4p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, 4 horizontal folds. Mentions that Marilyn Bauer and Jane Slater won first price for their designed costumes in the recent state dramtic contest held at the UNC chapel Hill mentions that Frederic Cohen will leave on Sat for NYC to confer with dramatic critics and other newspaper editors about the summer music institute. Visitors- Private Otis Levy, Sue Blanchard, a friend of Ati Gropius, Isabel Cameron, also a friend of Ati Gropius Corporal Hubert ALLEN Lorna Pearson, an incoming student for the 44/45 academic year, and her father Jo Starling, a student at Woman's College in Greensboro.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 25
Monday, March 27, 1944
CALENDAR:
The Board of Fellows will meet in Room 10:
a). This afternoon at 4:30 o’clock
b). Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock
c). Wednesday afternoon at 5:00 o’clock
The International Relations Club will meet this evening at 6:45 o’clock in the Lobby of North Lodge to complete the discussion on “Why Go To College.” Eric Bentley will act as Chairman of the meeting.
There will be no meeting of the Faculty on Tuesday afternoon.
There will be a general meeting of students and teaching staff in the Lobby of North Lodge on Thursday evening from 6:45 to 8:00 o’clock.
On Saturday evening, in the Dining Hall, there will be a record recital of Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni.” The recorded music will be accompanied by drawings that follow the action of the opera. Heinrich Jalowetz will make introductory remarks and interpolated commentary.
Sutton Vane’s three-act play, “Outward Bound,” will be presented on the College Dining Hall stage on Saturday evening, April 8.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
In the recent state dramatic contest, held at the University of North Carolina, Marilyn Bauer and Jane Slater were the first prize winners in the costume contest with the costumes they created for “The Importance of Being Earnest”; and Betty Kelley was the first prize winner in the make-up contest with her make-up herself as Zonobia Frome in “Ethan Frome.”
Kenneth Kurtz, Herbert Miller and Erwin Straus will attend the dinner meeting of the X Club in Asheville this evening.
Ted and Bobbie Dreier will leave on Thursday afternoon for a week’s vacation in Florida.
Frederic Cohen will leave on Saturday evening for New York City to confer with dramatic critics and other newspaper editors about the Summer Music Institute at Lake Eden.
The bulletins announcing detailed plans for the Music Institute, the Art Institute and the Summer School and Work Camp will come from the printers this week. They will be mailed immediately to the alumni, the parents of former and present students, friends of the College, schools and newspapers.
The March 27 issue of Life contains a short note from Clark Foreman and a snap shot of Dr. Charles Beard, Ted Dreier and Anti Gropius seated on a bench in front of the College Dining Hall.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses
Robert Graham McGuire
410 Rivard Boulevard
Groose Pointe, 30, Michigan
Corporal Harold Raymond, 3113660
Provisional Training Bn.
1st Airborne E.A.U.T.C.
Richmond A.A.B.
Richmond, Virginia
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In the Mail:
Stephen Forbes from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: “I have the formidable-sounding title of Museum Research Associate, being the first in the one hundred and twenty years of the Institute’s history to my knowledge to hold it…..We consider each exhibit in succession individually and study it from the point of view of the times in which it was built; and, if it is a model, in terms of the original which the model represents- its date, its use, who used it, how it works, whether it is typical or an exception, and any interesting anecdotes connected with it. We also look into the history of the model itself, its former ownership and whereabouts, and who made it. If it is not a model, we give the thorough study to the exhibit itself instead of to the original of the model. For instance, through a study of the most uninteresting steam engine in the Hall of Prime Movers last winter we unearthed the fact that that dull-looking, ugly piece of machinery was the engine that mixed the carbonated water which went into the first ice cream soda in the world. Also in the Hall of Prime Movers is the smallest steam engine in the world, made out of gold and silver; it weighs less than half an ounce. It really works.”
Private Francis Foster writes from India: “The Bulletins come through at three week intervals. I look carefully for the changes in the school’s life…..I am awaiting assignment to a unit. IN the meantime I have been working as cartoonist for the camp newspaper. This frees me from the humdrum of ditch-digging, can smashing and picking up cigarette butts. A great deal of one’s army life is spent waiting for something or other. There is time to think. I work hard for answers to some things, particularly religion, the way and purpose of life. I figure there are two ways of advancing our well being. The one positive way- with the certainty of lasting profess in all elements of our life- is through a steady development of morals. The second type- important, good or bad- results from realignments of various other forces in the state. Generally originating from material needs, it has little or nothing to do with morals. The insisting reform is based on the realization that a need is filled because by our morals, ideals it has to be so. But this is the slow way, and it conflicts with the demands for quick change; and the preference of the masses for swift action, even at the cost of great suffering and loss of life, is clearly indicated in our history. How shall I work? In the manner of the herd- to gain at least temporary relief-, or the slow way- to try to find a more effective way to propagandize morality? I doubt that various faiths can help us- Though the major religions of the world have similar ethical purposes, the theology, the religious pageantry- built above them to satisfy the people’s love for color and drama, has created such rifts that a common attach on evil is impossible. Perhaps something can be salvaged. I’m undecided enough about how to act. My first impulse is to take to the woods. But there is too much wrong in the world. These words of Thoreau come to mind often: ‘I rather sit alone on a pumpkin than be crowded on a velvet cushion’…”.
