Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 12 Bulletin 16 Monday, Feb 5, 1945

3p, one sided pages, mimeograph on matte off white paper. The Board of Fllow announces the appointement of Siegfried Schwartz as Instructor of Economics. Edward Stainbrook, a staff member of Psychology at Duke was invited to give a week-long seminar on psychology during the winter quarter Jane Slater will take her trial oral exam for graduation in art this afternoon Betty Kelley will take her trial oral exam for graduation in dramatics on Tuesday afternoon. Visitors last week: Claude Bowman and 7 sophomores from Temple University Mr and Mrs Milton Rose Else Toller.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 16
College Year 12 Monday, February 5, 1945
CALENDAR:
The Faculty will meet this afternoon at 1:15 in Bob Wunsch’s study.
Bill McLaughlin and Dick Bush-Brown will summarize the news of the world of the past week and Herbert Miller will comment on the news at the thirty-minute meeting in the Lobby this evening at 7:00 o’clock.
The Board of Fellows will meet on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in Bob Wunsch’s study.
The Community Chorus will meet at 7:30 o’clock on Tuesday evening in the Dining Hall.
The Faculty will meet in the Faculty Room in the Studies Building on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
Max Dehn will continue his address to the College Community on “Mathematics and Architecture” on Wednesday evening at 8:15 o’clock in the College Dining Hall.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Board of Fellows announces the appointment to the Faculty of Sigfried Schwartz as Instructor of Economics. Mr Schwartz and his wife will arrive at Lake Eden at the end of this week.
Edward J Stainbrook, formerly a staff member of the Psychology Department at Duke University, has been invited by the Board of Fellows to give a week’s seminar on psychology at the College during the Winter Quarter.
Jane Slater will take her trial oral examinations for graduation in dramatics tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in Bob Wunsch’s study.
NEWS ITEMS:
Students from Chicago and from the New England states invariably bring along their ice skates when they come to Black Mountain College, but they rarely get the chance to use them. Last week they had a break, however; Lake Eden froze to a safe thickness. For two days skating was the chief College diversion. Even southern students, timorous at first, ventured out upon the ice and learned the hard way to make progress on skates.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Mrs Adam Moncure (Barbara Pollet)
1923 South End Avenue
Forth Smith, Arkansaa
First Lt Morris Simon, 0-1534860
Sta Hosp
Camp Buckner, North Carolina
Leslie Paul
East Harwich, Massachusetts
A/S EW Swackhamer, 7153030
Bks F-9, Co 417
USNTC
Sampson, New York

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New Addresses – continued:
Lt Norman Weston
Navy Material Redistribution & Disposal Administration
342 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
In the Mail:
Lieutenant George Hendrickson writes from China on January 19: “I am now in China, having been transferred from the India-Burma Theater....I wish I could stay in one place long enough to unpack and smoke a cigarette. I've been moved at least every three months since hitting Asia. I just get to know one office when off I must go to another one. I’m not in the mood to write my complete impressions of China at this time. I am in a city that is 2,200 years old and is one of the most normal, untouched cities in unoccupied China. It is surprisingly clean and the people are well fed...I have been to several tea parties to meet the local press...and have had to make a small speech at each one. I will probably learn to become a decent after-tea speaker... I had a field day in the shops until my money ran out. Now I own quite a few paintings of various and sometimes dubious merit. I hope to increase my modest collection of statuettes, but they are rather expensive, to say the least. I get confused about money here, as the exchange rate on the US Dollar is 480 to one and we talk in terms of thousands all the time...”
Aurora Casotta Piscitello writes from New York City: “I’m now the secretary and assistant to the supervisor of the Drafting Department in the Philharmonic Radio Corporation. Now this corporation produces, among other things, airplane parts; but before the war they produced a super radio- so I’m told...My qualifications for secretarial work were absolutely nil, but I’ve learned a lot since I started to work...I’ve been receiving mail from Bruno quite regularly, practically every day, in fact. He writes that he’s very busy, working sometimes one day after another with just a few hours of sleep. He writes about India what everybody writes who’s there for the first time- the prevalence of poverty, disease and death.”
News Notes:
Leslie Paul played the role of Kate Julian in the January production of Henry James’ “Owen Wingrave”, by the Harvard Dramatic Club and Cole wrote, after seeing one of the productions: “Leslie did a fine job, as usual...She is again president of the club and for the third time had the loading girl’s part with the Harvard Club- an annual joint production. The work is all extra-curricular....Leslie will get her degree in March, and hopes to go into professional acting with directing her objective.”
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
In the Mail:
Sergeant John Evarts writes from somewhere in Continental Europe on January 10: “I’ve come to be quite fond of this city- a small one- with its towers and bridges and beautiful views: valleys that lead up to the entrance of the city. There are lots of old walls and parapits and many very old buildings, as well as a number of very modern ones...I was free this afternoon and walked in the snow over to the hospital to see Roger Pierre, my friend who broke his leg so badly last October....The fellow has certainly had more than his share of bad luck; but at least he avoided being forced into service by the Germans when they were here....Yesterday Leon Abraham and I went to a small suburb of the city, which suffered badly from US bombs last spring, to see my friends the Felgen-Bonoits (Jamper he is

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Called- a combination of the names Jean and Peter). He and his wife run a bakery shop, and he has four apprentices working for him. His wife is a sister of my friends, the Backes. We had a very pleasant visit, which included a bottle of delicious Mosel wine and a ‘coffee’ which was like a high tea. (They have no real coffee these days.) Because Leon knows no German to speak of (or with) we spoke in French most of the time....I recently had a long letter from Bedford Thurman from New Guinea.”
VISITORS:
among the visitors last week, in addition to the group from Temple University, were:
Mr and Mrs Milton Rose, who arrived on Monday from Winston-Salem and left on Wednesday morning for Tryon. Mr Rose is the lawyer for the Whitney Foundation.
Dr Else Toller, who spent Saturday evening at the College.