Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 11 Bulletin 31 Monday, May 8, 1944

2p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Announces that Anni Albers will give a course in Textile at MoMA in June. announces that BMC textiles were included in the Exhibition of Textiles from the Southern Highlands and were to be shown in Michigan and Indiana. 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 31
Monday, May 8, 1944
CALENDAR:
The Board of Fellows will meet in Study 10 this afternoon at 5:00 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet in the Kocher Room on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
On Wednesday evening there will be hold, in the Lobby of the North Lodge, the first of a series of discussions on “The Mind of the South”. Clark Foreman will act as Chairman of the meeting and lead the discussion on “The Economics of the South”.
There will be a concert in the Dining Hall on Sunday afternoon.
OFF-CAMPUS CALENDAR:
The Drama Department is scheduled to give a number of performances this week:
1). A performance of “More Straw from the Scarecrow” for the Negro children of Asheville on Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in the auditorium of the Stephens-Lee High School.
2). A performance of “More Straw for the Scarecrow” for the children of Black Mountain on Thursday afternoon at 12:30 o’clock in the auditorium of Black Mountain Grammar School.
3). A performance of Molnar’s “A Matter of Husbands” for convalescing soldiers, in the auditorium of the Red Cross Building at the Moore General Hospital on Thursday evening at 8:00 o’clock.
4). A performance of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” for convalescing soldiers, nurses, and the officers and their wives at the Moore General Hospital on Saturday evening at 8:00 o’clock.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Museum of Modern Art is offering from June 5 through June a course in Textile Design to be conducted by Anni Albers.
Black Mountain College textiles included in the Exhibition of Textiles from the Southern Highlands are being shown this month in Michigan. In June they will go on the State colleges of Indiana.
Another collection of textiles is with the two Albers Exhibition (traveling since October) now at the Gibbs Art Gallery of Charleston, South Carolina, its ninth and last exhibition place in the South
A third, smaller group of textiles, from the College, is now being shown at Pennsylvania State College.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
In the Mail:
Private Isaac Nakata writes from Italy: “I want to give you one idea of what the boys are going through here, not with the idea of selling the war to anyone, but to fill you with the feeling of the necessity of getting this damn thing over with….This entire sector is in range of enemy artillery. An evacuation hospital nearby has been hit often. When enemy guns are trained to fire on this section, no one and no thing is immune from the danger and the effect of them. Every planes come over almost nightly and with impunity strike at worthwhile targets. Sometimes, however, for long periods the countryside is quiet except for the gay twittering of birds. I used to love spring and the utter abandon in gayety and growth. Now, however, I find spring a grain lime. For within this spring lurks death: mortar and artillery and small-arms fire at night come close with spitting arrogance. Tracers and flares illumine the sky, soaking, always socking, from the sky, to make of us targets. A chill, a shuddering, runs through us as a spent round of
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A Jerry machine gun or machine pistol cuts the air and the knee high grass a few yards away from us. We do not live in constant terror, as this might seem, because the Jerries can’t fire away at us all the time. Veterans in this campaign attest to the know-how of the Nazi army. They have a strong respect for it. Many of the men have been wounded, only to be sent back again after they had been healed. Some of them here on the lines are still cripple. They have a healthy respect for the Jerry because they have so far cheated death. And the instinct to live is strong, yes, very strong, in all of us. Then why do we fight? Simply that we have to because are in the Army and have no alternative. We live in holes, usually with bags of dirt piled on the top. We throw insecticide, provided by the Army, on the walls nearby. Mosquitos, large and malaria-bearing, pester us. It is said that this is one of the worst malaria districts in the world, we take atabrine tablets which are not a preventative but a sedative in case we are bitten. Yearly, before the war, Italian residence of this area were evacuated by the government during the malaria season. It has already begun this year…..We all ‘sweat it out’, wait for what may come, the odor of rotten death in our nostrils…hopeful, wistful, often painful enough to drive a man nuts….”
Sergeant John Stix writes from England on April 15: “except for an occasional bicycle rider of a few hours I do not got much opportunity to ‘do’ England. I have no deal desire to cover the historical highlights on a Cook’s Tour but I should like so very much to get to Stratford or tour the Lake Country. There are things more pressing, however. I’ve heard from John Evarts and Tommy Brooks but a rendezvous in the near future seems rather out of the question. We’ve moved to a new location- with ‘business as usual’, Great expectancy. I suppose it’s the same in the States.