Carolyn "Connie" Spencer

Carolyn Spencer was a student at the college from 1940 to 1942 and returned in 1948. She took courses in architecture with Lawrence Kocher and Weaving Construction and Textile Design, Albers/ Guermonprez, 1948.

Asheville Art Museum Collection

Writings about Connie can be seen in digitized college bulletins on Asheville Art Museum's collection website: collection.ashevilleart.org. They can be found by searching these accession numbers:

2017.40.078 October 2, 1942 bulletin,

"Connie Spencer lives at 48 Morton Street, New York. She is working as a meteorologist."

2017.40.097 March 8, 1943 bulletin,

"Connie Spencer writes that she has completed her training period at the weather bureau in New York City and is now “a full-fledged employee working anywhere from eight to ten hours a day six days a week, at almost any hour they choose for me to work.”

2017.40.148 March 20, 1944

"Connie Spencer writes from Washington: “I resigned once from the Weather Bureau and returned to Washington. The shifts were too much. In January they called me and asked if I would take on a special project for them. It sounded interesting, so I did. Can’t tell you just what it was, but it was pretty interesting. At one point it involved the learning of the Russian alphabet and a quick brushup on French. Then one bright day someone found out that I had had some drafting at College. The finger was then put on me and I was informed that I was not a cartographer that’s a guy who makes maps. They bundled me off to the drafting section and set before me the job of revising a stack of maps, which placed together, would cover the world (not in size; in shown area). It’s very interesting, and it spite of everything they’re making a cartographer of me. At least I sling such terms as ‘transverse polyconic projection’ around with the best of them… Outside of the office, ice-skating is my life. I saw Tommy Brooks just before he left For Meade for oversea assignment. He was in high spirits and seemed glad at the prospect of going overseas…..I also saw Ike Nakata while he was at Meade….News of Kiril Chenkin came to me through Mrs. Hapgood not long ago. He is living in Moscow and is not on the fighting front. He is apparently well and working hard, as are all the Russians these days. It was good news to me in view of the fact that some of us had heard a rumor to the effect that he had been killed…”"

2017.40.179 November 12, 1944 bulletin,

"Connie Spencer writes from New York City: "I am back in New York, at the old address, and love it. I have a job with the Columbia Broadcasting System, doing drafting and water color wash work. It's nice work, with nice people and with good people to be with. Twice a week I go to secretarial school...""