4p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Includes the 1943 summer school schedule of classes. Visitors- Ruminoff, David Smith. Staple in top left corner, one horizontal fold.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 10 Summer Bulletin 5
Monday, July 12, 1943
CALENDAR
There will be a meeting of the entire community tomorrow evening at 8:45 in the Dining Hall.
There will be a meeting of the Faculty and the Student Officers on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
The Board of Fellows will meet at 5:00 o’clock on Thursday afternoon in Study 10.
The student and the work campers will meet on Friday evening at 7:00 o’clock in the lobby of North Lodge.
Dramatic Production, now scheduled for 7:00 o’clock, will meet on this Friday and on subsequent Fridays at 8:00 o’clock.
The Lion’s Club of Black Mountain will have its annual dinner at Lake Eden on Thursday evening, July 22. On this same evening the American Seminar and the other members of the College Community will have a picnic supper somewhere on the College grounds.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Instruction in dancing will be given on each Tuesday and each Wednesday evening from 6:30 to 7:10 by Elsa Kahl in the Dining Hall. Ballroom dancing will be stressed on Tuesdays; square dancing, on Wednesdays. Classes now scheduled for 7:00 o’clock on these evenings will begin at 7:15.
1943 SUMMER SCHOOL SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
*the following is displayed in a tabled grid
Monday
9:20 American Life & Letters
10:25 Psychology & Psychopathology of Language
7:00 Chorus
8:30 Drama since Ibson
Tuesday
9:20 American Sociology
10:25 Introductory Writing
11:30 Dramatic Production
4:00 Physics
7:00 Elements of Musical Form & Structure
8:30 Free for Lectures
Wednesday
9:20 American Life & Letters
10:25 Psychology & Psychopathology of Language
7:00 Drama since Ibson
8:30 Drama since Ibson
Thursday
9:20 American Sociology
10:25 Introductory Writing
11:30 European Geography
4:00 Physics
7:00 Elements of Musical Form & Structure
8:30 Ensembles
Friday
9:20 American Life & Letters
10:25 Psychology & Psychopathology of Language
7:00 Dramatic Production
8:30 Dramatic Production
Saturday
10:25 Introductory Writing
11:30 Dramatic Production
*Ensemble will be scheduled also at two other times.
TUTORIALS (by arrangement):
French conversation
Eukinetics
German
Piano
Voice
REGULAR MEETINGS
Faculty: Wednesday at 4:30 o’clock in Kocher Room
Board of Fellows: Thursday at 5:00 o’clock in Study 10.
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WITH FORMER STUDENTS
Addresses:
MR Haase, AS, USNR
450 Michigan House
West Quad, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Elmer Hall
11829 Mayfield Avenue
Los Angeles, California
Sybil Yamins
309 West 82 Street
New York 24, New York
EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS
Rudy Haase writes from Ann Arbor: “My hope that the Navy would return me to Ann Arbor when I went on active duty has been fulfilled. So now I’m here with 1300 other boys in the Naval College Training Program. Since I am an upper classman I am allowed to continue my regular engineering course, but I have to take in addition four hours of naval training every day. Needless to say I have a pretty stiff schedule, but I think I am going to rather enjoy it.”
Elmer Hall writes from Los Angeles: “I am about to start my second term at UCLA…. Franny is also starting to school again, to work off some requirements for her Doctor’s degree… Franny has been quite busy lately with a local theatrical group and has produced two plays so far, one of which she wrote herself. They were very well received… Lucian (Marquis) is doing a great deal of short story writing and his work is quite professional and well worth reading.”
John Stix writes from Hq., 59th Sig. Bn. at Fort Jackson in South Carolina: “It was with a great deal of interest and, I must confess, some surprise that I read the excerpt from the letter from George Randall regarding the plan presented for post-war education. As the time draws near, I take more and more delight in looking back upon those ‘small colleges and big ideas’ with the satisfaction of knowing that neither Black Mountain nor its distinction of educational foresight is a gorm—an out- growth- of the war. On the contrary, the war provides another challenge to its spirit of pioneering; the war provides its greatest challenge.
“It is not only the civilian who is the war time dreamer; those of us who are thrown out of our natural ruts into a world of mechanization and olive-drab, we are the ones who love to dream. A mobilized world is a world at a new low and we who see it are better for having seen it because it offers a mighty stimulus to our dreaming. We do not dwell upon what is; we dream what is to come. And many of us look, for the realization of our dreams, to those who are in position to build: among them, the small colleges with big ideas.”
Sybil Yamins was graduated from Simmons in June and is now in New York City “Just staring work… at the American Red Cross, North Atlantic Area office- secretarial work. It looks like a good set up and I’m sure, when I get adjusted a little, I will like it a great deal.”
