4P, onesided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. 4 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner. With the Faculty's permission, Betty Kelley began a new class in Eukinetics last weeek Fritz Hansgirg held Open House on Sat evening in the Stone Cottage. Visitors last week: Privates Peter Cornell, Russel Casey, Corporal Marshal Gorham.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN College Year 12 Monday, November 13, 1944 Bulletin 3
CALENDAR: The Board of Follows will meet on tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 o'clock in Bob Wunsch's Study. Tomorrow evening at 6:55 o'clock in the Lobby of North Lodge, Bill McLaughlin and Herbert Miller will review the world news of last week. Dr. Miller will discuss the present situation in Poland.
The Community Chorus will meet for rehearsal at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Dining Hall. ."
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet in the Faculty Room on Wednesday afternoon, November 15, at 4:45 o'clock.
On Wednesday evening at 8:15 o'clock Herbert Miller will address the College on "China: Its Present and its Future".
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mrs. Elizabeth Boyden left on Tuesday of last week for Washington for special treatment by an oculist. She hopes to be able to return to Lake Eden at the beginning of the Winter Quarter.
Tod Dreier will leave on Thursday afternoon for New York and New England on a business trip for the College.
In connection with the course on Contemporary Problems, the approach of the organizations of the Jews, the Roman Catholics, and the Protestants to specific problems will be discussed respectively by Rabbi Robert P. Jacobs of Asheville, Father Michael Carey of Swannanoa, and Reverend Grady Hardin of Black Mountain. Rabbi Jacobs will address the class on Thursday, November 16 at 4:00 P.M. Father Carey will talk on Monday, November 20 at 11:30 A.M. Reverend Hardin ill speak on Monday, November 27 at 11:30 A.M. The class in Contemporary Problems will be open to everyone in the College.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
new addresses -
Connie Spencer 334 East 53rd Street New York 22, New York
in the mail - -
Judy Mandolbaum writes from New York City: "At present I'm going to a secretarial school and working in an office. I think that this training always be helpful in any field."
Private Bob Harden writes from France on October 28: "Just now we are all very busy organizing the essentials of life -- heat, light, water, and food supply. Coal is very scarce, so it is fortunate I got training as an axman at Lake Eden; now to find a forest. The situation here is something like it was at Lake Eden when I first arrived there, reconstruction everywhere, inconveniences many, but, all in all, exhilarating. The French are fine: extremely energetic at rebuilding, very friend-ly and obliging, and quick to understand our assaults on their language. American cigarettes are very valuable and help much in repaying little kindnesses. Black Market price reportedly twelve dollars a carton. Most of the boys enjoy France very much. It is certainly an improvement over the rather part of England I personally was in. The quickness of the French is more like home. Much more; color than England Politics aren't very apparent to us, but reputedly very leftist. There is too
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much to be done just now. Opinion in the army generally concedes F.D.R.'s victory and reaction to Dewey and therefore to election somewhat apathetic. Jubilation here over Pacific victory and possibly we won't be needed there. We see few papers here...." Connie Spencer writes from New York City: "I am back in New York, at the old address, and love it. I have a job with the Columbia Broadcasting System, doing drafting and water color wash work. It's nice work, with nice people and with good people to be with. Twice a week I go to secretarial school..."
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
new addresses:
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Voigt 412 D Street, N. E. Washington 7, D. C.
in the mail:
Mrs. Rebecca Mangold writes from Pasadena, California: "I have given time, when they have needed It at Hospitality House. This is a place for service men. They have a recreation room, serve food all day, have a cottage where the men can have a shower, a shave, and a good rest. We see all sorts of G. I. Joes as well as some officers. They all seem to like and appreciate the
VISITORS:
Theodore Rondthaler, a recent visitor, an educator, writes in part: "The way in which you live and think at Black Mountain makes an impression that cannot be shaken off.... The unique student-teacher relationship is an amazingly efficient thing in education. I have sat in on plenty of seminars at graduate level; but it never occurred to me that the thing could function on an undergraduate level, equally well or better.. From the table talk of students, also, came the inescapable impression that these young people are definitely experiencing an intellectual growth that rarely goes with the so-called college education."
