5p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. In the Last Week section: "At a meeting of the Faculty and Student Officers on Tuesday afternoon in the Kocher Room, it was unanimously decided to continue the College - recent gifts from foundations and former and present students and their parents and from the friends of the College seemed to make the action justifiable." Staple in top left corner, one horizontal fold.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 10 Summer Bulletin II
Monday, August 16 (*23 typed above), 1943
CALENDAR:
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 Drama Since Ibsen Class will read aloud Anton Chekhov’s “The Sea Gull” on Wednesday evening 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.
Mrs Henry Leonard and Miss Radiana Pazmore, accompanied by Heinrich Jalowetz, will give a concert of duets on Thursday evening, August 23, in the Dining Hall; beginning at 8:30 o’clock. The program will include music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms.
The Dramatic Production Class will present James M. Barrie’s “The Twelve Pound Look” The cast of the play includes Jack Gifford as Harry Sims, Beate Gropius as Mrs Sims, Renate Klepper at Kate, and Jimmy Stranch as Tombes, the Butler. The scenery is being planned and created by Louise Minster.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Frances de Graff returned to Lake Eden on Wednesday morning.
Jack Lipsey left early last week for Atlanta for hospitalization. He will return to Lake Eden after his convalescence. During Jack’s absence Malory Few is in charge of the kitchen. Letters will reach Jack at the following address: 91 Jackson Street, S.E., Atlanta Georgia.
Forman Mattison left, by car, on Thursday morning for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to take up his new work. His Pittsburgh address is: The Community Fund, 519 Smithfield Street.
Herbert and Mrs Miller accompanied Matty as far as Washington.
Mae and Emily Wood will return to Lake Eden this week and after a three months vacation in Pittsford, New York.
Cash gifts to Black Mountain College in the Student Campaign totalled $870.14 at noon on Satuday.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
Ruth Herschberger
Imperial Hotel
Sumter, South Carolina
Fernando D. Leon
5251 Netherlands Avenue
Riverdale, New York 63
Mrs B.J. Pisani
(Brenda Teir)
240 East 79th. Street
New York City, New York
Corporal Harold B. Raymond
Hq.60.877 A/B Engineers
Westover Field,
Chicopee Falls,
Massachusetts
Excerpts from Recent Letters:
Fernando writes from Columbia University: “I am busy, like
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Everybody else now-adays, finishing up my steady and unexciting job. Shall graduate in October with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Most of my fellow students will receive commissions from the Army or Navy Air Corps, upon graduation; but that is closed for me, being an alien. From industry, however, I have received several offers, the most interesting up to this moment being from Chrysler. I went up to Detroit last week to find out more about it, and it is very probable- almost positive- that by November I shall be building tanks, trucks, aircraft engines etc., together with an opportunity to continue my students and obtain my Master’s Degree in Automobile Engineering within two years… It is not my final aim to be able to design and build cars; it isn’t probably either within engineering. But engineering is a good profession which gives one the satisfaction of having a definite place in any constructive society….. Black Mountain College background has proved very useful up to now, and will be more so in the future. It was mostly by accident that I landed there; but had I had the power, and the necessary good sense, to plan my education beforehand, I could hardly have found a better combination… Paco has been ill from broncho-pneumonia. He is well now but still in bed recuperating energies….”
