8p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, 8 horizontal folds. Announces that Robert Wunsch was elected Rector for the 44-45 Session; Josef Albers and Fritz Hansgirg were elected to three-year terms on the Board of Fellows. announces the launch of a new French class for beginners taught by Fritz Hansgirg a list of all committees in the College is included from the third page to the seventh page A schedule of classes for the fall quarter is attached as the 8th page .
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN College Year 12 Monday, October 23, 1944
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CALENDAR : The students will meet in the Lobby of South Lodge today after lunch.
Alfred Kazin will inaugurate his Weekly Reading Hour this evening at 8:00 o'clock in the Lobby of South Lodge,
The Faculty will meet in the Faculty Room this evening at 9:00 o'clock to complete its discussion on the Fall Class Registration of the students.
Tomorrow evening at 6:55 o'clock in the Lobby of North Lodge, Herbert Miller, assisted by Bill McLaughlin, will review the news of last week and will make commentaries on this news,
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Emily Wood left on Monday afternoon for Philadelphia to visit her parents. She will return to Lake Eden on November 3.
At the Annual Business Meeting of the Faculty on Friday afternoon of last week, Robert Wunsch was unanimously elected Rector for the 1944-45 Session, Josef Albers and Fritz Hansgirg were unanimously elected to three-year terms on the Board of Fellows, and Molly Gregory was elected to a one-year term on the Board of Follows. The Board now numbers eight. It includes, in addition to the above members, Theodore Dreier, Heinrich Jalowetz, Erwin Straus, and Charles Forberg, the Student Moderator.
Music and books may be obtained from the Music Library on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 1:00 to 1:30 P. M.
Records will be played under the supervision of Alfred Kazin, Sue Burton, and Joan Keiser on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 7:00 to 8:00 P. M.
Records will be played for Heinrich Jalowetzs class on Sunday afternoons from 2:00 to 3:00 o'clock under the supervision of Anna Schauffler.
No one except the people especially assigned to supervise the records will be allowed to handle the records at any time.
Ted Dreier, accompanied by Bobbie, left on Friday afternoon for Florida. For a week's vacation, HO W111 return to Lake Eden on Saturday.
Herbert Miller will speak on the Dumbarton Oaks Conference at the dinner meeting of the X Club at the s and W Cafeteria in Asheville this evening.
Robert Wunsch will leave on Wednesday morning for Greensboro to represent Black Mountain College at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Mooting of the North Carolina College Conference. He will return to Lake Eden on Friday morning.
George Williams has succeeded Jack Lipsey as the College Chef.
NEW CLASS:
A class in French for beginners will start this morning at 10:30 o'clock and will continue every Monday and Thursday morning during the Fall Quarter from 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. It will be conducted in the Language Room by Mrs. Fritz Hansgirg.
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NEWS ITEMS:
"The problems facing the poet today, including the attitude of his audience, have their roots in the intellectual, social, and economic currents in the Seventeenth century," said Joe Summers, College visitor, in an informal talk to students and teachers in Bob Wunsch's study on Monday evening of last week. Ho spoke on "The Attitude Toward Poetry in the Seventeenth Century".
"In spite of the fact that the Seventeenth Century is the golden age of English poetry, two of the most important intellectual and philosophical movements of the time attacked poetry as useless and evil.
!! In the Advancement of Learning (1605), one of the most influential documents of the century, Bacon outlined the early development of modern science. He relegated poetry to the position of feigned history', utterly divorced from reality and truth, Bacon considered poetry and rhetoric as enemies of progress, both might have had a function in 7barbarous ages!, but they were inimical to the serious thought of the Seventeenth century, Poetry night be allowed as 'entertainment' as an expression of commonplace virtues, or as a decorative art for the gentlemen, but it should not be considered seriously.
"The Puritans agreed in many points with the scientific attack on poetry, but they went further and banished poetry as entertainment, Poetry was frivolous and carnal, both in style and content. It was the product of idleness, neither profitable nor righteous, and this was condemned by the Puritan ethic. Poetry on Biblical themes might be allowed, but it must be sound' in theology and 'truthful! in metaphor.
