Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College year 10 Bulletin 11 Thursday, December 31, 1942

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College year 10 Bulletin 11
Thursday, December 31, 1942

IMPORTANT
Ken Kurtz, chairman of the transportation committee: “The following trains will be met by College cars, on Tuesday, January 5; 8:35am; 11:53 am; 2:45pm; 6:02pm. Other arrivals should either wait for one of these trips, at the train station, or call the College about the possibility of coming to the new hospital by bus and being met there.
From the American Council on Education:
“By January 1, 1943, the War Department will have completed its preparations to call to active duty enlisted reserve corps students covered by section g(7) of the Army plan. These students will thereafter begin to receive orders to report for active duty at designated times and places. No orders will be given to report on a date prior to two weeks after the completion of the student’s first academic quarter, term, or semester, terminating after December 31, 1942.”
This seems to mean to us that students in army enlisted reserve corps will not be called until after the end of our winter quarter, March 20, 1943.
Also from the Council:
“The Army Specialized Training Program does not include the Air Corps Reserve. A student who is a member of the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve will be called to active duty at the discretion of the Air Corps and at such time as he can be immediately assigned to training.”

CALENDAR
Classes for the winter quarter will begin on Wednesday morning, January 6, at 8:15 o’clock.
There will be a meeting of the Community in the Dining Hall on Wednesday evening at 8:00 o’clock.
The Music department will give the first radio program on Sunday evening, January 10, at 7:15 o’clock. Station WWNC, Asheville.

VISITORS
Writer Larry Swift and photographer Ike Vern, from the magazine Click were at the College December 15 and 16. A layout on the College is scheduled for the March and April issue of the magazine, and will probably include five or six pages of pictures and text.
Holiday visitors to Lake Eden included Ms and Mrs Alfred Kazin. Mr Kazin, literary editor of the New Republic, led a discussion on American Literature and the War, Wednesday evening, December 16. Corporal Jack Kasik spent a few days at the College before Christmas. He is now stationed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Ensign Bela Martin, and two friends from the Naval Air Force, arrived at Lake Eden Christmas evening for a brief visit.

COLLEGE NEWS
The Woods were in Florida for most of the holiday and returned today.
Fran de Graaff is spending the holidays in New York City.
The Lowinskys went to McLean, Virginia, near Washington.
Dr Straus has gone east on personal business. During his stay in New York, he will address a psychology class at the New School for Social Research.
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Students who have spent all or part of their vacation at the College are: Ronato Bonfoy, Cynthia Carr, Danny Deaver, Mimi French, Bob Warden, Isaac Nakata, Joanne Wacker, and Tom Wentworth. Anne Arthur returned a few days ago. The Christmas community also included other members of the faculty and their families, Will Hamlin, and Bill Reed.
A total of eighteen hundred dollars in gifts was received by the College during the week between Christmas and New Year’s day.
Paul Radin was wired from Berkeley, California; “Sorry for delay, but Doctor’s verdict final I cannot come until next summer”.

DRAMATICS
Two plays have been selected for the Winter quarter: The Davis dramatization of Edith Wharton’s “Ethan Frome”, and an English translation of Moliere’s “Le Malade Imaginaire”. In “Ethan Frome”, Herbert Oppenheimer, Dora Harrison, and Betty Kelley will play the leading roles. They will be supported by Dick Brown, Bill Berry, Paul Snyder, Bob Marden, Otis Levy, Danny Deaver, Ruth O’Neill, Shirley Allen, Henry Adams, Bruno Piscitelle, Aurora Cassetta, Barbara Pollet, and Tom Wentworth. The play should be ready for production about the third or fourth week-end in February. Anatole Kopp has already designed the settings.
In the Moliere play, leading roles will be played by Nancy West, Paul Snyder, June Smith, Bill Berry, and Otis Levy. They will be supported by Dyckman Corbet, Henry Adams, Erik Haugard, and Aurora Cassetta. This farce will be produced early in March.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Board of Fellows announces the appointment to the faculty, for the winter quarter, of:
Eric Bentley who has born in England and studied at Oxford, where he took an AB degree in English and an AB Litt. He held a Commonwealth Fund fellowship at Yale for 1939-4- and 1940-41 and at the end of this term received his PhD. His doctor’s thesis won the John Addison Porter prize. Last year Mr Bentley was a member of the faculty of the University of *illegible, crossed out and rewritten in ink* in Los Angeles. Last summer he taught history and dramatics at Black Mountain College. Mr Bentley will teach the following courses: Europe 1699-1800, Europe 1800-1918, and Current Affairs.
Herbert Adolphus Miller, internationally known for his writings on radical problems. He is the author of “The School and the Immigrant”, “Races, Nations, and Classes”, and “The Beginnings of Tomorrow”, as well as numerous magazine articles. His teaching career has been associated chiefly with Oberlin, Ohio State, and Bryn Mawr. He taught this fall at Pennsylvania State College.
Dr Miller was one of the first outsiders to write about the problems and aspirations of the Czeche-Slovakians. In October 1918, Jan Masaryk sent him the first draft of the Cezch Declaration of Independence to “put into good English”. He revised the draft so tht it would have an international appeal. On a trip around the world in 1929-30, Dr Miller lectured at several Chinese Universities and Visited India. He expects to arrive at the College the end of next week.
He will teach two courses: The Beginnings of Tomorrow, a course for advanced students, which will attempt to bring the student to an understanding of the dynamic forces in the various world cultures—China, India, Russia, Western Europe, and America- approached from the historical, political, economical, and ideological points of flow.
Introduction to the Scientific Analysis of Society, for beginners. This course o will be a study of the individual, groups, races, classes, and nations, problems of interaction, conflict, and assimilation. Illustrations for the course will be found both in the local community life and in the world crisis.

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Students interested in the Bentley and Miller courses will confer with the advisors, then with the Registrar, immediately after their return to the College.

IN THE OFFICE
Miss Margaret Storndorheff, of New York City, arrived on Saturday, December 13, to begin her work in the office, as secretary.
Mrs Dorothy Trayer left on Saturday, December 19, for two weeks in the east. She returned this morning.
Expected on Monday, January 3: Mrs Boman, a new secretary.

3p, one sided. Mimeograph on matte off white paper. Visitors: Miss Margaret Sternderhoff, Dmrs Dorothy Trayer, Mrs Bomse.