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Black Mountian College Community Bulletin College Year 10 Summer Bulletin 15 (The Last) Monday, September 20, 1943

Date
1943
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Ink on paper
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Archival Documents
Credit Line
Black Mountain College Collection, gift of Barbara Beate Dreier and Theodore Dreier, Jr. on behalf of all generations of Dreier family
Accession Number
2017.40.124a-e
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
Courtesy of the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection, Asheville Art Museum
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5p, front and back pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Lists the courses offered for the fall term, 1943, and following. Faculty present- for the comming fall term: Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Molly Gregory, Elsa Kahl, Frederic Cohon, Heinrich Jalqwotz, Edward Lowinsky, Trudi Straus, Robert Wunsch, Frances de Fraaf, Paul Radin, Trudi Straus, Kenneth Kurtz, Ted Dreier, Fritz Hansgirg, Eric Bentley, Clark Foreman, Herbert Miller, Paul Radin, Erwin Straus. Assistant: Miriam French. Secretaries (part time students): Doris Bollen, Henrietta Barth, Aryln McKenna). Students present- tentative enrollment for 1943-1944: Barbara Anderson, Marilyn Bauer, Maja Bentley, Sam Brown, John Campbell, Gwendolyn Currior, Lary Fox, Cornelia Goldsmith, Elizabeth Kulka, Patsy Lynch, William McLaughlin, Ruth Miller, Faith Murry, Barbara Pollet, Jane Slater, Suzanne Smith, Jane Robinson Stone, Jeanne Wocker, Helen Wright, Mary Brett, Betty Kelley, Irene Sagan, Roxano Dinkowitz, Jack Gifford, Beati Gropius, Tod Hines, Renate Klopper, Alice McNeil, Louiso Minster, Olga Schwartz, James Stanch, Margaret Straus, Nanette Wright, Irene J. Berliner, Mollio Boring, Addison Bray, Dick Bush Brown, Susan Brown, Kathryn Carlisle, Esther Coppeck, Joan P. Couch, Hampton Duxbury, Fred Goldsmith, Lorrie Goulet, Faith Hartwig, Robert D. Hartzlor, Janet Heling, Alice J. Knox, Mary Kriger, Irene Lott, Harriette Lyford, Judith Mandelbaum, Audrey J. Maxton, Virginia Osbourne, Carol Ann Osbrown, Vera Pevsner, Flora Ricks, Vita Rudikoff, Egbort Swackhamer, Dorice Tontchoff, Lana H. Yarash. Staple in top left corner, two horizontal folds.

BLACK MOUNTIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 10 Summer Bulletin 15 (The Last)
Monday, September 20, 1945
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 27
The eleventh session of Black Mountain College will begin on Monday, September 27. There will be classes on Monday. The opening exercises of the Session will be held in the College Dining Hall on Monday evening at 8:00 o’clock.
Old and new students will visit classes on Tuesday
All new students will take a mathematics placement test during the afternoon.
There will be a general meeting on Tuesday evening at 8:00 o’clock in the College Dining Hall. At this meeting the various opportunities of and responsibilities for the College will be presented. The chief speakers will be Josef Albers, Eric Bentley, Molly Gregory, and Jack Lipsey. A general discussion will follow the presentations.
Class visiting will continue on Wednesday.
Old students will register for the Fall Quarter on Saturday before lunch.
The new students will register for the Fall Quarter on Saturday before lunch.
There will be a concert on Saturday evening, October 2 at 8:30 o’clock in the College Dining Hall. Trudi Straus, Gwendolyn Currier, Heinrich Jalowetz and Frederic Cohen will give an all-Beethoven program.
The permanent schedule of the Fall Quarter will be posted on the Bulletin board on Sunday evening.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
A Faculty Adviser has been assigned to each new student for the Fall Quarter. One of the first duties of the advisor will be to help his advisee plan his academic and community work for the 1943-44 session.
Each student will select his own adviser. (Old student)
Since all available space will be used to house the officials of the America Textile Workers during their conference this week, no student should arrive before Sunday evening or Monday morning unless especially invited to come sooner.
Because of the scarcity of gas, College cars will be unable to meet the trains and buses. Arriving students are advised to come out to Lake Eden in taxies that can be hired at the station.
Black Mountain College Textiles will be represented, on invitation, in an exhibition of Contemporary American Handwoven Textiles from the Southern Highlands. The first showing will be in Louisville, Kentucky during October.
Ruth Miller and Barbara Anderson have returned to Lake Eden to help with harvesting and with the preparation of the Studies Building and the lodges for the new College session.
Barbara Payne and Marilyn Bauer are expected to return on Thursday or Friday of this week.

