workers, 1913-1950. UMI Dissertations, 1998.

David Whisnant, “Controversy in God’s Grand Division: The Council of the Southern Mountains,” Appalachian Journal, Volume 2, Autumn, 1974, No. 1.

“More Controversy in God’s Grand Division: Communications to the Editor,” Appalachian Journal, Volume 2, Spring, 1975, No. 3.

Alfred H. Perrin, ed., Seeking a People Partnership - Challenges by Perley Ayer. 36 pages. 1969.

Preferred Citation: [Object identification], Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM) Records, 1912-1970, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, KY 40404

Processing Information:

Processing Notes

The preliminary sorting, arrangement and description of these records was accomplished over several years, spanning 1972 to 1978, by Mr. Alfred H. Perrin, President of the Friends of the Berea College Library and volunteer worker. John McCleery and Loren Williams, student assistants, assisted Julia Miller, College Archivist, with final organization of the collection. The collection opened for research in 1978.

This collection represented the first of two deposits of CSM records to Berea College. CSM Records for 1970–1989, representing the second and final deposit of CSM Records, are also held at Berea College in the Southern Appalachian Archives (See SAA# 101 for more information).

Finding Aid Revision History: With the processing of the second deposit in 2006, under the direction of Project Archivist Laura Heller, over 30 additional boxes of material dated prior to 1970 were uncovered. Over the course of 2007, Evan Robinson and Nora Hersey, student archives assistants, sorted and integrated these files into the existing collection. Along with the assistance of additional student archives assistants Andria Creech, Jessica Higginbotham, and Harrison Levans, the integration, condensing, re-labeling, and re-arrangement of the entire collection was completed during Fall Term 2007 into January 2008 under the direction of Jaime M. Bradley, College Archivist. The finding aid was updated in 2008 and 2016.

Other Note: Collection Identification: BCA 0002 SAA 001

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Organizational and Administrative Records, 1915-1975],
[Series 2: General Correspondence, 1957-1970],
[Series 3: Annual Conference Records, 1912-1974],
[Series 4: Financial Records, 1923-1970],
[Series 5: Funding Agencies, 1952-1970],
[Series 6: Commission Records, 1926-1972],
[Series 7: Community Action Program (CAP)],
[Series 8: Mountain Life & Work, 1925-1970],
[Series 9: Urban Migrant Project, Urban Affairs Commission and Workshops on the Urban Adjustment],
[Series 10: Reference Materials, 1928-1976],
[Series 11: Photographs],
[Series 12: Oversize Items],
[All]

Series 7: Community Action Program (CAP)

This series includes the records of projects related to and conducted with funding provided by the U.S. Office of Economic Development Community Action Program (CAP) and associated grant programs. Records include correspondence, grant proposals, community information, and various office memoranda.

Sub-Series 1: Correspondence and Memoranda

Box 221

Sub-subseries 1: Early Organizational Correspondence

Box 221

Folder 1: Correspondence 'C', 1959-1962
Folder 2: Correspondence 'D', 1959-1962
Folder 3: Correspondence 'E', 1959-1962
Folder 4: Correspondence 'F', 1959-1962
Folder 5: Correspondence 'F', 1959-1962
Folder 6: Correspondence 'G', 1959-1962
Folder 7: Correspondence 'H', 1959-1962
Folder 8: Correspondence 'I', 1959-1962
Folder 9: Correspondence 'J', 1959-1962
Folder 10: Correspondence 'K', 1959-1962
Folder 11: Correspondence 'L', 1959-1961

Box 222

Folder 1: Correspondence 'MA-ME', 1959-1962
Folder 2: Correspondence 'MI-MU', 1959-1962
Folder 3: Correspondence 'N', 1969-1962
Folder 4: Correspondence 'P', 1959-1962
Folder 5: Correspondence 'R', 1959-1962
Folder 6: Correspondence 'T-W', 1959-1962

Sub-subseries 2: General Correspondence

Box 222

Folder 7: Correspondence, 1959-1963
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1964
Folder 9: Correspondence, 1965
Folder 10: Correspondence, 1966

