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Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 11 Summer Bulletin 12 Monday, September 18, 1944

Date
1944
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Ink on paper
Object Type
Archival Documents
Credit Line
Black Mountain College Collection, gift of Barbara Beate Dreier and Theodore Dreier, Jr. on behalf of all generations of Dreier family
Accession Number
2017.40.170a-c
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
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3p bulletin, mimeograph on matte off white paper.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Summer Bulletin 12
Monday, September 18, 1944
CALENDAR:
There will be a brief meeting of the Board of Fellows this afternoon immediately after lunch in the Dining Hall.
The faculty will meet at 5:00 o’clock this afternoon in Study 10.
The Admissions Committee will meet on the porch of the Straus Cottage this evening at 7:15 o’clock.
The faculty will meet on Tuesday afternoon at 1:15 o’clock in the Round House.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Anni Albers will leave tomorrow afternoon by train for New York City. She will return to Lake Eden on October 3.
Seventy photographs taken by Joseph Breitenbach during his two weeks participation in the Art Institute this summer are not being exhibited in the Dining Hall. Copies of these photographs are available at a rate of sixty cents per copy.
NEW ITEMS FROM LAST WEEK:
On Monday evening, in the Stone Cottage, Nikolai and Joanna Graudan gave an informal cell-piano concert. The program included J.S. Bach’s Suite in C minor, Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A minor for the Arpeggione (a cello with six strings, invented in Schubert’s day, but little used) and the Piano, and Victor Babin’s Sonata for Cello and Piano.
On Tuesday evening Edward Steurmann gave an informal lecture on “Romanticism in Music and the Kreisleriana” in the Stone Cottage. He followed this lecture with a concert that included Robert Schumann’s “Kreisleriana”, Frederic Chopin’s Barcarolle in F sharp major, and Johannes Brahms’ Rhapsody in B minor.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Maude Dabbs
50 Horatic Street
New York 14, NY

Leslie Paul
East Harwich, Mass.

Corporal Harold B. Raymond
31136607
Co.B, 1924 Airborne Engineers
Geiger Field, Wash.

Private Cornelia Goldsmith,
A 612647
WAC Det.
Romulus AAB
Romulus, Michigan

A/C F.M. Sone, 32423119
Class 44 J, PAAF
Box #1032
Pecos, Texas
News Items:
From the Office of the Public Relations Officers in the Headquarters of the Merced Army Air Field in Merced, California: “Aviation Cadet Frederick Mason Stone has just completed his basic flying training at the Merced Army Air Field, California. He will now proceed to an Army advanced flying school, where he will take the final steps toward attainment of his silver pilot wings.”
Frank Rice, until recently associated with Rosenbach, the New York rare book dealer, has gone to the advertising firm of Benton and Bowles as assistant typographer.
Visitors:
Among the alumni visitors at Lake Eden last week were: John Campbell, Gisela Kronenberg, Otiz Levy, Judy Mandelbaum, and A. Nimmanahaeminda.

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In the Mail:
Larry Fox writes from Camp Endicott in Rhode Island: “I am working now in the Commissary Department that supplies the officers’ mess halls up here…. Our Captain has decided that the radio show shall not resume, so as far as dramatics is concerned, I am out.”
Sergeant Pete Hill writes from New Guinea on August 31: “I recently moved by ship from ‘somewhere in New Guinea’ to an advance base ‘somewhere in New Guinea’. From my tent I can hear small arms fire in the jungle nearby, and occasionally I glimpse tracer bullets sailing over the tree tops (Truly they seem to sail slowly, almost casually, and apparently wavering in their couse!) all the shells are going the other way, and the Japs are kept at a distance…… I’m enjoying New Guinea. I don’t find it to be the rotting, stinking, debilitating Hel Hole the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation would have you believe in their insidious ‘I-want-to-come-back-to-a-good-old-unchanged-America’ ads. On the contrary much of the so-called jungle is quite beautiful, and some parts resemble closely a New England wood. The natives, small Melanesian peoples, lead short, simple disease-ridden lives (a man of 35 years is old!), but seem quite happy, except where too much contact with G.I.’s has made them beggars. They raise many delicious foods in their gardens, which would do credit to an industrious U.S. farmer, and invariably have their villages surrounded with graceful cocoanut palms. They’re quite friendly, as a rule—whenever they spy you approaching their village, one of their number will shinny up the nearest palm get you a cocoanut to drink and eat….. The college Bulletins usually come in batches at three to five week intervals. I enjoy them a great deal especially the letters and comments from former students. Id’ like to hear more, though, about the thoughts and projects the students are interested in. I wonder if there is much discussion of reconstruction work, how veterans and their varied organizations will fit into the picture, and what the probabilities are of ‘the people’ being in on the formulating of some semi-decent peace plans and programs…..”
Lieutenant Bela Martin writes from St. Augustine, Florida: “I’ve had a new class now in fighter training for the past couple of weeks. With my students I have had a problem that I didn’t expect to run up against. These fellows can fly well, but somewhere in their training no one developed their initiative and their sense of responsibility, as they seem to be able to do only what they are told. Now they have trouble thinking for themselves and adjusting themselves for unforeseen situations that arise. This is one of the real essentials for a flier, especially a military pilot. The actual manual operation of an aircraft is comparatively simple….”
Corporal Harold Raymond writes from Spokane, Washington: “I was finally shipped out of Athol around the middle of last month and at the time that I could logically expect to get overseas duty at last…… I seem to be in for another long period of training and waiting. I tried to speed up matters by going up to the base headquarters and volunteering for whatever overseas shipment there was. This apparently can’t be done either, so I guess I’ll just have to wait it out with another airborne outfit…… This reassignment to a combat outfit is of course in many ways much tougher than sitting around at Athol waiting for the Air Corps to start forest fires. It is no particular fun to begin pushing over hill and dale with a pack, cleaning a rifle every day, and pulling K.P. duty, but I do feel much more contended here..”
ON THE FARM
On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday student crews, assisted by six men from the 134th Field Artillery now stationed at the Moore General Hospital, harvested 85 tons of silage. This same combination of workers will tackle the haying problem this week; there are 21 acres of soy beans to be harvested.

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Visitors:
Among the visitors at Lake Eden last week was Alvin Lustig, one-time editor of the magazine Art and Architecture and now making preparations for a new quarterly magazine that will feature the visual arts, particularly in their relationships to designers, to industry, and to education.
IN CRITICISM:
A long-time friend of the College writes from Boston: “After the war I hope there will still be experimental colleges; and I particularly hope that Black Mountain will still be in existence. The members of your community probably little realize how important we consider your experiment to be, representing as it does the return of the control of higher education to the teachers and the students! ….. May I venture to make one slight criticism of the College? Other have made it to me; and I wonder whether it has been made to you. Have you ever been told that to some visitors, the arrangements for their entertainment have seemed very casual indeed? When you set out to be good hosts, you succeed admirably; but to certain individuals who have dropped in unexpectedly—yet almost as pilgrims—you have sometimes been casual or worse, and so have missed good opportunities for making good friends.”

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