The Antiochian — Spring 2006 (Antioch College Alumni Magazine)

Antioch Remembers
Coretta Scott King’51
Spring 2006
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ANTIOCHIAN
The Antioch College Alumni Magazine

The View from Antioch Hall…
by President Steven Lawry
Dear Antioch College Alumni and Friends:
It was a great privilege for me to take up
the presidency of Antioch College on January
6 of this year. Deborah, William and I are
very happily settled into the wonderful house
provided for presidents and their families at the
corner of East Limestone and President Street.
We intend our home to be a lively meeting
place for members of the Antioch community
and those friends of the College who from time
to time visit from out of town.
Antioch is a distinctive and distinguished
American institution of higher learning. For
over 150 years the College has prepared its
graduates for lives of meaning and purpose.
The College continues to produce graduates
who—like generations of graduates who came
before them—go into the world prepared to
provide leadership in addressing great social
and political problems, build communities
and innovative enterprises, and bring light to
complex scientiﬁc problems and vitality to our
culture and to the arts.
I want to speak to three priorities that will
mark my presidency.
We must build strong foundations for the
College’s ﬁnancial health.
The College relies on income from tuition
as its principal source of revenue. Variable and
low levels of enrollment have over a period of
many years contributed to ﬁnancial instability
and have at times threatened the College’s
very viability as an educational institution.
The Plan for a New Antioch speaks to
the problem of enrollments very directly by
offering a compelling new curriculum, based
on interdisciplinary learning communities
and taught in ways that ensure that faculty
capacity is realistically aligned with student
numbers. The new curriculum has been
fully implemented in the ﬁrst-year academic
program, and feedback from students has been
very good.
Other aspects of the Plan, including
new area-based Co-op Communities and
investments in facilities and technology,
will help ensure that the College provides a
compelling educational environment attractive
to students.
We have invested heavily in
communicating the curriculum to prospective
students and these efforts appear to be yielding
good results. The College has received the
highest number of applications for admission
in over 30 years and we are expecting a strong
entering class in the fall of 2006.
Strong enrollments are vital to Antioch’s
ﬁnancial health, but the College’s long-term
ﬁnancial well-being will also require sustained
investment in our fund-raising efforts. Clearly
this starts with the president, and I will be
spending a good deal of my time traveling
the country to make the case for Antioch to
alumni and others who care about the College
and its future.
Importantly, increased investments in
the Ofﬁce of Institutional Advancement
will strengthen the College’s fund-raising
capacity in a variety of ways. The College
has a vigorous Annual Fund program. T wo
new major gift ofﬁcers were hired in the fall of
2005. The redesigned “Antiochian” will help
us better communicate the College’s successes
and needs to alumni. We are developing
new planned-giving options and increased
planned gifts will help the College build its
endowment. Board members and I are in
the midst of reassessing the College’s capital
campaign priorities to ensure that campaign
fund-raising fully serves the needs of the New
Antioch.
Academically, my goal is to ensure that
the College provides a challenging and
rigorous liberal arts education that prepares
its graduates for lives of meaning and
purpose.
We have a talented and committed faculty
and if properly supported they will return the
College to the kind of intellectual leadership
among liberal-arts institutions that has marked
Antioch throughout its history.
The College is attracting a student body
seriously dedicated to learning and scholarship
on campus, and to community engagement
and professional development through co-op.
One of the beneﬁts of attending a residential
liberal arts college is that students live within
an intensive learning environment, 24 hours
a day, seven days a week. The character and
quality of conversations among students in
the “Caf” and in common rooms at the dorms
are as vital to the educational experience as
time spent in the classroom. Our admissions
ofﬁce is very purposefully recruiting students of
diverse backgrounds who have solid academic
preparation, in addition to the traditional
Antiochian qualities of social engagement and
critical thinking.
We must cultivate on campus an
educational climate that embraces
intellectual freedom and tolerance for diverse
ideas.
The College is committed to providing an
education that prepares graduates for lives of
leadership in a world where debate and conﬂict
over the deﬁnition of our society’s core values
and the very meaning of the nature of a fair
and just society is arguably as intense as it
has been in many decades. If our graduates
are going to be effective in the world—in
advancing the ideas and beliefs that they care
so strongly about—they must be able to listen
to and learn from arguments and perspectives
different from their own. This requires a
social and educational climate on campus
characterized by tolerance, patience and
mutual understanding.
I intend to lend leadership to what I expect
to be constructive and rewarding discussions
on how best to build an intellectually engaging
and welcoming campus climate that is
authentically Antiochian and that we would
all be proud of.
Over the last months I have traveled the
country sharing news of the many good things
that are happening at the College. I have
listened carefully to the ideas and concerns
of Antioch’s deeply caring and committed
alumni. I want to assure all of you that I give
great weight to your ideas and suggestions.
Rick Jurasek has served Antioch with
distinction as Interim President over the
course of the past 18 months. The College
is much stronger for his leadership on several
fronts, including the curriculum, physical
facilities and faculty and staff morale. We
often think of interim presidencies as times for
maintaining the status quo. Rick was hardly a
caretaker. In a time of challenge and change,
he was a decisive and determined leader.
Steven, Deborah and William at home in the little
mansion on President Street.

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ANTIOCHIANCONTENTS
An Antioch education is shaped to the mold of human experience.
This is a radically democratic education: every theory, every belief, every ideal is re-examined and subjected to the test of
experience. We ask our students to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Their work is marked by scholarly rigor and
civic engagement. They come to know the world by analyzing it and living deeply within it. They come to know justice by
studying it and practicing it. They become humanists in the broadest, deepest sense of the word:
citizens and scholars capable of meaningful action, continuous growth and enlightened leadership.
Antioch Voices………………..20
Books
Antioch Community………… 24
Leland Clark Saved Lives,
Changed Medicine
Reunion 2006
Class Notes
Obituaries
Antiochiana……………………45
Science As History
Antioch Notes………………..48
A Bold Plan for Antioch College

Antioch Mail……………………..3
Letters
Antioch Today……………………4
The Chancellor Search
Rev. Warnock to Deliver
Commencement Address
A Year of Transformation
The War In Bosnia Remembered
The King Center Opens with
“The Miami Nation of Oklahoma”
Glen Helen’s New Director
Cover Story……………………………………14

Antioch Remembers
Coretta Scott King
Ifft Delivers the Chatterjee Lecture

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The Antiochian
The Antioch College Alumni Magazine
Jim Dexter
Editor
Dylan Nyhan ‘07
Co-op Editorial Assistant
Lynda Sirk
Director of Public Relations and
Communications
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“The Antiochian’s” new format is intended to ﬁt better in your mailbox, in your hand,
and on your coffee table.
This is not the ﬁrst time the Antiochian has taken a standard magazine format. It began
in 1869 as a student monthly (often occasional) publication of news, essays and articles
exchanged with other colleges. The ﬂagship publication of the College to alumni and
friends, its format has changed several times over the past several decades, but its goals and
purpose have remained the same.
Our goal is to present the College — its achievements, its potential and its needs — in
a way that keeps you informed about Antioch’s continuing life, and we hope, proud of its
contributions and your own investment in it. To the extent we are successful, the value of an
Antioch degree — past, present and future — will appreciate.
A magazine is usually the largest communication investment a college makes in its
alumni. That is certainly true at Antioch. The Antiochian will present the news of the
day and plans for advancing the college. We will try to deal with issues straightforwardly,
thoughtfully and in some depth.
A college magazine should reﬂect the quality and qualities of the institution and its
graduates. I am grateful to a number of Antiochians who generously shared with me their
insights about this diverse and profoundly individualistic group — iconoclasts by training and
temperament. In particular I would like to thank Callie Cary ’84, Stephen Schwerner ’60
and Robert Fogarty for their willingness to read, and to correct some of my errors.
This publication is organized in departments that ﬂow from the institution itself.
“Antioch Today” contains the news and events that make Antioch a vibrant place. The
“Antioch Community” is broad; there you will ﬁnd information on faculty, alumni, and
others proud to be Antiochians. “Antioch Voices” chronicles the remarkable record of
Antiochians as authors, composers, painters and other creative voices. “Antiochiana,”
namesake of the University archives, is a place to celebrate the college’s heritage and
traditions. “Antioch Notes” resurrects a long-standing College tradition of presenting
occasional papers on issues of importance. “Antioch Mail” is the most self-explainatory
department of all — write to us!
Change is underway at Antioch College. As much as ever before, Antioch College needs
the understanding and good will of Antiochians. We hope this publication will be your
means of remaining engaged, and of keeping your ties with the College strong and positive.
This is a new beginning. This is also a work in progress that will certainly grow with
your participation. Please take the opportunity to make this new Antiochian more than a
magazine — make it a conversation.
Jim Dexter, editor
A New Look, Same Dedication to You

