4 p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, 13 horizontal folds. The Board of Fellow meet to discuss the plans for 1944 summer institute; winter quarter begins Dec 11; mentions that memorial services for Lieutenant Roman Macieczyk were held on Saturday afternoon (Dec 5). Gwondolyn Currior was elected on Sat in the annual student election to succeed the current moderator Sam Brown for 1944
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 11
Monday, December 6, 1943
CALENDAR:
Various groups will meet this evening from 6:40 to 7:00 to plan sectional meetings during the five-weeks holiday period.
The Board of Fellows will meet in Study 10 on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock to begin a discussion on plans for the 1944 Summer Institutes at Lake Eden.
The Faculty will meet in the Kocher Room on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
The Drama students will present Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” on the Dining Hall Stage on Wednesday evening, December 8. The performance will begin promptly at 8:30 o’clock.
There will be a meeting of the Community on Thursday evening, December 9, at 6:45 o’clock, in the Lobby of the North Lodge, to continue the discussion on holiday plans.
Josef Albers will conduct a discussion on “The Picture of the Month” on Thursday evening, beginning at 8:00 o’clock, in the College Dining Hall.
The Winter Quarter vacation will begin on Saturday, December 11 at 12:15 o’clock and end on Monday, January 17 at midnight. Classes will be resumed on Tuesday morning, January 18 at 8:15 o’clock.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Art Book Campaign begun early in 1943 is continuing to bring results. Several books have just been received.
At a meeting of the Community, hold yesterday afternoon immediately after lunch in the Lobby of North Lodge, the students and teachers decided to plan Black Mountain College get-togethers in various cities and towns during the Christmas vacation; to interest high school students in coming to the College, to get financial aid for the College.
Memorial Services for Lieutenant Roman Macieczyk were held on Sunday afternoon December 5 in the College Dining Hall. Bob Wunsch commented briefly on Roman as a student and as a soldier, then read excerpts from recent letters from Mrs. Rebecca Mangold, a close friend of Roman. A trio, composed of Trudi Straus, violinist Gwendolyn Currier, cellist, and Frederic Cohen, pianist, played the slow movement of Beethoven’s Trio Opus 97. Jane Robinson Stone read, “Of Few Days”, a sonnet which she wrote soon after she had heard of Roman’s death.
….Of Few Days
Reclaim the gesture, and the slim, spilled laughter;
Moved hand, moved mouth, the action of each verb
Intangibly most muted for this hour, and after…
Long after time has ceased to be Disturb.
Those busy fingers that have made tomorrow
Too suddenly arrive have shaped your face
With syllables; arranged for you to borrow
Taught symbols for your minimum of grace.
Wingless in highest air you condescended,
Motioned to cirrus victory. And night,
Strong acquiescent, sudden came extended,
To be your obvious dark acolyte.
From such sure cosmologic enterprise
Comes the remembered fragment for your eyes.
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Mrs. A. D. Jamieson has invited all present and former students of Black Mountain College in the area of Boston to spend New Year’s Eve at her home at 93 Homer Street in Newton Centre, Massachusetts.
Student Election:
In the annual student election, conducted on Saturday of last week, Gwendolyn Currier, a music major, was elected moderator for 1944, to succeed Sam Brown.
The student officers for the remainder of the 1943-44 College session will be elected this week.
Recent Visitor
Herbert Solow, education editor of Time magazine, was a visitor at Lake Eden on Thursday and Friday of last week. He talked with members of the teaching staff and the students, attended several classes, watched the students and teachers carrying out their daily work program, and sat in on a student meeting. He was particularly interested in the Fritz Hansgirg’s experiments with olivino; in the attitude of the College to the Negro and the other Southern Problems, to Bob Wunsch’s work with the Negro Secondary Schools in the South; and in the Black Mountain Township survey to be made by the students of Clark Foreman and Herbert Miller next Quarter.
WITH FORMERS STUDENTS:
Lawrence Fox S/2C
Company A, Pot. 4
Sp. Batt. 3001
Camp Andicott, Rhode Island
Pfc. Claude Steller
STRU 3910 Company B
Sacramento Junior College
Sacramento, 14, California
Private Paul Wiggin
B.T.C. #10, 31406853
Wing 301
Greensboro, North Carolina
Lieutenant Don Page
Army Air Forces
Air Intelligence School
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
(After December 11)
Frank M. White, Jr.
