5p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Announces that the Board of Fellows had accepted the resignation of Helen Lounsbury, announces the appointment of mrs Stone to the lodge hostess. She is the mother of a former student Fred. Visitors- Eunico Miller, the sister of Herbert Miller Captain Adam Moncure Bill Brett, the brother of Mary Brett Erwin Cohen, a prospective student Clifford Pope Private Charles Kessler Lieutenant and mrs Norman Weston and their children Mr Theodore M. Greene, Chairman of the Division Program in the Humanities at Princeton.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLELGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 32
Monday, May 15, 1944
CALENDAR:
The Faculty will meet, without the Student Officers, this afternoon at 5:00 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
The Board of Fellows will meet tomorrow afternoon at 5:00 o’clock in Study 10.
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
The second meeting on “The South” will be held on Wednesday evening at seven o’clock in the Lobby of the North Lodge. Herbert Miller will discuss “Southern Prejudices and their Origins.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Board of Fellows has accepted, with regrets, the resignation of Mrs. Helen Lounsbury from the College Staff.
At the end of the Spring Quarter Mrs. Lounsbury will go to her summer home at Highlands. Her plans for next fall are indefinite.
The Board of Fellows has announced the appointment to the College Staff of Mrs. Stone, the mother of Fred, a former student. Mrs. Stone will be the lodge hostess.
D.C. Heath and Company, Boston publishers, have asked for permission to use three photographers of Black Mountain College student-teacher groups that appeared in the 1943 College Pictorial Bulletin. These photographs will appear in the English in Action series of text books by J.C. Tressler.
EVENTS OF LAST WEEK:
The art work of Josef Albers and his Black Mountain College students was featured in the Third Annual School Art Exhibit sponsored by the Art Committee of the Asheville Branch of the American Association of University Women
On Saturday evening, in the Dining Hall, E.R. Goodridge, an American resident of Mexico for the last eleven years and a student of Mexican culture and affairs, answered questions and led a discussion on “Mexico and Its Culture”. Mr. Goodridge discussed, among other things; the Mexican attitude toward Americans and the American attitude toward Mexicans; Mexican culture as a mixture of Indian and Spanish cultures; the values of Mexican life and culture in comparison with the various in American life and culture; the position of women in Mexico; and the awakening of labor in Mexico.
A quarter of an hour before the scheduled curtain-parting time at the Moore General Hospital, on Saturday evening. Jerry Flax fell, while helping to hand the scenery, and broke his wrist. Two of the Hospital staff-doctors quickly put a temporary splint on Jerry’s arm so that he could play the role of Lane in Act I in “The Importance of Being Earnest.” During Act II of the Wilde play Jerry returned to the clinic for further treatment.
After the production the cast and the technical staff of the play were treated to a round of beer in the Post Exchange of the War-Commission Officers.
Music students and Frederic Cohen, Heinrich Jalowetz and Trudi Straus gave an informal Beethoven-Mozart-Schubert concert in the Dining Hall yesterday afternoon. The program consisted of five duets and the Beethoven Archduke Trio.
The first part of the program included Schubert’s March in D Major for four hands, played by Frederic Cohen and Roxane Dinkowitz; Mozart Andante from Concerto for Two Pianos, in E Flat Major, played
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Frederic Cohen and Ruth Miller; Mozart-Busoni’s Duettino Concertante, played by Frederic Cohen and Barbara Pollet; and Beethoven’ Piano-Cello Sonata in F, played by Gwendolyn Currier and Heinrich Jalowetz.
After a brief intermission Frederic Cohen and Barbara Pollet played Shcubert’s Fantasio in F Minor; and Frederic Cohen and Gwendolyn Currier and Trudi Straus played Beethoven’s Archudke Trio. The concert grew out of a ten weeks study of ensemble music.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
NOTE: at the request of the Office of Censorship in Washington full addresses of service men now overseas will not be published in subsequent issues of the Community Bulletin.
“Don’t include unit identifications in published addresses of servicemen overseas, or about to embark; link the names of naval personnel with their units or ships; and don’t locate or identify military and naval units overseas or at embarkation points.
“It Is true that this elimination destroys the value of such lists so far as encouraging readers to write to the personnel is concerned; Letters which do not carry the ship or station cannot be delivered, and all individuals writing to their friends or members of their families in the Service are urged at all times to make sure that such information is included in the address. Private knowledge of a man’s ship or situation is one thing, but public discrimination of such information in published form is quite another and considerations of the military security involved must come first…..”
