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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Summer Bulletin 7
Monday, August 14, 1944
CALENDAR:
This evening at 8:15 o’clock in the College Dining Hall Bernard Rudofsky will give his second in a series of lectures. He will speak on “The Unfashionable Human Body.”
On Wednesday evening at 8:15 o’clock Amedee Ozenfant will give a lecture on the subject: “Art and Philosophy: The Preforms.”
The Seventh Concert by the Summer Music Institute will be given on Saturday evening, August 19, at 8:!5 o’clock in the College Dining Hall. Rudolf Kolisch, Lorna Freedman, Marcel Dick, Nikolai Graudan and Ruffie Vaughan will play Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 132 and Schubert’s String Quartet Opus 165.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Architectural Forum of July 1944 contains photographs, construction outlines and a brief description of the Jalowetz Cottage.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Lieutenant William C Berry, 0-716331
VAAF
Victorville, California
Corporal John M Freeman
Marine Barracks
Portsmouth Navy Yards
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Junelaine Smith
304 Santa Ana Avenue
Long Beach, California
News Notes:
After twenty-one months of sea duty in the Pacific, Corporal John Middleton Freeman is back in the United States. He has been recommended for Officer’s Training.
In the Mail:
Lieutenant Bill Berry writes from California: “I’ve changed posts again; this time I’m as far west as I can go without getting a Pacific Theatre ribbon for it. I’m a bombardier and navigation instructor in Victorville, where there is a bombardiering school. We’re on the edge of the desert, as usual, so the men can throw their bombs wild without hurting anybody. Victorville is a quiet little ghost town of four thousand souls and a theatre; it is seldom frequented by us because the greater pleasures of Los Angeles are so closely nearby. Lately, however, I’ve had to work on Sunday so perhaps I can consider it one of the jobs of my youth two weeks ago….I like this post very much. We have an adequate amount of work to do without getting snowed under. The extra duties every month, however, make up for the regular six or seven hours we put in daily. As rated officers we take code proficiency checks, as instructors we take a proficiency test every month, drop ten bombs per month (proficiently, of course), put in time on the bombing trainers every month to improve our proficiency, and as navigators we fly a month…Junelaine is in Long Beach, and, until I hit this new schedule, I could see her weekly….Danny Deaver is now in northern Ireland. In his letters he doesn’t say much about anything except that navigators over there have a full time job on the side censoring letters….I like my work around here, though I’d like to be closer to the east coast. Weather’s good, the sun isn’t as hot as it could be…”
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WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
Addresses:
Gerald Barnes
49 South Avenue
Melrose, Massachusetts
Mrs Howard Morris
(formerly Winifred Leon)
Uniontown, Alabama
Private Joe J King, ASN 39471477
Hdq and Hdq Sq, 556th AAFBU
Sixth Ferrying Group
Long Beach Army Air Field
Long Beach 8, California
A Lawrence Kocher
4 Park End Place
Forest Hills, New York
In the Mail:
Larry Kocher writes from Forest Hills, New York: “It has been a busy year-with regular 9 o’clock till 6:00 o’clock hours of office work. At the end of this year I had planned to go on and on here, but now we are packing to leave for the south again. We are to live at Williamsburg, Virginia. I will do work (studies and research in Eighteenth Century Architecture, Life and Culture), also classes in architecture at William and Mary College. I will be employed by Colonial Williamsburg in carrying out this endeavor and understand that I will be granted leeway in developing a program of investigation on the American house.”
