Albert "Al" Brody
Photograph included with student application. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
Leo Krikorian, Gregory Masurovsky, Al Brody, sitting is Knute Stikes, Kenneth Noland, Stanley Hebel. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
FOCUS
General Studies
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1946 - 1948
BIRTH
1927-01-17
Cleveland, OH
DEATH
2011-11-13
Port Townsend, Washington
Albert Brody was a student from fall of 1946 to winter of 1948. He shared in his application that he wanted to attend BMC after he was discharged from the Navy.
He worked in the library while a student, but wasn't listed in any other activities on campus. He attended Mexico City College after BMC and was expelled for stirring up local veteran organizations against the school. Black Mountain faculty also voted to let Brody go after he asked for a leave of absence, as they felt he wasn't a good fit for the school.
Courses Taken
First term 1946-47: Mechanics and Mathematical Analysis (Dreier), Literary Criticism(M.C. Richards), American Civilization (Corkran), International Economics (Fritz Hansgirg), World Today (Niebyl), Chorus (Schlesinger)
Second term `946-47: American Literature before 1860 (Corkran), Harmony I and II(Miss Schlesinger), Comparative Religion (Miller), Farming—dropped midway(Moleand Trayer), Violin (Mrs. Lowinsky)
First term 1947-48: Physics (Goldowsky), Russian (MM. Goldowsky), Poetry (Richards)Projective Geometry (Dehn)
Author
Amanda Hartman
Amanda Hartman is the creator of BMC Yearbook, serving as the lead director, engineer, and researcher. She holds a MLIS in archive/ collections management, MA in art/ museum education, and BA in design. After working in museums and archives for a decade, she made the transition to tech and is now a software developer specializing in applications for museums, archives, and higher education.
Her interest in Black Mountain College began while working as a digital archivist with the Asheville Art Museum's BMC archive collection. She transcribed and digitized over 1500 documents created by the college. While working closely with these archives, she began independent research on the interracial program and Negro Week activities BMC, writing biographies of lesser known students and staff members. That research transformed into this BMC Yearbook project.
