3p, one sided pages, staple in top left corner, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Announces that the Fall quarter of 44-45 Session will begin this morning. announces that all the entering students will take the English placement test on Tuesday eve, and math test on Thursday eve. announces that the faculty and student officers will meet on Wed afternoon to discuss "Requirements for entrance into the Senior Division." announces that all students will register for courses on Sat, Oct 7. Announces the upcoming departure of Kenneth Kurtz, who will finish his doctorate study in English Literature at Yale. Expected visitor: Lieutenant William C. Berry Recent visitor: Dr Eugene E Pfaff.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN College Year 12 Monday, October 2, 1944
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CALENDAR:
The Fall Quarter classes of the 1944-45 Session will begin this morning.
The General Meeting, postponed from Sunday evening, will be held in the Dining Hall this evening at 8:00 o'clock.
The Board of Fellows will meet in Bob Wunsch's Study on Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock.
All entering students will take the placement test in English on Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. They will take the placement test in Mathematics on Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet on Wednesday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock in the Faculty Room. They will discuss "Requirements for Entrance into the Senior Division."
On Saturday, October 7, each student, after a conference with his adviser, will make permanent registration for Fall Quarter courses in the Registrar's Office.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Kenneth Kurtz will leave by car on Tuesday for New Haven, Connecticut to begin his year's work in English Literature in the Graduate School at Yale University.
Erwin Straus! new address is: 1612 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland.
Bob Wunsch will attend the annual North Carolina Drama Directors Conference at the University of North Carolina on Saturday, October
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Gisela Kronenburg 210 South Ashland Blvd. Chicago 12, Illinois
Patsy Lynch 250 South Brentwood Blvd. Clayton 5, Missouri
Marita Pevsner Antioch College Yellow Springs, Ohio
News Item:
Expected to arrive today for a two days visit at Lake Eden Lieutenant William C. Berry.
In the Mail:
Gisela Kronenburg writes from Chicago, Illinois on September 25: "This afternoon I talked to my boss, who outlined my work for men It seems to be a man-sized job -- a circumstance that doesn't deter me in the least. I shall do the bloodsugar-determinations, some rather elaborate basal metabolism tests, and the electroencephalograms that are taken with insulin tolerance tests."
Private Bob Marden writes from England on September 16: "Just now I'm learning a new jobs, that of traffic booking, and the general running of an airline. In a civilian airline you can count on keeping your planes from day to day, while here there is a constant uncertainty, and that is about the only constant there is. It is a job that is certainly never dull. At last I am doing something really useful. It is about the first time that I have felt that I was barning my pay. Here I am also in range of some advancement, BMC Community Bulletin
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a possibility I thought had vanished for the duration. All in all, I have been very lucky.. We are in a nice town which has many fine concerts and plays (ballet last week). I'm working about eleven hours a day, which makes time pass quickly. I trust that it won't be too many months before I heave into B. M. C. I think it will not be before next summer, however... I've seen a good deal of England and gotten to know a good many of the people, Personally I like most of them a good deal, and the land is beautiful, especially flying over it. The people seem quite willing to talk, if you don't rush them. Many of the customs and ways that some of our boys find a little funny are really very natural, and I don't have any trouble
Sergeant John M. Stix writes from France on September 20 on the backs of Gorman military forms: "After weeks of bombardment, Brost has fallen. In fact it has ceased to exist. The German general staff surrendered in the afternoon, and it was twilight as we drove down the boulevard and wove around the craters. The air was still choked with dirt and dust from crumbling masonry. And through this haze -- this film -- through the gaping holes in naked walls, you could see the sunset, a deep, bloody rod..... There is nothing left, nothing that resembles a city. A few civilians straggle in -- hopefully -- amble over to their pulverized homes, and straggle out..... It was quiet for a change. The fires had been extinguished, the prisoners rounded up except for a few isolated snipers. Most of the Americans had retired to their respective headquarters, freakish command posts set up in battle-scarred corners of the ruined city. A handful of soldiers roamed the streets, singly or in pairs, a bottle of wine