3 p, 1 double sided page and 2 one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, 9 horizontal folds. Mentions that BMC was represented last weekend at the Conference of Southeastern College International Relations Club held at Women's College of the UNC Greensboro. Visitors- Max Dehn spoke on mathematics, Peto Hill and Joy Corbett, a friend of Ati Gropius Dr Goerge N. Redd, Prof of Education at Fisk University; Robert Lee and Robert Powell, two students majoring in science at Fisk.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLELGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 23
Monday, March 13, 1944
CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK:
The Board of Fellows will meet this afternoon at 5:00 o’clock in Study 10.
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
The students and the teachers will meet in the Lobby of the North Lodge tomorrow evening from 6:45 until 7:30 to evaluate the Interlude and to make recommendations for the next Interlude.
The students will hold their weekly meetings in the Lobby of North Lodge on Thursday evening at 7:00 o’clock.
Professor Dehn of St. John’s College will address the College Community on “Mathematics” at 8:00 o’clock on Thursday evening in the Dining Hall.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Bureau of Psychological Warfare has requested a group of three short speeches in English and German by Bob Wunsch, Josef Albers and Fritz Hansgirg, to be broadcast by short wave particularly to Germany and the German occupied countries. Bob Wunsch has been asked to speak briefly on Black Mountain College and its democratic ideals and its many democratic practices. Josef Albers has been asked to tell of his connection with the Bauhaus and his present art teaching in an American college. Fritz Hansgirg has been requested to tell of the freedom he has experienced in America with his scientific research despite his Austrian citizenship. The three professors will be sent to New York City for broadcasting directly to Europe. Later translations, that will be made of the speeches, will be sent to all parts of the world.
Clark Foreman will talk to the soldiers and the WACs at Moore General Hospital on Saturday morning at 8:00 o’clock on “The Meaning of the Current News.”
The College actors will give a performance of “The Importance of Being Earnest” in the auditorium of the Red Cross at Moore General Hospital on Saturday evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Trudi Straus returned on Sunday afternoon from Raleigh where she was one of the performers in the concerts given by the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra.
Erwin Straus will return this afternoon from Baltimore and Annapolis, Maryland and Williamsburg, Virginia where we gave lectures last week.
FROM MOORE GENERAL HOSPITAL:
Excerpts from a letter from Corporal John L. Bowers, Special Services Department;
“…..We are looking forward to having as our guest on our Orientation program one of your lectures next Saturday morning at 8:00 A.M. Since the audiences, one at 8:00 and one at 9:00 A.M., will be composed of soldiers, and WACs, a subject of interest to them is requested. ‘Current History’, or a talk on the totalitarian countries are equally desirable….I shall have a staff car at the college on the morning of Saturday the 18th at 7:45 A.M. to bring your man to Moore General Hospital. He shall be returned by the same vehicle. Could he talk about thirty minutes, here?
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“We would like to have your group present ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ here on Saturday, here on Saturday, March 18 at 7:30 P.M., but the audience would have to be composed partly of patients, since Saturday is open house night for them, and we cannot revoke this privilege, even for the one occasion. If you will give me the go-ahead on it, however, I will publicize the show extensively with the nurses, officers and their families, and WACs, as well as with the Detachment, among whom there are many who would forego other pleasures to attend. I would like to hear from you on this quickly. The only cyclorama curtain we have at the Red Cross stage is a bright yellow or orange one, which you have seen. What about this?”
“Before scheduling the dramatic sketches, please advise if they are to be given at the same time, and what is their length. I enjoyed very much the one act play of Black Mountain College last season, ‘Fumed Oak’ and ‘Fixin’s’, and others, and I am sure there will be a great deal of interest in these sketches here.”
“I regret to say that I do not believe there are a sufficient number of men here interested in classical music to warrant offering a rogram….”
