3p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, 3 horizontal folds. Mentions that Trudi and Erwin Straus became US citizens last week, and Johanna and Heinrich Jalowetz had passed the exam juniors Addison Bray, Mary Brett, Nell Goldsmith, Bill McLaughlin, Ruth Miller, and Marita Pevsner took the exam for entrance into the Senior Division. Patsy Lynch and Mary Kriger took the Exam for practice. the board of fellow appointed to the faculty for the 44-45 session George Zabriskie as Instructor in Writing. Visitors- Connie Spencer Private Robert Marden Gerda Hagendorn Prof Dick Brown Mrs Annette Dabney Stone H B Adams.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Bulletin 33
Monday, May 22, 1944
CALENDAR:
The faculty will meet in the Kocher Room at 1:00 o’clock this afternoon to make plans for the reading of the First Day Examination papers of the candidates for the Senior Division.
Mrs. Albers’ Committee will meet in Study 10 this evening at 9:30 o’clock (if a 5:00 o’clock meeting cannot be arranged)
The Board of Fellows will meet in Study 10 at 4:30 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon.
There will be a meeting of the entire College Community tomorrow evening at 6:45 o’clock in the Lobby of North Lodge.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Eric Bentley has accepted an invitation to teach at the Fisk University Summer Session in Nashville, Tennessee. He will teach English Literature to a class of juniors and sophomores and Methods in the Teaching of History and Literature, to groups of teachers.
Kenneth Kurtz will talk at the dinner meeting of the X Club this evening at the S & W Cafeteria on “The Frontier in American Life and Letters.”
The Summer Institute Campaign Committee has announced that, to date, eleven people have contributed to the Fund for Institute Scholarships
These Patrons are:
a). For the Art Institute: Edgar J. Kaufman of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; William T. McCleery of New York City; Colonel Julius Peysor of Washington, D.C.; and Mrs. Ernest William Stix of St. Louis, Missouri.
b). For the Music Institute: Miss Lillian Smith of Clayton, Georgia and Edgar B. Stern of New Orleans, Louisiana
c). For both institutes: Rudolph Arnstein of Arden, North Carolina; Mrs. Max Ascoli of NewYork City; Richard S. Goldman of NewYork City; Paul Taylor of Berkeley, California; and William W. Wurster of San Francisco, California.
The Sponsors for the Summer Program are, to date:
a). For the Art Institute: Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bush-Brown of Atlanta, Georgia; Sheldon Cheney of Westport, Connecticut; Joseph Hudnut, Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard; Ben Shute, Director of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; and Robert N. S. Whiteclaw, Director of the Gibbs Art Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina.
b). For the Music Institute: Hugh Hodgson, Dean of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Georgia, and Miss Lucy Randolph Mason of the Textile Workers Union, C.I.O., of Atlanta, Georgia.
c). For both institutes: William F. Ogburn, Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Miss Josephine Wilkins, a member of the Georgia Fact Finding Committee, of Atlanta.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Renate Benfey
50 Shepard Street
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts
Sergeant Erik Haugaard, R266321
No. 4 A.G.T.S.
Valley Field, Quebec
Mr. and Mrs. Morton Steinau
823 Morgan Avenue
Palmeyra, New Jersey
Leonard Billing
Brumbaugh Reconstruction Unit
C.P.S. #43, P.O. Box 786
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
(The above is a temporary address)
Private Charles S. Kessler
329th A.A.F. Base Unit
R.T.U. (M.B.) Section P
C.A.A.B., Columbia, South Carolina
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IN THE MAIL:
Leonard Billing writes on May 6: “I’m on my way to cook for a unit o six C.P.S. men who will be working with people in the Virgin Islands. Looking forward to very interesting experience, in more valuable work than hitherto….Flying from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Eight hours on the plane….”
Sergeant Erik Haugaard writes from Valley Field Quebec: “I have sent six volumes of Ibsen as a gift to the library….I am now a sergeant and an air gunner. After my crash I could not fly as a pilot any longer. My nerves were gone…”
NOTES:
Leslie Paul played the role of Margaret Flaherty in the recent production, by the Radcliffe Idlers and the Harvard Dramatic Club, of J.M. Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World”. Leslie is President of the Radcliffe Idlers.
