4 p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, 8 horizontal folds. Printing mistake at the bottom: "The Winter Quarter began on Tuesday, Jan 8..." should be Jan 18. mentions the returning of two faculties: Edward Lowinsky and Paul Radin. Visitors- Karl Knaths, Gordon Johnston, Corporal Poto Hill.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 16
Monday, January 24, 1944
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK:
The Board of Fellows will meet this afternoon at 4:00 o’clock in Study 10.
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet in the Kocher Room on Tuesday afternoon at 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.
The lecture on Thursday evening will be given by the noted American artist, Karl Knaths who will speak on “Trends in Modern Painting.” The lecture will deal particularly with the development of color consciousness and the portrayal of reality.
Mr. Knaths’s known as one of the most talented and competent painters of the modern school in America. His paintings hang, among other places, in the Chicago Institute of Fine Arts, the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
For the last ten years Mr. Knaths has been teaching painting at the Art School of the Phillips Memorial Gallery; this year he is a visiting artist at Bennington. His few days visit to Black Mountain comes between his engagements at Bennington andhis duties at the Phillips Memorial Gallery.
On Saturday evening in the Dining Hall there will be a concert of Toscanini recordings of Beethoven’s Fourth and Sixth Symphanies the gift of John Stix. The concert which will begin at 9:30 o’clock, will be introduced by a commentary by Heinrich Jalowetz.
There will be a News Report, followed by a discussion, led by Eric Bentley and Clark Foreman, in the Round House on Tuesday evening from 8:40 to 9:40 o’clock.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The February issue of Life Story, now on the news stands, carries three pages of pictures of Black Mountain College. Descriptive matter gives an account of the constructive work done by attending students.
The Dramatic Production students will give a performance of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Western North Carolina Teachers’ College in Cullowhee on Saturday evening, February 12.
Sutton Vane’s “Outward Bound” will be the major dramatic production of the Winter Quarter. The cast will include: Ronate Klepper and Mrs. Clivenden-Banks, Egbert Swackhamer as Tom Prior, Addison Bray as Scrubby, Doris Bollen as Mrs. Midget, Jerome Flax as Mrs. Lingley, Dan Dixon as Rev. William Duke, Jack Gifford as Henry, and Betty Kelley as Ann.
Aurora Cassotta Piscitello has postponed her return to the College until the Fall Quarter of the 1944-1945 session.
Mrs. Louise Wright has agreed to take over the management of the guest rooms. Anyone expecting visitors should inform Mrs. Wright at the earliest possible moment.
The January Newsletter will go to the printers tomorrow. It should be ready for mailing for mailing by next Tuesday.
MAIN EVENTS OF LAST WEEK:
The Winter Quarter began on Tuesday, January 8. On the faculty roster were two old names: Edward Lowinsky and Paul Radin. Dr. Lowinsky had returned after a six months absence from Lake Eden; Paul Radin, after a year-and-a-half’s absence.
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There was a Community meeting on Tuesday evening in the Dining Hall. Among the topics discussed was the need for order in the buildings and the grounds. Plans were outlined for a general clean-up.
The Executive Board of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare hold its annual conference at Lake Eden on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday evening and on Sunday morning the Executive Board had informal sessions with students and teachers of the College in the lobby of North Lodge to discuss with them Southern problems and ways of beginning to solve some of these problems.
Edward and Gretel Lowinsky and Trudi Straus gave a concert on Saturday evening in the Dining Hall. The Lowinskys began the program by playing Huge Kauder’s Suite in G and Suite in A, two numbers for violin and piano. Then they played Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto in A Minor for violin and piano. Dr. Lowinsky next played Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E Major, Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, and Prelude and Fugue in F Minor. After an intermission the trio played Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto Grosso in D Minor for violin and piano.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses
Bob Hartzler
Smithville
Ohio
Private Lucian Marquiz, ASN 42054408
Company B 55th Bn.
Camp Walters, Texas
Corporal Pete Hill, ASN 31315352
Company E, 544EB and SR, 4 ESB
Camp Gordon Johnston, Florida
Sergeant John M. Stix
Headquarters Company
59th Signal Battalion
APO 9473
c/o Postmaster, New York
In the Mail:
Larry Fox writes form Camp Endicott in Rhode Island: “At present I am in the replacement center awaiting battalion. I have no idea as to how long I shall be here. The length of a replacement stay varies from one week to one year. The Navy keeps me busy doing menial jobs but I have much more free time then when I was in a battalion….The Seabees do a regular weekly broadcast over a Providence hookup. Today I saw the man in charge and read script for him. He liked my work and seemed to think I might be able to be assigned to that department. It all depends on my being able to convince the Lieutenant at the head of the Welfare and Recreation Department that I deserve a transfer….The man just popped in here and informed me that I have a part in Tuesdays broadcast. The part is small, but at least I’m doing radio work and it will bring me to the attention of the Lieutenant.”