"Almost every poet and every serious thinker of the time felt the force of this dual attack on poetry. The poets and the advocates of poetry, such as Sir Thomas Brown and Isaac Walton, were painfully on the defensive and were unable to make any coherent philosophical defense of the function of poetry. By the end of the century the new sciences had triumphed. Dryden accepted the new limitations that poetry should deal with personal or political satire or should entertain in a non-serious fashion: its only pretense to 'truth! must be in the formulation of the commonplace. Popular Puritan poetry became both vulgar and sentimentally pious.
"The history of poetry since the Seventeenth century is most complicated, but the process of the limitation of serious poetry continued throughout the Nineteenth century. The attempt to I make sense of our world' today must be social, economic, and ideological, as well as artistic, if it is to be successful, The modern poet may find aid, however, in the study of the historical origins of his problems and in the attempt to understand how the poets of the Seventeenth Century, faced with many problems similar to his, produced the greatest poetry of the English language."
A discussion followed the lecture.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Note: There have been many changes of address for men in the services. We are not permitted to note these changes of address in the Bulletin. If you write letters to former students, now overseas, and send them to Black Mountain College, we shall forward them immediately.
In the Mail:
Lieutenant Thomas Brooks writes from Germany on October 4: "Very little time was wasted in getting me up to the front, as you will
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gather from the rapidity with which my address changes.. Things are moving comparatively easily, and I am having time to become adjusted, I have learned to dive for foxholes, when the
Screaming Meanies' come in. I have learned that one loses inhibitions in efforts for self-preservation. At first I loped along toward cover, but I have decided the man who tries to be graceful is really the most foolish in appearance.. Wo do reap benefits from Jerry's efforts to exterminate us. Last night we fed on steal delicious) from cows killed by German shelling in a nearby field. The enemy is Zereed in on the field and the moss sergeant risked life and limb for the morale of the company.... I have a platoon of very experienced tank men who are teaching me right now. I spend considerable time shooting the breeze. with the crows and picking up life-saving tips. Right now I'm interested in the Siegfried Lino and all that it may moan to me. Wo are sitting quite close to it.."
Phyllis Josephs Thomas writes from Los Angeles: "My job is by far the most interesting and constructive work I've done since I left BMC, and after my Hollywood agency experience, it's terrifically refreshing. I'm working in the Radio Department of the Los Angeles CIO Council. At the present time my partner in the department who writes most of the scripts has to be away a good bit, so my work consists mainly of reading, sorting, and digesting the tons of material that come in here, answering correspondence and questions, taking care of broadcast details, and generally holding down the office. Everyone hero in this huge CIO building speaks the same language I do, everyone is politically conscious, and everyone is working hard for the relocation of Roosevelt. Needless to say, I love my job and fool perfectly at home. I'm very happy to be working on what is practically the only daily labor radio program in the country -- though we hope there will be lots more soon. This broadcast, called "Our Daily Bread", is given by the "CIO Reporter: (who is a topnotch speaker) and is usually in the form of commentary.... After work I spend a lot of my time in political action: doorbell ringing, etc... Incidentally, I hope all eligibles at BMC are going to vote..."
