Panel text reads:
The What and Why of Which Schools are an Important Part
The highs are here without the lows and the very personal. We should all be on a CD-ROM.
Father: Austrian. Richard Wagner School (pushed experimentation), one of first modern architects and Frank Lloyd Wright's representative in Los Angeles.
Mother: English. Teaching English and music, Hull House and Chicago were much of her life. Helped bring Richard Neutra to this country.
Austrian + American. DNA and culture. Attraction + contradiction. She described a house and he built it later.
They met leaving a concert when the Sythian Suite was first played. I grew up with my mother, yet my father seems to have given me as much.
Left for Black Mountain before graduation from high school. Had not memorized the Periodic Table as required by Caltech. My mother's opinion dropped when I passed English.
Richard Gothe: Outlawed certain words in discussions because of the emotional response.
Nathan Rosen: Zipping through the narrow arch over the road. Hearing the Partizan Song from halfway round the earth with one tube in his lab. I almost learned international code.
Guest. Six hands until "What key are we in?" The Catholics who came to explain their faith. Yella Pessl-Harpsichordist. Husband-monomolecular films. An architect from MIT working on the Studies Building ignored his crew's warning and his concrete form floated.
Haase's furniture hung from fire alarm pipes made the study float. Beds hung from pipes. Maciejczyk had the highest score on an army IQ test in North Carolina. The Japanese student always good for a chess game and his physical strength. The ultramarine wall was repainted seven times.
I showed the 6" telescope at Black Mountain because of what I had learned at the Adler Planetarium. Practice let me find what others couldn't see. Laying stones for the new building without gloves in cold weather. Electrical wiring easier to do myself than explain it to assistants. Composed most of Soulemina for music. My mother said it was not heard.
Peter Bergmann: Probably the best violinist there. The math we suggested he taught. I wished for better notes on differential equations during thermodynamics. Invented experiments for the physics lab. He stopped class while we picked up dropped mercury. Shades of the mad hatter. A beautiful desk for him by a cabinetmaker who couldn't put in nails. The hard apple cider in labs. My calculating G from a pendulum to too many places. The tensor analysis section of his Introduction to Relativity had black edges at Caltech. An excellent teacher, he knew when students were puzzled.
Paul Radin: Anthropology. Referred to esquimau poetry, an African civilization as one of the earliest and women as starting agriculture. Mentioned in The Indian Giver as first to give Indians credit in writings. Usually left a box of books behind. His fast switch on analytic anthropologists when he realized questions came from a patient who could lose faith. Ed Kaye asked him what his speech was: "They'll tell me when I get there."
Nell Rice in the library: "Don't forget to turn out the lights when you leave."
A therapist's son who imitated recognizable walks for an hour or two. Haase's going on skis for the mail after the truck and tractor stalled. He knew with a glance where the wind took the cirrus clouds. Music class students isolated enough to have the historic reactions. My chair similar to my father's but less stable. I could take good notes or understand the lesson. Driving on the muddy road had to be fast.
With Frances de Graff, Bergman sent me to Reed for better equipment than Black Mountain had.
Max Kramer: Kidnapped behind the lines in WWII. He seemed slow but really wanted me to see the whole problem. Surprise, when he didn't know something about a field. He figured out a test for Lamiflow for ships reducing drag by 30%. He said the FBI must not like me. Later, I heard that my mother knew most of those Robert Oppenheimer should not have known.
ITT: Someone at NASA didn't like my regulator for the Ranger, but it ran continuously a year. The geniuses were in the accounting office while the company lost money.
Christie: A power supply used by Apollo before the battery. North American said yes; NASA, no. NASA bought an amazing number of supplies.
Max Montgomery: Still calls on a tankless hot water heater which Mary called his hobby.
Burkey: His father developed a fish screen in 1921, last redesigned in 1945. We are building another solid state version.
David Gebhardt: My father's papers would have been lost at UCSB without him.
Bob Sweeney: He helped the Schindler house survive.
Shurka: From the motor drive for the hydraulic system of the Shuttle to 747 toilets. In the meantime Mary and I were parents of 3.
Eric: Spent too much time in the Computer Club and dropped out into a software job. Dhana has left the computer and paints.
Ian: Failed his high school orientation class with his interests, played professional tennis in France. He has three children with Isa and teaches mathematics in a Toulouse university. As a child, "You aren't right, you just sound right."
Margot: Teaches 1st or 3rd grade in public school, and she just had Emily. Phil specializes in Japanese glazes, photography and does materials testing.
Ellery Allen and I met through my mother and the Unitarian Church.
Maurine and Lionel March lived in a Schindler house scaled to music. He in architecture [sic] and at UCLA. She organized my mother's materials for a book. Draws and writes.
Trip to Nigeria, China, Russia....
Stephen Hawking: The movie and his short talk. A strange evening.
Mark Schindler
The What and Why of Which Schools are an Important Part
The highs are here without the lows and the very personal. We should all be on a CD-ROM.
