3p, one-sided pages + 1 blank sheet, 4 horizontal folds in total, staple in top left corner. Mimeograph on matte off white paper. There is an unattached blank sheet asking (supposedly) the bulletin subscribers to fill in with potential patrons' information announces that the second Summer Music Institute will be dedicated to the "Memory of Thomas Whitney Surette, a great teacher of music." Announces the appointment of Paul Beidler for the rest of the spring Quarter and the summer institute. announces that the Summer Art Institute will be running from Jul 2 to Sep 8 and will offer practical theoretical abd historical studies in various art fields. The staff for the Summer Art Insitute will include: Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Fannie Hillsmith, Ossip Zadkine, Mary Callery, Paul Rand, Alvin Lustig, F W Goro, Berta Rudofsky, Alexander Dorner, Karl With, as well as BMC Art Department faculty. announces the graduation of Betty Kelley, who was the last remaining student from the Blue Ridge days.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE Bulletin 28
College Year 12 Monday, April 30, 1945
CALENDAR:
Dick Bush-Brown, Bill McLaughlin and Herbert Miller will summarize and interpret last week’s news at a meeting in the Lobby of South Lodge this evening from 7:00 to 7:30 o’clock.
The Board of Fellows will hold its regular weekly meeting 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.
Captain Joseph W Jaller, formerly a member of the biology staff at C.C.N.Y. and now a physician at Moore General Hospital, will address the College Community on Wednesday evening at 8:15 o’clock in the Lobby of South Lodge.
Following the biology lecture there will be a reading of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in Bob Wunsch’s Study.
On Saturday evening, beginning at 8:15 o’clock, Trudi Straus, Anna Schauffler and Heinrich Jalowetz will give a violin-cello-piano concert in the Dining Hall. The program will include: Mozart’s Trio in B Flat for Violin, Cello and Piano, Reger’s Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Piano, and Mozart’s Trio in G for Violin, Cello and Piano.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Black Mountain College is dedicating its Second Summer Music Institute to “the memory of Thomas Whitney Surette, a great teacher of music.”
The Board of Fellows has appointed to the staff, as Visiting Architect for the rest of the Spring Quarter and for all the Summer Quarter, Paul Beidler. Mr Beidler studied at the University of Pennsylvania; was staff architect for archeological expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania in Egypt, Iraq, and Italy, and with the British Museum in Palestine; practiced with architectural firms in the United States; in Amsterdam in Holland, and in Honolulu in the Hawaiian Islands. His private practice has included the planning and constructing of factories and housing and dwellings. Mr Beidler will give a course in architecture during the 1945 Summer Art Institute.
The Musical Quarterly of April 1945 contains an essay by Edward E Lowinsky on “The Function of Conflicting Signatures in Early Polyphonic Music.”
Trudi Straus will be away from Lake Eden from May 11 to May 14 for rehearsals and for concerts with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra in Charlotte and in Hendersonville.
Ira de A Reid, unable to arrive for his lecture scheduled for last Wednesday evening, will visit the College on May 16 and address the College Community on “The Dilemmas of Social Planning.”
Music students are making tentative plans to give a concert at the Lake Lure Red Cross on Sunday.
NEWS ITEMS:
Encouraged by the results of its first summer art project in 1944, Black Mountain College is making preparations for its Second Summer Art Institute on its campus in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The Institute, which will begin on July 2 and continue until September 8, will offer practical, theoretical and historical
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Studies in various art fields. The courses will be conducted by artists, scholars, and teachers of national and international reputation.
The staff for the Black Mountain College 1945 Summer Art Institute will include: Dr Walter Gropius, founder and first director of the Bauhaus in Germany and the present head of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University; Lyonel Feininger and Fannie Hillsmith, painters; Ossip Zadkins and Mary Callery, sculptors; Paul Rand and Alvin Lustig, advertising artists; FW Goro, scientific photographer on the staff of Life magazine; Berta Rudofsky, designer, leather work; and Dr Alexander Dorner and Dr Karl With, art historians and art theorists.
Anni Albers, a member of the Art Department of Black Mountain College, will give a course in textile design. Josef Albers, the headof the Art Department of the College, will give courses in basic design and color. Paul Beidler, the visiting college architect, will give a course in architecture.
During the Institute, the practicing classes will be open to art teachers and art students, beginners as well as advanced students. Lectures will be given periodically for the whole College Community and for the general public. Various exhibitions will accompany the lectures and classes in which modern teaching methods will be stressed.
