Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 10 Monday, February 8th, 1943

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 10 Bulletin 17
Monday, February 8th, 1943

CALENDAR
Bob Wunsch will talk this evening in Asheville at the dinner meeting of the Western North Carolina School Masters Club on “Progressive Education in American Secondary Schools and Colleges”.
Bob Marden will give his regular fifteen-minute weekly news summary and commentary this evening at 6:45 in the lobby of North Lodge.
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet in the Kocher Room tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
At the lecture period on Wednesday evening, there will be a continuation of the panel discussion on Post-War Problems. Herbert Miller will again be chairman of the panel. The other members of the panel will be: Danny Denver, Erik Haugaard, Anatole Kopp, Kenneth Kurtz, and Jeanne Wacker.
There will be a meeting of the Board of Fellows and the Student Officers on Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in Study 10.
There will be no concert on Saturday evening. Instead there will be a Valentine Ball. It has been requested that no visitors be invited for the occasion. Otis Levy’s original one-act skit, “The Insanity of Love”, will be presented during the evening. It is being directed by Otis.
The sixth Black Mountain College radio program has not yet been planned.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Negro History Week events:
Thursday, February 11th, 9:20-10:15, in the lobby of North Lodge: a lecture by Herbert Miller on “The Contributions of the Negro to American Culture Patterns”.
Friday, February 12th, 11:30-12:25, in the lobby of North Lodge: a lecture by Kenneth Kurtz on “Literacy Contributions of the Negro”.
Sunday, February 14th, 8:00-9:00, in the Dining Hall: a lecture by WA Robinson, Director of the Secondary School Study on “The American Negroes in the War and Their Hopes for a Post-War World”.
The time of showing of the Harmon Foundation Film on Hampton Institute will be announced later.
“The Second Bost Bod”, an article by Eric Bentley, is featured in the Winter, 1942 issue of Rocky Mountain Review.
REPORTS
Art Book Campaign
In the recent campaign for art books conducted by Josef Albers: 150 mimeographed letters were sent out during the middle of January. In four weeks, more than twenty-five per cent of those letters had been answered in a positive way. To date, 100 books have been received and more books have been promised. To date, $383.00 in cash has been received.
To students and the teachers of Black Mountain are urged to participate in this campaign by writing to their friends for art books or funds with which to buy books.
Sometime during the week, the gift books and the books bought with the cash contributions will be put upon the shelves in the entrance room to the library.
BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN, Monday, February 8th, 1943- page 2
REHABILITATION STUDY COMMITTEE:
The committee investigating education for rehabilitation and other plans for drawing students for this coming year came to the following conclusions:
Attempts at adult education and post war rehabilitation, while desirable, are not promising for us at the moment.
Most promising from the point of view getting students as well as from the point of view of using the facilities we actually have, would be a plan to emphasize liberal arts education of the kind we are peculiarly fitted to give. Many parents, particularly with daughters, are eager to find a kind of education which is not merely technical but which will prepare a student significantly for the future. People with only technical training may soon find themselves unemployed.
We must face the fact that women will be the most available students for several years. Also we are not equipped to offer technical or military training. On the other hand we have unusual facilities for giving a real liberal education: a representative group on the faculty who have been through the experiences of a disintegrating Europe and can talk directly of the problems involved in the breakdown of the present order; a faculty itself literally education and committed to the task of really exploring human problems and possibilities- that is, not lost in sterile “academicism”; and a community life and work program in which the realities of modern society are a matter of daily experience.
We should present ourselves as a college which educates in terms of the long view and in terms of only the contemporary, the technical, or the special field problem. This liberal, practical education, based on the long view, is as far as we can honestly go with the facilities we have. We should make clear that we accept the fundamental areas of education but have our own way of going about educating. We should be careful to define and clarify our aim and our program and to present it cogently to the public, since there is evidence that at present we are misunderstood in many places, being variously regarded as esoteric, communist, anti-religious, a work camp or an art school only, or even “foreign”. The college and the world have both changed a good deal since our reputation was made in the public mind some years ago; we should make an effort to present ourselves more fairly as we are if we hope to draw students away from the colleges. We should keep in mind that the kind of education we have is being repressed in most institutions but that there undoubtedly is a real demand for this education. Our problem is to get in contact with the people who want it.
Black Mountain College now has a second class postal permit for use in sending out four bulletins a year. This permit will not a saving of more than two hundred dollars annually to the College.
Equipment for the College Book Bindery was recently contributed by Fritz Hansgirg. This gift is a complete outfit containing binding frames, prossos, leather, buckram, papers, glues, paste, threads, ribbons, tools, and many other things.
ALUMNI
Bela Martin’s address is now: Ensign Bela J Martin, USNR, Com-Air-Pac, c/o Fleet Post Offive, San Francisco, California.

Two copies. 1p doubled sides, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Mentions events for Black History Week with lectures by Herbert Miller, Kenneth Kurtz, W A Robinson, and the showing of the Harmon Foundation Film on Hampton Institute. Folded horizontally and vertically.