Box 223

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1967
Folder 2: Correspondence, 1968
Folder 3: Correspondence, 1969
Folder 4: Correspondence, 1969
Folder 5: Correspondence, 1970
Folder 6: Appalachian Industries, 1965-1966
Folder 7: Cannon Industries, Knox County, Kentucky, 1966
Folder 8: Civic Industries, 1965-1967
Folder 9: Danilchik, Nadya, Special Assistant for Planning, 1968
Folder 10: Davis, Tom, 1965
Folder 11: Diehl , Richard, Community Action Technician, 1967

Box 224

Folder 1: Economic Development Act, 1966-1967
Folder 2: Gardner Brothers-Mineral Resources, 1965
Folder 3: Greathouse , Larry, Manpower Project, 1968
Folder 4: Mastin, R.E., Technical Consultant, 1968
Folder 5: National Association for Community Development, 1970
Folder 6: Office of Economic Opportunity, 1965-1967
Folder 7: Regional Development Commission, 1967
Folder 8: Schlesinger, Saul, Manpower Project, 1967-1968
Folder 9: Sill , Maurice, Director, 1968
Folder 10: Southern West Virginia Community Action, 1968-1969
Folder 11: Walker , Ernest, 1966-1967
Folder 12: Vanderpool , Isaac, Education Projects Coordinator, 1963-1968
Folder 13: Vanderpool , Isaac, Education Projects Coordinator, 1963-1968

Sub-subseries 3: Staff Memoranda

Box 224

Folder 14: Staff Memoranda, 1965
Folder 15: Staff memoranda, 1966
Folder 16: Staff Memoranda, 1967

Box 225

Folder 1: Staff Memoranda, 1968
Folder 2: Staff Memoranda, 1969
Folder 3: Staff Memoranda, 1970

Sub-subseries 4: Master Correspondence

Box 225

Folder 4: Master Correspondence, Jun-Aug 1965
Folder 5: Master Correspondence, Aug 1965
Folder 6: Master Correspondence, Sep 1965
Folder 7: Master Correspondence, Sep 1965
Folder 8: Master Correspondence, Oct 1965

Box 226

Folder 1: Master Correspondence, Nov-Dec 1965
Folder 2: Master Correspondence, Jan 1966
Folder 3: Master Correspondence, Feb 1966
Folder 4: Master Correspondence, Mar 1966
Folder 5: Master Correspondence, Apr 1966
Folder 6: Master Correspondence, May-Aug 1966

Box 227

Folder 1: Master Correspondence, Sep-Dec1966
Folder 2: Master Correspondence, Jan-Feb 1967
Folder 3: Master Correspondence, Mar 1967
Folder 4: Master Correspondence, Apr 1967
Folder 5: Master Correspondence, May 1967
Folder 6: Master Correspondence, Jun 1967

Box 228

Folder 1: Master Correspondence, Jul 1967
Folder 2: Master Correspondence, Aug 1967
Folder 3: Master Correspondence, Sep 1967
Folder 4: Master Correspondence, Oct-Nov 1967
Folder 5: Master Correspondence, Dec 1967-Jan 1968
Folder 6: Master Correspondence, Feb 1968
Folder 7: Master Correspondence, Mar 1968

Box 229

Folder 1: Master Correspondence, Apr-Nov1968
Folder 2: Master Correspondence, Jan 1969
Folder 3: Master Correspondence, Jan-Feb 1969
Folder 4: Master Correspondence, Feb-Jun 1969: Sub-series 5: Office of Economic Opportunity Memoranda
Folder 5: OEO -Memoranda Nos. 0-40, 1965-1967
Folder 6: OEO -Memoranda Nos. 41-60, 1965-1967
Folder 7: OEO -Memoranda Nos. 61-100, 1965-1967
Folder 8: OEO -Memoranda 6000 Series, 1968-1970

Box 230

Folder 1: OEO -Memoranda 6100 Series, 1968-1970
Folder 2: OEO -Memoranda 6300 Series, 1968-1970
Folder 3: OEO -Memoranda 6400-7800 Series, 1968-1970

