As a representative of the Institute of Folk Music, University of North Carolina, he was chosen as the itinerant recreation leader for the Conference in 1936. RICHARD CHASE: Other OccupationsĬhase also worked closely with the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers. Glyn Morris, PMSS Director at the time, said that Chase’s work would make it possible for “staff members to know more about their students… e will coordinate for each student all the possibilities for his development” at the School. This created an acute need for an additional student counselor, leading to Richard Chase’s hiring as a counselor. When Laurel House I burned in 1939 some of the staff left the School. He graduated from Antioch College in 1929. Antioch’s relationship with PMSS was the connection that first put him in touch with Pine Mountain Settlement School. To further his education, he left Alabama following high school to attend Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Richard Chase was born near Huntsville, Alabama, on February 15, 1904. During the 1940s he was also employed as a recreation leader and counselor. Through the years he came to the School as a visitor. Richard Chase, a well-known folklorist, had a long-running association with Pine Mountain Settlement School. TAGS: Richard Chase, folklorist, folk tales, recreation leader, interview, games, music, Jack Tales, folklore, Glyn Morris, folklorist, children’s literature, writers, puppetry, Punch and Judy, theater, dance, White Top Folk Festival, folklife Puppet show in Burkham Schoolhouse auditorium.
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