Fourteenth College Year Opens

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE NEWS LETTER Volume V Number I November 1946 . FOURTEENTH COLLEGE YEAR OPENS GROWING PAINS awaited buildings are spaced over Black Mountain College is larger the grounds: one below South Lodge, this year than it has ever been. When one between the Studies Building school opened, September 18, 92 and the Office, two in the rhododend students were enrolled: 49 men and ron thicket above the Mac Wood 43 women. Forty of these were new cottage. Until these are completed, students. At BMC as elsewhere, ten students must room at Mrs. Pat growth has its effects on living. ton's, down the road a half mile; Four units of temporary government and many share studies. housing for GI's have been under construction for some weeks and are In spite of the best efforts of the expected to furnish additional sleep faculty in providing a varied cur ing and study space by the first of riculum and in advising against too the year. Students on the work pro heavy a schedule, classes are large. gram are providing part of the labor The following courses are being supply, turning their earnings over offered: .to the college. These impatiently Drawing Ilya Bolotowsky Painting Ilya Bolotowsky American Civilization David R. Corkran Mechanics and Mathematical Analysis Theodore Dreier Introduction to Theoretical Chemistry Fritz Hansgirg Woodworking Mary Gregory Book Binding Johanna J alowetz Cultural History of the Greek World Albert William Levi Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle Albert William Levi Problems of Musical Form and Structure: Gregorian Chant to Bach Edward E. Lowinsky Counterpoint Edward E. Lowinsky and Charlotte Schlesinger Harmony Charlotte Schlesinger Introduction to Music Charlotte Schlesinger Voice Johanna J alowetz A Capella Edward E. Lowinsky ~Chorus Charlotte Schlesinger Piano Edward E. Lowinsky and Charlotte Schlesinger Ensemble Edward Lowinsky - - -- ------ ~- ---- " Latin Theodore Rondthaler Weaving Francisca Mayer Race Problems Herbert A. Miller World Today Herbert A. Miller Historical Introduction to Present-Day Economic Analysis Karl H. Niebyl International Economics Karl H. Niebyl Shakespeare Mary Caroline Richards Literary Criticism Mary Caroline Richards Human Relations John Lewis Wallen Psychology of Social Issues John Lewis Wallen Typewriting and Shorthand Alice K. Rondthaler In addition to these, spontaneous acted as interpreter and taught Rus interest has created informal groups sian to officers and enlisted men. which meet regularly to work to Francisca Mayer is continuing the gether on "extra-curricular" material. instruction in textile design which They range in emphases from art she began at the Summer Art In history to creative writing, play read stitute. Born in Hamburg, she re ing, the study of French, modern ceived her teaching diploma from dance, and economic theory. Johanna Brunson's Weaving School in Stockholm, and was associated FACULTY: NEW AND OLD with workshops in Denmark and Since Anni and Josef Albers are Germany. In 1938 she became weav on leave this year, weaving and art ing instructor and designer for the are in new hands. lIya Bolotowski, industrial department of the Gren a member of the Modern Abstract fell Association in Labrador. During Group, is teaching drawing and paint the war she worked as occupational ing. He was born in Russia in 1907 therapist and assistant director of the and was educated at the French St. Grenfell orphanage. In 1945 she Joseph College in Constantinople and came to the U. S. and was connected at the National Academy of Design with workshops in New York City. in New York City. His work has Miss Mayer is a niece of Dr. Dehn. been widely exhibited both here and abroad and is represented in several Newly a member of the music depart museums and private collections. He ment, Charlotte Schlesinger came to has designed and executed murals at Black Mountain this fall from the the New York World's Fair, the Foxhollow School in Lenox, Mas Williamsburg Housing Project, and sachusetts. Originally she came from Welfare Island. During the war he Berlin, where she took professional served with the U. S. Air Forces and training at the Hochschule fur was stationed at Nome, where he Musik, majoring in composition. Bl~!;k Mountain College Bulletin Newsletter VolJlme V Number 1 November, 1946 Issued five times a year, in November, February, March, April, and May. Entered as second-class matter November 4, 1942, at the Postoffice at Black Mountain, North Carolina, under the Act of August 24, 1912. 