Two copies. 7p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Staple in top left corner, 7 horizontal folds. Announces that the qinter quarter will begin on Friday morning Jan12 830 am. Post a temporary schedule that is valid until Han 16; the permanent schedule for the quarter will be posted on Tuesday afternoon. announces the appointment of Max Dehn as visiting professor of Mathematics for the remainder of the 44-45 session, and the appointment of David Corkran as visiting instructor of History for the winter and spring quarters of the 44-45 session. New students: Vera Baker (advisor: Molly Gregory) Irma Ehrman (Heinrich Jalowetz) Chizuru Nakaji (Herbert Miller) Mary Phelan (Trudi Straus) Thomas Raleigh (Herbert Miller). Visitors at the college during the holidays were Henry Adams, Jack Maeder, Erwin Straus
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 13
College Year 12 Thursday, January 11, 1945
CALENDAR:
Winter Quarter classes will begin on Friday morning, January 12, at 8:30 AM. The schedule, as posted, is a temporary schedule and will be followed only through Tuesday, January 16.
Each student, after a conference with his adviser, will register with Gerda Hagendorn or Janet Rees on Tuesday afternoon between 3:00 to 5:00.
The permanent schedule for the Winter Quarter will be drawn up on Tuesday evening and posted on the bulletin board in the Dining Hall and on the bulletin board in the Studies Building on Wednesday morning before breakfast. It will go into effect at 8:30 AM on Wednesday.
TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE:
Note: Each class will run for fifty minutes; ten minutes are allowed for class change
Friday, January 12:
AM
8:30 Woodworking Gregory Shop
9:30 Introductory German (continued) Straus LR
10:30 Matter and Energy (continued) Hansgirg Lab
11:30 Advanced Weaving A Albers Weav Rm
PM
3:00 Psychology and Aesthetics I Zabriskie LR
4:00 The Bible Lowinsky FR
5:00 Psychology and Aesthetics II Zabriskie LR
7:30 English Grammar and Composition Placement Test for all students named on the notice posted on the Dining Hall Bulletin Board. Examination questions will be handed out in the Faculty Room.
Saturday, January 13:
AM
9:30 Rhythm and Melody Lowinsky RH
9:30 Ensemble Lowinsky RH
10:30 Contemporary Problems (continued) Miller FR
11:30 Elements of Verse Writing: Beginning and Advanced (continued) Zabriskie LR
Monday, January 15:
AM
9:30 Culture of the Renaissance (continued) Lowinsky LR
9:30 Introductory Writing and Composition Wunsch WS
10:30 Nationalism and World Minorities Miller FR
11:30 Dramatic Production (a meeting of all students wanting to participate in the Winter Quarter production as actors, designers, or technicians). Wunsch WS
PM
3:00 Poetry: The Development of Reading Technique Zabriskie LR
4:00 Introductory Mathematics Dehn LR
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Monday, January 15 (continued)
PM
5:00 Mathematics Placement Test for all students named on the notice posted on the DIning Hall Bulletin Board. Examination questions will be handed out in the Faculty Room
7:00 Introductory Weaving A Albers Weav Rm
8:00 Dialogues of Plato Dehn LR
9:00 Ensemble Jalowetz RH
Tuesday, January 16:
AM
8:30 American History Corkran FR
9:30 American Literature Since the Civil War Corkran FR
10:30 Counterpoint Jalowetz RH
11:30 Viennese School in Music Jalowetz RH
Key: FR- Faculty Room; Lab- Physics Lab; LR- Language Room; WS- Wunsch’s Study, RH- Round House
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Students interested in attending the tutorial on French Drama and Moliere should make arrangements with Bob Wunsch.
Students wishing to take piano lessons should make arrangements with Heinrich Jalowetz or Edward Lowinsky during the week end. Students wishing to take violin lessons should speak with Trudi Straus during the week end.
