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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 1
Monday, September 27, 1943
CALENDAR:
There will be a general meeting- the opening meeting of the new session- this evening at 8:30 o’clock in the Dining Hall. Heinrich Jalowetz and Frederic Cohen will play, as a piano duet, the Overture to Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” Bob Wunsch will welcome the new students and speak on “Facing Fundamentals.”
There will be a second general meeting on Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Dining Hall. Eric Bentley will talk informally on “The Place of Studying.” Mac Wood and Molly Gregory will define “The Community Work Program.” Josef Albers will give an illustrated lecture on “Important Incidentals of the Life at Lake Eden.”
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Kocher Room to begin a discussion of “Community Work Done by the Faculty”, with a view to a wiser and more equable distribution of the duties.
The Faculty will meet after dinner in the Round House to hear the Barzun and Bentley reports on Betty Brett’s oral and written examinations and to consider recommendations for Betty’s graduation; and to hear Margaret Strauss’s report on the results of the Mathematics test taken by the entering students.
There will be a meeting of the Board of Fellows on Thursday afternoon at 1:15 in front of the Dining Hall.
The old students will register for Fall Quarter Courses on Thursday afternoon. The new students will register on Saturday before lunch.
There will be an All-Beethoven concert in the Dining Hall on Saturday evening at 8:30 o’clock. The program will include: Trio, Opual, Number 3 for Violin and Piano; Trio, Opus 70, Number 1 for Violin, ‘Cello and Piano. The musicians will be Trudi Straus, Gwendolyn Currier, Frederic Cohen, and Heinrich Jalowetz. Fifty postal card invitations have been sent out to people in Western North Carolina.
The Annual Business Meeting of the Faculty will be held on Tuesday afternoon, October 5, at 4:00 o’clock in the Kocher Room. At this time the terms of office of Frances de Graaff, Heinrich Jalowetz, and Erwin Straus come to an end. It will be in orderto elect:
Two members of the Faculty for three-year terms
One member of the Faculty (who has never been on the Board) for a one-year term.
The Rector for 1944-45
And to transact “other proper business”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The first Newsletter of the new College session went to the press today. It will be ready for publication this week end.
Kenneth Kurtz and Erwin Straus will attend the dinner meeting of the X-Club, a Western North Carolina organization of educators, newspaper editors, and business men, this evening.
On Thursday, September 30 Herbert A. Miller will talk at a lunchroom meeting of the Asheville Rotary Club on “Some Observations on the Future.”
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Erwin Straus will leave on Thursday afternoon for Boston where on Saturday, October 2, he will address the staff of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital on “Depersonalization.”
Mrs. Clark Foreman and her three children will arrive at Lake Eden on Thursday. Clark will arrive on Saturday. The Foremans will live in the first-floor apartment in Meadows Inn, the apartment occupied last session by the Gorman Mattisons.
Sam Brown will arrive at the College on Friday, October 1.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
NEW ADDRESSES:
A/C John A. Deaver, A.S.N., 14133653
Class 43-41, School Squadron 5,
Las Vegas Army Air Field,
Las Vegas, Nevada
A/C 2 Erik Hangaard R 266326
N-23 P.A.E.D.,
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada
Corporal Pete Hill, 31315352,
Co. E. 544 E.B. and S.R.,
Camp Gordon Johnston,
Carrabelle, Florida
Lieutenant John J. Kasik 0-164091,
1112th Sig. Co., 54th Serv. GP,
Lakeland Army Air field,
Lakeland, Florida
EXCERPTS FROM RECENT LETTERS
Sam Brown writes from the Baker Memorials Hospital in Boston: “The so-called manipulation was nothing at all. The good doctor had warned me to expect plenty… but I feel better than I have felt since I got the arthritis.. legs feeling normal.. general tone fine-nopain. This was a pleasant surprise… The doctor has sanctioned my getting a ticket for Black Mountain on Thursday…”
Francis Foster writes from Camp Claiborne in Louisiana: “Hardly a day passes that I do not think of the school and you people. It is the symbol of what I fight for: the pence, the opportunity to learn, and unhurriedly appreciate beauty.”
Lieutenant Jack Kasik writes from Florida. “We have moved again, proving this is a war of movement here as well as abroad….. My work continues as before except that my duties have multiplied. Just as one summer when I worked at Mountain Stream, I do the most pressing tasks first and let the rest wait. However, the day pass quickly.”
Mrs. Bruno Piscitello writes on September 18: “Today is exactly one week that I have been a resident of Wichita Falls, Texas. It also marks the anniversary of one week of married life.”
Barbara and Morton Steinau “wired,” by mail, greetings to the College in the opening day of the new session: “Innumerable good wishes for you to be even more successful in the field of education and worthwhile living during these next ten years than you were in the admirable first ten.”
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Tom Wentworth writes from Camp Shelby in Mississippi: “Just as I am getting pretty well trained the Army begins to think of moving me into specialized training…. Now I have to get ready to zip out to the field and help the rest of the boys practice crawling around on their tummies…”
NOTES:
Public Relations Office
Maxwell Field, Alabama
For Immediate Release
Maxwell Field, Ala. Sept. 25, 1943. Robert H. Mardon, who attended Black Mountain College in 1941-43, is now enrolled as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces Pro-Flight School for Pilot at this field, located on the outskirts of Montgomery, the capital of Alabama.
Here the new class of cadets is receiving nine weeks of intensive military, physical and academic training preparatory to beginning their actual flight instruction at one of the many primary flying schools in the Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command.
WITH FORMER TEACHERS:
NEW ADDRESSES:
Ensign Robert S. Babcock, W.S.N.R.,
144 Glen Rock, Wollesley Farms, Massachusetts
EXCERPTS FROM RECENT LETTERS:
Bob Babcock writes from Scotin, New York: “I am being sent to a supply corps. School at Wellesley College for four months….. After the school, there will either be advanced base, ship, or possibly shore duty as a supply officer. Where is unknown… We have found a small house in Wellesley which will be quite nice for the Winter… Bobby grows space.”
WITH THE AMERICAN SEMINAR:
NEW ADDRESSES:
Mrs. Catherine Ruminow
2025 Broadway
Apartment 6, G.C.,
New York, New York
EXCERPTS FROM RECENT LETTERS:
Mrs. Ruminow writes from New York City: “I have left the hospital, and although I still have to wear the plaster cast, I am improving in health… I have great news from my son who has landed in Africa.. Last Saturday, my first cutting after the hospital, I spent at Powell House of the Quakers who gather every Saturday for an informal get-together with punch and cake and plenty of talk. I met Mrs. Hirschfield there who is going to join the Powell House Music Department for every week’s concerts during the coming winter.”
REVISED CALENDAR FOR THE 1943-44 SESSION
At the September 1 meeting of the Faculty the Calendar for the 1943-44 session was revised as follows:
Fall Quarter: September 27 to December 11
Christmas Vacation: December 11 to January 18
Winter Quarter: January 18 to April 1
Spring Quarter: April 1 to June 17
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Summer Vacation: June 17 to July 3
Summer Quarter: July 4 to September 16
There will be no vacation between the Winter and Spring Quarters. All terms will begin on a Tuesday and end on a Saturday.