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MAIL
The nation and especially the people of
color cannot pay using silver and gold for the
phenomenal uplifting of the human spirit and
conditions caused by the movement. Surely
we stand on the shoulders of those warriors
who marched before us on the climb to a
doctrine where equality is the rule, not the
exception. Thank you, Coretta. You held the
torch high for us to follow. Now it is our turn
to carry it further and to be worthy of your
sacriﬁces. We owe you.
Herbert and Delores Denmark,
Decatur, GA
I feel a somewhat personal loss in her death.
That is, if memory serves, Coretta was my
late wife’s roommate in the 40s, and I got to
know her in a casual way. And of course I also
remember M.L. King’s stirring commencement
address in the 60s.
Rollin T. Brewer Jr. ’48
I recall with affection Coretta as a young
and very beautiful co-ed who possessed a
marvelous singing voice and a delightfully
warm personality. Indeed, my then roommate
in the college dorm, a (student) from Kenya,
East Africa, was a special friend of Coretta
such that all of them were in frequent contact,
even as each of them went in different
directions after college.
It was not surprising to me that Coretta
would achieve international fame as the wife
of Martin Luther King, a towering ﬁgure of
the 20th century, who brought about positive
changes in racial justice in this country.
The liberal institution which Coretta called
her alma mater has traditionally produced
graduates with a keen sense of social justice
and responsibility, in keeping with the parting
words of its ﬁrst president, Horace Mann, 150
years ago: “Be ashamed to die until you have
won some victory for humanity!”
Coretta did not fail these principles, and
led an exemplary life dedicated to solidifying
her husband’s work and philosophy. She, like
her husband, now belongs to the ages and all of
us have been blessed and ennobled by her time
on Earth.
Antioch has lost a great friend and a
stellar example of the kinds of people Antioch
produces.
Joseph N. DuCanto ’52
I have just returned from the memorial
service for Coretta Scott King. I was part of
an ofﬁcial delegation from Antioch College.
I was quite moved by the experience, the
strong sense of being a part of the best of the
history of the U.S. Our delegation was led by
Steve Lawry. Also representing Antioch were
Dianne Fraser, Everett Freeman, Jane Garrison,
Ona Harshaw, Dan Kaplan, Steve Schwerner,
Lynda Sirk, Paula Treichler, Eve Williams, the
Coretta Scott King scholarship recipient, and
myself.
Mrs. King went to Antioch in the late
1940s, and like many of us who went there,
she found it a transformative experience. In a
wonderfully simple and moving article for the
Urban League written in 1948, she wrote about
the importance of education for a poor, rural
but striving African American family, and how
her experience of going north, studying and
working with white and black students, coming
face to face with ‘northern discrimination’ as
well as committed white anti-racists shaped
her life. Like so many dominant narratives,
Coretta Scott King’s life is often described
as how her partnership with King was the
transformative experience. The reality was she
was already imbued with radical politics and
involved in radical organizations before she
met Martin Luther King Jr.
I am sure many of you have read news
stories about the memorial, or have seen
parts of it. Being there was a totally different
experience. One, there was indeed a
sense of community. Almost everywhere
we went in the short visit, people were
talking about Mrs. King. The memorial was
overwhelmingly African American, and I
mean overwhelmingly. The section reserved
for the presidents and the Congress were the
only white delegations. They were all situated
in the center, but surrounded by the sea of
mainly Atlantan African Americans.
Jimmy Carter brought the crowd to its feet
when he spoke about Katrina, government
racism, and indifference. By referring to the
illegal wiretapping of Martin Luther King
he attacked (President) Bush for his illegal
wiretapping. The mayor of Atlanta gave a
moving and rousing call to honor Coretta’s
legacy of peace, non-violence, opposition to
war, support for women, and (yes) gay rights.
And Joseph Lowery was the most blistering of
all and everyone thumped and cheered when
he spoke about no weapons of mass destruction
but lies of misinformation.
There was a (video) of events in her life,
and we saw the pictures of her (on campus),
including one with Steve Schwerner. There
was a memorable clip of her on Oprah after
having had a ‘make-over.’ It was warmly
hilarious, and I had an even greater insight
into Oprah’s ability to connect so well. But
the last clip was King’s last interview. It was on
the Tavis Smiley show, and he asked her how
could she still believe in non-violence when
there were people like Osama Bin Laden and
organizations like Al Queda. She replied and
people stood and cheered, “If America were
more socially just, there wouldn’t be Osama
Bin Ladens.”
I was very moved and proud to be a part of
this. Coretta Scott King was a combatant (to
use Joseph Lowery’s word) in the struggle for
civil rights, she saw herself as a feminist, in
opposition to homophobia (and a number of
people spoke to this) and became, on her own,
an extraordinary, yet always digniﬁed (which
good women should always be) force for good.
Barbara Winslow
’68
Coretta, dear Coretta, my inspiration, my
crowbar.
Though I only met you a few times, those
encounters made it clear that you weren’t
just what the world called you: wife, widow,
“lieutenant.”
When last we met, at Antioch College
Reunion 2004, it was to mourn the 2003 death
of your mentor, your teacher, your Inspiration,
Walter Anderson. He was our nation’s ﬁrst
black university department chair at a college
not historically black. Good old Antioch, our
dear alma mater.
And we all showed up to hear you give
the keynote address, our superstar prodigal-
daughter. We ﬁled up the grand staircase of
Kelly Hall in our version of regalia: piercings
and tattoos, “Antioch Radicals” sweatshirts.
We came to glow with pride and say we were
there — I’m saying it now.
“Rise up,” you say. “Rise up now, with an
indomitable spirit of justice, compassion and
love, united and determined.”
I say, Tell it, sister! Let’s dance this
revolution right out of Kelly Hall and through
the halls of power.
Joel Pomerantz ’84
Letters to Antioch
in tribute to Coretta Scott King

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ANTIOCH
* Chancellor Search On Schedule for Summer Completion
T
he search for a new Antioch
University chancellor is well
underway. The ﬁrst step in the
process was to create a detailed proﬁle
deﬁning the job and the skills. After signiﬁcant
recruiting, there were initial evaluations of
written materials. The next step will be a series
of interviews scheduled to take place during
March and April. The process is on track to
make the selection decision sometime in May.
As CEO of the University, the chancellor
reports to the Board of Trustees, is responsible
for all ﬁve campuses, and chairs the University
Leadership Council (ULC). Board of Trustees
Chair, Art Zucker, is the chair of the search
committee that includes ﬁve Trustees, and four
members of the ULC. The executive search ﬁrm
of Isaacson, Miller of Boston is assisting in the
search.
“In our search we are considering the
long-term vision of the institution without
discounting our short-term operating needs,”
according to Zucker. “Our ﬁrst step was to
develop a detailed proﬁle deﬁning the job and
the skills it will require. We began by painting a
picture of the ideal chancellor — what are the
professional experiences and competencies that
will enable satisfactory performance? We thought
very carefully about the professional skills that
the job demands,” he said.
The professional skills are:
• The ability to be a leader in a complex
intellectual organization.
• Antioch University is unique,” Zucker said.
“There are other multi-campus universities but
there is no other institution quite like Antioch.”
• A track record of successful fund raising and
ﬁnancial management.
• That would be someone who understands
the challenging ﬁnancial aspects of higher
education. In this case, Antioch is not so
unique.”
• He/she would be a proven academic
innovator The ideal chancellor would respect
learning and scholarship, welcome change and
have a tolerance for risk. “If you look at the
faculty throughout this institution, it is just an
amazing cadre of professionals. The chancellor
needs to have the academic qualiﬁcations to
understand, motivate and lead them.”
• Success under pressure in complex
situations.
“The nature of management in an institution
of higher education is collaborative and requires
collegiality in a complex world,” Zucker
explained.
The personal skills include intelligence,
effective communications, and supportive
leadership. The chancellor’s proﬁle must be
reﬂective of academia, with a management style
that is open and inclusive (but also capable of
decisive action). The ideal candidate must meet
the highest standards of integrity and excellence.
Finally the chancellor also must understand
and value the University’s culture and unique
place in higher education. “Understanding
this culture is not simple,” the chairman noted.
“Even on our board we have found it takes up to
two years to really understand the culture of our
institution.”
Antioch is poised for greatness and the
chancellor will be a key player in that success,
Zucker said. The responsibility of identifying the
University’s next leader “is an exciting position
to be in — a position of signiﬁcant responsibility
and we on the board welcome it and relish it,”
Zucker said.
“Antioch has a rich and respected legacy in
the ﬁeld of higher education, Antioch DNA
is throughout — an absolute commitment to
our core values, a talented management team
that operates collaboratively, and a very strong
faculty,” Zucker concluded.
“This is an exciting opportunity for the right
person; and we have had a large pool of potential
candidates,” Zucker said. “Several hundred
names are linked to the search. After intimate
conversations have taken place, only the most
qualiﬁed and interested candidates will move
forward. We are conﬁdent the search process
will provide the chancellor who will understand
and respect Antioch’s heritage and traditions;
and provide the leadership for us to move
forward with a vision for a new generation of
Antiochians.”

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The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, pastor of
Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, will deliver
the Commencement Address at Antioch
College’s Graduation Ceremony at 11 a.m.
Saturday, April 29.
The Ebenezer Baptist Church was the
church of Coretta Scott King, a member of
Antioch’s Class of 1951. Her husband, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., served as co-pastor, and
his father served as pastor in the pulpit of that
historic church.
Rev. Warnock is the son of two
Pentecostal-Holiness ministers and preached
his ﬁrst sermon at age 11. He is a graduate of
Morehouse College and he holds a Master of
Divinity Degree and a Master of Philosophy
Degree from Union Theological Seminary of
New York City.
In 1989, Rev. Warnock authored
“Educating Teens For Positive Peer
Intervention,” which today still serves as
Georgia’s ofﬁcial curriculum guide for teen/
peer programs aimed at reducing the state’s
teenage pregnancy rate. Then-governor
Joseph Frank Harris appointed Warnock to
the 17-state Southern Regional Task Force on
Infant Mortality.
As a student at Morehouse Warnock
organized and served as the keynote speaker
at a Peace Vigil protesting George H.W .
Bush’s 1991 war against Iraq. During the
1992 Democratic Convention in New York
City, under the auspices of Clergy and Laity
Concerned (CALC) and the Abyssinian
Church, he coordinated an alternative People’s
Convention, in memory of Fannie Lou Hamer,
the Mississippi sharecropper who told the
nation in 1968 she was “sick and tired of being
sick and tired.”
In 1995, this committed activist was part
of a 15-member delegation to Haiti, following
the 1991 coup and return to power of President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He, and other
delegates, later lobbied members of Congress
and the State Department on U.S. policy
toward this small budding democracy.
Currently, Rev. Warnock serves as co-chair
of The National Black Leadership Commission
on AIDS-Baltimore Chapter. He is a graduate
of the Leadership Program sponsored by the
Greater Baltimore Committee and the Harvard
University Summer Leadership Institute.
Rev. Warnock has preached in major
pulpits across the country. In 1993, he received
Union Seminary’s coveted William H. Hudnut
Preaching Award. The November 1999 issue
of “Ebony Magazine” listed him as one of
30 Leaders Of The Future. Rev. Warnock
is a member of the American Academy of
Religion, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and
various other civic and social organizations.
He has received the Benjamin Elijah Mays
Fellowship For Ministry from the Fund for
Theological Education, the Thomas and
Jeanetta Kilgore Theological Scholarship
Award, Associated Black Charity’s “Good
Shepherd Award,” as well as other fellowships,
honors and citations.
Presently, Rev. Warnock is a PhD candidate
in systematic theology at Union Seminary. His
primary research has focused on black religion
and spirituality as well as on interpreting the
theological meaning and historical mission
of the black church. This work has included
study of the ministries of Martin Luther King
Jr. and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Rev. Raphael Warnock to deliver Commencement Address
Raphael G.
Warnock
Spring sunshine brought
crocuses, violas and even
books popping open on
campus.

