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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Summer Bulletin 3
Monday, July 17, 1944
CALENDAR:
The first summer Art Institute of Black Mountain College will begin this morning at 8:30 o’clock when the students and teachers will get together in the Art Room to arrange a schedule of classes for the July 17- September 16 period. After tea time the Institute people will meet again in the Dining Hall, this time to hear Bob Wunsch outline the outstanding features of Black Mountain College and to hear Josef Albers and Jean Charlot tell their plans for the Art Institute.
Jean Charlot will give this evening in the Dining Hall the first of a series of informal lectures on “The Life and Times of the Old Masters.” The opening talk will be an account of and an evaluation of the life and art of Peter Broughel the Elder. Soldiers will be admitted free of charge.
On Wednesday evening, July 19, Lotte Leonard will present a lecture-demonstration with her students on “Problems of Song Interpretation.”
Yella Pessl will give a harpsichord recital on Saturday evening, July 22, in the Dining Hall. The program will include harpsichord composition by C. Ph. E. Bach, Arne and Couperin and D. Scarlatti, and the Trio Sonata by J.S. Bach, played by Rudolph Kolisch, Lorna Freedman and Yella Possl.
Note: All lectures and recitals are scheduled to begin at 8:15 PM.
NEXT WEEK’S PROGRAMS:
Wednesday, July 26: Lecture: Agnes de Mille
Saturday, July 29, concert:
Mozart: String Quartet in B Flat Major
Debussy: Cello-Piano Sonata
Brahms: Piano Quartet, Rudolph Kolisch, Lorna Freedman, Marcel Dick, Nikolai Graudan, Joanna Graudan
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Maja Bentley left yesterday morning for Nashville, Tennessee, to spend a week at Fisk University where Eric is giving summer session classes in literature and cultural history. She and Eric will leave next week and for New York City where she and Jane Stone will take their oral examinations for graduation from Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling.
The appointment of Clark Foreman, Racial Relations Adviser and President of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, to the staff of the CIO Public Action Committee has been announced by Sidney Hillman, chairman of the Public Action Committee. On leave of absence from Black Mountain College, Clark is making his summer headquarters in New York City.
Yella Pessl will participate in the Piedmont Festival in Winston-Salem on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. On Wednesday she will play a group of soli on the harpsichord in the Childrens’ Concert. On Thursday she will play, with an orchestra, a Hadyn Concerto.
Bob Wunsch will leave this evening on a four days’ business trip for the College to the eastern part of the State. He will consult with Francis Bradshaw, Dean of the University of North Carolina and a member of the Advisory Board of Black Mountain College; with JA Highsmith, Chairman of College Admissions in the North Carolina College Conference; with James E Hillman, Secretary-Treasurer of
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The North Carolina College Conference; and with CP Pete, vocational rehabilitation officer of the District Office of the Veterans’ Administration.
Complimentary tickets to all the concerts, lectures and demonstrations of the Music and Art Institutes have been given to twenty Moore General Hospital men and women who are especially interested in music and art. Most of them attended the all-Schubert concert on Saturday evening.
The Asheville Citizen and the Asheville Times have been giving generous publicity to the activities of the two Institutes.
WITH THE 1943-44 STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Faith Hartwig
118 West Thirteenth Street
New York City
Jimmy Stranch
Box 1362
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
Notes:
Faith Murray and Otis Levy have announced their engagement.
Jimmy Stranch is a Summer School student at the University of South Carolina, where he has registered for work leading to a Bachelor of Science degree. His major work will be in chemistry. Jimmy expects to be graduated from the University of South Carolina in June of 1945.
Egbert Swackhamer is dividing his time between two jobs in New Jersey, one as rodman, the other as drummer. He carries the road for a surveyor six days a week and plays the drums three nights a week; Friday, Saturday and Sunday, in a three-piece orchestra.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Pfc Richard D Brown, 14101337
76th AAF Base Unit
Barracks 329B
Selfridge Field, Michigan
Leslie Katz
Care Pollet
RFD2 Saugerties
Woodstock, New York
Notes:
Shirley Allen now has an apartment in New York City.
Ruth Herschberger is spending the summer at Washington Island, Wisconsin, finishing her book of poetry. She was recently made poetry editor of The Humanist, a philosophical journal.
Lisa Jalowetz has accepted for next year, beginning in September, the position of Stage Designer for the famous Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina. In addition to her theatre duties she has agreed to conduct a childrens’ art class once a week at the Gibbs Gallery. This summer Lis is continuing her work and study with an architect in New York City.
Leslie Katz is spending the summer in Woodstock, New York, where he is writing.
From Recent Letters:
Pfc Dick Brown writes from Selfridge Field in Michigan: “I’m doing my best to see Detroit and the surrounding territory….Life, at the moment, is tending toward monotony- consisting mainly of drilling and physical training…. Through the courtesy of the USO, I have been able to see ‘Good Night, Ladies’
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With Skeets Gallagher and Benny Baker, and ‘Kiss and Tell’. Both were very good….The University of Detroit has been having concerts every Wednesday evening and has given tickets to the servicemen. All in all, Detroit is the best, bar none, city for servicemen!”