Sub-Series 2: Community Files and Studies

Box 230

Folder 4: Appalachian Resource Development Project, 1960
Folder 5: Chamber of Commerce Information, 1958-1962
Folder 6: Chamber of Commerce Information, 1958-1962
Folder 7: Community Development Counselor, 1960-1962
Folder 8: Community Planning, 1946-1949
Folder 9: Community Study-Balsam Grove, North Carolina, 1959-1960
Folder 10: Community Study-Barbourville, Kentucky, 1962
Folder 11: Community Study-Berea , Kentucky, n.d.
Folder 12: Community Study-Campbellsville, Kentucky, n.d.
Folder 13: Community Study-Cherokee, North Carolina, 1954-1959
Folder 14: Community Study-Cleveland, Georgia, 1961-1962
Folder 15: Community Study-Fentress County, Tennessee, 1961-1962
Folder 16: Community Study-Haysi, Virginia, 1960
Folder 17: Community Study-Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, 1961-1962

Box 231

Folder 1: Community Study-Marshall, North Carolina, 1960-1961
Folder 2: Community Study-Pickens, South Carolina, 1961-1962
Folder 3: Community Study-Newbern, Virginia, n.d.
Folder 4: Community Study-Pine Mountain, Kentucky, n.d.
Folder 5: Community Study-Rose Hill, North Carolina, n.d.
Folder 6: Community Study-Sevier County, Tennessee, 1960
Folder 7: Community Study-Sevierville, Tennessee, 1959-1963
Folder 8: Community Study-Taped Interviews, n.d.
Folder 9: Community Study-Results, n.d.
Folder 10: Community Study-Results, n.d.
Folder 11: Eastern Kentucky Resource Development Project (EKRDP), 1961-1962
Folder 12: EKRDP - Leadership Workshop-Berea Planning Meeting, 1960
Folder 13: EKRDP - Correspondence on Workshop, 1960
Folder 14: EKRDP - Correspondence on Workshop, 1960
Folder 15: EKRDP - Lists-Workshop, 1960

Box 232

Folder 1: EKRDP - Workshop-Follow-up, 1960-1961
Folder 2: EKRDP - Miscellaneous, 1960-1961
Folder 3: Committee for Economic Development-Correspondence, 1953-1956
Folder 4: Committee for Economic Development-Correspondence, 1957
Folder 5: Committee for Economic Development-Correspondence/Misc, 1958
Folder 6: Committee for Economic Development- Correspondence, 1961-1962
Folder 7: Committee for Economic Development- Member lists and minutes, 1956-1962
Folder 8: Committee for economic Development- Drafts of minutes, 1958-1960
Folder 9: Committee for Economic Development- Miscellaneous, 1958-1960
Folder 10: Electric Power Companies-Correspondence, 1959
Folder 11: Governor's Conference on Appalachia- Correspondence, 1959-1960
Folder 12: Governor's Conference on Appalachia- Miscellaneous, 1959-1960

Box 233

Folder 1: Kentucky Area Program Development Office, 1961-1962
Folder 2: Kentucky Area Program Development Office, 1961-1962
Folder 3: Kentucky Development Workers Conference-Correspondence, Misc., 1960-1962
Folder 4: Kentucky Development Workers Conference- Correspondence, Misc., 1960-1962
Folder 5: Kentucky Development Workers Conference- Correspondence, Misc., 1960-1962
Folder 6: Kentucky Economic Development- Miscellaneous, 1959-1960
Folder 7: Kentucky Welfare Association, 1962
Folder 8: National Sharecroppers Fund, 1962
Folder 9: North Georgia Leadership Conference, 1962

Box 234

Folder 1: Rural Development-Correspondence, 1958-1961
Folder 2: Rural Development-Correspondence, 1958-1961
Folder 3: Rural Development-Reports and Minutes, 1957-1961
Folder 4: Rural Development-Reports and Minutes, 1957-1961
Folder 5: Rural Development-Plan of work by counties, 1959-1960
Folder 6: Rural Development-Plan of work by counties, 1959-1960
Folder 7: Rural Development-Plan of work by counties, 1959-1960
Folder 8: Rural Development-Miscellaneous, 1959-1962