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President Lawry Takes the Helm in a Year of Transformation
T
he 2005-06 academic year has been a period of intense effort
and transformation as The Plan for Antioch College became
fully implemented. The arrival of President Steven Lawry was
a climax to the changes that have revitalized the curriculum
and the functions of many administrative ofﬁces on campus.
The Plan outlined a rejuvenation of admission, fund raising and
other processes at the college, activities that have started to show signs
of signiﬁcant return on those investments.
According to Lawry, the college is in the midst of a critical period
of building. A stronger Antioch will attract and retain more students,
graduate them in four years, and re-ignite the pride, loyalty and support
of generations of its graduates.
“The support of alumni is vital to the well-being of the college
and in countless ways,” President Lawry told the Alumni Association
Board during its March 3 meeting. “Your many contributions to your
communities and your families and our society generally constitute
the most tangible evidence imaginable of the value of an Antioch
education. I need your leadership and I need your ideas as we build a
strong Antioch College.”
“I am excited by this challenge,” Lawry told Yellow Springs area
alumni on March 29. “I am a goal-oriented person. Things have got to
be done and we are going to do them.”
“The core traditions of an Antioch education are powerful,” said
President Lawry. “The combination of liberal arts and cooperative
education is compelling and distinguishes Antioch. I am proud of our
unique educational model.
The Antioch curriculum gives our students
a worldliness and an intellectual sophistication that is unmatched.”
“We’ve got so much to offer,” he continued. “Look at the
relationship between the liberal arts and civic engagement. It’s a huge
asset — it’s a structure that puts people in the world.”
Lawry has framed goals for the College that will mark his presidency.
“The College must have a ﬁrm ﬁnancial foundation, it must offer
a challenging and academically rigorous liberal arts education, and
we must create on campus a learning environment characterized by
openness and tolerance toward diverse ideas,” he said.
“It is not enough to get by — it is fundamental that the College have
the kind of ﬁnancial health and ﬂexibility to enable it to offer strong,
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ﬁnancial challenges that buffet colleges from time to time,” he said.
In a ﬁeld where tuition revenue is the primary source of income,
stable, reliable enrollment levels are essential to build and advance
the college, Lawry said. Competition for the caliber of students to
which Antioch is accustomed is very high. The curriculum changes
underway will strengthen the academic program and tie it more closely
to measurable educational outcomes. Just as importantly, the new
curriculum will deepen the value and distinctiveness of the Antioch
tradition in American higher education, he added.
Lawry said he has conﬁdence in the talent and commitment of the
faculty and a new curriculum that can return the College to intellectual
leadership.
It has been an extraordinarily busy time for the Antioch faculty this
year. While teaching the ﬁrst year of the new curriculum and the courses
under the previous system, they have simultaneously been planning for
the second year under the new system.
Together, the programmatic changes will improve student success
in ways that will build the college in academic rigor and in ﬁnancial
stability. Fundamental to the changes, Lawry said, will be “rigorous
assessment” of academic progress against measures of critical thinking,
writing and quantitative analysis.
“This curriculum requires ﬁrst-year students to struggle with very
complex problems from a multi-disciplinary perspective,” Lawry said.
“I believe in the peer effect,” Lawry said. “One of the beneﬁts of
attending a residential, liberal-arts college is that students live within
an intensive learning environment, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“Students have much to learn from their peers and it is expected that
all students come prepared to contribute to the learning environment,”
Lawry explained. “Academically serious and prepared peers are essential
to the vitality of the learning experience. We are very purposefully
recruiting students of diverse backgrounds who are deeply serious about
their studies.”
Likewise, the establishment of Co-op Communities is intended to
better integrate the work experience to the curriculum, as well as better
ensure students’ chances of success with community resources and
support, according to the president.
The decision in the new curriculum to keep new classes of students
together on campus in learning communities for their ﬁrst year is in part
Dashboard Indicators
• Largest applicant pool in 34 years
• 1,000 percent increase in
acceptance of qualiﬁed
students over last year
• Campus visits up nearly
100 percent
• 85 students at Scholarship
Weekend had an average
GPA of 3.5
• Web trafﬁc approximately doubled

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a response to the need to improve retention.
Most of the attrition at any school occurs
during the ﬁrst year when students often feel
isolated, homesick, and worried that they
cannot perform at the college level. A full
year of team teaching in the richly interactive
learning community environment should
maximize students’ chances of ﬁtting in and
thriving before their ﬁrst co-op.
Under the previous model, students began
co-oping in the second term of their ﬁrst year.
“Often students had not put down roots on
campus, socially and culturally,” Lawry said.
“Learning communities help build identity
around a shared academic and emotional
experience in the ﬁrst year,” he added.
The College is looking for additional
opportunities to improve retention on campus.
The College sought, and received a recent
grant to start the Make-It Program. This
program pairs upper-level Antioch students
with ﬁrst-year students as a resource to help
them adjust. The program particularly beneﬁts
students of color and/or ﬁrst-generation college
students — traditionally two groups at high
risk for attrition. The program provides a
reliable connection to a peer who has already
successfully acclimated to college life.
President Lawry has also begun a dialog
on campus about the current campus climate,
which he says is unduly confrontational. He
added this is a factor that can negatively
effect recruitment and retention. “Openness,
tolerance, patience and mutual understanding
are values that I associate with higher
learning,” he explained.
“We must cultivate on campus a climate
that embraces intellectual freedom and
tolerance for diverse ideas,” said the president.
Preparations are also moving forward
on other aspects of The Plan, such as
investments in facilities and technology that
will help ensure that the College provides a
compelling educational environment that is
attractive to students, Lawry said. Studies
are also underway to evaluate development
of the Livermore Corridor — a broad strip of
University-owned land on the west side of
Livermore Street.
“Antioch owns valuable land and buildings
along Livermore Street. We intend to
determine how these assets can best be used in
the future,” said Rick Jurasek, executive vice
president.
In setting the scope of Antioch’s Livermore
Street Corridor Development, it is the
College’s intention to serve the interests of the
Village of Yellow Springs to the fullest extent
possible as well as to secure its own future.
In another signiﬁcant development, Milt
Thompson, director of auxiliary services and
purchasing, has begun developing College-
wide purchasing policies and procedures to
promote efﬁciencies and savings across the
organization.
In the past, the response to ﬁnancial
difﬁculties was often to cut admissions and
fund-raising staff. Instead, Lawry said, the
road to stability is to invest in building
effective infrastructures to support admissions,
fundraising, and effective promotion of the
College.
“Most important among these is a
sustained, permanent and well-ﬁnanced
investment in our fund-raising capacity,”
Lawry said. “Clearly, this starts with the
president, and how he spends his time and how
effectively he makes the case for Antioch to a
variety of constituencies.”
The Ofﬁce of Institutional Advancement
is taking steps to strengthen the annual fund
campaign, reenergize the capital campaign,
develop a robust planned giving program, and
to build the capability to bring major gifts to
the College.
Another major component of The Plan for
Antioch is to build an integrated marketing
What’s behind the new academic program?
• Re-aligning of academic and co-op experiences to produce measurable learning
outcomes;
• Stabilizing enrollment/retention by better ensuring student success;
• Enabling stronger relationships with co-op employers by providing year-round
worker capability.
New curriculum
• The Core program keeps ﬁrst-year
students in campus classrooms both
semesters;
• Omnibus topic courses are team
taught by faculty from humanities,
social sciences and the sciences;
• Optimum-sized classes permitting
multiple pedagogical approaches;
• Students experience the value of
liberal arts directly, immediately and
pervasively;
• Antioch Education Abroad, service
learning and highly individual inter-
ests can be accommodated through
“Virtual Co-op Communities” on-line,
or during the “Summer of Choice” in
the third year.
New co-op program
• Three semester-long co-op jobs
replace more numerous shorter jobs;
• Most co-op experiences are orga-
nized through regional centers;
• Students take a course at the centers
focusing on the political/social/cultural
characteristics of the region;
• More deliberate reﬂection and
engagement during co-op jobs,
progressing from knowledge and skill
development, to problem solving, to
explorative/creative ability;
• Collaboration of faculty, Co-op
faculty and Co-op Communities better
integrates work and study terms.
A new college website went online in September, built by an interdisciplinary team of: (left to right) Peter Townsend, Professor of Envi-
ronmental Science and Geology, Kathy Beverly, Executive Director to the Dean of Students, Lynda Sirk, Director of Communications
and Public Relations, Josilyn Inaldo, Assistant Director of AEA, Angie Glukov, Assistant Director of Admissions and Financial Aid,
Christian Skotte, Assistant Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, and Jennifer Rhyner, Associate Director of Admissions and Finan-
cial Aid. Trafﬁc to the Anitoch College website has approximately doubled since July, when tracking began. The data indicate people are
coming to the site more often and staying there longer. The most trafﬁc is occuring on prospective student and alumni pages.

