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4 f AGHLANDER REPORTS 4 FINANCIAL STATEMENT SUMMARY “Highlander Fotk School ended the fisco!l year September 30, 1957 with an operating fund deficit of $9,193.86. Receipts for the year were $39,482.95 and expenses for the year were $71,273.94 {includ- ing $6,512.75 provision for depreciation).”’ (signed) HARRY V. HERRELL Certified Public Accountant Financio! statement wos prepared by Harry V. Herrell, CPA, Knoxville, Tennessee and a detailed copy of some will be mailed on request, TAX EXEMPTION REVOKED ir February the Internal Revenue Service without warning revoked its previous long-standing ruling that con- tributions to Hightander were deductible: for income-tax Purposes on the bosis that Highlonder does not qualify as oan educational organization for tax exempt purposes. The revocatinn of tax-exempt status is being protested ond attorneys tee! confident that after o review of Highlander’s activities the Internal Revenue Service will restore the tax exempt sfotus. This action on the part of the federal government hos mncouraged anti-Highlander stotements on the part of earecotonist Governor Martin Griffin of Georgia, and on september 7 Senator Jomes O. Eastiond of Mississippi, wins stutea, “b am in thorough agreement” with the nterno! Revenue Service action making donations to -. °."h Sehooi no longer deductible. fe: +. 7 Wiase Fie wT est ee ee ee -" = wy 7 . College Workshop & » 7 ’ As, Pe a £ oar 1 Me ham ae + @ te aad ROGRAM SUMMARY ~tek-long workshops on public school integration; | College “a'r some subect; 2 Executive Council meetings; | Highlander msultamts meeting, 1 Pre-Christmas party for Clinton pupils; Visitors ay Mane ho ond Putney, Philadelphia, New York, Copenhagen, Den- mork; Three-doy Seminar—”The Seuth Thinking Abed,” August 30- September 2nd, participants present from 21 states, over 200 leaders; Camp Koinonia-sHighlander three weeks, Jume 24-July 12; Adult pro- gtom for illiterates and young people, Jonuary 8, February 27, 37 attended, Johns island, 5. C. Four residential week-end workshops in Sevier County, Tenn., 75 attended eoch workshop; sponsored a tutoring school In Knoxville for Clinton Negro pupils; conference with people of Ook Ridge to provide help for the Negroes of Clinton inconvenienced by the dynomite blastings; worked with Negroes in Columbio, Tennessee, Ortondo, Florida and Greensboro, N. C. Conferences Attended Notional Adult Educetion asseciotion meeting in Atlantic City, November 12-15, 1956; Alpha Koppa Alpha comention in Atlonts, Ge., Dec. 26-31, 1956; South Carolina Social Workers Conference, Nov. t. 1956; Southern Conference Educational Fund, Atlanta, Go., Febru- ory 2-3, 1957; Southern Mountain Workers Conference, February 21- 23, 1957; Councit on Christian Foith and Hurnan Relations; Economic Resource ond Development Committee of Southern Mountain workers in Berea, Kentucky, May 3, 1957; Phelps-Stokes Conference ot Capo- hosic, Virginio, Jume 22-23, 1957; American-European Conference on Residential Adult Education, Hollend, June 30-July 11, 1957; Notional Conference cf Catholic Chorities in Konsas City, Missouri, Sept. 14-18, 1957. Publicity Articles about Highlander appearing in 1956-1957—-Independent Cell, Februory, April; Sewthern Patriet, September; Caroline Tienes, February, April; Mecon Doily Times, September; Palmetto Leeder, June; Atlento Constitution, September; Chattenooga Times, Septernber; Bir- mingham News, September; Meshville Tennessean, September; Nethville Bonner, August, September; The Packing House Worker, September; Mew York Times, July; Chottencoga Free Press, September; Adult Leodership, June. HIGHLANDER’S EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS Mrs. Helen Bass, Benedict College, Columbio, S. C.; Mrs. Sorah Patton Boyle, Box 3183, University Station, Charlottesville, Vo.; Dean B. R. Brazeol, Morehouse Col- lege, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Septimoa Clark, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tenn.; Mrs. Harry Gershon, 1590 Harvard Road, N.E., Atlonta 6, Ga.; Dr. Charles Gomillion, Dean, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.; Mrs. Groce Hamilton, Atlanta Urban League, 239 Auburn Ave., N.E., Atlanta, Ga.; G. R. Hathaway, Secy-Treas., United Pockinghouse Workers of America, 608 $. Dearborn St., Chicago 5; Mrs. John Etto Hoyes, 2519 Heimon St., Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. John Hope H, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.; Myles Horton, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tenn.; MMe. Esau Jenkins, 244 Spring St., Charleston, S. C. _ Dr. Lewis Jones, Rural Life Council, Tuskegee Insti- tute, Ala.; Miss May Justus, Route 1, Tracy City, Tenn; Mr. Stewort Meacham, Apt. 1704C, 453 Franklin Roose- velt Dr., New York; Mrs. Rosa Parks, Holly Tree Inn, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Vo.; Rev. Eugene Smathers, Calvary Presbyterian Church, Big Lick, Tenn.; Dr. P. A. Stephens, 1917 Citico Ave., Chattanooga; Jordan Stokes lil, Attorney-at-Law, Sudekum Blidg., Nashville; Miss Lu- sitle Thornburgh, Associate Editor, East Tennessee Labor News, 311 Morgan St., Knoxville; Mrs. Arnetta Wollace, 5120 So. Parkway, Chicago; Mr. Tom White, Sec., Broth- erhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lexington, Tenn.; Aubrey Willioms, Publisher, Southern Form & Home, Montgomery 1, Ala.; Charles Wilson, Tenn. Rep., int'l Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Wkrs., P.O. Box 51, Columbia, Tenn.; Mrs. George Wolfe, 7901 Carroll Ave., Takoma Pork 12, Md.; Professor J. E. Pierce, Alabama State College, Mont- gomery, Ala.