3 P, onesided pages, 3 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner; misprint the date. Mimeograph on matte off white paper. Announces that Patsy Lynch, Tom Raleigh and Eleanor Smith were elected student officers Herbert Miller were appointed by the State Office of Price Administration, Chairman of the Public Relations Panel for Information on price control in Black Mountain. Mentions that two new music practice rooms have been designed and Board-approved and are now awaiting the WPB okay. Visitors last week: Mrs Emma Hoffman, Mrs Anna D Jamieson, a member of the College Advisory Council Fred Mangold, Mendez Marks, Ira de Reid, Theodore Rondthaler and Else Toller.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 31
College Year 12 Monday, May 22, 1945
CALENDAR:
Dick Bush-Brown and Judy Chernoff will summarize and interpret last week’s news at half-hour meeting in the Lobby of South Lodge at 7:00 o’clock this evening.
The students will hold a meeting in the Lobby of South Lodge this evening from 7:30 to 8:45 o’clock.
The Board of Fellows will hold its regular meeting in Bob Wunsch’s Study on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
The Faculty and Student Officers will meet on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Faculty Room.
There will be a concert in the Dining Hall on Saturday evening, May 26, beginning at 8:15 o’clock. Trudi Straus and Gretel Lowinsky will play Mozart’s Duo for Violin and Viola; Heinrich Jalowetz and Trudi Straus will play Beethoven’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, Opus 96; and Edward Lowinsky, Trudi Straus, Gretel Lowinsky and Anna Schauffler will play Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G Minor.
There will be a reading of Seneca’s “Thyestes” on Sunday evening at 8:00 o’clock in Bob Wunsch’s Study.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
In the Student Election held last week Patsy Lynch, Tom Raleigh and Eleanor Smith were elected officers.
The Millers, the Schwarzes and the Zabriskis will attend the supper meeting of the X Club at the S and W Cafeteria in Asheville this evening.
Alfred Kazin has cabled from England that he will return to the United States the latter part of the summer. He will teach literature for a part, if not for the whole, of the 1945-46 Session at Black Mountain College.
Herbert Miller has been appointed by the State Office of Price Aministration, Chairman of the Public Relations Panel for information on price control in Black Mountain, Swannanoa and Oteen. He will speak on the subject of price control at the Black Mountain High School Assembly on Friday.
John Reiss has been notified that he has been elected to the Honor Group of 1945 at State Teachers College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Mr and Mrs Theodore Rondthaler will be members of the Office Staff of the College during the first part of the Summer Session.
Among the visitors at Lake Eden last week were: Mrs Emma Hoffman, Mrs Anna D Jamieson, a member of the College Advisory Council; Fred Mangold, Mendez Marks, Ira de Reid, Theodore Rondthaler, and Dr Else Toller.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Pvt Barbara Payne, A-235773 Co I, Rec and Stg Bn AIB Fort Des Moines, Iowa
John Campbell writes from Williamsburg, Virginia: “Hopes of getting to BMC this spring have quietly died. Because of the shortage of attendance, no more than three men can be away from the hospital on vacation at any one time. As a comparative newcomer, I have to await my turn, which, I am assured, will be in July...”
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Larry Fox writes from the Mariannas on May 5: “Our outfit has been going like mad ever since we arrived here. We still work ten hours a day and put in six and a half days per week. I recently was removed from the cement gang of which I was a charter member. We did everything that can be done with bags of cement; unloaded trucks full of them, stacked them, then, after mixing the stuff, poured the cement. I haven’t been out here long enough to qualify as an old-timer, but I can imagine that there is nothing harder than handling cement the Navy way....Almost all of our factory is complete. This means that, as soon as we receive the necessary steel, we will begin to turn our pontoons. That may place me at the end of a welding torch; and, then again, it may not. There are still lots of jobs besides welding around here....This climate makes you kind of dopey after a while, especially when you have to spend all day in the sun, as most of us must. The nights are cool, however, and sleep comes easily....All things considered, our standard of living is high, what with hot showers, running water toilets, Quonset huts to live in, and a better-than-average commissary department....The Bulletins are still the best reading material in the Pacific....”
Lieutenant Bela Martin writes from Green Cove Springs, Florida, on May 14: “I am going back to sea again. My wife and I are leaving here tonight, as we both have fifteen days’ leave. With such a short time, we will spend it between Mary’s home in Hollywood, California, and with my parents in Kentucky.”
PFC Isaac Nakata writes from Europe on May 8: “This morning we had official word that Germany has surrendered. Our commentary on victory is not complete without some misty reflection on dead comrades. So many of the finer youth have died! We don’t honestly celebrate a victory without sharing it with those who have fallen. Now that we have victory here, we face the tremendous task of imposing the conditions of unconditional surrender on Germany. Without vengeance, but by common sense, we must exploit the peace to rebuild political morality in and among nations and to guarantee a future of peace and prosperity. What a task faces us! By crushing Germany we must sink to her level and from there begin to ascend to our aims and purposes and traditions. We must accept her as an outlaw nation, for there is still present the germ of the Nazi ideology of Master race and world domination....I’m hoping to sail for America either this Christmas or next spring....A free environment is the best discipline, after all, for work or play. We servicemen have to get rid of our inhibitions and our memories of grandeur before we can be accepted citizens again in a free world..”
Captain Don Page writes from China on May 4: “This country is still interesting to me, although I’ve been unable to see much more than the immediate area of the barracks and field.”
WITH TEACHERS ON LEAVE:
In the Mail:
Alfred Kazin writes from London on May 16: “We had a tumultuous week here after V-Day, but the tumult was not so much unrelieved joy as kind of incredulity that the things had really ended. At the moment, London is in a kind of carnival mood, and the thousands of people on the streets make a wonderful picture...”
COMMUNITY WORK PROGRAM:
During the last two weeks construction work made some progress despite the unseasonably cool and rainy weather. Workmen reached the half-way mark with the stone ends for the new road culvert that is replacing the bridge near Roadside Cottage. Carpenters completed the rood and all but one of the exterior walls of the Service Building. The workers also roughed in the plumbing and set the interior partition framing.
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The Hauling Crew distributed firewood and kindling in order to clear the decks for the imminent arrival of a carload of block coal that has just been spotted on the Grovestone siding.
The Farm Crew has added planting to its regular routine.
Every effort is being made to locate one or two professional workers to take over partly, at least, the dish washing and the cleaning, thereby relieving the present crew members for construction work.
Two new music practice rooms have been designed and Board-approved. They are now awaiting the WPB okay. As soon as this has been granted, work on the rooms will begin.
--Mac Wood
