{{Short description|American educator (1887–1988)}} '''June Buchanan''' (June 21, 1887 – May 31, 1988) was an American educator from upstate New York. She co-founded Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, with Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, aiming to provide a better education for the youth of Appalachia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2012-05-21 |title=Our History |url=https://www.alc.edu/about-us/our-history/ |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Alice Lloyd College |language=en-US}}</ref>
{{Infobox person | name = June Buchanan | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1887|6|21}} | birth_place = Moravia, New York | death_date = {{death date and age|1988|5|31|1887|6|21}} | death_place = Martin, Kentucky | occupation = | education = Syracuse University, Wellesley College | nationality = | movement = | parents = | spouse = | children = }}
==Early life== Buchanan was born in Moravia, New York, on June 21, 1887.<ref name="Searles">{{cite book |last=Searles |first=P. David |title=A College for Appalachia |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=1995 |location=Lexington, KY |pages=53}}</ref> Her parents, Frank Buchanan and Julia McCormick Buchanan, hailed from small towns near Syracuse.<ref name="Searles" /><ref name="Davis">{{cite book |last=Davis |first=Jerry C. |title=Miracle on Caney Creek |publisher=Caney Creek Community Center |year=1982 |location=Pippa Passes, KY |pages=1}}</ref> Many of the skills that she later applied to her mission, Buchanan learned from watching her parents. Her mother was an active member of their church, inspiring Buchanan to participate in advocacy as she got older. The men in her family taught her the financial literacy that later supported her role at the college.<ref name=":0" />
==Education== Buchanan graduated from Syracuse University in 1913 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.<ref name=":0" /> After teaching in Groton, New York, she pursued graduate studies at Wellesley College, with a focus on liberal arts;<ref name="Searles" /> however, she did not officially complete a graduate program. While at Wellesley, she encountered fellow students who heard of Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd's efforts to educate children in the Appalachian Mountains of Knott County, Kentucky.<ref name="Searles" /> She wrote to Lloyd regarding her work and shortly thereafter moved to Kentucky to assist in the development of what became Alice Lloyd College.<ref name=":0" />
==Career== In January 1919, she arrived in Pippa Passes to assist Lloyd's efforts at the Caney Creek Community Center.<ref name="Searles" /><ref name="ALC">{{cite web |title=History of Alice Lloyd College |url=http://www.alc.edu/about/about_history.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619065826/http://www.alc.edu/about/about_history.php |archive-date=2009-06-19 |access-date=2009-06-18}}</ref> In 1923, she and Lloyd chartered Caney Junior College, which would be renamed Alice Lloyd College upon Lloyd's death in 1962.<ref name="ALC" /> In 1976, a campus building, the June Buchanan Alumni Center, was named in her honor.<ref name="Davis" /> Buchanan's early contributions to Alice Lloyd college were in the classroom through the development of teaching programs to improve the education of the students of Appalachia. As her involvement in the school increased, and Lloyd's trust in her grew, Buchanan took control of the finances of the organization and implemented the tools she learned from her father.<ref name=":0" /> The college's K-12 prep school, the June Buchanan School, was named in her honor in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-09-06 |title=Home |url=http://jbscrusaders.com/default.aspx |access-date=2023-03-31 |archive-date=2010-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906144508/http://jbscrusaders.com/default.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her service to Appalachia was not limited to the school; she also served as the mayor of Pippa Passes.<ref name="NYT">{{cite web |date=1988-06-02 |title=June Buchanan, College Co-founder, 100 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3DD1538F931A35755C0A96E948260 |access-date=2008-12-28 |publisher=AP via The New York Times}}</ref>
==Death and legacy== Buchanan continued to serve the college until her death in May 1988. She died at a hospital in the city of Martin in neighboring Floyd County.<ref name="NYT" /> In addition to the June Buchanan School, and the June Buchanan Alumni Center named in her honor, the June Buchanan Medical Clinic, a community health clinic owned and operated by the University of Kentucky's Centers for Excellence in Rural Health, is located in Hindman, the county seat of Knott County.<ref>{{cite web |title=UK June Buchanan Medical Clinic |url=https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/hospitals-clinics/june-buchanan-medical-clinic |access-date=2008-12-29}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.alc.edu Alice Lloyd College] * [https://www.alc.edu/the-june-buchanan-school/ June Buchanan School]
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