3 p, one-sided pages, 3 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner. Mimeograph on matte off white paper. Josef Albers left last Wed for NYC to consult prospective staff members for the 1945 summer Art Institute Announces that on Wed morening Betty Kelley will take her oral exam for graduation in dramatics At a special meeting fo the Faculty on Monday evening, April 2, Jane Slater, art major, was unanimously graduated "with distinction." A ROSTER of people in the college community is attached on the third page, which shows that the student number by then was 47. Visitors last week: Mrs Walter Boyden, Mrs Max Dehn, Sergrant and Mrs Libert Ehrman, Mendez Marks, Dr Earl Newcomer, Florence Schust.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 25
College Year 12 Monday, April 9, 1945
CALENDAR:
There will be a news summary report this evening at 7:00 o’clock in the Lobby of South Lodge. Dick Bush-Brown, Bill McLaughlin, and Herbert Miller will be the speakers.
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet in the Faculty Room this evening at 7:35 o’clock
The Board of Fellows will hold a short meeting, immediately after the Faculty meeting in the Faculty Room.
The Community Chorus will meet in the Dining Hall tomorrow evening at 7:30 o’clock,
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Josef Albers left on Wednesday afternoon of last week for New York City to consult prospective staff members for the 1945 Summer Art Institute to be held at Lake Eden.
Ted Dreier will leave tomorrow afternoon for Chicago on a business trip for the College.
Edward Lowinsky left on Thursday afternoon for Boston on a business trip for the College.
Trudi Straus will return to Lake Eden tomorrow after concerts with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra in Raleigh and Durham and in a North Carolina military camp.
Bob Wunsch, Judy Chernoff, Betty Kelley, Patsy Lynch, and Bill McLaughlin will leave at noon tomorrow by car for Chapel Hill. On Wednesday morning Betty Kelley will take her oral examinations for graduation in dramatics under Samuel Seldon and Thai Thergensen. On Thursday afternoon Bob Wunsch will act as chairman of a panel on “Educational Values in Dramatics.” On Saturday evening, the Black Mountain College students will present Tennessee Williams’ “Landscape with Figures” on the stage in the Carolina Playmakers’ Theatre.
At its last meeting the Faculty set as the official dates for the Summer Quarter: June 26 to September 8.
GRADUATION:
At a special meeting of the Faculty on Monday evening, April 2, Jane Slater, art major, was unanimously graduated “with distinction.”
WITH FORME STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Tasker Howard 1811 Irving Street, NW Washington 10, DC
Mark Schindler Reed College Portland, Oregon
Alexandria Weekes 26 Commerce Street New York 14, New York
In the Mail:
Tesker Howard writes from Washington, DC: “I am now an Administrative Examiner on the National Labor Relations Board..I have been on this Board, in Washington, New York City, and Puerto Rico, since 1940. Prior to 1940 I was, in 1937-38, manager of a Consumers’ Cooperative
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In Brooklyn; and, in 1938-39, a graduate student in economics at Columbia University.
Lieutenant Jack Roberts writes from the Pacific: “I am a Navigator in the USAAF....I was drafter on January 7, 1941, and was commissioned in the Air Corps on May 23, 1942. I was overseas- in England and North Africa- in Troop Carrier and Heavy Bomber Command from August 2, 1942 to July 28, 1943, and in Training Command from September 1, 1943 to September 23, 1944. Since December 20, 1944, I have been in the 21dt Bomber Command in the Marianas...On July 8, 1942, I married Martha McMillan in Westfield, Massachusetts...”
Mark Schindler writes from Portland, Oregon: “I am making a ten-inch telescope and getting ready for graduation from Reed College this spring....Last summer I was Research Assistant at California Institute of Technology, on a war research project. Summer before that I was with the Civil Aeronautics Authority, in the Engineering Department This summer, after my graduation from Reed- where I am majoring in mathematics and physics- I plan to return to California Institute of Technology for graduate work and also in a research half-time job there...”
