4p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Visitors- Henry Adams, Mrs A. D. Stone, Miss Isabel Cary, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. H B Adams, Mr and Mrs Henry Leonard. Staple in top left corner, one horizontal fold.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 10 Summer Bulletin 8
Monday, August 2, 1943
CALENDAR
“The Jew in Central Europe” is the subject of an address to be given by Victor Ornastein, a member of the American Seminar, on Tuesday evening at 8:00 o’clock in the College 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 class in Drama Since Ibsen will read aloud Gerog Kaiser’s “The Coral” 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.
On Saturday evening, beginning at 8:00 o’clock, there will be a recorded performance of Mozart’s “Cosi fan Tutte”, preceded by a brief talk by Heinrich Jalowetz.
On Sunday evening the members of the American Seminar will be hosts to the Black Mountain College faculty at supper time in the lobby of North Lodge.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
A review by Eric Bentley appears in The Nation this week under the title “Brecht: Poetry, Drama and the People”.
Ted Dreier left on Thursday afternoon for the East to continue the raising of funds to insure the continuing of the College next session.
Barney Voigt will leave on Wednesday morning for Washington, DC. Later he will go to New York City where he will spend the fall collaborating with Christopher Tunnard on a book on landscape architecture.
Mrs Louise Wright has been employed by the College as an assistant in the Business Office.
The class in Dramatic Production begins work today on James M Barrie’s “The Twelve Pound Look”.
FROM THE COLLEGE BULLETIN BOARD
On Friday afternoon, August 6, the muscular numbers of the community will depart for the week-end to climb Mt Mitchell, the highest mountain east of the Rockies. Those interested and able hikers will need blankets (or preferably sleeping bags) and packs in which to carry food and cooking utensils. The party will return Sunday evening. See Bob Orr or Bas Allen for further information.
WITH THE TEACHERS
Addresses: Francis de Graaff
6308 SE 28th Avenue
Portland 2, Oregon
(until August 18)
Francis de Graaff writes from Madison, Wisconsin, on July 24: “There is only one week left of my stay in Madison. Time went very fast, but it was an interesting and very refreshing and stimulating period….. I shall try to be back (at Lake Eden after a visit in Portland, Oregon) about he 18th of August, so that I can still do some teaching during the summer quarter.”
Black Mountain College received a telegram from Berkeley, Calif. On July 29: “Arrived happily. Mother is fine. Naomi Ruth Lowinsky.”
Edward Lowinsky writes from Berkely: “You can imagine how glad I am to be able to finish the book…. I have dived into my work. The library here is splendid and the climate is made for hard work. I cannot tell you how refreshing it is after a
BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN- Summer Bulletin #8- August 2, 1943
Year’s teaching to do some research work of your own. I know, I just couldn’t live without without this source of regeneration. I have already now half a dozen of new research projects and sometimes I wish I could tackle all of them at the same time. But the Army shall take care of this…. I have been deferred until September. Of course, I don’t know whether I’ll be accepted though the changes are I will.”
Mac Wood writes from Pittsburgh, New York: “Our return is being delayed until the last week in August… I keep pretty busy with small jobs of Architectural Designing and construction for old clients here and with various kinds of volunteer war work.”
WITH THE 1942-43 STUDENTS
New Addresses:
Marilyn J Bauer
3614 Tolland Road
Cleveland 22, Ohio
Betty Kelley
Prisceilla Beach Theatre
c/o White Horse Beach Post Office
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Marilyn writes from Cleveland: “It’s just an ordinary summer…. I’m working for Dad, who is a civil engineer, and I do what is known as record-running, involving about eight miles of walking per day to the Court House, etc., getting deeds, city surveys, county surveys, blueprints like made, and in my space time doing minor calculations and filling out the Social Security and State Unemployment Forms. It’s tiring, but not boring, except the time I had to copy eighty deeds in two days, all of them saying the same things with different sub-lot numbers…. I come home from work every night with just enough energy to flop into bed.”
Betty Kelley and Homer Bobilin have announced their engagement.
Irene Sagan writes from Forest Hills, Long Island: “Going to Columbia has made me realize how lucky I am to go to BMC. Just the train trip daily seems to take so much energy, time, patience and I don’t know what out of you. And the place is so big! There are literally thousands of people milling about the place, whistles blow, midshipmen march, bugles are blown- of course always just as the prof is saying something important, and everybody is continually rushing. Also I am missing the country. Somehow brick buildings are not too inspiring… You wanted to know some news of former students. Priscilla Huntington, who was at the work camp two summers ago, got married about a month ago… Two weeks ago Mendez had another party. His apartment seems to be a general rendez-vous, with people dropping in at almost any time.”
IN THE OFFICE MAIL
Tom Sears, Chief of the Picture Division of the Office of War Division, writes: “The Office of War Information would like to have, for overseas publication, six or seven photographs of Black Mountain College. We are particularly interested in photographs such as the one on the cover of your bulletin, Volume 1, and the construction of the buildings themselves by students and the faculty.”
WITH FORMER STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
New Addresses:
Lieutenant George Henderickson
D-507 CA (AA)
Long Beach, California
Mr & Mrs Joseph Martin
3819 W Street, SE
Washington 20, DC
Pvt Fred M Stone
903 Flight, 170 D, BYC 9
Miami Beach, Florida
Lieutenant John J Kasik
0-1645091
1113th Sig Co, 54 Serv GF
APBR, Avon Park, Florida
Lieut Roman Maciejezyk
18th Replacement Pocl
US Army Air Base
Salt Lake City, Utah
BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN- Summer Bulletin #8- August 2, 1943
Excerpts from Letters:
Lieutenant Hendrickson writes from the 507 Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft Battery at North Long Beach in California: “Since arriving here I have attended three schools- the Western Defense Command Camouflage School at Pasadena, the 37th Brigade of Chemical Warfare and the 37 Birgade Radar School at Redando Beach. Education I am getting whether I like it or not- I love it…….. I was married May 18 to a girl I met the summer we were at Milford…… We are very happy and I get home 26 hours out of the week!”
