3p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Mentions that student Mart Brett was elected student officer to succeed Janie Robinson Stone, as the latter needed more time for her graudation work mentions that Maja Bentley and Janie Stone took trial examinations for grauduation on Thursday, Fri and Sat. Visitors- Lieutenant Bill Hanchett Louis Levy Mr and Mrs A.D.Lynch Mrs A.D.Stone Anne Mangold E.R.Goodridge Dr and Mrs Max Shellins W.M.Cole Jimmy Jamieson.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 28
Monday, April 17, 1944
CALENDAR:
Mrs. Catherine Wurster will talk informally on “Housing” in the Kocher Room this morning during the fourth period.
The International Relations Club will hold its regular weekly meeting this evening at 6:45 o’clock in the Lobby of North Lodge. The discussion will be concerned chiefly with “The Ideal Curriculum”, the subject that was to have been taken up last week.
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet this evening at 9:30 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
The Board of Fellows will meet on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in Study 10.
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet in the Kocher Room at 4:30 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon.
The Students will hold their regular weekly meeting on Wednesday evening in North Lodge Lobby at 7:00 o’clock.
There will be a record concert of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”, illustrated by the Anatole Kopp drawings, on Saturday evening in the Dining Hall, beginning at 8:30 o’clock.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Trudi Straus left on Friday of last week for Chapel Hill, Greensboro and Greenville where she participated in week-end concerts given by the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra.
This afternoon at 4:30 o’clock Frederic Cohen will broadcast a fifteen-minute program from Station WWNC in Asheville. The program will include: a Minuet in D by Mozart, “Pavane on the Death of a Royal Child” by Maurice Ravel, and “La Puerta del Vino” and “Le General Lavine by Debussy.
On Tuesday morning after breakfast, Gwendolyn Currier, Edward Lowinsky, Herbert and Mrs. Miller, Kitty Carlisle, and Lorrie Goulet are leaving by car for Fisk University for the annual Music Festival.
Paul Radin is leaving on Tuesday morning for Washington on business.
Under the direction of Eric Bentley students in Cultural History will broadcast from Bertolt Brecht’s “The Private Life of the Master Race” on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock from Station WWNC.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
Mrs. W.C. Differenderfer (Dora Harrison)
2815 Steiner Street
San Francisco, California
Private I.S. Nakata, 34, 085, 802
Company B 100th Inf. Bn. (Sep)
APO 24
c/o Postmaster
New York, New York
Private Claude Stoller, 32702551
B and 13th Armored Division
Camp Bowie, Texas
Private Otis Levy, 31342705
66 Cav. Ren. Tr.
APO 454
Camp Rucker, Alabama
Mrs. Bruno Piscitello
2309 Sixteenth Street
Lubbock, Texas
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In the Mail:
Dora Harrison Diffenderfer writes from San Francisco on April 11: “Tomorrow I start in at Mr. Kaiser’s shipyards as a student welder. I spent today, my twenty-first birthday, standing in long lines waiting to answer questions, show my birth certificate and social security card, and receive little slips certifying this and that; I had quite a collection in the end, having been warned by each clerk to ‘put it right in your purse and don’t lose it!’ In exchange the F.B.I. had my fingerprints, and the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron, Shipbuilders and Helpers of America had my fifteen dollars. But it feels good to be in ‘jeans again……. It took me only one day to find a lovely house, run on a coop system by young women. It's comfortable, and the girls are congenial company in this city of strangers.
Private Otis Levy writes: “I arrived at camp just as they were preparing to move out. I have already taken my P.O.E. exam. What is going to happen to me now I don’t know…I have just had a minor operation. I’m feeling very well, and so far I’ve been having a good time with my old outfit.”
Faith Murray writes from Charleston, South Carolina that she is now teaching two classes in art a week and that in each class are thirty children ranging in age from six to fourteen.
LAST WEEK AT THE COLLEGE:
On Monday afternoon Trudi Straus and Gretel and Edward Lowinsky gave a fifteen minute violin-piano concert over Station WWNC in Asheville.
Mary Brett was elected Student Officer in the Wednesday afternoon election to success Janie Robinson Stone, who withdrew from the officership to have more time to work on her graduation plans.
Maja Bentley and Janie Robinson Stone took trial examinations for graduation on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
On Thursday evening the Music Department gave a program of Easter Music in the College Dining Hall.
On Friday Lieutenant Bela Martin flew up from Green Cove Springs, Florida and visited with Bob Wunsch, in Asheville, for two hours. Before he started back to Florida for dinner, he flew low over Lake Eden.
On Saturday afternoon Eric Bentley, Sam Brown and Clarke Foreman gave a half-hour broadcast on “Effective Modern Education” from Station WWNC.
On Saturday evening the Dramatic Department gave a performance of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” in the auditorium of Lake Lure High School for the A.A.F Rehabilitation Rest Camp. The trip to lake Lure was made in the college truck and in Bob Wunsch’s Ford. The student actors and technicians who made the trip were: Marilyn Bauer, Addison Bray, Roxane Dinkowitz, Jerome Flax, Jack Gifford, Fred and Nell Goldsmith, Carol Ostrow and Egbert Swackhamer. Truck and car returned to Lake Eden in a downpour of rain on Saturday evening.
On Saturday evening, in the College Dining Hall, Major WIlilam Albee showed moving pictures of his trip with his wife and two children in the Yukon Territory taken for the National Geographic Society. The pictures and the accompanying remarks described the life of the Albee family on this trip and the country through which they travelled.
On Sunday evening, in the Clarke Foreman apartment, William W. Wurster of San Francisco, a modern architect, spoke informally on “Modern Architecture.”
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WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
New Addresses:
Peter G. Bergmann
50th Floor, 350 Fifth Avenue
NewYork, New York
In the Mail:
Peter Bergman writes from New York City: “I have just begun the work here for Columbia University Division of War Research. Lehigh University has given me a leave of absence. Margot and Ernest will follow to New York when we have found an apartment…”
News:
Born to Dr. and Mrs. Charles Lindsley, in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 4, a son, weighing seven pounds and two ounces. He has been named Derek Lindsley.
WORK CREW REPORTS:
(Week of April 10 through April 15)
Construction: The Construction Crew continued its activities in the kitchen with paint and brushes. Mundy and Walter repaired the roof above the Miller Apartment. Before the interruption of trial graduation exams, preparations were made for finishing the Art Room.
Nell Goldsmith
Farm: The Farm Crew started the week by “buzzing” wood for the furnaces. The work in the fields went on, but actual planting was held up once again because of rain. Bennett’s land was partly plowed. The garden plot near the Farm House was ploughed, dragged, fertilized and laid off for planting. Mustard weed was cut out of the alfalfa.
Woods and brush were burned along the edge of the curved field.
All the necessary fence posts were set for the line fence along the road from Jackson’s place to the lake.
A load of our hay was hauled from the Morris place (up the valley) to the barn.
Hollly, Molly, and Zebidia were vaccinated for Black Leg (horrible thought).
On Sunday the yearling beef heifers and steers and the three dairy heifers were taken to the mountain pasture.
Molly Gregory
Hauling: This week the Hauling Crew continued to wend its weary way transporting trash to the sump and coal to the dwellings.
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