Evening star., 1940-12-04
Program
Will Aid
School
Benefit for Tennessee
Institution to Be
Held Friday

The Washington Committee for
the Highlander School at Monteagle,
Tenn, is working tirelessly to make
the benefit program Friday evening
a financial success, and the re-
wards for their labors already are
apparent. The program OF native
poems and music already is assured
of artistic success and is made up
of unusual and very interesting
numbers. Those who will give the
program are equally outstanding as
musicians and writer's.
The librarian of Congress, Mr..
Archibald MacLeish, will open the
program with his poem, America
Was Promised" which will be fol-
lowed by And They Lynched Him
on a Tree" written by Katharine
Garrison Chaplin, better known in
Washington as Mrs. Francis Biddle,
wife of the Solicitor General. The
poem has been set to music by Will
liam Grant Still and will be given
Friday evening by the Washington
Choral Club, DR.. Louis Potter, con-
ductor, and the Howard University
Glee Club. Prof Roy w. Tibbs, dl-
rector. with Mildred Kolb Schulze,
composer-pianist, playing the ac-
compartments. Mrs. Schulze her
self has more than one volume OF
Negro spirituals for which she wrote
the accompaniments.
The last two numbers will be
given by Zilphia Horton, wife of
the Rev. Miles H. Horton, one of the
eight graduates of the Union Theo-
logical Seminary in New York, who
established the Highlander School.
Mrs. Horton will sing mountain bal
lads and workers ballads, which she
has collected during her years OF
work with the Rev. Mr.. Horton at
the school. The closing number
will be a group of spirituals and
folk songs of the mountains sung
by Houdie Leadbeatter, who has col
lected these songs from the people
and also has written considerable
music based on these old themes.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who has a deep
Interest in all educational efforts as
well as a fondneSS for folk lore,
heads the list Of sponsors. Also
sponsors for the program are the
Secretary of State and Mrs. Cordell
Hull, the Secretary of the Interior
and Mrs. Harold L, Ickes. Mr. Justice
and Mrs. Hugo L. Black, Representa-
tive and Mrs John M. Coffee, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Lee E. Geyer,
Representative and Mrs. Jerry Voor
his, Miss Mary Anderson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Benham Baldwin, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Carmody, the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs and Mrs. John Col
lier, Miss Harriet Elliott, the Securl-
ties Exchange Commissioner and
Mrs. Leon Henderson, Mr.. Sidney
Hillman, DR.. Mordecai johnson,
Miss Kathryn Lewis, Mrs. Howell
Moorehead, Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan
Phillips, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Pin
chot, Miss Hilda Smith, Mr.. and Mrs.
L. Corrin Strong, and the Commits
sioner of Education and Mrs. John
w Studebaker.
The Washington Committee for
the Highlander School includes the
Rev. Ernest "A. &c BOrQendVe, the
Rev. A. T. Mollegan, Mrs Charles
Collier, Mrs. Clifford Durr, Mrs.
Malcolm Ross, Mrs. Michael
Straight, Miss Mary Price, Miss
Elizabeth Y. Webb and Mr.. Charles
Handy, who has charge of the tick
cts. AS the seating capacity of
Pierce Hall, where the program will
be given, is limited, reservations
should be made as soon as possible
with Mr.. Handy at Room 609 in the
Carpenters Building.