Corporal Harold Raymond writes from Chicopee Fallas Massachussetts: “My job is still in the message center of the 877 A/B Engineers Bn. It’s easy work now that I know it well enough to make it largely a matter of routine. We are leading the outdoor life with a vengeance now, with the whole outfit bivouacked in the woods and sand dunes. It’s not bad after you get used to it, but kind of a shock for a while to the average American who is used to hot water, bathrooms, ect- off of tables and the other comparative luxuries of garrison life, not to mention the almost legendary world of civilian existence….. I have great faith in the College and what it is doing, a faith which has steadily grown over the last year when I have been living a totally different existence…. The nature of my job is such that I have quite a few free evenings, which I generally spend up at the post library. I have been attempting to keep up with my historical reading and brush up on my literature and math on the side. It’s rather hard to do though, as the library is nearly a mile and a half away, and I find it hard to do more than rather sketchy reading…”
WITH THE 1942-43 STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Pfc. Richard Brown, 14101337,
809 Tech Sch Sqd.,
Bks. 43I
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Excerpts from Recent Letters:
Renate Benfey writes from Groton, Massachusetts:”The longer I am away from the College, the more the Bulletins mean to me. At first they didn’t seem at all important, no more so than on the bulletin board, but now I wait for them anxiously and they represent College life to me. The excerpts from letters are the parts that I enjoy especially, since they keep you in touch with the other former students. The summary of the work program is another excellent part of the Bulletins, I think…. Lowthorpe School, Groton, Massachusetts will be our permanent address. From September 27th on I will be at 334 Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston, care of Dr. Goldstein, going to the Hickoe School…”
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Dick Brown writes from the Technical School in Sioux Falls South Dakota: “Two weeks after U was discharged from the hospital they shipped me to this God-forsaken country… I’m here to study radio and then to go to aerial gunnery school. All in all, the post itself is quite nice, except for the ever-present coal smoke; there is a service club which serves as a second home, and everything else imaginable, a lagoon of sorts for boating, a roller skating rink, two theaters, a gym, archery and many other things…. Our schedule is a bit upsidedown. We get up at midnight and start classes at two. Classes are over at 10:00 A.M., and then two hours of physical training. From noon until 4:00 is supposedly free, and tape at 4:30. It’s a bit strenuous at first, but we get adjusted and usually welcome bed in mid-afternoon….”
Betty Kelly writes from the Priscilla Beach Theater in Plymouth Massachusetts: “We took “The Warriors Husband” to Rocky Point, a small outpost, last night. We had dinner is the mess hall, then moved back into tables, got into costumes, set up a little scenery, and the play began. Afterwards there was dancing to records, and coca-cola and candy from the P.A. for refreshments. Tonight we will go to the Camp Edwards with the play. Our audience will be composed entirely of Negro soldiers…. Friday and Saturday nights “The Famous Mrs Pair”, (in which I am playing the part of Mrs Perrin) wil go to the theater in Dixbury. I am getting to see quite a little bit of the New England countryside as a result of our touring….”
Otis Levy writes from Camp Robinson in Arkansas: “Well, basic training is over. The week it ended was to have been a big one for me, since I would get my sergeants stripes and a transfer into the Air Corps. It seems, however, that I couldn’t have them both- I chose the Army Air Corps… I rather regret leaving the Cavalry Recons….. Of my brief career with the Recons about all that can be said is: ‘He was Senior Radio Operator and machine gunner, and he had the amazing record not having done K.P. once’.... They’re giving me a furlough- something I never expected to get…. I’ll try to visit B.M.C on ny way home…”
Notes:
Mary Brett is working in the Highland Park Plant of the Ford Industries, assembling small parts in the “crack apparatus that uncannily points ground guns at enemy aircraft… She has done some volunteer work in a Defense Nurserey and is now training for the Educational Flying Squadron…..”
WITH FORMER TEACHERS:
New Addresses:
Joe J. King, Chief,
Regional Cooperative Section
United States Department of Agriculture
Farm Security Administration
Terminal Sales Building
Portland 5, Oregon
Excerpts from Letters:
Joe King writes from Oregon: “I thoroughly enjoy my function in F.S.A. Incidentally one of the things Black Mountain College did for me was to convince me that I would never enjoy teaching and consequently would scarcely put my best effort into teaching. My desire and evidently my best contribution, is to be in federal work with a social significance…. Kindly give my personal regards to the faculty who were at the College 1937-38. My wife and I learned a great deal in that short year….”
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LAST WEEK AT LAKE EDEN:
The weather was generally fair and cool; and for the first time in nearly two months, the mountains were free of low hanging clouds.
At a meeting of the Faculty and Student Officers on Tuesday afternoon in the Kocher Room, it was unanimously decided to continue the College- recent gifts from foundations and former and present students and their parents and from the friends of the College seemed to make the action justifiable.
