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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 12 Monday, February 19, 1945 Bulletin 18
CALENDAR:
Dick Bush-Brown, Bill McLaughlin and Herbert Miller will summarize and interpret the news of last week in a forty-five minute session, beginning at 6:45 0’clock this evening, in the Lobby of South Lodge. Dr Miller will also talk about “The Relation of Russia to the Post-War World.”
The Board of Fellows will meet on Tuesday afternoon a 4:30 o’clock in Bob Wunsch’s Study.
The Faculty will meet in the Faculty Room in the Studies Building on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock.
Siegfried Schwarz will give the first of a series of six informal lectures on economics in the Faculty Toom on Wednesday evening at 7:30. The subject of the talk will be “Modern Approach to Economics.” the subsequent talks will be entitled “Free Enterprise and the Profit Motive,” “Capital and Credit, Instruments and Symbols of Modern Economy,” “Monopoly and Custom,” “Social and Political Aspects of the Industrial Age,” “International Trade.”
Moliere’s “The Physician in Spite of Himself” will be read aloud in Bob Wunsch’s Study on Wednesday evening, beginning at 8:45 o’clock.
Trudi Straus and Heinrich Jalowetz will give a violin-piano concert in the College Dining Hall on Saturday evening, February 24, beginning at 8:15 o’clock. The program will include: Bach’s Violin-Piano Sonata in E Major and Brahms’ Sonata in G Major.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Edward Lowinsky has just finished reading the gallery proofs of his book on “Secret Chromatic Art in the Netherlands Motet,” that will be published this Spring by the Columbia University Press.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, an Institute for Renaissance and Baroque Music has been founded. This Institute will issue a Quarterly and will publish books, facsimiles, and new editions of old music. Edward Lowinsky has been asked to cooperate with the Institute and to write two contributions for the first year of the Quarterly.
Edward J Stainbrook writes that he will be unable to come to Black Mountain College this Spring to give a week’s seminar in psychology.
Samuel Guy Inman, adviser on Latin American affairs to the State Department, will spend the week end of March 9-11 at Lake Eden. During his stay he will conduct informal conferences and discussions. Dr Inman will attend the Pan American Conference in Mexico City from February 21 to March 6. immediately on conclusion of the conference he will fly to North Carolina to speak to various North Carolina colleges for the Southern Council on International Relations.
Trudi Straus will leave on February 25 for Baltimore, Maryland; on March 4 she will give a violin concert at St John’s College in nearby Annapolis. Her program will include Bach’s Violin Sonata in E Major, Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, Beethoven’s Romanza in F Major, and Brahms’ Violin Sonata in G Major. She will return to Lake Eden on March 6.
The Drama students of the College will begin work this week on William Kozienko’s “The Street Attends a Funeral”, an imaginative study in chiaroscuro: the death of a son interpreted in accordance with the varied experiences of various women. They will present this one-act play in Asheville on March 15 in the Regional Drama Festival and in Chapel Hill on April 14 in the State Drama Festival.
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STAFF ADDITIONS:
Helen Rosenbluth, the latest to the College office staff, arrived on Tuesday of last week and began at once her work as secretary to Fritz Hansgirg. Miss Rosenbluth is a resident of New York City. She has attended the New School and the College of the City of New York.
Siegfried Schwarz, recently appointed by the Board of Fellows to the College teaching staff as Instructor of Economics, was born in Trutnov, then Austria, later Czechoslovakia. He received his degree of Doctor of Law at the Carolo-Ferdinande University of Prague, after having studied jurisprudence, economics and social sciences there as well as in Vienna and Paris. Being mainly interested in economics, Dr Schwarz chose a business career. He was first connected with a large cotton spinning and weaving concern, then with a metal and iron works. When his father-in-law died, he took over the management of his rather large textile mill that worked predominantly for the export trade. Consequently, he had to travel extensively all over Europe, the United States, and Canada. Through his travelling he got a firsthand knowledge of international trade, its limitations, currency and monetary problems; economic conditions in dozens of countries; and an understanding of the interdependence of economic, political and social facts and ideas. He published in leading Czechoslovakian newspapers articles based on these experiences. In October of 1938, Dr Schwarz fled with his wife to the United States.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New Addresses:
Faith Hartwig
118 West 13th Street
New York City
In the Mail:
Miss Constance Warren writes from Bronxville, New York: “Sergeant DIck Andrews is with the Seventh Division in France. He has been in aviation service since the beginning of the war. When he went overseas to Africa he was the historian of his outfit and I think he was doing interpretation of reconnaisance films; I am not sure but we think that was it. Then he was transferred to the War Propaganda Office and was in Italy for quite a while, enjoying very much his contact with a good many newspaper man there..Then he returned to the air reconnaisance outfit where he is at presenet....He was in Southern France for a while and I think he is somewhere in France now, but I don’t know where. During this time he was on detached service for a little while and had a very interesting time acting as chauffeur for one of his superior officers, driving him to Paris. While in Paris he had a chance to visit picture galleries which he enjoyed very much indeed.”
Renate Benfey writes from Cambridge, Massachusetts: “Mimi French is now working in one of the Harvard labs doing some kind of ‘super-secret’ work for the Armed Forces. She seems to like it a lot. We get together quite frequently, since she lives only about three minutes from me....Irene Segen Kleckman has just graduated from Queens College.”
Announcements:
Mrs Benjamin Franklin Cresson has the honour of announcing the marriage of her daughter Cornelia to Mr George Rodgers Barber Thursday, the fifteenth of February One thousand, nine hundred and forty-five All Saints Chapel, Church of the Ascension New York
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News Item:
Faith Hartwig is working on a draftsman for the Bell Laboratories on West Street in New Yotk City.
WITH FORMER MEMBERS OF THE STAFF:
In the Mail:
Henrietta Barth writes from Delray Beach, Florida: “I am staying with Em and Mac Wood for about a month- until the Navy calls me.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
On Wednesday, January 17, Margaret Greene was married, at the home of her mother in Winchester, Massachusetts, to Lieutenant Donald Edward Pickett. Lieutenant and Mrs Pickett went to New York City and the Berkshires on their wedding trip.
SPECIAL BULLETIN:
Peggy Emery and Kenneth Kurtz were married today at noon in Asheville, North Carolina.