2 And also where she won the Beethov Dr. Max Dehn is on leave until Feb en prize in 1929 for a chamber music ruary. He is teaching mathematics work. Between Berlin and the U. at the University of Wisconsin this S., Miss Schlesinger taught in Vienna fall. and in Kiev. She directed the first European performance of Hinde· Dr. Erwin Straus and Trudi left the mith's opera, "Wir hauen eine neue end of August for Lexington, Ken Stadt." tucky, where Dr. Straus has accepted a position as director of clinical Dr. Karl Niebyl, economist newly psychiatry at the Veterans Hospital. appointed to the faculty, arrived He has just completed two years of with his wife after a summer as research on a fellowship at Johns visiting professor at the University Hopkins, the results of which will of Texas. Dr. Niebyl took his degree be published in a series of papers at the University of Wisconsin. He some time during the winter. has taught at Carleton College and at Tulane University. During the Elliott Merrick, who taught English war he was active in the educational here last year, is now doing an services of the Navy. editing job for the Forestry Division of the Department of Agriculture in Mrs. Margaret Brown joined the Col· Asheville. lege staff this year as supervisor of the dining room and kitchen. She "Unwanted: Liberal, creative, sound had previously been youth counselor educational living, by complacent, and assistant director of the coopera sedate, well-established college," an tive camp and small community at article by John Wallen, BMC psy Circle Pines Center, Cloverdale, chologist, appears in the current Michigan. "Peggy" is a Westerner, issue of Motive, a magazine of the from Jackson Hole and the Teton Methodist Student Movement, pub county in Wyoming, where she lished in Nashville. Wallen believes managed a dude ranch. Mrs. Brown that the "human climate" of the and her sons, Jerry and Stanley, college may be more important than occupy the old Straus cottage its curriculum, that "the deepest and (which, by the way, work crews most significant learning comes as have completely redecorated). a result of close contact and inter change with other persons." "The Christa Noland, wife of one of the task the liberal arts college must students, Harry Noland, is a register face," he writes, "is that of enabling ed nurse and has been given charge the student to define the ends for of the infirmary. which he lives." Wallen suggests ways in which this task may be per 'Theodore Dreier, back from his formed. Last January his book, year's leave, has been re-elected Counseling with Returned Service Rector and is teaching mathematics. Men, was published by McGraw-Hill. He and Mrs. Dreier have a new It was written in collaboration with baby girl, Barbara Beate, born in Dr. Carl Rogers, head of the training Asheville on August 9. program for psychological counseling at the University of Chicago. "We 3 wrote the book," Wallen reports, shown at the Art Institute of Chi "for a non-technical audience. It is cago, and the Egan Gallery in New addressed to people whom veterans York. are likely to consult - teachers, preachers, personnel agents, and so BUILDING forth - people who are not trained Permanent Building Plans for the counselors but yet have to function College are being studied and a re well in a counseling situation." port on them will be made later. The building fund has now reached $11, Dr. Edward Lowinsky has been a 508.85 thanks to a recent anonymous warded a Guggenheim Fellowship, gift of $5,000.00. which he plans to take advantage of next year. He expects to write a BAS ALLEN history of the motet, from Ockeghem Bascomb Allen died on August to Orlando di Lasso, and hopes to do 27th, without regaining conscious his research in Rome. Although the ness, three days after being hit ~y award was made for 1946-7, Dr. a truck while crossing the street m Lowinsky petitioned for a year's the town of Black Mountain. He was postponement of the prize so that 58 years old. he might carryon the music program Bas Allen had general supervision of here and rebuild the department all maintenance work at the college. which suffered such a profound loss Although he was not officially on in the death of Dr. Heinrich J alowetz the faculty, he was an indispensable last February. His book, Secret teacher and much that one learned Chromatic Art in the Netherlands from him was not to be found in Motet, was published by Columbia books. The way one learned was by University Press in March, 1946. working with him"on the job, oil all kinds of jobs. Josef Albers was one of three invited to lecture before the annual con He joined us when the College ference of the Cooke-Daniels Me started, in September, 1933, ,and had morial Foundation, held July 23 to been with us ever since. From the 26 at the Denver Art Museum. Other first he entered into the spirit of lecturers were Sheldon Cheney, well our educational venture and has known author of art history, and been well known to every generation Georgy Kepes, professor at Massa of students who have come.

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