in one hand, an M-1 in the other. I saw a corporal leaning idly against the broken door of a dross shop, staring at a naked mannequin which lay limbless on the pavement. Down the block lay a German corpse. Nothing moved, nothing -- except cats. It was a day for cats. Scores of them. They were everywhere, slinking across the streets, scampering up a shattered wall, licking at the spoils in gutted cafes. I saw one stranded in a bathtub which being vertically between the floors of an apartment house; the front wall had virtually disappeared and you could gape unashamedly at all the intimacies of a bedroom and bath.... We turned a corner and suddenly ran up against a prisoner assembly point, the grounds of a large chateau which had garrisoned thousands of them. They had been huddled into some sort of formation in which they stood silent and bewildered. There were civilians among them -- German or French, I do not know. And as they were being herded into the trucks, a doughboy with a black cat slung about his shoulders and a hurt look in his eyes, approached one of them, a prisoner in a sport shirt and plus-fours, 'There's a real uniform, eh fellah'. He shook a finger in his face. Goddam, that's a real uniform.' He spat on the ground, stroked the cat, and wondered off..... Off in another corner were the Nazi brass, still hailing each other with that stupid salute and looking with frosty contempt at the turmoil about them. These were the gents whose concocted that magic stimulant, the lie of lies, reportedly the lie which drove the German troops to such fierce resistance: they must fight to the last man, the Americans were leaving France. The Americans were escaping! Through Brestil .....No doubt we're leaving, but not through the Bay of Biscay. I look forward to the coming chapter.... Nancy West writes from Brooklyn, New York: "After boot camp I thought I was going to go to Yeoman School. At the last minute there was an urgent request for 'general assignment' girls to be sent to Brooklyn, New York to learn to do International Business Machine Work. The girls that did go to Yeoman School were those who had had previous civilian experience. I would have been a beginner. Because of one thing and another, I have wound up doing a routine typing job in the Jersey City Depot. In some ways I am very lucky, though. I live on subsistence and quarters', In other words my life is my own outside of working hours. I'm also near home and have been stationed in New York City where everyone goes and everything happens.... Starting next week, I am going to attend some drama classes at the Henry Street Settlement Play.. house. It seems that Frances Kuntz did some work at this place at one time. Also, I intend to start taking piano lessons with
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Frederic Waldman, a very close friend of the Cohens. Just before I went into the service, I played the part oi Evelyn in 'Guest in the Houser that ran for five nights.."
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE FACULTY:
Chuck Forberg, Gerda Hagendorn, and Edward Lowinsky were appointed by the Faculty to draw up the Fall Quarter schedule of classes.
Alfred Kazin, Edward Lowinsky, and Mrs. Rice will serve, during the Fall Quarter, as the Library Committee.
Bobbie Dreier, Mary Gregory, Ati Gropius, Gerda Hagendorn, Helen Wright Marden, and Herbert Miller will serve temporarily as the Admissions Committee.
The Committee on Committees will consist of the Rector, the Student Moderator. Mary Gregory, and Helen Wright Marden, who will act as a member until the return from Utah of Jane Slater. The Committee will meet early next week to draw up recommendations to submit to the Faculty and Student Officers,
The first 1944.45 Newsletter will feature the Sumner Art and Music Institutes.
The regular weekly Faculty Meetings will be held on Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons and begin an hour and a half before dinner, They will end five minutes before the dinner bell.
Morning classes during the Fall Quarter will begin at 8:30 o'clock No regular classes will be scheduled to continue beyond 9:30 o'clock in the evening.
The Faculty and Student Officers have instructed the Schedule Committee to provide three free evenings a week.
VISITORS:
Among the recent visitors to Lake Eden was Dr. Eugene E. Pfaff, Executive Director of the Southern Council on International Relations.
IMPORTANT FACULTY DECISIONS:
It was decided at the Faculty Meeting on September 29 that:
(a) Faculty meetings be held without student officers or
other students present when
(1) individual students are discussed, (2) several members of the Faculty request such a
meeting.
(b) The Student Moderator will be the only Student Officer
to attend the Annual Meeting of the Faculty
(c)
Students who reveal, through the English Placement Test: that they do not know the fundamental rules of clear and concise writing, will be required to take a remedial course in English Composition. This course will be given one hour each week during the Fall Quarter and will be conducted by Alfred Kazin,
(a) Deficiencies in mathematics must be made up by students
as early as possible.
