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Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College year 10 Bulletin 16 Monday, February 1, 1943

Date
1943
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
2017.40.092
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
Courtesy of the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection, Asheville Art Museum
Description

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College year 10 Bulletin 16
Monday, February 1, 1943

CALENDAR
Bob Marden will give his regular fifteen-minute weekly news summary and commentary this evening at 6:45 in the lobby of the North Lodge.
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet in the Kocher Room tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
There will be an hour-long meeting of the entire community Tuesday evening beginning promptly at 7:00 o’clock in the lobby of North Lodge, to hear brief papers by Ted Dreier and Mac Wood on the educational value of the Community Work Program, and to discuss the Work Program.
At the lecture period on Wednesday evening there will be a panel discussion on Post-War Problems. Herbert Miller will be chairman of the panel. The other members of the panel will be Eric Bentley, Frances de Graaff, Heinrich Jalowetz, Robert Marden, Isaac Nakata, Herbert Oppenheimer, Barbara Payne and Dr. Erwin Straus.
There will be a meeting of the Board of Fellows on Thursday afternoon at 5:00 o’clock in Study 10.
The Music Department will give an hour-long concert in the Red Cross Auditorium at the Moore General Hospital on Friday evening, February 5, beginning at 7:00 o’clock. The program will include Handel’s “Trio Sonata in G Minor,” two Schubert “Marches for Four Hands,” and Beethoven: “Romance Violin and Piano in F Major.”
The first 1945 Black Mountain College radio program will be an all-Schubert program. On Sunday evening, February 7, at 7:15 o’clock, Dorothy Trayer and Frederic Cohen will play several original fourhand piano compositions by Schubert.
The January evening concert in the College Dining Hall, on February 6, will be “Music in Mediaeval Society.” It will be introduced by lantern-slides and by informal commentary by Edward Lowinsky. The concert itself will be in two parts: monadic music and polyphonic music. The A Capella Group will sing several numbers. These will be followed by instrumental selections played by violin, viola, recorder, harp and organ. Jack Swackhamer will be the tenor soloist.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
To date, the students and teachers of Black Mountain College have contributed $97.25 to the Asheville Negro Hospital Fund.
Betty-Brett is reentering the College this week.
Mr. W. A. Robinson, Director of the Negro Secondary School Study, writes that he will be able to come to Black Mountain College on Sunday, February 13, to talk on the subject: “The American Negroes in the War and Their Post-War Hopes,” if the College will pay his travelling expenses to and from Atlanta.
The technicolor film, “Hampton Institute,” can be obtained by the College for showing during Negro History Week at a cost of $15.00.
Herbert Oppenheimer has been appointed Chairman of the Negro History Week Fund to try and raise funds sufficient to get Mr. Robinson and the film here.
Saturday evening, February 27, has been tentatively set for the College production of “Ethan Frome.”
Frederic H. Koch, Director of the Carolina Playmakers, will be the guest of Black Mountain College on March 5 and 6 while he is attending the Western Carolina Drama Festival in Asheville.
Saturday evening, March 13, has been tentatively set for the College production of Moliere’s “The Imaginary Invalid.”

BMC Community Bulletin, February 1, 1943, page 2
Any organization planning to use the Dining Hall or Round House after 9:00 P.M. should report to Mac Wood as much in advance as possible to insure proper heating.
EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS
Larry Swift writes from the office of Click Magazine: “We haven’t scheduled the issue in which the Black Mountain story will appear…. Everyone in the office liked the story very much. Their reaction was unanimous—they’d all like to go to Black Mountain.”
Captain John Woodruff Ewell, Commander in charge of the 26th General Hospital in Swannanoa, writes: “There is a good deal of interest in Black Mountain College in this organization; in fact, some of the men are planning to arrange courses. We will keep the program prominently posted and it is likely that the Wednesday lectures will be well attended particularly.”
Corporal Harold Raymond writes from Camp in Massachusetts to the Community: “Since last fall when the country went to war, a considerable number of Black Mountain students and alumni have gone into the armed forces. Many of us will soon be in action, perhaps some will fall in battle. Naturally, I can’t speak for the others, but only as I myself feel, and believe many of the others do. We look back on the College and what we learned there as extremely important. This war for our way of life can’t be won by us in uniforms alone. We can onlydopart of the job, the rest lies in the hands of those at home. The values we are really fighting for can only be preserved and spread by the maintenance of places like Black Mountain and the ideals they have stood for. Now, when the liberal arts and freedom in education are being shoved aside by the war, is when you must redouble your efforts to maintain them. In the post-war world the struggle for them will be hard. This is your job now and after victory has been won. Both as an individual and as individuals the Black Mountain Community can do much. This does not mean that the College should not make every effort to take part in the actual war, and of course many concessions must be made. No one in this effort need feel that he is not doing much for the real victory, without which the sacrifices of those in the service and the military victory are meaningless. I say this not only as a former student but also as a soldier. I don’t know how well I have expressed this. It has been some time since I’ve written along these lines, but it’s something I’ve thought much about and want very much to say, while there is yet time.”

