Kendall Durant

Kendall Durant was a student from 1947 to 1948.

Alternative name: Kendall Ramsay; married William Ramsay September 20, 1952

Black Mountain College Project

Mary Emma Harris interviewed Kendall in 1996 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 – train to BMC – integration of college – Delores Fullman – work program – swimming hole and snakes – Josef Albers classes– Buckminster Fuller – Robert Orr – adult life in Maryland and North Carolina – description of photographs – Mush Day – Pepe Gonzales – BMC reputation in area – James Leo Herlihy – fire that burned science lab and darkroom

Courses Taken

Fall 1947-48: Latin (Rondthaler), Painting(Bolotowsky), Drawing (Bolotowsky),American Civilization (Corkran), Individual and Society (Levi).

Spring 1947-48: Design (Albers), History of Philosophy (Dehn), Bookbinding(Jalowetz).

Summer 1948: Weaving (Annie Albers), Color (Albers), Culture and Personality(Calhoun), Freudianism [audit] (Calhoun), Graphic Art (Ames), Bookbinding