Bedford Thurman writes from a southwest Pacific Island on August 1: “Can say little about what I’m doing. Not yet settled in new job, have little to do, still hurrying up to wait. Permissible to tell you I’ve been on a ship recently, also that I’ve been to New Caledonia. Hills and mud reminded me of Carolina, tropical flora of Florida. New Caledonia said to be the only island in the south Pacific which is entirely free of malaria; a certain tree which grows there- I forget the name- is death to the anopheles female…Now I’m somewhere else, hedge-hopping to my assignment, as it were. Sleeping, eating and reading compromise my duties at present. Having some difficulty finding a place in which to drink beer, and having more difficulty in getting the world’s news. Food at this camp is excellent, mostly canned but exceptionally well prepared. I go to the movies practically every night, whether the show is good, bad or indifferent. Movies only form of relaxation here, and they make a fine seperific anyway. Days are moist, hot; nights, moist, cool. Live strictly on an outhouse basis, amenities all gone with the plumbing. In all these islands men look to Neumea as the garden spot of the Pacific where there are stores and raved streets and fancy bars and night spots. We have no piano, no musical instruments. Without the islands’ chain of army radio stations, we’d be in a sorry plight indeed….”
NEWS ITEMS FROM LAST WEEK:
“Strangely enough, people generally have a true and good reaction to spectacles and to objects of nature,” said Amedee Ozenfant, modern French painter and teacher of art. He was addressing the students and teachers at the Summer Art and Music Institutes at the College on Wednesday evening. “It is a fact of experience that when a group of people on a beach pick up pebbles and shells, they select really the most beautiful; and generally they select the same type. This proves, incidentally, that normal beauty exists and that there is a natural human agreement about it.
“In art, however, the opposite is true; one sees generally as through a distorted glass. This is largely due to the fact that the natural tendencies in people have been distorted by wrong writing snad wrong theories of art.”
Mr Ozenfant believes that ideas about art must be clarified. “And the best way to start is at zero. Teaching art consists in clearing away in the minds of students all their wrong conceptions of what is beautiful and what is ugly.”
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Mr Ozenfant commented on the growing interest of educators and students in art and of the introduction of art into many schools and becoming more and more confused. Art is not a fragile flower, nor is it a department of fashion; neither is it a distraction nor a difficult, not an easy, hobby.”
Mr Ozenfant suggested to the students that they look at works of art as simply as they look at beautiful shells. “And forget when you look upon the works of Van Gogh that this great artist cut off his ear and in so doing did more harm to art than he did service to art by his great painting.”
Mr Ozenfant is the author of many books on art and has an international reputation as a teacher of art. He is spending two weeks at the College as a member of the staff of the Summer Art Institute.
Miss Ursula Lewis, one of the students in the Summer Music Institute gave a recital of her compositions on Thursday evening at the home of Edward and Gretel Lowinsky. She was assisted in the concert by Simon Sadoff, pianist; Lorna Freedman, violinist; and Jane Mayhall, soprano.
The program consisted of four groups of works: “Festival Suite” for piano and four hands, played by the composer and Mr Sadoff; Larghettofrom a violin sonata, played by Miss Freedman, accompanied by the composer; two songs: “Daybreak” and “The Philosopher” sung by Miss Mayhall, accompanied at the piano by the composer; and a piano sonata played by Miss Lewis. The works were all composed during Miss Lewis’s three years of study under George Szell at the Mannes Music School in New York, where Miss Lewis has held a scholarship since 1940.
Last year Miss Lewis’s “Children’s Suite” for two pianos was published by the Elkan-Vogel Company and later broadcast. Not long afterwards she won with her piano sonata the first prize in the nationwide contest for young composers sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs. The two songs sung in the Thursday evening concert were given their first performance last spring in New York City at an all-contemporary music program.
At the conclusion of Miss Lewis’s program on Thursday evening, Miss Jeannette Siegel, another young composer, played the slow movement of her still unfinished piano sonata. Miss Siegel was born in New York City and has lived there since her birth. She attended New York University and for the last four years has been studying composition with Roger Sessions.