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COMMUNITY WORK REPORT FOR WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 13
On the farm we cut, raked, hauled, and staked, in field, or barn left, all our remaining soybean hay which was the bulk of our crop. We repaired our mountain-pasture fence and found and returned all cattle that had strayed into distant ranges.
Homo production, brought to the kitchen, included eleven bushels of butte, three hundred quarts of milk, four bushels of greens, three bushels of potatoes, one bushel each of onions and tomatoes.
We cleaned the interiors and exteriors of the flues of six heating boilers and otherwise got them ready for the heating season.
We continued repairing and painting the Studies Building.
Ruth Miller and Barbara Anderson were the first of several old students to return early to help get the building ready for the Fall Term and to maintain continuity on the Farm.
MAC WOOD
WITH FORMER STUDENTS
New Addresses
Corporal Doughton Cramer, 31152068
92 D.R.S., 44A.D.G.
A.P.O. 635, c/o P.M.
New York, New York
Excerpts from Recent Letters:
Doughton Cramer writes from somewhere in England: “Keep the place going for many college memories help to push me through this war business. I want to think that such a place can weather through this unhappy (*word unknown). It is needed in the post war period, to point the way to intelligent human understanding.
Lieutenant Thomas Brooks writes from Kentucky: “We have been having autumn tinged weather which reminds me of the even better autumn weather in the mountains. I would like to get to B.M.C., but I see no prospect. Good luck in the New Year!
WITH THE 1942-43 STUDENTS
New Addresses:
Shirley Allen
Hotel Marik
Guernavaca
Mor. Mexico
A/C W.C. Berry
Barracks 217
Third Student Squadron
Buckingham Field
Fort Myers, Florida

Shirley Allen will not return to Black Mountain College this fall but will spend the year in Mexico. She writes from Guernavaca: “We had lunch withthe Mangolds in Mexico City a while ago. We had a good talk about B.M.C. and looked over the bulletins to-

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Gether….. I’m learning a little Spanish, slowly but surely; also, I have some chance to practice my French, since there a great many French-speaking refugees here….”
Bill Berry writes from Buckingham Field in Florida: “The land of sunshine and palms doesn’t include Buckingham. There are straggly little firs, no palm, sun, too. But our barracks is practically an island. It has rained intermittently for twenty-four hours, and will continue to do so. The frogs here are like the frogs at Lake Eden. But the resemblance to Black Mountain College stops there. We do have a nice service club within walking distance of the barracks, however. My shoes are drying out now.”
COURSES OFFERED FOR THE FALL TERM, 1943, AND FOLLOWING
THE ARTS:
Anni Albers
Introductory Weaving. Three Quarters
Preparatory studies to develop a feeling for texture qualities. Practical studies with various materials..
Theory of textile construction.
Theory, one hour per week. Laboratory work, a minimum of six hours per week.
Advanced Weaving. Two to three year course
Experiments in construction and composition. Analysis of weaves. Theory of construction.
Theory, one hour per week. Laboratory work, a minimum of six hours per week.

Josef Albers:
Drawing I Three Quarters
For beginners and for those students who want systemic studies.
Four hours a week
Drawing II No time limit
Advanced course, chiefly in figure and portrait drawing.
Four hours a week
Color I Two Quarters
Systematic studies in color
Three hours a week
Werklehre Three Quarters
A course in Fundamental Design. Systematic studies of form in material.
Three hours a week
Seeing Art
Discussion and analysis of the picture of the month, to be exhibited several weeks before the class. One or two hours long meeting once a month
Private Studies in Painting
For advances students
Private and group criticism is offered
Note: Mr. Albers prefers to give the above courses that are underlined.

