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Highlander Folk School — Part 7
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joint efforts to solve community and county probleme. Leader-
ship has been furnished for Cooperatives in gardening, canning,
pottery and quilt-making, and in such organizations as a Com-
munity Council, local unione, and « Parent-Teacher Aesociation.
In the community work, the Schoo} also assists in developin
local leadership by providing for Young Peoples Clubs and
Stady Groups for Adults. The cultural and recreational life of
the community has been stimulated by the School's free music
lessons, and by the encouragement of the traditional songs
and fine old equare dances of the tegion.
Perhaps the most outstanding recent example of the
Schoo!’s community projects is a progressive nursery school,
taught by a member of the Highlander staff, who is a graduate
of the Bank Street Cooperative School for Teachers, and who
acts a6 director, janitor, parent-worker, and achool-bus driver.
The parents of the fifteen children make their contribution by
helping eupply hot lunches and fuel for the nursery building.
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