Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rogers Mangold Papers, PC.1520
Abstract
Frederick R. Mangold was an instructor and professor at Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) from 1934-1942. During those years he also served as acting Secretary, Secretary of the Corporation, Registrar, and member of the Board of Fellows of the Corporation. Both his first wife, Isabel Hollister Mangold, and his second wife, Anne Gilbert Mangold, also worked at Black Mountain College. This collection pertains to the Mangolds' years at Black Mountain, and includes correspondence, college publications, articles about Black Mountain and miscellaneous items.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rogers Mangold Papers
- Call Number
- PC.1520
- Creator
- Mangold, Frederick R., 1907-1971
- Date
- 1933-1972
- Repository
- Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
After a year at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, Frederick Rogers
Mangold went to the University of Wisconsin where he received a Ph.D. degree in Spanish
in 1934. He spent that summer at Princeton, and then on the recommendation of Henry
Allen Moe, Secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, went to Black Mountain College
as an instructor in Romance Languages.
While at Black Mountain, Mangold served as instructor and professor (1934-1942); acting
Secretary (Summer 1934) and Secretary of the Corporation (1937-1942); Registrar (1935-1938);
and member of the Board of Fellows of the Corporation (1935-1942). His wife, Isabel
Hollister Mangold, served as college librarian from the time of their arrival in 1934
until their divorce in the summer of 1938 when she left the college. Fred Mangold
then married Anne Gilbert who had come to Black Mountain as a secretary in September
1937; after their marriage she took the position of Registrar which she held until
they left Black Mountain in 1942.
Frederick Mangold requested and received a leave of absence from Black Mountain College
in September 1942. He went first to the Board of Economic Warfare, and later to the
Department of State (Foreign Service Auxiliary) which stationed him at the American
Embassy in Mexico. At the close of the war, he resigned from Black Mountain in order
to stay with the Foreign Service Auxiliary and continue his work in economics.
This collection pertains to the Mangolds' years at Black Mountain, and includes correspondence,
college publications, articles about Black Mountain and miscellaneous items.
The correspondence (1935-1945, n.d.) contains personal letters to and from Frederick
Mangold, carbon copies of letters sent by him in his official capacity as Secretary
of the college, and telegrams. All of it is primarily concerned with college affairs,
and many of the letters provide descriptions of living conditions and atmosphere in
an innovative, communal experiment in education. Correspondence with Louis Adamic
in regard to Adamic's article on Black Mountain College in Harper's Magazine (April
1936), and with Dr. Arthur S. Adams (August 1935-March 1936) give especially clear
statements on philosophy and teaching conditions. Much of the remainder of the correspondence
concentrates on routine college business, evaluation of prospective teachers and students,
and allusions to the college's recurrent conflicts.
College publications in the collection include issues of the Bulletin (Nos. 2-7, 1934-1941);
catalogs (1933/34-1939/40) and announcements (1942/43-1944/45); the Bulletin [Series
II] (1943-1946, n.d.); Newsletters (1938-1941); and miscellaneous publications. There
are also magazine and newspaper articles about Black Mountain College (1933-1972,
n.d.), and articles written by faculty and students. These include a number of items
by and about Anni and Josef Albers.
Miscellaneous items include notes from Mangold's "Form in Literature" class (1936);
D. H. Lawrence: The Triumph of Texture, by Jane Mayhall (1936); Camp Rockmont brochure;
reviews of Martin Duberman's Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community (1972); and
a collection of student prose and poetry collected in "...toward a projected College
magazine..." (n.d.). Also included with the miscellaneous items are two later additions
made by Mrs. Anne Mangold to the papers. Included in these additions are carbon copies
of correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Mangold and John Evarts during the summer of
1940, carbon copies of a daily record of the Mangolds' trip that summer, and a photocopies
of a letter dated May 23, 1977 from Tony Zappone to Anne Mangold concerning the death
of Trudi Straus.
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