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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 4
Monday, October 18, 1943
CALENDAR:
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock to continue discussion on the Committee’s copy for the 1943-44 catalogue.
The Board of Fellows will meet at 1:00 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon in Study 10.
The students will meet in the Lobby of North Lodge on Thursday evening at 7:00 o’clock.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The class in Dramatic Production has chosen Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” for Fall Quarter study and production. They have decided to do it in “the grand manner” of the ‘90’s. The cast includes Jack Gifford as John Worthing; Egbert Swackhamer as Algernon Moncrieff; Addison Bray as Reverend Canon Chasuble; James Stranch as Merriman; Ted Hines as Lane; Renate Klepper as Lady Bracknell; Carol Ostrow as Gwendolyn Fairfax; Lorrie Goulet as Cecily Cardow; and Harriette Lyford as Miss Prism. The farce will be presented the second week in December. Louise Minster is designing the settings. Jane Slater is designing the costumes.
A short article entitled “The Status of Contemporary German Poetry” by Bentley appears in the Fall Number of the Rocky Mountain Review.
At the Annual Business Meeting of the Board of Fellows held last week Ted Dreier was elected Treasurer for the 1943-44 session and Kenneth Kurtz was elected Secretary.
Professor William Morso Colbe will arrive at the end of the week for a visit of at least two weeks. It will be Mr. Cole’s tenth year as auditor of the College books.
Bob Wunsch will talk to the Parent-Teacher Association of the Grace High School in Asheville tomorrow afternoon. On Friday he will address a thousand Negro teachers from the city and rural sections of Middle Tennessee in Nashville in “Vitalizing the Teaching of English.”
STUDENT DECISIONS:
At a meeting in the lobby of North Lodge on October 7 the students agreed to
a.) Recognize Dr. Straus as the College authority in cases of illness and in problems of sanitation
b.) Observe the dates of vacations as set forth in the College calendar or as altered by the Faculty: not to leave College until after the last class before vacation.
c.) Have not visiting in bedrooms of the opposite sex except in cases of illness.
At their elections the students selected Liese Kulka and Juan Wacker officers for the Fall Quarter. The other officers are Sam Brown, Moderator, and Alice McNeil.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Ronate Bonfey
Suite Number 2,
334 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
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Mrs. E.E. Conrad (Ruthabeth Krueger)
156 Alpine Terrace
Oakland 11, California
Private Francis Foster, 14100243
Company I
7th Bn. 2nd Reg.
Camp Reynolds Replacement Depot
Greenville, Pennsylvania
A/S Otis Levy, 31342705
C.T.D. (Air Crew) 319
Section I, Washington State College
Pullman, Washington
Lieutenant Roman Maciejazyk
604 Bomb Squadron
Wendover, Utah
Barbara Payne
5725 Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, 37, Illinois
Private Swackhamer, 14101336
Md. Tng. Center
Camp Hale, Colorado
EXCERPTS FROM RECENT LETTERS:
Renate Benfey writes from Boston: “I have been in Boston for almost two weeks already. I am going to school and working quite hard. I like the place a lot, and I enjoy typing and short hand very much…..”
Ruthabeth Krueger Conrad writes from California: “Ed’s submarine has been sent to this coast for a few months; so, of course, I am here too. I drove our car from Maine out here….. We now are living in a beautiful private home, where we have kitchen privileges and the use of the living room and yard….. I plan on staying near San Francisco after Ed leaves port. There are so many exciting musical things I have lined up to do, and I have a great many musical friends here….”
Otis Levy writes from Pullman, Washington: “The last month with its thousands of miles of travelling, especially the seventy hours of it through the Rockies, has been perhaps the happiest month of my life…..”
Barbara Payne writes from Chicago: These first two weeks out here at the University of Chicago have been pretty bewildering. So many people, so many buildings, so many blanks to fill out, and so little housing accommodations. Yesterday I moved into a women’s cooperative and now, at last, I’m beginning to get organized…”
Sue Spayth Wolpert is writing for the News, the daily newspaper of Hays, Kansas.
WITH FORMER STAFF MEMBERS:
New Addresses:
Rachel Durnell
Apartment E 53
247 Drake Avenue
New Rochelle, New York
Phone: NR 2-5535J
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Notes:
Lieutenant Bedford Thurman, Assistant special service officer, was master of ceremonies at the recent War Bond show held at Lubbock Field, in Texas.
Excerpts from Recent Letters:
Rachel Durnell writes from New Rochelle, New York: “I second the feeling of Dorothy Mattison re the Community Bulletins. They make one feel very near, very much a part of something we helped build.”
Visitors:
Mrs. Olga Schwartz was visited by Corporal Walter Hirsch, Sergeant Maurice Halle, and Master Sergeant Abe Taron of Camp Croft, South Carolina
Robert Nichols, a sergeant in the Amphibian Command at Ford in California, is here visiting Faith Murray for a few days, and is on his way to Charleston, where he will spend some time with his mother before returning to California.
In the Mail:
From the Program Manager of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting Company in New York City comes the following letter:
The Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, in cooperation with the Office of War Information is producing a series of programs about American student life and culture. There programs are to be directed to students and people in every part of the world.
We feel that Black Mountain College occupies such a unique place in the field of education that we should like very much to have, as one of our first broadcasts, a program outlining the history and student life of your institution.
Do you think that you could produce a fifteen minute dramatic program, describing the principles upon which Black Mountain College was founded, and the way in which these principles are being put into action?
As we are submitting the colleges selected to the Office of War Information this week, we would very much appreciate a reply by return airmail.
Thanking you in advance for any cooperation which you may be able to give us, I remain
Sincerely yours,
Harriette R. Sleate
Program Manager
Pfc. Willard A. Gittleman writes from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey:
If I receive authorization to do so, I shall speak a week from Saturday in a panel discussion held at a meeting of the Southeastern Zone of the New York State Teachers’ Association in the Hotel Commodore. The topic is: Education during and after the war.
For several years I have followed with interest your work in the field of education. Should you have any material pertinent to the discussion which you might like to have mentioned, will you send it to me?
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Report on the Community Work Program:
(October 11 through October 16):
The removal of surface rocks from the field nearest the Studies Building was completed, phosphates were spread, and the field was seeded. Light logs cut last session and old fence posts were taken to the buzz saw for cutting into firewood. Two bushels of beans were picked, and the dairy supplied the kitchen with 380 quarts of milk.
Thirty dollars worth of mica was taken from the College mine, trimmed, split, and sold.
In the forest the workers cut fifty chestnut logs, averaging thirty feet in length and eight to fourteen inches in diameter, in the butt. Those were hauled to the Studies Building coal bin where the work of lining the earth walls with logs were started.
The music cubicle chimney was completed, and a heating stove was installed. The windows and door were refitted to make the cubicle ready for winter use.
Mac Wood
