David Bailey
Crop of image; Blue Ridge campus scene at Black Mountain College. John Rice is on the left with a pipe and student David Bailey is on the right wearing a hat. Rice taught Classics at BMC from 1933-1939 and was also the first Rector of Black Mountain College. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
Blue Ridge campus scene at Black Mountain College. John Rice is on the left with a pipe and student David Bailey is on the right wearing a hat. Rice taught Classics at BMC from 1933-1939 and was also the first Rector of Black Mountain College. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives.
FOCUS
English/ Writing
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1933 - 1940
BIRTH
1912-05-22
Boston, MA
DEATH
VT
David studied at Harvard Unversity before coming to Black Mountain. David studied English and focused on Shakespeare in his studies, at both colleges. He failed his senior examinations the first time and took examinations in Shakespeare at Harvard University in 1934. He submit his writtten senior examinations again in 1935 and graduated. In 1936, he worked with Yale University, then with Miquon, a progressive school for small children in Pennsylvania. He returned to Black Mountain from 1938 to 1940 to work as the Publicity Chairman.
After leaving Black Mountain College, Bailey co-founded and worked as the headmaster at the Woodstock Country School, a progressive, coeducational boarding school located in Woodstock, Vermont. Woodstock held similar values in work and play, community, and creating self-confident and intellectually alert.
Bailey passed away in 1981.
Relationships
Examiner: Professor Douglas Bement of George Washington University Examiner: Professor Robert A. Aubin of Harvard University.
Courses Taken
Fall 1933-1934: 19th Century English Literature with Luis Loram, Chaucer with Luis Martin, Creative Writing with Loram, Martin and Rice, and (audited) Music Appreciation with Everts.
Winter 1933-1934: 17th century French with Keith, 19th Century English with Loram, Color with Albers and (audited) Music Appreciation with Evarts.
Spring 1933-1934: 19th century English Poetry with Loram, Seminar on 18th century England with Martin, 17th century French Literature with unlisted, Sociology with Hunckley, Color with Albers, and Music Appreciation (audited)with Evarts.
Fall 1934-1935: Seminar on 18th Century England with Martin, Milton with Martin, 19th Century English Prose with Loram, Practice Teaching with Ostergaard, Review of Spanish Grammar with Mangold, and Music Appreciation (audited) with Evarts.
Winter 1934-1935: Art Seminar with Albers, Seminar on 18th century England with Martin, 17th century English Literature with Martin, 19th century English Prose with Loram, Creative Writing with Wunsch, Spanish with Mangold, Music Appreciation (audited)with Evarts
Spring 1934-1935: Seminar on 18th century England with Martin, History of the English Language with Martin, Music of England with Evarts, Practice Teaching with Ostergaard, and Music Appreciation (audited) with Evarts
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.
