3 p, one sided pages, 3 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Visitors: Ira de Reid, Professor of Sociology at Atlanta University Visitors of last week: Leslie Paul leaves today after a ten-day visit Jimmy Stranch, a student of University of South Carolina was a weekend visitor Foster Fitz-Simons Warrant officer Rabston Crawford.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 22
College Year 12 Monday, March 19, 1945
CALENDAR:
The Faculty will meet this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00 o’clock to continue the reading of the Senior Division Examination papers.
There will be a news summary and commentary this evening at 6:45 o’clock in the Lobby of South Lodge. Dick Bush-Brown, Bill McLaughlin and Herbert Miller will be the speakers.
The Board of Fellows will meet in Bob Wunsch’s Study on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
The Faculty will meet in the Faculty Room on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
Siegfried Schwarz will give his third lecture in Economics in the Faculty Room on Wednesday evening, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. The subject of his talk will be “’Free Trade’: Advantages and Disadvantages.”
Immediately after this lecture, on Wednesday evening, there will be a reading in Bob Wunsch’s Study of Moliere’s “The Misanthrope.”
There will be an informal improvised concert on Saturday evening in the College Dining Hall. It will begin at 8:15 o’clock and will be the College Community only. The program will be announced at the concert.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Edward and Gretel Lowinsky, Anna Schauffler and Trudi Straus will give a piano-violin-viola-cello concert at the Allen Home School in Asheville on Thursday evening. The program will include Beethoven’s Serenade, Opus 8, for Strings; several Brahms’ waltzes, and Dvorak’s Sonatina.
Ira de Reid, Professor of Sociology at Atlanta University, will give a lecture at Black Mountain College on Wednesday, April 35, on “The Dilemmas of Social Planning.”
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Mrs John H Pendergrass (Mary Hughes) 5635 Euclid Road, Kenwood Cincinnati 27, Ohio
Charles S Kessler Sq O, 129th Base Unit, CAAB, Columbia, South Carolina
Gisela Kronenberg 1668 West Ogden Avenue Apartment 206 Chicago 12, Illinois
Liese Kulka 135 East 56th Street New York 22, New York
In the Mail:
Mary Hughes Pendergrass writes from Cincinnati, Ohio: “After I left Black Mountain College, I worked at my former school and took business courses. Six months later I took a job and worked at it for eleven months. In June of 1939 I was married and came to live in Cincinnati. In September, 1941, Robert Allen IV (Pendy) was born. I've moved into the house, which we had built, three months later. Shortly afterwards, we went to Dallas. Stayed there for four months. On June 10 of last year, Ann Hughes was born. I expect my husband to be in the Service shortly..”
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Liese Kulka writes from New York City: “I have been living in an apartment with Louise Minster since October; and, believe me, it’s pretty fine to lead the independent existence which that permits.... For two months now I’ve been doing occupational therapy and recreation of an elementary sort with children at New York Hospital. Two days ago I had my first day on the ward at Bellevue as a nurse’s aid in occupational therapy that will entitle me to go into an army hospital and get a taste of what this field is like. If everything works out the way I hope, I’ll go to Columbia next fall and take the real Occupational Therapy course, possibly carrying along my psychology and getting a degree in that, if possible...Socially my life is not worth speaking about. I'm so tired nights I simply haven’t the energy to go to see anyone; so, unless I run into someone by chance, or they come to visit me, I see absolutely no one...”
Gisela Kronenbuerg writes from Chicago; “I am sharing an apartment with one of my colleagues....Our windows open on one of the back alleys of the Chicago slums- a very fascinating place inhabited mostly by cats and a sprinkling a people. So far, only the cats are practicing the rites of spring in the alley. From all reports the human element enters somewhat later in the season. There is something in the debris of the backyards that pretends to be a tree... My newest hobby is learning how to cook....Most of my spare time I spend going to concerts. My roommate is very musical; this makes such expeditions very worthwhile. Tonight we are going to hear Lotte Lohmann...At work I still stab poor patients at predetermined intervals and take their blood pressure..A lot of my time is spent discussing results with my boss, predicting results on subsequent tests on the same patient under similar or altered circumstances and state of mind. It's a lot of fun. What is more important, the results have the appearance of being significant..”
Lieutenant Bela Martin writes from St Augustine, Florida: “I have a new job here now- that of a division officer in charge of six flights of students, six instructors, twenty-eight planes, and forty enlisted men. N this new job I fly less and instruct in the air very little, only to offer a suggestion now and then, in fact. Part of my job is to lecture in ground school on various phases of combat training. These lectures are usually prefaced by a training film on the subject to be discussed- films have played a large and important part in training. To the movie I add notes on actual experiences in combat to illustrate how the various methods of training were employed. The students enjoy this kind of learning most; also they seem to remember it best..”
Private First Class Claude Stoller writes from France on March 8: “Here in France I'm less than ever convinced that what I’m supposed to be doing is right. But then, I'm not doing what I’m supposed to be doing- thank God! I’m still in a military band and pretty far from being a soldier, less yet a good time..France seems fascinating, and I feel that I have seen much for the short time that I’ve been here..”
Sergeant Evelyn Tubbs writes from Paris, France, on March 3: “I have many good memories of England, cheerful and sunny in spite of the weather itself; I hated to leave the many good English friends I had made. I hated to pull away from my friends..but not from England itself. It never seemed like home- cold, damp, no sunshine, everything backwards or opposite to things at home, and uninteresting food...But now I am in Paris, and things look brighter. The sun shines here, the avenues are wide; and it reminds me of my old home town, Washington, DC. Cars are on the proper side of the street, the metro trains are on the right tracks. I’m on American rations for the first time since I left the United States on May 5, 1943; and almost everything is right with the world. Sure, and we’re all as weary as the devil, but we’re still plugging along to finish this damned war. Home is uppermost in the thoughts of all us; but few of us would be willing to come home before the war is over!”
News Notes:
After leaving the Black Mountain College, Charles Kessler studied with Vytlacil at the Art Students League and with Hans Hofman in Provincetown. Since December 1942 he has been in the Air Force.
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Leslie Pual, after a ten days’ visit at Lake Eden, will leave this afternoon for Washington, DC.
Agathe Elink Scheuerman is a private in the Netherlands Army. Until she left the United States in August 1944 for overseas work, she was in charge of personnel at the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company, 42 Broadway, New York City.
Jimmy Stranch, a chemistry student now at the University of South Carolina, was a week end visitor at Lake Eden.
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
Mrs Rebecca Mangold writes from Pasadena, California: “We have had a very pleasant winter here- very little cold weather...Outside my window are large camellia bushes in full bloom. The acacia and flowering peach are blooming, too-also some orange and grapefruit trees. In a few weeks the air will be filled with their fragrance. To me it is the loveliest season..And I’m seeing the dogwood at Lake Eden and soon the azaleas. I shall never forget that beautiful spring there..”
Marge Stenderhoff Voigt writes from Washington, DC: “Barney is still working at OSS, and I’m at Morton’s, Washington dealer in misses’, women’s and children’s apparel; and life is running smoothly for us. We have an apartment- it looks marvelous, after Barney’s work, with paint, on walls, ceilings, and floors.”
COLLEGE VISITORS:
Among the visitors at Lake Eden last week were:
Foster Fitz-Simons, a member of the staff of the Drama Department at the University of North Carolina.
Warrant Officer Rabston Crawford, abstract artist and a teacher of art in Cincinnati before entering the Weather Wing of the Air Forces.
