Panel text reads:
Children At College Aid In Scrap Campaign
BLACK MOUNTAIN, Oct, 9. (Special)--Spending after-school hours searching out items for Uncle Sam’s metal pot, a quartet of children of faculty members at Black Mountain college at Lake Eden have collected nearly a quarter of a ton of scrap which they will contribute to this current salvage campaign in this district.
The young collectors are Sandra Kocker, eight, third-grader at the Black Mountain graded school; her brother, Larry, a pupil in the third grade, both the children of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lawrence Kocker of the college; Boyd Mattison, nine, fourth-grade pupil, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gorman E. Mattison, newcomers to the college staff this year, and Eddie Dreier, five, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Dreier.
During the summer, clean-up crews of Black Mountain college went over all buildings and grounds, rounding up a large amount of scrap which was contributed to for salvage purposes at that time. A junk collector was also called in and allowed to gather up all items from the college dump which might help feed the mills turning out ships, guns, tanks, and planes.
Undiscouraged by these two previous collections, the children set for themselves the task of finding additional scrap in order that they might make a contribution to their own school’s part in the current drive. Armed with a wheelbarrow and a coaster wagon they have piled up some 500 pounds of such articles as old tricycles, toy trucks, parts of a stove no longer in working order, pieces of pipe, bits of electric wiring insulation, old bed springs, elevator weights, and a variety of other items.
A Child’s View of BMC
By deliberate design - only two meals served on Sundays - people would go off for hikes and that is exactly what is being done in the top photo. Left to right, A. Lawrence Kocher, Marge Kocher, Larry Kocher, Eddie Dreier, and Sandra Kocher. This photo is not courtesy of the Milk Council but it is courtesy of Howard Dearstyne. Circa 1941.
The newspaper article/pic appeared in The Asheville Citizen on Oct. 10, 1942 and could be viewed, in one were in a lofty mood, as BMC reaching out to the wider world. A couple of cavils: Kocher is not spelled Kocker and Larry Kocher was in the first grade where he did not learn to read (since his teacher silently mouthed the words he simply learned to read her lips). Left to right, Larry and Sandra Kocher, Eddie Dreier, and Boyd Mattison.
Children At College Aid In Scrap Campaign
BLACK MOUNTAIN, Oct, 9. (Special)--Spending after-school hours searching out items for Uncle Sam’s metal pot, a quartet of children of faculty members at Black Mountain college at Lake Eden have collected nearly a quarter of a ton of scrap which they will contribute to this current salvage campaign in this district.
The young collectors are Sandra Kocker, eight, third-grader at the Black Mountain graded school; her brother, Larry, a pupil in the third grade, both the children of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lawrence Kocker of the college; Boyd Mattison, nine, fourth-grade pupil, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gorman E. Mattison, newcomers to the college staff this year, and Eddie Dreier, five, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Dreier.
During the summer, clean-up crews of Black Mountain college went over all buildings and grounds, rounding up a large amount of scrap which was contributed to for salvage purposes at that time. A junk collector was also called in and allowed to gather up all items from the college dump which might help feed the mills turning out ships, guns, tanks, and planes.
Undiscouraged by these two previous collections, the children set for themselves the task of finding additional scrap in order that they might make a contribution to their own school’s part in the current drive. Armed with a wheelbarrow and a coaster wagon they have piled up some 500 pounds of such articles as old tricycles, toy trucks, parts of a stove no longer in working order, pieces of pipe, bits of electric wiring insulation, old bed springs, elevator weights, and a variety of other items.
A Child’s View of BMC
By deliberate design - only two meals served on Sundays - people would go off for hikes and that is exactly what is being done in the top photo. Left to right, A. Lawrence Kocher, Marge Kocher, Larry Kocher, Eddie Dreier, and Sandra Kocher. This photo is not courtesy of the Milk Council but it is courtesy of Howard Dearstyne. Circa 1941.
The newspaper article/pic appeared in The Asheville Citizen on Oct. 10, 1942 and could be viewed, in one were in a lofty mood, as BMC reaching out to the wider world. A couple of cavils: Kocher is not spelled Kocker and Larry Kocher was in the first grade where he did not learn to read (since his teacher silently mouthed the words he simply learned to read her lips). Left to right, Larry and Sandra Kocher, Eddie Dreier, and Boyd Mattison.
Artwork: 1995.49.3
A Child's View of BMC
1995
Photographs and printed paper on foam board
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.
24 x 18 inches
In copyright
Gift of Larry Kocher
Larry Kocher, A Child's View of BMC, 1995. Photographs and printed paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.
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