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Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College year 10 Bulletin 3 Wednesday, October 14, 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
2017.40.079
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
Courtesy of the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection, Asheville Art Museum
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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College year 10 Bulletin 3
Wednesday, October 14, 1942

CALENDAR
The faculty and the student officers will meet promptly at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon in the Kocher Room.
The mathematics placement examination (an hour-long test) will be given this afternoon between 5:00 and 6:00. Problems may be obtained from Ted Dreier’s study in the New Building.
There will be ten or more visitors from the Moore General Hospital at dinner, the concert, and dancing Saturday evening.
The Concert will begin at 8:00 o’clock in the Dining Hall. Gretel and Edward Lowinsky will open the program with a Mozart Sonata in G Major for piano and violin. Trudi Straus and Dr Jalowetz will then play Rondo for violin from Mozart’s Haffner Serenade. Trudi Straus and Gretel Lowinsky will play next Mozart’s Duo in B flat Major for violin and viola. The program will conclude with Joseph Lanner’s Hofbaltanze, dances for a gala ball at the Austrian Imperial Court, played by John Evarts and Frederic Cohen. The music was arranged for two pianos by Frederic Cohen.
A John Evarts Farewell Concert has been arranged for Saturday evening, October 24. John’s incidental music to Moliere’s “The Physician in Spite of Himself” and musical comedy songs from “Let Me Have Air”, will be played.
The Senior Division Examinations will be given on Monday and Tuesday of next week. The following students have applied to take the examinations for entrance into the Senior Division: Danny Deaver, Peter Hill, Jack Swackhamer, and Jacqueline Tankersley. The following students have applied to take them for practice: Anne Arthur, Gwendolyn Currier, Betty Kelley, Bob Marden, Isaac Nakata, Jane Slater, and Ralph Tyler.
There will be a meeting of the Committee on Committees this week-end. This committee will:
*handwritten note in pencil
A list what seem to be necessary committees to do the various college jobs that have to be done
B outline the objectives for each committee.
This list of committees and their objectives will be presented to the community at a meeting early next week, for examination and discussion. Students and teachers may suggest names, including their own, for each committee. The Committee on Committees, taking these suggestions into consideration, will then draw up its roster to the faculty and the student officers at next Wednesday’s meeting.

REQUESTS
The office secretary requests that each new member of the staff hand in at once his curriculum vitae and the name and address of the person to notify in case of illness or emergency.
It is urgent that no one except the Assistant Treasurer give orders to or eve make requests of Roy.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
At the annual meeting of the Board of Fellows on Tuesday afternoon, John Evarts was elected Secretary and Ted Dreier was elected Treasurer for the 1942-43 session. The membership of the Board of Fellows now is: Josef Albers, Frances de Graaff, Ted Dreier, John Evarts, Larry Kocher, Heinrich Jalowetz, Bill McLaughlin, Erwin Straus, and Bob Wunsch.
Carroll’s “Shadow and Substance” and Paul Green’s “Quare Medicine” have been cast and are now in rehearsal.
“Shadow and Substance” will be produced in late November or early
BMC Community Bulletin, Wednesday October 14, 1942, page 2
December. In the cast are Barbara Pollet, Dyckman Corbett, Henry Adams, Dick Brown, Paul Snyder, Bill Berry, Tom Emmons, Aurora Casotta, Nancy West, and Dora Harrison.
“Quare Medicine” will be produced on Saturday, November 7, then will be taken, on week-ends, to army camps and hospitals. In the cast are Paul Snyder, Dick Brown, Betty Kelley, and Herbert Oppenheimer.
“I am pleased to be able to inform you that Black Mountain College has now been approved for purposes of student relocation. We are today advising the National Student Relocation Council of that fact.”
This means that we will be eligible for a quota of American-born Japanese students from Pacific Coast Universities.

FOR DISCUSSION AT FACULTY MEETING
The College Conference is convening in Greensboro on November 4 and 5. Shall we pay to the Conference the annual dues of twenty dollars: Shall we send delegates?
Elizabeth Parker has been suggested as the new Registrar to succeed Anne Mangold when she leaves.
The Fall Quarter registration.
Hospitalization for new faculty members,

ALUMNI NEWS
Barbara Beatty and Duncan Dwight will be married this week-end in Columbia, South Carolina, where Duncan is stationed at Fort Jackson. Duncan’s address is Company 9, 307th infantry, 77th Division.

VISITORS
Mrs Max Kronenberg, mother of Gisela.
Mr and Mrs Overs. Mrs Overs (Mitzi Martin) was at one time a student at Black Mountain.


1p, double sided, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Visitors listed: Mrs Max Kronenberg (mother of Gisela), Mr and Mrs. Overs (Mrs Overs was a student at BMC as Mitzi Martin). Folded twice horizontally.

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