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Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 11 Bulletin 8 Monday, November 15, 1943

Date
1943
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Ink on paper
Object Type
Archival Documents
Credit Line
Black Mountain College Collection, gift of Barbara Beate Dreier and Theodore Dreier, Jr. on behalf of all generations of Dreier family
Accession Number
2017.40.133a-g
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
Courtesy of the Theodore Dreier Sr. Document Collection, Asheville Art Museum
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7p, pages 6 and 7 are front and back, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, three horizontal folds. Lists the Committees for 1943-44 and the members of them. Visitors- Mr. and Mrs. John Cristian, Mrs. Allan Brown and her two children Petra and Elizabeth, Toshio Kumabo (Bob's brother), and Kedric Lynch (Patsy's brother).

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 8
Monday, November 15, 1943
A GIFT TO THE COLLEGE:
On Thursday, November 1, Dr. F. J. Hansgirg announced to the Board of Fellows, and on the next day, to the whole Community a proposed gift which may be of great importance for the future security of the College. His researches which have sought to develop a process for extracting magnesium from olivine have been so successful that he is now planning to organize a small company which will own the patents and promote the further development of the process so that it can be used in a commercial scale. He is proposing to give the College 20% of the interest in this company which is represented by the values of the patents. The total capital stock of this new company will be 12,000 of which 5,000 is to be represented by the patents. The College’s share will thus be 1,000 in stock. Dr. Hansgirg stated that the rest of the capital needed had already been subscribed.
Since other processes for producing magnesium that have so far been developed can probably not produce the metal so cheaply, the chances for a large commercial development seem very favorable. There have been may predictions that the post-war period will be the beginning of the age of light metals- the change from an age of steel promising an industrial development of the first magnitude. The economical production of magnesium will be a prime factor in promoting this change; and since olivine occurs in such large deposits in this section of the country, the State of North Carolina and this whole region may be in a particularly favorable position to participate in the development. It is believed that Dr. Hansgirg’s researches at the College will thus prove to be the starting point of an opportunity for the South to capitalize its hitherto undeveloped resources. This should be of great economic benefit to the region.
Dr. Hansgirg’s gift should make it possible for the College to share in these benefits, either through the payment of royalties or through direct participation in the larger company that will later have to be formed.
CALENDAR:
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet in the Kocher Room on Tuesday afternoon 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.
Grady Hardin, Minister of the Methodist Church in Black Mountain, will address the College Community on Thursday evening at 8:00 o’clock, in the Dining Hall, on “The Place of Religion in Modern Life.”
Forty or more College people will go to Asheville on Saturday evening to see the production of “Porgy and Boss” at the auditorium.
Dr. Anup Singh, biographer of Mehru and an authority on India and the Far East, has been invited by the Speakers’ Committee to address the College on Saturday evening, November 27. Dr. Singh will speak on either, “Nehru and Ghandi” or “India and the War.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Barbara Anderson, Marlyn Bauer, Gwendolyn Currier, and Joanne Wacker have passed their Senior Division Examinations and will be admitted into the Senior Division as soon as their Plans have been approved by the Faculty.
Maja Beatley has been put in charge of ordering books from the Library of the University of North Carolina. Students and teachers are requested to leave their orders for books needed in Maja’s study. (Room 141)

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Josef Albers has written an article on “Manual Work and Handicraft in Relation to Future Architecture.” His paper will be published in American Architecture and City Planning in the Post-War Period.
The “Two Albers Exhibition”, a collection of paintings, prints and textiles, has been scheduled for eight showings in North Carolina and Georgia between now and next June.
Herbert King, Associate Secretary of the National Student Division of the Y.M.C.A., will be a visitor at the College all day Tuesday and part of Wednesday. Mr. King, a Negro, has worked in the South and Southwest as a Field Secretary among Negro and white college students and in Negro education and in the adequate participation of Negro students in Church and in non-denominational Christian student groups. Mr. King will live in Bob Wunsch’s Study during his short stay here.
Mac Wood, at the Mission Hospital in Asheville since Thursday, is slowly improving. Emily is staying in Asheville with friends during Mac’s illness.
Bob Wunsch will leave this afternoon for Raleigh, to attend, tomorrow morning, the open meeting of the Executive Committee, appointed by the North Carolina College Conference to study the Preliminary Report of the Armed Forces Committee on Post-War Educational Opportunities for Service Personnel. This Committee will make recommendations from the educators of North Carolina to the Federal Post-War Educational Committee appointed by President Roosevelt.
The Citizens Committee of Black Mountain has formally invited Black Mountain College to make a survey of the town and make recommendations for post-war planning.
REQUESTS:
Students and teachers who borrow, through the College Library, books from the University of North Carolina and Duke University are urged to return those books within the two weeks loan period and thus avoid fines and ill will.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
A/C John V. Deaver
Class 44-3
Advanced Navigation School
Ellington Field, Texas
Mrs. Lee Green
1819 Riverside Avenue
Spokane, 9, Washington
A/C. Robert H. Mardon
Class 44E, Squadron 1
65th A.A.F.D.
Southern Aviation Training School
Decatur, Alabama
Private Herbert Oppenheimer, 14133800
Medical Detachment, Section 1
Station Hospital
Camp Forest, Tennessee
Corporal Harold B. Raymond
834 A/B Engineers
Westover Field
Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts
Sergeant John M. Stix, 17077542
Hq. Co. 59th Sig. Bn.
A.P.O. 312
Fort Jackson, South Carolina

