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BLACK MOUNTTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 2
Monday, October 4, 1943
CALENDAR:
There will be a brief meeting of the Faculty this afternoon at 1:10 o’clock in the Round House to hear Clark Foreman’s report on his recent interviews in Washington regarding the Straus Veteran’s Plan.
The Annual Business Meeting of the Faculty will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 o’clock in the Kocher Room. Since the terms of office of Frances de Graaff, Heinrich Jalowetz and Erwin Straus will come to an end, it will be in order to elect two members to the faculty for three year terms on the Board and on member of the faculty, who has not yet been on the Board, for a one-year term. From the members of the Board of Fellows the Faculty will elect a Rector for the 1943-44 session. The last part of the meeting will be devoted to a consideration of catalogue revisions.
There will be a meeting of the Board of Fellows on Thursday afternoon at 1:15 o’clock in Study 10, unless otherwise announced.
The students will meet in the lobby of North Lodge on Thursday evening at 7:00 o’clock.
There will be a program of modern poetry, drama and history by the Summer Quarter Class in Drama Since Ibsen on Saturday evening, October 9. Eric Bentley will act as chairman of the program and make commentaries on contemporary history and literature and illustrate his remarks, with readings from the poetry of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sessoon, Wilfred Owen, T.S. Eliot, W.T. Audon, Bert Brecht, and W.R. Rodgers. Students will read scenes from “The Private Life of the Master Race”, by Bert Brecht, and unpublished drama. The program will begin at 8:30 o’clock.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Anni Albers article entitled: “Work with Material” will be reprinted in the January member of the College Art Journal.
Josef Albers will leave tomorrow for Greensboro, North Carolina to attend the Founders’ Day exercises at Woman’s College. As part of the day’s program he will talk informally to students and teachers on his art. He will return on Wednesday.
Larry Fox has been ordered to report for his physical examination on October 13. Induction will follow in three weeks.
Fritz Hansgirg has been invited to talk to the Asheville Rotary Club on Thursday, November 4 on “Manosium.”
Edward Lowinsky writes from Berkeley California: “Unfortunately, I am sitting here as on noodles and am still waiting. The transfer from New York to California seems to take some time, and there is nothing one can do to hurry matters a little bit.
Herbert Miller will be a member of the Forum at the Black Mountain Methodist Church on Sunday evening, October 10. He will address the Schoolmasters’ Club at their dinner meeting on Monday evening, October 11 on “Peace Plans.”
Robert Wunsch will leave Lake Eden on Friday afternoon for Chapel Hill to attend the annual conference of Dramatic Directors of North Carolina to be held in the Carolina Playmakers Theatre on Saturday. He has accepted an invitation to address the Annual Dinner Meeting of Delta Kappa Gamma, a national organization of outstanding woman teachers, on “The Teacher’s Place in Post-War Reconstruction” at the George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville on Saturday, October 30.
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NOTES:
The printed Newsletter is sent to all the parent of present students and former students, to graduation examiners, to donors, to the members of the Advisory Board, and to other close friends of the College. The next Newsletter will be published in December.
The weekly Community Bulletin is sent free of charge to all former students new in the military service, to other former students who desire a very close contact with the College and to several parents who have visited the College and have especially requested the Bulletin.
Jack Lipsey and the other members of the colored staff are now comfortably housed in Black Dwarf, in the apartment occupied last session by the Orr family.
The donations from present and former students and their parents and friends in the Student Campaign new totals $1360.75.
Visitor
Last week’s visitor was Lawrence Lieberfeld, a naval architect to the U.S. Maritime Commission in Washington, D.C.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Pfc. Richard D. Brown, 14101336
809th T.S.S.
A.A.F.T.T.C.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Lieutenant George Hendrickson
D-220 A.A.A. Gun Battalion
Group 507
Long Beach, California
Lt. (j.g.) Bela J. Martin
V F-11
c/o Fleet Post Office
San Francisco, California
EXCERPTS FROM RECENT LETTERS:
Lieutenant George Hendrickson writes from California: “I have been to another school.. this time a review of gunnery plus the use of small arms. Nothing very exciting happened except that I had a finger laid open in bayonet practice and had to have three stitches taken….. It has been with increasing interest that I greet the arrival of the College Bulletins. I do hope that the winter with its struggles and time-consuming tasks won’t stop the publication of it…”
Gisela Kronenberg writes from Cincinnati: “I received today my call to file petition for United States Citizenship on October 5.”
