John "Jack" Cannon
Photograph included with student application. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
FOCUS
General Studies
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1949 - 1950
BIRTH
1927-12-04
Dagsboro, DE
DEATH
Jacksonville, FL
John Cannon was a student from the fall of 1949 to spring of 1950. He took Weaving courses with Ellen Siegel both semesters that he was at the college.
At the time of his application, he was a student at Rutgers University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, each for about a year and withdrew. He then joined the Navy Service and married Lillian E. Johann in 1982.
(Father was Elisha Granville Cannon, died 1987)
Courses Taken
Fall term 1949-50:Philosophy in a New Key (Levi), Methods of Anthropology(Leser), Weaving (Siegel), Harmony (Hetherington), Theory of Knowledge(Dehn), Knowledge and Society (Levi)
Spring term 1949-50: Methods of Anthropology (Leser), Plato (Levi), Intro toSocial Science (Levi), Harmony (Hetherington), Weaving (Siegel)
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.