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In the Mail:
Larry Fox writes from the United States Naval Construction Training Center at Camp Peary near Williamsburg, Virginia: “For the most part, my boot training is complete….. My training was indeed simple. I proved to be in good condition due to Eukinetics and the Work Program. My only sore spot was my right arm….. the arm they filled with typhoid, tetanus, and yellow fever….. Practically all the men in my barracks are older, married men of some special skill in construction work. My closest friends are an Indian from California and a witty Irishman from Boston; our threesome manages to keep laughing most of the time….. My acquaintance with those men greatly helped me in my adjustment to the place. I do feel completely adapted to the men and Seabee system….. I haven’t the least idea of what sort of advanced training I will receive. I am, however, pretty certain that I will not make V-12 because of my bad eyesight…If I am stationed anywhere near school, I will visit on my ten-day leave. This leave should be given me around the 16th. In spite of what they tell you, nothing is definite so I can’t be sure about this leave….My regards to the community…”
Bela Martin writes from Nashville, Tennessee: “Where should I be heading for now but Miami, Florida for a rest cure, with a limited amount of flying. The doctor has recommended it since my return from the South Pacific, so the Bureau is sending me to Miami for a period of three months after which I shall be reexamined for duty involving unrestricted flying’ this means preparation for the war zone again….I’ve dropped in weight to 148 pounds as a result of malnutrition from the food we had in Guadalcanal…I don’t feel ill, just worn-out, and get tired out easily…..”
NOTES:
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Green (Myalic Yumins) on October 26, in Spokane, Washington, a daughter who has been named Jeremie Barbara.
Will Hamlin recently played the role of Salonicus in Ronald Mitchel “Set It In Troy” produced by Columbia Theater Associates of Columbia University.
Jacqueline Tankersley in the WAVES at the University of Wisconsin, expects to be graduated on December 13 and hopes to spend Christmas at her home in St. Louis.
IN THE MAIL:
Joseph Salek, a member of the staff of the Carolina Playmakers, writes: “It was a great pleasure for Doug Rume and me to attend your Drama Institute last Saturday. We have not yet recovered from the enthusiasm and the excitement of the event…. We were especially pleased with the fine job of writing and reading displayed by the Black Mountain College group, and sometime soon we want to see all of you on your home ground at Black Mountain…”
WITH FORMER TEACHERS:
New Addresses:
Oliver Freud, Assistant Professor
202 Jamestown Road
Williamsburg, Virginia
IN THE MAIL:
Oliver Freud writes from Williamsburg, Virginia: “I have been very busy at William and Mary since my arrival here. First there was an introductory period in the Physics Lab, then I lectured for seven weeks in mathematics; during this same period I had 80 to 90 papers to grade daily. The first trimesterial term of the A.S.T.P. is now over, and I am back in the Physics Department. The new schedule, for the next three months, grants me at least a longer week-end, so life will become easier after having spent the first two months in different emergency quarters