A.S Otis Levy writes from Pullman, Washington on January 19: “Passed my check flight today and next week I leave for Santa Ana. Flying has been fun. The morale of the group is one hundred per cent, especially since not one accident has occurred since the last of December.”
Sergeant Evelyn Tubbs writes from somewhere in England: “All that Black Mountain College stands for- freedom, democracy, equality, the responsibility of each individual to his community, the opportunity to learn to stand on one’s two feet- those are the things we’re fighting for. We’re fighting plenty hard; and ironically enough, those of us in the Services have had to give up many of these same things we’re fighting to presence. But we had done so willingly, knowing that it is the only way to insure the safety for the time when we’ve finished this blasted war…. Your John Stix is right when he says it isn’t only the civilian who is the wartime dreamer. Even though our days, and many of our nights, are filled with long and tedious labor, now and then a moment of escape comes- and then we dream, too!”
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WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
Change of the Address:
Jessie Ann Nelson
48 Morton Street
New York 14, New York
AMONG THE VISITORS:
Corporal Pete Hill, on a twelve-day furlough from Camp Gordon Johnston, was a week-end visitor at Lake Eden. On Saturday evening he called the figures for the square dances. Pete is leaving tomorrow morning for Philadelphia where he will visit Marten and Barbara Steinau. From Philadelphia he will go to Boston.
COMMUNITY WORK SUMMARY:
(Week of January 18 through January 22:)
To offset the confusion and disorganization brought about by returning students during the first week after the holidays the emphasis of the work-program was upon cleaning up. For four days crews worked with mops and brooms and rakes; they cleaned up the ledges, the Dining Hall and the Studies Building and either burned up or hauled away all the debris from the grounds around these areas.
Other crews worked under Bas Allen at excavating and grading under the addition to the Science Laboratory.
Six leads of coal were hauled to various buildings at Lake Eden. Reported by Ruth Miller
From the Farm came: one half bag of cabbage, one calf weighing 61 pounds net, three bushels of potatoes, 50 pounds of chicken, and 355 quarts of milk.
Reported by Janet Holing
NEWS STORY FROM LAKE EDEN:
Lake Eden, January 23- Betrayal of “the masses of Southern people by their representatives is involved in the attitude of Southern Senators opposing anti-poll tax and soldier-vote legislation, said the Executive Board of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, meeting today and Saturday at Black Mountain College.
The Board directed a letter to Senator Head of New York, asking him to lead the flight for electure in debate on the pending poll tax legislation, and for passage of the bill, HR 7.
In a statement of policy and action the Board also assailed the action of a group of Southern railroads in defying the “free and equal opportunity” order of the President’s Fair Employment Practices Committee and urged action to meet “the challenge.”
“In the open defiance of the order to grant job opportunities without regard to race, creed or color,” said the statement, “is implied not only a denial of democratic principles, but also a grave and far-reaching danger of intolerance of the law, wide-spread contempt for institutions of government and continued afferent to establishment authority.”
The statement advocated adoption of uniform nation-wide classification of freight rates to end the discriminatory rate system new existing “which Vice President Wallace recently said keeps the South in a colonial status, subservient to the monopoly money markets of the Northeast.”
Other actions included:
Expression of regret at the Senate’s failure to provide for Federal aid to education and request for renewal of efforts in its behalf.
Endorsement of the Murray-Wagner-Dingell Bill to extend and increased social security benefits.
Recommendation of “adequate” Federal tax legislation to provide swifter payment of the war costs, elimination of inordinate war
writes, regeneration of war contracts, and to reduce the dangerous inflation. Opposition was voiced to the prevision to require financial statements of cooperatives and labor unions as a move toward their impairment.
Support of food subsidies as instruments of inflation control, support for living standards, and reduction of war costs.
Advocacy of full support of the programs of rural rehabilitation farm ownership and cooperative ventures under the Farm Security Administration.
Request for elimination of racial segregation rules in public transportation and commendation of the efforts of Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond, Virginia Times Dispatch, to bring about an end of bus segregation in that city.
Attending the meeting and signing the statement were: Dr. Clark Foreman, President of the Conference, a member of the Black Mountain College faculty; the Reverend Clyde Holms, Baptist Minister of Columbia, South Carolina; Miss Lillian Smith and Miss Paula Snolling, editors of The South Today, of Clayton, George Gerald Harris, President of the Alabama Farmers Union; Roscoe Dungee, editor of the Black Dispatch, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, President of Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalin North Carolina; Tarleton Collier of Louisville, Kentucky, and Dr. James A. Dombrowski, Conference Executive Secretary, Nashville, Tennessee.
AGENDA FOR TUESDAY MEETING:
1). Summer Plans:
a). The Music Institute (a report by Dr. Jalowetz)
b). The Art Institute (a report by Mr. Albers)
2). Visitors from the Education Department at Fisk University
a). Housing?
b). Time of Visit?
3). Letter from New York lawyer regarding North Carolina segregation laws. (Read by Clark Foreman)
4. Recommendations (Bob Wunsch)
5. Winter Quarter Class Registration
