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...Today Caney Creek Community Center has a grade school, high school and junior college. Its $250,000 plant (43 buildings) is the result of contributions from Wellesley and Radcliffe College alumnae, of various women's organizations, who also pay its $50,000 yearly running expenses. It has electricity, but no telephone, no telegraph. Its post office is Pippapass, Ky.-in honor of New England Browning Society donors. In honor of Kipling, its headmistress's office is labeled...
...mountain boys & girls at Caney Creek get their education free. In return they must promise to return home and work among the Kentucky mountain folk. When the chosen few (the waiting list is 1,000-long) enter, girls must forswear jewelry, cosmetics, slang, high heels. For boys the rules are stiffer: no tobacco, gambling, liquor, guns or "unauthorized meetings with the opposite...
...Caney Junior College is a professional, not simply a vocational school. Although most of its graduates go out with teachers' certificates, its staff of 18 college-trained instructors give full premedical, -engineering and -dental courses, as well as the customary arts curriculum. The library (a converted barn) has 22,000 volumes...
...Little Theatre nights oldsters come down from their hillside cabins to watch the Caney Players put on Shakespeare, Everyman, Gilbert & Sullivan, original mountain plays like Feudin' and Larnin'. Last week ten softspoken, fresh-scrubbed Caney Players were in Boston on an annual 5,000-mile, seven-week crusade to spread the gospel of Caney Creek Community Center...
Superintendent of Floyd County schools today is Town Hall-a Caney Creek boy. Another is Knott County Attorney Dan Martin, whose hillbilly background has acquired a veneer that would make a Hatfield or a McCoy groan in his grave. He is a Harvard...