Students should notice that there are two classes in Ensemble, one with Heinrich Jalowetz and one with Edward Lowinsky. A student should select only one.
Josef Albers will not return to the campus until Wednesday or Thursday. Students wishing to visit his classes will wait until the meetings of these classes on Thursday and Friday. In the meantime, his regular art students will do work to show him upon his return.
ADVISERS:
(of new students):
Vera Baker, Irma Ehrman, Chizuru Nakaji, Mary Phelan, Thomas Raleigh, Molly Gregory, Heinrich Jalowetz, Herbert Miller, Trudi Straus, Herbert Miller
CONCERNING ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Announcements are posted on the bulletin board in the Dining Hall and on the bulletin board in the Studies Building. These boards should be consulted every day. The announcements should be typed or carefully lettered in ink. Vocal announcements in the Dining Hall should be restricted to those announcements that concern either the whole community or a large part of the community. They should be made ten minutes after the beginning of the meal hour.
FURNITURE:
Each student is entitled to a chair and a writing surface, furnished by the College, for his study. Other study furniture and furnishings may be rented from the College. The supply is limited.
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GUESTS:
All arrangements about guests should be made in advance with the Business Office, since space is limited. Rates are available in the Business Office. Guests of students, including relatives, should not plan to stay at Lake Eden longer than a week.
LAUNDRY:
Mrs Annette Stone is in charge of the bed linen and towels. She has posted a notice on the Bulletin Board regarding the time for getting a fresh supply of linen and towels and putting the soiled linen and towels in the Laundry Room under South Lodge porch.
Linen will be laundered at the expense of the College to the extent of one sheet, one pillow case, one towel per student each week. Anything in excess of this may be arranged for individually in Black Mountain, where dry cleaning also may be done.
The Ironing Room is Room 5 in South Lodge. The washing machine is under South Lodge.
LIBRARY:
Mrs Nell Rice is in charge of the College library. The library will remain open at all times. Borrowed books should be returned to the library immediately after they have served their use.
LOST AND FOUND:
Typed notices describing articles lost or found should be put on the Bulletin Board. Found articles should be deposited in the box prepared for that purpose under North Lodge porch.
MAIL:
Outgoing mail should be put into the mail box on the Dining Hall front porch or in the Studies Building front hall. It will be collected daily, except Sunday, at 10:30 AM. Incoming mail arrives between 11:00 and 11:30 o’clock each morning except Sunday and is distributed in the mail boxes on the Dining Hall front porch.
MEALS:
Parties: Large parties should be planned for week ends so as not to interfere with the studying of students and teachers.
Hours: Breakfast: 7:30 to 8:00 Lunch: 12:30 Dinner: 6:15
Sunday Breakfast 8:30 to 9:00 Dinner 1:00 Cold Supper
It is requested that everyone be punctual at meals.
OFFICE HOURS:
Office hours for paying bills and conducting other business are 1:30 to 2:00 daily except Saturdays and Sundays.
RATION BOOKS:
Ration books should be deposited at once in the College Business Office.
ROOMING:
Marilyn Bauer is in charge of the rooming arrangements in the Studies Building.
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Mrs Annette Stone is in charge of the rooming arrangements in the two lodges.
Anni Albers and Bobbie Dreier make recommendations to the Board of Fellows about Faculty housing.
Mrs Annette Stone has charge of the rooming arrangements for guests.
