1952
The new Staff House was completed, adding more bedrooms and a modern kitchen and dining room facilities to accommodate the craft instructors housing, and care and feeding of 85 people who attended the Summer Craft Workshop.
Before the Staff House was built, the Settlement School staff had to transform the grade school each summer into living quarters. Most workshop students had to find housing in the developing village of Gatlinburg – in hotels, motels, and often with residents.
Individual Pi Beta Phi chapters donated furnishing for the Staff House rooms.
In the 1952 Workshop season, students from 17 states were in attendance, and Marian Heard, Summer Craft Workshop director, was elected President of the Southern Highlands’ Guild.
