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Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 10 Bulletin 24 Tuesday, April 6, 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
2017.40.100a-b
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 24
Tuesday, April 6, 1843
CALENDAR
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet on Wednesday afternoon, April 7, in the Kocher Room at 4:30 o’clock.
Frances de Graaff will talk on Wednesday evening on “The Soviet Union- What It Is Like” at the lecture hour.
On next Wednesday evening at 8:30 o’clock Barney Voigt will talk on “The Italian Gardens of the Renaissance”.
There will be a meeting of the Board of Fellows in Study 10 on Thursday afternoon, April 6, at 5:00 o’clock.
The Dramatic Department will present William Saroyan’s “The People With Light Coming Out of Them” on Friday afternoon, April 9, 2:30-3:00, at Station WWNC. The program next Friday will be a concert by the Music Department.
There will be a concert in the Dining Hall on Saturday evening at 8:00 o’clock. Trudi Straus and Heinrich Jalowetz will play the Bach Violin Sonata in D; Trudi Straus, Gretel Lowinsky and Edward Lowinsky will play the concerto for Two Violins by Bach; Variations on a Theme by Haydn for Two Pianos.
Excerpt from a letter:
Dr Frank Aydelotte, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, writes, in part: “Mr Mattison…. Came to see me yesterday and I had a long talk of about tow hours with him. I was most favorably impressed by him…. He is going about the money-raising job in exactly the right way and when he has been at it long enough, I expect him to be very useful to Black Mountain College. Mattison will tell Ted the points I emphasized, which are very much the ones I have emphasized to Ted in the past and which I think give the college a unique appeal to the right individuals. The substitution to practical work on the farm and in building, etc. for athletics is a great idea. The second unique advantage of the college is the close personal association between students and faculty. In both these respects Black Mountain is not merely better than the average place, but would, so far as my knowledge goes, be no. 1 in the United States. The problem is to discover donors who are not already too much interested in other institutions and to whom these policies would appeal. Once you have done that it should not prove difficult to get the modest amount of money which the College needs to keep it going.”
REACTIONS TO THE COLLEGE PICTURE BULLETIN
Merrill Bishop, Principal of the Harris School in San Antonio, Texas, writes: “May I take this occasion to congratulate you on the most fascinating college bulletin I have received. I only wish that many boys and girls can take the advantages of this intimacy in education. If they did I am afraid that your college would lose its charm”
Douglas Bement, of the Department of English of the University of Washington in Seattle, writes: “Mere words would not convey my enthusiasm for all the work which you people are putting into building up an outstanding educational institution. It seems almost incredible to me that you all could have accomplished that pictures in the bulletin show.”
Connie Spencer, writes, from New York City: “Thank you so much for the pamphlet. I had it only one hour. Could you send me another and perhaps a few extra? It is by far the best pamphlet that has been put out by a college so far. It serves two purposes very well, giving a pictorial and verbal picture of the college in general.”
Lucian Marquis writes from New York City: “Received the bulletin and like it very much. Makes me very nostalgic.”

BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN, Tuesday, April 6, 1943- page 2
John Stix writes from the hospital at Camp Butner in Durham, North Carolina: “The photo bulletin which arrived yesterday made me so much more homesick. It is a good job, I think. Would you mind sending me an additional copy? I’ve already given mine away to an interested medic.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Herbert Miller is leaving on Wednesday afternoon for Philadelphia for a two days institute on “The Future of Asia”. He will speak twice at this institute, once on “Asia’s Struggle for Freedom”, and once on “Dynamic Patterns of Asia”.
“Designing”, a paper by Anni Albers, has been accepted for publication by the American Craftsmen’s Cooperative Council in the May issue of their magazine, Craft Horizons.
The Advanced students in Dramatics have decided to do three one-act plays instead of Hughes’ “Hell-Bent for Heaven” during the Spring Quarter. These plays are Anton Chekov’s “The Evils of Tobacco”, Noel Coward’s “Fumed Oak” and Paul Green’s “Fixin’s”.
The class in Nineteenth Century will sponsor the reading of Nineteenth Century Drama Ibsen’s “The Master Builder”, April 11; Strindberg’s “Miss Julis”, April 18; Strindberg’s “Spook Sonata” April 25; Bernard Shaw’s “Fanny’s First Play”, May 2nd; and Shaw’s “The Apple Cart” May 9.
The responsibility for a weekly news report has been taken over for the time being by the Twentieth Century Class. Erik Haugaard gave the first report on Monday evening. Barbara Heller will give the summary and commentary next Monday evening. Barbara Heller will give the summary and commentary next Monday evening.
SPRING QUARTER VISITORS
Rachel Dwinell, formerly a secretary to the faculty, will arrive on April 15 for a fortnight’s visit. She will be accompanied by a friend.
Eunice Miller, Dr Herbert Miller’s sister and for thirty years a member of the State Department of Public Warfare in Massachusetts, will spend ten days at the College in April. During her visit she will talk to the community on “A State and Its Children”. She will be glad to talk with students about social problems.
ALUMNI NOTES
Word has just been received that Derek Bovingdon was in a bomber crash on Monday of last week. Jean Jordan writes from Evanston, Illinois: “It seems they went out on some kind of routine flight Monday and never returned. It was five days before they found them. Barbara has gone to Massachusetts, I suppose to be with Mrs Bovingdon.”
Bob Marden and Herbert Oppenheimer have been sent to Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi for Pre-Flight Training.
Aviation Cadet Roman Maciejezyk has been transferred to: AAFNS Group 2, Houdo, Texas.
Bill Berry has been sent to a Pre-Flight School in Nashville, Tennessee.
Willie Joseph is now stationed at Selman Field in Monroe, Louisiana. His address there is: Sq. C. A.A.F.P.F.S.
Several architectural students at last summer’s work camp are designing building projects for BMC as their graduation thesis at Harvard. Boonyong Nikrodhananda (Nik) has chosen a dormitory building and Arthur Cheang, a theater.
Dick Wyke is a draftsman with a company in Missouri designing air fields. Dick returned to BMC for a visit in February and the architectural department exhibited some of his drawings in March.
FOR FACULTY DISCUSSION
Requests for Leave of Absense:
Bob Marden --- 2. Herbert Oppenheimer
b) Spring Quarter Course Registration (continued)


2p, single sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper.

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