5 p, one sided, mimeograph on matte off white paper.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Summer Bulletin 2
Monday, July 10, 1944
CALENDAR:
The students of the Music Institute and of the College Summer Quarter will hold a joint meeting this evening at 7:15 o’clock in the lobby of the North Lodge.
The Summer Quarter faculty will meet in the Kocher Room this evening at 7:15 o’clock.
The Board of Fellows will meet on Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock in Bob Wunsch’s study.
The Institute quartet, composed of Rudolf Kolisch, violin; Lorna Freedman, violin; Marcel Dick, viola; and Nikolai Graudan, cello; will have open rehearsals of the Schoenberg String Quartet, Opus 7 in the lobby of North Lodge on Tuesday and Friday afternoons from 4:30 to 6:00 o’clock.
The Community Chorus will meet in the Dining Hall for a two hours’ practice period on Tuesday and Friday evenings at 8:15 o’clock.
The Summer Quarter faculty will meet in the Kocher Room on Wednesday evening from 7:15 to 8:15 o’clock. The Summer Quarter class registration of students will be discussed.
On Wednesday evening at 8:15 o’clock in the Dining Hall, Heinrich Jalowetz will talk on “Prejudice in Music.”
There will be an all-Schubert concert on Saturday evening in the Dining Hall. Lotte Leonard, accompanied at the piano by Rudolph Kolisch, will sing two groups of Schubert songs; and Joana Graudan, Rudolph Kolisch, and Nikolai Graudan will play Schubert’s Trio Opus 100 in E Flat Major.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
In the Mail:
Harriett Engelhardt writes from somewhere in England on June 13: “It seems kind of silly to have spent so many hours trying so futilely to draw and get a job handing out doughnuts. But I wouldn’t take anything for having come over, even if I’ll never be able to look at another doughnut.”
Private Isaac Nakata writes from somewhere in Italy on June 23: “We can breathe the air of security once again, see more of the country, and hope for a quick decision on the Western Front. We still have a long way to go, but the start has been made and we can press the attacks on the Jerry and the Reich….The greatest event in recent weeks was my visit to Rome. I had only a day there. It seems a city of the past more than that of the future. I took delight in the accordion playing of a legless beggar on a bridge across the Tiber. He would shoe Italian kids away so that the audience would be only us and I’s. occasionally Italians stopped by to throw small change lira bills into his shabby black hat….The street cars were packed tighter than sardines in the can, worse than the New York subways…Powder never smelled better than on those women sauntering along the street that day. We were like hillbillies descended upon civilization, but we were shaved….The battle for Rome itself seems to have been very short. There is only slight damage from war…There are lots of shoes, clothes, and jewelry on sale, but food and good drinks are not available in appreciable amounts…The country through which we’re passing now is much like the hill country of Kentucky and eastern Tennessee with high rolling hills with a lot of vegetation on the slopes. The farmers have good wheat and vegetables growing. The land is as steep as the pasture land at Lake Eden, without the sharp inclines. The farmers have left trees here and there to prevent erosion. It seems that the pisan is a pretty good farmer as well as a jack of all trades.”
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Hyalie Yamins (Greene) writes from Texas: “Hello from the wastes of Dalhart, where we’ve been joined by Sue and Jerry Wolpert. The town is so small I bumped into Sue a few days after they arrived here, before the Bulletin came to tell us they were here. We’ve been making the most of their short stay here- beering, dinnering in each other’s small houses, catching up on all the Black Mountain College news and taking up the past. Also, of course, showing off our small Jerrie, who’s growing fatter, browner and livelier every day. She now chatters incessantly, reminding me of Xanti’s ‘Bu, -Bu-, Bubu- Bubuchububee’….”
PAST EVENTS:
Herbert Miler spoke on “Unity and Brotherhood” at the Sixtieth Annual Fourth of July celebration held at Beech on Tuesday morning.
At the General Meeting on Tuesday evening Herbert Miller spoke briefly on the historical meaning and the present-day implications of July the Fourth, Bob Wunsch described the salient features of the Black Mountain College educational set-up, and Heinrich Jalowetz expressed his hopes for the Summer Music Institute.
On Friday afternoon students and teachers crowded into the darkened lobby of North Lodge to watch the Music Institute quartet begin its rehearsal of Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet, Opus 7. The musical score was projected on a screen so that the music students could follow the rehearsal more intelligently.
Jack Lipsey arrived yesterday afternoon from Atlanta, Georgia, to take over again his duties as College Chef for the Summer Quarter. During part of his seven months’ absence from Lake Eden Jack worked at the Post Office in Atlanta as mail handler.
Kenneth Kurtz has been granted a year’s leave of absence from the College to continue his graduate study at Yale next session.