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and communication capability for recruitment,
alumni and effective promotion of the College.
In eight months, Director Lynda Sirk’s new
Ofﬁce of Communication and Public Relations
has provided leadership for an array of
improvements for proactive communications
with multiple audiences.
A new website was launched on Sept. 1,
written and designed by a cross-functional
team representing Communication,
Admissions, Alumni Relations, Antioch
Education Abroad, Cooperative Education,
and faculty. The new approach empowers
each area to update and service their own
information within the umbrella site.
Tracking of the new Antioch website, for
instance, shows a 190 percent increase in
visits, and a 225 percent increase in page views
since site tracking began in July.
The redesigned “Antiochian” is another
place where major effort is being invested to
regain the attention and interest of our friends
and alumni. “We want to give people who
may have drifted away over the years a way to
reconnect to Antioch’s successes and needs
today,” said President Lawry.
Effective promotion of the College is also
essential to our success, Lawry said. There has
been signiﬁcant investment in communication.
The record response in inquiries and
applicantions of new students is evidence
that the College is on the right track, he said.
“We have a compelling story to tell and these
numbers make it clear to me that the message
is being received,” the president said.
Lawry said he is impressed by the
willingness of College staff to work together to
further the college. “The Antioch Solution,”
a family of new recruitment materials, was
developed jointly by the Admissions and
Communications and Public Relations Ofﬁces.
The Annual Fund Phone-a-thon team also
made hundreds of calls to prospective students
to help them make their college decision.
“This kind of creativity, professionalism and
bottom-line focus deserves all of our thanks,”
Lawry said.
“Clearly, our plans for ensuring the
ﬁnancial health of the College will have much
greater chance of success when our caring and
committed alumni are called home,” Lawry
said. Long before moving into the President’s
house on campus in February, Lawry was
meeting with alumni groups around the nation.
“I will always listen carefully to what alumni
have to say, and give their views and ideas the
weight and respect they deserve. The College
will pay a great price for doing otherwise.”
The Co-op Communities were selected
in areas with strong alumni leadership
and concentrations of interested alumni
residents and employers. As the new
program develops, alumni assistance will
still be the most important factor in the
strength of the community approach,
according to Thomas Haugsby, co-op
program director.
With the success of the new curriculum
in attracting students, the Cooperative
Education Ofﬁce will need to develop more
than 100 co-op jobs this year. “We’ve
never done that before,” Haugsby said. To
develop effective new Co-op Communities
around the country, the advice and
assistance of alumni will be important.
Alumni have always been generous
with leads on co-op jobs, Haugsby said, but
the pressing need creates certain special
requirements. A “cold lead” takes much
development to get to an Antioch-quality
partnership, Haugsby explained. Alumni
who have explained the Antioch system
to prospective employers, and who have
received sincere interest, provide invaluable
leads for follow-up, he said.
Cooperative Education works when
employers can depend on Antioch students
just like any other workers they hire.
“Antioch students should not be add-ons
or visitors, not special or exotic. We want
them to be fully imbedded in the reality of
the work experience,” Haugsby said. “They
enter into the lives of other people, enjoy
and suffer and are treated no differently
than other workers are.”
Other collegiate co-op programs are
student-focused, meaning employers are
expected to accommodate the schedules
and needs of students. Antioch is very
serious about it’s employer-focus, Haugsby
said. “The kind of experience we want
students to have is real responsibility at
work, not made-up stuff.”
With this understanding, the College
needs help identifying employers who offer
the following opportunities:
• Ideally, a job should be a year-long
position that three different students can
ﬁll;
• They should be real jobs, real work
for which the employer expects competent
performance;
• They should be adequately paid jobs
($15,000-18,000 a year); (Every student
should be able to pursue a co-op on the
merit of her/his ability.)
• The company/supervisor should be
dedicated to the Antioch model of mutual
beneﬁt.
It’s the college’s job to help students ﬁnd
the educational value of their jobs. “The
essential element is whether there is work
to be done that we are qualiﬁed to do or can
be done with some training,” Haugsby said.
In addition to hiring co-op students
themselves, Haugsby said alumni can help
through quality contacts — testimonials to
employers, direct introductions and speciﬁc
help to create access to informed and
interested employers. “Our job list should
be like a course list, not the want ads.”
The College is also developing “Virtual
Co-op Communities,” groups of students on
widely dispersed jobs who gather together
on-line for similar beneﬁts as in the physical
communities. For this reason, referrals
outside of major urban areas could also be
excellent.
What types of jobs does Antioch need
most?
To increase the diversity of co-op
opportunities, Antioch is particularly
interested in private sector jobs in bio-
medical ﬁelds (research, health care, public
health), engineering, applied ecology,
agriculture, publishing/communications,
trades and construction, and new ventures.
Jobs in government and public policy are
also needed.
A Call to Action
How Alumni Can Help Co-op Students

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When Brown University sought the
top experts to join a think tank on higher
education, it turned to Antioch College.
Brown, funded by a Teagle Foundation
grant, has begun a year-long study to try to
assess the value of the open curriculum.
Along with Antioch, Amherst College,
Hampshire College, New College, Sarah
Lawrence College, Wesleyan University,
and Smith College, all schools with at least
40 years of experience in the use of open
curricula, were invited to join the effort.
Antioch earned its place in this
distinguished group because of its unique use of
co-op as part of its open curriculum.
The open curriculum is a distinctive
minority characteristic in American higher
education. Under it, students have more
freedom to design their own programs, giving
them a better chance of unlocking their innate
potential.
The workgroup accepted a mandate to
deﬁne open curricula, determine its beneﬁts
and downfalls, create tools for assessment, and
to disseminate their ﬁndings nationally in a
white paper tentatively titled “The Values
of an Open Curriculum: An Alternative
Tradition in Liberal Education.”
The group, consisting of four
representatives from each school, ﬁrst
convened on Sept. 23 to share their respective
educational philosophies and begin to deﬁne
a common ground from which to work during
the following ﬁve meetings this academic year
at the various member campuses.
At a ﬁnal summer gathering, joined by the
colleges’ senior academic ofﬁcers, the white
paper is to be ﬁnalized.
From the information submitted by the
participating schools, as well as the dialogue
of the conference, a basic framework began to
grow. A list of desired learning outcomes and
shared values, such as achieving multicultural
and interdisciplinary competence, was
compiled. It was also agreed that values such
as intensive advising, faculty/student dialogue,
and individual planning of one’s education are
central to the open curriculum approach. It
was also recognized that the institutions have
distinctive differences, such as availability of
resources, campus culture, what parts of the
curriculum are open, what areas of study are
emphasized, and the method of delivering the
open curriculum.
To assess the effects of the curriculum on
students an alumni interview program is being
set up. In this program 10-12 alumni from
each school will be interviewed by someone
closely associated with the school who has
been specially trained with the interviewers
from other schools at Brown University.
The hope is that the results of the alumni
interviews will be consistent enough to stand
as hard evidence.
The second assessment method will be a
series of focus groups conducted with mixed
groups of faculty from each school, addressing
professors’ experience in and out of open
curricula, what their preferences are, and how
their roles change.
All of this work is pointed toward a
national conference in 2007 on the value of
the open curriculum tradition.
Antioch Joins Think Tank to Study
Beneﬁts of the Open Curriculum
Ten years ago the most devastating conﬂict
in Europe since World War II ended — the
war in Bosnia.
In remembrance, Antioch hosted a month-
long program entitled, “Remembering the War
in Bosnia: A Ten Year Commemoration.”
The program included ﬁve lectures, a photo
exhibit and three ﬁlm screenings recounting
the war’s legacy of massacre, ethnic cleansing
and mass exodus.
The photo exhibit, “The Betrayal of
Srebrenica: A Ten Year Commemoration” is a
collaborative effort by Lisa DiCaprio, currently
a visiting professor of history and human
rights at Washington and Lee University, and
Paula Allen, a New York City human rights
photographer.
Approximately 250,000 people died in the
conﬂict between Bosnian Muslims, Croats
and Serbs, which was part of the break-up of
Yugoslavia. Over two million were displaced,
and only in recent years have those displaced
returned in large numbers to their homeland.
One of the ﬁnal episodes of the war in Bosnia
was the fall of Srebrenica, the U.N. safe-haven.
Over 8,000 men and boys were murdered and
over 30,000 women, children, and elderly
were forced from the area. The acts committed
during the fall of Srebrenica have been deﬁned
as genocide under international law and are
considered to be the worst atrocities in Europe
since World War II. In addition, there have
been judgments rendered on those found
guilty of genocidal acts and crimes against
humanity that were committed during the fall
of Srebrenica.
DiCaprio spoke on the ethical and political
issues that the documentary photographic
exhibit raised about the war.
The Dayton Peace Agreement was initialed
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton,
Ohio on Nov. 21, 1995 and signed in Paris
on Dec. 14, 1995. The Dayton Peace Accords
marked an end to this three-year war in Bosnia
and Herzegovina.
The 10th Anniversary of the signing of
the Peace Accords inspired Antioch Professor
of History, Julie Gallagher, to initiate this
program. In addition, the proximity of
Antioch to Dayton enabled local communities
to come together for an important educational
opportunity.
Joseph O’Connor, professor of history
at Wittenberg University, spoke on the fall
of Yugoslavia and the broader wars in the
Balkans. Keith Doubt, professor of sociology
at Wittenberg, spoke on “The
Ethical
Requirement of Burial and its Transgression
During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina.”

Katherine Gallagher, Legal Ofﬁcer, Ofﬁce
of the Prosecutor, International Criminal
Series Marked Tenth Anniversary of Peace in Bosnia
Human rights photographer Paula Allen included this photograph
in the exhibition on campus titled “The Betrayal of Srebrenica.”
Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia, The Hague,
Netherlands, and Hassan Nejad,
professor of political science
and international relations at
Antioch, spoke on the role of
the International Tribunal in
the quest for justice, peace, and
reconciliation in the Balkans.
The ﬁlms screened during
the month were: “Calling the
Ghosts: A Story about Rape,
Women and War,” directed by
Mandy Jacobson and Karmen
Jelincic; “Vulkovar,” directed
by Boro Draskovic; and,
“Srebrenica: A Cry from the
Grave,” a BBC documentary on
the genocide in Srebrenica.

