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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 22
Monday, March 6, 1944
CONCERNING TO INTERLUDE:
The Interlude that began this morning at 8:30 o’clock will continue until 8:30 o’clock next Monday morning.
a). Students go to their advisers if they need help in planning their interludes.
b). The Work Program go on during the Interlude.
c). Noises in the Studies Building be kept at a minimum.
d). Small informal coffee drinkings be made as undisturbing as possible.
e). Large parties be restricted to Saturday evening.
f). There be a meeting after the Interlude to evaluate it.
“The Interlude is not a holiday; not designed for sleeping, for catching up on class work; not an invitation for teachers to give long assignments.
The Interlude is a private work period, a creative period, for reading, for painting, for writing.”
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK:
The Board of Fellows will meet this afternoon at 1:-00 o’clock in the living room of the Hansgirg apartment. The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
Anauta, “the only Eskimo woman on the American platform”, will address the College Community and visitors on Thursday evening at 8:00 o’clock in the College Dining Hall.
The Chorus will rehearse on Saturday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the College Dining Hall.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Black Mountain College actors will give a performance of “Outward Bound” at the Stephens-Lee High School in Asheville on Friday afternoon, April 7 and a performance of “Straw for the Scarecrow” for all the small Negro children of Asheville in the Stephens-Lee Auditorium on May 6. “Outward Bound” will be given to help raise money for the building scenery and beautifying the Senior Room at the Stephens-Lee High School.
The Black Mountain College actors will give a series of dramatic sketches and a one-act play in April at the Negro Allen Home and School to help them raise money for their school.
After the illness of several months Annarrah Kurtz died on Tuesday evening, February 29. Funeral services were held in the Quiet House on Thursday afternoon. Dr. Erwin Straus spoke briefly on the meaning of death and commented on Anne Kurtz as a member of the college community. The College Chorus sang Bach chorals. Father Greenwood, pastor of the Grace Episcopal Church in Black Mountain, conducted the burial services at the Black Mountain Cemetery.
Expected:
Zora Hurston from Daytona Beach, Florida: “Will be there on March 8 without fail. May have to come by train on account of gas. Bringing some work along.
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Dr. George N. Redd, Professor of Education at Fisk University, writes: “It is a genuine pleasure for me to accept your invitation; the visit will be a real educational experience for me and the Fisk students. It will be possible for me to come during the week of March 20….. I hope that I will be able to bring a boy and a girl; however, I shall discuss the matter with our student leaders and notify you later about the discussion. I am very happy over the opportunity to be the guest of Black Mountain College, and I am looking forward to the visit with much interest. I am assuming that all activities will be quite informal, involving a free exchange of opinions on our views and practices in education and on policies and programs in dealing with the problems of the South.”
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Pfc. Richard D. Brown, 1416837
627 T.S.S., Bks. 16441
Truax Field
Madison 7, Wisconsin
Temporary Address:
For March and April
Suzanne Noble
1407 Woodlawn Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware
Private Frances Foster, 14100243
A.P.O. 7341, Care Postmaster
New York, New York
In the Mail:
Dick Brown writes from Truax Field in Wisconsin that he and Bob Marden are together again: “I suppose you are a bit weary of hearing B.M.C. people running into each other, but it has happened again….Bob and I have been discussing the ‘old days’, what we now think was wrong, etc., even down to the post-war plans of Black Mountain. It has been very pleasant to be able to talk to someone who knows incidents and places that you know and be able to ‘remember when’…..”
Kenneth Ayres writes from Reno, Nevada where he is an Aviation Student in the 313th College Training Detachment: “I was sent here in November and have been here ever since…Most of the work here is fairly easy; the math I can do with my eyes closed. Last week we took finals in English, history and geography and this week we started flying. Monday I went up for the first time in my life, and I’m sold on it….I don’t know whether or not you know but Davis Pinos graduated from the University of California this month. I heard from him just recently, and he tells me that he majored in physics and minored in math and that he hopes to stay on there as an instructor…”
Homer Bobilin writes from New Hebrides in the Pacific: “There are not many natives here. I believe that majority of them were evacuated when the United States took over. The few who are here surely do know the value of money. If you want to buy souvenirs, such as grass skirts or the like, you can prepare yourself to pay mighty steep prices. In relation to the way they are accustomed to living those natives are rapidly becoming Hebrides species. I didn’t believe my eyes when I first saw them. They average about a foot-and-a-half wing span. I have heard of one- it was shot down some time ago- that had a four-foot span. They are called flying foxes…..The palm trees here are plentiful, and if you look hard enough you can find banana trees…..Entertainment for the soldiers is not too plentiful, though things are picking up now. The Red Cross has moved in and built a large recreation building in which they have put a pool table and three table-tennis tables, books and magazines. Reading and the nightly movies are really our only form of amusement. Of course, every now and then we get in a supply of beer, which, needless to say, is warmly welcomed…”
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Private Francis Foster writes from India: “I have gone through many places, talked to seamen, laborers, clerks, and soldiers. The sickness of superstition, prejudice, cruelty and stupidity is everywhere. And we talk of reform. There will be no lasting reform without a Christian decency…”
Gisela Kronenberg writes from Chicago: “I have been accepted as a special student at Lew Institute and shall start work there on March 6. Somehow I still can’t quite believe that it’s actually true, that I’m on my way, that by 1950 or so I shall have the nominative right to heal people and to dangle my M.D. after my name… I amstill enthusiastic about work with the animals and my work in the bloodbank. If in nothing else, I am becoming accurate in taking bloodpressure, improving my giving hypos and even ‘hitting’ veins when drawing blood….Remember, about a year ago, I was having my trial exam. Time flies!”