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
In the Mail:
Sergeant John Evarts writes on September 25 from somewhere in France: "The Bulletins have been most interesting with their news of Bill Berry and Danny and Bedford and Hank and Iko and the others.... For me life has been very full and very busy. We have moved around a great deal. We have seen a great deal since I last wrote. One of my friends in another company (a fellow who was at Illinois with me and at Vint Hill) was killed by a sniper two weeks or more ago. That was a shock.... I have revisited Chartres. I have seen Avranches -- with Mont St. Michel in the distance. I have seen Coutances, and the ruins of Periers. I have swum on one of the Normandy beaches (and broke a rib, rough-housing with one of my friends in the water). I have been in Laval and seen the lovely valley of the Mayenne. And for one marvelous day I was in Paris -- not very long after it was liberated. It is still the most beautiful city in the world, I have visited Meaux and seen its fine old cathedral and bought a few books and pictures and newspapers in the town. And now I'm in a small village -- where we have been long enough to come to know quite a number of people -- and a few people quite well. There's just one piano in the village, owned by a very nice family called Balde -- father and mother and Nicole, who is 21 and very charming. Practically every one is a cultivatour. The Bostien family (8 children) across the street are extremely nice. But all those people -- the Curó, the Bostiens, the school teacher, the children -- would take a book to toll about.... They have all been very kind and hospitable to us. I have eaten breakfast (a bowl of hot milk and brown bread) with the Baldós several times and had Sunday dinner with them twice. We are able to return those favors a little, but of course we are the ones who
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derive the most from the associations.... For a while now I have been on detached service with this unit -- along with some of my friends.. This unit is closely related to the other and I have been over to see the company a few times. The work I am doing is similar to my previous work, but more intensive. I enjoy it -- though there is of course a certain amount of tiresome but necessary routine connected with it. We are well informed about developments. On the whole the war has certainly progressed amazingly, and if it is a little slow now, it is nevertheless something to be happy about that things have moved so well, Wet weather is not exactly a pleasure when you are sleeping under pup tents. Our offices are in a chateau now. We are in a historic countryside. Not far from a very famous place which figures in the title of a play about the last war connected with miracles. We have lived in woods and on plains, and in orchards and on hillsides. We have seen the flares of artillery fires on the horizon (I did tonight), and we're not always sure that the planes we hear at night are our own, but I guess they usually are. We've seen many cemeteries of the last war, and many jagged, bumpy fields -- the battlefields of the last war grown over.... We've been having too much wet, muddy weather lately. But on the whole we're very lucky indeed and have little of any serious value to complain of. Obviously I don't enjoy doing K P (as I have to do once in a while) and standing guard is no picnic nowadays, but the discomfort is not particularly great. And the advantages of being able to visit with the French people in our free time make up for many discomforts, as far as I am concerned.... In the last weeks it has been difficult to write any letters at all. And I haven't. But I must start up my energies again and get some of the many letters answered....."
STUDENT DECISIONS:
At the meeting of the students on October 9, it was decided that:
a). workers should not change jobs on the Community Work Pro
gram at will, but that there should be a set time for job changing. The date was set at five weeks from the day of the meeting.
b). sub-coordinators will keep time records of their crews and those records will be assembled, for insurance records, by one person.
c).jobs on the Work Program that require a full afternoon should begin at 1:30 o'clock and end at 5:30 o'clock.
At the meeting of the Students on October ll, it was decided that:
a).outsiders should not be allowed in the Studies Building except on personal invitation. This excludes conducted tours.
b).the student officers elected in the Summer Session with continue in office until the next regular election.
COMMITTEES FOR 1944-45
The following committees have been selected by the Faculty and the Student Officers for the 1944-45 session:
I. Admissions Committee: Objectives: a). To try to got a real cross section of intelligent
Americans for the student group. b). To select from the applicants:
1). Students who will use the freedom of Black
Mountain College for work, not for license, 2). Students who have some talent or drop interest that can be a contributing force in the College.
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Membership:
Herbert Miller, Chairman Sam Brown Bobbie Dreier Molly Gregory Ati Gropius Heinrich Jalowetz Holon Wright Marden Jane Slater
II,
Concert Committee: Objectives:
To plan Saturday evening concerts
Membership:
Heinrich Jalowetz, Chairman Edward Lowinsky Anna Schaufflor Trudi Straus
III. Discipline Committee:
Membership:
Ted Dreier Molly Gregory Heinrich Jalowetz Robert Wunsch Student Officers
IV. Fire Prevention Committee: Objectives:
a). To organize a Fire Crew immediately, b). To check the fire-fighting equipment and to keep
it checked, To remove all fire hazards, To check periodically everything that may become a fire hazard:
1). amateur electrical wiring 2). dry grass and leaves 3). storage places
e). To disseminate among the people in the Community
information about fire dangers and necessary pre
cautions, f). To plan and conduct fire drills.
Membership:
Mac Wood George Zabriskie
Co-Chairmen Eghert Swackhamer Fritz Hansgirg, Consultant
V. Entertainment Committee: Objectives: a). To keep the Community socially alive and on good
speaking terms, b). To insure a Thanksgiving and a Valentino Party ofmemorably high quality.
Membership:
Bobbie Dreier, Chairman Roxane Dinkowitz Ati Gropius Annette Stone Egbert Swackhamer Edwin Woldin
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VI.
Library Committee: Objectives: 2). To study the needs for books in each department in
the College and try to meet these needs within the limited budget allotted to the Library.
b). To sponsor campaigns for library books.
