4p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper.Faculty present- William C Berry, Erik Haugaard, Jack Swackhamer, Ralph Tyler, Tom Wentworth, Kenneth Kurtz, Herbert Miller, Eric Bentley. Visitors- Miss Lux Elsner (cousin of Frederic Cohen), Mrs E. J. Maloney (visiting her husband), Bill McCleery (on May 4), Mrs John P Carr and Mrs J B Jamieson (on May 5), Mr and Mrs Isaac Newton Stokes Phelps (on May 8).
*handwritten note in top right corner in pencil
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 10 Bulletin 28
Monday, May 3, 1943
CALENDAR
The Upper Division Examination will be given today and tomorrow: 8:15AM to 6:00PM
The monthly business meeting of the Board of Fellows, postponed from last Thursday afternoon, will be held this afternoon at 5:00 o’clock in Study 10.
Barbara Heller will give the weekly news summary and commentary this evening at 6:45 on the lawn in front of the Kocher Cottage.
The regular weekly meeting of the Faculty and the Student Officers will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
Josef Albers will address the College community on Wednesday evening, May 5, at 8:30 o’clock in the Dining Hall on “Photos as Photography and Photos as Art”.
The Black Mountain College broadcast on Friday afternoon, 2:30-3:00 o’clock, will be a concert of Preludes by Bach, Chopin, and Debussy, to be played by Frederic Cohen and Edward E Lowinsky.
The broadcast next week will be a program written and produced by students in the English classes under the supervision of Kenneth Kurtz.
The concert on Saturday evening at 8:00 o’clock in the Dining Hall will be devoted to the “Prelude”. Frederic Cohen and Edward E Lowinsky will perform Preludes and Fuges by John Sebastian Bach. Preludes by Chopin and Debussy, and Preludes and Fugues by Hugo Kauder.
The Nineteenth Century Class will read Maxim Gorky’s “The Lower Depths” on Sunday evening, May 9, beginning at 7:30 o’clock, in the Bentley apartment.
TO REPORT FOR SERVICE
Erik Haugaard leaves from Cambridge, Massachusetts this afternoon to spend a couple of weeks at home before reporting to Camp Little Norway in Toronto, Canada.
Tom Wentworth has been ordered to report to Asheville on Wednesday, May 5, for induction.
Jack Swackhamer will leave Lake Eden on Friday or Saturday for New York City for a brief visit with his mother before reporting to Fort Dix in New Jersey on May 10.
Ralph Tyler has received his orders to report to Camp Grant in Illinois on May 10. He will leave Lake Eden on Friday for Chicago.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
GH Gray, Dean of Bard College and formerly Professor of English at Reed, has agreed to come to Lake Eden on May 25 to give orals to Cynthia Carr.
Kenneth Kurtz and Herbert Miller will attend the X Club dinner and forum on “French Politics”, at the S and W Cafeteria this evening in Asheville.
Herbert Miller will talk at the Asheville College chapel exercises tomorrow morning on “India”.
Eric Bentley reviews G.B.S.: A Full Length Portrait by Hesketh Person in the current issue of The Rocky Mountain Review (Spring 1943)
BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN, May 3, 1943- page 2
ANNOUNCEMENTS (continued)
The April issue of the College Newsletter will come from the press on Wednesday or Thursday of this week and will be mailed out on Friday.
Letters have been sent out to former students of the College now in the Services informing them of the Straus Plan for Saving the Post War Education and informing them that the College is planning the organization of the Savings Fund for Black Mountain College.
Five applications have been received to date for the Seminar on America.
Herbert Miller will act as Chairman of the Luncheon Group of the United Nations Association at the George Vanderbilt Hotel on Tuesday, May 11.
EXCERPT FROM A LETTER
Louis Bromfield writes from Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio: “I think you are doing an admirable job based on the soundset of principles… I hope some day before too long I shall be able to visit Black Mountain.”
ALUMNI NOTES
Private William F Hanchett, Squad D, 46 CTD, TP1, Cokeville, Tennessee, writes: “I’m enjoying my studies tremendously, but prefer BMC’s method of teaching to that of the Army’s. Will be here until the end of May.”