Among the visitors at Lake Eden last week were: Privates Peter Cornell and Russel Casey, from Camp Croft, South Carolina; and Corporal Marshal Gorham from the Greenville Army Air Base in Greenville, South Carolina.
COLLEGE NEWS AND VIEWS: edited by Bill McLaughlin The national elections were the chief topic of conversation during the early part of the week. On Monday evening Alfred Kazin and Herbert Miller conducted a discussion on election issues, and on the following day the eligible voters at the College drove down to Black Mountain to cast their ballots. Several students and teachers sat up way into the small hours to listen to election returns; so Wednesday saw a number of sleepy gray from straggling to breakfast. Dr. Miller and Bill McLaughlin, in their weekly news commentary on Tuesday evening, will report on the final election results.
The first fire drill of the session galvanized the community into action on Friday. Within a few minutes after the alarm had sounded, the hose crews were spraying streams of water over the fiercely burning imaginary fire. Chief George Zabriskie had previously issued strong hints to the student - faculty Fire Department. that a "surprise" drill might take place that day; so the shriek of the siren had caught no one unprepared. The
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Chemical Crow had prepared a harness for the large extinguisher; and as soon as the signal had boon given, the team of students galloped up the hill with their equipment to the scene of the hypothetical blaze. Chief Technician Hansgirg lent valuable vocal assistance; later he expressed gratification over the efficiency of his crew.... Another drill is expected within a few days.
Several scenes from "The Braggart Warrior", the Roman play being prepared by the College Drama Department for December 9, were given at the November mooting of the Western North Carolina Drama Association in Asheville on Saturday morning. Ati Gropius exhibited the: sot, designed for the play by Curtiss Cowan, and her own costume plates. She explained that her plans include the painting of the undraped parts of the bodies of all the members of the cast. This coloring of the skin is an innovation in Black Mountain College histrionics and probably in college dramatics in the country. Betty Kelley's second children's play, "An Almost Lonely Christ-mas", went through night rehearsals during the week. Costume plates, designed for the fantasy by Jane Slater, were exhibited in Bob Wunsch's study and critically discussed by Josef Albers and the members of the cast. Music was composed for the play by the students in Edward Lowinsky's Rhythm and Melody class.
With the permission of the Faculty, Betty Kelley began a class in Eukinctics last week. This class will meet on Monday and Thursday evenings each week at 9:30 o'clock during the rest of the term.
The Fritz Hansgirgs held Open House on Saturday evening in the Stone Cottage. As soon as the guests had crowded their way into the living room and work room and had begun to overflow from the chairs onto the floor, Edward Lowinsky played, on the Hansgirg’s electric organ, selections from Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavichord". Then a string trio, composed of Trudi Straus, Grotel Lowinsky, and Anna Schaufflcr, played Beethoven’s "Serenade" (All of the music was assisted occasionally by the unsolicited accompaniment of the chimes of the tall clock in the living room corner). The open house was closed well after eleven o'clock when the guests departed in the pleasant haze generated by just enough music, food, and champagne.
FROM THE BULLETIN BOARD: Under the present organization of the Work Program all non-routine jobs will be scheduled, if possible, by Molly Gregory in consultation with the Business Office and the Student work Coordinator.
People to sec about jobs: See Molly about everything unless included on the following list,
Furnace: a). If it is too hot or too cold in buildings fired by students, see Chuck Forberg; b). when wood or coal supply is low, 'sec Egbert Swackhamer (at least three days ahead); c). if furnace is out of order, sec Bas Allen.
Light Bulbs or Fuses Burned Out: a). New bulbs and fuses may be obtained from Annette Stone in South Lodge or from Bas Allen or Mac Wood. b). If burned out bulb is out of reach, see Chuck Forberg.
Trash Hauling: See Egbert Swackhamer
Storage: Sec Mac Wood
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Laundry and Linen: See Mrs. Stone
Off ice Jobs: Sec Betty Osbourne
Repairs of Plumbing or Electrical Fixtures (not alterations) Soo Bas Allen
External Transportation and Hauling (outside College Grounds): Soo Mac Wood
COLLEGE NEEDS: A 16 rim sound motion picture projector:
a). in order to sinew rented films to supplement the work in all the college departments. b). in order to bring to the campus some of the masterpieces of the film.
