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Black Mountain College Bulletin: Summer Session 1948 (Vol. 6, No. 5, September 1948)

Date
1948
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Ink on paper
Object Type
Archival Documents
Credit Line
Black Mountain College Collection, gift of Barbara Beate Dreier and Theodore Dreier, Jr. on behalf of all generations of Dreier family
Accession Number
2017.40.043
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
Courtesy of the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection, Asheville Art Museum
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4-page booklet made from a larger sheet of paper folded. Matte paper, off-white. Faculty profiles for Summer Session 1948, news of BMC graduations, campus news, and list of students from Summer Session 1948.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE BULLETIN September 1948 Volume 6 Number 5
SUMMER SESSION 1948
Black Mountain College completed its eight-week summer session on August 25. Guest faculty here for the session offered work in most of the fields, though the main emphasis was on the plastic arts.
Peter Grippe, artist and former teacher from New York City, gave a course in Sculpture. William de Kooning, also from New York, where he recently had a one-man show at the Egan Gallery, taught Painting. Buckminster Fuller, architect and inventor and designer for the famous Dymaxion House, taught Architecture and Industrial Engineering. Winslow Ames, director of the Springfield (Missouri) Art Museum, was here in July presenting a series of lectures on the History of Printmaking. Beaumont Newhall of New York City, now finishing a book, Camera Past, under a Guggenheim Fellowship, arrived in August to give a lecture course on the History of Photography. Charles Burchard, Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Harvard, was also here during August giving lecture and seminar courses in Architecture. Richard Lischer, interior and furniture designer from New York and Connecticut, taught Woodworking. Richard Lippold of Queens College and Trenton Junior College in New York was in residence at the College doing work in wire construction.
Erwin Bodky, pianist and harpsichordist, formerly of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, has joined the regular faculty of Black Mountain College and offered summer courses in the Development of Keyboard Music and the Sonatas of Beethoven. He presented a series of concerns with the resident artists, Dr. Frederick Neumann, concert violinist and teacher at the Manhattan School of Music, and Judith Davidoff, cellist and honor student of Radcliffe and Longy. Mrs. Neumann, concert cellist, presented a program with Dr. Neumann.
The composer John Cage from New York taught courses in the Structure of Music and Choreography. He conducted an Amateur Festival of the music of Erik Satie, which was climaxed with the presentations of Satie’s play, “The Ruse of Medusa” (translated from the French by Mary Caroline Richards). Merce Cunningham, also here from New York, taught Technique of Dancing. He performed the dances in the Satie play and gave a concert with the assistance of Mrs. Louise Lippold, a former student of his, and Sara Hamill, a member of his professional dance company in New York.
Helen Livingston of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York taught Speech and Acting and directed the Satie play.
Isaac Rosenfeld of New York University, author of the novel Passage form Home and contributor to the Partisan Review, Nation, and New Republic, presented a course in Tolstoy and worked individually with the writing students. Donald Calhoun, formerly of the Illinois Institute of Technology, taught Culture and Personality, and Freudianism and the Social Sciences. He is finishing his book The Psychology of Subordination, and will teach at the University of Minnesota beginning this fall. Mrs. Beatrice Pitney Lamb, editor of the United Nations News, lecturer and author on international relations, was here for a week in July lecturing on Soviet-American Relations Within the United Nations.
Of the regular faculty, Josef Albers taught Color and Design, and Anni Albers and Trude Guermonprez taught Weaving.
Of the seventy-four summer students, about half were new to Black Mountain College. Former students Betty Schmidt, now Mrs. Warren P. Jennerjahn, and Mary Phelan, now Mrs. Warren Outten, were here with their husbands. Among the new students were four art teachers: Stella Balderson, graduate of Wesley College and Simmons College, supervisor and teacher of art in the Claymont Special District Public School, Delaware; Donald S. Thrall, graduate of Michigan State and Columbia University, student at Detroit Skowhegan School, now teaching at Cass Technical High School, Detroit; Richard Yonkers, student at Grand Rapids Art Gallery School and Cranbrook Academy of Art, now Artist in Residence at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, and Director of Grand Rapids Art Gallery; Lili Blumeanu, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Academic Scandinave, Paris, and New York School of Textile Technology, instructor in textile design and weaving, Teachers College, Columbia University.