EVENTS OF LAST WEEK:
Black Mountain College was represented last week end at the Conference of Southeastern College International Relations Clubs held at Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. The delegation included: Mary Brett, Jerome Flax, Frances de Graaff, Mary Kriger, Virginia Osbourne, Marita Pevsner, Dorice Tentchoff and Lana Yarashint one of the sessions Mary Brett read a paper on “The Leadership Responsibilities of Britain, China, Russia and the United States in the Post-War World.” At all the sessions the Black Mountain College students participated in the discussion. During their stay in Greensboro the delegates had lunch on Friday and Saturday in Bennett College, a Negro School.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Shirley Allen
Hotel Marik
Cuernavaca, Morelos
MEXICO
Sergeant John M. Swackhamer, 14101336
Med. Det. 90th Infantry
Camp Carson, Colorado
Mrs. Bruno Piscitello
c/o Della Guardia
925 East Drachman Street
Tucson, Arizona
In the Mail:
Shirley Allen writes from Mexico: “I’m planning not to leave here in early April and will probablt spend a week or so at B.M.C. On my way home if travel conditions permit. I’ll probably get there around the last week in April…..I still like Mexico as much as ever and hate to leave. We are going to travel around in the country a lot in March visiting Guadalajara, Acapulco, and maybe Vera Cruz again…..The French actor, Louis Jouvet, and his company are in Mexico for a long stay and have been giving a series of French plays, two of which I saw. One was “L’Annoco Faite a Marie” by Claudet and the other one was Moliere’s “L’Ecole des Femmes”. I enjoyed both very much and understood the French pretty well. The costumes were nearly as original as the B.M.C. ones were, but the scenery was excellent in its simplicity, and the acting was fine…..I have gotten quite acquainted with the young people who are down here working with the American Friend’s Service Committee. They are a grand bunch and doing a worthwhile job in the little Mexican villages in spite of having to live under quite primitive conditions. The girls work in the public health clinics, do recreational work with children, teach classes of English, etc. The boys build privies for the natives, raise bees, direct plays, teach good methods of gardening…..”
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Stephen Forbes writes from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: “Last October a new Department was formed at the Franklin Institute with Major Coulson and myself as the incumbents. The name is ‘The Department of Museum Research’. A second Englishman has been added to our group so now we are three. We are writing a new guidebook for the museum, which should be approximately fifteen times as large as the old guidebook; it will take years to write. At present I am working on the navigation end of it, and am plunged in a welter of astrolabes, cross staffs, and peloruses. At home I peer at the stars through my homemade telescope and chop wood and walk. On the train commuting from Bryn Mawr I tussle with abstruse mathematics..”
Aurora Cassotta Piscitello writes from Wichita Falls, Texas on March 7: “I am sitting here in my room surrounded with valises, clothes and cardboard boxes and am in the depths of despair. Until a few minutes ago I was struggling with this packing problem, but after a few hours of absolute torture, I gave up…..Bruno was shipped to Lubbock Field, Texas this morning….I am off for Tucson Thursday to stay with my maternal grandfather….After this visit I haven’t any set plans. I may go to Los Angeles to visit Bruno’s aunt, or I may join Bruno immediately.”
Announcement:
Mr. and Mrs. Rigel Osborn Belt announce the marriage of their daughter Avis Rebecca to Boonyong Nikrodhonandra Lieutenant, Free Thai Unit Saturday the fourth of March One thousand nine hundred and forty-four Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church in the city of Washington
IN THE NEXT ISSUE:
In the next issue of the Community Bulletin a question and answer section will be inaugurated. In this section an attempt will be made to answer the specific questions of former students about the present state of the College.
COMMUNITY WORK PROGRAM REPORTS:
a). For the week of February 28 through March 4:
With the help of the two Gibson men the wood chopping crews cleared land at a great rate. At the end of the week there were sixty words of wood on the hillside ready to be hauled down and cut into furnace lengths for use in the Spring.
Buzzing and hauling continued during the week, as did also chopping and piling brush.
The Construction of the beef shed addition onto the barn went forward. The flooring was almost completed. The roof framing was begun.
Wok in the Mica Room consisted principally in inspecting and sorting.
During the week an inventory was made of all the College supplies and equipment by Bas Allen and several students assistants.
From the farm came four bushels of potatoes and 433 quarts of milk.
b). Week of March 6 through May 11:
Wood chopping and mica sorting continued.
Despite the Interlude, farm jobs- cleaning-up, manure pitching and bedding-hauling for the cows- kept students busy all week.
Because of the cold weather construction on the beef shed was slowed up. The framing was finished, however, and most of the siding was put up.
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The Dining Hall floor was scrubbed.
Some work was done in the area of the Service Building. The debris was sorted and cleaned up, salvaged material was stored away, and charred wood was piled up in preparation for its being taken away.
From the Farm came four bushels of potatoes and 408 quarts of milk.
Reported by Nell Goldsmith and Janet Heling