Sergeant John Stix writes from Germany on March 20: “Tommy Brooks and I wrote you jointly, early in December, from a chateau-billet in Belgium. The chateau was just northeast of Bostogno and- needless to say- no longer exists. The German offensive began, as you remember, on December 16, and our order on December 18 to evacuate was countermanded an hour after it was received. There was understandable anxiety, for the German spearhead was already within hearing and their shells within sight. We pulled out of the chateau about midnight, and Jerry pulled in at one. They had tigers and we had trucks; so I’m not really sorry we left when we did....It’s quite different now. After protracted spells in France, Belgium, and the Grand Duchy, we’re in the Rhineland, behind the Divisions and very secure. We see thousands of the enemy still headed west, but they’re prisoners of war and considerably subdued....To date, my only truck with civilians has been to refuse an old frau a bit to eat, which may strike you as peculiar- depending upon whether you subscribe to the Non-fraternizing School or whether you believe there is no better diplomat than the American soldier. Fortunately or unfortunately, the American soldier will do no subscribing while in Germany; it’s a court-martial for getting chummy. And I think best.”
Jimmy Stranch writes from Columbia, South Carolina: “The chemical plant for which I'm working has gotten a contract with the Government to supply a very rare chemical. I’m going to start running on an all-night shift for three nights a week. The work is very interesting, and I’m learning quite a bit of technique. The experience that I’m picking up should prove very valuable to me after I have graduated from the University of South Carolina and am job-hunting. I plan to work at this chemical plant only during this semester.”
News Notes:
Sandra Weekes is now in the Circulation Department of Pour la Victoire, the offices of which publication are in New York City.
VISITORS:
Among the visitors at Lake Eden last week were;
Mrs Walter Boyden, who arrived on Tuesday, April 3, for a fortnight’s visit;
Mrs Max Dehn, who arrived yesterday at noon for a visit with her husband;
Sergeant and Mrs Libert Ehrman, brother and sister-in-law of Irma Ehrman, student-secretary;
Mendez Marks, who arrived on Easter Sunday morning for his first visit to the College since he left here in the spring of 1942. Mendez is now a member of the staff at The New Yorker.
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Dr Earl Newcomer, a member of the staff in the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina. On Thursday evening Dr Newcomer spoke informally to the College community on “Evolution and the Modern Man.” On Friday afternoon he led a field trip on the College grounds.
Florence Schust, architect from New York City, was a visitor for several days at the College.
ROSTER OF PEOPLE IN THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY
(as of April 9, 1945)
STUDENTS:
Vera Baker, Marilyn Bauer, Peggy Bennett, Jagna Braunthal, Sam Brown, Sue Burton, Dick Bush-Brown, Dorothy Carr, Judith Chernoff, Joanne Gormany, Jean Couch, Marvin Daniels, Norman Davis, Roxane Dinkowitz, Irma Ehrman (sec), Charles Forberg, Janet Goldsmith, Ati Gropius, Tony Harrigan, Jane Heling, Joan Keiser, Betty Kelley, Patsy Lynch, Alice McCanna, Betty Osbourne (sec), Max Paul, John Reiss, Helen Rosenbluth (sec), Anna Schauffler, Sue Schauffler, Eva Schlein, Betty Schmitt, Conrad Schmitt, Jane Slater, Eleanor Smith, Joan Stack, Alice Stieglitz, Lucy Swift, Sue Tensdale, Earlene Wight, Edwin Woldin
FACULTY:
Anni Albers, Josef Albers, David Corkran, Max Dehn, Theodore Dreier, Mary Gregory, Fritz Hansgirg, Heinrich Jalowetz, Faculty-continued; Edward Lowinsky, Herbert Miller, Trudi Straus, Fred Schwarz, Mac Wood, Robert Wunsch, George Zabriske
FAMILIES:
David Corkran, Jr, John Corkran, Marion Corkran, Robin Corkran, Barbara Dreier, Edward Dreier, Maria Hansgirg, Johanna Jalowetz, Gretel Lowinsky, Naomi Lowinsky, Bessie Miller, Dora Schwarz, Em Wood, Elizabeth Zabriske
KITCHEN STAFF:
Bas Allen, Malrey Few, Gertrude Lytle, Ben Sneed, Cornelia Williams, George Williams
STAFF:
Gerda Hagendorn, Peggy Kurtz, Helen Marden, Nell Rice, Annette Stone
VISITORS:
Mrs Boyden, Mrs Dehn, Mrs Hoffman, Mendez Martin, Mary Marshall
