4p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. New student Laddie Marshak arrived on Friday for Spring quarter work.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 29
Monday, April 24, 1944
CALENDAR:
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock and on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
The Board of Fellows will hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in Study 10.
The Students will hold their regular weekly meeting on Wednesday evening in North Lodge Lobby at 7:00 o’clock.
There will be a fancy dress College party on Saturday evening in the Dining Hall. The theme of the party will be: “Out of this World.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The student actors will broadcast scenes from Betty Kelley’s “More Straw for the Scarecrow” over Station WWNC on Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock and over Station WISE on Thursday morning at 9:30.
The first performance of the fairy play will be given at the Plaza Theatre on Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock under the sponsorship of the Asheville Children’s Theatre. The second performance will be given on Tuesday afternoon, May 9 at 2:00 P.M. at the Stephens-Lee High School in Asheville for the Negro children in the primary and grammar grades.
The cast for the children’s play include: Carol Ostrow as the Mother, Patsy Lynch at Kathie, a little girl; Egbert Swackhamer as Katai, a little boy; Ruth Miller as Junior Mouse; Lana Yarash as Mother Mouse; Bill McLaughlin as Father Mouse; Betty Kelley as Grinner, the Scarecrow; Jack Gifford as Kafur, the Groomp; Fred Goldsmith as the Father; Roxane Dinkowitz as Dame Margaret, Liese Kulka as Dame Ferris, Susan Brown as the First Villager and Nell Goldsmith as the Second Villager.
The posters and programs and special make-ups for the play are being created by Carol Ostrow.
The sets were designed and Faith Murray and Jane Slater and are being created by Jerry Flax and Nell Goldsmith.
The costumes, designed by Faith Murray, are being created by Roxane Dinkowitz and Betty Kelley.
The music for the play has been composed by Barbara Pollet.
The dances are being created and directed by Elsa Kohl, assisted by Betty Kelley.
The play is being directed by Bob Wunsch.
Paul Radin will return to the College on Wednesday morning.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Will Hamlin
28 Jones Street
New York City 14, New York
Frances Kuntz
333 East Forty-First Street
Apartment 6B
New York, NewYork
Private Tom Taylor, 31455165
Company A, 41st I.T.B.
Fourth Platoon
Camp Croft, South Carolina
Lieutenant William F. Hanchett, Jr.
Box 153, B.A.A.F.
Bainbridge, Georgia
A/C F.M. Stone, 32423119
Flt. 3, 44J, 3rd A.A.F.F.T.D.
King City, California
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IN THE MAIL:
Shirley Allen writes from Monterey: “I’m afraid I’m not going to be able to get to Lake Eden this spring, because of the difficulties of travel. Hope I can visit later.”
Renate Benfey writes from Cambridge, Massachusetts: “I love my work here. It gets more interesting all the time or I meet more people and get better acquainted with the ideas of the American Friends Service Committee. For the most part we are doing work in connection with all kinds of work camps and institutes. We recruit people for these different projects and arrange meetings, lectures and conferences…”
Larry Fox writes Camp Endicott in Rhode Island: “Our program is off the air. That change left me without a job for a short sweet time. The Navy, however, is very good at finding odd jobs for such as me to do. They found me one, and I now serve my country on the chow line. I was handed ninety days of moss cooking, the Navy equivalent to the Army K.P. Believe it or not, the move is not the punitive one, for I have done no wrong. Many people tell me that an assignment of ninety days is impossible. How ever, I continue to do the impossible. At first the job was irksome, to say the least. Especially tat little man with the flashlight who snatched me from dreamland at 4:30 in the still dark morning. But now I’m accustomed to the routine of the Commissary Department, and after much rationalization I’ve come to believe that I like it. Like it, simply because I got a four hour break in the afternoon during which I am free to study and read. I think I may say without fear of contradiction that I am now master of the logarithm and can solve any regular polygon. All of which is part of the trig course I take from the University of Chicago.”
Lieutenant Bill Hanchett writes from Bainbridge, Georgia: “Was interested to read of Bela Martin’s flight to North Carolina, because I’ve had one in mind for the summer…I am a basic flying instructor and not too pleased about it, but, as far as I know, no one ever likes his assignment in the Army. And I expect mine to last only six to eight months.”
Frances Kuntz writes from NewYork City: “I was offered a movie job in a Fox O.W.I. film. A sequel to ‘Welcome to Britain’, to go overseas. This one deals with France particularly. Burgess Moridith was producer, Jean Renoir (‘Grand Illusion’) was director, Alino Bernstein did sets, and Frances Kuntz did costumes. God, what a job! It was hell and heaven mixed in almost even amounts. Some of the time I was ecstatic over some penetrating piece of direction, revealing acting, preposterous setting, or Meredith’s contagious humor. The rest of the time I was busy sizzling at an abrupt demand for ten mere costumes in ten minutes, conversion from English to French uniforms to be performed on British Government property, which had to be returned as it came; script rewriting going on after sets and costumes were ser, and the actor ignorant of the fact that now his part was no more. It was fundamentally a marvelous six weeks through and, at last, I felt that I was professional enough at least to pay my rent on time and buy a fur coat. A French actor even came over from abroad to play in it- Claude Dauphin. He is excellent, and, of course Bargoss exudes charm and is a real heart breaker….Now I’m preparing to spend a couple of months working by myself on a ballet I’ve started. If it turns out well- who knows? Maybe I should say- who wants to know? Later on in the summer I’d have to visit Lake Eden, really. I will if I finish the ballet and am satisfied with it, by July….Malek is off in some cold unknown lands off Alaska. He is working in a small hospital, and studies all the most frightening of the classics in free time. What the Army doesn’t do to you! I’ve just sent him, at his request, ‘The Idiot,’ to insure him some happy hours…..”
