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Series VII (Visual Materials). Box 91. Folder:North Carolina Division of Archives and History - Portraits - General"},{"label":"Source","value":"Black Mountain College Research Project. North Carolina Museum of Art. Western Regional Archives"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Creator","value":["Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)","Haas, Robert, 1898-1997."]},{"label":"Date","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1941"},{"label":"Date Details","value":"1941"},{"label":"Subject","value":["Dreier, Theodore, 1902-1997","Education, Humanistic","Universities and colleges","Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)"]},{"label":"Place","value":["Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States"]},{"label":"Time Period","value":["(1929-1945) Depression and World War Two"]},{"label":"Description","value":"Portrait of Theodore Dreier, May 1941. Theodore (Ted) Dreier trained as an engineer at Harvard and began working for the General Electric Company (GE). He and Barbara Loines Dreier were married in 1928 and initially lived in Schenectady, New York, GE headquarters. In 1930 Ted Dreier changed his career to education and took a faculty position in physics at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. In 1933 John Andrew Rice was fired and a portion of faculty, including Dreier, either resigned or were dismissed during a controversy over academic freedom and tenure at the college. Several of the dissidents then agreed to found a college of their own, in part a response to poor prospects for employment during that bottom year of the Great Depression. At least equally significant, the founders, particularly Rice and Dreier, were inspired by the progressive educational ideals of John Dewey. They envisioned an intimate educational community that would learn, live, and work together (typically farming and later, building projects). Focus was on the development of the whole person and the quest for knowledge as part of a wider aim of learning to use knowledge and of living intelligently. As a reaction to the founders' experience at Rollins College, there would be no outside control via an administration or board of trustees. In essence, the creation of the college was a constructive criticism of higher education based on rigid methods and governance. Named Black Mountain College (BMC) and located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the college initially drew a small following of former Rollins students and a few recruited from the northeast. Early on the founders decided to stress the practice, not just the study of the arts, and to raise the arts courses to full curricular status. Into this venture, Dreier brought his supportive wife, Barbara, and two young sons. (Another son and a daughter were born in 1937 and 1946, respectively.) The Dreiers remained at BMC until 1949, during which time Dreier taught and served variously as administrator, fund-raiser, treasurer, rector, and served continuously on the Board of Fellows, responsible for the finances of the college and hiring and firing of faculty. The Dreiers possessed and nourished a strong network of family, extended family, and friends, many of whom were highly influential and supportive in a variety of ways of the college and its ideals. From the founding of the college in 1933 until 1949, when the Dreiers departed, Ted Dreier brought to the college a remarkable spirit of adventure, enthusiasm, dedication, and discipline; and he contributed immeasurably to the community's tradition of independent thought and idealism. (Biographical note taken from the finding aid for the Theodore and Barbara Loines Dreier Black Mountain College Collection (Dreier BMC Collection), 1925 - 1988, North Carolina State Archives.)"},{"label":"Physical Characteristics","value":"1 black and white photograph"},{"label":"Format","value":["Photographs"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"Courtesy of Western Regional Archives. Prior permission from the State Archives of NC is required for any commercial use."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Black Mountain College Research Project. North Carolina Museum of Art. 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