Bob McGuire writes from Michigan: “I plan to leave my job at Chrysler’s, war or no war(and fat pay check be damned) the end of June and go to summer school here at Wayne and get my teaching certificate. There’s a great need for high school teachers here in Detroit, and I’ve decided I might just as well turn my education to some practical purpose..I have my M.A. and about a year and a half to go on my Ph.D., but that has nothing to do, evidently, with the teaching requirements. If I like teaching high school, I may not go on into college teaching as I originally planned, but I rather think I will…”
Aurora Casotta Piscitello writes from Tuscan, Arizona: “My plans after my stay in Tuscan are very uncertain. As far as I’m concerned, I would like very much to rush to Lubbock to be with Bruno. Of course, the final decision rests with him, as he knows about the living conditions there and how much time he is given away from school…”
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Corporal Harold Raymonf writes from Richmond, Virginia: “I am now at the Richmond Army Air Base, having been finally shippedout of Westover Field. At the time I marched down to the train, I had ideas I would soon see some active service, but unfortunately my outfit broke up, and I am back where I started from, in an office job. It’s a rather nice job in many ways. It keeps me busy and I am learning quite a lot about administration and office procedure. One other corporal and I have charge of the mail, files, and official circulation of the numerous letters, orders and memoranda that go into army administration. The job, especially when the postal inspectors put in an appearance, has its headaches; but, on the whole, it has the fewest worries connected with it of any job I have hit in the Army thus far.”
RECENT VISITORS:
Lieutenant Bela Martin was a visitor for a few hours at Lake Eden last Tuesday. He flew from a Florida Airport to the Army Airport at Fletcher, North Carolina, was met there by Bob Wunsch and brought by car to the College. After lunch in the Dining Hall and an hour or two with old friends Bela returned to his piano in which he flew back to Florida.
Pfc. Emil Willmotz of Camp Shelby in Missippi was a visitor at the College on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. He called the figures for square dancing for the Tuesday evening afterdinner social half-hour. Emil reported that Private Rommy Wentworth, also stationed at Camp Shelby, was ill with fever.
OTHER VISITORS:
After a few days visit at Black Mountain College Dr. George N. Red Robert Lee, and Robert Powell left on Friday for Fisk University. On Thursday evening Dr. Redd spoke generally about education and gave his impressions of Black Mountain College.
COMMUNITY WORK REPORTS:
(for week of March 20 through March 25).
The following reports have come from the straw bosses:
Members of the Construction Crew helped Mundy and Walter finish the beef shed, made ready for use in the Studies Building an unfinished study, and constructed several pieces of furniture for the set of “Outward Bound” to be produced next week.
Reported by Nell Goldsmith
On Sunday the pigs escaped- an unbecoming form of self-expression! The cows, more sedately, had their first day in the barley spring pasture; and each produced two more pounds of milk….The human element hauled the last of the barn manure to the field and cleared, returned, and raked two acres of ground above the mica mine. This is now ready for seeding. The upper half of the area that was cleared last spring was dragged and reseeded… Several loads of saw logs were hauled to the Morris Saw Mill, and enough lumber was sawed to complete the boarding of the beef shed.
Reported by Molly Gregory
From the Farm came four bushels of potatoes and 421 quarts of milk.
Reported by Janey Heling
During the week the maintenance crew mended the wringer, built a bridge to the farm- except the handrails-, mended two doors in the Studies Building, cleaned and scraped the kitchen scrap, began painting the rails of the bridge to Mountain Stream, painted the trash barrels, and cleaned up the area back of the Studies Building.
Reported by Virginia Osbourne
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The new full-time Kitchen Crew began its work last week with in inspection tour of the kitchen. It was conducted by Bob Orr. Because it is small, the Kitchen Crew has time only for the cleaning and setting of the tables and a daily sweeping of the Dining Hall. This work is done on a regular schedule. Most of the much-needed improvements in the kitchen will be made by other crews, such as the Construction and Maintenance Crews.
Reported by Patsy Lynch
The Hauling Crew, despite its being limited to three members accomplished its normal amount of work last week. It hauled coal to both lodges and to the Orr Cottage and wood to the music cubicle and the Gate House. It took logs to the Shop to be buzzed at some future time. It removed trash from the kitchen and the Studies Building and cleaned up part of the campus. Finally, using the trucks and the Hough leader, it began the removing of the charred debris from the burned Service Quarters.
Reported by Bill McLaughlin
It was unanimously decided at a recent Student Meeting not to report the Mica Mine. It was decided, at the same meeting, however, to complete the job of splitting, trimming and inspecting the already mined mica. As there are only two people on the new Mica Crew, it will probably take several weeks to complete the project.
Reported by Carol Ostrow
