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COMMUNITY PROGRAM OLO FOLKS DAY... : Highlander instituted a periodic “Old Timers Day.” All people in the community over 65 are brought to the schoo] for a big meal and then left slone to swap stories, fish, or see what is going on at the school. NURSERY SCHOOL... joanna Willimetz, Nursery School Director, is on the Kindergarten Advisory Committee of the Association of wumutued Education, International. The annual Christmas party was given at the Summer- rot field grammar school for ali the community children. COMMUNITY MEETINGS .. . A picnic honoring Dr, Lilian Johnson, formerly of hiemphis and donator of the original Highlander buildings, waz attended by seventy-five people from the community anc county, Asha Devi Aryanayakam of the Basic Education School in Sevagram, India, and a delegate to the Social] Welfare Commission of the United Nations, spoke at a community meeting. The Sevagram school was established by Mahatma Ghandi. She wrote she was “deeply inspired” by her visit and that she would make her home at Highlander if she lived in America. Gouri Bose of India, a student at Tulane University, spoke at the Summerfield Grammar School. Devina Del Carmen, Ozamis City, Phillipines, showed chides and spoke at a community meeting. Cipriano Malonzo, President of the Federation of Labor, Zainboanga, Phillipines, spoke at the Summerfield Grammar o.Reol, Miss Carmen and Mr. Malonzo were students of former Highlander staff member, Frances Thompson at Silliman University, Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Phillipine Islands. Naofuss Hirai, a Shinto priest from Japan, Gunte Weinert, Berlin, Germany, here under the auspices of the work-study Training Productivity Program; and Professor R. H. Kinvig, University of Birmingham, England, visited ise shoul and community. The Community Building was used for Summerfield Coop Meetings, square dances and other scighborhood gatherings. —k— i] =: fae ee meee EXTENSION PROGRAM FARM AND LABOR CONFERENCES... CIO Educational Conference, Denver, Colorado, February. Myles Horton gave introductory addres: and taught steward class Louisiana and ‘Texas Sugar Workers Schools, Raceland and New Orleans, February. The two one week schools were ron by Myles Horton for the U.P.W.A. Zilphia Horton taught and led singing. Montana Farmers Unisn School, Great Falls, Montana, lannary 11-18, pennar y feeds. Zilphia Horton conducted « class in folk songs and Mytes Horton a class in community leadership. UNITED PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS OF AMERICA EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM... Highlander continued to provide direction for the UPWA’s educational department unti] April, 1953. The main emphasis was on the development of educa- tional or discussion leaders from the anion ranks. Forty-four additional educational leaders were trained, (October 1952 through March 1953). A majority of these voluntary leaders conducted steward training clames in their own locals Wirhont anme euch eas Sees ee * . + aed lad diernesinns an oeorrent tases ana 1G Giscussions On CGIreny issues. system of voluntary discussion leaders, full time union educators will continue to be tied down to steward training. In addition to developing the local discussion Jeaders, a number of echools and conferences were run by the UPWA education representatives. Two schools were held at High'ander for the officials and UPWA suff. A Steward Training Manual (second section), a Hand- book for Discussion Leaders, and a Resume of Procedures for Instructor Training were put out by the Educational Department. In an article, “The ‘Drip’ Theory in Labor Unions” in the 1953 Spring issue of Antnocu Revizw, Kermit Eby says: “Miles Horton of the CIO United Packinghouse Work- ers of America has already introduced something ‘new’ in the field of worker education. His educational program assumes that men living with men in a union have common concerns. Discusion of these probleme—a discussion led by the workers themselves—-moves fromm waget to contract, to