3 p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Mistakenly printed1943 for the year; staple in top left corner, 9 horizontal folds. Mentions that new students will be visiting classes from Tuesday to Friday and wil register for the winter quarter on Sat morning Dilon Graham asks drama and music students to give a show at the Army Air Forces Redistribution Rest Camp. Visitors- the Excutive Board of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (Clark Foreman was the president); Dr Mary McLeod Bethune, Dr Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Louis Burnham, Dr. Ira de A. Reid, Tarelton Collier, James A. Dombrowski, Dr. Frank P. Graham, Gerald Harris, Dr. F. Clyde Helms, Lucy R. Mason, Dr. John B. Thompson, Ed Yoemans Jr. Lillian E. Smith, Paula Snelling.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 15
Monday, January 17, 1943
CALENDAR: (as outlined on Bulletin 14)
The new students will visit classes from Tuesday through Friday, then register for the Winter Quarter on Saturday morning after consultation with their advisers.
SUGGESTIONS:
The following topics have been suggested for discussion at the Tuesday evening Community meeting in the Dining Hall:
1). The need to give the dormitories and Studies Building and the grounds a through clean up before the Saturday conference.
2). Detailed plans for this clean-up project.
3). Ways of making the committees, already appointed, more efficient.
4). The Farm Program
5). Economies
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Black Mountain College will be host on Saturday, January 22 to the Executive Board of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, of which Clark Foreman is President. Expected for the Saturday meetings are: Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Louis Burnham, and Dr. Ira de A. Reid, outstanding Southern negroes; and Tarelton Collier, James A. Dombrowski, Dr. Frank F. Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, Gerald Harris, Dr. F. Clyde Helms, Lucy R. Mason, Dr. John B. Thompson, Ed Yoemans, Jr.
Lillian E. Smith and Paula Snelling, the editor of the brave magazine. The North Georgia Review, have written that they will attend the Saturday conference
Herbert Miller has accepted an invitation to teach during the second half of the Summer School at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Dr. Miller has been elected to membership in the United Nations Committee of Asheville which is to be affiliated with both the National and Southern Committees. The plan of this organization is to carry on a program of education locally through meetings, radio, the schools, the library and social organizations, such as luncheon clubs and the Association of University Women. The purpose of the educational program is to disseminate information and develop attitudes necessary for understanding and helping in a new world system.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
Leonard Billing
C.F.S. Spike Creek
Box 415
Bishop, California
A/C William F. Hanchett
A/C Box 1060, MAAF
Marianna, Florida
Bob McGuire
410 Rivard Boulevard
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Master Sergeant George Randall
Headquarters
Amphibian Truck Training Group
Mobilization Training Command
Camp Gordon Johnston, Florida
Lieutenant Thomas Brooks, 0-1013
Co. D 25th Bn., 7th Regt.
AGF Replacement Depot #1
Fort Meade, Maryland
Private Robert H. Marden, 141017
370th TSS
Barracks 121
Scott Field, Illinois
Jean Jordan
509 Lee Street
Evanston, Illinois
B M C COMMUNITY BULLETIN – 1943-44 BULLETIN #15- Page Two
IN THE MAIL:
A/C Bill Hanchett writes from Scott Field: “I’M now an ordinary G.I. soldier, more or less permanently settled and due to begin radio school in the near future. Eventually, I’ll probably get sent to Madison, Wisconsin, but for the time being Scott Field is home…..Cadet training took all of everyone’s energies, but here we have time to talk, read and relax…..”
Private Ike Nakata has returned to Camp Shelby after a furlough in New York City. He writes: “I went to a lot of U.S.O. dances, saw operettas and plays and went to a concert at Carnegie Hall. I saw ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Metropolitan. I enjoyed it but would have enjoyed it even more, I know, if I had followed Dr. Jalowetzes lectures on this opera last year. I saw ‘Carmen Jones’, a Negro interpretation of Bizet’s “Carmen”. The melodies were Bizet’s but the lyrics were changed. They were very colorful and gay songs, and the action was dramatic and interesting. Instead of a billfight there was a prize fight….I will get to Lake Eden next time I have a chance.”
Master Sergeant George Randall writes from Florida: “Many are the times I remember hearing various members of the College Community extoll the virtues of Florida. Well, if dirty sand, insects and scrub pine are the best, then I’ll take the Solomons…..There isn’t a great deal of news. I’m in a unit that at the present time is training thousands of men to drive the famous DUWKs or Ducks. They’re the Amphibian trucks that are boats in the water and trucks on the land…..The entire office staff of fifty odd men work every night till one or two o’clock and then return at eight in the morning. We are all getting a little groggy but the work must be done. I’m in charge of the office…. Pete Hill came here with the Fourth Engineer Special Brigade…He is now in a Harbor Craft unit….”
COLLEGE MAIL:
From Dillon Graham, Chief of Bureau of the Associated Press in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Thank you very much for those two sets of pictures you sent covering Black Mountain College.
I am forwarding the pictures to our picture editor in New York. In the event he has suggestions for additional pictures I will let you know.
We appreciate your fine and prompt cooperation.
From Barbara Thrasher, Staff Assistant of the American Red Cross in the A.A.F. Redistribution Rest Camp at Lake Lure in North Carolina:
Miss Parrish, American Red Cross assistant field director of Moore General Hospital, suggested we might write to you in regard to entertainment at the Army Air Forces Redistribution Rest Camp.
We are expecting a large group of Air Force returnees in the near future and as we are anxious to expand our program, we are investigating every resource.
Would it ever be possible for some of your students to come down to Lake Lure and give a performance? We thought perhaps your drama and music departments could assist us in such a program. We are certain the men would enjoy it.
Any suggestions you may have in regard to this would be most appreciated. Thank you for any cooperation you may give us.
B M C COMMUNITY BULLETIN- 1943-44 BULLETIN #15- Page Three
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
In the Mail:
Rubye Lipsey writes from Atlanta, Georgia: “I have not taken any time to rest yet, but I really feel rested because I am so much interested in my work and find such a pleasure in it. I have taken all the required examinations at Reid College but filing and bookkeeping but will do that next month. In the meantime I am teaching three classes in shorthand. I have been assigned to take down addresses at two meetings of the N.A.A.C.P. and one meeting of a Georgia Insurance Company. My first time on the assignment I was so scared I didn’t get through deciphering my shorthand notes until 2:30 A.M. Maybe that stagefright will pass as I do more of that kind of work.”
Mary McLeod Bethune: Born Marsville, South Carolina, 1875.
Founder of Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904. Director Division of Negro Affairs, N.Y.A. since 1936. President National Council of Negro Women. Influential, widely respected.
Tarleton Collier: Alabama-born former columnist of the Atlanta Georgian. Informed and courageous commentator on the state’s political and social institutions. Now regional publicity director for F.S.A. in Montgomery. Author of Fire in the Sky.
Frank Graham: Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1886. President of the University of North Carolina since 1930. Appointed member of Roosevelt’s Defense Mediation Boardin March. Commandeered, these many years throughout the South, as mediator between the region’s radical and conservative groups. Valuable for his constructive leadership during recent difficult years. Is beloved and popular. Has personality which wins confidence.
Dr. F. Clyde Helms: Born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1889. Baptist preacher in Columbia, South Carolina. Outstanding among ministers who seek to apply to spirit of Christianity to the whole of life today: race, labor, economics, politics, international relations, class conflicts, no less than personal relationships. Active in local health, recreational and creative projects.
Lucy Randolph Mason: Born in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1882. Public Relations Representative, C.I.O. Atlanta. Descendent needs the same zeal for democracy which has made the names famous since colonial days.