New Addresses:
Mrs. Duncan Dwight (Barbara Beatty)
200 North Trenton Street
Arlington, Virginia
IN THE MAIL:
Barbara Dwight writes from Arlington, Virginia: “Dune finished his school and is now waiting to be sent somewhere. They were told they would have a few months more training at the replacement center somewhere and then- well, who knows. It doesn’t look as if he will have much free time there…. We had a fifteen day furlough- we thought. We enjoyed about eight days of it in Arlington and Summit and then he received a telegram to report back to base at once, so that was the end of that. We had planned to stop and visit the Steinaus but, of course, didn’t have time after that…..”
Private Otis Levy writes from Camp Rucker in Alabama: “I was red lined on the overseas orders. The rest of the troops whe went may have already reached their destination. As for me, there is more training ahead….So far my training consists of K.P., K.P., and more K.P. IN the evenings I do anything from Guard Duty to cleaning guns and armored cars. I believe that I’ll remain in the States for a good while now….”
Mrs. Schulz Wright announces the marriage of her daughter Nanette to Richard Hastings Wright, Jr. Lieutenant, Air Forces, Army of the United States on Friday the twenty-first day of April Nineteen hundred and forty-four Lincoln, Nebraska
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NOTES:
Lieutenant Bill Hanchett was a week-end visitor at Lake Eden. He piloted a plane from Bainbridge, Georgia to nearby Fletcher on Friday and motored with his friend, Lieutenant Converse, to the College campus. He returned to Georgia on Saturday afternoon.
ALUMNI REFLECTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS:
Fernando Leon writes from Highland Park, Michigan: “It can be argued that former students should not try to influence the present state of the College, for thus the College will lose its progressive nature. It would be so were it not that most of your former students now were forced to leave before being able to contribute their share to the development of the college; and a good number of these students do plan to come back some day, hence are in the same way entitled to participate in the present internal problems and decisions.
I was talking with Tommy Brooks last summer….and we both agreed, spontaneously, that only during our third year at the College did we start to understand and realize the opportunities that the College had to offer. Until our third year we didn’t see what the College could do for us or what we could do for the College. Under your present set-up a fourth year would have done us little good, for that year now is reserved for a concentrated effort to acquire factual material- mostly- to enable the student to graduate. Thus fourth-year students cut themselves off from the College at a time when they are able to contribute the most and able to obtain the most; and the fourth year could as well be spent somewhere else without much detriment either to the students or to the College. Of course, we realize the need for a concentrated academic effort to maintain the necessary standards for graduation. We realize, too, that mot students do not believe that they can afford either the money or the time to spend an extra, a fifth year, at College. This attitude, although normal, was naturally more aggravated in the first and the preceding years of the College.
I can not easily think of any way by which the character of Black Mountain’s fourth year could be changed so that new students would be benefitted by the experiences of the older students. A smoothing out of the effect could be achieved by a better and more comprehensive planning of Senior Division studies. The fact will remain that the candidates for graduation will be required to absorb quite an amount of factual knowledge and therefore be preoccupied. Along these lines it occurred to us- I am still referring to Tommy – that the general set up of the College was suite to render more fruitful results of the student body included graduate students. I am sure this idea has come across your minds already and has been given consideration, although in my years down there I never heard it discussed. I know you have, critically a program for Apprentice Teachers, and I know that the case has been given when a graduated student came back to spend some more time. In the two instances I know the graduated students were not fully integrated with the student body. Integration ought to be the main point if graduate studies were to be offered at the College. These studies would not necessarily lead to a degree, because such a degree would impose many limitations to the character of the studies. To my understanding they should correspond to the specific need of the student for more knowledge in a given field. As such, they should request very little guidance or assistance on the part of the Faculty. I have emphasized the fact that I believe graduate students should be considered an organic part of the student body- no unnecessary artificial differentiations. This will enable the student body to grow easily and be a more nearly complete structure.
All my time in College I pressed myself to disregard anything and everything that would prevent me from graduating eventually from an Engineering School in the shortest time possible. I don’t think my case was unique, although there were some factors that made it more extreme.. It is generally felt that four years in College should be quite enough to obtain a degree and basis for a start in life. Very few people consider having more than one degree unless they plan to teach. However, once the rush for graduation is over, we usually find ourselves with lots of time on our hands and full of regret for not having used some time in having learned more, usually in fields totally unrelated to our major concern. I think this feeling is quite general and, I find it very often among the young engineers up here. Some of them enroll in evening courses on Music Appreciation. One of them, who lives next door, is struggling through Plato; he comes quite often to talk over his readings with me. I myself do quite a lot of reading and less than ten per cent of it has anything to do with engineering..”