Box 235

Sub-subseries 1: Community Associations

Box 235

Folder 1: Allardt Community Study, n.d.
Folder 2: Bakers Crossroads, n.d.
Folder 3: Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency, 1969
Folder 4: Big Sandy Area Council, 1965
Folder 5: By-laws of Community Associations, ca. 1965
Folder 6: Carr Creek Community Center, n.d.
Folder 7: Charleston Youth Community Inc., 1963-1965
Folder 8: Clinch and Powell River Valley Association, 1964
Folder 9: Cocke County, Tennessee Community Action, 1965-1966
Folder 10: Community Development-Miscellaneous, 1962-1968
Folder 11: Cumberland Valley Area Economic Opportunity Council, 1967
Folder 12: Horsecreek Neighborhood Action Council, 1966
Folder 13: Jackson County Improvement Assoc.-Payroll, 1967
Folder 14: Kentucky Community Action Association, 1968
Folder 15: Kentucky Development Committee, 1964-1966
Folder 16: Kentucky River Foothills Development Council, Inc., n.d.
Folder 17: Knott County Development Association, 1960
Folder 18: Knox County Economic Opportunity Council, 1965
Folder 19: Leslie County CAP, 1961
Folder 20: Madison County Development Association, 1964-1966
Folder 21: Perry County Community Action Agency and Citizens Action Council, 1965
Folder 22: Pittman Community Center, n.d.
Folder 23: Red Bird Development, 1962-1967
Folder 24: Thelma Community Development Group, 1964
Folder 25: Upshur County, West Virginia Community Action Council, 1965

Sub-Series 3: Grants and Funding Proposals

Box 236

Sub-subseries 1: Grants

Box 236

Folder 1: CAP Grant 316 TA-Correspondence, 1965
Folder 2: CAP Grant 316 TA-Financial Reports, 1965
Folder 3: CAP Grant 316 TA-Budget, expenditures, 1965
Folder 4: CAP Grant Proposal-Technical Assistance, 1966
Folder 5: CAP Grant 316 A- Correspondence, 1966
Folder 6: CAP Grant 316 A-Financial Reports, 1966
Folder 7: CAP Grant 316 A-Expenditures, 1966
Folder 8: Request for Continuation, 1966
Folder 9: CAP Grant 0316 B-Correspondence, 1967
Folder 10: CAP Grant 0316 B-Financial Reports, 1967
Folder 11: CAP Grant 0316-B-Budget, expenditures, 1967
Folder 12: CAP Grant 0316 C-Correspondence, 1968
Folder 13: CAP Grant 0316 D-Budget, Expenditures, 1969
Folder 14: CAP Grant 0316 D-Correspondence, 1969

Box 237

Folder 1: CAP Grant 0316 D-Budgets, 1969
Folder 2: CAP Grant 0316 D-Miscellaneous, 1969
Folder 3: CAP Grant 0316 D-Extension, 1970
Folder 4: CAP Grant 0316 D-Extension, 1970
Folder 5: CAP Grant 0316 D-Financial Reports, 1970
Folder 6: CAP Grant 0316 D-Budget, Expenditures, 1970
Folder 7: CAP Grant 0316-Correspondence, 1979, n.d.
Folder 8: CAP Grant 0316-Expenditures, n.d.
Folder 9: CAP Grants-Budgets-Unidentified, n.d.
Folder 10: CAP Grants-Evaluation-Preliminary 1967, 1967
Folder 11: CAP Grants-Evaluation-Preliminary 1967, 1967
Folder 12: CAP Grants-Evaluation of Community Action, 1967; 1969
Folder 13: CAP Management/Accounting Manuals and Guidelines, 1968

Box 238

Sub-subseries 2: Proposals

Box 238

Folder 1: OEO -CAP Proposal excerpts, 1965-1966
Folder 2: On-the-Job Training Program, c. 1966
Folder 3: Job Corps, 1968
Folder 4: Talent Search, 1968
Folder 5: Talent Recruitment and Placement Grant and Technical Assistance Grant, 1968
Folder 6: CAPSTAF, 1969
Folder 7: CAP application discussion drafts (Breathitt Co.), n.d.
Folder 8: Assignment of Community Volunteers, n.d.
Folder 9: CAT proposal drafts, n.d.
Folder 10: Economic Growth through Community Participation, n.d.
Folder 11: Manpower Development Service Project, n.d.
Folder 12: Red Bird Project, n.d.
Folder 13: Rural Housing Growth Centers, n.d.
Folder 14: Technical Assistance and Training Grant, n.d.
Folder 15: Miscellaneous Proposals, n.d.