ROSTER OF PEOPLE IN THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY
As of August 21, 1944
Students:
A Richard Albany
S Adele Albert
M Eugenia Avery
A Kathryn Baldock
W Barbara Banks
M Abby Barnett
S Marilyn Bauer
M Lillian Berger
A Roberta Blair
A Jane Bland
W Jagna Braunthal
M Mrs Breeskin
M Dorothy Breeskin
M Gloria Breeskin
S Mary Brett
S Sam Brown
A Kathryn Burnside
A Ernest Costa
A Irene Cullis
S Gwen Currier
A Mary Lou Derryberry
S Roxane Dinkowitz
M Abelle Dinkowitz
S Dan Dixon
A Paula Eicke
S Charles Forberg
W Emily Frey
M Clara Gerschkow
M Ruby Gevertz
A Denver Gillen
A Elizabeth Cittlen
S Lorrie Goulet
W Ati Gropius
M Phyllis Gross
M Alberta Halstead
A Hazel Harris
A Ruth Highland
M Robert Isaacson
A Florence Kawa
S Betty Kelley
A Margaret Kennard
M Ada Kopetz
S Mary Kriger
S Liese Kulka
A Hazel Larsen
M Paula Lenchner
M Ursula Lewis
S Harriette Lyford
A Mary Ruth Lyford
S Patsy Lynch
M Monika Lanyi-Mann
S Helsie Wright Marden
W Joan Martinson
A Myra H Maser
M Jane Mayhall
A Marie McCall
S Arlyn McKenna
A Archie McWilliams
S Ruth Miller
S Faith Murray
S Neal Nathanson
A Lillian Nunn
S Ruth O’Neill
M Iris Okun
S Ginger Osbourne
S Carol Ostrow
A Virginia Parker
M Josephine Pater
Sec Viera Pevaner
M Jenny Pitcoff
S Barbara Pollet
Sec Janet Rees
A John Reiss
A Dorothy Rossen
S Gloria Rosenfield
M Simon Sadoff
S Laille Schutz
M Louise Schmidt
W Harold Schuyler
M Jeanette Siegel
M Clara Silvers
A Irene Simon
Sec Olga Schwartz
S Jane Slater
A Nancy Smith
S Tanya Sprager
A Joan Stack
M Alma Stone
W Jane R Stone
S Margaret Strauss
A Kathryn Swartzbaugh
M Jean Swanson
A Mrs Sussman
A Mr Sussman
A Hilda Terry
M Mary Van Deman
M Muffie Vaughn
S Jeanne Wacker
A Edna Way
M Jane Woodruff
Staff:
Henrietta Barth
Mrs Billig
Peggy Emery
Mimi French
Gerda Hagendorn
Nell Rice
Mrs AD Stone
*H McGuire Wood
Esther Coppock
Faculty:
Anni Albers
Josef Albers
Eric Bentley
Fred Cohen
Frances de Graaff
Theodore Dreier
Molly Gregory
Fritz Hansgirg
Heinrich Jalowetz
Elsa Kahl
Marianne Kopp
Kenneth Kurtz
Erwin Straus
Trudi Straus
Robert Wunsch
Music Faculty:
Marcel Dick
Lorna Freedman
Nikolai Graudan
Joanna Graudan
Rudolf Kolisch
Ernst Krenek (8-22)
Lotte Leonard
Art Faculty:
Victor d’Amico
Jean Charlet
Belle Boas
Jose de Creeft
Walter Gropius
JB Neumann
James Prestini
Families:
Maja Bentley
Mrs Charlet
Ann Charlet
Johnny Charlet
Martin Charlet
Ann Dick
Suzie Dick
Barbara Dreier
Edward Dreier
Ted Dreier, Jr.
Mrs Walter Gropius
Maria Hansgirg
Mrs Kranek (8-22)
Johanna Jalowetz
Helene Kopp
Henry Leonard
Gretel Lowinsky
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Kitchen an Maids:
Margaret Dougherty
Malony Jones
Malrey Few
*Kathleen Gardner
*Willie Gardner
Jack Lipsey
Gertrude Lytle
*Jessie Lytle
Maude Roundtree
Will Smith
*Not living on campus
