3p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, one horizontal fold. Visitors- Lieutenant Morris Simon, Mr. Roy Batchelor (visited Dr. and Mrs. Hansgirg).
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 9
Monday, November 22, 1943
CALENDAR:
The Board of Fellows will hold its monthly business meeting in Study 10 on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet in the Kocher Room on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
Black Mountain College will celebrate Thanksgiving Day with a 6:30 o’clock dinner followed by a program of stunts and dancing. Mr. Albers will decorate the Dining Hall for the holiday celebrations. There will be no classes on Thursday. Lunch will be served as usual at 12:15 P.M.
Dr. Anup Singh, writer, lecturer, and authority on Indi and Far Eastern Affairs, will address the College on Saturday evening, November 2 at 8:30 o’clock. A native of Amritsar, Punjab, India, Dr. Singh received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science at Harvard University. He has done research work in international affairs at Geneva, London, and in his native India. Dr. Singh is the author of Nebru: The Rising Star of India and has contributed to leading American periodicals. He is the director of the research bureau of the Indian League of America and editor of India Today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina College Conference on Tuesday in Raleigh, Black Mountain College was “approved and put on the “Governor’s List” that includes the names of North Carolina institutions to receive Federal aid for the post-war education of veterans (“approved” does not mean “accredited”, but may be regarded as the first step in the direction of being accredited).
Dr. Herbert Miller will speak at the dinner meeting of the X-Club at the S. and W. Cafeteria in Asheville this evening on “The Refugee in America.”
Bob Wunsch will meet for a discussion of educational philosophy and techniques with the Staff of Warren Wilson College on Friday evening at 8:00 o’clock.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Lieutenant Roman Maciejczyk
604 Bomber Squadron
Wendover Field
Utah
Mrs. L. W. Miller (Lorrain Crees
32 High Street
New Haven, Connecticut
In the Mail:
Lieutenant Roman Maciejczyk writes from Utah: “About a month ago, our ships were in horrible shape- all practically in the ‘hospital’ so we got a whole weekend (only this weekend was in the middle of the week) off. There’s a direct line from here to Frisco, so I spent the time with Paul Radin- doing nothing much besides drinking coffee…. Another fortnight on this Great Salt Desert and off we go in a brand new Liberator…. Going overseas. Maybe we’ll spend Christmas on an iceburg…”
NOTES:
Lorraine Creesy, married to a medical student at Yale, is continuing in her Children’s Clinic work in New Haven.
Don Page, a member of the Class of 1943 and of the Army Air Forces Officer Candidate School in Miami Beach, Florida, was graduated and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in Exercises held last week.
COMMUNITY WORK SUMMARY: (Week of November 15 through November 20)
Fifty dollars worth of mica was trimmed and inspected this week. This cannot be regarded as a profit, however; it must be borne in mind that the labor of expenses for mica mining are seventy dollars a week, and there is an additional expense for equipment.
The second music cubicle is about to be completed. The window frame has been installed, and most of the roof has been put on.
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Three loads of coal were hauled to needy residences, and the pile of wood that was at the farm was distributed to places requiringit. Crews worked at the farm cutting down trees all week to insure warmth in all the buildings while the delayed coal car is awaited.
Over one hundred man hours went in to putting out fires this week. On Thursday afternoon a small fire was discovered on the edge of the College dump; it was quickly extinguished. On the following afternoon a whole ridge on the Jackson property caught fire. After a very anxious hour the College students and teachers got the blaze under control, but it took seven hours more to extinguish the flames completely.
Preliminary preparations were made for the construction of the beef shed that is to be added to the back of the large barn.
Nell Goldsmith
In the Mail:
Hillary G. Bailey, editor of The Red Barrel, a monthly publication issued by the Coca Cola Company, has written to Louis Cobb, the druggist in the Black Mountain Drug Store, asking him to write for the periodical a short essay on Black Mountain College. “If the story can be slanted to predict that the Black Mountain College unconventional method of educational institution operation is very likely the program for the future or some kindred prophesy then we have a timely story.” Photographs will be used to illustrate the essay.
VISITORS:
Lieutenant Morris Simon was a week-end visitor at Lake Eden. On Sunday evening he returned to Fort Bragg.
Dr. and Mrs. Hansgirg were visited by Mr. Roy Batchelor.
CHAIRMEN:
It was the opinion of the members of the Nominating Committees that some of the work formerly done by Committees, can be done more quickly and efficiently by single individuals, definitely assigned to definite jobs. The Nominating Committee, therefore, made the following suggestions, suggestions approved by the Faculty and the Student Officers and by the Work Coordinators:
Work Program Coordinators (Already appointed by the students, and faculty group)
Nell Goldsmith, Ruth Miller
Objectives:
a). To plan work for long periods of time in some detail
b). To make the daily work sheet
c). To report at the end of each week the work accomplished during the six-day period.
d). To keep a record of the progress, as worker, as leader, of each student.
2. Store Managers (Already appointed)
Licso Kulka, Viera Pevaner
Darkroom Manager John Campbell
Exhibit Director Jane Slater
Music Librarian Gwendolyn Currier
Transportation Chairman Roxane Dinkowitz, Olga Schwartz
Objectives:
a). To arrange with car owners for periodic trips to Asheville and Black Mountain
b) To work out a less embarrassing plan (than now employed for collecting fares
c). To collect and study railroad and bus timetables, and put informative notices on bulletin board from time and time.
7. Studies Building Superintendent Harriette Lyford
Objectives:
a). To keep corridors and entrances free of bottles, wastebaskets, shoes and other things.
b). To arrange to suspend brooms from walls so that they are no longer dangerous for pedestrians
c). To arrange for periodic clean-ups.
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Dining Room Superintendent Louise Wright
Objectives:
a). To see that entrance corridor, dining room and backstage are kept in order.
b). To plan for greater attractiveness in the Dining Hall.
9. Office Superintendent Louise Wright
10. Lodge Superintendents
Nan Wright, Ati Gropius, Faith Hartwig, Bob Hartzlor
11. The Grounds (Work Co-ordinators)
Library Area: Robert Wunsch
Dining Room Area: Molly Boring
North Lodge Area: Sue Brown
South Lodge Area: Fred Goldsmith
12. College Electrician James Stranch
New Adress:
S/2C Larry Fox
Co. A Platoon 4
3001 Sp. Bn.
Camp Endicott
Davisville, Rhode Island
Evening Lecture
Eric Bentley will give a lecture on Oscar Wilde this evening at 7:00 o’clock in the RoundHouse for this class in Cultural History and for the cast and technical staff for “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Visitors will be welcome to the lecture.
