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Faculty Meeting Bulletin Monday, December 8, 1941

Date
1941
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
2017.40.052
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
Courtesy of the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection, Asheville Art Museum
Description

FACULTY MEETING BULLETIN
Monday, December 8, 1941

I. Announcements:
1. There will be a short meeting of the community in the dining hall this evening at 7:00 o’clock.
2. The faculty meeting will begin at 7:30 o’clock in the New Building. (Since Mr Cole is going to make a report on the 1940-41 finances of the College, students and other members of the community interested in this matter are invited to attend the meeting.
3. After faculty meeting there will be a session of the Regional Directors of the Christmas campaign in the faculty room.
4. The Chorus, augmented by boys from the camp near Marion, will meet for rehearsal on Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Roundhouse.
5. There will be a dress rehearsal of Moliere’s “The Physician in Spite of Himself” in the dining hall on Tuesday evening, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. The play will be given on Saturday evening at 8:30 o’clock. Invitations have been sent out to about a hundred people in Western North Carolina.
6. There will be a long news review on Thursday evening at 8:30 o’clock in the dining hall under the direction of Bob Babcock.
7. There will be a meeting of the College Community on Friday evening at 8:30 o’clock in the dining hall with Mr Hal Hazelrigg.
8. Arthur Raper, South sociologist, writes that he will arrive on Saturday evening for a twenty-four hour visit. He has been invited to speak on Sunday to the College community.
9. On Sunday morning, in the dining hall there will be memorial services for Malcolm Forbes, who, from the opening of Black Mountain College until the time of his death, was a member of the Board of Advisers.

II. Reports:
Mr Cole will give a report on the 1940-41 finances of the College.

III. For Discussion:
Senior Division Plans
Schedules of the recently enrolled students
War-time plans for the College;
a). Consultation with members of the Board of Advisers.
b). Washington connections

IV. Recommendations:
Dr Snavely, one of the executives of the American Association of Colleges, recommended for Black Mountain College:
That we write more articles for educational journals
That we cooperate on legitimate and worthwhile projects with other colleges in the area.
That we develop projects for helping this region, then get ai from the foundations on these projects.
That we send a delegate or delegates to the regional and national conventions of colleges.
That, before we invite important educators here, we have more order than we now have and have more nearly completed the New Building.
That we, as soon as possible, try to work out a plan for carrying us through the war, a plan that might get government subsidy.

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