Black Mountain College Newsletter Vol. II, No. 1, August 1939

Newsletter, 2 pages, one-sided. Announcements regarding faculty hires, fundraising, admissions for the fall. Includes list of admitted students.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE NEWSLETTER
Volume II Number I August 1939
FACULTY
To fill the vacancy in the Music Department occasioned by the resignation of Allan Sly to accept a position as Head of Music at the College of William and Mary, the Board appointed Dr Heinrich Jalowetz, a distinguished Austrian musician. Dr Jalowetz will be accompanied by his wife and daughter; Miss Jalowetz will be enrolled as a regular student.
Dr Jalowetz’s career in brief has been; born in Bunn, Czechoslovakia; moved to Vienna at the age of one; studied Music at the University of Vienna under Guido Adler; granted the degree of PhD with a dissertation on the influence of Bach on Mayda, Mozart, and Beethoven; studied composition with Arnold Schuberg, and the violin and piano with various teachers; first opera-conductor, since 1908, at many theaters in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, particularly at the Volksoper in Vienna, the German Theater in Prague, and the Opera House in Cologne; concert conductor in many European cities; conducted first performances of important works of many composers such as Schonberg, Hindemith, Webern, Borg, Krenek, and Erdmann; forced to leave Germany in 1933, went to Vienna and occupied himself with musical activities including musical leadership of the Orsterheichenberg, Sudetenland; from 1936 to 1938, Opernchef in Reichenberg, Sudetenland; entered the United Stated in January, 1939. This summer he is giving an opera course at the Toronto Conservatory of Music.
The Board is considering several candidates for instructor in Biology. To everyone’s deep regret, Dr and Mrs Moellenhoff have left the College to engage in the practice of medicine and psychiatry at the Michell Sanitarium in Pooria, Illinois.
The Board is also considering candidates for a second teacher in Art to assist Mr Albers; and several interesting applicants are under consideration in the fields of German and Political Science.
As a necessary step in its building and expansion program, the College set out to find an experienced person to undertake the difficult task of raising money. Through David Bailey’s efforts we have had the good fortune to find Mrs Donald McGraw who has had considerable experience and success in this type of work. A graduate of the Emma Willard School in 1911, Mrs McGraw received her AB degree from Syracuse University in 1915, and her MA from the University of California the following year. During the years 1921-23 she has raised a large endowment. Other organizations with which she has been associated are: The Cranbrook Foundation, Society of the Friends of Music, National Association of Traveler’s Aid Society, Legislation for Birth Control, The Social Unit Plan. During the past fortnight Mrs McGraw has been at Lake Eden making a thorough study of the financial programs of the College and the College’s relationship to the public. She has prepared a report on this survey embodying her recommendations for a three-year plan of action to ensure financial backing, to increase the enrollment, and to make the College known to the public. Her report is being submitted to the Faculty and the student officers.
The College has always believed that sabbatical leaves of absence should be a part of our program. A plan has now been worked out, as we begin the seventh year of the College’s existence, whereby such leaves will commence. These members of the Faculty who have been at the College longest will be granted sabbatical leave first. During the coming Fall Semester Mr Dreier and Mr Rice will be away from the College, Mr Dreier doing graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mr Rice working on his autobiography and other writings. During the Spring Semester and the following year, other faculty members, in order of time spent at the College, will be granted sabbatical leave.
STUDENTS
The number of applicants for admission next fall is much greater than last year. To date the following students have been fully admitted by the Admissions Committee:
Robert Bliss, Seattle, Wash. Fernando Loon Saanz, Spain
Cynthia Carr, Winchester, Mass. Bernard Malek, Bronxville, N.Y.
Maude Dabbs, Mayesville, S.C. Eudice Schifris, Chicago, Ill.
Rudolph Haase, Milwaukee, Wis. Barbara Sieck, Winnetka, Ill.
Martha Hunt, Spuyton Duyvil, N.Y. Evelyn Tubbs, Wyoming, Dela.
Elizabeth Jalowetz, Vienna Alaina Windholz, Rochester, N.Y.
Charles Kessler, Hyattsville, Md. Eva Zhitlowsky, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Frances Kuntz, Bronxville, N.Y.
Tentatively admitted and awaiting the comparative judgement of the Committee are: 5 boys, 5 girls. Sixteen applications are pending; and a large number of applicants have been rejected either on personal grounds or because of financial circumstances. The Admissions Committee feels confident that the Fall Semester will open with approximately sixty-five students.
Fernando Leon Saanz, listed among the new students, is the recipient of the fellowship voted by the Faculty last spring for a refugee student from Loyalist Spain. Through Dr Fernando de Los Rios, former Spanish Ambassador to the United States, the College got in contact with Mr Leon, whose father was a military attaché in the Washington Embassy. Mr Leon finished his secondary studies in Spain just before the civil war broke out. During the war he served with the Republican Air Force and was, last February; interned in a French concentration camp from which he and some of his comrades made an adventurous escape, succeeding finally in reaching New York.