Sub-Series 4: Personnel Files and General Administrative Files

Box 239

Folder 1: Miscellaneous Administrative, 1965-1969
Folder 2: Community Action Programs and Directors, n.d.
Folder 3: Memos to Priority CAP Directors, 1969
Folder 4: General Personnel, 1964-1968
Folder 5: Collins, Sandy, Office Manager, 1968
Folder 6: Danilchik, Nadya, Special Assistant for Planning, 1968
Folder 7: Goff, Esther, Community Action Technician, 1968
Folder 8: Greathouse , Larry, On-The-Job-Training Field Experience, 1968
Folder 9: Griggs , Julian, Community Action Technician, 1968
Folder 10: Griggs , Ruth, Secretary, 1969
Folder 11: Guiton, T.A., Interim Director, 1968
Folder 12: Hoffman, Ronan, 1969
Folder 13: MacDavid, Pamela, Housing Specialist, 1968
Folder 14: Moore, Donna, Talent Bank, 1968
Folder 15: Oliver, Susan, Secretary, 1968
Folder 16: Reedy, Sandi, applicant, 1968
Folder 17: Sheriff, Julie, Administrative Assistant, 1965
Folder 18: Snow, Dan, Talent Bank, 1968
Folder 19: Volunteers, 1968
Folder 20: Inactive Staff-Correspondence, 1967-1968
Folder 21: Executive Search, 1969

Sub-subseries 1: Community Action Technicians (CAT)

Box 239

Folder 22: CAT - General, 1967-1969
Folder 23: CAT-Appointments, 1968-1969

Sub-Series 5: Programs and Projects

Box 240

Sub-subseries 1: Enterprise Development Project

Box 240

Folder 1: Progress Report I, July 1967
Folder 2: Progress Report II, Aug 1967
Folder 3: Progress Report III, Sept 1967
Folder 4: Progress Report IV, Oct 1967
Folder 5: Progress Report V, Nov 1967
Folder 6: Progress Report VI, Dec 1967
Folder 7: Progress Report VII, Jan 1968
Folder 8: Progress Report VIII, Feb 1968
Folder 9: Progress Report IX, Mar 1968
Folder 10: Progress Report X, April 1968
Folder 11: Progress Report XI, May 1968
Folder 12: Progress Report XII, June 1968
Folder 13: Progress Report XIII, July 1968
Folder 14: Progress Report XIV, Aug 1968
Folder 15: Progress Report XV, Sept 1968

Box 241

Folder 1: Progress Report XVI, 10/1968
Folder 2: Progress Report XVII, 11/1968
Folder 3: Interim Report, 12/1968
Folder 4: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Papers, 1965-1969

Sub-subseries 2: Low Income Housing Project

Box 241

Folder 5: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1965-1966
Folder 6: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1967-1968
Folder 7: Conferences, 1966-1970
Folder 8: Proposals, 1965-1968
Folder 9: Proposals, 1965-1968

Box 242

Folder 1: Reports, 1965-1968
Folder 2: Cooperatives, 1965-1967
Folder 3: Experimental House, 1965-1966
Folder 4: Resettlement in Appalachia, n.d.
Folder 5: Land Examinations (with photographs), 1965
Folder 6: Pamphlet: "Low Income Housing ", 1966
Folder 7: Rhode Island School of Design, 1967
Folder 8: Yale University School of Architecture, 1966
Folder 9: Federal Housing Acts, 1954;1965
Folder 10: Miscellaneous, 1966-1970

Sub-subseries 3: Manpower Project

Box 242

Folder 11: Grant Proposal, 1964-1968
Folder 12: Grant-Contract and Modification, 1964-1965
Folder 13: Grant-Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1963-1969
Folder 14: Grant-Miscellaneous budget, report, 1964-1965

Box 243

Folder 1: Study Conference-Berea , Kentucky, 1964
Folder 2: Progress Reports-David Lollis, Director, 1964-1965
Folder 3: Progress Reports-David Lollis, Director, 1964-1965
Folder 4: Progress Reports-David Lollis, Director, 1964-1965
Folder 5: Final Report-Draft, 1965
Folder 6: Final Report-Draft, 1965
Folder 7: On-The-Job-Training Report-James Templeton, 1964-1965

