4p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Faculty present for work camp: Peter B. Lenhart, Theodore M. Sanders, for American Seminar: Mrs. Emilio de Hoffmansthal. Students present for summer school: Mrs. Anna Lenhart, Sam Brown. Visitors- Mr. and Mrs. Michael Higgins, Miss Emily Larsen, Mrs. Anthony Tuve. Mrs. H.L. Robinson (Janie's Mother), Mrs. A.D. Stone (mother-in-law of Janie), Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas, Mrs. Louise Wright, Miss Nanette Wright. Staple in top left corner, one horizontal fold.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 10 Summer Bulletin 7
Monday, July 26, 1943
CALENDAR
This evening at 6:45 o’clock, in front of the Stone Cottage, Henry Adams will give a summary of and commentary on the news of last week.
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 class in Drama Since Ibsen will read aloud Maeterlinck’s “Pelleas and Melisande” on Wednesday evening, beginning at 7:15 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
The Board of Fellows will meet at 5[00 o’clock on Thursday afternoon in Study 10.
“What Does Nazi Education Mean and Where Does it End” will be the subject of a talk by Karl Obermann on Friday evening at 8:00 o’clock in the College Dining Hall.
There will be an informal evening of drama, music and dancing on Saturday. The four students in Dramatic Production will present the farce, “What I’m a Bachelor”, with Henry Adams playing the Lecturer, Jack Gifford the role of Algernon, and Renate is constructing the scenery for the skit.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Straus will speak this evening at the dinner meeting of the X-Club at the S and W Cafeteria on “Reminiscences of Inflation in Germany, 1919-1923.”
Heinrich Jalowetz and Frederic Cohen have agreed to serve as co-chairman of the Mussolini Post-Mortem Entertainment Committee to plan a program of celebration in due time.
The July issue of Pencil Points, an architectural magazine, contains a complete description of an Architectural Planning Center proposed by Larry Kocher. The article is generously illustrated with floor layouts and exterior and interior sketches. Larry’s plan is for coordinated planning service for the entire building industry which includes architects, representatives from industry, research experts and educators.
The Textile works will hold their Annual Convention at Lake Eden from September 12 to September 17. They plan to have an extra session from September 17 to September 26.
SPECIAL REQUESTS:
It is highly desirable that no student nor teacher schedule a tutorial or class at the time set aside for the weekly lecture. All classes now being given should be schedules through the office.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS
New Addresses: Mr. and Mrs. Morton Steinau
6402 Roosevelt Boulevard
Philadelphia 24, Pennsylvania.
(“The 24 causes mail to get here a date or two sooner than it otherwise does”)
Excerpts from Letters:
Ensign Bela Martin writes from “somewhere in the Pacific”: “Several College Bulletins arrived a couple of weeks ago. I enjoyed them very much as usual and read the paragraph about Penley’s cow out loud to the fellows who got a big kick out of it. The whole bulletin sounded ‘so healthy’ said one of my
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Friends who read it through to himself…. Most of us have shown signs of the wear and tear we have been through and hope to get a rest soon…… It’s a tough haul but now and then things come up that offer a moment of fun and relaxation, like inventor’s night when we all sat around devising traps of various sorts to catch the rodents. They scamper through the hut all night long as if sleep wasn’t already at a premium. The best trap turned out to be an open five gallon can half filled with water and crackers floating on top. The rats walked up a ramp provided, pumped in after the crackers and drowned. It was very effective and yielded a catch of four in one night…. I still marvel at the capabilities of the military airplane- what it can do and the strains it can withstand. If one were to put most planes for private use through the same paces, the wings would drop off. Fortunately the fighter plane can stand more than the human body which enables the plane to hold up…”
Sergeant Don Page has just returned to Brookley Field in Alabama after a furlough visit with his family in Deven. Colorado. He writes from Alabama on July 20: “On Friday I leave for Air Corps Administrative Officer Candidate School in Miami. The next Summer Bulletin will contain Don’s new address.
WITH THE 1942-43 STUDENTS
New Addresses: Private Burke D(yckman) Corbet
#39135160
Barracks 502
302 Training Group
Sheppard Field, Texas.
Mrs. William Charles Diffenderfer
(Dora Harrison)
1215 North Parkway
Memphis, Tennessee.
Excerpts from Letters:
Mary Brett writes from Detroit: “Today I was put on the kind of assembly job I wanted from the beginning. It is the vertical deflection dial, about the size of a clock, fairly easy eye-work, and not a too high production job as you can see by the fact that we do four a day. Finally set my 10 screws right in a row, my S taper pins, etc., passed a final examination, and there I am….. I’m going to be on the education “squad”, wear a big yellow ribbon beneath my union button. Maybe even some folk dancing. We’ll see.” Betty Brett explains: “As far as I understand it, Mary is working on the director for the M7 tank, which is being produced in the Highland Park Plant of the Ford Motor Company.”
