4p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Mentions the American Seminar schedule starting July 7. Staple in top left corner, one horizontal fold.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 10 Summer Bulletin 4
Monday, July 5, 1943
CALENDAR
There will be a meeting of the Faculty and the Student Officers this morning at 11:00 o’clock in the Kocher Room to plan the curriculum for the Summer Quarter.
There will be a meeting of the Faculty and the Student Officers this afternoon at 5:00 o’clock in the Kocher Room to listen to Kenneth Kurtz read his paper on Black Mountain College prepared with the Publicity Committee for the Office of War Information for distribution in foreign countries.
There will be a meeting of the Summer Quarter students and the work campers tomorrow evening at 8:00 o’clock in the Dining Hall.
The members of the American Seminar may attend the meeting.
All Work Campers will see Robert Orr about fees in the Business Office on Wednesday morning.
The students and the work campers will register for the Summer Quarter courses in the College Office before 9:00 P.M. on Wednesday.
The Summer Quarter classes will begin on Thursday morning at 8:15 o’clock.
There will be a concert on Saturday evening at 8:00 o’clock in the College Dining Hall.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Gretel and Edward Lowinsky left Lake Eden for California last Monday afternoon. They expect to spend the summer in Berkeley.
Polly Boyden left Black Mountain College on Friday morning.
Quintus and Eddie Dreier will leave Black Mountain this afternoon for New York City. In a few days they will go to Lake George, to join Ted and Bobbie there.
The Children of the Black Mountain Orphanage have been granted permission to come up to the College twice weekly on Wednesday morning at 11 and on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock.
Dr. Straus, Elsa Kahl and Fred Cohen will return to Lake Eden on Thursday morning, after short vacations in the East.
Marion Sands, secretary in the Business Office, is leaving Black Mountain College this week end. Her work is being partially taken over by Robert S. Kumabe, a Graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Business and a native of Hawaii.
Larry Kocher expects to return to Lake Eden the end of this week. “Mis Alumnos Northamericanos”, an article on Black Mountain College by Herminio Vila, appears in the June 20 issue of Bohemia a pictorial weekly published in Havana. Mr. Portell Vila was a professor of history at Black Mountain College in the early days of the institution.
THE AMERICAN SEMINAR
Regular Daily Schedule beginning July 7.
Breakfast (daily except Sunday): 7:30-8:00; Sunday: 8:30-9:00
Cleaning up rooms and making up beds (daily except Sunday): 8.00-9.00. Sunday: 9:30-10:00.
Radio news: 9:00-9:15: North Lodge Lobby
General Assembly (daily except Sunday): 9:15-9:30: North Lodge Lobby
American Life and Letters: Kenneth Kurtz: Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 9:30-10:30: North Lodge Lobby
American Sociology: Herbert Miller: Tuesday and Thursday: 9:30-10:30: North Lodge Lobby
Phonetics: (daily, except Sunday,: 10:30-11:00: Music Cottag
Introductory Writing: Robert Wunsch: Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 11:00-12:00: North Lodge Lobby
The English Language: Rosamund Tuve: Tuesday and Thursday: 11:00-12:00: North Lodge Lobby
Mail: 12:00-12:30: Dining Hall Entrance
Lunch (daily except Sunday): 12:30. Sunday: 1:00 P.M.
Rest and Recreation: 1:30-3:30
Tutorials, by arrangement: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 3:30-6:00: Studies Building
Supper (daily except Sunday): 6:00
Papersack lunches on Sunday
After- Supper Singing: 7:00: Steps of North Lodge.
Evening Programs will be announced later.
Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, N.J. has agreed to address the American Seminar at Lake Eden this summer.
COURSES OFFERED DURING SUMMER QUARTER 1943
I. The Arts:
A. Art:
Josef Albers will give Fundamental Design, an art course with practical exercises in basic forms and color problems, the last eight weeks of the Summer Quarter.
B. Drama:
1) Drama since Ibson: Eric Bentley Two evening a week
2) Dramatic Production: Bob Wunsch Three to six hours a week. (Two one-act plays and one full-length play)
3) Eukinetics (Body Movement for Actors): Elsa Kahl (by arrangement)
C. Music:
Music classes and tutorials by arrangement with Heinrich Jalowetz and Frederic Cohen. Time and place of Chorus, open to everyone, will be announced later.
