In 1980, community members led by Lois Combs Weinberg, founded an Orton-Gillingham based program to tutor children struggling with dyslexia.

James Still's friend, Don West offered him a job organizing recreational programs for a settlement school in Knott County, Kentucky.

A close friend of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Williams was a Methodist missionary who pioneered indoor and running water sanitation in rural India (Asansol) and fought to eradicate caste-based discrimination.

[1] The School's goal of integrating traditional culture with education led it to welcome visiting outsiders who sought to document the musical heritage of the Appalachians, notably in folk song.

The fieldwork teams of Loraine Wyman with Howard Brockway, and Cecil Sharp with Maud Karpeles, working in the years of the First World War, found a wealth of beautiful melody and texts from singers at the School or from the local neighborhood.