Mimeograph on matte off white paper, 3p, one sided pages, 3 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner. Mentions that Betty Kelley and Jane Slater passed their trial exam for graduation last week mentions that mr and mrs Siegfried Schwartz should arrive today mentions that there were at the time 45 students enrolled. 24 are from the East, 10 from the Middle West, 9 from the South, and 2 from the far West.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
College Year 12 Bulletin 17
Community Bulletin Monday, February 12, 1945
CALENDAR:
The news summary session will begin at 6:45 o’clock this evening in the Lobby of South Lodge. Dick Bush- Brown will review the European news of the past week and Bill McLaughlin will summarize the news from the Americas. Herbert Miller will comment on the news of the world.
The Board of Fellows will meet on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in Bob Wunsch’s study.
The Faculty will meet in the Faculty Room in the Studies Building on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
There will be a Community Meeting in the Lobby of South Lodge on Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Moliere's “Tartuffe the Imposter” will be read aloud in Bob Wunsch’s Study on Wednesday evening after the Community Meeting.
The College Community will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a costume party and dance on Saturday evening, February 17. The motif for the party will be stripes: Everyone is expected to come to the party dressed in stripes. The person wearing “the most original costume” will be awarded a prize.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
No student will be allowed to take the examinations for entrance into the Senior Division unless he has passed the Placement Tests in English and Mathematics.
Betty Kelley and Jane Slater successfully completed their trial oral and written examinations for graduation last week.
Mrs David Corkran and her three children, David aged nine, John, aged eight, and Robert, aged one, arrived at Lake Eden on Thursday evening, February 8. The Corkrans are now at home in the first-floor apartment of Meadows Inn.
Mr and Mrs Siegfried Schwarz are scheduled to arrive today by car from New York City. They will live in the downstairs apartment in Black Dwarf, the apartment formerly occupied by the Bob Orrs. Mr Schwarz will teach economics and work in the College Business Office.
Herbert Miller will address the Woman’s Club of Black Mountain on Wednesday afternoon, February 14, on “Post-War Education.”
Josef Albers will be one of the speakers on the first panel at the Arts Forum to be held at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro on February 22-24.
Of the 45 students now enrolled at Black Mountain College, 24 are from the East, 10 are from the Middle West, nine are from the South, and two are from the Far West. Three are from Connecticut, four from Massachusetts, two from New Jersey, twelve from New York, and three from Pennsylvania; two from Illinois, one from Michigan, one from Minnesota, two from Ohio, and four from Wisconsin; one from Florida, one from Georgia, one from Kentucky, three from Missouri, one from North Carolina, one from South Carolina, and one from Texas; one from California and one from Utah.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
First Lieutenant Morris Simon, 0-1534860
Sta Hosp
Camp Burner (not Buckner as in last bulletin)
North Carolina
Lieutenant FM Stone
1st Det
3rd AF Personnel Depot
Plant Park
Tampa, Florida
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From Recent Letters:
Private Henry Adams writes from California: “Since I came back from my furlough, I’ve seen quite a lot of BMC alumni. Of course, I ran into Lucian and Oppy, then last week end I got a pass to San Francisco, where I saw June Smith and Dody Harrison. We had a good long talk about BMC, our friends, and ourselves. June is working for the Army Signal Corps Laboratory at Presidio, and Dody is a research worker for the OWI. June’s greatest ambition was to get into the WAC’s or WAVE’s, but she was disqualified because of underweight. She now hopes to get overseas with the Red Cross or some similar organization and help other people out.”
Larry Fox writes from somewhere in the Marianas on January 30: “The last three months have found me getting ready to ship, on the sea, in the hospital and now swimming in the mud. I’m back with my outfit that is now setting up and making the place generally livable. The rain and the mud are doing their best hamper us but we have made good progress....I never before realized how good it would be to be surrounded by carpenters, metal smiths and mechanics. They can really make a place more comfortable than can the general run of servicemen. We’ll soon be living pretty well, all things considered.”
Larry writes on February 3: “The mud and slime have hardened somewhat under the fierce heat that a central Pacific sun puts out, so the camp is no longer threatening to float away....I’m still on guard duty, working nights, which leaves me free during the day to write, read and do a little traveling. Yesterday I bummed a ride in a jeep and made an extensive tour of the island. The place shows lots of its scars picked up on D-day.”
Private Isaac Nakata writes from Continental Europe on January 23: “Time has been going pretty fast for me since I came to this outfit. Its just guard duty..I’ve regained my weight and have been able to read a lot. There's an army pamphlet, issued regularly, which orients us on current affairs. Recently I read a fine article in it by Walter Lippman concerning what servicemen overseas expect of America- just understanding....Another article was about Dumbarton Oaks and the latest one, about Russia, was very objective and realistic, as well as being the fairest of anything I’ve read or heard about Russia since coming into the army.”
Lieutenant Fred Stone writes from Tampa, Florida: “I have been transferred to the fighter command, which is a much better deal in the long run than being a co-pilot. It will mean lots more training and some hard adjustments, but it is worth it, I think....It has been cool in Florida since Janie and I arrived in Florida but still as warm as early spring in the mountains.”
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
Addresses:
Mr and Mrs Winston Lipsey
91 Jackson Street, SE
Atlanta, Georgia
In the Mail:
AA Babcock writes from Evanston, Illinois: “Bob’s still in Cairo, stationed there with the Naval Attache, disbursing and supply work. Something about reverse-lend-lease, too. He's joined a football club, a GI team, with games scheduled for every Saturday. He plays as long as his wind holds out, and I’m afraid that’s not too long.... The children are both fine, growing space. And the Bulletin is still my favorite reading.”
Rubye Lipsey writes from Atlanta, Georgia: “I do enjoy reading the Bulletin so much; it keeps me up to date with the College happenings....Winston is liking his work very much. He has seven cooks and
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Two bakers with him. They serve an average of 2100 meals per day, so, you see, he is kept busy, though he doesn’t have much cooking to do. Most of his time is spent telling the cooks how things are to be fixed and seeing that, as he terms it, they do not cook the food to death. Three days a week he has a class of student dietitians. They study meat cutting and where each cut is found. The class changes every six weeks. Winston goes to work at 7:00 A.M., has a rest period from 12:30 P.M. until 4:00, then gets off at 6:00 He has every other Sunday off all day....I am still at the business work, still teaching shorthand. I go on duty at 8:30 A.M. and get off at 11:00 A.M. as short as this time is, I am worn to a frazzle by the time I finish. You see, I haven’t learned to take the “Take-It-Or-Leave-It" attitude. I put everything I have into my work and sometime I think I am more anxious for the students to learn than they are to learn. I cannot understand how grown people can be content to through away their time and money when every minute is precious and the world is needing their services..”
A REQUEST:
All friends and former students of Black Mountain College are requested to send us duplicates of the photographs of College people and campus activities they may have. We need them for the publicity we are preparing.
All former students in the Services are urged to send to Bob Wunsch photographs of themselves.
VISITORS:
In the Mail:
Harold S Jasper writes from Temple University in Philadelphia: “It might please you to know that our report on Black Mountain College may become an all-University function with the entire student body invited to sit in on our discussion...”
