In 1933 John Andrew Rice and a small group of faculty at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, resigned during a controversy over educational methods employed at the college. The dissidents under Rice then agreed to found a college of their own with an organizational and educational plan that embodied the principles of progressive education and that raised study of the fine arts to the full curricular status. In casting about for facilities suitable as a physical plant for their college, they hit upon property belonging to the Young Men's Christian Association at Black Mountain, North Carolina. Here they founded Black Mountain College in the fall of 1933. Among the Rollins College students who followed their teachers into the new college were Norman Betts Weston (1913-2000) and Anne Howard Chapin (1913-1992). Mr. Weston and Miss Chapin were married in January, 1935. Miss Chapin had been a student at Rollins College from 1930 until 1933, and Mr. Weston during the school year of 1932-1933. Both were at Black Mountain College from 1933 until 1938, the period that saw the original faculty at Black Mountain College strengthened by the addition of European educators forced by war from their campuses in Europe.