Molly Gregory:
Woodworking Three Quarters
By appointment
McGuire Wood:
Small House Design Fall Quarter
Mechanical and Architectural Drawing Spring Quarter
Elsa Kahl:
Eukinetics Three Quarters
For advanced students
Its technique and its means of expression in relation to the dance
Two one and one-half meetings a week
Eukinetics Class for the Community
Training of the body
One two hour evening meeting
Frederic Cohen:
Introduction to Music Fall Quarter
This course begins a full year course
An eleven weeks course on the elements of music.
Can be entered without any previous musical experience in theory or practice.
Required for beginners in the study of harmony.
Harmony III Fall Quarter
Advanced harmony
This is Part III of a one-and-a-half year music theory course.
Entrance, for those who have not had Parts I and II by test only.
Piano Lessons Three Quarters
One hour weekly of individual instruction and two hours weekly of piano seminar.
Beginners not admitted
Every piano student is required to take at least one more music course.
Chamber Music Three Quarters
For advanced students.
Heinrich Jalowetz:
Chorus Three Quarters
For all members of the Community
Considered as a necessary practical ear training for every student of theoretical courses in music or instrumental instruction.
Ensemble Three Quarters
The Classic and Romantic Symphony Three Quarters For advanced students having some knowledge of elementary harmony and musical form. Includes introduction in score reading and study of the different instruments of the orchestra and their uses.
Music Since Wagner Winter and Spring Quarters Open to the Community, with some work for advanced music students.
Edward Lowinsky
History of Music from Monteverdi to Beethoven Three Quarters
A continuation of the course given last year
Three hours a week
Seminar on Bach’s Instrumental Music
A-Capella Singing
Note: In the event that Dr. Lowinsky should because of military obligations, be unable to return to the

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College this Fall. Dr. Jalowetz will teach music History class and include in his teaching of this class, the Classic and Romantic Symphony.
Trudi Straus:
Violin
Instruction by appointment
Chamber Music
Robert Wunsch:
Dramatic Production Three Quarters
Production of a one-set play each term with beginners
Production of a full-length play each term with advanced students.
Three to six hours a week.
LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE:
Frances de Graaf:
Beginning or Intermediate French Fall Quarter
Depends on student demand
Three to five hours a week
Beginning French will be taught five hours a week
For these students who want to acquire a practical knowledge of spoken and written French
Intermediate French will be taught three hours a week.
Review Grammar. Conversation Reading
French Literature in the Nineteenth Century Fall Quarter
Advanced course, open to those students who are able to read French Literature in the original. This course may be conducted in French.
Tutorial Review French Fall Quarter
Advanced course. Grammar and vocabulary for reading and translating from French to English
One hour a week
Advances Russian Fall Quarter
Review Grammar. Vocabulary building
Reading and conversation
Three hours a week
Note: Three of the above courses will be given during the Fall Quarter
Paul Radin:
Spanish Winter and Spring Quarters
Trudi Straus:
Beginning German Three Quarters
Advanced German Three Quarters
Kenneth Kurtz:
The English Literary Tradition. Three Quarters
Open to all students
A study of some of the major works of important writers, representing different periods and types of literature, studied chronologically and in terms of literary qualities and social backgrounds
Three hours a week