T/5 Francis Foster writes from somewhere in India on July 1: “All of my spare time I spend reading or discussing what I have read- getting my purposes more firmly in mind….For the past two months I have been making considerable efforts to get enough information to vote intelligently in the state and national elections, also to help others to do the same, and generally trying to arouse interest. The difficulties are large, and quite a number of soldiers have been effectively disenfranchised. The yellow bastards who blocked a decent solution to this soldiers’ vote problem may congratulate themselves on the partial success of their shameful tricks; the citizens who were too slothful to concern themselves with our difficulties may soon feel the effects of their apathy.”
Note: Francis Foster earnestly requests to be addressed in the future as T/5 Foster, not T/S
Lieutenant George Hendrickson writes from somewhere in India on July 6: “I am again a Press Censor. The job is quite an improvement over Postal Censorship, as I am my own boss and deal with newspaper copy and cables exclusively….Perhaps a note on the methods of travel in India by troop train. Since that time I have traveled by myself or with another officer….One’s transportation is furnished by the Army in the nature of a ticket and a reservation. The trains in India are divided into compartments of various sizes and classes: First, Second, Intermediate, and Third. The ‘Sahibs’ ride First or Second Class; to ride in less is to lose face….Each compartment is a unit unto itself, having a lavatory with a shower. The Intermediate and Third Class compartments do not have lavatories, so the travellers jump out at the stations and was under community pumps and drink from ‘water-Hindus’ or “water-Mosloms’- as a Hindu will not ear nor drink with a Moslem and vice versa…There are no passageways in Indian cars. If one wishes to eat in the ‘Restaurant Car’, one alights at a designated station, walks up to the car, clambers aboard, and rides to the next stop. This gives rise to a little racket on the part of the waiters (everyone in India tries to develop a swindle of some sort). They will present the check, collect the money- and invariably one needs change- and then wander off. The hop seems to be that the train will pill into the station and in the excitement, you will dash off to your compartment forgetting your change….There are no pullman cars in India. One travels with a sleeping bag which is installed on the seats at night. A First Class compartment will sleep four, two upper and two lower. If there are ladies in the compartment (and this did happen once!) one retires to the lavatory and in a while emerges in pajamas, and so to bed!....One can, and generally does, have tea served in the compartment. The times are usually about 7:00 AM and 4:30 PM. Tea is brought to you by the bearer from the Restaurant Car or from a First Class caterer at one of the various stations….The elite travel with their personal servants’ compartment on the same car. Those servants will run errands, take charge of luggage, fix the bedding….The coolies, who function as an Eastern red-cap, are paid by the piece. The rate is usually two annas, or four cents. The weight of the object doesn’t matter. The coolies can carry fantastic weights on their heads, once it’s up, though they don’t seem to be able to pick up a brick. It may take as many as four of them to lift a trunk onto the head of one of their number; once it’s there, however, off staggers the coolie all by himself….”
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
New Addresses:
Mr and Mrs Oliver Freud
1230 Potter Street
Chester, Pennsylvania
RS Kumabe
233 West 104th Street
New York City
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Notes:
Oliver Freud has started his new work as Assistant Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Mrs Freud will arrive in Black Mountain on July 22 to participate in the class work of the Art Institute.
LAST WEEK IN REVIEW:
At a meeting of the Faculty and Student Officers on Monday evening it was agreed that:
Hitch-hiking by girls be henceforth prohibited
Any girl who hitch-hikes, except for some very unusual reason approved by the Faculty, will be summarily dismissed from the College.
At a meeting of the Board of Fellows on Tuesday afternoon it was decided that August 1 should be the latest date for members of the teaching staff to make commitments for the 1944-45 session.
Miss Ruth Brancher, from the Office of War Information in New York City, arrived at Lake Eden on Wednesday afternoon to begin a week’s visit at the College. She has been and will continue to study the educational policies and procedures here with a view to writing a story on the College for foreign distribution sometime in the future.
On Wednesday evening in the College Dining Hall, Heinrich Jalowetz gave the first of the Music Institute series of public lectures. He spoke on “Prejudice in Music.”
At the Faculty Meeting on Thursday evening, the class registrations of the Summer Quarter students were discussed. Erwin Straus gave a digest of the Soldiers’ Education Bill and made recommendations to the Faculty for trying to get the right to participate in veterans’ post-war education.
On Saturday evening the Music Institute presented an all-Schubert recital as the second in the series of Saturday evening concerts which are open to the public. Lotte Leonard, teacher of Voice at the Institute and a member of the Faculty at the Cincinnati College of Music, sang two groups of Schubert Lieder. In the first group were: Fruchlingstraum, Dio Post, Dio Liebe hat gologon, Du liebst mich nicht, and Gott im Fruchling. In the second group were: Genymed, Schwanongesang, An die Nachtigal, Lachen un Weinen, and Foi Dir. Rudolf Kolisch, violist and leader of the Kolisch String Quartet and also a member of the Institute Faculty, accompanied Mrs Leonard at the piano. After an intermission, Joanna Graudan, Rudolf Kolisch and Nikolai Graudan gave a memorable performance of Schubert’s Trio Opus 100 in E Flat Major for Piano, Violin and Cello.
