4p, onesided pages, 16 horizontal folds, staple in top left corner, envelop prints and a stamp on the back side of the last page. Mimeograph on matte off white paper. Announces that Sam Brown will be given his trial oral exam for graduation in music on Thursday afternoon, June 14. announces that the spring quarter of the 1944-45 Session will end on Sat June 16 at 12:30 pm, and the summer quarter will begin on Tuesday June 26. The College asks all regular students to be back by then, even if they are planning to take only Institute courses. Marilyn Bauer graduated on last Fridat evening at 715. Announces that the following calendar had been accepted for the 45-46 Session: Fall Quarter: Sep 28 - Dec 14, Winter Quarter: Jan 11-March 28; Spring Quarter April 4 - June 19; Summer Quarter: July 2-Sep 17. Visitors last week: Mrs Lerey Allen of Raleigh; Mrs Todd Dabney; Marli Ehrman and her sin; Mrs Gill; Ernest T Gregory; Lieutenant and Mrs Don Kelley; Faith Murray; Ralph Nash; Dr C L Siegel Expected visitor: Mrs Norton Garth
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Community Bulletin Bulletin 33
College Year 12 Monday, June 11, 1945
CALENDAR:
All the College secretaries and Anni and Josef Albers, Fritz Hansgirg, Edward Lowinsky, Herbert Miller, Mac Wood, and Bob Wunsch will meet this evening at 7:00 o’clock on the lawn near the Stone Cottage to divide and schedule the secretarial work to be done this week.
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 conclude his series of informal lectures on biological subjects this evening at 8:30 o’clock in the Faculty Room. He will talk on the endocrine glands.
The meeting of the Board of Fellows, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, will be held later in the week.
The Community Chorus will meet for rehearsal on Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the Dining Hall.
There will be a Faculty Meeting, without the Student Officers, on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. Each advisor will read an edited summary of the academic and community work of each of his advisees.
Herbert Miller will address the College Community in the Lobby of North Lodge on Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock on “The Present World Chaos.”
Sam Brown will be given his trial oral examinations for graduation in music on Thursday afternoon, June 14, at 3:30 o’clock in the Round House.
The Spring Quarter will begin on Tuesday, June 26. All regular students are expected to be back by then, even if they are planning to take only Institute courses.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Marilyn Bayer was graduated from Black Mountain College by the Faculty at a Special Meeting held in Bob Wunsch’s Study on last Friday evening at 7:15 o’clock.
Each teacher has agreed to hand in to the Rector before 6:30 P.M. on Tuesday a summary in duplicate of the Spring Quarter work on each student in each of his classes. The Rector will distribute those summaries among the advisers before noon on Wednesday.
All gifts received for the Art Institute or the Music Institute or the College in general should be taken to the Business Office. Each gift should be accompanied by a brief legend including the the following information: from whom received, by whom received, for what specific purpose it was given. Gifts should be acknowledged both by the recipient and by the Rector. A copy of each letter acknowledging a gift should be filed in the Business Office.
At its June 6 meeting, the Faculty accepted the recommendations of the car owners, namely:
To charge passengers fares for rides to and from Asheville and Black Mountain
Thirty-five cents for round trips to Asheville
Twenty cents for one-way trip to or from Asheville
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c) Twenty cents for round trip to Black Mountain
d) Ten cents for one-way trip to or from Black Mountain
e) Five cents for trip to or from main highway
2) To collect all fares at the beginning of the trip
3) To use all money collected for student scholarships.
Now that Bas Allen has taken up his full-time duty again at Blue Ridge, special arrangements have been made for getting the afternoon out-going mail down to the Black Mountain post office every afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Bob Wunsch will be mail-carrier on Mondays and Saturdays, David Cockran on Tuesday, Emily Wood on Wednesdays, Mrs Albers on Thursdays, and Herbert Miller on Fridays. Dr Miller will continue to get the mail on Sunday mornings.
At a recent meeting, the Faculty decided to discourage the visits to the College between June 15 and June 26 of all but “exceptional guests,” approved by the Faculty.
