◆ SpookStack

' Liveright died in March. Highlander Committees At Work Loval friend, and Chairman of the High iander Philadelphia Committee, Mrs. Alice. XK. In her memory, Mr. “ALL Liveright, her husband, and other mem- bers of her family and friends are sending seatriburons to Highlander. . s . Instead of the annual Spring Meeting, the ‘New York Highlander Committee held a series of parties in homes. Mrs. Septima P. Clark, Highlander’s Director of Education, told about the work of the School. In December, Dr. John B. Thompson spoke at a meeting arranged by he New York Committee, on behalf of the Suarantors-for-Highlander Plan. . * . In California, there are two Highlander Com- nittees in the Bay Area. One in Palo Alto s beaded by Mrs. Josephine Duveneck; the other, in Berkeley. is headed by Mrs. Beth Kennedy. In a leafict put out by the Berkeley Com- nittee, Dr, Alexander Meiklejohn, one of Amer: cas great educators, said, “Many years ago one of my wisest friends, a zeacher in ethics, described a prevailing tend- ior in the words: “We wave our principles in public and then waive chem in private. I admire Highlander because t is trying to point the way toward the cor- ceeting oof that moral delinauency of ours as we ace OT evaue Gimuutes at home and abroad.” 2 * s The Chicago Highlander Committee held sarties and meetings throughout the year to rxpand Highlander’s circle of friends and con- ributors and a enlsc new Guarantors for clghiander. Dean B. R. Brazeal, Chairman of he Highlender Esecutive Council, spoke at a necting. af which a report was made to che ° coutieutts aod Guarantors. he smgyoin WAL Hb agar ndiens Yearn for Education = : F Myles Horton introduces Chief Horace Rid- « Nation to Mre. FDR is educational needs of of the ok Cho ught ah, pred Hichlander’s own Indian Markings on the atural stone porch of the main building, he la be pre Chirvkec by University of vechaslocict: were photographed Te: <p od Motle-urian insutute researcher, bot oe nS Financial Statement Summary “Higulander Folk School ended the fiscal year September 30, 1958, with an oper: "os tg .f£ £7966 44, Total Re- fous ab th. wea, wore SILA, 279.86 and expences for the sear were $77,397.43, (signed) “Harry VW. Herrell mified Public Accountant Tennessee Ceruicate #4157." Part of this veac’s income was used to make up last year's deficit. A complete Beaeeial cterpmene will be mailed upon Lilian W. Johnson Memoria! Highlander gratefully accepts the Lilian W. Johnson Memorial Cabin Pogchated by funds contributed by friends of Dr. Johnson and money left to the School in her will, One of the South's great women pioneers in edugational fields, a founder of one college and president of another, Dr..Johnson in 1932 turned over to Myles Horton her mountaintop bome which today eerves as the main building of Highlander Folk School, At the age of 90, Dr. Johnson wrote from Bradenton, Florida, saying, “What Highlander did for me was to accustom me to association with people of a class and a race I had not known before, except as they served me. The industrial worker, and the Negro became personalities in their own right. 1 saw beneath externalities, and came to have a better under- standing of their problems. This new attitude has been a great help to me in the work here of organizing our interracial work for a recrea- tional program for Negro youth .. . It is m inspiration and my courage to go forward wi this Negro work which I have received from Highlander...” In turn, people who study at Highlander con- tinve to gain inspiration and courage from the life and works of Dr. Lilian Wycoff Jobneon, who died in 1956 at the age of 92. Community Program Acrial view, pictured below, of Highlander Folk School shows the 3 acre lake where peo ple of the community and students find enjoy- ment and fellowship while fishing, «wimming. and boating. Tax Exemption Restored We are glad to announce that on ‘December 18, 1957, the Internal Revenue Service con- firmed ite previous ruling that the Highlander Folk School is entitled to exemption from Fed- eral income tax and that contributions made to Highlander are deductible for income tax pur- poses. Wanted: 100 New Guarantors The Guarantors Committee which grew out of last year’s 25th Anniversary Celebration has secured 160 Guarantors for Highlander. The Committee was formed to provide Highlander with a minimum monthly operating budget