| June Buchanan, a social reformer noted
primarily for her contributions to Caney Creek Community
Center and Alice Lloyd College in Knott county, Kentucky was
born in Moravia, New York, on June 21, 1887, the daughter of
B. Frank and Julia McCormick Buchanan. She received a
bachelor of arts degree in 1913 from Syracuse University and
did graduate work at Wellesley College. In 1919, hoping to
improve educational opportunities for mountain children, she
joined Alice Lloyd at the Caney Creek Community Center in
Pippa Passes, Kentucky. She devoted nearly seven
decades of her century-long life to promoting education in
eastern Kentucky in many ways, from teaching students and
presiding over the community center to fund raising.
Buchanan's service-oriented philosophy stressed such
concepts as conscience, duty and courage. In 1933 Buchanan married D. Hollander Hall, a local lawyer, who died sixteen years later. By the time of her death on May 31, 1988, the Pippa Passes educations system supported all grades from kindergarten through grade twelve at the June Buchanan School, as well as four years of higher education at Alice Lloyd College, an institution that Buchanan helped establish. She was buried on the Alice Lloyd College Campus. |
JUNE M. BUCHANAN -
HALL. SHE MARRIED DOLPH HOLLANDER HALL. HE WAS THE S/O MILES L.
BUDDY HALL AND CLARINDA CAUDILL. DOLPH AND JUNE WERE MARRIED 14
June 1934 IN Pippa Passes, Knott County, Kentucky.
DOLPH WAS THE GRANDSON
OF JEFFERSON AND CLARINDA HALL - HALL. JEFFERSON WAS THE S/O BAD
LEWIS HALL AND RHODA BENTLEY.
Submitted by Ona Scalf |