BMC GRADUATIONS
There were three graduations at the close of the spring semester in June. Isaac Nakata graduated in Economics, having been examined by Dr. Louis M. Hacker, Professor of Economics, Columbia University; Frances Foster graduated in Art with Professor Howard Thomas of the University of Georgia as his examiner; Patsy Lynch graduated in music; her examiner was Dr. William J. Mitchell of Columbia University. Lore Kadden’s graduation examination is scheduled for August 25. Her examiner will be Mrs. Marli Ehrman, formerly head of the Textile Department of the Institute of Design in Chicago, who has twice before examined students graduating here in the field of textile design.
CAMPUS NEWS
TIME (August 16) of Ruth Asawa’s exhibit at the Addison Gallery, Andover, Mass.; “The building moderns were equally impressive. An abstraction that looked like a diagram of ballet positions for a dancing telephone, by Black Mountain’s Ruth Asawa, was the exhibition’s high point in originality.” Also represented in the exhibition were Nicolas Muzenic, Joan Stack, Oli Sihvonen, Ken Noland, and Joe Fiore.
Josef Albers was guest critic and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Art and Art Education Department during the last week of July.
Mrs. Albers reports that No. 89 of the Harriet Engelhardt Collection of Textiles is a large Kelim rug of very fine quality, given to the college by Alexander S. Reed, a former student. It is an unusually good example of its kind.
Dick Spahn received a long letter from Mervin Lane in Holland (address: c/o N.B.B.S. Rapenburg 34, Leiden), who plans to attend the University of Leiden. Other Black Mountain College students who will study abroad this fall are Kenneth Noland and Art Penn.
Francis Foster and Anne are living in New York City. Immediately after his graduation here, faf enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia. Ike Nakata left for Chicago after his graduation and was married to Alexa McLane. Charles Dreyfus and Fanny Hobart were married in the late spring and are reported to be living in California. Vera Baker and Paul Williams were married in the Quiet House at the College in early July; they are living at present in the Minimum House, recently completed by the architectural students. Dorothy Raattama and Hank Bergman were married in July and are living in Troutdale, Oregon.
Frank A. Rice attended the Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Ann Rice and the children spent the summer with her parents in Havana, Cuba. Alice Rondthaler began her graduate work in history at the University of North Carolina. The Corkran family spent the summer months with relative at Glens Falls, New York. Eddie Dreier, visiting relatives in the North, enjoyed a fishing trip in Maine. Ilya Bolotowsky and Tasker Howard Jr., resigned from the faculty at the end of the spring semester. Leaves of absence have been granted to Max Dehn, the Rondthalers, and the Levis. Dr. Dehn will teach at the University of Wisconsin; the Rondthalers will spend the winter in their Ocracoke Island home and teach in the public school there; M.C. and Bill Levi are planning a year abroad. Charles Bloomstein resigned from the faculty in July; he and Harriet and the baby plan to spend the winter in Florida.
Verna and Manvel Schauffler, Ed Adamy, Dorothy and Hank Bergman have arrived in Oregon and are on the lookout for work there. En route west they visited Dick and Janet (Heling) Roberts in Montana. Harry Weitzer and Harry Holl are living in Troutdale near John and Rachel Wallen; Harry Weitzer is making wooden plates and bowls in his own shop; Harry Holl has a position teaching art in the public school. A recent letter indicated that Warren Blanchard is also in Oregon.
STUDENTS: SUMMER SESSION 1948
Albers, Dorothy L. New York N.Y.
Asawa, Ruth Glendale Cal.
