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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 5
Monday, October 25, 1943
CALENDAR:
The Board of Fellows will hold its regular weekly meeting on Tuesday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock in Study 10. All regular meetings of the Board will be held hereafter this session on Tuesdays at this time.
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet in the Kocher Room on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 o’clock.
The students will hold their regular weekly meeting in the Lobby of North Lodge on Thursday evening at 7:00 o’clock.
Trudi Straus and Heinrich Jalowetz will give a concert in the Dining Hall on Saturday evening at 8:00 o’clock. They will play Johannes Brahms’ Sonata in D Major for Violin and Piano and Max Reger’s Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Piano.
The students in Dramatic Production have been invited to present two radio scripts at the first 1943-44 meeting of the Western North Carolina Directors in Asheville on Saturday, November 6.
Radio Station WISE in Asehville has commissioned students in the College Music Department to write study notes on Grieg and the Pier Gynt Suite for their radio children's audience.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Manager of the Asheville Office of National Trailways reports that it is impossible, without special government sanction, to send, as requested, one of their buses to Lake Eden once a week for passengers.
Herbert Miller has accepted an invitation to speak at the Massachusetts Conference of Social Work in Boston on December 1.
Robert Wunsch will speak to the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Delta Kappa Gamma, a national organization of women teachers, at the George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville on Saturday, October 30.
COMMUNITY MEETING:
There will be a meeting of the entire College Community on Monday evening, November 1. It will be worthwhile to prepare carefully for this meeting.
Suggestions:
A small group of students might act as a clearing house for all student problems and questions that ought to be discussed at a general meeting.
Two or three faculty wives might prepare to bring to the meeting problems of the community peculiar to the family life but with which all of the College can help.
All topics to be discussed at the Community meeting should be handed to Sam Brown or Robert Wunsch before Sunday noon to help them make plans for the session.
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WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Mrs. D.D. Dwight
309 West Hopkins Street
San Marcos, Texas
Private Homer Bobilin
A.S.N. 12219084
A.P.O. 7235 Care Postmaster
San Francisco, California
Eva Zhitlowsky
Mt. Airy Road
Croton-on-Hudson, New York
FROM RECENT LETTERS:
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Eisenman (Hope Greer) a daughter who has been named Susan Sangree.
Barbara Beatty Dwight writes from Texas: “Dune has been in the Air Corps since last April, and I have been with him since May- though I guess it would be more accurate if I said I have been in Texas since May and occasionally catch a glimpse of him. After the usual inexplicable delay he was sent to Navigation School; and, if nothing goes wrong, he should graduate a week or so before Christmas….. I have become a student again. There is a State Teachers College here and I am taking Spanish. This is a very small town, a bit larger than Black Mountain perhaps, but still small; so with Spanish and Red Cross work I keep busy… Another girl and I hoped to get jobs at the Field, but they wont’s hire cadets’ wives….”
Will Hamlin is now a “full-fledged administrator and test interpreter for the Human Engineering Laboratories organization.”
Betty Kelley writes from Garwood, New Jersey: “Last week I began my job as ‘gate breaker’ with hands, tools and a machine. Gate breaking may be defined as removing the scrap from aluminum castings of various kinds. After only four days of that, my hands were so sore and swollen that I could hardly use them and the foot I hurt dancing last year went on the blink. I was exhausted, so I quit! But they wouldn’t let me! They needed people, they said I was a good worker, so they transferred me to the Inspection Department. Now I just sit and sort, look over castings to see what’s good and what’s bad. Am meeting a lot of ‘different’ people and learning about a completely ‘new’ side of life. It’s definitely interesting.”
Jerry Wolpert writes: “I still remain in western Kansas bearing up under the windstorms prevalent during this time of the year. She was taken ill and I took her to the East where she was operated upon. At present she is recovering; it will be some time before she will be able to return…. I find myself thinking very frequently about the College and the glories of the Black Mountain College fall. It was extremely good news to hear that the place had started its second decade…..”
Eva Zhitlowsky is now at home in Croton-on-Hudson, “looking for a job and trying to figure out where to live.”
COMMUNITY WORK SUMMARY:
(Week of October 18 through October 23)
On the farm:
The removal of the old rails and posts in the cross fences and in
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One side of the old hog lot was finished, thus this area was cleared. It was thrown into the cow pasture adjoining. Workers began the removal of the old hog houses. With the Hough Leader a start was made on leveling an area for the new hen house in the woods across the road from Penley’s. About three loads of firewood were cut at the buzz saw. The farm sent to the kitchen 375 quarts of milk, six and a half dozen eggs, thirty pounds of turnip greens, two bushels of potatoes and the last half bushel of tomatoes.
At the Mine:
No mica from the College mine was sold this week, since the emphasis was definitely upon mining. The desire was to have plenty of the raw product on hand when the two government experts, expected this week, will arrive to demonstrate ways of cutting and trimming mica.
Other Areas:
The lining of the Studies Building coal pit with chestnut logs was completed. Back filling and the addition of a railing remain to be done.
The white painting of the walls of the New Dispensary (Room 3 in South Lodge,) was completed. Workers began the finishing of the exterior of Little Cottage: staining the walls Driftwood grey and painting the window sashes barn red.
The usual weekly trucking of furniture, trash and lumber; the repair work in the shop, milk-handling, store management, book binding and office work in the
The Drama Shed was thoroughly cleaned and put in order.
Sixteen tons of black coal were hauled to various cottages.
A truck load of kindling wood was split to help solve the supply problem, now that oil for starting fires is no longer available.
Mac Wood
BEYOND THE CAMPUS:
Doris Bollen is giving instruction in typing to a war convalescent at Moore General Hospital. Roxane Dinkowitz is giving tutorials in grammar and reading to a wounded soldier. Both girls go down to the Hospital on Tuesday evenings and Sunday afternoons.
OTHER NOTES
Clark Foreman will address the College Community and visitors on Thursday evening at 8:00 on “The English Mind”.
Mr. W.M. Cole writes that, because of his inability to get train reservations, he will be delayed until early November in coming to audit the College books.
Among the recent College visitors have been:
Lieutenant Norman Weston who has a twenty-four visitor at Lake Eden on Thursday of last week. Norman is now with the Quarter Master Corps with the United States Navy and is stationed with his family in New Orleans.
Erik Haugaard, a prospective pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, arrived last week for a several days visit at the College.
Fernando Leon arrived this morning for a brief visit.
John Edsall and Jeffries Weyman, Profressors of biology at Harvard University, were College visitors on Thursday and Friday.
Miss Elizabeth Gornow, dietician at High Hampton Inn at Cashiers, North Carolina is visiting the Mac Woods today.
