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Highlander Folk School — Part 3

69 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 69 pages OCR'd
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s “* a t) co 7 The Executive Committee of the International Student Service is given as follows: [Dre Alvin Johnson, Chairman . Walter Kotschnig « Eliot D. Pratt, 2nd Vice-Chairmm ‘Dr. Max Lerner jie . Henry Goddard Leach, lst Vice-Chai iMr. Joseph Kruger i j ra Algernon D. Black | / Mrs. David M. Levy _; Dr. Alfred E. Cohn Mr. Archibald Macleish '} Mr. John Darnell \; Miss Fiora Mariotti {| Dr. L. C. Dunn 1 Miss Gertrude HcKitterick y’ Dr. Clyde Eagleton “ Mrs. Dwight Morrow /i Mr. A. Roland Elliott : Dr. Wiiliam A. Neilson - Dr. Edgar J. Fisher | Hiss Marjorie Nicolson ‘, Dr. William Fletcher f \ Air. Reinhold Niebuhr 3 Dr. Carl J. Friedrich ; 2 Mr. Eliot Pratt ' Dr. Harry Gideonse - % Biss Jane Seaver ' Mr, Allan Gottlieb . Dr. George Shuster . Mr. Kenneth Holland _ Mr. Robert G. Spivack ‘Ur. Ernest W. Jennes Miss Ingrid Warburg mime o- graphed press release dated July 28, 1941 at NMonteagle, Tennessee and drawn up by WILLIAM BUTTRICK, HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL. This press release, which vill be retained in the files of the Knoxville Field Division, is set out as follows: " Villigefuttrick Mionteagle, Tenn. MONTEAGLE, Juiy 28 -- The Highlander Work Camp, a four-weeks term of work and study for young people, came to a close at Highlander Folk School near here yesterday. Eighteen campers completed 1,114 man-hours of work clearing land for reforestation, building a pottery wheel for a local cooperative and repairing the community nursery school building. In addition to the daily work schedule, the members of the rams snooced in «a etudy af the nrohiems af this recion The Camp engaged in a Stuay of tne propbicms OL this region. ang educational program included a number of ficid trips to points in Grundy County, Copperhill, the Cherokee National Forest, and Huntsville, Ala. Directed by Dr. James Aylondrowsk, the session was sponsored by Work Camps for America, a division of the Inter- national Student Service. ~37—
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