Balderson, Stella M. Claymont Del.
Banks, Anne F. Bristol Tenn.
Blumenau, Lili New York N.Y.
Bodky, Angela Black Mountain N.C.
Brunswick, Matilde New York N.C.
Bullock, L. Evelyn Atlanta Ga.
Derbeck, Raymond H. Summit N.J.
Deutsch, Marion Detroit Mich.
DeVries, Robert E. Pittsburgh Pa.
Dreier, Theodore, Jr. Black Mountain N.C.
Droll, Donald E. Grosse Pointe Mich.
Dunn, Nancy C. Portsmouth N.H.
Durant, Kendall L. Huntington N.Y.
Falk, Gustave S. Cleveland Ohio
Fein, Anita M. New York N.Y.
Fiore, Joseph A. Willoughby Ohio
Fuerstenberg, Wilma G. New York N.Y.
Girsch, Sylvia Detroit Mich.
Goldenberg, Ruth New York N.Y.
Gonzales y Zayas, Jose M. Havana Cuba
Green, J. Dawes Stanley Wis.
Greenfield, Maccabi New York N.Y.
Griffith, Lucy H. Chambersburg Pa.
Herlihy, James L. Detroit Mich.
Hewlett, Roger M. Cambridge Mass.
Jennerjahn, Elizabeth S. Milwaukee Wis.
Jennerjahn, Warren P. Wilwaukee Wis.
Johns, Bruce River Forest Ill.
Johnson, Raymond E. Detroit Mich.
Jones, Margaret S. Westfield N.J.
Joseph, William W. Cincinnati Ohio
Kadden, Lore Brookline Mass.
Karp, Bernard D. Fort Washington Pa.
Lanier, W. Albert Metter Ga.
Larsen, Hazel-Frida Milwaukee Wis.
Levy, Jerrold E. Aspen Col.
Lovelace, Roger Eugene Ore.
Lynch, Patsy G. St.Louis Mo.
Lubroth, Irwin Manhattan Kan.
Magruder, Elvine R. New York N.Y.
Mandelbaum, Etta D. Lawrence N.Y.
Mora, E. Gladys Washington D.C.
Muzenic, A. Nicolas Kansas City Kan.
Nemenyi, Peter B. Whiteoak Md.
Noland, Kenneth C. Asheville N.C.
Oline, Sheila Northport N.Y.
Orr, J. Robert Rocky Mount N.C.
Outten, Mary P. St.Louis Mo.
Outten, Warren B. St.Louis Mo.
Parker, Alexander S. New York N.Y.
Passloff, Patricia A. New York N.Y.
Penn, Arthur H. New York N.Y.
Perrow, Charles B. Tacoma Wash.
Rondthaler, Katherine Black Mountain N.C.
Rothman, Marion Los Angeles Cal.
Shrauger, William H. Buffalo N.Y.
Sihvonen, Olavi T. Black Mountain N.C.
Sillman, Sewell Atlanta Ga.
Snelson, Kenneth O. Eugene Ore.
Spahn, Richard New York N.Y.
Spillenger, Raymond P. Brooklyn N.Y.
Stack, Joan S. Minneapolis Minn.
Thrall, Donald S. Plymouth Mich.
Tite, James L. San Mateo Cal.
Tucker, Robert Bloomington Ind.
Vorenberg, John Cambridge Mass.
Warner-Jones, Margarita R. Suffolk England
Weinstein, Florence New York N.Y.
Williams, Paul F. Black Mountain N.C.
Williams, Vera B. Black Mountain N.C.
Wright, Forrest E. West Palm Beach Fla.
Yonkers, Richard T. Grand Rapids Mich.
Black Mountain College Bulletin Volume 6, Number 5, September 1948. Issued seven times a year, in January, March, April, May, July, September and November. Entered as second-class matter November 4, 1942, at the Post Office at Black Mountain, North Carolina, under the Act of August 24, 1912.

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