Two copies. 3 p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Announces that Heinrich and Johanna Jalowetz are now US citizens mentions that 200 copies of the Black Mountain College Bulletin were mimeographed each week. 30 copies were distributed among students and faculty and the others mailed to BMC friends. Suggestions on reducing the cost of makingbulletins were proposed. Visitors last week: father Michael Carey; Mrs O.P. Koiser
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 12 Monday, November 27, 1944 Bulletin 10
CALENDAR: Tuesday, 3:30 o'clock: Board of Fellows will meet in Bob Wunsch's Study,
Tuesday, 6:55 o'clock.
Bill McLaughlin and Herbert Miller will review the world news of last week in the Lobby of South Lodge. Tuesday, '7:30 o'clock.
Community Chorus will meet for rehearsal in the Dining Hall.
Wednesday 4:45 o'clock: Faculty and Student Officers will meet in the Faculty Room.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Heinrich and Johanna Jalowetz are now American citizens. They were sworn in at exercises in the United States District Court in Asheville on Wednesday morning. Members of the cast of the Children's Play will give a fifteen-minutes broadcast from Station W I S E in Asheville on Wednesday morning at 11:30 o'clock. A recording of the program will be broadcast on Friday morning, December 1,
On Wednesday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock members of the cast will broadcast from Station W W N C. Both programs' Will include scenes and music from the fantasy.
The dress rehearsal of the Children's Play will be given in The Dining Hall on Thursday evening at 9:30 o'clock. The first performance of the fantasy will be given at the Plaza Theatre on Saturday morning, December 2.
Ten original color lithographs, bearing the title "Carnival in Mexico" were exhibited on the panels in the College Dining Hall during the middle of November. These lithographs are the gift of Carlos Meridas, the artist, to the art students of Black Mountain College.
Edward J. Stainbrook„ formerly Assistant Professor of 7s7C-,.ology at Duke University, where he is now finishing work on his M.D., will address the Black Mountain College Community on Friday evening, December 8 at 7:30 o'clock in the Lobby of North Lodge on "Art, Psychopathology, and Culture" Mr. Stainbrook, formerly in the Department of Psychiatry on the Duke Hospital Staff has done research work in electro-shock therapy and experimental catatonia with Herman De Jong.
MID-WEEK LECTURE: Professor W. H. Cole will address the College Community on Wednesday evening, November 29 at 7:30 o'clock on the subject: "Are We Irreligious? If So, Why?" The meeting place will be the Lobby of South Lodge.
COLLEGE NEWS AND VIEWS: Christmas came by mail to Lake Eden on Monday. Nell Goldsmith was Santa Claus. The gifts were packages of cigarettes, each package tied with a blue ribbon and labelled for an old friend.
Father Michael Carey, the priest at the Swannanoa Catholic Church, was a campus visitor on Monday. He spoke to Dr. Miller's class in Contemporary Problems on the social ideals of the Catholic Church.
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Tile student delegates to the Design for Living Today Conference in C-roonsbere gave reports on the interracial meeting in the Lobby of South Lodge on Tuesday evening. Henrietta Barth described Bennett College and the welcome given to the delegates by the Negro students there. Eleanor Smith gave an account of the Conference organization. Jagna Braunthal gave a detailed summary of an address by Ira D. Reid, Negro author and Atlanta University prolessor. Janet Roes listed suggestions, made at the Conference, for better inter-racial relationships in the South.
On Tuesday evening the Community Chorus began a study of the choruses in Handel's oratorio, "Judas Maccabeus". Dr. and Mrs. Jalowotz were among the twenty foreign people who were sworn in as new citizens of the United States in the District Court in Asheville on wednesday morning. In Asheville they listened to a lecture on citizenship by Judge E. Yates Webb; at Lake Eden they listened to the students and teachers sins "The Sbars Spangled ;Banner" and America, the Beautiful" at dinner in their honor.