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Of the College, we were finally permitted to move into a two-room apartment in a college owned house…..So now we have a home, modestly furnished by the College, after having been without one for a full year…”
STUDENT DECISIONS:
At the last meeting, plans for the reorganization of the work program were completed. It had been decided at the previous meeting that the students should take over the responsibility of the direction of community work. The purpose of this meeting was to prepare the new organization and to discuss candidates for the positions created. Mac Wood, Molly Gregory and Ted Dreier were present. After a discussion of what is demanded in the administrative positions and their qualifications were agreed upon. It was decided to have two students as the head of the whole organization. Their function is to prepare the work lists. This implies that those students would be in touch with the jobs to be done and the problems involved in doing them. They are to be assisted by Mac Wood and Molly Gregory in the spotting of trouble and new tasks. They are also to assign straw bosses to specific jobs. The duties of the straw bosses are to complete the job assigned. They have the responsibility of getting the whole job done, however long it takes. This will save the time and work lost in changing bosses from day to day.
After this had been agreed upon, candidates for the two central positions were discussed. No decision was reached, since it was thought that the student officers and Mac and Molly could select the two students to best advantage, taking to account the discussion during the student meeting. The new organization has been operating for a week. The students at the head of the work program are Nell Goldsmith and Ruth Miller.
COMMUNITY WORK SUMMARY:
(Week of November 1 through November 6)
Bob Wunsch’s bathroom was painted white.
A clothes line area was built up for students use below South Lodge.
A drainage ditch was dug at the farm, and in it was laid a pipe to carry water off the small pasture.
The Cohen Cottage (the Little House) was given a coat of stain, and the railings and window frames were trimmed with red.
The addition to the Library was creosoted.
Wood was cut at the farm, and five loads of it were hauled to places in need of it.
In the Mica Room a government instructor showed the workers how to trim and split mica. He was at the College all week. Fifty dollars worth of mica was sold during the week.
(Week of November 8 through November 13)
The exterior of the machine shed at the Farm was stained with red creosote.
Derek’s stall was moved from the large barn to the small one, and the old space was cleaned out in preparation for building winter quarters for the milk cows.
Two walls of the second music cubicle were completed.
Wood was cut and hauled to replenish diminishing supplied of fuel. There was also some wood chopping done.
A permanent cabinet was set up in the Dining Hall for storing the projection screen.
The windows in the Dining Hall were washed.

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The beef cattle were brought down from the Upper Pasture in preparation for the coming winter.
Seventy-five dollars worth of mica was split, trimmed and sold.
From the Farm: Three hundred and thirty-four quarts of milk were brought from the farm and four bushels of potatoes were brought to the kitchen this week.
VISITORS:
After a week’s visit Mr. and Mrs. John Christian left on Saturday for Washington.
Mrs. Allen Brown, daughter of Herbert and Bessie Miller, with her two children, Petra and Elizabeth, are making a visit at Lake Eden before going to Rio de Janiero. Here Mr. Brown will be connected with an oil construction project. Mrs. Brown has been employed in a defense plant in New Jersey.
Private Toshie Kumabe, Bob’s brother, from Camp Shelby in Mississippi on his way back from New York City to Camp Shelby, was a visitor on Friday and Saturday.
Staff Sergeant Kedric Lynch, Patsy’s brother, from Statesboro, Georgia, was a visitor on Thursday and Friday.
AGENDA FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON MEETING:
Reports:
a). Kenneth Kurtz will give a summary of recent actions of the Board of Fellows
b). Committee reports
2. Thanksgiving plans-Shall we observe it as a holiday?
3. (Without the Student Officers):
Discussion of Examinations taken for practice.
4. Senior Division Plans of the four entering students.
COMMITTEES FOR 1943-44
The following committees have been selected by the Faculty and Student Officers for the 1943-44 session:
The Admissions Committee:
Objectives:
a). To try to get a real cross section of intelligent America for the student group
b). To select from the applications:
1. Student who will use the freedom of Black Mountain College for work, not for license.
2. Student who have some talent or deep interest that can be a contributing force in the College
Membership:
Erwin Straus, Chairman
Sam Brown
Bobbie Dreier
Frances de Graaff
Molly Gregory
Kenneth Kurtz
Janie Stone
Helen Wright
2. Discipline Committee:
Objectives:
a). To meet conduct problems
b). To handle problems of conduct that threaten the Black Mountain College way of life.