Otis Levy writes from Sheppard Field in Texas: “I’m disappointed about missing BMC on my furlough- you know I flew home by way of the Asheville territory and thought I saw the College, but this was at 1200 feet. I waved just for the heck of it…. I’m looking forward to the next Bulletin. I hope the opening night speeches are included, if only in excerpts.”
Lieutenant Bela Martin is new on the West Coast: “I expect to be here from three to six months before going out again as the squadron must reform with many new pilots.”
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Herbert Oppenheimer writes from Tennessee: “I may remain in Nashville for another month. There is no explanation. There seldom is such in the Army. I continue to work at the Negro Service Men’s Club. I’ve finished the Ladies Room and am now designing a home made soda fountain and grill… I’ve also done a Music Room for the local Y.M.C.A. and U.S.O. All of these are only designs, and I often wonder if they’ll over get further then the paper. But it’s pleasant work and I’ve had no drill or physical training for the past month.”
WITH FORMER STAFF MEMBERS:
Addresses:
Mrs. Gorman Mattison
416 Monticello Street
Springfield, Missouri
EXCERPTS FROM RECENT LETTERS:
Dorothy Mattison writes from Springfield Missouri: “Whether or not the Bulletin is an essential, regular to the Community- commensurate with time and labor of getting it out, I have never been able to decide. But of the importance of the job it does for ‘civilians’ on the outside I am certain….. This period of transition from one world to another (and believe me, that’s what it is) is difficult. Continuing reports of what you people are doing helps one hand onto the picture of what needs to be done, of the kind of reality that ought to be real even when it isn’t, generally speaking….. My warmest regards to everyone… I am missing the warmth and tolerance of the group which I am increasingly certain is the only one in the world which I am increasingly certain is the only one in the world which could live as closely and understandingly together- any minor and occasional cleavages seemed smaller and smaller at this distance….. This.. does not in any way conflict with the fun of, returning to a sort of ‘domestic’ individualism sometimes desirable for a family which includes children- not of having Boyd happy and interested in the current school regime- nor of Lind’s (and my own!) enjoyment of her attendance at kindergarten.”
REPORT ON THE COMMUNITY WORK PROGRAM:
(September 20 through October 2)
During the first of the two weeks the Summer Quarter was over and most of the work campers and summer students had loft for their homes. Available for work were only a few students staying on for the Fall Quarter an several girls who had come early. The small crew of volunteer workers did a big job of farming, cleaning and moving. They repaired the beef cattle fence and continued work on the hog cross- lot fences. They stored away in the barn left the bean hay which had been on drying racks. They brought from the garden during the week, forty pounds of turnip greens and from the dairy three hundred and thirty-eight quarts of milk. They started the cutting and the shucking of the nine-acre field of corn at Groevestone. They scrubbed studies and distributed furniture. They hauled, within the forty-eight hour limit, a fifty-ton railroad our of stoker coal which picked this week to arrive.
Everyone worked on Saturday and Sunday to clean up rooms and grounds and move beds, mattresses, tables, chairs and trunks to ready up the Lodges for the new session students who had begun to arrive before the textile workers were fully away.
All the new students wont right to work in fine spirit as soon as they arrived. There was still a few acres of corn for them to cut, following the best Black Mountain College introductory procedures.
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During the first Fall Quarter Week the student and teacher workers built potato storage racks in Penley’s basement and harvested one hundred and fifteen bushels of potatoes. They sorted several hundred bushels of onions from the drying racks and picked five bushels of string beans, two bushels of which they salted down for future use. The farm supplied the kitchen with two hundred and five pounds of dressed pork, three hundred and sixty-eight quarts of milk and eight pounds of butter. They continued help with cover-crop seeding of corn fields and removed one read of racks from the field nearest the Studies Building. They moved the giant woods near the Study Building, repaired chairs at the shop, put a new roof on the music cubicle. They loaded, by hand, fifteen tons of black coal at the College storage yard and distributed it to the bins of the various buildings. They split kindling and started painting the Dining Hall entrance way. They moved the mica industry to the old biology laboratory and architecture from Room 119 to Room 47, formerly Barney Voigt’s bedroom.
MAC WOOD