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King Center Inaugurated with Symposium
on the Miami Nation
Participants in the ﬁrst King Center event learned that the
once vast Miami Nation stretched from Lake Michigan to
the Antioch College campus, as few as ﬁve years before
the college was founded.
The inaugural event of the Coretta Scott
King Center for Cultural and Intellectual
Freedom recognized the “Trail of Tears” of the
Native American nation that originally called
home the land that was to become home to
Antioch College.
For centuries, the Miami Nation as one
of the groups of people on the “landscape”
that stretched from the Ohio River to Lake
Michigan, from the Mississippi to the Scioto
Rivers. What is now known as the Little
Miami River passes through the Glen where
Miami people passed through on the way to
settlements near Springﬁeld.
Daryl Baldwin, director of the Myaamia
Project at Miami University, described a
Diaspora repeated against many Native
American peoples. The Miami culture was
systematically undermined and dispersed
through a series of actions that displaced them
from their ancestral land, indoctrinated them
to alien values of property, and attempted
to divorce their children from their tribal
heritage.
Repeatedly robbed of treaty obligations,
twice dislocated, now the dwindling Miami
population exists in pockets of the Oklahoma
land they were once promised.
Considering this example of the human
struggle for cultural freedom, the Symposium
focused on the success of the Miami Nation,
against overwhelming obstacles, to maintain
their ancient identity, and their ongoing efforts
to preserve and strengthen their values and
language for coming generations.
Baldwin said he is often confronted with
the attitude that the forced relocation of his
people to Kansas, and again to Oklahoma
happened long ago and they should “get over
it.”
Such an attitude misunderstands the
essence of the Miami culture. There is no
word for “history” in their native language,
he explained. Rather than a chronological
record, the Miamis measure history as a
transgenerational reckoning. Land ownership
and “homeland” were foreign concepts brought
west by European settlers. The land was not
their land, but simply the landscape, which
they shared together with other native nations.
Baldwin said that from their traditional
perspective, the Miamis are ancient people
with a depth of collective experience that only
recently has been threatened with cultural
violence and extinction.
Far more recently, only since the Ford
Administration, has the federal government
began to reverse its efforts to abolish sovereign
rights, with adoption of a “self-determination
policy” toward Native Nations, according
to Baldwin. The Religious Freedom Act of
the Carter years reasserted their rights to use
feathers and other protected animals in native
ceremonies. The Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act also restored
basic human rights to sovereign nations.
Next, the Native American Language Act
gave the weight of federal policy to efforts
to preserve indigenous languages. It includes
exceptions to teacher certiﬁcation programs
that allow hiring qualiﬁed teachers who teach
in native languages, and by allowing native
language proﬁciency to fulﬁll foreign language
requirements in schools.
The strategy of the Nation has been to
meet the array of needs of its people, preserve
their native language and strengthen the
cultural traditions of their people, Baldwin
said. Education is critical to this effort, and
the Miami’s long-time chief, Floyd E. Leonard,
is a retired school superintendent, he added.
In this way, activism for the Miamis is not
confrontational, but preserving their identity
through everyday activities, Baldwin said. “We
provide support for tribal families to maintain
cultural heritage,” he explained. “That way
our roots are anchored. As (tribe members)
go into the world we need to help them know
where their home base is.”
In other highlights of the King Center
symposium:
Ken Bellmard, a tribal attorney, reviewed
U.S. Supreme Court decisions granting
sovereignty, and subsequent actions by the
government to strip the nations of these
rights. He explained new agreements giving
the Nations greater latitude to spend federal
money to meet their needs.
Joshua Sutterﬁeld, a graduate student in
geography at Miami University, described a
historical landscape project that is working
to form a more comprehensive history of
movements, settlements, resources, and
neighboring tribes of the Miami.
George Ironstrack, another Miami
University graduate student spoke about his
efforts — at the Miami town of Pickawillany
near modern-day Piqua, Ohio — to develop a
more accurate history of the Miami people.
Julie Olds, artist and Miami Nation
Cultural Preservation Ofﬁcer, discussed
language camps and other efforts to preserve
the Miami culture.
Beverly Rodgers, associate professor
in anthropology, chaired the organizing
committee for the symposium.
“The Miami Nation of Oklahoma: Issues
and Everyday Activities,” was a presentation
of the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural
and Intellectual Freedom: “Further Dr. King’s
legacy by making community service a way of life.
Please visit the King Center’s website to ﬁnd a
service opportunity in your neighborhood: www.
thekingcenter.org”

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The Herndon Gallery received a $2,580
grant from the Ohio Arts Council for the 2006
Gallery Season (which runs from September
2005 to May 2006). This marks the second
year that the Arts Council has funded the
Herndon Gallery. The grant funded two
visiting shows.
The ﬁrst of these, the “Tibetan Photo
Project,” was a collection of rare photographs
of Tibetan monks of the early 1930s. These
were displayed at the gallery Sept. 23 to Nov.
4 along with color photos taken by modern-
day Tibetan monks. More information
on that show can be found at www.
tibetanphotoproject.com.
The second exhibit, “In and Of
Our Environment,” is a collection of
environmental art by both new and established
artists. One of the
emerging artists, Diana
Lynn Thompson (left),
visited the College for
a week and created the
new piece depicted,
using local materials.
Congratulations to
Dr. Colette Palamar,
Director of the Herndon
Gallery and professor of
environmental studies,
and Diane Roehm ’07,
the co-op student who
worked at the Herndon
Gallery last term, on the
funding of their grant.
At the
Herndon
Ohio Arts Council
Funds T wo Exhibits
“ARTademics: new work by antioch college faculty” was featured at the gallery during December-February. Among the work displayed
were: (left to right) “Jesus Comes to the Americas” by Chris Garcia, associate professor of ceramics; “Pink Rock” by David LaPalom-
bara, professor of art; “The Painter’s Reﬂection” by Nevin Mercede, associate professor of painting and printmaking; “Village #1” by
Colette Palamar, assistant professor of environmental studies; and
“Discovery” by Amy Kollar Anderson, visiting lecturer in the arts.

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Glen Helen Center Praised,
Wins Second Ohio Honors Institute
“One of the highest rated programs in the
state.” That is how Glen Helen’s ﬁrst summer
program for gifted students was described by
Eric Calvert, Ohio Department of Education’s
(DOE) consultant for gifted services.
The department awarded Glen Helen its
ﬁrst Ohio Summer Institute Grant last year,
bringing gifted 10th and 11th graders from
throughout Ohio to the Glen for the two-week
environmental study program. Subsequent
student evaluations rated the program as
exceptional. “Kids loved the program and
expressed it in their evaluations.” Calvert said.
“The Glen Helen Summer Honors Institute
is one of ﬁnest in the state for providing an in-
depth, authentic experience. Glen Helen does
a great job integrating different perspectives
where kids are immersed in the scientiﬁc,
social, and philosophical points of view and it
all happens in a setting that is really unique.
That doesn’t happen anywhere else in the
state,” Calvert said.
Glen Helen naturalists, joined by
Antioch faculty members, covered topics like
environmental restoration and conservation,
stream studies, erosion, history, geology and
geography. Long hikes through the 1,000-acre
preserve provided laboratory experiences for
the institute in August.
The highly competitive DOE program has
Feb. 11 — “lynchPLAY” was presented
by Firebrand Theory, which dedicates itself
to stir up public feelings by investigation of
controversial issues and dramatizing the inﬁnite
mystery of the extraordinary in the ordinary.
“lynchPLAY” begins when a minstrel in black
face interrupts a historical drama. He decides
to impose himself as narrator, much to the
actor’s chagrin, and provide his own colorful
interpretation of America’s racial history.
Feb. 3 and 17 — Open Stages were
presented.
Feb. 18 — “The Fula From America,”
presented by Carlyle Brown, was a recounting,
in story and song, of his personal adventures
in Africa in search of his familial roots. The
play is based on the award-winning Brown’s
own travels in West Africa, and is an insightful
and comedic drama of homecoming, cultural
exploration and identity. Brown, who wrote
and performs the piece, travels in it through
Senegal, Mali, Gambia and other points
in Africa in the 1980s. Brown originally
developed the work, directed by Louise Smith,
at the Antioch Theater. It has since been
performed to acclaim in New York City, at the
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and elsewhere.
Feb. 22 — A student production of the
Nick Boutis, a former naturalist and
program director for the Glen, will return this
spring as executive director of the Glen Helen
Ecology Institute.
Boutis has been attracted by this position
ever since his time working as a naturalist for
the Glen in 1990. This is partially because of
his love for the Glen and Yellow Springs but
more due to the job itself. “I’ve always felt
that this position was a good ﬁt for my skills
and interests,” he said.
He returns to Antioch from Population
Connection, a Washington D.C.-based
national grassroots organization focused on
educating people about world population
concerns and advocating actions to stabilize
Earth’s population at a sustainable level.
There he served as Teacher Training Manager.
Boutis earned his BA in Biology from
Oberlin College and his MGA in non-proﬁt
management from the University of Maryland.
He has also studied at the graduate level at
Antioch University and USDA Graduate
School in such subjects as environmental
education, environmental history, meteorology,
mycology, ornithology, and outdoor
administration.
Ann Shaw and George Bieri have been
serving as co-interim directors of the Glen
during the search.
As the new executive director of the Glen
Boutis plans to ﬁnalize a strategic plan and
start setting speciﬁc goals. In short, “I want
us to be able to see a visible and quantiﬁable
improvement in the vital signs of the Glen.”
What is the ﬁrst thing Nick plans to do
when he returns to the Glen this Spring? “I
plan to take a walk.”
Boutis Returns
to Glen as New
Executive Director
Nick Boutis
awarded the Glen a second institute with a
$44,993 grant to hold the program July 31-
Aug. 11. Only 14 institute sites are funded
statewide. “We have far more applicants
than we can ever serve,” said Eric Calvert.
Visit the Antioch website for more details:
http://www.antioch-college.edu/Academics/
SummerHonors/.
Recent Productions of the Antioch Theater
“Vagina Monologues,” by Eve Ensler, was
directed by Vanessa Burkhart and produced by
Alyssa Rieser. Since 2001, the play has been
annually presented in colleges and theaters
across the country as part of a nationwide
campaign to stop violence against women.
What started as a play has become a national
phenomenon, a bible for a new generation of
women. Proceeds from this production went
to the Family Violence Prevention Center of
Greene County.
Maria D’Amato ’06 and Nicolas Shawn Ruley ’02 rehearse
The Patriot One Acts which were presented at the Antioch Area
Theater this spring. Directors Ruley and Rani Deighe Crowe ’02
returned to campus as visiting artists for the term.