D. Weaving:
Anni Albers will give a class in Beginning Weaving if there are sufficient students and a class in Advanced Weaving.
II. Language and Literature:
American Life and Letters: Kenneth Kurtz.
Three one-hour classes each week (Meeting for six weeks with the American Seminar)
B. French Conversation: Henry Freud (A non-credit course)
A one-hour meeting five times a week
C. German
Trudi Straus will teach a course in German for Beginners if enough students want to take such a course. Three one-hour classes each week.
D. Introductory Writing: Robert Wunsch
Three one-hour classes each week
E. Journalism: Dorothy Mattison
Two one-hour classes a week Laboratory work on the Asheville newspapers
III. Science and Mathematics:
Botany: Plant Identification: Barney Voigt
Three one-hour classes a week
B. European Geography: Oliver Freud
One one-hour class each week
C. Mathematics: Trigonometry (unless other work in mathematics is desired): Oliver Freud.
Three one-hour classes each week
D. Physics: Elementary Physics: Oliver Freud
Two one-hour classes each week
IV. Social Sciences: Psychology, Philosophy and Sociology
American Sociology (for 6 week only): Herbert Miller
Two one-hour classes each week (with especially assigned work for Summer School Students)
B. Psychology and Psychopathology of Language: Erwin Straus
Three one-hour classes each week.
To get a description of the courses offered this quarter students should see the instructors listed below at the times and places indicated.
TUESDAY: P.M.
1:30: Drama since Ibseon: Eric Bentley: in Study 145 in Studies Bldg
2:00: German: Trudi Straus: In Straus Cottage
2:30: Introductory Writing: Bob Wunsch: in Study 10 in St.Bldg
3:00: American Life and Letters: K.Kurtz: in “11” “”
3:30: Plant Identification: B.Voigt: in Biology Laboratory
4:00: Trigonometry: Oliver Freud: in Science Building
4:30 Physics: Oliver Freud: in Science Building
5:00: American Sociology: Herbert Miller: in Study 46
WEDNESDAY: A.M.
9:00: Psychology and Psychopathy of Language: Erwin Straus
(Meet Kenneth Kurtz in Study 11 in Studies Building)
9:30: Dramatic Production: Bob Wunsch: in Study 10 of St.Bldg.
10:00 Weaving: Anni Albers: in Weaving Room
10:30 Journalism: Dorothy Mattison: in Study 144 in Studies Bldg.
11:00: All Music Students: Heinrich Jalowetz: in Jalowetz Cottage
11:30: European Geography: Oliver Freud: Science Building
12:00: French Conversation: Mrs. Henry Freud: on Bench in front of Dining Hall
Each student, after consultation with his advisor on Wednesday afternoon, will register before 9:00 P.M. in the Cottage Office for the Summer Quarter.
Advisors will be appointed tentatively for the new students and the new work campers. Old students and old work campers will choose their own advisors. No advisor should have more than five advisors.
Summer Quarter Advisors: The following tentative assignments have been made:
For Students:
Henry Black, Erwin Straus
(K.Kurtz will act as advisor until Dr.St.return
Roxane Dinkowitz Heinrich Jalowetz
John Gifford Bob Wunsch
Ronate Klopper Bob Wunsch
Sue McNeil Heinrich Jalowetz
Louise Minster Heinrich Jalowetz
John Stranch Fritz Hansgirg
Margaret Straus Erwin Straus
(K.Kurtz will act as advisor until Dr.St.return
b) for Work Campers
Beate Gropius Anni Albers
Peter Linhart Molly Gregory
Phyllis Salaway Heinrich Jalowetz
Michael Sanders Dorothy Mattison
Janet Seaton Molly Gregory
Each work camper will be permitted to take one regular course and the evening “open courses” without payment of extra tuition. For music courses and “extra” courses work campers should make financial arrangements with Bob Orr in the College Office.
A schedule for the Summer Quarter Classes will be posted on the Bulletin Board by breakfast time on Thursday morning.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
Addresses: Lieutenant Eric BARNITZ, A.C.