Private Bob Mardon writes from Scott Field in Illinois: “This is the ninth week I have been working on touch typing, and I have a speed of about thirty words a minute….I’ve met a good many people in St.Louis who know of Black Mountain College, which is heartening. So I can do a lot of talking on my favorite subject. It isn’t nostalgia, just pure evangelism. Last week-end my current ‘buddy’ from Texas and I had the good fortune to have a night in a home out in Webster Groves. How wonderful to wake up with nobody in sight, just a pleasant landscape. It was the first time I had been in a private home since I visited the Englehardts in Montegomery…..”
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WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE TEACHING STAFF:
In the Mail:
Sergeant John Evarts writes from England on April 15: “It’s been pretty swell to be able to get into London on pass with some frequency. I haven’t taken time to look a round the whole city again; but without trying to look for ruins, one sees plenty of them. It’s a very bustling place now, of course- with soldiers on the streets from all the allied nations, and many Americans. I’ve been to a number of ‘pubs’ and occasionally talked with some of these soldiers- a Scotchman, a Jamaican Negro (RAF), a Pole, a Czech, a Greek sailor, a Canadian, a Yorkshireman. You would have enjoyed the ‘Hamlet’ we saw in London- it was very well produced and I preferred it to the ones I had seen previously… I’ve seen a good many people on my free evenings- Mrs. Jalowetz’s brother and his wife, the Groags, have been most hospitable and through them I’ve met a number of other interesting people….I hope to see Ruth Payne next week for a second session…From her, via John Stix, whom I hope that I may see both of them sometime….I can’t tell you about our work, except that it takes up most of the hours of the day and it is not at all easy. Much of it is interesting- and tiring. I only hope I get to be good at it…”
WORK CREW REPORTS:
(Week of April 17 through April 22)
Construction: A divided crow progressed on two jobs. In the kitchen one group finished the first coat of enamel on all the woodwork and on one ice box. At the Drama Shed several members of the crew began making, painting, and repairing flats for the children’s play.
Nell Goldsmith
Farm: The line fence between Jacksons’ and the lake was finished, and a single wire was stretched a round the bottom field. The dairy cattle are now using the pasture, and, in appreciation, each cow in giving about two more quarts of milk a day.
The Holly Tree Field is now all plowed, manured, disked, dragged and made ready for vegetables. Peas and onions have already been planted there.
Bennett’s land is plowed and harrowed. Saw logs have been dragged out of the old hog lots. About half of the mustard weed has been pulled out of the alfalfa field.
One shoat was killed for the kitchen on Saturday.
Three more bull calves of the beef variety were born; mothers and children are doing well. This makes the score, this spring, three boys to two girls, which isn’t sad. We eat then.
Molly Gregory
Hauling: The Hauling Crew spent most of its time last week in carrying the materials to be used in resurfacing the Campus Rad from the Dining Hall to the Gate House. The mixture of sand, rocks, and gravel was obtained from the banks of the North Fork branch at the extreme edge of the College property and spread upon the read for the Maintenance Crew (aided by a member of the Hauling group) to shovel into a more or less smooth surface. The crew also hauled the weekly quota of trash to the Dump and wood to several cottages and coal to others.
Bill McLaughlin
Hough Leader: During the week the Hough was operated exclusively at the edge of the river, where it was used to loading the truck with the sand and stones used on the road job. At the end of the week it was used to help pack down the new road-covering.
Bill McLaughlin
Maintenance Crew: This week we finished the road scraping and started spreading creek rocks on the main road. John Campbell mended the Studies Building door and a door in the Radin Apartment, distributed screens for faculty studies, and finished scraping the Dining Hall tables.
Ginger Osbourne.
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NEW STUDENT:
Daddie Marshak, a new student, arrived on Friday for Spring Quarter work. Her home is in Berkeley, California.
VISITORS:
Private Herbert Oppenheimer was a visitor on Sunday and Monday of last week.
Mr. Frederick Burton and his daughter, Sue, a prospective student, were visitors on Wednesday and Thursday.
Mrs. John Carr and her daughter, Dorothy, of Winchester, Massachusetts arrived on Wednesday and were guests of the College until Sunday afternoon.
Dora Leiper, who had been visiting the College for ten days as the guest of Lana Yarash, left on Wednesday.
Private Henry Adams was a twenty-four hour guest during his furlough from Camp Livingstone in Louisiana on Thursday and Friday.
Mrs. Samuel Pevsner, the mother of Marita and Viera, arrived from Washington, D.C. on Thursday night for a visit to the College.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Mandlebaum, the parents of Judy, arrived on Thursday from Newark, NewJersey for a visit of several days.
