Suzanne Cragin
Photograph included with student application. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
FOCUS
General Studies
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1937 - 1939
BIRTH
1918-07-29
Portsmouth, VA
DEATH
2004-02-20
Louisville, KY
Suzanne Cragin was a student from 1937 to 1939. Suzanne participated in Danse Macabre. Her student files share that she had a throat operation in 1938 which left her with insomnia. She took a leave of absence in 1939 and the faculty decided that she shouldn't return.
Alternative Name: Suzanne McCord
Asheville Art Museum Collection
Writings about Suzanne 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:
2017.40.128 October 11, 1943 bulletin, "Suzanne Cragin McCord writes from De Riddler, Louisiana: “Right now I am an army wife… My husband and I were stationed at Fort Sam Houston for the best part of the past year. I am now in Louisiana where my husband has been on maneuvers. Next week we head for the California Desert for the last maneuvers. By the first of the year I will be just another wife waiting for her husband to return.”"
Courses Taken
Fall semester, 1937-38:Drawing (Schawinsky), Plato (Rice), Color (Albers),StageStudies (Schawinsky), English tutorial (Evarts).
Spring semester, 1937-38: Plato (Rice), Drawing (Schawinsky), Color (Albers),Music Period (Surette), English tutorial (Evarts), Stage Studies (Schawinsky).
Fall semester, 1938-39: Color (Albers), Drawing(Albers), Drawing II (Albers),Intro Writing (Wunsch), European History (Barnes), Plato (Rice).
Spring semester, 1938-39: European History (Barnes), Color (Albers), Drawing(Albers), Drawing II (Albers), Plato (Rice), Introductory Writing (Wunsch)
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.
