Hope Stephens

Hope Stephens was a student from fall 1935 to spring 1940, where she graduated with Marcel Breuer as her examiner.

Hope Stephens Foote (1917-2011) was a peace activist, vegetarian, and homemaker for her husband Caleb Foote and their five children. When she was seven, the family spent two years in Russia in the rural South Caucasus, where her father worked to modernize Russian agriculture. She attended Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Foote met her husband at a Quaker Work Camp in Hidden Valley, California. In Marin County, she was active with environmental groups and social causes and a force in the community.

Alternative Names: Hope Foote

Black Mountain College Project

Mary Emma Harris interviewed Hope in 1998 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 – Cambridge School – family background – John Evarts’ music class – John Rice – drama performances – Josef Albers class– paper folding for Museum of Modern Art Bauhaus exhibition – hikes and camping in forests – Robert E Lee Hall – mealtime at BMC – general faculty -- Xanti Schawinsky -- visitors to BMC – travel to BMC on train – graduation with Marcel Breuer as examiner – post-BMC work – visit to Roosevelt Hyde Park home – marriage to Caleb Foote

Courses Taken

Fall 1935-1936: Drawing I and Drawing II with Albers, Color I with Albers, Survey of French Literature with Mangold, Latin American in the Post War with Martin, Portell-Vila, and Goldenson.

Spring 1935-1936: Drawing I and II with Albers, Color II with Albers, Survey of French Literature with Mangold, Social Origins with Zeuch.

Fall 1936-1937: Drawing II with Schawinsky, Creative Writing with Wunsch, General Chemistry with Georgia, Music I with Evarts, Choral Singing with Sly, Child vs.Adult Psychology with Knickerbocker, Werklehre with Albers.

Spring 1936-1937: General Chemistry with Georgia, Music Appreciation I with Evarts, Drawing II with Schawinsky, Werklehre with Albers, Choral Singing with Sly,Child vs. Adult Psychology with Knickerbocker, Singing with Sly.

Fall 1937-1938: Music II with Evarts, Drawing II with Albers, Survey of English Literature with Martin, DramaII with Wunsch, Orchestra with Sly.

Spring 1937-1938: Drawing II with Albers, Dramatics II with Wunsch, MusicII with Evarts, Survey of English Literature with Martin, Piano with Sly.

Fall 1938-1939: Drawing II with Albers, Color II with Albers, Dramatics III with Wunsch, Piano Lessons with Sly, Folk Dancing with Sly, Teaching Art in Black Mountain, Chorus with Sly, Piano with Sly.

Spring 1938-1939: Drawing II with Albers, Color II with Albers, Dramatics III with Wunsch, Piano Lessons with Sly, Chorus with Sly, Folk Dancing with Sly, Teaching Kindergarten.

Fall 1939-1940: Drawing II with Albers, Color II with Albers, Werklehre with Albers, English Tutorial with Thurman, Chorus with Jalowetz, Piano Lessons with Jalowetz.

Spring 1939-19940: Drawing I and II with Albers, Color II with Albers, Werklehre with Albers, Chorus with Jalowetz, Piano Lessons with Jalowetz, WritingTutorial with M. Barnes