Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 12 Bulletin 11 Monday, Dec 4, 1944

3p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Announces that the Christmas holiday will begin officially on Thursday, Dec 14 at 1230. the winter quarter will begin on Friday Jan12 at 830am. Lecture by Prof. W.M. Cole scheduled for Wednesday evening, Novemeber 29- "Are We Irreligious? If So, Why?"
Also notes that 200 copies of the BMC Bulletin are mimeographed each week. 30 copies distributed to facult and student offices and the rest are mailed out to friends and supporters of the college.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 11
College Year 12 Monday, December 4, 1944
CALENDAR:
This evening at 7:15 o’clock Professor William Morse Cole will begin a series of three informal lectures on economic subjects. He will talk about “Money”. Tomorrow evening, beginning at 7:00 o’clock, he will talk for an hour of “Wages”. On Wednesday afternoon, beginning at 4:45 o’clock, he will talk on “Corporations”. All meetings will be held in the Faculty Room.
The Board of Fellows will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 o’clock in Bob Wunsch’s Study.
The Community Chorus will meet for rehearsal tomorrow at 8:00 o’clock tomorrow evening in the Dining Hall.
Edward Lowinsky’s Class in Culture of the Renaissance will meet in the Language Room at 7:30 o’clock on Wednesday evening.
The Faculty and the Student Officers will meet on Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock in the Faculty Room.
Edward J. Steinbrook, formerly Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke University, will address the College Community on Friday evening, December 8, at 7:30 o’clock in the Lobby of North Lodge on “Art, Psycho-pathology and Culture”.
The drama students will present Plautus’ “The Braggart Warrior” on Saturday evening, December 9, at 8:30 o’clock on the Dining Hall Stage.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Robert Wunsch will meet with the faculty of Brevard College this evening at their monthly dinner get-together. He will talk with them about the educational ideals of Black Mountain College.
The Christmas holidays will begin officially on Thursday, December 14 at 12:30 o’clock. The Winter Quarter will begin on Friday, January 12 at 8:30 A.M.
Ted Dreier returned by train this morning after a two weeks business trip for the College in New York and New England. He spent Thanksgiving at the Putney School in Vermont with Ted, Jr.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New addresses:
Pfc. Duncan Dwight, 32274883 Box 139, Sqdn B MAAF Malden, Missouri
In the mail:
Born to Duncan and Barbara Dwight on Saturday afternoon, November 25, at 2:00 P.M. a son who has been named Anthony Walcott. Duncan writes from Arlington, Virginia: “He tipped the scales at 8 pounds 13 ounces….. My regular fifteen-day furlough happened to fall on November 22, which was perfect timing, as you can see.. I’ll have to leave on December 6 I’m afraid– but then I’ve been lucky.”
Lieutenant Bela Martin writes from St. Augustine, Florida: “My new flight is a very good group of students.. They are intelligent, ask good questions, can discover things for themselves, and fly well together…. WE have new training planes– FM 2s. They are fast, rugged and climb well. Had a forced landing in one the other day– carburetor trouble, but get down safely unto our field. Things were surely happening fast!”

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Bernard Malek writes: “On September 7 I left these parts for a trip to Alaska. It was Temporary Duty as Medical Aid man on board an Army Transport substituting for the permanent doctor who was away on furlough. What excitement– to begin with, anyway. After having been settled for eight months, such a trip seemed like a big step. Living on a ship, in a cubicle approximately 4 feet by 4 feet; treating two cases of lymphangitis (blood poisoning); and going through a storm at sea were exciting. But these things were as nothing compared to the monotony of the confinement which, after five weeks, drove me to sampling my various medicines…. Most of my energies are going into a Correspondence Course on Shakespeare.
Mary Rose Riegger (Akes) writes from New York City: “In a nutshell my life consists of: one husband, located with the air force in India, and a defense job which I’ve had for over two years. You should see me swing a sledge hammer!... Frances Goldman died on November 10.. Actually her death was caused by tuberculosis which she had had for some time..”
NEWS ITEMS FROM LAST WEEK:
One focus of attention during the week was the children’s play, “An Almost Lonely Christmas”. The upstairs apartment in the Studies Building was temporarily converted into a sewing room; here Betty Osbourne, assisted by Janet Rees and Alice McCanna, worked way into each night on costumes. Betty Kelley drilled the dancers in the Dining Hall each afternoon. Curtiss Cowan using the Dining Hall Porch as a workroom, painted the flats for the play on Wednesday and Thursday. There were full rehearsals in the Dining Hall each evening after all the classes for the day had been ended. There was a dress rehearsal on Thursday evening; to it came practically all the students and teachers to watch the attempts to get lines, music, dances, costumes and scenery together and to offer criticism. After this rehearsal there were many changes in costumes and scenery together and to offer criticism. After this rehearsal there were many changes in costumes and scenery; as a matter of fact, the final changes were made between dinner and midnight on Friday. The trip to Asheville, for the performance, was made in cars and trucks on Saturday morning, the coldest December morning Western North Carolina has had in many years. Radiators boiled all the way from Lake Eden to the lot behind the Plaza Theatre. Because of a frozen radiator two members of the cast arrived for make-up just five minutes before curtain time. The audience of children and mothers packed the Plaza Theatre.
“An Almost Lonely Christmas” will be presented at the Grammar School in Black Mountain on Wednesday morning, December 13.
On Tuesday evening, in the Lobby of South Lodge, the delegates to the November Design for Living Today Conference in Greensboro concluded their reports on the conference.
Professor William Morse Cole spoke informally to the College Community on Wednesday evening on the questions: “Are We Irreligious? If So, Why?” The meeting was held in the Lobby of South Lodge.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sunday, December 10, will be a school day. The following schedule will be observed:
Sunday morning (Friday morning classes)
9:00-11:00 Blake Ensemble
11:00-12:00 Drama I Painting
12:00-1:00 Matter and Energy Painting
Sunday afternoon (Thursday afternoon classes)
4:00-5:30 Contemporary Problems
5:00-6:15 Rhythm and Melody

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Sunday evening (Thursday evening class)
7:30-9:00 Melville
Trudi Straus will leave on Friday for Chapel Hill to participate in the Saturday concert of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra.
Robert Wunsch will act as chairman of the meeting of the Western Carolina Dramatic Association in the Lee H. Edwards HIgh School in Asheville on Wednesday afternoon.