Box 244

Folder 1: Progress Report-Larry Greathouse , Field Representative, 1964-1965
Folder 2: Progress Report-Larry Greathouse , Field Representative, 1964-1965
Folder 3: Progress Report-Larry Greathouse , Field Representative, 1964-1965
Folder 4: Progress Report-Tom Davis, Field Representative, 1964-1965
Folder 5: Progress Report-Tom Davis, Field Representative, 1964-1965
Folder 6: Progress Report-Tom Davis, Field Representative, 1964-1965
Folder 7: Progress Report-Tom Davis, Field Representative, 1964-1965
Folder 8: Progress Report-Tom Davis, Field Representative, 1965

Box 245

Folder 1: Progress Report-Roger Lester, Field Representative, 1964-1965
Folder 2: Progress Report-Roger Lester, Field Representative, 1964-1965
Folder 3: Progress Report-Nadya Danilchik, Manpower Specialist, 1969-1970
Folder 4: Miscellaneous, 1966-1969
Folder 5: Miscellaneous, various dates
Folder 6: Citizen Organization Manpower Extension Training, 1964

Box 246

Sub-subseries 4: On-The-Job-Training Project

Box 246

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1965-1966
Folder 2: Contracts, forms, proposals, 1965-1966
Folder 3: Subcontractor-Ault Insurance Agency, 1965
Folder 4: Subcontractor-Big Hat Restaurant, 1965
Folder 5: Subcontractor-Bledsoe County Board of Education, 1965
Folder 6: Subcontractor-Builders Supply Company, 1965
Folder 7: Subcontractor-Downey Motor Company, 1965
Folder 8: Subcontractor-Dunlap motor Company, 1965
Folder 9: Subcontractor-Eastern Products Inc., 1965
Folder 10: Subcontractor-Erwin Record Inc., 1965
Folder 11: Subcontractor -Garland, Ross, 1965
Folder 12: Subcontractor-Ledford Funeral Home Inc., 1965
Folder 13: Subcontractor-SS Livestock Farms, 1965
Folder 14: Subcontractor-Marion County Board of Education, 1965
Folder 15: Subcontractor-Marion County Broadcasting Service, Inc., 1965
Folder 16: Subcontractor-Quality Builders Company, 1965
Folder 17: Subcontractor-Range Chevrolet Inc., 1965
Folder 18: Subcontractor-Scandia Manufacturing Co., Inc., 1965

Box 247

Folder 1: Subcontractor-Tennessee Joint Cement Co., 1965
Folder 2: Subcontractor-Travelers Chrysler-Plymouth Co., 1965
Folder 3: Subcontractor-Travelers Chrysler-Plymouth Co., 1965
Folder 4: Subcontractor-Unaka One Hour Cleaner, 1965
Folder 5: Subcontractor-Wayne Love Construction, 1965
Folder 6: Report/Evaluation of MDTA On-the-Job Training Program, 1963-1964

Sub-subseries 5: Talent Bank

Box 247

Folder 7: Talent Bank, 1969-1970
Folder 8: Talent Search, 1968-1969
Folder 9: Technical Assistance Program Misc., 1967
Folder 10: Evaluation of CAT Contract, 1969
Folder 11: A Talent Recruitment and Technical Assistance Grant Evaluation, 1967
Folder 12: A Talent Recruitment and Technical Assistance Grant Evaluation, 1967

Sub-Series 6: Reports and Evaluations

Box 248

Folder 1: Boyle, J.D., Big Sandy CAP , Knott County, Tucker County, Virginia, 1965-1966
Folder 2: Carroll , Overt, Economic Development Specialist, 1969
Folder 3: Danilchik, Nadya, Planning Specialist, 1968-1969
Folder 4: Davis, Tom, Bell-Jackson-Knott Counties, KY; Hancock County, TN, 1966
Folder 5: Davis, Tom and Skeese, John, Hancock County, 1966
Folder 6: Diehl , Richard, Grundy County, Tennessee, 1967
Folder 7: Donohoe, William, Rockcastle County, also Tennessee and Georgia, 1965-1966
Folder 8: Donohoe, William and Templeton , Al, North Georgia, 1965-1966
Folder 9: Dougherty, Dan, Jackson County, Kentucky, 1967
Folder 10: Forte, Sylvia, Virginia and Tennessee, 1966
Folder 11: Gallimore , Leonard
Folder 12: Gallimore , Leonard, 1966
Folder 13: Greathouse , Larry, 1967
Folder 14: Greathouse , Larry and Young , James, Letcher County CAP, 1965
Folder 15: Greiner, Donna, 1967
Folder 16: Griggs , Julian, CAP Director, 1968-1970
Folder 17: Groff, Arnold, Petros, Tennessee, 1968
Folder 18: Guiton, T.A., Success through Education Program (STEP), 1967-1968
Folder 19: Harris, Lillian, Kentucky and West Virginia, 1965-1966
Folder 20: Ingram, Cliff, 1968
Folder 21: Johnston, Roslea, Kentucky , Virginia, West Virginia , Tennessee, 1965-1966
Folder 22: Line, Hubert, Housing, 1969

