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The SewaneeMountain MESSENGER Vol. XXVIII, No. 10 Friday, March 9, 2012 Presentation On the Founding of Medical Clinic Coming Highlander Folk School at Heritage Center Marcia Mary Cook, visiting assistant professor of theater at the University, to Sewanee in May will speak at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 10, on Lilian Johnson and the founding Remote Area Medical (RA M) will conduct a dental, vision and medical clinic of Highlander Folk School. Th e talk will be held at the Grundy County Historical at the University on Saturday and Sunday, May 19–20. All services are free, with Society Heritage Center, 465 Railroad Ave., Tracy City. no eligibility requirements, and are off ered on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis. Johnson’s remarkable life included the establishment of an Agricultural Th e clinic will be hosted by the Franklin and Grundy County Health Councils Cooperative in Summerfi eld near Monteagle in 1915. In 1932 she turned her and the University of the South. property over to Myles Horton and Don West on a trial basis for the establishment RA M and the local hosts are currently recruiting dental, vision and medical of Highlander Folk School. Cook will recant this dramatic story, including the role practitioner volunteers, as well as general volunteers. Volunteer information of May Justice, a teacher who had been brought to Summerfi eld by Johnson. and applications can be found at <htt p://life.sewanee.edu/serve/remote-area- Cook teaches Introduction to Th eater at the University, and is speech instruc- medical-clinic>. Volunteer applications are due April 1. Applications are also tor at the School of Th eology. Her lifelong love of theatre led her to the University available at the University Outreach Offi ce in the Bishop’s Common and at the of Tennessee, where she earned a master of fi ne arts degree in theater. She also University Chaplain’s Offi ce. holds a master of education degree from Johns Hopkins University and has Th e clinic is intended for those without medical insurance or those who are pursued graduate studies at Johns Hopkins, St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore under-insured, unemployed, under-employed or cannot aff ord to pay for the and Christ Church College in Canterbury. Her undergraduate studies were at medical, dental and vision care that they need. University of Edinburgh, Scotland and University of Iowa, where she was awarded Th e RA M clinic will open at 6 a.m. each day. Patients are advised to arrive a Bachelor of Arts in history and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Cook by 3:30 a.m. or earlier for the best chance of being seen. Free parking will be directed the stage play “Miss Lilian’s Deed,” performed at Th e Cowan Center available on the Sewanee campus. More details with specifi cs about parking for the Arts in 2007. and the plans will be available closer to the date of the clinic. Th e Heritage Center maintains a gallery in its Exhibit Hall that is devoted to the Remote Area Medical was founded in 1985 as a way to deliver basic medical Summerfi eld story. It will be open for viewing following Cook’s presentation. Lilian Johnson aid to people in the world’s inaccessible regions. Today, more than 60 percent of RA M’s work is in the United States. Th roughout the last two decades, volunteers have provided general medical, surgi- cal, eye and dental care to more than Civic Association Learns about New Fund Raising 500,000 people around the globe and in the U.S. Program on the Plateau, Hears Updates on Email List More information about RAM by Leslie Lytle, Messenger Staff Writer is available at <www.ramusa.org>. Contact Dixon Myers, 598-1156, for At the Feb.29 dinner and business to subscribe will be in the Messenger said the organization stemmed from a additional information about volun- meeting, the Sewanee Civic Associa- in the coming weeks. local citizens’ eff ort in Tracy City and teering at the clinic in Sewanee. tion received updates on the new Se- Reporting on the progress of the Grundy County. Th e CFSCP’s goal wanee Classifi eds electronic mailing Community Chest fund drive, Dun- is to join those who have an interest list, the Community Chest fund drive can said $86,000 had been raised in giving with programs that meet and the bylaws and constitution review toward the goal of $102,000. Th e dead- the needs of the region. Touching currently underway. Representing line for making gift s is March 31. briefl y on those needs, Parrish cited Cowan Exhibit Set to Open the Community Fund of the South At the October meeting, a com- childhood poverty rates as high as Opening on Saturday, March 10, Cumberland, Scott Parrish introduced mitt ee was