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The football game gave campus naifs a wonderful opportunity–to organize a cheering squad. Sydney Irwin and Pepe Gonzales y Zayas were my enthusiastic cohorts as we practiced many of the cheers remembered from high school days. Uniforms proved no problem (we were more officially costumed than the players)--gray bottoms with white sweatshirts "emblazoned" with red construction paper cutouts of "C" for Cro-Magnon, paper beanies, a matching megaphone, bobby socks and we were ready with the ever popular "locomotive." We were good! We were polished! Notice the marvelous "in air" shot accompanying this page. Who cared that we were ALL supposed to be in the air at the same time? The effect of the out-of-sync ending is still spectacular. The game? I don't remember giving it a glance.
Perhaps less known was the BMC girls’ basketball team. There has to be at least six of us. This was the age of the split court where guards and forwards of the opposite teams were limited by the mid-line. Every time Claire Pickens received the ball, she became so excited that she ran down the court forgetting to dribble. Any comic relief was welcome when a local high school offered to play us. It was illegal to congregate (black and white) in a public place. Vesta Martin was part of the team and we did use the public high school’s court, but the local constabulary probably felt our lack of skill was punishment enough and left us alone. I can’t even imagine what the final score was!
The football game gave campus naifs a wonderful opportunity–to organize a cheering squad. Sydney Irwin and Pepe Gonzales y Zayas were my enthusiastic cohorts as we practiced many of the cheers remembered from high school days. Uniforms proved no problem (we were more officially costumed than the players)--gray bottoms with white sweatshirts "emblazoned" with red construction paper cutouts of "C" for Cro-Magnon, paper beanies, a matching megaphone, bobby socks and we were ready with the ever popular "locomotive." We were good! We were polished! Notice the marvelous "in air" shot accompanying this page. Who cared that we were ALL supposed to be in the air at the same time? The effect of the out-of-sync ending is still spectacular. The game? I don't remember giving it a glance.
Perhaps less known was the BMC girls’ basketball team. There has to be at least six of us. This was the age of the split court where guards and forwards of the opposite teams were limited by the mid-line. Every time Claire Pickens received the ball, she became so excited that she ran down the court forgetting to dribble. Any comic relief was welcome when a local high school offered to play us. It was illegal to congregate (black and white) in a public place. Vesta Martin was part of the team and we did use the public high school’s court, but the local constabulary probably felt our lack of skill was punishment enough and left us alone. I can’t even imagine what the final score was!
Sticky Attitudes
Line-up:
Bergmad 368 capt. f.
Blanchard 2 c.
Atkinson 3.1416 c.
Sherman 1.000 aprox. e.
Nakata .0005 h.r.
Fox 606 r.h.
Schauffler 98.6 l.h.
Roberts 8:45 e.
Corkran coach
Cro-Magnons
Line-up:
Albright 13 capt. f.b.
Boyce 69 h.b.
Adamy 55 r.e.
Cable 2 h.b.
Jaeger 77 h.b.
Noland 81 c.
Parker 33 h.b.
Rice ?? l.e.
Resnick 28 r.e.
Shier 62 l.e.
Moles coach
Kremen adviser
Prehistoric specimens
Wage evolutionary battle against
Modern neurotics
Artwork: 1995.16.1
Prehistoric Specimens vs. Modern Neurotics: Sports at Black Mountain College
This work was created for the 1995 exhibition Remembering Black Mountain College curated by Mary Emma Harris in conjunction with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the BMC alumni reunion organized by Mary Holden Thompson, founding director of BMCM+AC.
Gift of Florence Fogelson Blumberg
Florence Fogelson Blumberg, Prehistoric Specimens vs. Modern Neurotics: Sports at Black Mountain College, 1995. Photographs and text on board Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the Artist.
Remembering Black Mountain College. (Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 1996), 50.
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