Box 249

Folder 1: MacDavid, Pamela, Housing, 1967-1969
Folder 2: Moore, Donna, 1968
Folder 3: Mosley , Julian, Research and Development, 1968-1969
Folder 4: Mustard, Tom, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1966
Folder 5: Nesselroad, Joanna, Training for Children Center Leaders
Folder 6: Ocker, Linda, 1968
Folder 7: Osborne, Gerald, Civic Industries, West Virginia and Virginia, 1965-1966
Folder 8: Osborne, Gerald and Walker , Ernest, Civic Industries and West Virginia, 1966
Folder 9: Raphael, David, Clay County, Kentucky, 1965-1966
Folder 10: Redwine, Earl M., Kentucky and North Carolina, 1965-1966
Folder 11: Roark, Fred G., General Progress Reports, 1965-1967
Folder 12: Safford, Edwin, Latcher County, Kentucky, 1965-1966
Folder 13: Safford, Edwin, Mingo County, West Virginia, 1965-1966
Folder 14: Snow, Dan, Talent Bank, 1969
Folder 15: Summerlin, Philip, Talent Bank, 1968
Folder 16: Suters , William, Tennessee and West Virginia, 1965-1966
Folder 17: Templeton , Al, Mingo County, West Virginia, 1965
Folder 18: Templeton , James, Cocke county, Tennessee, 1966
Folder 19: Vaughn, Tom, Brasstown, North Carolina, 1965

Box 250

Folder 1: Walker , Ernest, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, 1965
Folder 2: Walker , Ernest, Virginia, Kentucky , West Virginia , Tennessee , North Carolina, 1966-1967
Folder 3: Walker , Ernest, Virginia, Kentucky , West Virginia , Tennessee , North Carolina, 1966-1967
Folder 4: Young , James, Virginia, West Virginia and Mississippi, 1965-1966
Folder 5: Zuckerman, Alan, Washington D.C., 1965
Folder 6: Master Reports, 1965
Folder 7: Master Reports, 1965

Box 251

Folder 1: Master Reports, 1965-1966
Folder 2: Master Reports, 1965-1966
Folder 3: Master Reports, 1965-1966

Sub-subseries 1: General Progress Reports-Miscellaneous

Box 251

Folder 4: Carroll , Overt, Economic Development Specialist, 1969-1970
Folder 5: Danilchik, Nadya, Manpower Specialist, 1969-1970
Folder 6: Griggs , Julian, Director, 1969-1970
Folder 7: Line, Hubert, Housing Specialist, 1969-1970
Folder 8: Moore, Donna, Talent Bank, 1969
Folder 9: Walker , Ernest, Education Specialist, 1969-1970
Folder 10: Deleted Reports-other Staff, 1969

Box 252

Folder 1: Cumulative Report, Cumberland County, TN, 1965
Folder 2: Elliott County Home Repair for the Elderly and Disabled, n.d.
Folder 3: A Look Backward-McDowell County, West Virginia, n.d.
Folder 4: Save the Children Federation, 1958-1959
Folder 5: Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower and Poverty, 1967
Folder 6: Summary Report-Council Special Projects, ca. 1964
Folder 7: Talent Bank, n.d.
Folder 8: Training Community Action Directors, 1965
Folder 9: CAP /CAT Activity Reports, Drafts, and Evaluations, 1969

Sub-Series 7: Workshops and Symposiums

Box 252

Folder 10: Workshop-CAP Staff, 1965
Folder 11: Symposium-Community Education Project for the Disadvantaged, 1966
Folder 12: Symposium-Developing Community, 1966
Folder 13: Planned Relocation, New Housing & Local Employment in Eastern Kentucky, 1966
Folder 14: Training Meetings, 1969
Folder 15: Workshop-Functional Housing Planning, 1970