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Black Mountain College Community Bulletin Monday, April 20, 1942

Date
1942
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
2017.40.071a-b
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
Courtesy of the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection, Asheville Art Museum
Description

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
Monday, April 20, 1942

Announcements
1 There will be a faculty meeting this evening at 7:00 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
2 Betty Brett, Tommy Brooks, Sam Brown, Sue Noble, and Frances de Graaff left yesterday morning for Nashville, Tennessee, to attend the Southern Conference on Human Welfare. They will return to the college Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning.
3 The following people have accepted the invitation of the Board of Fellows to membership in the College Advisory Council; Arthur S Adams, assistant dean of the College of Engineering at Cornell University; John Burchard, professor of history at the University of Cuba; Fernando de Los Rios, former ambassador from Republican Spain to Washington and now on the staff of the New School for Social Research; Herbert Sanders of Blue Ridge; and RR Williams, a lawyer in Asheville.
4 The Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America will use an illustrated article on Black Mountain College in an issue of its paper for young people.
5 Witold Hureviez, a member of the staff of the University of North Carolina, will give a non-technical lecture on “Infinite Aggregates in Mathematics” in the Dining Hall on Friday evening at 8:00. All students who are taking science courses should attend this lecture is possible; other students will find it understandable and interesting.
6 Dr Straus will attend the forty-first annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro this week-end. Friday morning he will participate in a panel discussion on “Psychological Aspects of Morale” with WW Martin of the Woman’s College, DK Adams of Duke, and English Bagby of the University of North Carolina. Dr Straus will talk on “Some Imponderables Influencing Morale”.
7 The Dramatics Department and the Music Department will give a program in the auditorium of the Black Mountain Grammar School Friday evening at 8:00, as part of the town drive to raise funds for United China Relief. The Moliere Play, “The Affected Young Ladies”, will be the dramatic presentation and Ruthabeth Krueger, Trudi Straus, and Dr Jalowetz, will furnish the musical portion of the program.
8 The Sunday Black Mountain radio program over WWNC will be a presentation of a radio fantasy, “Mr Whitcomb and the Horse”, by Will Hamlin, with original music composed by Jay Nelson, and a quarter hour violin recital by Trudi Straus, accompanied by Dr Jalowetz.

BMC Community Bulletin, April 20, page 2

9 Though they promised nothing, Prentice-Hall have written Peter Burgmann that his book on the Theory of Relativity should be published on or about the fourth of May. Paul Radin has received word of the publication a few weeks ago of a French translation of his “Primitive Religion”.

Visitors
Leslie Katz and Jane Mayhall Katz, former students, and their friend, Kurt Scholl.

Request
Ann Mangold requests that all examination papers be brought to the office for filing. The following examinations are still out:
1st and 2nd day missing- Kulka Loon, P Moench Tankersloy
2nd day missing—Brown Haase

Alumni Addresses:
1 Private Jack Kasik,
3315 Sixteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC
2 Private Morris Simon
108th FA Armory
Broad and Diamond Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3 Fred Stone
6 North First Street
Richmond, Virginia

For Discussion at Faculty meeting
A paper by Bob Babcock on the Steps Students and teachers should take for the future in regard to education and the war.


2p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper.

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