2-page booklet (possibly partial section of a larger newsletter as this bulletin is much shorter in comparison to bulletins from previous years- though no staple marks to suggest this). Matte paper, off-white.
News regarding BMC Print Shop, FHA buildings, Faculty, students and academic calendar
Black Mountain College Bulletin
Black Mountain North Carolina
March 1947
BMC Print Shop
The print shop, recently revived under the leadership of Jimmie Tite, Harry Weitzer, and Ann Mayer presents with the issue its most ambitious piece of work to date. The ancient press, which had gathered dust for several years, now clanks again faster than ever through the addition of an old motor (from a defunct faculty Kelvinator) and is regularly producing concert programs, party souvenirs, postcard notices, catalogue envelopes, etc., etc.
FHA Buildings
The alphabetical agencies have been busy at BMC as elsewhere. Four dormitory and apartment buildings provided by the Federal Public Housing Authority have been occupied since January. Now the Federal Works Agency is putting up a library and two additional buildings to provide space for essential needs. Students during the spring vacation are busy leveling off a site for the library building along the Lake shore below the bank south of the Studies Building. Interior design worked out by Nell Rice and the library committee will provide a reading room, necessary work and storage rooms, and stack space sufficient to hold 18000 volumes. One of the instructional buildings will be situated north of the Studies Building, the other in the pine grove below South Lodge.
Naturally these buildings, although they fulfill very pressing immediate needs, are temporary in construction and intent. They in no way diminish the need and prospect of good, permanent dormitory and other buildings. With $11,508.85 in hand toward the construction of a small dormitory for girls, to be located in the vicinity of the Jalowetz house, there is every expectation of getting construction under way at an early date.
Faculty
Ted Dreier resigned from the post of Rector last month in order to find more congenial channels through which to make his contribution to the College. He continues a member of the Board of Fellows and is teaching in the field of mathematics and physics.
To fill the post thus made vacant the faculty elected Albert W. Levi, teacher of sociology and philosophy, who came to Black Mountain from the University of Chicago in September 1945. He did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth, has written various books and articles in his field of study, and is one of BMC’s most popular teachers. Last year Bill taught sociology and economics; this year he has chosen philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) and Mediaeval Culture. His wife, Mary Caroline Richards, teaches writing, Shakespeare, Thomas Mann and other courses in the field of English.
Theodore Rondthaler (Rondy) continues straddling the twin functions of treasurer and business manager but owns to a growing bowleggedness. Other members of the Board of Fellows are Josef Albers, Mary Gregory, Edward Lowinsky, and Larry Fox, student moderator.
Herbert A. Miller is completing his final year as registrar and teacher of sociology and will retire with Mrs Miller to residence in Black Mountain next fall.
Mrs Max Dehn (Toni) arrived from Chicago two weeks ago, and is busy getting herself and Dr Dehn settled in their new apartment.
Edward Lowinsky leaves in September for a year of study on a Guggenheim Fellowship. He hopes to complete arrangements to study in Italy. The November-December issue of THE MUSIC JOURNAL published his article “Music History and its Relation to the History of Ideas.”
Bobby Dreier has been asked to help the publicity committee and will work on the Bulletin staff, particularly with news of former students. During April she will endeavor to contact all former students for new addresses, new activities, new occupations, new husbands, new wives, etc., etc.
Josef and Anni Albers, on leave of absence until September, spent the winter months at La Luz, New Mexico. Ilya Bolotowsky, New York painter, will continue in Albers’ place during the summer session; Franziska Mayer will continue the work in weaving with Trude Guermonprez, daughter of Mrs Jalowetz, recently arrived from Holland. Anni Albers’ article, “Design: Anonymous and Timeless,” appeared in the February issue of THE MAGAZINE OF ART.
John Evarts, on leave since the beginning of the War, hopes to return to Black Mountain College in September. He remained in Munich in the music division of the Information Control Division after the war ended. His work is to investigate the records of applicants who are attempting to get back into the field of music in that area. His address is John Evarts, U.S. CIV. Headquarters 3rd Mil. Govt. Regt., Munich, Information Control Division, APO 170 c-o Postmaster, New York City.
New Students, Spring Semester
Janet Heling, Lindenhurst, L.I., former student returned for spring and summer sessions to study weaving; Luther Jackson transferred from Virginia State College; Louis Selders and Louise Cole, from LeMoyne College; Paul Kutsche, from Harvard. Miriam Sihvonen, Voluntown, Connecticut, is our one GI girl (yes, sister of Oli). Arthur Penn, New York, is BMC’s impromptu drama coach. Others from New York are Mirande Geissbuhler, Gregory Masurovsky, and Alex Parker, who claims Paris as his native city. Rod and Marie Mulholland, Los Angeles, live at nearby Patton’s since they came too late to get campus rooming space. Richard Negro is from Fair Lawn, N.J. Dolores Fullman, from Chicago.
On Leave or Left
Eva Schlein and Jose Yglesias are “writing” in New York (Jose says the Studies Building is not “conductive to writing”). Bernice Bernstein is back at Hunter, Bea Myers at Temple, each for a degree. Lorna Blaine is sometimes in New York, sometimes in Jaffrey, N.H. Irv Kremen and Mrs Kremen (Judy Chernoff) are keeping house in the Rosen’s basement at Chapel-Hill, where Judy is a student at the University of North Carolina. Don Wight and Dan Rice, having trekked to California for golf, found Tommy Cutshaw at the piano. (Don is going into business… hand-painted ladies blouses to be sold in Santa Barbara’s exclusive shops). Olis and Joan (Couch) Sihvonen are in Norwich, Connecticut, where Oli is teaching this semester at the Norwich School of Fine Arts. Elinor Wilfekuhler is back home in Leavenworth, Kansas; Virginia Kitzmiller in Pass-a-Grille, Florida. John Urbain, recently married to Elaine Schmitt, is with NW Ayer Advertising Company in Philadelphia. Earlene Wight is working with Campfire Girls in Cleveland. Kendall Cox, Winnetka, Illinois, is applying for admission to Miami University.
Briefs
Peggy Bennett, author of THE VARMINTS published recently by Alfred A Knopf, spent a month here at BMC, helping in the office and writing her second novel. She went to New York April 1st for conferences with her publishers and will return to her home at Apalachicola, Florida, to complete her book.
Jack Taylor write from Mt Eden, California that he is awaiting shipment by air to Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor, TH, to be radio communications man for Pan American on an ATC project which maintains air routes throughout the South Pacific.
Leonard Schwartz writes occasionally; he is studying under his GI privileges with Ossip Zadkine in Paris.
Calendar
Summer session dates are June 30 to August 23; first semester 1947-48, September 17 to February 4, 1948; second semester, February 12 to June 16. The new 1947-1948 Announcements will be mailed out April 15.
Black Mountain College Bulletin Volume V Number 2
March, 1947.
Issued five times a year, in February, March, April, May, and November. Entered as second-class matter November 4, 1942, at the Postoffice at Black Mountain, North Carolina, under the Act of August 24, 1912.