Dyckman Corbet writes from Sheppard Field: “I remember B.M.C. in such happy retrospect and look forward to renewed associations with old classmates, not because of their marked individual superiority, but because the society in which they expressed themselves permitted them to be more delightful than most societies…. I’m an incipient air corps cadet.”
Bill McLaughlin writes from Easton, Pennsylvania: “I am working in the yard gang of a large steel mill on the outskirts of Easton Although the company’s activities consist mainly of turning out shells, my work is connected only remotely with that, for I am a member of the labor maintenance gang. We spend our days wielding pecks and shovels, hammers and saws, and occasionally sickles and scythes. It is surprisingly like the College’s work program, except that the work period is ten hours long every day, six and seven days a week…. Most of the men I work with have been laborers all their lives and it is both refreshing and enlightening to spend most of my time with them. Many are Italian… who came to this country years ago, but they are fiercely proud of being “real Americans”…….
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Isaac Nakata writes to the College Community from the Reception Center at Fort Bragg in North Carolina: “Thank you all for the swell party on my last night at Lake Eden. You made it hard for me to leave the place. I shall not forget your gesture. The unpleasantness of army life and of leaving you, you have tried to alleviate, and I appreciate it…. I am here for a few days at most, I hope. I shall try to do my best, regardless of conscientious objections to overseas duties in order to vindicare your faith in me. No man as such is indispensable. He can make it so only by correct performance of his function… Aloha!”
FROM FORMER TEACHERS
Howard Dearstyne now has a teaching job at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin. He writes: “Lawrence College has a Navy V-12 program with something like 300 students in it and is at the same time, maintaining its usual college program. I teach mechanical drafting in the navy group and architectural design in the college proper. I have 31 sailors in the drafting class and 1 sailor and 7 girls: in the design course. I’d swap: 4 or 5 girls for a couple more men in the latter class if it could be managed.”
Larry Kocher left, by car, on Saturday afternoon with his family for Long Island, where he expects to live for the duration. He was recently granted a leave of absence from Black Mountain College b the Board of Fellows. There was a farewell party for the Kochers on Friday evening on the sundeck of the Studies Building.
REPORT ON THE COMMUNITY WORK PROGRAM by Molly Gregory: (Week of July 19-24, 1943)
Food:
Fifty gallons of kraut were put up in cracks, preparatory to canning later.
Ninety-six number 10 cans of beets were put up at the Farm School.
Twenty-seven bushels of onions were pulled, then placed on drying racks in the cord crib.
The Grove Stone Field has been completely hoed once, cultivated, and partially weeded. This field will deserve a rest for while at least.
Three bushels of potatoes and eighteen pounds of butter have reached the kitchen.
Carpentry:
A gate to the Drama Shed Pasture has been completed and set up. This makes walking to the Service Building easier and the cows more securely at home.
The bull pen lacks only the final touches, and King’s Regent will stride in it tonight.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS:
Six more small pigs have arrived.
The result of a misalliance last fall has produced a fine flourishing Hereford-Gurasey bull calf. He was embarrassed the first day and hid in the cat brier.
An unknown enemy, with a partial eye, has annihilated all (13) of the yellow ducklings, leaving only the black, the ugly duckling.
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GUESTS:
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Higgins.
Miss Emily Larsen.
Mrs. Anthony Tuve.
Mrs. H.L. Robinson, Janie’s mother.
Mrs. A.D. Stone, mother-in-law of Janie.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas (Phyllis Josephs) of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Louise Wright of Boston, Massachusetts.
Miss Nanette Wright, her daughter, a prospective student.
NEW ARRIVALS:
For American Seminar: Mrs. Emilio de Hoffmansthal
For Summer School: Sam Brown, who arrived on Saturday.
DUE TO ARRIVE:
For Work Camp: July 28: Peter B. Lenhart, 70 Morningside Drive, New York City.
Theodore M. Sanders., Jr., 21 East 87th Street, New York City.
Aug. 7: Miss Irene Lott, 58 Lafayette Ave. East Orange, New Jersey.
For Summer School: July 28: Mrs. Anna Lenhart, 70 Morningside Drive, New York City.
HIGHLIGHTS OF LAST WEEK:
C.K.Robinson, Asheville Citizen editor, spoke to the College Community on “Problems of the South” in the Dining Hall on Friday evening.
Gwendolyn Currier, after six days in the Mission Hospital in Asheville, returned to Lake Eden.
On Saturday evening there was a violin-piano concert in the Dining Hall. Trudi Straus and Frederic Cohen played Beethoven “Spring Sonata” and Beethoven’s Sonata Opus 30, number 2 in C minor; and Frederic Cohen played “Rondo” by Mozart.
After the concert there was dancing to recorded music.
The members of the American Seminar were guests of the Summer School students and work campers in their studies and on the sundeck on Sunday evening for supper.
Nell Goldsmith, after a month of work camping, left Lake Eden on Sunday for her home in Milwaukee.