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The Art of Poetry Fall Quarter
For advanced students
.. study of the techniques of poetry, including free and experimental verse. Some writing of poetry will be done if students are interested in criticism and analysis of their work.
Three hours a week
Tutorials in Nineteenth Century English Literature
For advanced students only
A study of literature- poetry- essay, and novel—which embodies main ideas of the century. Oriented toward cultural history rather than literary appreciation.
Robert Wunsch
Introductory Writing Three Quarters
Open to all students.
Three hours a week
Fall Quarter: Laboratory work in sense impressions and a study of simple short story and essay forms.
Winter Quarter: The historical development of the Short Story
Spring Quarter: A study of and laboratory work in the thirty-six plots.
Journalism Three Quarters
If requested.
MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE:
Ted Dreier
Calculus Fall and Winter Quarters
This course is primarily for students who wish the necessary mathematical background for work in science. Those students who plan to take advanced courses in physics and chemistry later should plan to follow this course next year with two more quarters, the second of which would be devoted to the solution of differential equations.
Five hours a week
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking Three Quarters
This course is primarily for students who wish the necessary mathematical background for work in science. Those students who plan to take advanced courses in physics and chemistry later should plan to follow this course next year with two more quarters, the second of which would be devoted to the solution of differential equations.
Five hours a week
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking Three Quarters
This course will combine some work in mathematics with reading and will endeavor to give some understanding of the place of mathematics in our culture today. It will be assumed that students have had at least one year of algebra and one year of geometry.
Two hours a week. One hour of conference a week
Philosophy of Science Three Quarters
Two hours a week. Occasional conferences
Given on demand
Fritz Hansgirg:
Matter and Energy Three Quarters
An introductory course in chemistry, physics, and physical chemistry.
Five hours a week
Laboratory in chemistry and physics.
Four hours a week
Acoustics for Musicians Three Quarters
Note: Should a physicist be appointed, a normal course in chemistry and the acoustics class will be offered.
SOCIAL SCIENCES:
Eric Bentley:
History of Europe Since 1453 Three Quarters
Theory and Practice of Twentieth Century Politics

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(with Clark Foreman) First Quarter
Europe, 1453-1789 Second Quarter
Europe, 1789-1914 Third Quarter
Course open to all students
Prerequisite for more advanced work in history
Lecture course with written assignments, tests and much reading.
Three hours a week.
Cultural History of Recent Times (in three parts) Three Quarters
Poetry, history of ideas, drama
For advanced students.
Discussion, analysis of works of art, and some written work.
Three hours a week.
The Roots of Modern Poetry- Fall Quarter
The history of poetry since the Romantics with emphasis on the sources of Modernism. An application of the methods of I.A. Richards and Edmund Wilson
The Evolution of Modern Ideas Winter Quarter
An examination of ideas widely operative in modern society, such as Utilitarianism, Marxism, Darwinism, Racism.
Founders of Modern Drama Spring Quarter
History of Drama Since Scribe, with emphasis on Ibsen, Strindberg, Wedekind, Chokhov, and Shaw
Note: Work in the Roots of Modern Poetry will include French and German as well as English if students know the languages adequately.
Clark Foreman
American History Three Quarters
Open to all students
English Colonization to 1830 Fall Quarter
1830-1880 Winter Quarter
1880-1944 Spring Quarter
Three hours a week.
Theory and Practice of Twentieth Century Politics (with Eric Bentley) Fall Quarter
Three hours a week
United States Government Winter and Spring Quarters
Three hours a week
Herbert Miller:
Social problems and Their Treatment Three Quarters
A study of the problems of personal and community disorganization and methods of dealing with them, from the point of view of psychological, social, political, and economic forces; focusing on the family, poverty, delinquency and crime, education, age grouping, rural and urban conditions, class and nation. Observation of these problems in the immediate vicinity.
Three hours a week.
Population Fall Quarter
The theories of population, considered with special reference to the peoples involved in the World War.
Three hours a week.

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Paul Radin:
Anthropology Winter and Spring Quarters
Three hours a week
Latin America Winter and Spring Quarters
Three hours a week
Erwin Straus:
Psychology of the Human World Three Quarters
Open to all students
Social Psychology Fall Quarter
Personality and Development Winter Quarter
Continuation, including Child Psychology and Psychoanalysis Spring Quarter
Three hours a week
Note: There will be an opportunity for students to make occasional trips with Dr. Straus to the Mountain Orphanage to assist in psychological examinations of the children there.
Philosophical Classics, Three Quarters
Open to all students
Decartes Fall Quarter
Goethe’s Faust, Greek Dramas and Poetics Winter and Spring Quarters
Two one and one-half hour classes a week.
TENTATIVE 1943-44 ENROLLMENT:
Returning Old Students: Addresses
Barbara Anderson 899 Hillsdale Road, Elcajon, California
Marilyn Bauer 3614 Tolland Road, Cleveland, Ohio
Maja Bentley Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina
Sam Brown Wilton, Connecticut
John Campbell Fairhope, Alabama
Gwendolyn Currier 14 Stanley Oval, Westfield, New Jersey
Larry Fox 61 West Eighty Eighth Street, New York, New York
Cornelia Goldsmith 629 East Day Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Elizabeth Kulka 118 East Seventieth Street, New York, New York
Patsy Lynch 41 Willow Hill Road, Clayton, Missouri
William McLaughlin 332 North Eleventh Street, Easton, Pennsylvania
Ruth Miller 212 Cornwallis Road, Durham, North Carolina
Faith Murry 17 Exchange Street, Durham, North Carolina
Barbara Pollet 32 Grace Avenue, Great Neck, Long Island
Jane Slater 532 Thirteenth Street, Ogdon, Utah
Suzanne Smith 2301 Center Avenue, Bay City, Michigan
Jane Robinson Stone Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina
Jeanne Wocker, 2226 Harrison Boulevard, Ogdon, Utah
Helen Wright Fairhaven Bay, Concord, Massachusetts

