Black Mountain College Community Bulletin Monday, April 27, 1942

2p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner. on first page there is a hand written note that says "John B[illegible]d." On back of second page there is another note: "assignment, prove that [mathmatical equation], derive the product formula for diff the following log[illegible] and check [mathmatical equations] by product formula: [mathmatical equations]"

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
Monday, April 27, 1942

This week:
1 This afternoon: Dr Paul Radin will speak at 3:00 o’clock at the Jewish Community Center in Asheville on “The War and Nationality”.
2 Tonight: There will a meeting of the faculty this evening at 7:00 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
3 Tuesday: Paul Radin will speak at Asheville College at noon on “The Myths of the American Indian”.
4 Tuesday evening: at 9:00 o’clock, the Current Affairs Meeting will consist of the reading of Dr Straus’s paper on “Some Imponderables Influencing Morale”, a paper written for a panel on “Psychological Aspects of Morale”, at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science in Greensboro last week end.
5 Thursday evening: Lt Keisler of the Army air force, and an aide, will visit the college at 8:30m, pm. They will a technicolor film depicting the history of aviation and will answer questions concerning all branches of military service. Their purpose is not to recruit students.
The meeting is part of a plan to make available information about regulations, prerequisites, and opportunities in the various branches of the armed forces of the United States. This information will be mainly for the benefit of those who how are or soon will be eligible for military service. People with many kinds of specialized training are needed in the various services: and there are many opportunities in the different services for instruction and training in fields that are quite as useful in peace-time as in war time. It is believed that full information will provide the basis for an intelligent preparation for the future.
6 Friday: At the spring meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore, Peter Bergmann will present a paper on “Five Dimensional Field Theories” based on his own research work.
7 Saturday: Bob Wunsch will return from his last 1941-42 trip for the Negro Secondary School student. He is spending the early part of this week in the Lincoln-Grant High School in Covington, Kentucky, and the latter part of the week at the Webster-Davis Laboratory School near St Petersburg, Virginia.

Announcements: *handwritten name in pencil
1 Dr Thomas Addis, professor of medicine at Stanford University, and a friend of Paul Radin, will arrive on or about May 9. He will talk to the community on “Medicine in the Modern World”.
2 Bob Babcock has been granted a leave of absence from Black Mountain College to accept a position with the Foreign Funds Control. He will arrive in Washington on May 11.
3 Maude Dabbs has been added to the office staff for the remainder of the term.

BMC Community Bulletin, April 27, page 2
4 Anne Mangold notes that all but one of the senior division examinations mentioned in the last bulletin are still at large.

Visitors:
1 Leslie Katz and Jane Mayhall Katz, former students, and their friend Kurt Scholl.
2 Jean Jordan, former student.
3 Wayne Williams, a prospective student now enrolled at the University of North Carolina.

Faculty Business:
The report of Miss Cora Dubois on the written and oral examinations of Roman Maciejezyk.

Excerpt:
“…Here I had occasion to consider, that is was a weighty thing to speak much in large meetings for business: first, except our minds are rightly prepared, and we clearly understand the case we speak to, instead of forwarding, we hinder business and make more labour for those on whom the burthn of the work is laid.
“…If we have a clear prospect of the business, and proper weird on our minds to speak, it behoves us to avoid useless apologies and repetitions: where people are gathered from far, and adjourning a meeting of business is attended with great difficulty, it behoves us all to be cautious how they detain a meeting; especially when they have sat six or seven hours and have a great distance to ride home.”
From a journal, 1759