Membership:
Edward Lowinsky, Chairman Curtiss Cowan Alfred Kazin Noll Rico
VII. Rooming Committee:
Objectives:
a). To plan for student housing, b) To make necessary reajustments in rooming arrangements. c). To make recommendations to the Board of Fellows about Faculty Housing.
Membership;
Annette Stone, Chairman Marilyn Bauer Jane Stone Mac Wood (ex officio)
VIII. Speakers Committee:
Objectives:
a). To make a long-term plan for a program of speakers. b). To have this program include speakers representing
the various departments of the College. c). To furnish particularly speakers for those departments in which there is little or practically no teaching being done this session. d), To arrange for off-campus addresses by members of the College staff.
Membership:
Edward Lowinsky, Chairman Alfred Kazin Betty Osbourne
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Senior Division Committee: Objectives:
a). To plan the time of examinations. b). To get questions from the various departments.
To make selections from these questions for the examinations. d). To make all plans for the reading of the examinations.
Membership:
Anni Albers, Chairman Marilyn Bauer Fritz Hansgirg Heinrich Jalowetz Edward Lowinsky George Zabriskie
X,Student Fee Committee: Objectives: a). To study the applications from students for reduced fees. b). To decide upon the tuition charges of each student. c). To administer the Derek Bovingdon Fund.
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X. Student Fee Committee (cont'd):
Membership:
Tod Dreier, Chairman Mac Wood
Note:
From time to time each committee will make a report to the Faculty and Student Officers.
Special Assignments:
1. Herbert Miller and Bill McLaughlin were authorized to plan and conduct a weekly Tuesday evening news summary.
2. Robert Wunsch and Dick Albany were authorized to plan, write, and disseminate College news.
3. Betty Osbourne was appointed to take charge of the College Date Book.
4. Annette Stone was appointed to take care of Guest Rooming and to have charge of the Guest Book.
Agreements:
l. There will be no further charges for transportation to and from Asheville and to and from Black Mountain except in the case of "special trips".
2. No pets will be allowed in the Lodges or the studies Building
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Mon tues wed thurs fri sat
8:30 Ensemble Calculus German Calculus Black House Des German Calculus Blake Ensemble Calculus
9:00 Ensemble Calculus German Calculus Elem Music Black House Design German Calculus Elem Mus Black Ensemble Calculus
9:30 Ensemble Calculus German Calculus Elem Music Black House Design German Calculus Elem Mus Black Ensemble Calculus
10:00 Ensemble Elem Music Blake House Des Elem Music Blake Ensemble
10:30 Ensemble Roman Drama Elem Mus Drawing House Des Drama 1 Painting Drama 1 German
11:00 Roman Drama Drawing Drama 1 Painting Drawing Rom Drama Drama 1 Painting Drama 1 German
11:30 Mat & Ener Rom Drama Tax Design Con Prob French 1 Drawing Mat & Ener Drawing Rom Drama Mat & En French 1 Drama 1 Painting Mat & En Drama 1 German Rom Drama Contemp Problems
12:00 Con Prob Tex Design Matter & Energy Drawing Matter & Energy Drawing Matter & Energy Matter & Energy Drama 1 German Rom Drama Con Prob
12:30 Con Prob Tex Design Mat & Ener Drawing Matter & Energy Painting Matter & Energy Drawing Matter & Energy Matter & Energy
4:00 Mat & Ener Lab Faculty meeting Contemp Problems Mat & En Lab
4:30 Mat & Ener Lab Elem Verse Melville Contemp Poetry Faculty meeting Contemp Problem Mat & En Lab Elem Verse
5:00 Mat & Ener Lab Elem Verse Ryth & Mel Melville Contemp Poetry Faculty meeting Rhythm & Melody M &E Lab Elementary Verse
5:30 M & E Lab Elem Verse Ryth & Mel Melville Contemp Poetry Faculty meeting Rhythm & Melody M & E Lab Elementary Verse
6:00 M & E Lab Elem Verse Ryth & Mel Melville Contemp Poetry Rhythm & Melody M & E Lab Elementary Verse
7:30 Chorus Pay & Aest (to 9) Lecture Melville (to 9)
9:30 Chorus Lecture