Leonard Billing has returned to Buck Creek Camp after having spent some time at the Welfare Hospital on Welfare Island in New York serving as a subject for experimentation to determine the effect of certain environmental factors, chiefly altitude and nutrition.
Address: Private RD Brown, ERC
14101337
Co F, Barracks #1
Fort Devens, Massachusetts
Changed address: T/3 EG Tubbs, A-22Q025
WAAC
APO 4016- KF
c/o Postmaster New York, NY
Connie Spencer, who had planned to arrive this morning for a three-day vacation, has wired that she must postpone her visit indefinitely because of German measles.
John Stix will arrive next week for a six or seven days visit to the College.
COMMENTS ON THE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
Bill Berry writes: “I read it as much as I didn’t while I was at school, though now it is scarcely big enough to be satisfactory.
Bill Hanchett writes: “You bet I read the bulletin! Enjoy especially reports of college activities and news about alumni, also letters to the College.”
Bob Babcock writes: Both A.A. and I read the bulletin avidly each time it comes… I think I like best about it occasional remarks such as that one of the things to be taken up at the next faculty meeting is “barefeet and shorts”. I find highly interesting the alumni notes, because obviously many of them are the people I know. I also like your recent addition of excerpts from letters to the college.”
BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN, May 3, 1943- page 3
ESOTERIC
Proof of the often-mentioned gap existing between our way of life and the way of the outside world is the immediate return last week, along the rocky road from the concrete highway to Lake Eden, of one of our farmer charges. In spite of repeated warnings to females not to use this road, after dark, Angelica returned by foot, disillusioned by what she had seen beyond the campus.
Of course, we have no class prejudice at Black Mountain College; but it must be stated here that Angelica is no thoroughbred. That may account for her return to the simple life.
Angelica was granted the right by her former adviser, Rose Penley, to spend several days in the area of the milking parlor, then she was returned to her now owners at the Moore General Hospital.
VISITORS
Miss Lux Eisner, cousin of Frederic Cohen, on an extended visit in the United States from her home in Buenos Aires.
Mrs E.J. Maloney, from New York City, visiting her husband.
DUE TO ARRIVE
Bill McCleery on May 4.
Mrs John P Carr of Winchester, Massachusetts, and Mrs JB Jamieson of Newton Center, Massachusetts on May 5.
Mr and Mrs Isaac Newton Stokes Phelps on May 8. (Mrs Phelps was formerly Barbara Hoy, for two years a student at Black Mountain College.)
WORK PROGRAM REPORT (for week ending May 1)
The new farm-machinery shed was completed. It is 20’ x 60’, and has a twelve hundred bushel corn crib built in in one end. The shed is sided with our own rough-sawn lumber. It is located at the rear of the barn on the old stream bed. The stream was moved in order to enlarge the barnyard.
Locust posts were cut and post holes were dug for the new two-acre hog lot. The new houses were completed.
Josef Albers and a crew of student workers improved the road surface near the Lake.
Several groups of workers raked the lawns, repaired screen and lawn benches, and sand-surfaced paths.
Jane Slater and Faith Murray and assistants worked on costumes for “The Elves and the Shoemaker”.
Student crews did the regular daily jobs of cooling the milk and helping in the dining hall.
Music students joined forces with the architectural crew to advance the construction of the new five-room music-practice building. The entire building has been framed with our own cut lumber. One room is nearly ready for use.
Firewood and coal were hauled and kindling was cut.
Beets, carrots and string beans were planted in the two-acre Victory garden.
Barney Voigt and a student crew began building terrace steps for the Jalowetz Cottage.
RETURNING
Ted Dreier and Gorman Mattison will return to the College on Saturday.
BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN, May 3, 1943- page 4
FOR FACULTY DISCUSSION AND ACTION
A] Application for leaves of absence:
1. William C Berry
2. Erik Haugaard
3. Jack Swackhamer
4. Ralph Tyler
5. Tom Wentworth
B] The summary on Black Mountain College by Kenneth Kurtz.
C] Program for discussing the Upper Division Examination papers.
D] Recommendation that Betty Brett be given her trial examination the first week in June; that her examiners by Eric Bentley, Kenneth Kurtz, and Herbert Miller.