LODGE ASSIGNMENTS:
North Lodge
Vera Baker Room 5 Patsy Lynch Room 6
Marilyn Bauer Room 7 Alice McCanna Room 3
Peggy Bennett Room 8 Chizuru Nakaji North Attic
Jagna Braunthal North Attic Betty Osbourne Room 8
Sue Burton Room 4 Lorna Pearson Room 6
Dorothy Carr South Attic Mary Phelan Room 7
Judith Chernoff North Attic Janet Ramsey South Attic
Jeanne Cormany Room 5 Janet Rees Room 1
Joan Couch Room 1 Anna Schauffler Room 2
Roxane Dinkowitz North Attic Sue Schauffler South Attic
Irma Ehrman Office Bldg Betty Schmitt Room 3
Janet Goldsmith North Attic Jane Slater Room 8
Ati Gropius Room 2 Eleanor Smith South Attic
Janet Heling North Attic Nancy Smith South Attic
Joan Keiser South Attic Lucy Swift South Attic
Betty Kelley Room 1 Suzanne Teasdale Room 4
South Lodge
Richard Albany Middle Attic Anthony Harrigan South Attic
Sam Brown Middle Attic William McLaughlin Room 1
Richard Bush-Brown South Attic Layton Noel South Attic
Curtiss Cowan Room 1 Max Paul Middle Attic
Marvin Daniels South Attic Thomas Raleigh South Attic
Charles Forberg South Attic Edwin Woldin Middle Attic
APPOINTMENTS:
The Board of Fellows announces the appointment to the Faculty of:
Dr Max Dehn, as Visiting Professor of Mathematics for the remainder of the 1944-45 Session;
David Corkran, as Visiting Instructor of History for the Winter and Spring Quarters of the 1944-45 Session.
NEWS ITEMS:
The December issue of the magazine Design contains an article by Anni Albers.
The New Art Circle, 41 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York City, is exhibiting paintings, woodcuts, and lithographs by Josef Albers.
Josef Albers will address the Art Section of the Association of Private Schools at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City today. Tomorrow he will talk on modern art at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. On Tuesday he spoke to the students at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Mr and Mrs Fay Sargent Emery, of Piermont, New Hampshire, announce the engagement of their daughter, Erma, to Kenneth Kurtz.
Maria Hansgirg returned to Lake Eden on Tuesday, January 9, after spending two weeks in the Biltmore Hospital in Asheville.
Helen Wright Marden, appointed to the staff of office secretaries, has taken over the work formerly done by Henrietta Barth.
Ted Dreier left Lake Eden on Christmas afternoon for the East on College business.
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Em and Mac Wood left, by car, on Wednesday afternoon for Delray Beach, Florida, where they will spend the rest of January and all of February and March. They will return to Lake Eden at the beginning of the Spring Quarter.
On Friday afternoon, Bob Wunsch will address the Guilford County Chapter of the American Association of University Women in Greensboro.
HOLIDAY TRIPS BY MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
Peggy Emery divided her two weeks of holidays between New Haven, Connecticut, and Piermont, New Hampshire.
Heinrich and Johanna Jalowetz spent the winter holidays in New York City.
Edward, Gretel, and Naomi Lowinsky spent the holidays at the Kentucky House in Delray Beach in Florida.
Janet Rees spent her vacation at her home in Arden, North Carolina, and at the nearby Bent Creek Experimental Forest.
Helen Wright Marden spent a few days of the vacation at her home in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Bob Wunsch spent a week with his mother in Monroe, Louisiana, during the first part of the Winter vacation. He returned to Lake Eden on December 28.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
RL Bliss SS Mechanicsville Pacific Tankers Inc ℅ Postmaster San Francisco, California
Lt William F Hanchett, Jr, 0-82462 Box 1165, CAAF Courtland, Alabama
Mid’n MR Haase, USNR 314 Boldt, Co A, 1st Batt. USNR Midshipman School Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Nan Oldenburg ℅ Apel 140 Marlborough Street Boston 16, Massachusetts
Mrs Joseph W Martin 2108 Thirty-eighth Street, SE Washington 20, DC
Carol Ostrow ℅ Renata Garve 184 Waverly Place New York, New York
Ruth O’Neill 136 East Forty-Seventh Street New York City
In the Mail:
Sergeant Francis Foster writes from India on December 28: “It may be some time before I can write again…I have a couple of things I want to say about soldiers and the fight: I hope our efforts ‘count for something’, as most of the men say. The way we really live is ‘hurting.’ I wish that those who are thoughtless of our difficulties and their responsibilities could be with us for a while- smell the rotting Japs and mules, see the maggots squirming in the first piles, live in a hole with your own excrement; seldom washing, changing clothes after a week, living in constant fear of death. We don’t count such things as nothing. We will have a change from the old way which meant war every few decades and insecurity in between…. I had seen bad things before. Then I was younger. I knew less and felt less. Between France and the time I entered the Army Life was sweet. I understand the full unhappiness of war- how far from the real purpose of life these times are. Help us to make this world a peaceful one. Soldiers are confused; they do not themselves know how it is to be done.