of $2,000 by enlisting 200 people who would pledge at least $10 a month. The Committee members are: . Or, John B. Thompson, Chalrman, Mrs. Wilhiam Waid- man, Treasurer, 335 Central Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois, Cr. ‘and Mra. Abraham Gerger, Chattanooga. Tennessee. Mrs. Sarah Patton Boyle, Charlottesvlile, Virginia. Geant 8. A. Brazeal, Atlanta, beornls. Mire. ing Duven- eck, Los Altos, CalHornia. . George M. Guest, Cin- tinnath, Ohlo. Or. john Hopa It, Mashviile, Tennessee. Mr. Esau #onhins, Charleston, South Carolina. Miss May Suatus, Tracy Clty, Teenessee. Mrs. Bruce Maynet, Golden, Colorado. Wr. Stewart Meacham, Philadelphls, Pennsylvania. Dr, and Mra. Alexendar Melkieloha, Berke: ley, jifornia, Or. Walter &. Muelder, Boston Masse- thusetts. Mtr. Wendall A. Patels, Washington, O CT. My. Corte: M. Puryear, Winston-Salem, North Caroltns. Mr. Walcolm ‘Ross, Miami, Florids. Mr, Willtam Stl, St. Louls, Missourl. Mr. and Mrs, David Stoloff, Knorvilie, Tenneusee. Mr. Ralph Tetfertelier, New York, Mew York. .* FOLK SINGING, established as a symbol of Highlander by the late Zilphia Horton and alwaye a source of inspiration, was led by Shelby Flint and Guy Carawan. Shelby Flint was in- vited by workshop participants to lead singing in Charleston, 5. C.. and at a Methodist Area Conference in Orangeburg, S. C., in late sum- mer. Pictured above is Guy Carawan with the § etring banjo, an instrument which had its origin in the Tennessee mountains. Bigotry Backfires While Mrs. Roosevelt was telling a High- lander audience that “people who are trying to do something new are very apt to be attacked. Some people hate and fear anything new . . ..” Governor Marvin Griffin's dick-paper smear of Highlander Folk School was backfiring on T. V. Williams, Jr., its originator. The following is an excerpt from an August 4, 1958, TIME MAGAZINE article: Bomething euphemistically called the Georgia Com- misgioch on Education was only = one-stecograpber estate agency charsed with Inventing apti-integration laws until Redpeck Governor Marvin Griffin decided that it was meabt for Bigger things. To the un exploited office of commission executive secretary, he appointed an ambitious. possum-shaped Atlanta lawyer named T. ¥. ifor Trumag Verant Willlams ar, 38, Williame acon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitel. He talked the Jesislature into giving bim the power of subpoena, Plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private- sve eaulpment —loog-lens camera, wiretap recorder, pocket mikes, etc.—to sleuth on any citizen sus- pected of disagreeing with white-supremacy dogma. Finding Georgia too small for bis ambition, he got authority to spend taapayer money publicizing racial conditions all over the U. 8, Hammering his stock line that integration of the races ia a Communist pict, Willams felt free to: @ Invade oeighboring Tenressee by sending « state photographer into the Highiender Folk School at Montengle, use the pictures of its intearated sessions for o slick-paper charge 1200.00 copies! that it is a “Communist training center." @ Past cut 100,000 booklets almed at proving that N.AA.C.P. i Red-run. @® Broadcast leaflets reprinting an American Legion attack on the Southern Regional] Council, reapectable. old-ine Atlanta interrecial agency. @ Mall legalistic pemphiets in support of Arkansas Racist Governor Orve) Faubus to 20,000 Little Rock voters on the eve of their gubernatorial primary. @ Assign bis photographer jo steak pictures ip the Episcopal Cathedral's Hall of Bishops In Atlante, where pastors and church ladies esthered for an integrated meeting of the Georgia Council of Churches. T. ¥. Willisms Jr. rode bigh and hard until this month, and then he swuns the ragged blade of bigotry against the wrong people: Georeia poiiticiaoe . . Suddenly Attorney General Eugene Cook, until then an approvingly slient member of the commis- sion board. threatened an investisalion of T. V. Wilms Jr. and all his works. Last week Williams +e bai oa 1959 Workshops have already been scheduled on Campus Leadership for In- tegration (April 3-5); Community Serv- ices and gregation (May = 17-29), including weekend conference (May 23- 4); Registration and Voting (June 21-6}; Community Leadership and Integrated Housing (July 19-24); Workshop for Foreign Visitors over Labor-Day Week: end; and Human Aspects of Migration (October).