VISITORS:
Among the recent visitors to the College were:
Dorothy and Gorman Mattison.
Cynthia Carr, who arrived on Thursday evening to spend four days of her furlough at Lake Eden, from Gulfport, Miss.
Sgt Jack Swackhamer, who arrived on Saturday afternoon to spend five days of his furlough from Camp Carson in Colorado at the College.
Pvt Herbert Oppenheimer, who came up from Camp Gordon in Georgia for the Saturday evening concert.
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BEDROOM ASSIGNMENTS:
North Lodge:
Downstairs:
Room 1: Faith Murray, Barbara Pollet, Janet Rees (student-secretary)
Room 2: Mary Brennan (m), Gerda Hagendorn (secretary)
Room 3: Hazel Larsen (a), Ursula Lewis (m), Clara Silvers (m), Nancy Smith (a)
Room 4: Mrs Otto Billig (dietitian)
Room 5: Robert Isaacson (m), Archie McWilliams, Neal Nathanson
Room 6: Richard Albany (a), Ernest Costa (a), John Reiss (a)
Room 7: Addison Bray, Sam Brown, Harold Schuyler (w)
Room 8: R Barnhard (a), Jack Braham (a), Denver Gillen (a), Simon Sadoff (a)
Attics:
South: Adele Albert, Abby Barnett (m), Mary Lyford (a), Iris Okun (m), Ginger Osbourne, Virginia Seay (m), Janie Stone, Rachel Trexler (a)
North: Mary Brett, Gwen Currier, Abelle Dinkowitz (m), Gabrielle Fischer (m), Patsy Lynch, Joan Martinson (w), Ruth Miller, Viera Pevsner (student-secretary), Alma Stone (m), Jeanne Wacker
South Lodge:
Downstairs:
Room 1 Room 3 Mrs Stone
Room 2 Room 4 infirmary
Room 5: Ruby Gevertz (m), Paula Lenchner (m), Jean Swanson (m)
Room 6: Mrs Oliver Freud (a), Elizabeth Gittlen (m), Lois Lautner (m), Kathryn Stein (m)
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BEDROOM ASSIGNMENTS: (Continued)
South Lodge:
Downstairs:
Room 7: Rose Ghinberg (m), Clara Girshkow (m), Alberta Halastead (m), Jeannette Siegel (m)
Room 8: Virginia Parker (a), Jane Woodruff (m)
Attics:
Middle: Zoe Broadwain (w), Phyllis Gross (m), Judith Horowitz (w), Josephine Paver (m), Laille Schutz, Margaret Strauss, Helen Wright
North: Barbara Bank (w), Henrietta Barth (secretary), Esther Coppock (w), Jagna Brauntahal (w), Emily Frey (w), Lorrie Goulet, Betty Kelley, Harriette Lyford
South: Marilyn Bauer, Mimi French, Ati Gropius, Liese Kulka, Carol Ostrow, Gloria Rosenfield, Shirley Rudermann (a), Jane Slater, Shirley Smith (m)
Office (second floor): May de Forest Payne (m), Phyllis Warnick (m), Olga Schwartz (student-secreatary), Peggy Emery (bookkeeper-secretary), Arlyn McKenna
Blue Ridge:
Brenau Cottage:
Downstairs: Sarah Lee (a), Mrs Robertson (m), Edna Way (a), Mr Sussmann (a), Mrs Sussmann (a), Lou Weber (a), Mary Cullis (a), Claire Eunter (a)
Upstairs: Lili Weinberger (m)
Converse Cottage:
Downstairs: Kathryn Comfort (a), Mary Derryberry (a), Kathryn Gilbert (m), Florence Kawa (a), Margaret Kennard (a), Jennie Pitcoff (m)
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BEDROOM ASSIGNMENTS: (Continued)
Blue Ridge:
Converse Cottage:
Downstairs: (continued) Edwarda Metz (m), Muffie Vaughan (m)
Upstairs: Mrs Bedrossian (a), Ethel Brown
Shorter Cottage:
Downstairs: Lillian Berger (m), R Blair (a), Jane Mayahll (m)
Upstairs: Ada Kopetz (m), Mrs Nell Rice
FACULTY HOUSING:
Art Faculty:
Black Dwarf: Jean Charlot
Roadside: Anni Albers, Josef Albers
Music Faculty:
Black Dwarf: Edward Lowinsky
Cohen Cottage: Marcel Dick
Jalowetz Cottage: Elsa and Fred Cohen, Johanna and Nikokai Graudan
Stone Cottage: Lorna Freedman, Rudolph Kolisch, Lotte Leonard
Straus Cottage: Trudi Straus