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Coretta Scott King
It was 2004 and Mrs. King had returned to
receive the Horace Mann Award. Executive
Vice President Richard Jurasek stood
with her on the limestone steps near the
Mann Memorial as Mrs. King took in the
moment and reﬂected on her classmates and
Antiochians past and present.
What A Time
To Be An Antiochian
The Depression was scarcely yet a memory,
the war against the Axis was well underway
and in Yellow Springs there were a few who
wanted to change the world on the home
front.
“The town was not only segregated but
had seen Klan activism in the past,” recalled
Margaret Borchardt Bacon ’43. “It was a
racist town.” In response, an Equal Rights
Committee came together comprised of
Antioch people and the minister and members
of the congregation of the local Methodist
church, she said.
“We were quite aware of the segregation
in town,” agreed her husband Allen ’43,
where the blacks were not allowed in public
places and businesses. The committee
started with Jessie Treichler, Mirium “Mimi”
Eisenberg Glazer ’44 and the Bacons. It
attracted members whose sensitivity to racial
justice and equality came from a number of
directions, he said. “I was raised a Quaker, and
Margaret had the experience of her four years
in high school in Tampa, Florida where she
witnessed overt actions of racism.”
Some members were socialists, others were
part of paciﬁst or other non-violent traditions
for social change, he said. Sociology Professor
Manmatha Chatterjee had been born in India,
educated in Scotland, and was a passionate
follower of Mahatma Gandhi and his non-
violent revolution against British rule in India.
“He was my hero as a professor,” Allen said.
“He was a great man.”
At that time there was no shortage
of inspiration at Antioch, he recalled.
Celebrities, like James Farmer, a founder and
ﬁrst national director of the Congress of Racial
Equality, spoke on campus. A number of
members had received nonviolence training
at an education center near Cleveland. They
were also veterans of social action efforts,
like a successful campaign to integrate public
swimming pools in Cleveland, he added.
The ideals of Horace Mann and Arthur
Morgan were more than words, he said. “It
was a time of great social ferment. We were
quite concerned about issues of social justice.
It was very exciting — it was a wonderful
experience — sometimes scary, sometimes
satisfying, but we made a lot of progress in the
meantime.”
The Equal Rights Committee set a second
goal for itself. “We also observed that Antioch
College was lily white and had been for a
long time,” Margaret added. Jessie Treichler,
who was the assistant to the president, started
an effort to attract black students to campus
again. A campaign began to raise money for
scholarships.
Toddler Steps
Through part of the last half of the
1940s, the Treichler family occupied the
“presidential” mansion, the Birch House, and
the Leland Clark family hosted a day care
center for an inseperable group of faculty/staff
children.
Even then, it seemed a halcyon existence
in the tulip-wood-gilded splendor of the
mansion, Paula A. Treichler,
’65, remembers.
Eleanor Clark had just opened her home to
Giant Steps for Humanity
Coretta Scott King ‘51 was on campus for what was to be the last time. She asked to be shown
the exact spot where Horace Mann had given his “victory for humanity” speech. These were
words that had helped bring her to Antioch, helped set her on her life’s path, helped change the
world. She stood on the front steps of the Main Building where Mann
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a community nursery school and soon was to
help organize the Antioch School.
Into their formative experience stepped
a young student from the South, a new
scholarship student to the College, Coretta
Scott. Over the next ﬁve years they would
share everyday experiences with her.
After a lifetime of reﬂection, Treichler
now recalls a poor girl from the South,
prepossessing yet also possessing grace, dignity
and a vivid presence.
The impression Scott made on the
three year olds, Treichler admits, was more
immediate: “She was kind and beautiful and
she sang like an angel — and she was so nice
to us kids. She taught us music, I think. I just
remember thinking about music in a different
way after that.”
Treichler clearly recalls when she and
Robin Lithgow collaborated on a little song,
“My Little Boat is Sailing.” The student-
boarder transcribed it for them to a score
that still exists. Treichler offered the world-
premiere performance of the work as part of
the Feb. 15 celebration of Mrs. King’s life on
campus.
“I realized at the funeral that I had known
her for 61 years,” Treichler said. “We knew her
before she was Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., or
even Coretta Scott. To us she was just Corrie.”
Leaving the narrow world of poor girl
in rural Alabama, Miss Scott’s new home
was about opportunity. The Birch House in
particular was a favorite gathering place for
the campus and greater communities of artists,
musicians, theater people and academics.
Corrie was there for much music. Walter
Anderson, Antioch’s much-loved black music
faculty member, was frequently at the home
playing piano. The children often disappeared
upstairs to play away from the adults, Treichler
said. But the Birch House was alive with
energy. “I seem to have very vivid memories of
all the singing,” she said.
Corrie was also there to see rocks thrown
through the windows to intimidate the Racial
Equality Committee, which frequently met
there as it worked to integrate Yellow Springs,
starting with the Little Art Theater. Treichler
said the nascent civil rights movement, then
referred to as “racial equality,” was a strong
component of the discussions and debates that
occurred there.
This was the world Coretta Scott stepped
into when she left the segregated South.
With trepidation she sought out an
integrated experience, but after a couple of
years on campus, she felt she had made a
wise choice. She recommended college, and
study in the North to others, in a proﬁle of
her, “Why I Came to College,” published in
OPPORTUNITY, Journal of Negro Life in
1948.
“For a southerner, particularly a southern
Negro, it seems to me important to ﬁnd
out that there really are some white people
working for racial equality and to be able to
work with them,” Miss Scott wrote. “I’ve
learned something from them; they’ve learned
something from me.”
Her black teachers in Alabama had made a
deep impression on her for the relative esteem
they enjoyed, for relative ease with which they
were able to conduct their affairs and enjoy
their lives, she explained. She chose to study
music at Antioch because that was what she
loved, but she also majored in education to
ensure for herself that esteem if her dream of a
concert career passed her by.
Her talent and passion for music certainly
distinguished her on campus and Irwin
Abrams, one of her history professors, recalls
that her talent surely would have sustained
her in a singing career. In fact his most
vivid memories of his student are not in the
classroom, but in the nursery school of his
four-year-old son David. Scott made a deep
impression on his son for how she would
sing personally selected songs to each of her
charges, Irwin said. “’Lil David, Play on Your
Harp” was the song chosen for his son.
One Step From Greatness
Jessie Treichler and her supporters on
the Race Relations Committee had been
successful in creating scholarships for gifted
black students. Thanks to support by private
individuals and foundations, Treichler began
touring the South interviewing students for the
scholarships.
Margaret and Allen Bacon never saw the
fruits of this labor since they graduated in 1943
and Coretta’s older sister Edythe, and other
scholarship students arrived on campus the
following fall.
But when Margaret Bacon met Mrs.
King for the ﬁrst time in 1978, her Antioch
experiences made her feel a far deeper bond
than simply a shared alma mater. A founder of
a Philadelphia fundraising coalition beneﬁting
women, Bacon was given the honor of
presenting Mrs. King with an award.
On the evening of the ceremony, Mrs. King
conﬁded in her that as she left Antioch, she
was disappointed not to have found a fellow
Antiochian to marry. “No one else would
understand,” Mrs. King told her.
Both Susan Wooley, Eleanor Clark’s
daughter, and Treichler said Corrie conﬁded
to their mothers that Julius Kiano ‘52 had
proposed to her. Kiano was from one of
Kenya’s leading families and seemed destined
for a life of sacriﬁce and achievement.
“She turned him down because she wanted
to lead a normal life,” Wooley said. “As my
mother put it, she didn’t want to be involved
in a cause.” She had thought Coretta’s sister
At the Coretta Scott King commemorative celebration on campus, Paula Treichler presented the “premiere” public performance of “My
Little Boat is Sailing,” a song she composed with Robin Lithgow as pre-schoolers. The song was notated by then-music student Coretta
Scott.
Margaret Bacon, who played a role in the effort that brought
Coretta Scott and her sister Edythe to Antioch, met her for the
ﬁrst time in 1978 when she presented her with an award.