The following calendar has been accepted for the 1945-46 Session: Fall Quarter: September 28- December 14, Winter Quarter: January 11- March 28, Spring Quarter: April 4- June 19, Summer Quarter: July 2- September 17.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
In the Mail:
PFC Henry Adams writes from Austria on May 8: “As I sit here writing this letter, the BBC is coming in over the radio with program after program celebrating V-E Day. It’s certainly a great day for all of us, even us GI’s who are up at what used to be the front. There aren’t any demonstrations of joy, just a general feeling of relief born of the realization that we won’t be shot at any more... I've been extremely lucky in this war so far. I didn’t get to France until early in March, and I saw only about six weeks of actual combat in Germany. Also, the war was so nearly over, and the Germans were so completely finished that we had one overwhelming victory after another- an excellent thing for morale. And now the European war is over. I came out without a scratch. Some of the fellows in my outfit weren’t so lucky. Three fellows in my ocmpany are dead, and several others have been wounded. It is tragic to realize that the war so nearly over and that they, like President Roosevelt, came so near to seeing the end... I'm glad now that I did get over here and see for myself what has actually happened in Europe. The spectacle is as dramatic when I landed, the port of Le Havre, was a shambles. The docks, the warehouses, and much of the city itself had been completely destroyed that we had to use floating docks and amphibious lighters to get ashore. Wrecked ships, debris, and rubble lay all around us....To us it was a shock. This was the first wrecked city we had seen, and seeing all this devastation for the first time left an indelible impression upon our minds. Excepting communications and war industries comparatively few things were destroyed in France and Belgium, but the impoverishment of the people was terrible. The farms were stripped of everything edible, the entire Army was kept in prison for years, and millions were taken away as forced labor in the Reich. In Germany the situation was quite a bit different. The civilian population lived better than did almost anyone else in Europe for the early years of the war. They get plenty of feed, plenty to wear, and all the other necessities of life. As time went on, the bombings of their cities began to cramp their style. As they lost the regimes they had conquered, their sources of loot dwindled. And they had to tighten their belts. Today they are in a situation that I’m only too grateful to be out of myself. Their cities are flattered worse than are any French or Belgian cities, their transportation lives and
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Utilities are almost totally out of commission, their country is filled with the foreign workers they grabbed from their conquered neighbors, and the foreign workers are now rioting and looting for food and clothing and are seeking revenge for their years of oppression. The future of Germany looks black. She hasn’t a friend anywhere now. I've talked to civilians in France, Belgium, and Holland, and I’ve talked to foreign workers in Germany and as a nation and as people. They are beginning to get even now. The spectacle of Germany’s ruin and destruction delighted them... I saw this whole situation in miniature the first time when our outfit liberated- or should I say, took- a German city. Our regiment moved into the Ruhr industrial city of Hagen. The opposition looked like it was going to be pretty tough; but soon after the battle got under way, the Heinies started coming out and shouting ‘Kamerad’. As we advanced through the streets, the Russian, the Polish and the French workers and the German civilizations stayed in their houses until the shooting was over. The city was so thoroughly devastated, we realized the people of Hagen had been through plenty of shellings and bombings before. In the center of the town was a public air raid shelter. In its side was a gap hole, made by a long-range artillery shell that had gone through and killer 420 people...After the town had been taken, everyone started coming out. The Germans, all old men, women and boys, were weary, gloomy faces. I saw not one single smile. But for the foreign workers it was a day of rejoicing. They rushed out to cheer us as we passed, and they handed out wine and beer by the case. It was easy to identify the foreigners, for they wore initials on their clothes: P for Poland, F for France, GST for Russia. They looked tattered and hungry. For years they had been living on cabbage and turnips. Even broad was a luxury for them. Now they were making up for all that they had suffered. They went into German homes and shops and got the meat and clothes they found there. And they were out to get the Germans, too. They beat up, even shot, some of their former factory overscore and guards and reported Nazi leaders to us. For a while they began to get out of hand, and we were forced to send out motorized patrols and guards to keep order. After the first moments of liberation had passed, things began to quiet down. The foreign workers started to pack up and to leave. They didn’t want to wait for the military government to provide transportation. They were setting out on foot right away. War or no war, they wanted to get home... a few weeks later we liberated some Americans. They were fliers in a prisoner-of-war camp in Austria. Russian, Polish, British, and other Allied fliers had been held at this Stalag (prison). The Americans had been lucky. They had been protected by the Geneva Convention and were allowed one food package a week from the Red Cross. The Russians had not signed the Geneva Pact, so their men caught hell. The Germans shot them on every provocation, forced them to work, and beat them up if they showed signs of weakness, and virtually starved them. When the American Army arrived, those Russians got even with a will. There's one thing I’ll never forget about those American fliers. Though they were all young, none over 25, their faces were lined and tired, and they looked ten years older than their years..Today they are all heading home...No doubt, the German PW’s over there are being put on trains for the long ride back to Germany. When they see what Germany is like today, God only knows what their reactions will be; certainly disillusionment and despair will be among them. If I know everything about Germany, these returning prisoners will find plenty of self-pity and sentimental sob stories about the great suffering the German people have had to endure. But we will be more weary of the German people this time. They will never be the dominating nation they were before the war. We can’t let them be!”
VISITORS:
Among the visitors at Lake Eden last week were: Mrs Leroy Allen of Raleigh, North Carolina, the aunt of Jean Couch; Mrs Tedd Dabney, mother of Annette Stone; Maril Ehrman, Marilyn Bauer’s
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Examiner, and her small son, Frankie; Mrs Wallace Gill, Annette Stone’s sister; Ernest T Gregory, from Wenham, Massachusetts, Molly’s father; Lieutenant and Mrs Don Kelley, from Washington, DC; Faith Murray, formerly a student at the College; Ralph Nash, a friend of Elizabeth and George Zabrinske; and Dr CL Siegel.
Expected on Tuesday for a visit of two or three days: Mrs Norton Garth of Coral Cables, Florida. She is a friend of Walter Locke, a member of the College Advisory Board, and is interested in the educational philosophy of the College.
THE FARM:
(for week ending June 2)
After rainy weeks and a generally slow period on the Farm- except in the hog domain where eighteen small pigs miraculously appeared- the weather has cleared too completely, and we have suddenly been able to plant and harvest all at once.
Twenty acres of alfalfa and barley have been cut and harvested, and the land has been plowed for silage corn and more vegetables. Ten acres of silage are planted, and two acres of sweet corn, peas, onions, tomatoes and leek are doing well. The ground has been prepared for five hundred cabbage plants and five hundred tomato plants. The soybean ground is now being plowed; the planting will take place next week.
Seventy loads of manure have been spread upon the fields; the beef cattle deserve most of the credit for this commodity.
--Mary Gregory
(One week later)
It rains again. Five hundred cabbage plants and five hundred tomato plants have been set out. Ten more rows of green peas and beans have been planted. Twelve acres of soybean ground has been made ready for planting. The pigs are only growing.
--Mary Gregory
WANTED:
The College needs very much, for the Summer Music Institute especially, the loan of two grand pianos. The College will gladly pay the transportation charges. If you have a piano or know of some one with whom you or we may arrange for the loan of a piano, please write: Edward Lowinsky, Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC.
RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED
BLACK MTN COLLEGE
BLACK MOUNTAIN NC
Mr & Mrs Theodore Dreier
Bolton Landing
Lake George, New York
