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Black Mountain College Community Bulletin College Year 12 Bulletin 26 Monday, April 16, 1945

Date
1945
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Ink on paper
Object Type
Archival Documents
Credit Line
Black Mountain College Collection, gift of Barbara Beate Dreier and Theodore Dreier, Jr. on behalf of all generations of Dreier family
Accession Number
2017.40.198a-c
Copyright
In Copyright, Educational Use Permitted
Description

3p, one-sided pages, 3 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner. Mimeograph on matte off white paper. Mentions that the college received a copy of Will Durant's Caesar and Christ as gift from the Temple University. Vistors last week: Mrs Walter Boyden, Mrs Max Dehn, Mr Evsey Domar, Mary Rice Marshal, Mendez Marks.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 26
College Year 12 Monday, April 16, 1945
CALENDAR:
The world and local news of last week will be summarized and interpreted this evening at 7:00 o’clock in the Lobby of South Lodge by Dick Bush-Brown and Herbert Miller.
The students will hold their bi-monthly meeting in the Lobby of South Lodge this evening immediately after the news program.
The Board of Fellows will meet in Bob Wunsch’s Study Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
The Faculty will meet on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, chiefly to consider the Spring Quarter class registration of students.
There will be a reading of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in Bob Wunsch’s Study on Wednesday evening beginning at 7:30 o’clock.
On Saturday evening, beginning at 8:00 o’clock, in the Lobby of South Lodge, George Zabriske will read from his recently printed volume of poems, “Like the Root.” This reading will be followed by an informal presentation of Tennessee Williams’ “Landscape with Figures” in the College Dining Hall.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
In the Twenty-Second Annual Festival of the Carolina Dramatic Association, held in Chapel Hill on April 12, 13, and 14, Black Mountain College was awarded highest honors in the Senior College one-act play presentation for its production of Tennessee Williams’ “Landscape with Figures.” Jane Slater’s stage design for Act I of “More Straw for the Scarecrow” and her costume plates for “An Almost Lonely Christmas” was given “honorable mention.” Betty Kelley’s scarecrow make-up was also given “honorable mention.”
During their stay in Chapel Hill, Judy Chernoff, Betty Kelley, Patsy Lynch, Bill McLaughlin and Bob Wunsch heard Paul Green read excerpts from his as yet unpublished novel “Stormy Banks” at a tea in the University Library. That evening they were guests of Paul and Elizabeth Green in their home near Chapel Hill.
Bill McLaughlin was the Black Mountain College official delegate to the Chapel Hill conference of student representatives from fifty colleges and universities on Sunday, April 15. The conference was held to consider the problems facing the coming San Francisco conference of the United Nations and to coordinate a plan for study on southern campuses of Bretten Woods, Dumbarton Oaks and other plans related to world peace organization. Judy Chernoff attended one session of the conference.
Josef Albers is expected to return to Lake Eden tomorrow from New York City where he has been making final plans for staffing the 1945 Summer Art Institute at Black Mountain College.
Ted Dreier left on Saturday for Chicago on a business trip for the College. Edward Lowinsky is expected to return to Lake Eden on Thursday from Boston where he has been planning the 1945 Black Mountain College Summer Music Institute.
Bob Wunsch has been invited to direct one of the major dramatic productions at the University of North Carolina during the 1945-46 session.

