4p, onesided pages, 16 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner. Mimeograph on matte off white paper. Announces that Marilyn Bauer will take her oral exam for graduation in Textile Design on Wed and Thursday mornings; she is currently having an exhibition in the Weaving Room. ANNOUNCES THAT A RECENT MEETING OF THE FACULTY, WITH THE STUDENT OFFICERS, APPROVED TO ADMIT TO THE COLLEGE FOR THE 1945-46 SESSION A FULL-TIME BLACK TEACHER OR THREE VISITING BLACK LECTURERS, ONE FOR EACH QUARTER, OR A BLACK STUDENT., TWO BLACK STUDENTS WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE 1945 SUMMER INSTITUTES. Ground was broken last week for the two new music practice rooms. The Service Building reconstruction had reached the stage where the finish flooring had been started and the plumbing and electrical work had been completed. Visitors last week: Captain Joseph W Jailer Mrs Todd Dabney, Mrs Wallace Gill, Dr C L Siegel, Mrs Marli Ehrman and her son Frankie Lieutnant and Mrs Don Kelley; Thaddous Malinowski Dr Paul Schwartzkopf Expected visitors: Mr and Mrs Theodore Rondthaler.
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 33
College Year 12 Monday, June 4, 1945
CALENDAR:
Dick Bush-Brown will summarize the news of the world of last week and Herbert Miller will talk about “Syria” this evening at 7:00 o’clock in the Lobby of the North Lodge.
The students will meet for an hour this evening, beginning at 7:30 o’clock, in the Lobby of North Lodge.
Captain Joseph W Jailer will talk informally this evening at 3:30 o’clock in the Faculty Room on “Vertebrates.” On next Monday evening he will conclude his series of talks on biology with a lecture on “The Lindocrine Glands.”
There will be a meeting on the lawn near the Stone Cottage tomorrow after lunch of all College car owners. Plans will be made for carrying the afternoon mail regularly to Black Mountain and for setting up a more or less regular weekly schedule of trips to and from Asheville.
The Board of Fellows will hold its weekly meeting in Bob Wunsch’s study tomorrow at 4:30 o’clock. Paul Beidler, Edward Lowinsky and Mac Wood will attend this meeting.
The Community Chorus will meet for rehearsal on Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the Dining Hall.
Marilyn Bauer will take her oral examinations for graduation in Textile Design on Wednesday and Thursday mornings of this week, beginning at 9:00 o’clock, until 12:00, in the Art Room in the Studies Building. Mrs Maril Ehrman will be her examiner.
There will be a Faculty Meeting, without the Student Officers, on Wednesday evening at 4:30 o’clock. There will be an evaluation of the Spring Quarter academic and Community work of the students.
There will be a Special Meeting of the Faculty on Friday evening at 7:00 o’clock in the Faculty Room to read the Examiner’s Report on the oral and written work of Marilyn Bauer.
There will be an informal student concert on Saturday evening, beginning at 8:15 o’clock, in the College Dining Hall.
There will be a reading of “The Trojan Women,” by Euripedes, in Bob Wunsch’s Study on Sunday evening at 8:00 o’clock. This play is regarded as the world’s noblest pacifist play. It deals with the evils of military aggression and imperialism.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
At a recent meeting of the Faculty, with the Student Officers, there was a unanimous decision to admit to the College for the 1945-46 Session a full-time Nego teacher or three visiting Negro lecturers, one for each Quarter, or a Negro student.
Two Negro students will be admitted to the 1945 Summer Institute.
Frank Porter Graham, president of the Greater University of North Carolina, was an all-day visitor at Lake Eden on Wednesday of last week. At 11:00 o’clock he gave to the Community an account of the techniques used in solving capital-labor disputes during war time and a detailed account of several case histories as illustrations. After lunch Dr Graham spoke informally on contemporary problems with students and teachers on the steps of the North Lodge. During the afternoon he visited the magnesium pilot plant and talked with Fritz Hansgirg about his hopes for the development of a magnesium-extracting industry in Western North Carolina. Later, he had conferences with Ted Dreier and Bob Wunsch. It was Dr. Graham’s first visit to Black Mountain College.
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Ted, Bobbie, and Liddie Dreier left on Thursday afternoon by train for Lake George, New York. They will spend most of June in their summer cabin at Bolton Landing, then will go to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. Ted and Bobbie will return in August to participate in the activities of the Summer Institute. Ted plans to take graduate work in mathematics either at Harvard or at MIT during his 1945-46 leave from the College.
Kirby Page, editor and author, spoke to the College Community and visitors from Black Mountain on Thursday evening of last week on “The Price of Peace.” He was introduced by Herbert Miller.
Siegfried Schwarz left on Friday afternoon for New York City on College business. He was accompanied by his wife. During Dr Schwarz’s absence from the College, his classes in economics are being taught by Herbert Miller.
At a recent meeting of the Board of Fellows, Siegfried Schwarz was appointed Business Manager of the Institutes and Theodore Rondthaler was named Acting Business Manager of the College for June and July.
Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and delegate to the San Francisco United Nations Conference, has wired Herbert Miller from San Francisco: “I and the people at home are grateful to you for your work in the cause of decency.” Dr Miller was very closely associated with Jan Masaryk’s father, President Masaryk, in the establishment of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. He visited President Masaryk several times in Czechoslovakia.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Renate Benfey c/o Lindel French 43 Linnsen Street Cambridge 38, Massachusetts
Mr and Mrs Ev Dwight 64 Dank Street New York 14, New York
In the Mail:
Renate Benfey writes form Cambridge: “I’m planning to go to summer school, to take introductory courses in economics and sociology and a course on Race Relations in America...I have seen Ruth O’Neill several times since she arrived here a few weeks ago..She is living and working in Boston..”
Sally Dwight writes from New York City on May 31: “For a month now I’ve been feeling around with some silly civil service exams and rushing around to different offices and officials preparatory to getting a very minor job with the Music Division of the OWI, and tomorrow I’m finally starting to work there....I shall be a sort of general secretary to the girl who is in charge of getting out the programs during the night- which means I do cataloging (thousands of records), typing of scripts, and giving occasional musical advice if I am asked for it. This doesn’t sound so very exciting, I know, but it means for me getting acquainted with a lot of music and many musical people and with the program end of broadcasting as well as with propaganda (psychological warfare). My hours will be from 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon until midnight...Ruth Lyford writes me that Harriett is now at home and that Mrs Leonard is setting up shop in New York- which might moan some mere singing for me if I can possibly find the time...I recently saw Jack Gifford in ‘Dark of the Moon’...
Wedding Announcement:
Major and Mrs Charles Wdwin Clapp, Jr., have the honor of announcing the marriage of their daughter Margaret Macdonald to Harry Orland King, Jr., Midshipman, United States Naval Reserve, Monday, the twenty-third of April, in New York.
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WITH STAFF MEMBERS ON LEAVE:
In the Mail:
Sergeant John Evarts writes from somewhere, in Germany: “It’s permissible now to name some of the places we’ve seen: Bud Wildungen, where the mineral baths were much enjoyed: the ruins of Fulda; the Rhine at Ling-am-Rhein, a stone’s throw from the Remagen Bridge; the terrific rubble of Nurnburg; the Danube River at Reginsburg, which was not badly damaged; and the beautiful expanse of Bavarian countryside. The weeks before the final surrender were very tense and exciting..Thank God, it’s all over now....Now- the long, slow process of cleaning up, occupation, the movement of millions of people back to their homes, the movement of prisoners...Though I know nothing definite, I rather doubt that I’ll be sent to the Pacific....We are now set up in some very comfortable buildings- in the country- not a great many miles from one of my favorite cities, as well as one of Trudi Straus’. I hope that some time I may get a chance to visit it and at least look around...I hope some bulletins will begin to arrive soon. I haven’t seen any in a long time. I certainly did enjoy Bob Babcock’s letter- and I was impressed by his vivid and fine, unaffected style of writing..’
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
Notes: Lieutenant Bedford Thurman is Editor of The Bomber Baronet, a mimeographed newspaper that is published daily somewhere in the Pacific in the I and E section of the Fifth Bombardment Group, APO 719.
COMMUNITY WORK:
During the wee a fifty-ton car of block coal was unloaded and distributed to the ten heating plants on the campus by an augmented hauling crew with their usual dispatch and within the forty-eight hours’ limit set by wartime car requirements.
Construction work at the College in the past was carried out by teachers and students under the direction of an with the assistance of professional building mechanics. All the work going on now, however, is being done entirely by members of the College Community.
During the week the work on the stone ends of the new culvert under the road near Roadside Cottage was completed.
Ground was broken last week for two class-room-sized music practice houses in the grove of pine tress south of the Service Building. Each building is to have a concrete floor, two masonry side walls, two glass walls and an insulated flat roof of wood with asphalt covering. They were designed by Paul Beidler, visiting College Architect, and approved by the War Production Board.
The Service Building reconstruction has reached the stage where the finish flooring has been started and the plumbing and electrical work has been completed. It is hoped that the work on the rest of the interior walls and the doors and the windows can be kept ahead of the floor layers.
--Mac Wood
VISITORS:
Among the visitors at Lake Eden last week, in addition to the speakers, were: Mrs Todd Dabney, mother of Annette Stone, and Mrs Wallace Gill, Mrs Stone’s sister, both from Richmond, Virginia; Dr C L Siegal, eminent mathematician and a friend of Max Dehn; Mrs
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Marli Ehrman, head of the Textile Design Department of the School of Design in Chicago, and her small son, Frankie; Lieutenant and Mrs Don Kelley from Washington, DC; Thaddeus Walinewski, instructor of romance languages and folk dancing at Gulgord College in North Carolina; and Dr Paul Schwartzkopf, an industrial chemist from New York City, and his wife.
GRADUATION EXHIBIT:
The textile and art work of Marilyn Bauer, candidate for graduation, is being exhibited in the Weaving Room in the Studies Building. The exhibit will remain up until Friday noon.
EXPECTED:
Mrs Theodore Rondthaler is expected to arrive this afternoon from Winston-Salem and will begin work tomorrow in the College Business Office. Theodore Rondthaler is expected to arrive on June 10.