ALUMNI NOTES
George Randall is now a Staff Sergeant at Camp Lee in Virginia. During the last year he spent seven months travelling around the country as part of the Army War Show. His address is: Company E, 7th C.M.T.R., Camp Lee, Virginia.

FACULTY MEETING
Reports:
Kenneth Kurtz will give a report for the Rehabilitation committ
Mac Wood will give a report on the Winter Quarter registration of students for the Community Work Program.
Ted Dreier will report on the Board of Fellows action regarding the firing of boilers in faculty residences.

CONVERTING RAW TO TIFF
Upload raw images in Bridge- you’ll have to use the external hard drive, that’s where the images live until they’re uploaded to the cloud
As you open raw files, note the accession number and create a folder called “unedited_2017.40.#” and “working_2017.40.#”
The raw image should open in Photoshop
Top right corner there is a symbol of a box with an arrow pointing downwards, click that to export into different file type, preset is custom and format is tiff (all other settings are fine, once you do this once, it should save those settings for the rest of the Photoshop session)
Click save and that box will close, hit Cancel in the bottom right to leave this image unaltered as a raw
Now you have your raw image which will live in its corresponding “unedited” folder, and the TIFF image which will go into the corresponding “working folder,” two birds with one stone 12
Once you’ve done this for all images of a single doc (like all 2017.40.125 images have gone through these steps), you can put your unedited_2017.40.# into the “Unedited” folder, you won’t need those again.
EDITING YOUR TIFF
Within your working folder, open the TIFF. Make sure your right pop up window/ panel is all the way open. If it’s not, click the double arrows.
Open adjustments and click the third symbol, Curve
Beside the graph there are three eyedroppers, chose the middle one an click within the “G” gray circle in the middle of your color scale within the image. That gives it a color to correct to/ tone/ etc.
Then you can crop the image as close to the document as you can, the crop tool is the 5th down from the leftside menu.
If the page was photographed sideways, you can go to Image at the top menu, image rotation, and it’s usually 90 clockwise to fix it,
Then File, Export, Export As, set format to JPG and click Export.
This is where you make your final folder. Within Dreier Docs there is a Final Folder, then a Box folder, then you’ll create your own “final_2017.40.#” within the appropriate box. Save your file name like this - 2017.40.125-1 then 2017.40.125-2, etc.
Then you can close this file in photoshop, say No to saving changes so you keep the TIFF as it was.
Once this whole step is done for the entirety of the object images, the “working_2017.40.#” folder can go into the “Working” folder, you won’t need those again.
METADATA
I have created a template called Dreier, so it fills out most of the fields automatically, things that are common to all items in this Dreier collection.
Highlight all images in your final folder to change all metadata at the same time.
The right side menu shows metadata, click the three lines that are next to the Metadata and keywords tabs, click replace metadata, Dreier to add that template.
Scroll through and add any remaining info needed.
Headline and title can be the same for things like bulletins, that information is on the BMC-CLIR Dreier document on Sharepoint. If a description is given on that document, that can go in the description section. The job identifier is the accession number, fill in the last number.
There is a section called “Artwork or Object” open that and fill in the inventory number as the accession as well. The title as above, and a date if you know one. If a doc has a year listed but we don’t know the exact date, the common thing to do is chose the first date of the year 01/01/1945
TRANSCRIPTION
Just like it sounds, any words on a document need to be typed out.
For accessibility, you should describe any images or symbols, note when there are handwritten notes in the margins, things marked out in pen, etc. These descriptions are typically used as alt text.
EMBARK UPLOAD


1p, double sided, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Mentions faculty- Kenneth Kurtz, Mac Wood, Ted Dreier.

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