3p, one sided pages, 3 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Mentions that the interlude lasted from Sat Feb 24 at 130 pm to Sat March 3 130 pm announces that the upper division exam will be given on Monday March 12 and Tuesday March 13. Faculty Max Paul was appointed Chief of the college Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting Organization. Visitors last week: Frederick Cohen to discuss the plan for the second summer institute, which will be a cooperation between the college and the Music Institute Corporation of New York City. Mrs Mary Gregory, Molly Gregory's mother Kenneth Kurtz Paul Beidler, Mr and Mrs Harold Bush-Brown.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 19
College Year 12 Monday, February 26, 1945
CALENDAR:
The interlude that began on Saturday, February 24, at 1:30 P.M. will continue until Saturday, March 3, at 1:30 P.M. The week end should be used as a preparation-time for next week’s classes.
Dick Bush-Brown and Bill McLaughlin will give a summary of the news of last week this evening at 7:00 o’clock in the Lobby of South Lodge.
The Board of Fellows will hold the February Business Meeting on Tuesday afternoon, February 27, at 4:30 o’clock.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Upper Division Examinations will be given on Monday, March 12, and Tuesday, March 13. Students wanting to take the examinations, either for practice or for entrance, should confer with their advisers, then make formal application to the Faculty before March 7. Each teacher is urged to had in to Anni Albers, Chairman of the Examination Committee, before March 10, the following:
a) three questions for the First Day Examination
b) ten questions for the Second Day Examination, questions on subject matter in his teaching field:
1) five relatively easy 2) five relatively difficult.
At the last meeting of the Faculty Max Paul was appointed Chief of the College Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting Organization. Tony Harrington and Conrad Schmitt were named assistants. Bill McLaughlin and Fighting Crew, Bob Wunsch was named Captain of the Alarm Crew, Eddie Holdin of the Hydrant Crew, Marvin Daniels of the North Lodge Hose Crew, David Corkran of the Inn Hose Crew, Tony Harrigan of the Chemical Crew, Chuck Forberg of the Ladder Crew, Max Paul of the Technical Crew, and Annette Stone of the First Aid Crew.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Mrs Adam T Moncure (Barbara Pollet)
617 Avenue C
Brownwood, Texas
Harriett Sones
44 Wildwood Street
Dorchester, Massachusetts
In the Mail:
Sergeant Francis Foster writes from Asia: “I am now an ex-infantryman; after one month of action I have been sent back for reassignment. They decided that draftsmen were urgently needed elsewhere; just where I have not yet found out. I am now totally inactive, and quite unhappy about the way things have turned out. I will try to return to my outfit...”
Private Bernard Nalek writes from somewhere in Canada: “I’ve been transferred eighteen miles closer to the sea, ‘overseas’ in British Columbia; and will vegetate here, if Rumor prove true, until six months after the duration!”
Private Bob Marden writes from France on January 14: “I think that we never had it so steadily cold at Lake Eden as it is here. The snow just accumulates on the ground and rarely melts. Some days are sunny and cold, and others are cloudy and snowy and colder; and we thank the powers that be that we are not in foxholes at the front....They say
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That spring in France is very beautiful and Paris romantic....I have found a number of men interested in politics in a liberal-leftish sort of way, and we have a great time arguing with men with other feelings....One thing that the soldiers insist on is the assurance of a job after the war. They want security. to those not actually in the line of battle the Army has given a feeling of security, but little sense of pride in the part they are playing. In a constructive society the latter should be a lot more evident. Men have pride in doing a good job. I hear more griping about not doing anything, or doing what seems to be ‘made work’ than anything else. If each man had reason to believe that he was doing a constructive job to help not only himself but the whole country, morale would not be much of a problem.”
News:
Item from the National Headquarters of the American Red Cross: “Barbara Bovingdon, daughter of Herbert Sieck, 740 Ardaley Road, Winnetka, Illinois, has arrived in New Guinea, for further assignment in the Southwest Pacific as an American Red Cross staff assistant. Until her Red Cross appointment, Mrs Bovingdon was nursery school teacher in Winnetka and Glencoe schools. She attended Black Mountain College and is a graduate of National College of Education in Evanston Illinois.”
WITH MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
In the Mail:
Sergeant John Evarts writes from somewhere in Belgium on February 7: “The city of Luxemburg is a picturesque one- ancient, romantic, and scarred with history. It has a lined face. It has been much fought over, and its towers and walls and miles of underground tunnels have been through many sieges. The people are more or less sturdy, pink-cheeked, peasant types- undemonstrative, good eaters, good workers, good Catholics; and they have quite a mixture of nationalities that have blended to form their own- Spanish, German, and French, chiefly. I came to have several very good friends among them and came to understand a little about their ways and ideas. They are warm-hearted and generous when you come to know them. After four years of Nazi occupation, they are vigorously intense in their hatred and complete distrust of the Germans. They lost many young men to the German Army, and many families were split up and sent to labor camps in Germany- thousands...The news gets better day by day, and we are hopeful, but we’ve learned not to hope for too much at once. It would be safe to say that Germany will be really defeated by July; probably before then..”
Visitors:
Among the visitors at Lake Eden last week were;
Frederic Cohen, who arrived on Monday morning to outline plans, with College officials, for the Second Summer Music Institute, a joint venture of the Music Institutes Corporation of Black Mountain College. Mr Cohen will return to New York City this afternoon.
Mrs Mary Gregory, Molly Gregory’s mother, who arrived from Tennessee, on Wednesday. Mrs Gregory will leave for her home in Wonham, Massachusetts, on Thursday.
Kenneth Kurtz, who arrived on Thursday. Mr Kurtz will leave on Tuesday for Yale University to continute his graduate studies in literature.
Among the visitors yesterday were: Paul Beidler, a New Jersey architect, and Mr and Mrs Harold Bush-Brown, Dick’s father and mother.
Departures:
Bobbie Dreier left, by train, on Wednesday afternoon for New York
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City and for several points in New England. She will visit Ted, Jr, at Putney School in Vermont during her two weeks away from Lake Eden.
Ted Dreier left on Thursday afternoon for Florida to attend the funeral of his aunt, Raymond Robins.
Trudi Straus left yesterday afternoon for Baltimore, Maryland.