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Edythe seemed better suited for such a life.
“Coretta was the quiet one who just wanted
her music.”
It turned out that Miss Scott’s judgment
about her suitor’s future was sound. Kiano
went on to be a leader in the Kenyan
Independence Movement, became a cabinet
member in the government of Jomo Kenyatta
(the ﬁrst president of an independent
Kenya), and Chair of the Kenya Broadcasting
Corporation. Yet there still was to be little
that was quiet about her life.
After she move to Boston to study voice,
friends ﬁxed her up on a blind date. Margaret
Bacon said Mrs. King told her that when she
entered the room where her date was seated,
her heart sank.
Margaret said Mrs. King exclaimed, “Marge,
he was short and fat, and came from this little
Southern college.”
“But then, Marge, he opened his mouth,
and he was exactly like an Antiochian!”
‘My Beautiful Antioch!’
“Sometimes I am asked what I think
Antioch did for me,” Mrs. King wrote in her
revised 1993 autobiography “My Life With
Martin Luther King Jr.” “It did a great deal
beyond the ﬁne education I received. For one
thing, it taught me how to get on in the white
community. Even its hypocrisies, like the lack
of support given me against the Yellow Springs
School Board, taught me not to expect too
much, and to make allowances for, without
condoning, the inbred things which people
have difﬁculty with.”
Her departure from the college was
precipitated by her rejection by Yellow
Spring’s integrated school system as a student
teacher. The
college leadership
did not intercede
on her behalf.
Instead she was
given the option of
teaching at an area-
segregated school, or
continuing to teach
at the Antioch
School. “I taught in
the Antioch School
but I was terribly
disillusioned and
upset.
“Finally, I pulled
myself out. I said to
myself, ‘Now, I am
going to be black
the rest of my life, and I have to face these
problems. So I am not going to let this one get
me down. I have to accept the compromise
now, but I don’t accept it as being right. I’m
going ahead in a more determined way than
ever, to do something about this situation. I
don’t want those who come after me to have to
experience the same fate as I did,’” she wrote.
“The total Antioch experience helped
me to reafﬁrm and deepen the values which
I had already acquired during childhood and
adolescence, in my parents’ home and at
Lincoln High School.
“Antioch gave me an increased
understanding of my own personal worth.
I was no longer haunted by a feeling of
inadequacy just because I was an African
American. Antioch — the total experience
of Antioch — was an important element in
preparing me for the role I was to play as the
wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., and for my part
in the movement he led.”
On campus she was active on the Antioch
Race Relations Committee, on the campus
chapter of the NAACP and in progressive
politics. She also promoted world peace
through Quaker groups operating on campus.
There were undreamt-of opportunities. “In
spite of my great love of music, I had attended
no concerts with famous artist until I went to
Antioch. When I did, it was great pleasure
for me.” She had the opportunity to sing on
the same program as famous baritone Paul
Robeson, who complimented her voice and
encouraged her to continue her studies.
In fact she wrote that her future husband
worried that her deep cultural appreciation
and the “aura of Antioch” might have so much
removed her from the people that she would be
unable to adjust.
In spite of the terrible blow as she left
Antioch, her College and her college
experience was always a favorite topic of
conversation.
At a panel on the Nobel Peace Prize at an
International Studies Association meeting in
Atlanta, Mrs. King was introduced to Jacob
Sverdrup, the Secretary of the Norwegian
Nobel Committee. According to Professor
Abrams “Dr. Sverdrup enjoyed meeting
Coretta, even though she talked more about
Antioch than about Oslo.”
Mrs. King summed up her Antioch years
in her book: “I left Antioch in 1951, with the
feeling that this unique experience had been
invaluable preparation for whatever career
I chose to follow. The knowledge, tools,
techniques, and insights which I had acquired
in this intellectually stimulating climate served
to compensate for the deﬁciencies in my
educational background, as well as to broaden
and enrich my whole life.”
The King Legacy
There is more than one side to the
King legacy, according to Irwin Abrams,
distinguished university professor emeritus
and an internationally recognized authority
on the Nobel Peace Prize. “Today we think
mainly of what he did for civil rights, but he
was and continues to be one of the world’s
greatest advocates of nonviolence. In the
Nobel Museum in Stockholm I was glad to
listen to the recording of Martin Luther King
Jr.’s Nobel address, one of the few selected for
such distinction of all the Nobel Peace lectures
available.
“Biographers of King have referred to
what the Peace Prize meant to him,” Abrams
added. “This is why he opposed the Vietnam
War despite the advice of his colleagues that
he should stick to civil rights. The address
he gave at that Antioch commencement in
1965 was one of the ﬁrst times that he publicly
criticized the U.S. for the Vietnam War.”
“In 1965 I had the privilege of riding with
Martin and Coretta from the airport to the
college along with Mrs. Jessie Treichler, the
Antioch administrator who had done so much
to bring the ﬁrst black students to Antioch in
recent times,” Abrams recalled.
The Choir of the First Baptist Church of Yellow Springs led the
participants in song at the Coretta Scott King Commemorative
Celebration.
In one of his ﬁrst acts as president after arriving on campus,
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A death threat had changed travel plans
and brought a cordon of heavy security. “We
talked about the recent newspaper report on
the death threat. Mrs. King sat quietly as they
spoke, he added. “I will always remember his
words that he expected to die in such a way
and was ready for this.”
The Kings were on campus not long after
Martin received the Nobel Peace Prize in
Oslo, Norway. At lunch Irwin said his late
wife Freda asked Mrs. King what Oslo had
meant to her husband. “She replied that
before Oslo and the Nobel Peace Prize Martin
had never realized what the world expected of
him.”
In saying farewell during her 2004 campus
visit, Abrams said Mrs. King called to him,
saying, “Keep doing what you are doing.”
“No, you keep doing what you are doing,”
Abrams responded, and thinking of what she
had said years before about Martin and the
Nobel Prize, he added. “That is what the world
expects of you.”
“While I have tried to do what she said,”
Abrams said, “she has done even more than
the world expected of her in working to
broaden Martin’s legacy of civil rights to
human rights for everybody.
“While she became a world ﬁgure, she
never lost that warm personal touch, which
meant so much to all of us who knew her,”
Abrams said.
Justice as a Series of Steps
At the ceremony on campus honoring Mrs.
King’s memory, Steve Schwerner ’60 marveled
at the courage displayed by young Mrs. King
when her house was bombed with her and her
ﬁrst baby inside. “Surely most people would
have said ‘That’s it, I want out!’” he said.
Her tenacity and her political wisdom
also came out when her husband was killed
and she was left with no resources and four
little babies. “Five days later she was leading
the march in Memphis. She understood that
she was the single most important person in
America to lead that march so she did it,”
Schwerner said. “That has always struck me as
quite astonishing.”
“No alumna or alumnus of any college
I have ever known has written and spoken
so often and so thoughtfully about their
alma mater as Coretta Scott King has done,”
observed Richard Jursasek.
He listened on the steps of the Main
Building in 2004 as Mrs. King marveled at the
power her little College had shown and, she
believed, would continue to show in the world.
What struck Jurasek most was that Mrs.
King made no conscious connection between
her own life and President Mann’s famous
exhortation. “No, it was those of us standing
with her who realized how perfectly and
completely her life of service was a full and
unqualiﬁed enactment of the carefully chosen
words framed on the Mann memorial shaded
by the oak trees in front of us,” he recalled.
“I doubt if I will ever again encounter as
complete and convincing an exemplar of our
College’s aspirations, virtues and values as I do
when reﬂecting on Mrs. King’s writings and
her campus visit in 2004,” said Jurasek. “Her
memory is a companion, a steady presence, a
persistent reminder of the things that have to
matter most at Antioch as a place for teaching
and learning and lives of meaning and service.”
A Tribute from the Antioch
University Board of Trustees
The Antioch College community has felt blessed for so long having been
touched by the courage and achievement of the life of Coretta Scott King. Now
as her living example gradually is transformed into an indelible legacy, we feel the
need on behalf of the faculty, students and fellow alumni of Antioch to express our
gratitude, and the deep sense of loss in our hearts at the passing of this great lady.
Young Coretta Scott came to our Yellow Springs, Ohio campus from rural
Alabama in the 1940s speciﬁcally because she wanted her college experience to
include the challenges and complexities of an integrated community. We like
to believe that our founding principles of social justice, political activism and
democracy-in-action played an important role in preparing her, and enabling her for
the momentous life on which she was soon to embark. She often said so.
But it is we who are grateful for the silhouette she cut across our lives, all of
our lives — for the courage, kindness and simple grace with which she contributed
such profound gifts for human justice. We now remind ourselves how the life of
Coretta Scott King renews our courage to never stop trying to “win some victory for
humanity” as our founder Horace Mann famously, and urgently espoused.
Thank you Miss Scott… Mrs. King. You made us better, you made us nobler
by your example. We will forever be grateful to you as Antiochians and as fellow
explorers searching for just and meaningful lives.
A delegation from Antioch attended commemorative and funeral
services for Coretta Scott King in Atlanta. President Lawry was
an invited speaker representing Mrs. King’s alma mater. The
delegation included (left to right): Trustees
Daniel J. Kaplan
’76, and Dianne Brou Fraser ’68; President Lawry; Diversity
Advocate Ona L. Harshaw; Trustee Paula Treichler ’65; Bonner
and Coretta Scott King Scholar Eve Williams; Director of Events
Jane Garrison; Professor and Dean of Students Emeritus Steve
Schwerner ’60; and Trustees Barbara Slaner Winslow ’68, and
Everette J. Freeman ’72. Not pictured Lynda Sirk, director of
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About 10 percent of U.S. electricity is
generated by uranium that came out of Russian
nuclear weapons, according to Edward M.
Ifft, ‘60, who spent his career as a U.S. State
Department diplomat helping negotiate the
world back from the brink of global war.
That statistic speaks volumes about the
remarkable success with which nations
advanced arms control in the wake of the
breakup of the former Soviet Union.
Ifft, a negotiator to SALT, START, and
the Nuclear Test Ban Treaties, returned to
campus in November to present the annual
Chatterjee Lecture on the topic “Is Arms
Control Still Relevant?” Some 15 years after
the collapse of the Soviet Union, in a world
preoccupied with super-national threats from
terrorist organizations, the legacy of success in
arms control is often seen as eclipsed by a new
paradigm, Ifft said.
“You could say that less emphasis on arms
control is due to our success,” Ifft said. “We did
after all solve most of the hardest problems and
established legal constraints and international
norms. There is also no doubt that the demise
of the Soviet Union lessened the need and the
urgency for arms control.”
Today there is a clear de-emphasis of
arms control by the Bush Administration,
evidenced by recent reorganization at the State
Department where the words “arms control”
can no longer be found in the organizational
charts, he said. Arms control is also
unfashionable outside of government. The
distinguished Center for International Security
and Arms Control at Stanford University
recently changed the last two words in its
name to “And Cooperation,” he added.
T wo months after 9/11, President Bush
announced that the U.S. would withdraw from
the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, allowing
work to begin on an anti-missile defense shield.
Bush said that the enemies had changed.
Assistant Secretary of State Robert Joseph has
termed the approach to proliferation inherited
by the Bush Administration as one that
perceived it more as a political challenge than
as a security threat, Ifft said. The new strategy
emphasizes proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction as the pre-eminent security threat
for the 21st century.
The Administration submitted its Nuclear
Posture Review of 2001 to Congress that
formally changed the traditional triad of
strategic offensive forces and spelled out the
doctrine of Preventive War.
Some maintain the era of arms control
has ended. In arms control, political and
diplomatic measures are used to draw down the
risk and capabilities of adversaries to threaten
each other with conventional, biological,
chemical, and especially nuclear weapons.
“This distinction of arms control problems
being seen as a diplomatic/political problem,
versus being seen as a national security
problem, I think is crucial,” Ifft said. Under
the current approach, the federal government
has tended to downplay diplomacy in favor
of military solutions, he said. From that
distinction has come the Iraq War and the new
concept of a Preventive War, he said.
“The emphasis on terrorism has sucked
some of the oxygen out of arms control,”
Ifft said. A series of blows to arms control
efforts has also diminished its usefulness in
the current environment. Black market sales
of nuclear weapon components, and serious
illegal actions in Iraq, Libya, North Korea and
elsewhere showed that the Non-Proliferation
Treaty was not as effective as had been
believed, Ifft said.
Second, the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty collapsed when the U.S. did not ratify
it. Finally, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
failed in 2002 when the U.S. pulled out.
Arms control remains relevant, Ifft
concluded. He offered a list of observations
and recommendations in supporting his thesis.
• Much that is now being done toward
non-proliferation, cooperative threat reduction
and anti-terrorism is arms control under a
different name, he said.
• We need to further reduce the numbers
of deployed nuclear weapons, Ifft said. Russia
and the U.S. will have no more than about
4,400 operationally deployed strategic nuclear
warheads combined unter the SORT Treaty
(Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty). Ifft
noted that this represents a reduction of more
than 7,000 warheads below the previous arms
control agreement, but there are as yet no
veriﬁcation provisions beyond what had been
negotiated earlier in the START Treaty.
• The Non-Proliferation Treaty has
loopholes which make it possible for countries
like Iran and North Korea to obtain peaceful
nuclear technologies and then pull out of the
agreement when they have sufﬁcient expertise
and materials to begin a nuclear weapons
program.
• No international agreements deal with
the threat of tactical nuclear weapons (small,
mobile weapons). Russia has thousands of
these and we don’t know where they all are.
When warheads are decommissioned
under arms control agreements, they can
be warehoused without any international
controls, he added. However, the Department
of Energy has announced there will be a
reduction in the U.S. stockpile by about half
by 2012.
• There are a host of issues of
implementation and compliance under
existing agreements that Ifft worries may not
be given the scrutiny they deserve.
• It is still important for global stability to
fully ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
“It is not the policy of this administration,”
he acknowledged, “but there will be more
administrations to come.”
• More effective mechanisms must be
found to cut off the ﬂow of ﬁssionable materials
worldwide.
• It is vital that the nations of the world
avoid an arms race in space, Ifft continued.
“Most of the world is very exercised about the
possibility of weapons in space, but no recent
U.S. administration has been willing to talk
about the issue seriously.”
• Finally, Ifft said colleges and universities
should help stimulate renewed interest and
expertise in foreign affairs, international
security and arms control.
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Bunny Crumpacker ’55
Crumpacker’s children’s book “Alexander’s Pretending Day” follows Alexander
and his mother through a wild game of imagination animated by the drawings of Dan
Andreasen. In addition, Crumpacker has a book for adults, “The Sex Life of Food,”
scheduled to appear early this year from St. Martin’s Press.
John Fleischman ’71
Fleischman is on a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a new science book for children
— concerning animals that have won Nobel Prizes in medicine and chemistry.
His 2002 science book for kids, the award-winning “Phineas Gage, A Gruesome but
True Story about Brain Science,” was favorably received by critics. Houghton Mifﬂin
Children’s Books, Boston, will also publish his next non-ﬁction book for kids, “Black
and White Airmen,” next year. Fleischman also writes about science for the American
Society for Cell Biology and is a frequent magazine free-lancer.
Kate Fitz Gibbon
“Who Owns the Past? Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law” (Rutgers
University Press) is a major volume focusing on the most controversial and hotly
debated topics in the art world today. Editor Fitz Gibbon, a former Antioch University
faculty member, is a specialist on world heritage issues. The book is a guide to recent,
dramatic changes in public policy and the law, and offers a broad range of opinion
by many of the nation’s leading legal scholars, museum professionals, archaeologists,
art historians, and collectors. Public and private institutions in the U.S. have long
been home to a variety of art works, antiquities, and ethnological materials. For years,
these collections have served as important archives that allow present and future
generations to enjoy, appreciate and value the art of all cultures. The past decade,
however, has seen major changes in law and public policy, as well as an active, ongoing
debate over legal and ethical matters affecting the ownership of art and other cultural
property. Sponsored by the American Council for Cultural Policy, the volume features
30 contributors, presenting background on cultural property policies and discusses
important cases affecting the ability of U.S. museums and private collectors to exhibit
and own art from other countries. Steven Vincent, the American journalist abducted
and killed in Iraq in August, was one author — contributing the chapter, “Indian
Givers.”
Fitz Gibbon is a consultant on collections management and cultural-property issues,
specializing in Central Asian art. With Andrew Hale she is co-author of several books,
including “Ikat: Silks of Central Asia,” which received the George Wittenborn Award
for best art book of 1997. She also served on the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory
Committee to the President 2000-03.
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Scott Hightower ‘78
“Part of the Bargain” Hightower’s latest book of poetry, is the winner of Copper Canyon
Press’ Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets. According to the publisher,
the volume is both a cabinet of curiosities and a sweep of philosophical idylls. Hightower’s
poems range in style and subject, with soliloquies, laments, eccentric ponderings, and
contemplations of appetite and art. The book’s epigraph evokes a Faustian contract, which
is echoed in the tensions between urban and rural, light and dark, moral and amoral action.
Hightower’s inﬂuences
— Sappho, Virgil, Blake, and Wilde — make their presence known
as he reﬂects upon life in urban America after growing up in rural Texas, about coming of
age as a gay man, about art and artists, poetry and painting. Hightower also explores the
imperceptible reconciliations that one makes as an individual, as part of a community, and as
a conscientious heir to a culture. Valences of sexuality, nationality, literality all swirl together
and perform a balancing act as the poet aspires to pull back the curtain of “the ineffable
pageantry” of our multi-layered lives. Hightower is the author of two other books of poems,
“Tin Can Tourist” and “Natural Trouble,” both published by Fordham University Press. His
writings have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Salmagundi, The Yale
Review, and The Paris Review. He teaches at New York University and is a contributing
editor to The Journal and Barrow Street. He lives in Manhattan.
From “Door to the Terrace”
You withdraw from me like a match
From a ﬁnal cigarette and dance every
Abandonment. The strains of music
That accompany you ﬂoat away with you.
Teishan Latner
’00
“The Quotable Rebel; Political Quotations for Dangerous Times” is a collection of
quotations from Edward Abbey through Howard Zinn, including such quotes as Marcus
Garvey’s “We are not rebels and revolutionaries, but humans who will no longer be denied
our humanity.” Published by Common Courage Press.
Rebecca Moore ’74
“Voice of Christianity,” published by McGraw-Hill in November, is a reader that presents
the most important documents of the ﬁrst 2000 years of Christianity in their entirety. This
text also includes extended introductions to the primary source documents that provide
historical context for understanding key thinkers and moments in the history of Christianity.