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WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
Lieutenant Thomas Brooks writes from Germany on April 1: “We are rushing frantically around Germany in what the army calls a ‘fluid situation’..The term is aptly descriptive. It arouses the initiative and battle eagerness of the soldiers...I didn’t participate in the dash across France, but I am now in the midst of a more conclusive one. I and the others with me hope that it means the end, but after the break-through into Belgium we still give the Jerries credit for combat efficiency. Our pleasure at our own break-out is based on the contrast between this type of warfare and the dreary fighting on the Siegfried Line or the confused, frantic and bloody shooting that we had during the Bulge Now the soldiers look less like the maudlin cartoon characters, but the infantrymen and the tankers don’t look much like fighting men in top hats or Homburgs, with multi-colored scarfs about the neck or waist, in odd jackets, and most generally sporting a cane. I am bothered by the lack of reliable news we receive. We move too fast for the Stars and Stripes to catch up to us; and, though we have radios, we don’t often have the time to hook them up to the captured German generator that we tow along with us. We live from rumors as far as the news is concerned, and these are most unreliable. I have always been anxious for news, and I have found that I work a great deal better if I know how the operation in which I am participating is linked up with the scheme of my Army Commander or with the plans of the Supreme Headquarters....The greatest moral factor that we now have is trying to get German equipment into an operational condition. When we pull into a spot, the whole company goes to work to make as many vehicles as possible turn over and take off. For a short time the roads are covered with motorcycles, trucks, cars, busses and bicycles When we leave, we let them remain and begin at the next objective.
Private Otis Levy writes from France: “I am reading Moliere in the original....I love France and French people- have many friends.”
Mitzi Martin Overs writes from Buffalo, New York: “We are about to be moved again- this time to Camp Upton where, I think, Bob will be working in the hospital....we are thoroughly sick of this commuting back and forth between Rochester and Buffalo, so we are quite pleased over the prospects of a change. I've enjoyed my little job here at the library, as part-time worker in the Music Department, and the people I’ve been working with; but aside from that I have not been too fond of Buffalo.”
Private Ralph Tyler writes from somewhere overseas: “A full account of my self; I am in the middle of something about which I have not made up my mind I have spent the last two years in that manner.”
Emil Willimetz writes to the College from France on April 2: “Dear Folks: Life for me is very much in a state of flux. Expect to have my infantry assignment changed – to what, is the great unknown. But it is very definite that I have seen the last of front-line combat...I have been reclassified- a limited assignment...”
Notes:
Neltjo Weston, a Recreational Worker in the Red Cross, is at present stationed on Leyte in the Philippines. Before going into Red Cross work, Neltje was for two years an assistant psychologist at the Southbury Training School in Connecticut.
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
In the Mail:
Alfred Kazin writes from England on March 13: “I know more of what

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Was happening here when I was at BMC, and in general led a far more civilized life! Every once in a while I catch myself with a start in London and have to confirm the fact that I am here; but since I never go out at night without a flashlight, and there are other reminders, I know all too well. The English education system is complicated and vital; the English never erase an institution but in this moment is something to see. The planning going on is terrific; and all of it, and more, is needed. I have been leading an odd and over-rushed kind of life, for my investigation takes me to interesting people and into so many odd corners that the greatest hazard to health is not ‘enemy action’ but lack of time and energy to squeeze it all in. DW Brogan, the historian, had me down to Cambridge yesterday and this morning, and I dined in great state at Peterhouse with the fellows. The university, except for odd touches here and there to remind you of the facts of life in this island, has kept all its old beauty and charm; and I felt as if I were looking at something very delicate, but full of hidden intellectual strength, all of it preserved through the centuries and yet solidly contemporary The English are great talkers, and the people I’ve met are solid thinkers; in general intellectual life seems to me very high, and the run of literature and music in London in the face of so many crippling shortages, is admirable..”
VISITORS:
The College Library has just receive a copy of Will Durant’s Caesar and Christ, a gift from the Temple University students who visited the campus early in the Winter Quarter- “a small expression of the gratefulness we felt for your wonderful hospitality and friendship.”
After a fortnight’s visit, Mrs Walter Boyden will leave Lake Eden this afternoon for Washington. Later she will go to her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mrs Max Dehn returned to Chicago on Saturday.
Mr Evsey Domar left on Friday for Washington, DC, after a several days’ visit to Black Mountain College. on Wednesday evening, he spoke to the Community on “Post-War Unemployment?”
Mary Rice Marshal, after a fortnight’s visit with her mother, left on Sunday for Washington, DC, to resume her work with the Department of Justice.
Mendez Marks has extended his visit another week in order to help Bob Wuncsh with College publicity.

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