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Take care of what decency is left…..There have been pleasant things- when we were father back and their artillery was quiet, and the sun was warm, and the birds sang in the bushes, and the treetops moved slowly in the wind…..We live in the day, but hate the night, suspecting every firefly, and falling leaf and the wind. We fear the light of the moon.”
Lieutenant Bill Hanchett writes from Courtland, Alabama: “I left my job instructing at Bainbridge, Georgia, last September and have been taking training in a B-24 ever since. At first, I missed the maneuverability of a small plane, but am gradually getting more assurance in a Liberator and like it better all the time. It's quite a thrill to be up there in control of some 5,000 horses!.... Bob Babcock is now in Cairo, doing something with reverse Lend Lease. He writes long and fascinating letters of the things he sees and does; and AA copies them and sends them to me and Bob’s brother.”
Private Ike Nakata writes from Continental Europe on December 15: “Day in and day out it’s wintry, wet, dripping, and cold. Thank goodness, I’m out of that. I now live under a roof in relative comfort, with regular modern bath tubs and with beds and toilet bowls in the same building. I have been reclassified and assigned to a new outfit. We live near a neat little city and abide by civilized conventions. On passes, I must wear a blouse, a tie, pressed woolens and polished shoes with cuffs outside. The hardbought security of the front is only a legend here.”
Nan Oldenburg writes from Boston: “Every day for three hours I am a waitress in a little restaurant in Cambridge, serving lunch to my professors, fellow students, and business people. It’s a terrific rush, for the place is small, and there’s very little room for moving about. Every now and then another waitress or a bus girl pours water over my sleeve or coffee in my shoe….I have seen Mimi French a few times, and, of course, we talked about the ‘good old days”....I saw Rudy Haase in New York in the fall. He certainly fits well into a sailor’s uniform!....Claude has been in Texas for several months but is now probably on the move toward a port of embarkation…”
Sergeant George Randall writes from Oaku, Hawaii, on December 31: “Since we have been here, we have carried on our training; it has been much the same as it was in the States. Of course, no one knows just how long we’ll stay here but it should be for a few more weeks anyway….One night recently I took my whole group to see Major Maurice Evans in an Army production of ‘Hamlet’. It was a really fine show. Evans had done an outstanding job of editing the play, and it seemed to me to be superior in every respect to the full-length job he did in New York. He had women from the University of Hawaii to play the Queen and Ophelia, and both were good….Christmas here was a beautiful day with the sun bright, clear and warm. We all went for a swim. Hibiscus and plumbago, instead of snow and holly, were the decor, but that didn’t seem to alter the spirit. It was a fine day…”
NOTES:
News has just been received that Francisco (Paco) Leon died on January 7 after a long illness.
Barbara Pollet was married in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on Friday, December 29, to Army Captain Adam Moncure.
VISITORS:
Among the visitors here during the holidays were:
Henry Adams, who spent at Lake Eden two days of his furlough from Camp San Luis Obispo in California.
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VISITORS: (Continued)
Jack Maeder, teacher of mathematics, history, and science at Windsor Mountain School in Lenox, Massachusetts, and connected at one time with the Industrial Cooperative movement in China.
Erwin Straus, who spent his ten days’ vacation from the Medical School of Johns Hopkins University at Lake Eden.
