3 p, one-sided pages, 3 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner, mimeograph on matte off white paper. Announces that Spring Vacation will begin at 1230 pm on Thursday, March 29 and end at 1230 pm on Tuesday April 3. Urges students to hand in the list of courses they will take in the spring quarter students will register for the spring on Wed afternoon between 2 and 4 in the Registrar's office. Visitors- Vaclav Vytlacil, Head of the Art Department at Queens College will visit on Wed, March 28, visitors last week: Leonard Schwartz, Maurice Miller, Warren Outten, Jerry Rubenstien, David Schauffler.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 23
College Year 12 Monday, March 26, 1945
CALENDAR:
There will be a news summary and commentary this evening at 7:00 o’clock in the Lobby of South Lodge. Dick Bush-Brown, Bill McLaughlin and David Corkran will be the speakers.
The March Monthly Meeting of the Board of Fellows will be held in Bob Wunsch’s Study on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
The Faculty will meet on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Faculty Room to conclude on the examinations of the Senior Division students.
Siegfried Schwarz will give his fourth lecture in Economics in the Faculty Room on Wednesday evening, beginning at 7:45 o’clock. The subject of his talk will be “’Free Trade’: Advantage & Disadvantage.”
Immediately after this lecture on Wednesday evening there will be a reading in Bob Wunsch’s Study of Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windemere’s Fan.“
The Spring Vacation will begin at 12:30 PM on Thursday, March 29, and end at 12:30 PM on Tuesday, April 3.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Black Mountain College will be represented by the annual North Carolina Dramatic Festival and Tournament in April with Tennessee Williams’ “Landscape with Figures.” This drama is composed of two scenes, “At Liberty” and “This Property is Condemned.” In the first scene, Betty Kellley will play the role of the actress and Judith Chernott will enact the role of her mother. in the second scene, Patsy Lynch will be the girl and Conrad Schmitt will be the boy.
Bobbie and Ted Dreier spent last week as guests in the home of Mr and Mrs Theodore Rondthaler in Clemmons, North Carolina. Today they are visiting in Chapel Hill.
Bob Wunsch has been invited to act as chairman of the panel discussion on “The Educational Value of Dramatics” at the State Drama Festival. The other members of the panel will be: Paul Green, playwright; Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and AT West, Director of Dramatics at Duke University.
Vaclav Vytlacil, Head of the Art Department at Queens College, will arrive at Lake Eden on Wednesday, March 28, to give oral examinations in art to Marilyn Bauer and Jane Slater. Mr Vytlacil will be a guest of the College until Saturday afternoon.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Eric Barnitz, Olmsted Field Homes Middletown, Pennsylvania
John Campbell CPS #41 Williamsburg, Virginia
Mr and Mrs Alan Brown (Betty Spaulding) 178 Boston Post Road Westen 93, Massachusetts
Stephen H Forbes 942 Mt Pleasnt Road Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Leslie Paul 219 East Sixty-Second Street New York City
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In the mail:
The Alan Browns write from Westch, Massachusetts: “We now have three children: Phillip, aged four; Stephen, aged three; and June, aged one and a half. We have seven goats, which we keep for milk and cream, many rabbits, which we keep for meat; and twenty-four chickens. Betty takes care of the children and runs the farm. Alan helps to run the farm and holds down a job as designer engineer in a manufacturing plant. He also acts as advertising manager..”
John Campbell writes from Williamsburg: “Working in a mental hospital isn’t nearly as difficult as I had anticipated. Not that it doesn’t take a while to become accustomed to every type of abnormal behavior imaginable. Once the first shock has worn off, however, and you begin to learn the peculiarities of each patient, the work takes on a certain interest. Ever since my arrival I have been working on one or the other of the two disturbed wards. They are the most interesting, and, at times, the most trying wards in the hospital. We have here all of the really deluded and hallucinated patients- some of them are very interesting cases. This hospital is the only mental hospital in the country....I’m on night duty now and, once the patients are in bed, have plenty of time to read and write- which is the only compensation for a 79-hour week....Since it is only three blocks from the College of William and Mary, it is very convenient for those of us who have interests there..It has a fairly good library....One of my favorite walks is the fifteen-minute one to the Kocher home. The Kochers live in the beautiful Coke-Garret House, one of the very few original Colonial structures in Williamsburg. Larry, Marge and the children are getting along fine. Larry enjoys the special research work he is doing and the one class he teaches at the college. To this class he bicycles once a week.”
Stephen Forbes, Computer for the Bartel Branch Foundation of the Franklin Institute, writes from Bryn Mawr: “Life has resolved itself into a no-quarter battle between a dull routine on the one hand and my desire to live imaginatively, daringly and with a touch of the Old Harry on the other. Competition Is unusually keen, and the odds surprisingly even. Just at present the necessity of spending upwards of four hours in the daily round of commuting and upwards of seven more in computing has given Routine an apparent bulge on the odds, but I shortly tip the scales to the other side by tossing a few thousand in the till and purchasing a house near the scene of action....Besides my new computing job offers more prospect of vacation then other jobs of recent date. And if ever Forbes gets on a vacation again- Ye Fates, ye’d better watch out!”
News Items:
Eric Barnitz, now a weather officer in the United States Army, is a forecaster. He enlisted in the Army in 1941, served one year as an enlisted man the became an Aviation Cadet in a Meteorology school. He served as an overseas weather officer in China for one year; then in November, 1944, he returned to the United States.
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
New Addresses:
Mr and Mrs Allan B Sly Monticello College Godfrey, Illinois
In the Mail:
Betty Sly writes from Godfrey, Illinois: “Allan is now Head of the Music Department at Monticello College, and I am a member of the Music Faculty..Before coming to Monticello College, Allan was, for five years, Head of the Music Division of the Fine Arts Department
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Of William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. In March of 1944 he undertook a five weeks’ tour as faculty visitor for the Association of American Colleges and visited nine colleges in the Mississippi Basin, staying two or three days in each college....Caroline Ware Sly was born on November 13, 1942.”
VISITORS:
Among the visitors at the College last week were;
Leonard Scwartz from New York City, a sculptor;
Maurice Miller, who spent part of last week at Lake Eden with his parents, Dr and Mrs Herbert Miller;
Warren Outten and Jerry Rubenstien, friends of Phelan, who arrived on Sunday morning from St Louis for a visit of a few days;
David Schauffler, the brother of Anna and Sue, who arrived at the College on Saturday for a brief visit. David is a student at Putney School in Putney, Vermont.
IMPORTANT:
Each teacher will hand in at once to the Registrar the list of courses he will give during the Spring Quarter.
After consultation with his advisor, each student will register for Spring Quarter courses on Wednesday afternoon between 2:00 and 4:00 o’clock in the Registrar’s Office.