GRADUATION:
At a special meeting of the Faculty on Tuesday afternoon, April 24, in the Music Roundhouse, Betty Kelley, the last remaining student from the Blue Ridge days, was graduated from Black Mountain College. Her major college work had been in dramatic literature, acting and playwriting. Betty left on Tuesday afternoon for a brief vacation at her home in Fulton, Kentucky.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
Harriett Engelhardt writes on Friday, April 13: “At present I’m in Germany, wishing the war was over. Please let there be a loom free when I finally get there, and let me weave thousands of ugly dollies and table cloths. My job is the only one I’d have just now- I can’t complain. It’s just that I want the world back to normal.” Harriett is with an American Red Cross Clubmobile. Before she went overseas she was for fifteen months an airplane mechanic at Maxwell Field in Alabama and for a short time an apprentice laboratory technician at Macgill University in Montreal.
PFC Bob Marden writes from France on April 21: “I suppose you are getting many stories and pictures of the Buschewald and other concentration camps. We have eye-witness stores here from fellows here who have been up there. It has been amazing to see the change in the men here who previously dismissed such stories as propaganda! This incontestable proof of the moral cesspool which has resulted from Naziism has made them hate violently and indiscriminately. Anything German will be suspect for years to come. I think that those Germans who left Germany, or fought the Nazis inside, will be exempt. But there is deep cynicism and hate of Germany and the Nazis now. There is slight regard for German property—the general opinion being that the best preventative for another German excursion will be to give hem a taste of what the rest of Europe suffered. There is no regard for the German individual. All are considered guilty by the most of the men, although not in a criminal way, of course. Certainly the Germans are reaping in full the whirlwind they sowed..There is complete approval of the policy of forcing Germans to go through the camps, to drive home just what they are responsible for. There is widespread misgiving that the civilian authorities will not go through with punishment of all those directly guilty. I think that that is why Ike has requested committees from Congress and Parliament to inspect the camps. We are so mad that we must have assurance
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That justice will be strictly dealt out so that nobody will dare do it again. I hope there won’t be blanket appeal for clemency after the fighting ends..There can be mercy for people who are guilty of such things. They must be exterminated, for the safety of the rest of the world. Fortunately, most of the SS seem to enjoy dying for Adolf, but that costs us more men. Mercy for them would be stupid and interpreted by them as weakness instead of as mercy, which they know not.....War is a terrible thing- it releases too much of the evil in man, despite the fine things it may bring to him. But you cannot eliminate the habits of force and brutality and ‘action’ quickly or easily. Our own men will bear the mental scars in this regard and it will affect the States for years to come..”
Sergeant John Stix writes from Germany on April 7: “We were to leave this evening for a town some fifty kilometers up the road, a town entered by advance elements after a formal white-flag surrender. But apparently the flags didn’t mean much; for civilians and German troops opened fire again, and today the town is systematically reduced by American artillery. Report came back to HQ: ‘You can move up in a day but you may not find any billets.’ Up to now we have been billeting rather steadily, at the same time leap-frogging rather steadily- moving at a breathless pace down Germany’s super Autobahns....Paused several days in a Nazi night club. A ‘boite’ after dark and during the day a center for ‘Strength thru Joy.’ A file of publicity photos showed formations of paunchy old men taking mud baths and calisthenics in the nude. The cellar was stocked with potent, foul-tasting wine which we proceeded to absorb- for the strength of it, if not the joy- and before it had taken its full effect we gathered around the Bechstein grand in the ballroom for a community sing. The clubhouse overlooked a medieval castle, a Stalag, a Gestapo bringing in their cargoes of fuel. Bismarek’s grandson had lived down the street, but the Nazi purge of the Prussians last fall had nipped him in the bud. I think he was 83....Speaking of Bechsteins, I’m rooming with one tonight. We're in a beautiful old Schless and the old German family is out. Of course, they’re anything but Nazis-’all good Catholics’- but on the shelves of their vast library and amongst their collection of Classical manuscripts is a generous assortment of Party patter.....Well, it’s almost over over here. That fact is so exhilarating, it obliterates everything else. We're awakening slowly from a horrible dream..” John is with the Third Army.
VISITORS:
Among the College visitors last week were:
Mrs Claire McCanna, Alice’s mother, from New York City.
Mr and Mrs Theodore Rondthaler and their two children from Clemmons, North Carolina, where Mr Rondthaler is principal of the Consolidated School.
Expected on Wednesday morning, May 2: Fred and Anne Mangold. Fred, now in the American Embassy in Mexico City, was for a number of year’s Secretary of the Corporation of Black Mountain College and Professor of Romantic Languages. Anne was College Registrar.
Expected this week end: Walter Gropius and John E. Burchard, members of the Advisory Council of the College.