The new College bulletin, “Graduation at Black Mountain”, reached Lake Eden on Thursday morning. They had been printed in Asheville.
The College teachers and their wives and the members of the College staff had a farewell wine party for Dorothy and Gorman Mattison on Thursday evening in Bob Wunsch’s study.
On Friday evening most of the students and work campers and Molly Gregory and Rose Ponley went on a hay ride in the farm wagon, drawn by Pearl and Lady. They left Lake Eden shortly after dusk, rode leisurely to Black Mountain, participated in the street square dancing there, and returned home around midnight.
Early Saturday morning a small group of students and work campers, headed by Bob Orr and Bas Allen left for a week-end hike to Mt. Mitchell. They returned to Lake Eden Sunday afternoon. In the party were Henry Black, Gwendolyn Currier, Bob Kumabo, Alice McNeil, Karl Obermann, Jim Stranch and Harold Yanagi.
At a Saturday afternoon meeting in front of the Round House the Board of Fellows decided to invite Paul Radin to return to Lake Eden this fall to teach anthropology and South American History.
On Saturday night in the Dining Hall there was a program of readings of Poetry, Drama and Recent History by the Class in Drama Since Ibsen. Acting as chairman, Eric Bentley made commentaries on Contemporary History and Literature and Illustrated his remarks with readings from the poetry of Ruport Brooke, Siegfried and Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Audon, Bert Brechy and W.R. Rodgers. He was assisted in the reading of an Eliot poem by Janie Robsinson Stone. Scenes from “The Private Life of the Master Race”, an unpublished drama by Bert Brecht, wore read by Renate Klepper, Sam Brown, Janie Stone, and Larry Fox.
The College Teachers and their wives and members of the College staff were guests at a Saturday evening cocktail party by Fritz and Maria Hansgirg, in their apartment in Meadows Inn, to meet Dr. and Mrs. Karl Torzhagi. A group of students helped to serve the guests.
WORK SUMMARY- Week of August 16, to 21.
Mr Freud finished his three bookshelves for the library porch; they are waxed and in location. Now the room has a really planned and permanent air.
Fifty-six half gallon jars of carrots went through that, long hot process at the Fam School. The work was done by work campers and by rescue crows of extra students and Mrs Jalowetz and Ms Mattison who helped than ever that slump that comes in the middle of the afternoon.
The new hog lot was surrounded by wire; and in spite of the cross lots not being completed, the pigs are happily rooting and snorting on new territory. They have been waiting for this experience for two years. So far however they only enjoy being together regardless of age size or degree of fatness. This of course, is not moral so can not go on.
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Six acres of bean hay, on the land we share with Mr Bennett, were cut and partly turned. The scything of the New Ground and the cutting of weeds on the edges of the fields was continued.
The Stone Cottage is rapidly becoming white inside- even the ceilings. To allow Black Mountain Community members generally to look at painted ceilings may be tempting Providence.
Mary Gregory
GUESTS:
Rodrigo Alvarez de Toledo
Mrs Helen Huckel (will leave on Thursday for New York City)
Mr and Mrs Henry Leonard (will leave on Friday for Cincinnati)
Wilhelm Levinger (will leave on Wednesday afternoon for New York City)
Kal Obermann (will leave on Thursday afternoon for New York City)
Miss Radiana Pazmore
Mrs Helene Reiche (will leave this afternoon for New York City)
Mrs Karl Torzhagi (will remain at Lake Eden until Thursday)
Frank Vitullo (will leave on Tuesday for New York City)
Mr and Mrs Eric Werner
AGENDA FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MEETING
Opening date of Fall Quarter
Courses for the Fall Quarter
Calendar changes for 1943-44 session
Bulletin for returning the new students
Application of Emilio de Hofmannsthal
Students:
For what reasons have some of them left at the end of each session?
What have been the best publicity devices for attracting students?
How can get more students to supply?
How can we get moe students to stay until graduation?
NOTICE
At the concert on Wednesday evening, Eric Werner of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati will play three phoral preludes for organ by Bach.