Father: Austrian. Richard Wagner School (pushed experimentation), one of first modern architects and Frank Lloyd Wright's representative in Los Angeles.
Mother: English. Teaching English and music, Hull House and Chicago were much of her life. Helped bring Richard Neutra to this country.
Austrian + American. DNA and culture. Attraction + contradiction. She described a house and he built it later.
They met leaving a concert when the Sythian Suite was first played. I grew up with my mother, yet my father seems to have given me as much.
Left for Black Mountain before graduation from high school. Had not memorized the Periodic Table as required by Caltech. My mother's opinion dropped when I passed English.
Richard Gothe: Outlawed certain words in discussions because of the emotional response.
Nathan Rosen: Zipping through the narrow arch over the road. Hearing the Partizan Song from halfway round the earth with one tube in his lab. I almost learned international code.
Guest. Six hands until "What key are we in?" The Catholics who came to explain their faith. Yella Pessl-Harpsichordist. Husband-monomolecular films. An architect from MIT working on the Studies Building ignored his crew's warning and his concrete form floated.
Haase's furniture hung from fire alarm pipes made the study float. Beds hung from pipes. Maciejczyk had the highest score on an army IQ test in North Carolina. The Japanese student always good for a chess game and his physical strength. The ultramarine wall was repainted seven times.
I showed the 6" telescope at Black Mountain because of what I had learned at the Adler Planetarium. Practice let me find what others couldn't see. Laying stones for the new building without gloves in cold weather. Electrical wiring easier to do myself than explain it to assistants. Composed most of Soulemina for music. My mother said it was not heard.
Peter Bergmann: Probably the best violinist there. The math we suggested he taught. I wished for better notes on differential equations during thermodynamics. Invented experiments for the physics lab. He stopped class while we picked up dropped mercury. Shades of the mad hatter. A beautiful desk for him by a cabinetmaker who couldn't put in nails. The hard apple cider in labs. My calculating G from a pendulum to too many places. The tensor analysis section of his Introduction to Relativity had black edges at Caltech. An excellent teacher, he knew when students were puzzled.
Paul Radin: Anthropology. Referred to esquimau poetry, an African civilization as one of the earliest and women as starting agriculture. Mentioned in The Indian Giver as first to give Indians credit in writings. Usually left a box of books behind. His fast switch on analytic anthropologists when he realized questions came from a patient who could lose faith. Ed Kaye asked him what his speech was: "They'll tell me when I get there."
Nell Rice in the library: "Don't forget to turn out the lights when you leave."
A therapist's son who imitated recognizable walks for an hour or two. Haase's going on skis for the mail after the truck and tractor stalled. He knew with a glance where the wind took the cirrus clouds. Music class students isolated enough to have the historic reactions. My chair similar to my father's but less stable. I could take good notes or understand the lesson. Driving on the muddy road had to be fast.
With Frances de Graff, Bergman sent me to Reed for better equipment than Black Mountain had.
Max Kramer: Kidnapped behind the lines in WWII. He seemed slow but really wanted me to see the whole problem. Surprise, when he didn't know something about a field. He figured out a test for Lamiflow for ships reducing drag by 30%. He said the FBI must not like me. Later, I heard that my mother knew most of those Robert Oppenheimer should not have known.
ITT: Someone at NASA didn't like my regulator for the Ranger, but it ran continuously a year. The geniuses were in the accounting office while the company lost money.
Christie: A power supply used by Apollo before the battery. North American said yes; NASA, no. NASA bought an amazing number of supplies.
Max Montgomery: Still calls on a tankless hot water heater which Mary called his hobby.
Burkey: His father developed a fish screen in 1921, last redesigned in 1945. We are building another solid state version.
David Gebhardt: My father's papers would have been lost at UCSB without him.
Bob Sweeney: He helped the Schindler house survive.
Shurka: From the motor drive for the hydraulic system of the Shuttle to 747 toilets. In the meantime Mary and I were parents of 3.
Eric: Spent too much time in the Computer Club and dropped out into a software job. Dhana has left the computer and paints.
Ian: Failed his high school orientation class with his interests, played professional tennis in France. He has three children with Isa and teaches mathematics in a Toulouse university. As a child, "You aren't right, you just sound right."
Margot: Teaches 1st or 3rd grade in public school, and she just had Emily. Phil specializes in Japanese glazes, photography and does materials testing.
Ellery Allen and I met through my mother and the Unitarian Church.
Maurine and Lionel March lived in a Schindler house scaled to music. He in architecture [sic] and at UCLA. She organized my mother's materials for a book. Draws and writes.
Trip to Nigeria, China, Russia....
Stephen Hawking: The movie and his short talk. A strange evening.
Mark Schindler
Artwork: 1995.77.1
The What and Why of Which Schools are an Important Part
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 Mark Schindler
Mark Schindler, The What and Why of Which Schools are an Important Part, 1995. Printed paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.
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