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Highlander Folk School — Part 5

34 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 34 pages OCR'd
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G Gg -ll- but durins the sumier term, she assisted materially in the work of the school, especially in the matter of the editing and pub- lication of the students' notebook. After Harry Lasker left for Memphis, she had charge of the traveling library for two months, The nursery school closcd for the vear with a Christmas par- ty. Sweaters for the children were sent by Irs. K. We Payne of Pleasantville, W.¥., mittens and fruit by May Justus, and candy by Claudia Lrwise 10, GIRLS CLU The nursery school cebin wes tsed o1ce @ week as a mecting place for the young girls in the ecummnity. ifiss Payne polled the community and found seventecn cirls who expressed a desire to attend & class, Wine girls came to the first mcvting on July first, and five more came later; only three of the scventccn who first indicated an interest failed to canoe, Nine families were represented, four of them not represented by murscry school child- ren. This brings the total number of familics served by the nur- sery school staff to twenty-one. The purnose of the girls! group is to bring toscthor tho young girls of thy cormunity, lwlping them to lcarn to work and pley tog.ticr, and brinsiny thm into @ closcr rvlationship to the community and the Folk School. 21. SUMMERFIELD COOPsKATIVE With the cxecption of ae fowweeks when bad weather mdc it too difficult, the Bummrficld Cooperative held no.tings cvury werk throughout the year, in the homes of the seven menbers, Educational prorrams were a >art of all mctings. Rummace salcs continucd to be held in Sunmerficld, Laager, and the val- ley. Old clothes sent by fricnds of the co-op and of Highleand- -r werc sold for a fiw cents a ferment, cnubling mny hundreds of fonilics to sgt rood clothing that thuy otherwise could not afford, and atthe sams time accumulating copitel for the co- operatives
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