Hyalie Yamins

Hyalie was a student from 1936 to 1941. In 1937, Hyalie participated in Winterset: a play in three acts by Maxwell Anderson as "First Girl." After college she taught speech therapy at Martin Hall in Bristol, Rhode Island where she met her husband, Leo Greene. Greene was drafted and Hyalie often sent updates to the college bulletin to share their whereabouts. She taught speech therapy all her life and was also a long time member of Sakonet Preservation Association, serving as the Association Treasurer.

Alternative Name: Hyalie Esther Greene

An obituary for Hyalie can be found here, on Legacy.com.

Relationships

Sister: Fellow BMC student, Sybil Eleanor Yamins

Examiner: Professor William Blackburn, English Department of Duke University

Asheville Art Museum Collection

Writings about Hyalie 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:

2017.40.150 April 3, 1944 bulletin,

"Hyalie Yamins Greene writes from Dalhart, Texas: “How we’d love to be at Lake Eden, with spring coming…Where we are there isn’t even a blade of grass, just dust, and no place in which to lie around and enjoy the sunshine- when the wind stops so that you.""

2017.40.160 July 10, 1944 bulletin,

"Hyalie Yamins (Greene) writes from Texas: “Hello from the wastes of Dalhart, where we’ve been joined by Sue and Jerry Wolpert. The town is so small I bumped into Sue a few days after they arrived here, before the Bulletin came to tell us they were here. We’ve been making the most of their short stay here- beering, dinnering in each other’s small houses, catching up on all the Black Mountain College news and taking up the past. Also, of course, showing off our small Jerrie, who’s growing fatter, browner and livelier every day. She now chatters incessantly, reminding me of Xanti’s ‘Bu, -Bu-, Bubu- Bubuchububee’….”"

2017.40.266 Play poster, Winterset 1937