In the concert audience were about fifty musicians and music lovers from Asheville, Black Mountain and the Moore General Hospital.
On Sunday morning Josef Albers returned from the Lowthorpe School in Groton, Massachusetts, where from June 19 to July 14 he gave summer courses in Design, Color, and Freehand Drawing.
LAST WEEK’S VISITORS: (not previously mentioned in Summer Bulletin 3)
Sound Man Second Class Roland Johnson, a friend of Mr and Mrs Henry Leonard, was a visitor at Lake Eden on Friday and Saturday.
Among the weekend visitors to the College were Kedric Lynch, Patsy’s brother; Private Herbert Oppenheimer, and Jimmie Stranch.
COMMUNITY WORK REPORT:
(July 10- July 15)
Work continued on the terrace of the studies Building and top dressing put on the area nearest the Art Room. This section will be ready for use this week. The stone work was continued by Mundy; while Walt, with fine independence, started work on the new linen closet in South Lodge.
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The lavatories in the Studies Building were partially painted and now have that disheveled look that forecasts a respectable end.
Maintenance work included trimming the path along the lake, hauling trash, and repairing lights, also partly repairing the bridge near Roadside Cottage.
The Farm supplied the kitchen with six bushels of potatoes, four bushels of beans, twenty-five pounds of cabbage, 168 pounds of beef, gallons of milk, some of which tasted remotely of silage. (The adjustment in the cows’ stomachs, which will obliterate this taste, takes about two days.) The Farm crew finished hoeing the nine-acre field of silage corn and started repairing the fence of the Drama Shed pasture.
The shop turned out five benches for the North Lodge lobby and eighteen stools for the Art Room.
--Molly Gregory
THE BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY:
(on July 17, 1944)
Students
A Richard Albany
S Adele Albert
S Barbara Anderson
M Abby Barnett
A Raymond Barnhart
A Gloria Beckman
A Mrs Neuvart Bedrossian
S Maja Bentley
A Roberts Blair
W Jagna Braunthal
S Addison Bray
M Mary Brennan
S Mary Brett
W Zoe Broadwain
S Sam Brown
A Katherine Comfort
A Ernest Costa
M Eleanor Cover
A Irene Cullis
S Gwen Currier
A Mary Lou Derryberry
S Dan Dixon
M Gabrielle Fischer
W Charles Forberg
W Emily Frey
M Ruby Gervertz
M Rose Glinberg
S Lorrie Goulet
W Ati Gropius
M Alberta Halstead
M Robert Isaacson
S Betty Kelley
S Mary Kriger
S Liese Kulka
A Hazel-Frieda Larsen
M Lois Lautner
M Paula Lenchner
M Ursula Lewis
S Harriette Lyford
A Mary Ruth Lyford
S Patsy Lynch
M Monica Lanyi-Mann
M Jane Mayhall
S Archie McWilliams
S Ruth Miller
S Neal Nathanson
M Iris Okun
W Virginia Osbourne
S Carol Ostrow
A Virginia Parker
M May de F Payne
Sec Viera Pevsner
M Jenny Pitcoff
S Polly Pollet
Sec Janet Rees
A John Reiss
M Rachel Rosenberger
S Gloria Rosenfield
S Laille Schutz
M Louise Schmidt
W Harold Schuyler
S Jane Slater
S Tanya Sprager
A Nancy Smith
A Joan Stack
M Kathryn Stein
M Alma Stone
S Jane Stone
S Margaret Strauss
M Jean Swanson
A Rachael Trexler
S Jeanne Wacker
M Phyllis Warnick
A Lou K Weber
M Jane Woodruff
Staff
Henrietta Barth
Mrs Billig
Babe Brown
Peggy Emery
Mimi French
Gerda Hagendorn
Nell Rice
Olga Schwartz
Mrs A D Stone
Faculty
Anni Albers
Josef Albers
Joseph Breitenbach
Jean Charlot
Fred Cohen
Frances de Graaff
Marcel Dick
Theodore Dreier
Lorna Freedman
Nikolai Gradudan
Joanna Graudan
Molly Gregory
Fritz Hansgirg
Heinrich Jalowetz
Elsa Kahl
Rudolf Kolisch
Marianne Kopp
Kenneth Kurtz
Lotte Leonard
Edward Lowinsky
Herbert Miller
Erwin Straus Trudi Straus
Robert Wunsch
Families
Mrs Charlot
Ann Charlot
Johnny Charlot
Marin Charlot
Mrs Dick
Suzie Dick
Barbara Dreier
Ted Dreier Jr
Maria Hansgirg
Johanna Jalowetz
Hele Keep
Henry Leonard
Gretel Lowinsky
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Bessie Miller
Kitchen and Maids
Margaret Dougherty
Malrey Few
Kathleen Gardner
Willie Gardner
Jack Lipsey
Nathaniel Long
Gertrude Lytle
Jessie Lytle
Maude Roundtree
Key:
A: Art Institute student Sec: Secretary
M: Music Institute student W: Work Camper
S: Student in Summer Quarter