WITH THE 1942-43 STUDENTS
Changed Addresses
Barbara Pollet
277 Park Avenue
New York City
Care of Mrs Will Bradley
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Excerpts from Letters:
Private Dick Brown writes from the Station Hospital in Atlantic City, New Jersey: “Unfortunately, the Army has cancelled all convalescent furloughs. Instead, we stay in the hospital for ten extra days. I’m very disappointed as life in the hospital is very boring and monotonous. The Red Cross valiantly tried to help overcome this, and does to a certain extent, but their aid is usually along the same lines, and in time, that, too, becomes monotonous. However, they do have a library that has some ‘good’ books in it that I am reading. Otherwise, we just loaf around. I shall be very happy to be discharged and return to my squadron.”
Barbara Pollet writes from New York City on July 5: “Having investigated factory jobs, I discovered that I could get only a very poor job for the summer months unless I took some training for a 6 weeks period, and this I did not want to do…. The gist of the matter is that I decided to be a nurse-maid for the summer I migth be called a governess by a slight stretch of the imagination. I began my new job today at 2 PM. It consists mainly in taking care of two children, aged 3 ½ (girl) and 5 ½ (boy) which leaves me the evenings to study in….. The little boy considers himself a drummer, and I have had to play the only piece of ‘boogie-woogie’ I know at least ten times already today, so that he can drum. He plays on cardboard boxes, garbage pails, chairs, everything. At least I’m making some use of my musical abilities. His father is Will Bradley, band leader, which partly accounts for the child’s interest in jazz.”
WEEK-END VISITORS
Peggy Jones of New York City, a graduate of Vassar. Cousin of Molly Gregory.
Leonid Ruminoff, the son of Mrs Catherine Ruminoff, a member of the American Seminar. Leonid is a private in the infantry at Camp Wheeler in Georgia.
David Smith, of Washington, DC, a prospective student.
FOR DISCUSSION AT THE WEDNESDAY FACULTY MEETING:
Summer Quarter Course Registration:
Students
Work Campers
2. Quarter Work- Quarter Study Plan.
SUMMARY OF LAST WEEK:
Most of the Summer School Students and the Work Campers had arrived in Lake Eden by Tuesday afternoon. They attended the General Meeting in the Dining Hall on Tuesday evening, talked with the teachers and the advisers tentatively assigned to them on Wednesday afternoon registered for courses on Wednesday evening began classes on Thursday morning.
At the Tuesday evening General Meeting in the Dining Hall Bob Wunsch acted as Chairman and spoke briefly about the need for serious work “to justify our existence in a college while many other people are fighting a war or preparing to fight of preparing weapons for fighters”. Eric Bentley emphasized the importance of concentrated study. “The teachers work hard, and they expect hard work from the students,” he said. He urged the students to make use of the library. Molly Gregory explained the place of the work program in the community. “All of us work here; it’s part of the price we pay to maintain this sort of a college community.” Several members of the American Seminar attended this meeting.
Erwin Straus returned on Wednesday evening from a short vacation in the East.
Trudi Straus and Heinrich Jalowetz gave a violin-piano concert in the Dining Hall on Saturday evening. The program included: Handel’s Vilin Sonata in A Major, Beethoven’s Romance in G Major, Beethoven’s Romance in F Major, and Schubert’s Sonatina in A Minor.
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After the concert there was dancing to piano music played by Frederic Cohen.
Yesterday Herbert Miller and four members of the American Seminar, Wilhelm Levinger, Victor Ornstein and Mr and Mrs Mark Vishniak, were guests of the Methodist Assembly at Lake Junaluska. During the morning three of the Seminar members spoke in the Assembly Inn to an audience of a hundred and fifty peopel. Mr Ornstein gave the historical background of the recent immigration of Europeans to America and expressed the hope that the new immigrants “will pay their debt to America in the same way as did former immigrants by making contributions to the culture and wealth of this new country.” Mr Lovinger described the technique used by American organizations to help refugees both in getting to America then adjusting themselves to their new environment. Mr Vishniak told something of the mental life of the Russians and its influence upon the culture and science of America. Dr Miller acted as chairman of the meeting.
The Seminar members were entertained at lunch in homes at Junaluska. During the afternoon they attended a small informal meeting where Dr Miller described Black Mountain College and the American Seminar.
All the members of the American Seminar were supper time guests on Sunday in the faculty homes at Lake Eden.
Fred Cohen and Elsa Kahl have returned from a three weeks vacation in New York City.
BIRTHS
Nine ducklings, eight canary-yellow, one black. They appeared on Lake Eden, with their mother, this morning.