Lieutenant Kasik writes from Forida: “My report would have been oral is all had gone according to plan last week-end when I expected to pay you a visit. Instead, my orders came through to proceed to Avon Park Bombing Range…… The other companies…… have come together for the first time too, and all units are reacting like a cast called together for the first time to rehearse their roles. Our next phase, or rehearsal, will take place in a few weeks when we move to Lakeland, Florida…… My quarters are by shrubs, pain trees, and low hanging Spanish moss. My barrack, however, is nicer to look at than to live in: my net covered bunk is in the hall (since we are overcrowded) and the shower room is a community affair in a separate building. I use it sparingly when it gets dark as the mosquitos are larger and braver than the ones I met in Camp Murphy….. The college bulletin are still my favorite reading!”
Lieutenant Roman Macijcyk writes from Sherman Oaks, California: “Yes, cadet days are over; and now Roman sports wings and gold bars…. Altogether, there are ten blessed days before the necessity of reporting to Salt Lake City….. It has an unenviable reputation among flyers; yet it means leaving Texas, and the Texas’ Hell it can only be a Purgatory. Of course, we don’t know whether we’ll be heavy bomber or not. Most favorable would be the Ferry Command, yet there’s a long list for that. Anyway this is a definite step from the trainers- especially as during the last month the instructors threatened to make an instructor out of me; at one point suicide appeared the only alternative and it was a bright one at that….. Yesterday’s lunch found no busily gobbling up Mrs Mangold’s ration points…. She told of a promotion Fred just received….. She has a restful little nook and looks much better than during those enervating days last summer when there were huge arguments about cutting down trees….. And since this is California, why not go by way of Frisco and drop in on Radin and see what has kept him so busy that he’s completely neglected his correspondence…”.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Born to Mr and Mrs Albert G Gufgeon, of 41 Ninety-Third Street in Brooklyn, a 7 pound ounce girl who has been name Gloria Joan. Mrs Gudgeon was formerly Gloria Larsen.
Born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Martin, on July 28, a son wheighing 6 pounds and 12 ounces. The baby has been named David Clark.
REPORT ON THE COMMUNITY WORK PROGRAM WEEK OF JULY 26-JULY 31:
A relatively calm week with few crises. No canning andno births’ even the garden was in a faint decline, and the ground was too wet to hoe.
The bull pen was completed and the grounds around it cleaned up.
The pasture area was scythed, and phosphates distributed.
A late planting of beans is in the ground.
Mr Higgins made the library a fine set of shelves.
Ken Kurtz scythed the sides of the road from the New Building to the Dining Hall. Some areas of the lawn near the lodges were mowed- I’m not sure which areas.
A student crew constructed a simple set for the Saturday evening production of “Why I Am a Bachelor”.
BMC COMMUNITY BULLETIN- Summer Bulletin #8, August 2, 1943
The painting of the Stone Cottage kitchen was begun.
Molly Gregory
DEPARTING
Henry Adams left this morning for Raleigh for military work and study at North Carolina State College.
Mrs AD Stone will leave on the afternoon train for her home in Richmond, Virginia.
GUESTS
Miss Isabel Cary, Copywriter from the Tuttle Agency in New York City.
Mr and Mrs Michael Higgins.
Mr and Mrs HB Adams were week-end visitors at Lake Eden. They came up from Lenoir for the Saturday evening program and to help Henry pack.
DUE TO ARRIVE
Mr and Mrs Henry Leonard, who will attend the last sessions of the American Seminar, then remain at Lake Eden until September as guests. They will arrive on Wednesday. Mrs Leonard was for many years one of the most prominent concert singers in Germany. She is now on the staff of the Cincinnati College of Music. Mr Leonard was for many years connected with the Ullstein Publishing House in Berlin.
HIGHLIGHTS OF LAST WEEK
There was considerable rain, but most of it fell in three heavy downpours instead of in multitudinous showers, such as Lake Eden experienced during the three previous weeks.
Karl Obermann, a member of the American Seminar, spoke to the Summer Community in the Dining Hall on Friday evening on the theme: “What Does Nazi Education Mean and Where Does it End?” A discussion followed the talk.
There was an informal entertainment for the Community on Saturday evening. After a half hour of community singing, led by Eric Bentley, the students in Dramatic Production presented “Why I Am A Bachelor”, a comedy skit in four scenes. Then Heinrich Jalowetz and Frederic Cohen played “Hofballtaenze” by Joseph Lanner arranged for two pianos by Frederic Cohen. Dancing concluded the program.
The American Seminar and the College were represented yesterday at Lake Junaluska by Mrs Abbott, Mrs Oliver Freud, Mrs Lilly Koerber, Herbert Miller and Erwin Straus in a session sponsored by the Professional Woman’s Guild of the Methodist Church. Dr Miller acted as Chairman of the delegation and introduced the other four members who spoke on the general subject “What the Refugee Can Contribute to America”.
The members of the American Seminar entertained the students and work campers on the porch of North Lodge on Sunday evening at the supper hour.
IN TODAY’S MAIL
New Addresses: Private I S Nakata, 34085802
Co F, 442 Infantry
Camp Shelby, Mississippi
FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MEETING
Mr Michael Higgins will present his plans for a Lake Eden print shop.
The Faculty will discuss the vacancy in the Board of Fellows.
There will be a discussion on the academic work of the Summer School students.