"The Stilwoll-Chiang break in China is not difficult to under-stand, though its explanation lies below the surface," said Dr. Herbert Miller in addressing the College Community on wednesday evening in the Lobby of South Lodge on "Contemporary China'. "China is very old, and its customs and attitudes must be taken into account,"
Dr Miller described Chiang Kai Shok and the influences that have nodded his 'ohinking and his lifc. "In spite of his modernism he has the traditions of a Chinese war lord while Stilwell has the traditions of an efficient American soldier.
uTn China it is more important to save face. than to be mill-terily expedient," Dr. Miller continued. "China has never had a centralized government in the western sense; local autonomy has taken care of most of the areas-of-life. Families and villages have, from time immemorial, had a communal form, but without marxian ideology. Although there has been a universal desire to fight Japanese aggression, the business of being a soldier is in the lowest repute. ‘Squeeze', which we call 'graft '!, has been an accepted privilege to those able to extract it.
"While the Kuomingtang Party which governs China is definitely leftist, its practice has been molded by internal and external conflict. Some eighty million people adopted Russian ideas to the age-old practices and for twenty years have been opposing the government. They were the first organized opponents of Japan. Chiang has fought them continuously since long before the beginning of the war. This stand against the Communists gave confidence in China to the Americans and the British. Those correspondents and military men who succeeded in getting into the Communist area have felt that they were, at least, a military asset and have begun to object td the diversion of ener-gy to fight communists when they might unite against the Japanese. To this is added. the lack of experience in unified action throughout the country except by war lord techniques, and clearly still will become impatient. His removal saved Chiang’s face, and there is evidence that now constructive changes are taking place." Alfred Kazin left Lake Eden on Thursday for Washington to got in order his papers necessary for his trip to England in January to begin his study of the education of soldiers in wartime for the Office of War Information.
Thanksgiving Day was celebrated at Black Mountain College as a holiday, climaxed by a turkey-cranberry sauce dinner and an evening of stunts. The Dining Hall was decorated for the celebration with pink-striped, whitened, winter trees and leaf studies made by the art students under the direction of Josef Albors. Sam Brown acted as toastmaster. The stunts were planned by the Entertainment Committee.
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The after-dinner program included the singing of popular songs by Betty Kelley, Sue Schuffler, and Nancy Smith: “A Little Bit of Old Russia”, a stunt by Egbert Swackhamer; “Three College Celebrities”, impersonations by Max Paul; “Three White Russians”, danced by Dick Albany, Curtis Cowan, and Egbert Swackhamer; a piano novelty by Edwin Woldin; “Marchon Bagdad”, a special piano number by Dick Bush-Brown; a tight-rope stunt by Max Paul; and an adagio dance by Jane Stone and Egbert Swackhamer.
VISITORS:
Among the visitors during the week was Mrs. O. P. Keiser, the mother of Jean, a first-year student.
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
In the mail:
Sergeant John Evarts writes on November 12 from somewhere in Europe, after having left Mangiennes, France, where he had been stationed a month: “I felt very much at home in our new environment now. It’s a beautiful city, and the people I’ve come to know are very likeable. I had supper with the Backos family tonight. He’s a police official approaching fifty years of age and quite interesting in his quiet way. Their fifteen-year old son, amusingly enough, had been to see ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ this afternoon at the movies…..”
NOTES FROM THE BUSINESS OFFICE:
Two hundred copies of the Black Mountain College Community Bulletin are mimeographed each week. Thirty copies are distributed here among the teachers and the Student Officers, and the remaining copies are mailed out to a selected list of Black Mountain College friends, of which you are one.
A recent analysis of the cost of the Bulletin showed it to be fifteen dollars a week or seven and one-half cents a copy, not including the time spent gathering and preparing material.
The work of Black Mountain College could be importantly enlarged by increased contributions as well as by additional students, teachers, and secretaries. Experience through the years with personal solicitation for funds on the part of the members of the faculty, with advertising in magazines and newspapers, and with publicity through radio and other conventional means has revealed that the effort that has produced the greatest value has been the person-to-person contacts of those currently associated with Black Mountain College and our close friends throughout the country.
Ted Dreier, the College Treasurer, is now in the East trying to raise funds; and the rest of us, students and teachers alike, are making plans now to help with the campaign during our Christmas vacation. It would be a great help to us here if you, as one of our most valuable outside contacts, would write us at length your considered suggestions for raising money at this time. We should appreciate, too, your suggesting ways in which we can make these Bulletins produce increased benefits for the College.
A number of suggestions has already come in. One is that the Bulletins be sent out on a subscriptions basis. One former student suggested that the Bulletin be sent out every other week instead of every week, to reduce cost. Another suggestion is that in each issue we list two or more specific needs of the College.
– Mac Wood