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
Lieutenant Roland W. Boyden, U.S.N.R.
Staff Com. Air Pacific Fleet P.O.
San Francisco, California
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Freud
704 College Terrace
Williamsburg, Virginia
Mrs. Louise Wright
Care Pauline Shindler
835 North Kings Road
Los Angeles 46, California
Rita Foley
956 Felicity Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
In the Mail:
Rita Foley writes from New Orleans: “Found a job almost as soon as I got home. Am secretary-bookkeeper-office manager for Brown and Fontier, food brokers…Answered an ad on Friday noon, got interviewed that afternoon, got the job, began work the next day….”
VISITORS:
Among the visitors during the week at Lake Eden were:
Louis Levy, who, after a week’s vacation at Lake Eden left last Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Stone of Richmond, Virginia who left on Saturday.
Afterseveral postponements, because of airplane passage cancellations, Anne Mangold left on Thursday for Knoxville where she took a plane for Mexico City.
E. R. Goodridge, a friend of Paul Radin, arrived on Thursday for a visit of four days.
Dr. and Mrs. Max Shellins arrived on Thursday for a visit to the College. They will leave this afternoon.
Lieutenant Bill Hanchett and his friend, Lieutenant Converse, were visitors on Friday night and Saturday.
Miss Eunice Miller, Herbert Miller’s sister, arrived yesterday morning for a visit.
W.M. Cole arrived yesterday morning to begin a semi-annual audit of the College books. Mr. Cole was accompanied by his secretary, Miss Erma Emery.
Jimmy Jamieson, after a visit of two weeks at Lake Eden, left yesterday afternoon for Brattleboro, Vermont to continue his work there in the hospital.
INSURANCES NOTES:
The College has increased the insurance on its buildings and has alter the coverage of this insurance slightly.
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The personal property of the members of the Staff in each building is covered to the extent of $300.00 per individual or per family of the Staff Member.
The personal property of kitchen and house employees is covered up to $150.00 per employee.
The property of students is not covered by insurance at all. If any student feels that he needs insurance on his property here, he should take it out himself.
Members of the Staff who feel that their property has valuation greater than $300.00 should take out additional insurance to cover their property. Likewise employees who feel that their property is worth more than $150.00 should take our additional insurance to cover that property.
WORK CREW REPORTS:
(Period from May 1 through May 13)
Construction: It seems that a large percentage of the Construction Crew members are also connected in one way or another with the Drama Department; and, as the drama was in the limelight the greater part of last week, construction fell short. Nevertheless, during the past two weeks and bathrooms in the Dining Hall have been almost completely redressed in the Dining Hall have been almost completely redressed in white. Cupboards for the kitchen are under way.
Nell Goldsmith
Farm: The rest of the beef herd, i.e., the cows and small calves, are now in the mountain pasture. One calf was left behind. Its mother escaped from the pasture, came down to the barn and maneuvered her infant back up the pasture during the night.
The terrible below the curved field has been spread with lime, ploughed, and made ready for planting. A third planting of onions and peas are in the ground, as are also one hundred rather dubious tomato plants, six rows of beans and twenty-four rows of sweet corn. Nine acres of barley hay in the curved field have been moved and are now being stacked.
Two sows, one boar, and fifteen shoats were taken to market.
Molly Gregory
Maintenance: During the past two weeks we built a new bridge on the road to the Farm, cleaned up the children’s beach, scraped and painted the dock and ficats, opened the draining ditch between the Studies Building and the lake, installed electricity in the new art room, cleaned out and mended the drain pipe from the laundryroom, varnished the art room and Studies Building doors, mended four johns, one shower, and one basin and lost one worker to the Office Crew.
Ginger Osbourne
Hauling: The Hauling Crew last week attended to its usual chorus of supplying wood and coal to homes and to the Dining Hall. It also assumed, temporarily, the duties of furniture movers. Finally, it hauled away the branched trimmed from the trees along the road to the Farm.
Hough Leader: A full-time operator was hired last week to for the excavating for the Service Quarters addition to South Lodge. Although delayed by a broken hose-connection which sprayed ten gallons of hoist oil over the machine and himself, he completed two-thirds of the job. Another day’s work should finish it.
Bill McLaughlin
