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Highlander Folk School — Part 3
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applicaticn blank
fcr admission to the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL, waich will be photographed
eed This application requires thet a health certificate
Signed by a Doctor be submitted with it and the applicant must agree to do
two hceurs maintenance work daily. The application then asks if the applicant
ean afferd tc pay $50.00 toward the cost of Beard and tuition or whether
it would be necessary fur the applicant to have a full scholarship covering
expenses. Personal data such as ape, size, race, marital status, number cf
dependents, parents trade, applicants trade, political affiliations and
preference and what papers, magazinos and books applicant has read recently
will be required to be set out. The application asks the nume cf the organi-
zations to which applicant belongs, length of membership, officcs held and
activities connected ccnnccted with labor in which applicant has engaged.
The apolicant is also askcd if ne can fet his organizaticnts endcrsement,
The applicant is then asked the amount cf schooling he has had, whether he
is willing to place the welfare cf the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL and its students
abeve his personal interest, hew he heard about the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL
and what his plans are after leeving the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL. The appli-~
cant must write a lcttcr cbout his background and labor activitics telling where
he has werkee and why he wishes to attend the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL, and must
rive the nancs and addresscs of two reforcnees, one of which must be a union
hae
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pamphlet entitled "How can a Unicn Plan its Prepram published by the -
William Roy Sith Memerial Fund, 1422 R. Strect, NH. “., Vashincten, D. C.
This pamphict describes itself as the stcry cf a unicn workshcp procranm developed
by Lical 1874 , Textile Verkcrs3 Organizing Committce, Cumberland, He. In its
preface, this pamphlet cxplains that the Willian acy Smith hemerial Fund was given
by hrs. billiem Rey Saith in memory cf her husband. lrs. Saith donated
#€,000.00 tc this fund tc be used by cxp.-rimental in the field of workers
education. The Willian R«y Smith Uemcrial Committee was croanized in
‘193€. It lists scven workshops conducteda in workers cr anizaticns or in
resident workers schol which it has initiated cr given financial support.
These werk sheps are lisicd as follcws:
Stesl Workers Orrenizing Cecmmittee,
Baltimore, Ld.
Textile Workers Orpanizine Conmittce,
Cumberland, Md.
Federal Vorker's Schesl,
washincton, DB. C.
Scuthern Schowl fcr Workers,
~18-
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