Black Mountain College Community Bulletin Monday February 16, 1942

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
Monday February 16, 1942

I. Announcements:
1. There will be a meeting of the Radio Committee this afternoon at 1:00 o’clock in Room 10 of the new building
2. Paul Radin will talk on Mexico at the monthly meeting of the Asheville Business and Professional Women’s Club at the S and W Cafeteria this evening at 6:30 o’clock
3. There will be a faculty meeting this evening at 7:00 o’clock in the Kocher room
4. The cast of Mendez Marks’ play, “The Wind and the Trees”, will meet this evening at 10:30 o’clock in room 10 to read the play aloud
5. The following College dates have been set:
a) Senior Division Examinations: February 21 and February 23
b) The College production of Woliere’s “The Highbrow Ladies”: February 28
c) The Hampton Quartet: March 14
6. There will be a General Meeting next Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Dining Hall. Meanwhile reports of committees will be posted on the College bulletin board
7. The February Newsletter will go to press as soon as the dates of the summer activities of the College have been decided upon by the faculty
8. The next Sunday Black Mountain College radio program will be on Mark Twain. Leslie Paul is writing the script which will be presented by members of the American Life and Letters class
9. Mendez Marks has been asked by the Publicity Committee to post notices of campus news which he will collect and edit
10. Jay Nelson has been asked by the Publicity Committee to post notices about College visitors: a who’s who on each visitor
11. Hospitalization is not in effect. Faculty sickness should be reported to Morton Steinau, Chairman of Hospitalization. Note: The college is liable within the limits of the Hospitalization plan and not beyond except for special medical expenses. (i.e., the College will not be responsible for private rooms but only for ward rooms.)
12. Cora Dubois, Professor of Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence,
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Has agreed to come to Black Mountain as Roman Maciejezyk’s outside examiner

II. Report
Excerpt from a letter from the Office of the Chief of the Special Services Branch of the War Department and signed by FH Gaborn, Brigadier General, Chair of the Special Services Branch.
“The plan outlined for men discharged from the armed forces (is) of much interest in connection with the educational program being developed by the Special Services Branch.
“Within the past few days Mr Robert S Babcock of Black Mountain College has spent some time in talking with Mr Francis Kappel, Secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, and with Mr Francis T Spaulding, Consultant to this Branch on educational problems, about the plan set forth in Dr Straus’s paper. It is my understanding that Mr Babcock has received from Mr Kappel and Mr Spaulding a number of specific comments on the plan, which he will discuss with you on his return to Black Mountain.
“May I express my appreciation of the constructive nature of your proposals.”

III. Discussion
It was decided at the beginning of last semester that students who showed lack of ability in the use of tool English should make some arrangements for remedying the deficiency. The test taken by the students revealed the following:
1 Several students need special work in grammar and composition:
Aurora Gassota
Homer Bobillin
Erik Haugarrd
Bill Hanchett
Pace Leon
Tanya Spruger
2 Several students need to pay serious attention to their deficiencies:
Hope Greer
Bob Harden
Nancy Wost
Helen Wright
Dick Wyke

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