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Listening Is the Path to Learning Traditio n. Diversity. Change. Listening is the path to learning e asked the writers of this It's my great honor to be associated W issue to write about "what with both of them. Chad has they've learned." They were established himself as one of the most given no other guidelines at all, so the active and devoted people in the field of subject was wide open for them. Appalachian Studies today. Needless to However, all the pieces are connected say, Loyal is one of the reasons by the fact that all of their lessons were Appalachian Studies exists and learned by listening. continues to bloom. When I took the job as Interim I would venture to say that Chad Director of the Loyal Jones Appalachian and Loyal have found their way by Center a couple months ago, I knew listening as well. There are lessons to be that the only way to figure out this new learned by listening to the writers in role was to listen, too. Luckily, I have this issue of our newsletter, so I hope two of the best people talking to me: you'll be able to be still, sit back, and Dr. Chad Berry, who held this position listen to them awhile, giving us their before me (and left to become our Dean stories and the lessons they've learned and Academic Vice President), and about this enigmatic country we call Loyal Jones, one of Appalachia's fiercest Appalachia. I'm certain you'll learn preservationists and our Center's something, too. :'( namesake. When Chad and Loyal talk, I listen. -Silas House, Interim Director SUMMER 2011 6 UAC: By the Numbers 8 Gurney Norman: Communities of Memory ACZit:!tff::;:C~NTER Tradition. Diversity. Change. Absolutely nothing is impossible ~) FaU 2011 en I attended Swarthmore College, following Volume 40· Number 1 W my high school graduation in 1931, I went from a high school rank of salutatorian in a 30 ILOYAIL JON ES member class to a struggling student among very smart APPAILACHIIAIIII CENTER STAFF classmates. This added to an inferiority complex which was Silas HOllse, Director, Appa lach ian only cured by the Chairman of the Political Science Center; Associate Professor of Appalachian I' Studies Department, Professor Robert C. Brooks who once George Bros!, Editor, Appalachian remarked that I was a "diamond in the rough" and only Heritage needed polishing .. which he proceeded to do. Professor David Cooke, Program Coordinator, Brooks invited me to his home on the weekends, taught me Entrepreneurship for the Public Good and how to study and get better grades and restored my self­ Direc' or, Berea College Appalachian Fund confidence. His inspiration led me to become a teacher, and WHAT I'VE Beth Curlin-Weber, Administrative Assistant, Brushy Fork Institute taught me to encourage those of my students who seemed to Dr. Peter H. Hackbert, Moore Chair in be less intelligent than their brilliant colleagues. I discovered LEARNED Manageme t and Entrepreneurship, EPG that when I could see the successful results of inspiring less Jane Higgins, Program Associate, Brushy talented students it was the route to campus popularity. Fork I stitute At Swarthmore I learned about Civil Rights and Ken Peter Hille, Director, Brushy -ork Institute Women's Rights. I learned to appraise problems with a spirit Hechler bell hooks, Distinguished Professor in of independence, down playing political and economic esidence in Appalachian Studies pressures and "conventional wisdom." The Quaker influence at Swarthmore Sheila lyons, P ogram Associate included opening the Friends' Meeting House every morning for a class-free half­ Christopher Miller, College Curator and Associ a. e Di ector, Appalachian Center hour, a time for students to get their priorities in order with silent [.Iol1lna Morgan, Associate Directo r, contemplation. Swarthmore taught me to fight extra hard for the exploited. I ru shy For Institute learned that anything is worth trying and absolutely nothing is impossible. [ir. William Turner, Distinguished In my teaching at Columbia and Princeton, back in the day when all my P 0 essor of Appalachian Studies and classes were male, middle and upper-class, I brought many black lawyers, judges , egional Ambassador and politicians to my classes so my students would understand that not all blacks Please address all correspondence to: were in inferior occupations. In Congress, I learned to get along very well with Lo al Jones Appa lachian Center members of the Republican Party, which enhanced my ability to get bills Be ea College, CPO 2166 Be ea, . 