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
New Addresses:
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Barnes
49 South Avenue
Melrose 76, Massachusetts
News:
William E. Zeuch, Director of the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Alabama, has been granted a year’s leave of absence because of illness.
“Shortly after Dr. Zeuch’s arrival in Fairhope two years ago he was bothered by a husky throat. The doctors told him that it was a benign growth in his left vocal cord. Later they doubted this diagnosis. Dr. Zeuch went to one of the best larynxologists in the South and had the growth stripped from the chord and sent to the laboratories for analysis. It was pronounced malignant carcinoma. He immediately underwent a second operation, in which all the infiltrated parts- left vocal chord, a large part of the right vocal chord and adjacent area of the larynx- were removed. After more than a month in the hospital he returned to the campus last October and resumed his work with the low husky whisper he has left. Even though he adapted his teaching and administrative methods to his changed conditions, the strain has proved too great.” Dr. Zeuch’s duties have been taken over by a committee of the faculty.
In the Mail:
Mrs. A.D. Jamieson writes from Newton Centre, Massachusetts: “I hope I am not wrong in thinking that Anauta will interest your community. To me she is an ‘exhibit’ of a very real splendid person, who, by sheer good will and intelligence, has bridged two cultures of vast differences and, yet has kept her ‘soul’ inviolate. She has the curiosity and enthusiasm of an eager child…..I am looking forward to my visit to Lake Eden in early April.”
Last Week at Lake Eden:
At the All-Beethoven Concert on Saturday evening in the College Dining Hall Frederic Cohen played Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia, Opus 27, Number 2, in C Sharp Minor, and Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia, Opus 27, Number 1, in E Flat Major; and Trudi Straus, Gwendolyn Currier and Frederic Cohen played the Trio for Violin, ‘Cello and Piano, Opus 1, Number 3, in C Minor.
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The program of the Musical Evening on Sunday in the Lowinsky Living Room in Black Dwarf was devoted to works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Francois Couperin. Edward Lowinsky began the concert by playing Preludes and Fugues from Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier I and II. Then Edward and Gretel Lowinsky and Gwendolyn Currier played Couperin’s Concert Royal for Violin, ‘Cello and Piano. The program ended with Bach’s Trio Sonata from the Musical Offering played by Edward and Gretel Lowinsky and Trudi Straus.
On Saturday morning Herbert Miller helped to outline a Course of Study on Public Speaking with and for the officer patients at the Moore General Hospital.
Last week on Wednesday evening the Social Survey Class and Herbert Miller had supper with Father Greewood and a group of parishioners at the Rectory of the St. James Episcopal Church in Black Mountain. Later they participated in a discussion on church and community problems in the Church with the congregation during their Lenton Service.
Last week on Wednesday evening the Social Survey Class and Herbert Miller had supper with Father Greenwood and a group of parishioners and the Rectory of the St. James Episcopal Church in Black Mountain. Later they participated in a discussion on church and community problems in the Church with the congregation during their Lenton Service.
Departing:
Paul Radin will leave this afternoon for New York City. He will return at the end of the week.
Kenneth Kurtz will leave tomorrow afternoon for Scotia, New York for a two week’s visit with his brother.
Erwin Straus will leave tomorrow afternoon for a short speaking tour in the East. He will talk informally at St. John’s College on “Aesthesiology” on Wednesday, address the Maryland Psychiatric Society on “Depersonalization” in Baltimore on Thursday and speak to the William and Mary Chapter of the American Association of University Professors in Williamsburg, Virginia on “Education in the Age of Masses” on Friday. At Williamsburg Dr.Straus will be a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Freud.
STATE DRAMATIC FESTIVAL:
Black Mountain College will participate in the Annual State Dramatics Festival to be held in Chapel Hill on March 23, 24 and 25. The actors will enter the college play production contest with Anton Chokhov’s “The Anniversary” instead of with Lady Gregory’s “Spreading the News”, as previously announced. The cast for this one-act play will include Jack Gifford as Andrey Andreyevitch Shiputchin; Betty Kelley as Tatyana Alexeyavna, his wife; Egbert Swackhamer as Kugma Nikolayovitch Hirin, the Bank Cashier; Renate Klepper as Nastasya Fyoderovna Mertschutskin, and old woman; and Dan Dixon as a member of the Board of Management. The costume plates and the costumes made by Jane Slater and Marilyn Bauer for the production of “The Importance of Being Earnest” will be entered in the dramatic technique contests.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Campaign Publicity Committee, at its initial meeting held on Sunday, drew up the following plans for nation-wide publicity;
a). to recommend that articles be written by members of the faculty on topical subjects; that Dr. Jalowetz for instance, write an article on Schoenberg at Seventy!! (It is hoped that magazines will accept these articles for publication.
b). that with the cooperation of the music and art departments exclusive publicity material on the summer institutes be sent out.
c). that a group of radio programs be arranged for broadcasting over Station WWNC in Asheville; that this series include two programs by members of the music faculty, one program of selections from Bertolt Brecht’s “The Private Life of the Master Race”, and a panel discussion on education
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d). that at least one of the Monday meetings be devoted to a panel discussion on education to prepare for the radio program.
e). that a copy of each article written by a member of the Faculty be submitted to the Publicity Committee for its files.
f). that students be encouraged to undertake to write an article on the College from the students viewpoint; that this article be written in such a way as to find favor with the editors of Reader’s Digest and thereby get into this magazine.
The Campaign Publicity Committee includes Eric Bentley, Chairman; Kathryn Carlisle, Bobbie Drier, Clark Foreman and Robert Wunsch.