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Membership
Robert Wunsch, Chairman
Sam Brown
Frances de Graaff
Heinrich Jalowetz
Liese Kukla
Alive McNeil
Erwin Straus
Joanne Wacker
3. Fire Prevention Committee:
Objectives:
a). To disseminate among the people in the Community information about fire dangers and necessary precautions.
b). To plan and conduct drills
Membership:
James Stranch, Chairman
Ted Dreier
Neil Goldsmith
Fritz Hansgirg
Mac Wood
4. Internal Finance Committee
Objectives:
a). To study the financial income of the College
b). To have a detailed acquaintance with the financial needs of the members of the staff and of the various departments in the College
c). To make recommendations to the Board for the distribution of money
Membership:
(To be appointed by the Board of Fellows. At the present the entire board is acting as the Internal Finance Committee
5. Library Committee
Objectives:
a). To study the needs for books in each department in the College and try to meet those needs within the limited budget allotted to the Library.
b). To make suggestions to the Librarian about book arrangements, additional books, vertical files and the like.
c). To see that quiet is maintained in the library at all times
d). To sponsor campaigns for library books
Membership:
Eric Bentley, Chairman
Clark Foreman
Judith Mandelbaum
Neil Rice
Helen Wright
6. Publicity Committee:
Objectives:
a). To send out news articles periodically to the Asheville paper and other leading state papers.
b). To send to Associated Press stories that have wide circulation interest
c). To prepare a quarterly Newsletter for distribution among friends of the College
d). To set a high standard for photographic and news releases.
e). To try to find people within the College and outside the College who can write literary essays on the College
f). To organize and circulate exhibitions
Membership:
Robert Wunsch, Chairman
Henrietta Barth
Doris Bollen
Ted Hines
7. Entertainment Committee
Objectives:
a). To plan and organize activities for the Community
1. Weekend dancing and parties
2. Holiday events

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b). To make a long-term plan for a program of music and dramatics.
Membership:
Frederic Cohen, Chairman
Eric Bentley
Nell Goldsmith
Lorrie Goulet
Liese Kulka
Jack Swackhamer
8. Speakers Committee
Objectives:
a). To make a long-term plan for a program of speaker
b). To have this program include speakers representing the various department of the College
c). To furnish particularly speakers for those departments in which there is little or practically no teaching being done this session
d). To arrange for off-campus addresses by members of the College staff.
Membership:
Clark Foreman, Chairman
Marilyn Bauer
Kitty Carlisle
Dorice Tontchoff
Erwin Straus
9. Guests Committee:
Objectives:
a). To make plans for entertaining guests, including prospective students
b). To make guest rooms as attractive as possible.
Membership:
Emily Wood, Chairman
Henrietta Barth
Virginia Osbourne
Louise Wright
10. Rooming Committee:
Objectives:
a). To plan for student housing
b). To make necessary readjustments in rooming arrangement
Membership:
Frances de Graaff, Chairman
Barbara Anderson
Esther Coppeck
11. Senior Division Committee:
Objectives:
a). To plan the time of examinations
b). To get questions from the various departments
c). To make selections from these questions for the examinations
d). To make all plans for the reading of the examination.
Membership:
Frances de Graaff, Chairman
Anni Albers
Clark Foreman
Fritz Hansgirg
Herinrich Jalowetz
Edward Lowinsky
Liese Kulka
12. Student Fee Committee (An All-Faculty Committee)
Objectives:
a). To study the applications from students for reduced fees
b). To decide upon the tuition charges of each student
Membership:
Ted Dreier, Chairman
Bob Orr
Erwin Straus

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13. Farm Committee:
Objectives:
a). To work out a long-term plan to make the farm a going concern, a business
b). To submit recommendations to the Board for expenditures on farm expansion.
Memberships:
Molly Gregory, Chairman
Ted Dreier
Janey Holing
Ross Penley
14. Summer Planning Committee:
Objectives:
a). To make detailed recommendations to the Faculty and Student Officers for the Summer of 1944
b). To write and plan distribution of literature advertising Summer Institutes and Summer School
Memberships:
Robert Wunsch, Chairman
Josef Albers
Marilyn Bauer
Lydia Griscom
Heinrich Jalowetz
Kenneth Kurtz
Robert Orr
Barbara Pollet
15. Planning and Design Committee:
Objectives:
a). To draw up long-time plans for construction at Lake Eden
b). To see that all construction fits into those plans
Membership:
Mac Wood, Chairman
Josef Albers
Ted Dreier
Molly Gregory
Work Coordinators
16. Mica Committee
Objectives:
a). To study the mining and marketing possibilities of mica at Lake Eden.
b). To make recommendations regarding mining and marketing to Faculty and Student Officers and Board of Fellows
c). To market the cut and trimmed mica.
Membership:
Fritz Hansgirg, Chairman
Ted Hines
Kenneth Kurtz
James Stranch
Erwin Straus
Mac Wood

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