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RETURNING FOR WINTER QUARTER:
Mary Brett 64 Louise Avenue, Detroit, Michigan
Betty Kelley 208 Carr Street, Fulton, Kentucky
Irene Sagan, 65-74 Saunders Street, Forest Hills, Long Island
RETURNING FOR SUMMER QUARTER:
Roxane Dinkowitz 2 Willow Street, Norwalk, Connecticut
Jack Gifford Parkside Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Beati Gropius Baker Bridge Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Ted Hines 1625 Newton Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Ronate Klepper 816 Third Place, Plainfield, New Jersey
Alice McNeil R.F.D. #4, Bover, Delaware
Louise Minster 1215 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
Olga Schwartz, c/o Orringer, 18 East 21st Street, Brooklyn, New York
James Stranch 324 Lawson Street, Greenwood, South Carolina
Margaret Straus 48 North 10st Street, Newark, New Jersey
Nanette Wright 231 Mill Street, Newtonville, Massachusetts
NEW STUDENTS
Irene J. Berlinger * 1412 College Avenue, Bronx, New York
Mollie Boring 21 Bowdoin Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Addison Bray * 424 Essox Avenue, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Dick Bush Brown 3683 Ivy Road, Atlanta, Georgia
Susan Brown * Box 10, Culiver City, California
Kathryn Carlisle 340 South Gaylord Street, Denver, Colorado
Esther Coppeck Glenwood Avenue, Moylan, Pennsylvania
Jean P. Couch * 2401 Dallas Street, San Antonio, Texas
Hampton Duxbury * 128 School Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Fred Goldsmith * 629 East Day Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lorrie Goulet 6215 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, California
Faith Hartwig 1 Faculty Row, East Lansing, Michigan
Robert D. Hartzler * Smithville, Ohio
Janet Heling * 305 North Wellwood Avenue, Lindenhurst, Long Island
Alice J. Knox 234 Banhead Street, New Albany, Massachusetts
Mary Kriger 707 Twelfth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Irene Lott * 58 Lafeyette Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey
Harriette Lyford Hayfield Road, Westport, Connecticut

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Judith Mandelbaum 14 Conklin Avenue, Newark, New Jersey
Audrey J. Maxton * Manor Club, 109 Beverly Road, Rockville, Maryland
Virginia Osbourne 429 East Fifty Second Street, New York, New York
Carol Ann Osbourne 1019 Gay Street, Susanville, California
Vera Fevaner 1811 Wyoming Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Flora Ricks 1844 Minnesota Avenue, Washington, D.C.
Vita Rudikoff 1372 Riverside Drive, New York, New York
Egbert Swackhamer Church Street, Middleton, New Jersey
Dorice Tentchoff 603 West 138th Street, New York, New York
Lane H. Yarash 8040 Smart Street, Detroit, Michigan
ASSISTANT:
Miriam French Lincoln, Massachusetts
SECRETARIES (Part-Time Students)
Doris Bollen 556 West 184th Street, New York, New York
Henrietta Barth 534 West Shawnee Avenue, Plymouth, Pennsylvania
Arlyn McKenna 235 Argyle Place, Arlington, New Jersey
*Pending

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