40404 enacted. &59.9&5.3140 When I joined President Truman's White House staff in 1949, he explained: www.berea.edu/ac "The rich and powerful people in this country have their own lawyers, their own 3erea Coll ege and the Appalachian Center are cOllmite to the betterment of the peoples of accountants, and their own publicity staff. It's the job of the President and every Appa lac ia. The unique views and perspectives of public official to stand up and fight for all those who have no representation." individual authors in this Newsletter, however, do not necessarily represent the vi ews and policies of Also, unlike many politicians, Truman never took a poll, and never paid any Berea College. attention to any polls or issues before making decisions on issues. He used to tell us: "Polls are a temporary snapshot of possibly misinformed public opinion. But they don't tell you the difference between right and wrong, justice and injustice." That word "justice" was Truman's moral compass." MIX I also learned from Truman that whenever anybody downgrades you, just go Paper from out and work three times as hard to prove that they are wrong! :-: DFSC responsible sources wwwJsc.org FSC® C009785 Ken Hechler was a Us. Congressman for 18 years and has taught at Princeton, Columbia and Barnard. He served four terms as West Virginia Secretary ofStat e. :2 LOYAL JONES A PPALACHIAN CE NTER NEWSLEITER I Appalachian lessons en I first assumed my new of those travels I have confirmed what my WHAT l'VE W position as president of Berea first trip in 1994 impressed upon me, there College in July of 1994, my wife is not one Appalachia, but many; and there is LEARNED Nancy and I decided that we wanted to not one group ofpeople you can call travel to some part of Central Appalachia Appalachian, but many. Yes, it is true what from which Berea's students come. Loyal Loyal J ones says in his book, Appalachian Larry D. Jones and Helen Lewis helped organize the Values, that there are common threads that Shinn trip for us and even met us at several places in some sense distinguish the mountain along the way. From Hindman, Hyden, and culture we call "Appalachia." The loyalty to Whitesburg in Kentucky to the Highlander place, family, and local religion is strong in Center and Sneedville in Tennessee to the mountains. And the language, music, Ivanhoe and Wise in Virginia, we traveled dance and material culture from the British 902 miles in eight days. Isles and Europe have indeed helped create We sat around Mike and Frieda the "culture of the mountains." But so too Mullins' picnic tables in Hindman with have the songs and stories of the Mrican Appalachian authors AI Stewart and James American spiritual and slave traditions Still along with Grady Stumbo, the shaped this land. Last century's heyday of Chairman of the Democratic Party in coal mining in the mountains created one Kentucky. In Whitesburg, we were hosted in new coal town after another and the vibrant the Court House Cafe by Josephine black communities in Lynch and Benham, Richardson to meet local officials and then Kentucky are contemporary reminders of a were given a tour of Appalshop by its day when racially diverse communities were founder, Bill Richardson. These two common throughout the region. Likewise, Easterners came to Kentucky in the 1960s the writings of the Mfralachian poet, Frank and adopted Whitesburg as their home. I X Walker, or of our own academic was given a tour of Whitesburg by the colleague, Bill Turner, make clear their county Judge Executive, Carroll Smith, a claim on the mountains as "my home." Republican who was also a leader in the And who can deny the Cherokee's insistence UMW union. In Ivanhoe, Maxine Waller upon the mountains as their land too? talked about "out-migration" and what she So, while I have learned many lessons and her friends were trying to do to make over the years about Appalachia, none is Ivanhoe a place where young people could more salient that the appreciation of the learn their local history. In Wise we were diversity of people, langJIage, race, hosted by Jay and Marcia Lemons, the topography, and material culture that we so presidential couple at the recently re-named often give one name, "Appalachian." :'( University of Virginia at Wise (formerly Clinch Valley College) where we had lunch With roots on both sides ofhis family in with an Mrican American family whose son West Virginia, Larry Shinn grew up on a was coming to Berea College that fall. small farm in Ohio and has taught and During the past 17 years at Berea, I studied in the Middle East and India. After have traveled thousands of miles in the small 14 years as a professor at Oberlin College and towns and cities and the mountains and 10 years as a Dean and Academic Vice hollers of West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky President at Bucknell University, Dr. Shinn and Tennessee, Southeastern Virginia, has been president ofBerea College for the past Western North and South Carolinas.
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