2 Lockwood Avenue
Bronxville, 8, New York
Notes:
A Newspaper Clipping
Wendover (Utah) November 25 (U.P.)- Nine flyers were killed early this morning near Wendover Field when a heavy bomber crashed and exploded on the salt flats.
The dead included four officers and five enlisted men.
Among them was 2nd Lieutenant Roman F. Maciejczyk, Sherman Oaks, California.
Private Paul Wiggin, now taking basic training for the Air Corps in Greensboro, North Carolina, hopes to become a pilot.
In the Mail:
Gisela Kronenberg writes from the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute in Chicago: “I am working hard on a research project in Psychodrama with one of our staff doctors. In addition I still see a lot of the patients on an interview and “social” level, am present during electric and insulin therapy, and… I assist in the bloodbank of the hospital setting up bottles, learning to take bloodpressure and how to draw blood. So far I haven’t started and “bloods” as yet but I have drawn them and finished them. Concerning my future plans, I am again seriously going into medicine even if it means more years of under graduate work…. I continue to work half time down at the Psychiatric Institute of the Municipal Court where I learn testing by doing it… Next Sunday I shall probably see Dick Forberg who is working in a Northside Hospital here…”
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Claude Stoller writes from Sacramento Junior College: “I have been here… for the past week taking “refresher” courses preparatory to being sent to an ASTP unit to study Basic Engineering… The place is attractive in a very extensive sort of way. It is not a boarding school, and the army has taken over the gymnasiums as barracks. I sloop in the girls gym, smack in the center of the basketball court…It is, without exaggeration, exhilarating to be back at work after so many months of enforced idleness… I have, as yet, no idea of the college they’ll send me to, but it seems more than likely that it will be in the Ninth Corps Area (The Pacific Coast).”
With Former Staff Members:
New Addresses:
Rachel Dwinnell
Apartment E-53
247 Drake Avenue
New Rochelle, New York
Corporal John Evarts
Co. A. Prev.
Vint Hill Farms Station
Warrenton, Virginia
In the Mail:
327018 Flight/Sgt. Carlton, J.A.
C/O A.D. and A.P.
South African Air Force
U.D.F. M.E.F.
c/o Army Post Office
Cairo, Egypt
17th Nov, ‘43
Dear Sir,
Writing amidst rather too much noise and squaler to do justice to all the delicate academic theme of this appeal, I do not like to delay this letter any longer, nor to fail in a promise made to airmen comrades to write you.
Briefly, the position is that in civilian life I lecture at the Natal Technical College, Durham. Following my scholastic duties I heard of your magnificent work and practical development. At Kairenan Tunisia we fought with the Americans and re-heard of you and your splendid work as we chatted to your troops in rest. Your success has completely captured the imagination of many of my comrades, and, I was made to promise to write you and request that you would forward me any data and syllabus, that might assist us to adopt a similar scheme in our own home when hostilities have ceased. Might I appeal to you to do so, please? If over men needed communal scholastic life, such as you have created at Black Mountain, we shall need it and I know of no scholastic, or, vocational scheme, more peaceful and happy; or, better suited to soothe the scars on the mind of those who have looked on certain places, of which the prophecy in the Sospels seems no more than on omenous hint when it speaks of the abomination of desolation. In giving me the data of your struggle you perform a Christian charity to my comrades who request it.
Yours Sincerely John A. Carlton Flight Sgt.
COMMUNITY WORK SUMMARY:
(Week of November 29 through December 4):
The mica mine did not produce its usual quantity of mica this week, because a great portion of the time was devoted to starting a new tunnel there. Only ten pounds of mica were split and trimmed in the Mica Room; consequently the trimming has caught up with the raw material.
The roof of the second cubicle was completed.
A secure hog fence was built to insure the safe keeping of the pigs, and the hog houses were moved down to the new hog lots.
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The Dining Hall stage was made ready for the production of “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Nell Goldsmith
From the Farm came two hundred and forty-six quartz of milk.
Janet Heling.
Agenda for Tuesday Faculty Meeting
a). Report from the Secretary of the Board of Fellows on Plans for the Summer of 1944
b). Summaries on the Fall Quarter work of the students.
Note: It was agreed last week that:
1). Each teacher would write and hand in to Aryln McKenna on Monday the work of each student in each of his Fall Quarter classes.
2). Arlyn would give these write-ups to the advisers of the students.
3). Each adviser would write up a summary of the Fall Quarter work of each of his advisees.
