Anne "Nan" Chapin Weston

Anne "Nan" Howard (Chapin) Weston (1913-1992), a native of Hartford, Connecticut, was a student at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, from 1930 to 1933. She, and her future husband, Norman Betts Weston (1913-2000), were among the body of students who followed John Andrew Rice from Rollins to Black Mountain College in Black Mountain, N.C., in the autumn of 1933.

Weston was a student at Black Mountain College, 1933-1936 and also a drama assistant, 1936-1938.

Relationships

Husband: Fellow BMC student, Norman Weston

There is a Nan Weston Notebook collection, and Norman B. Weston Collection, at Western Regional Archives which hold photographs and paper objects about Nan and Norman at BMC.

Black Mountain College Project

Mary Emma Harris interviewed Ann in 1992 and the transcript is available from Appalachian State University under The Mary Emma Harris and Black Mountain College Project, Inc. Oral History collection.

Topics: Rollins College and BMC founding – start of farm – first year in BMC community – auditor William Morse Cole – accounting work at BMC – John Rice resignation – John Rice / Josef Albers relationship – Rice personality – Nell Rice – John Evarts – John Dewey visit – Louis Adamic – BMC reputation – visit with Josef and Anni Albers to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the Barnes museum – Deep Springs school – Bas Allen

Courses Taken

1933 First Term: Plato (Rice), The Eighteenth Century (Rice, etc.), Philosophy of Social Reconstruction (Rice, etc.)

1934 Fall Term: Eighteenth Century Seminar (Martin, King, Rice, etc.), ModernEuropean History (King),Tutorial in English History (King), Drawing II (Albers)

1934 Winter Term: Elementary Economics (Boyden), Drawing (Albers), Eighteenth Century England (Rice, Albers, etc.), Economics Seminar (Boyden, Hinckley)

1934 Spring Term: Economic History (Boyden), Economic Theory (Boyden), Farm Seminar (Georgia, Hinckley), Drawing (Albers)

1935 Fall Term: History Tutorial (King), Drawing II (Albers), Music Study &Practice (Sly)

1935 Winter Term: Modern European History (King), Eighteenth CenturySeminar (Martin, Rice, Evarts, etc.) Medieval Mind(Boyden). Drawing II(Albers)

1935 Spring Term: Drawing II (Albers), Art Seminar (Albers), Modern European History (King), Eighteenth Century England (Martin, King, etc.)

1936 Spring Term: History Tutorial (King), History of Civilization in the A. W.(Portell-Jila), Country(Sly)