Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 11 Bulletin 6 Monday, November 1, 1943

3p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, two horizontal folds. Visitors- Private Toshio Kumabe (brother of Bob), Gene Thornton (visted Lydia Griscom), Jim Stranch.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 6
Monday, November 1, 1943
CALENDAR:
There will be a meeting of the College Community this evening at 8:00 o’clock in the Dining Hall.
The Board of Fellows will meet in the Kocher Room on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
The students will hold their regular weekly meetings in the Lobby of North Lodge on Thursday evening at 7:00 o’clock.
REPORT OF ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE:
There will be a program of dramatic readings in the Dining Hall on Saturday, November 6, at 8:00 P.M. “The Proposal” by Anton Chokhov, “The Man of Destiny” by Bernard Shaw and “Miss Julia” by August Strindberg will be read. Sam Brown, Virginia Osbourne, Addison Bray, Janie Stone, Ted Hines, Jack Gifford and Barbara Pollet will take the parts. The program will be under the direction of Eric Bentley.
There will be a concert of piano music on Saturday, November 13.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Clark Foreman and Herbert Miller will offer a combination sociology American Government course next quarter. The students in this course will take as one of their projects the making of a survey of the town of Black Mountain.
Kenneth Kurtz and Herbert Miller will represent Black Mountain College at the annual meeting of the North Carolina College Conference which will be held in Greensboro on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
Ruth Miller has completed a set of study notes for the Radio Station WISE in Asheville on “Grieg and the Poor Gynt Suite.” These notes will be printed and distributed among the grammar school children in Western North Carolina.
Robert Wunsch will address the Parent-Teacher Association of the Greenville, South Carolina high schools on Wednesday afternoon on “Post-War Plans for Effective Secondary Education.”
Black Mountain College will participate in the Western North Carolina Dramatic Directors Conference on Saturday morning at the Lee Edwards High School in Asheville. Robert Wunsch will act as Chairman and speak on “Animating the News”. Students in the Dramatic Production Class will present Jane Mayhall’s “Funeral Scene” and Will Hamlin’s “Mr. Whitecomb and the Horse,” radio scripts.
IN THE KITCHEN:
After ten years with Black Mountain College Jack Lipsey has left for Atlanta to accept a government job for the duration of the war. He will help to train cooks for the military service units.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Betty Brett
309 East Ninety-Second Street
Apartment A
New York, New York

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Ruthabeth Krueger Conrad
168 Tallas Avenue
Vallejo, California
A/S Burke D. Corbet
Station Hospital
Fort Creek, Nebraska
Harriet Engelhardt
3628 Laren Crescent
Montreal, F. Quebec
CANADA
Lawrence Fox, S.S.
Platoon 1059, Area D-10
Camp Peary, Virginia
Lisa Jalowetz
21 West Twelfth Street
New York, New York
Nan Oldenburg
c/o Frederick
54 Main Street
Concord, Massachusetts
Alex Reed
U.S. Forest Service
Wellington via Reno, Nevada
Avn/S F.M. Stone, 3243119
Sgdn. 9, Bks. 4
304th C.T.D. (Aircrew)
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Private John M. Swackhamer, 14101336
Medical Detachment, 90th Infantry
A.P.O. 345, Camp Hale
Colorado
Sandra Weckes
15 Gay Street
NewYork, New York
EXCERPTS FROM RECENT LETTERS:
Betty Brett writes from New York City: “Exams, first days at school, apartment hunting and moving have each followed in close succession, and I am only now beginning to breathe and to answer and write letters. I am finally permanently established and you would find me home almost any day after 4:00 o’clock.
Larry Fox writes from Virginia: “I am still very much unsettled even though I have been issued all my equipment. My outfit is a construction battalion. I shall be at this present address for only four weeks.”
Dyckman Corbet writes from the Station Hospital at Fort Creek, Nebrasks: “I am recuperating from a light touch of pneumonia, here in a military hospital outside Omaha…..My squadron is at Croighton University in Omaha, where I’m an Aviation Student (Air Crew) preliminary to classification at Santa Ana, California.
Nan Oldenburg writes that she has been accepted as a student at Radcliffe College. Until her work begins there, she will continue working on a farm in Lincoln, Masachusetts.
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
New Addresses:
Mrs. Raymond Tayer
R.D. #3
Amos, Iowa

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COMMUNITY WORK SUMMARY:
(Week of October 25 through October 30)
At the Studies Building:
There was more filling with stones underneath the building, more cleaning-up around the edges. The coat pit was finished with log lining chinked with quarter logs nailed in. Four loads of earth from the farm and three loads of cinders from the Moore General Hospital were used for a back fill between the log walls and the earth bank. A railing of modern design was put around the rim of the coal bin. It is composed of white painted rails and brown stained posts. A new coal chute for the dump truck and a drain pipe from the library roof complete the improvements in this area and remove the hazards of the short cut between the library and the coal pit.
FUEL:
Four loads of firewood were cut; two loads were delivered. Five tons of block coal were taken to faculty houses.
AT THE FARM:
Tearing down the old hog houses for salvage material and trying to keep the little pigs in their new runs occupied the workers at the farm this week while Penley was away boar-hunting on his annual week’s vacation. Our farm produce brought to the kitchen this week was 448 quarts of milk, five and a half pounds of butter, one bushel of onions and three bushels of potatoes.
MICA MINE:
Seven hundred pounds of mica were mined. A full-time minor was employed to sink a shaft straddling the vein and to put out tunnels at a lower level to explore the deposit. The mica is good muscovite and not associated with rock as yet, so that only pick and shovel work are necessary to bring out the crystals that are becoming larger and of better quality as the work progresses. About six pounds of mica was trimmed in the Mica Room and is now ready for sale.
Mac Wood
VISITORS:
Private Toshie Kumabe, brother of Bob, from Camp Shelby, Mississippi.
Lydia Griscom was visited by A/S Gene Thornton U.S.N.R. of St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Jim Stranch was visited by his father on Saturday evening and part of Sunday.