Eleanore "Elly" Smith

Eleanore Smith was a student from fall 1944 to . Before BMC, she attended Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts, 1940-1943, and the University of Idaho, 1943-1944.

Relationships

Husband: Fellow BMC student, Fernando Leon

Black Mountain College Project

Mary Emma Harris interviewed Eleanore in 2005 and the transcript is available from Appalachian State University under The Mary Emma Harris and Black Mountain College Project, Inc. Oral History collection.

Topics: Hearing about BMC – student study – Alfred Kazin’s class – general curriculum – work program – general college ambiance – Sunday evening sandwiches – work program – marriage to Fernando Leon – family background– pre-BMC education – Suzanne Smith Franz – professions of children

Asheville Art Museum Collection

Writings about Eleanore 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:

2017.40.181 November 27, 1944 bulletin,

"Tile student delegates to the Design for Living Today Conference in C-roonsbere gave reports on the interracial meeting in the Lobby of South Lodge on Tuesday evening. Henrietta Barth described Bennett College and the welcome given to the delegates by the Negro students there. Eleanor Smith gave an account of the Conference organization. Jagna Braunthal gave a detailed summary of an address by Ira D. Reid, Negro author and Atlanta University prolessor. Janet Roes listed suggestions, made at the Conference, for better inter-racial relationships in the South."

Courses Taken

Fall Quarter 1944-1945: Chorus, Contemporary Problems, Elements of Form and Structure in Music, Herman Melville: Intro to American Writing, Introductory Drama, William Blake and the Romantic Period in England.

Winter Quarter 1944-1945: American History, Bible, Dialogues of Plato, Viennese School of Music, and Chorus.

Spring Quarter 1944-1945: American History, Bible, Chorus, Drawing, and Dialogues of Plato.

Fall Quarter 1945-1946: Fundamentals of Music, Philosophy and the Modern World, Principles of Writing, and Reading Literature.

Winter Quarter 1945-1946: Chorus, Harmony, Principles of Writing, Reading Literature, and Special Writing.

Spring Quarter 1945-1946: Harmony, Viennese Classical Symphony, Reading Literature, Drawing, Geometry, and Chorus.

Note that she left school sometime during the Spring Quarter and did not receive credit for Spring 1946 work.