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Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 10 Bulletin 29 Monday, May 10, 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
2017.40.105a-c
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
Courtesy of the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection, Asheville Art Museum
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3p, one sided. Mimeograph on matte off white paper. Lists the cast and crew for The Elves and the Shoe Maker. Cast: Aurora Cassotta, Bill McLaughlin, Tanya Sprager, Betty Kelley, Ruth Miller, Nancy West, Faith Murray, Mary Brett, Suzanne Smith, Shirley ALlen, Barbara Pollet, Liese Kulka, Larry Fox. Crew: Elsa Kahl, Frederic Cohen, Anatole Kopp, Jane Slater, Robert Wunsch. Dances created by Elsa Kahl and music composed by Frederic Cohen. Construction and Scenery was designed bby Anatole Kopp. Jane Slater and Faith Murray designed the constumes. Staple in top left corner, two horizontal folds one vertical fold.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 10 Bulletin 29
Monday, May 10, 1943
CALENDAR
Barbara Heller will give the weekly news summary and commentary this evening at 6:45 o’clock in the lobby of North Lodge.
There will be a meeting of the College Community tomorrow evening at 6:45 in the lobby of North Lodge.
The regular weekly meeting of the Faculty (without the Student Officers) will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
Important dress rehearsals of “The Elves and the Shoemaker” will be held in the Dining Hall on Thursday and Friday evenings, beginning at 8:30 o’clock. The play will be produced at the Plaza Theater in Asheville on Saturday morning, May 15 at 10:00 o’clock in the Plaza Theater.
The Black Mountain College broadcast on Friday afternoon, 2:30-3:00 o’clock, will be a program written and directed by Kenneth Kurtz and Cynthia Carr. The subject of the program will be “The Mystery of Swift and Stella”.
The broadcast next week will be given by members of the Music Department.
The concert on Saturday evening at 8:00 o’clock in the Dining Hall will feature music by Busoni and Mozart. Trudi Straus and Heinrich Jalowetz will play Busoni’s Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Gretel Lowinsky, Trudi Straus, and Edward Lowinsky will play Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertano.
The Nineteenth Century Class will read Leonis Andreyev’s “He Who Gets Slapped” on Sunday evening, May 16, beginning at 7:30 o’clock, in the Bentley apartment.
THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
The Cast:
Widget, an elf Aurora Cassotta
Gremlo, an elf Bill McLaughlin
Finella, an elf Tanya Sprager
Heckla Betty Kelley
Karen, the Shoemaker’s daughter Ruth Miller
The Shoemaker’s Wige Nancy West
Joan Faith Murray
Rhoda Mary Brett
Meg Suzanne Smith
Tabitha Shirley Allen
Dame Margery Barbara Pollet
Ursula Liese Kulka
The Shoemaker Larry Fox
Executive Staff
Dance Director Elsa Kahl
Music Director Frederic Cohen
Stage Manager Anatole Kopp
Costume Manager Jane Slater
Dramatic Director Robert Wunsch
The dances were created by Elsa Kahl, and the music for the play was composed by Frederic Cohen. Anataole Kopp designed and designed the construction of the scenery. Jane Slater and Faith Murray designed and created the costumes.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mimi French has just completed the third black and white cover for the musical instruments in the Dining Hall.
Dr Donald W MacKinnon, a staff member of the Psychology Department at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania has agreed to come to Lake Eden early in June to give oral examinations to Gisela Kronenberg.

BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN, Monday, May 10, 1943- page 2
The Nation is shortly to publish Eric Bentley’s translation of “Die Juedische Frau”, a scene from a dramatic sequence Furcht Und Elend Des Dritten Reiches by Bertolt Brecht.
Bob Wunsch has been invited to address the American Association of University Women on “Black Mountain College” in Blacksburg, Virigina on May 25 and to talk to the students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute on May 26.
WITH FORMER STAFF MEMBERS
Dorothy Trayer writes, in part, from the New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord: “This is not the warm, sunny South; this is windy, wintry New Hampshire. Not democracy-loving, community-spirited BMC, but the political, casto-systemed State Mental Hospital… I’ve not yet become accustomed to the something eerie that permeates the whole place, to the dark subterranean tunnels that connect the ten or twelve different buildings, to dumb staring faces or shrill laughs seemingly coming from nowhere, to having almost everyone- from your waitress in the dining hall to the man who washes your test tubes- described as a ‘patient’ or ‘ex-patient’, to looking up suddenly from my microscope and finding someone staring in the door and then quickly scampering away, to being greeted with a coy “peek-a-boo’ by a grey-haired old lady. Nor, on the other hand, am I yet used to having my room cleaned daily and beds fixed, and to living with my husband.
“Really, though, we like the setup. Our quarters are very comfortable, and though Ray works many more hours than I and is not allowed to eat in the same dining room, we have a good bit of time together. Fortunately, the “gap” between the technical stuff and the attendants exists only on duty. Ray’s work is in a men’s ward, with noy only mental but every other disease imaginable. The laboratory, in which I work, does all the State Board and Healthwork as well as the hospital work. For a short while I am doing hematology and will then work into the bacteriology department to replace the present bacteriologist who will be drafted any moment.
“My philosophy of the fewer keys one carries the less worries, has been completely blown to the wind: my lab coat packet now bulges with various and sundry keys. One locks every door behind him and cannot even use the elevators without the proper key.
“The question mark around our present ‘humane society’ now looms larger as we wonder about the elaborate efforts made to prolong the agony and suffering of these pitiful specimens of human beings while the slaughter of the young and physically fit daily increases.”
WITH FORMER STUDENTS
Alice Lee Swan is now in the Near East after very exciting experiences in Tiensin under Japanese occupation. She was in Tiensin from the bombing of Pearl Harbor until September, 1942; During that time her baby was born. From Tiensin she and her husband and baby were taken to South Africa. Here Alice studied commercial art. She is married to Walter Gerald Graham.
Corporal Doughten Cramer, 31152068, is now with the 92 Repair Squadron, 44 Air Depot Group, Barracks 506, Brookley Field in Mobile, Alabama. He was drafted into the Army last September. He took his first schooling at Keesler Field in Mississippi, on the Gulf Coast; then he was sent to Chanute Field near Champaign, Illinois where he learned to be a specialist on the electrical systems of aeroplanes. He was graduated from Chanute Field, then sent to Key Field near Meredian, Miss.
Lucian Marquis is leaving New York shortly, with his sister, for his home in California. He expects to be drafted soon.
Paul Wiggin is now with the Merchant Marines in Iran. He expects to leave shortly for the United States.

BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN, Monday, May 10, 1943- page 3
Private Claude Stoller writes from the 14th C A Band, Fort Worden, Washington: “Life is very easy for me now here in the Army. I’m in the regimental band. It’s a full time job and I play the flute and piccolo. We play for parade and military ceremonies. It is very easy work and there’s a lot of spare time. However, I’m still not satisfied- what I want is for them to send me to college. I still think that they might.
Mendez Markes writes: “That I am ‘working’ in the office of the New Yorker magazine is somewhat misleading, for while I have had the good fortune to be added to the staff, I am very seldom ‘in the office;”.
Frances Kuntz expects to visit Lake Eden early in June.
A LETTER
To Whom May be sitting in the office:
Private Oppenheimer reporting on a recent bulletin which asked all alumni to give their reaction to the College Bulletin.
I read it regularly and enjoy it a great deal but since I have only recently left college the only suggestion I might make is that it be longer. It’s always interesting to hear what’s going on in your old home town or the college community. It’s equally interesting to read such pieces as the article for the Progressive Education Encyclopedia for we have little contact with the ideas we believe in while serving in the army, at least that’s my experience. If we can’t live them, we can at least read about them.
So please continue sending me some bulletins at my new address, an amazing address covering nearly two envelopes in any normal script (or rather in my script.)
A/s Herbert Oppenheimer, 14133800
US Army Air Forces
63rd CTD (Air Crew)
Squadron B, Section 6
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
I’m only 130 miles from school but doubt that I’ll be able to visit the college. This place will all its regulation is still a bit frightening, but the future looks quite good; 5 months of it being here. Hope all goes well at the college.
Sincerely, (signed) Oppy
THE SOLDIERS’ SAVING PLAN
Claude Stoller is the first Black Mountain College student to indicate a desire to participate in the post-war education saving plan. He writes: “Morton told me before I left that the College owed my father a refund of about $80. I’m sending my father the $80; and could you hold on to the refund as part of my future tuition”.
FOR FACULTY DISCUSSION
Bill McCleery’s suggestion about vocational advisees for Upper Division students.
Candidates for Upper Division.

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