LAST WEEK IN REVIEW:
On Wednesday, in the United States District Court in Asheville, Trudi and Erwin Straus became citizens of the United States. Henrich and Johanna Jalowetz passed successfully their examinations and will be admitted to citizenship in the Fall. Informal exercises honoring the Strauses and the Jalowetzes were held in front of North Lodge on Wednesday evening.
On Thursday and Friday Addison Bray, Mary Brett, Nell Goldsmith, Bill McLaughlin, Ruth Miller, and Marita Pevaner took the Examinations for entrance into the Senior Division. Patsy Lynch and Mary Kriger took the Examinations for practice.
At a meeting on Saturday morning the Board of Fellows appointed to the Faculty for the 1944-45 session, beginning in September and ending the following June, George Zabriskie as Instructor in Writing. Mr. Zabriskie as Instructor in Writing. Mr. Zabriskie is the author of The Mind’s Geography, a book of poetry, and of a second volume of poetry, Like the Root, not yet published.
In 1942 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. Mr. Zabriskie will receive his A.B. at Duke University this spring.
On Saturday morning Mr. Cliffore Pope, Curator of Herpetology in the Chicago Natural History Museum, spoke informally to a group of students and teachers on “Salamanders.”
VISITORS:
Among the visitors at Lake Eden last week were:
Miss Eunice Miller, the sister of Herbert Miller.
Captain Adam Moncure, who is stationed at Champ Chafee in Arkansas.
Bill Brett, the brother of Mary Brett.
Erwin Cohen, a prospective student from Philadelphia.
Mr. Clifford Pope, who arrived on Thursday from Chicago for a five days visit. During his stay he conducted a number of field trips in the nearby mountains and collected specimens for the Chicago Natural History Museum.
Private Charles Kessler, a former student, who came up from Columbia, South Carolina, where he is now stationed.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Norman Weston, former students, and their two small children, Michael and Carol. The Westons were on their way, by car, from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Wilton, Conn. Lieutenant Weston will be enrolled, after a brief visit, in the Naval Unit at the Harvard Business School in Cambridge.
Mr. Theodore M. Greene, Chairman of the Divisional Program in the Humanities at Princeton University, who came with Mr. Arthur M. Bennerman President of Warren Wilson Junior College, for a brief visit with Bob Wunsch on Saturday afternoon.
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WORK PROGRAM REPORTS:
CONSTRUCTION: The crew has gotten going on the kitchen cupboards. The tray shelf has been constructed and painted under part of one large table. Walter and Mundy have enclosed the lower halves of two other tables and thereby formed cupboards. The cabinet for desserts and coffee cups and the coffee urn has been started.
Nell Goldsmith
FARM: Two loads of hay (leavings) were raked off the curved field and hauled to the barn. That field has since been plowed, manured, disked and dragged and is ready to plant the silage corn.
The garden plot near the Studies Building was disked and dragged, and the garden crew planted twenty-two hills of cucumbers, four rows of carrots and three rows of boots. One hundred more tomatoe plants were set out in the Holly Tree Filled and the onions and peas in that field hood. Six more rows of peas were also planted. The potatoes in the Black Dwarf Field and the Bottoms Field have been cultivated and heed.
The barley hay is down and ready to be taken up- three acres in the Bottom Field and seven acres at the Morris Farm up the valley.
Molly Gregory
HAULING: The hailing crew last week continued moving the loose earth from the excavation for the addition to the South Lodge. It also removed additional branches from the tree-trimming project along the road to the farm. The weekly accumulation of trash was taken to the dump, and the space under the Studies Building cleared of junk.
HOUGH LOADER: The Hough Leader, in spite of many mechanical difficulties, finished the excavating job at South Lodge and began dragging stones from the mountain, in preparation for the masonry-work to be done under the Studies Building.
Bill McLaughlin