formed to review the Civic 40 percent, a 28 percent obesity rate the Cowan Railroad Museum will the new funding eff ort whose mission Association bylaws and constitution, in some schools and failure of fi ve of host the Smithsonian traveling exhi- is “to encourage giving to strengthen with a view to Community Chest nine area schools to meet No Child bition, “The Way We Worked.” The community and improve lives” on the policy revisions. Reporting on behalf Left Behind goals. exhibit explores the professions and South Cumberland Plateau. of the other committee members, To reduce administrative costs, people that sustain American society Elizabeth Clark Duncan an- Tom Sanders and Roy Millar, Henry CFSCP has partnered with the Com- and keep our communities thriving. It nounced the successful merger of the Hamman said the committ ee antici- munity Fund of Greater Chatt anooga will be in Cowan through April 21. community email list and the Univer- pated recommending the following: (CFGC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofi t. All gift s More than 80 volunteers, including sity-administered classifieds list. At establishment of an Investment Com- are tax-deductible. Gift s earmarked for students from Franklin County High the December meeting, the Civic As- mitt ee and a Stewardship Committ ee; the CFSCP will be distributed accord- School, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School sociation agreed to administer the new a mechanism for appointing the Com- ing to the instructions of the CFSCP and the University, were recently Sewanee Classifi eds, formed as a result munity Chest co-chairs that involve application review committ ee. trained to give tours for the exhibit. Groups of 10 or more who want to view the of the merger. Currently, there are 654 the Civic Association membership Howell Adams shares chairman exhibit should call Maryann Knowles at 967-1560 to set up a tour. subscribers, with 70 subscribers opting in the decision; that the organization duties with Parrish. Adams and his Located in the Cowan Center for the Arts Th eater and the Training Center, for “announcements only.” Duncan undergo an annual independent audit; wife Madeline have made a $100,000 “Th e Way We Worked” contains a collection of exhibits including the Cowan said it had not yet been decided which and making annual fi nancial reports to matching funds challenge to launch Railroad Museum, the Franklin County Historical Society, the Grundy County individuals and groups could post to all members. Th e committ ee also plans the effort. The CFSCP’s fundrais- Historical Society, the Moore County Historical Society, the Crow Creek the “announcements only” category. to draft a grants policy and procedures ing goal for 2012 is $250,000. The Heritage Preservation Society, the old Air Force base, the Falls Mill Museum In the startup phase, subscription to document. organization anticipates awarding and the University of the South. the new service was offered only to Providing background on the $100,000 in grants in 2012, ranging Th e exhibition’s opening day of March 10 will provide additional entertain- individuals who previously subscribed Community Fund of the South Cum- from $1,000–$15,000, beginning in ment, including a variety of demonstrations and a craft fair. Visiting will be the to community email or classifieds, berland Plateau (CFSCP), steering late summer or early fall. Plans call Sons of the Confederate Veteran’s Camp #72 and the United Daughters of the Duncan said, but an open invitation committ ee co-chairman Scott Parrish (Continued on page 6) Confederacy Chapter #327 to tell stories. Weavers, knitt ers, caners, woodcarv- ers, blacksmiths and fl ute carvers will be demonstrating their skills. There will also be an antique sewing machine display, an old gun display and a spinning wheel display, where wool will be made into yarn. Jump Rope for Heart at SES Th e center will be open 4–7 p.m. on Wednesdays, Th ursdays and Fridays; 10 a.m.–4 p.m. on Saturdays; and 1–4 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is free, but Th is year’s Jump Rope for donations are accepted. Heart event at Sewanee El- For further information contact the exhibition’s chairwoman Pat Under- ementary broke two records wood at (931) 691-0722 or visit the website <smithsonian.CowanRailroad- for the local school. SES had a Museum.org>. Th e exhibit is made possible to the Cowan Railroad Museum total of 76 students participate by Humanities Tennessee. in collecting donations for the “Th e Way We Worked,” an exhibition created by the National Archives, American Heart Association. is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian A record amount of $5,261 Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum was collected.