Norman "Norm" Weston

Norm Weston was a student from 1933 to 1936 and worked as Assistant Treasurer from the spring of 1935 to fall of 1939.

Mary Emma Harris shared this short bio for BMC Project, "Norman Weston (1913-2000) was one of the founding students who transferred from Rollins College to Black Mountain College (BMC) in 1933. He received his M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School and was Senior Vice President and Trust Officer for the National Bank of Detroit. He received the Outstanding Merit Award from the United Negro College Fund and was president of the Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Art. He retired Trustee Emeritus at the Museum."

Biography written by Mary Emma Harris for the Black Mountain College Project.

Relationships

Wife: Fellow BMC student, Anne Weston

Black Mountain College Project

Mary Emma Harris interviewed Norman in 1992 and the transcript is available from Appalachian State University under The Mary Emma Harris and Black Mountain College Project, Inc. Oral History collection.

Topics: Rollins College and BMC founding – start of farm – first year in BMC community – auditor William Morse Cole – accounting work at BMC – John Rice resignation – John Rice / Josef Albers relationship – Rice personality – Nell Rice – John Evarts – John Dewey visit – Louis Adamic – BMC reputation – visit with Josef and Anni Albers to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the Barnes museum – Deep Springs school – Bas Allen