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ne = rt a " hr YS ° fy. | L9 HIGHLANDER FOLY SCHOOL 61-12 L-10-1 The following information on the organization of the High- jander Folk School was obtained f The Highlander Folk School was organized during 1972 on | ground donated by Dr. LILLIAN W. WOHNSON, whose present mail\gddress is 121, East Michigan Avenue, The Pdlms, DeLand, Florida. MYLES’ HORTON and JANES OMBROWSKI were believed to be the active organizers of the school. The land was donated by Dr. JOHNSON because she believed that it would { benefit the local inhabitants and would educate them and improve their working conditions. . FT 4 - A charter was issued to the Highlander Folk School on Jan- l + vary 31, 1934 by the State of Tennessee and this chartcr is recorded with be the Tennessee Department of State in Volume 0-12, page 146, in the office peck of the Secretary of State at Naspville, Tennessee, The school was chart-— — ered by MILES HORTON, ELIZABETH Piszs » JAMES DOMBROVSKI, nupan aap, ‘es and WALCOLMICHISHCLE, pay The Highlander Folk School is located in Grundy County, Tanncssce, ehout two miles north of Monteagle, Tennessee, on State Road 56 going toward Tracy City, Tennessee. This section is mountainous and oo heuvily wooded. nae”: Three persons are reportcd to have been essociated with it in a directing capacity almost from-the start of the school up to the present time. 2 . MILES HORTON, Director of Education, is the one whose name fos is most often mentioned as being the leader of the school, and lives n the school grounds with his wife and his father and mother. a a 5 VTTES HORTON teaches Commonism and has solicited membership in the Young ae Communists! League from various persons, locally. HORTON is also reported } «+ to have been one of the founders of the Commonwealth College at Mena, arkansas. HCRTON is reported to hav. spent tvo years in Russia, but it has not becn pessible to determine even an approximite date. - ee eee law vee — —- _ Fe a gp ene ae a ee ee