Southern Highland Handicraft Guild meeting, 1938, March

Southern Highland Handicraft Guild meeting, 1938, March

Handicraft

Handicraft industries

Southern Highland Craft Guild

Southern Highland Handicraft Guild

Southern Highlanders, Inc.

The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild met for its annual membership meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee on March 11, 1938. Meeting minutes generally contain committee reports, financial statements, new members, announcements of regional events, and discussion about special issues facing the organization. In this particular meeting Helen Dingman reported for the Educational Committee and presented a new leaflet that was done to present basic information about the Guild. New membership regulations were presented for vote. Clementine Douglas spoke about her trip to Washington, D.C. for the Rural Arts Exhibition. Douglas then spoke about the collection of craft items Frances Goodrich had donated to the Guild and the opportunity to display the collection at the Asheville Normal and Teachers College. Paul Johnson, representing the Southern Highlanders, reported on the possibility of a shop in the Shenandoah National Park. Winogene Redding spoke about materials being sent to China for replication. Helen Dingman took the minutes. Also included are an attendance list and several pages of financial information. The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild was founded in 1930 as the Southern Mountain Handicraft Guild. The name was changed to the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild in 1933 and again in the 1990s to the Southern Highland Craft Guild.

Dingman, Helen H. (Helen Hastie)

Southern Highland Handicraft Guild

Annual Meeting Records

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1938-03-11

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Appalachian Region, Southern

8.5" x 11"(dimension)

Craft Revival