620 Irving Ave. Syracuse, N.Y.
A/S Herbert Oppenheimer
Squadron I, Section 21, 63rd College Tng. Detachment
U.S. Army Air Forces, University of Tennessee
Knoxville 30, Tennessee.
Excerpts from
Lieutenant Thomas Brooks left Fort Knox, Kentucky on Saturday for a ten day vacation. He writes, in part: “At the end of that time I will report to Camp Campbell, Kentucky…. Since I finished O.C.S., I have been going through three weeks of tank work as a tank commander on both light and medium tanks and I have just finished a week as platoon leader of a reconnaissance platoon as it went through its paces. The tank course is about the hardest in the country and it is progressively as hard on the tank crews. While on these problems we have bivouaced at night, and I almost feel as though I’ve had my fill of sleeping on the cold, cold ground.”—Tommy’s new address will be given in a subsequent issue of the Bulletin.
Phyllis Josephs (Mrs. Frank Thomas) writes from 2235 North Broad Street in Philadelphia: “I have been reading the Bulletin with real enthusiasm. It’s wonderful to see news of my old friends, to know what the College is doing now, to read of the many changes that are taking place… But the time has come when I can no longer be satisfied with just reading about B.M.C. By gosh, I’m coming down! Two solid weeks of vacation are coming my way this summer, and as things stand now, I think
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Frank will be getting one week from the Medical School at the same time. If he does—and I should know definitely during the first week of July, we plan to come down to visit Lake Eden the last week in July.”
Phyllis is still working at Sharpe and Dohme’s, pharmaceutical manufacturers in Philadelphia. She Is now editor-in-chief of the company’s magazin; it is her responsibility to see it through from start to finish. In conjunction with the job, she has been made a member of the Labor Management Publicity Committ
Noltso Woston writes from Scuthbury, Conn.: “Think your idea of a Post-War Fund shows true Black Mountain forethought and superior intelligence. Can’t say that my present field of endeavor allows much room for canvassing- am still at the school for mental deficiency- unless you are interested in starting an Institute of Higher Learning for the feeble minded of which there are already plenty…”
Corporal Evarts writes, in part, from Gulfport, Mississippi on Monday, June 29: “I spent yesterday and a few hours of the night before in Mobile with Don Page and Doughton Cramer. Had a grand time seeing them too… Don goes this week on his furlough- to Denver, this time. Doughton is doing well. I’ll probablt see them again later on in the summer… I saw Dodic Harrison last week in New Orleans- on the day she was getting married… Very busy. Very hot. But the weekends do make up for the bad parts of the week…”
WITH THE 1942-43 STUDENTS:
Cynthia Carr wrote last week from her home in Winchester, Mass.: “Don’t scream, I am going to become a welder. I am hired, starting Monday night (from quarter of nine to six thirty) and will probably be trained for a month or so. But of course I get paid while learning, so that’s fine. It’s a small plant called Metal Fabricators over in Cambridge which makes filters for Diesel engines. Suzy Noble works there, not as a welder but sort of as a production checker or something.. it will be half time so that she can keep on at sched.”
MAIN EVENTS OF THE WEEK ENDING JULY 4:
Most of the members of the American Seminar arrived by train from the East on Wednesday afternoon. That evening there was a social period in the lobby of North Lodge to enable the Seminar members, the tutors and the other people at Lake Eden to get acquainted. At this tea each Europe-born person, gave a brief account of his life.- On Sunday morning the members of the American Seminar and Herbert Miller, Bob Orr and Bob Wunsch attended the services at All Soul’s Church in Biltmore; the Fourth of July sermon by the Reverand Isaac Northrup stressed the necessity for Americans to counteract in the lives of refugees the deep effects of Nazi hatred and sadism by appreciation and affection. The members of the Seminar were dinner guests in Asheville houses.—on Sunday evening the College Community attended a Fourth of July program in the Dining Hall. Herbert Miller spoke of the value to American of the refugee, Kenneth Kurtz read several papers from the American Scriptures, and Fritz Hansgirg played the Paul Robeson recordings of “Ballad for Americans”.
A GIFT
Black Mountain College has just received a grant of one thousand dollars from the Marshal Field Foundation.
