Margaret Cole

Margaret was a secretary for the 1944-1945 school year and a student for the summer of 1947, where she took Weaving with Franziska Mayer. She held a BS in library science from Drexel University and took coursework in art and weaving from Berea College and Temple University before attended BMC.

Black Mountain College Project

Mary Emma Harris interviewed Peggy 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: Family background in Florida and North Carolina – How heard about BMC – study with Alfred Kazin – Theodore Dreier (math faculty) and Barbara Dreier – college facilities– Max Dehn (geometer) – Heinrich Jalowetz (musician) – Martin Duberman interview – Novel The Varmints – BMC students – Josef Albers courses – George Zabriskie (writer) – BMC parties – literary life in New York

Courses Taken

1947 Summer Semester: weaving (Meyer), Bookbinding (Jalowetz), Chaucer(Bell), Sociology (Miller), Philosophy (Dehn), Gothic to Romantic Art and Music(Bell)