Moore is an associate professor of religious studies at San Diego State University.
Carl Nordstrom, ’46
“Nyack in Black & White — Race Relations over Three Centuries,” by Carl Nordstrom,
professor emeritus of economics at Brooklyn College, is published by The Historical Society
of the Nyacks and the Nyack Public Library. Nordstrom’s manuscript was written in the
1970s but not published until January. According to the Society’s book abstract, Nordstrom’s
“research belies the local myth that slaveholders in Rockland County were benign and
welcomed emancipation. Going forward through the 19th and 20th centuries, he shows that
attitudes of both black and white people persisted on the slave/master model. The explosive
center of the book is about the 1967 ‘race riots’ in Nyack, which were observed by South
Nyack resident Nordstrom ﬁrsthand.” A street melee during that Long Hot Summer resulted
in property damage and 14 arrests. Spared of the strife that struck 123 other U.S. cities that
summer, calls for justice made Nyack a tinderbox of its own sort. Again in October, anger
boiled over against urban renewal that had displaced long-term poor residents. The volume
traces “the growth of Nyack’s black community from the late 17th century to the late 20th
century,” according to Bob Goldberg of the historical society. It includes chapters on the
severe slave code developed under British rule and practiced in Rockland, the Revolutionary
and Civil War periods, formation of the early black churches, the Depression and postwar
eras and the ﬁght for good housing and integrated schools during the latter part of the 20th
century. The book is profusely illustrated with wonderful old drawings and photos from the
periods covered.

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Frederick Reuss ’83
“Mohr: A Novel” will be released in May by Unbridled Books. When a solitary man
stumbles upon a cache of photographs, sometimes�and only sometimes�he can sense the
lives of the people in them. Sometimes he can ﬁnd in their faces and in the way they
hold themselves or the way they perform before the camera, the light trace of their story.
Following just that path, acclaimed novelist Frederick Reuss has created a love story
of historic proportions. “Mohr: A Novel” is about a man and wife whose life together
is marked irreparably by a deeply troubled and world-testing era. With the sort of
enthralling narrative step that always marks his work, Reuss allows their story to rise from
a cache of photographs he uncovered in Germany from the 1920s and 1930s of the exiled
Jewish playwright and novelist Max Mohr; Käthe, the beautiful wife he left behind; and
Eva, their daughter, who would live through it all but would never really understand what
had happened. The interplay between Reuss’ revealing prose and the real faces in nearly
50 photographs offers a reading experience that may be unprecedented in novels.
Harvey E. Rawson ‘57
“Travels of an Iconoclast: An American Psychologist’s Perspective on Countries That
Best Illustrate World Problems,” tackles global problems by actually visiting the countries
that best illustrate, in the author’s opinion, those problems. The book also attempts
to blow open all the myths, legends, and fantasies associated with the places we visit,
and demonstrates that travel is eye-opening, mind-blowing, and educational. This is
Rawson’s sixth book. He has now visited 171 countries and has four more trips planned
this year. Published by Authorhouse in August.
Barbara Wallraff ’72
“Word Fugitives; In Pursuit of Wanted Words” seeks to solve the everyday problem of
not being able to ﬁnd the right word by providing hundreds of new and modiﬁed words to
ﬁt the everyday needs of language. Wallraff has also written the best-selling book “Word
Court,” has a weekly newspaper column, and a column in the Atlantic Monthly (from
which “Word Fugitives” grew).
Gordon ’55 and Barbara Shipherd Evans ’57
“Bed & Breakfast Journey: A Lifetime of Goodbyes” was published in 2005 by Village
Press Inc., Traverse City, MI. This unusual autobiography covers the 50-year marriage
of the authors through unfolding chapters of their lives. The ﬁrst part deals with the
experience of setting up a six-guestroom hotel in Interlochen Michigan. The second part
of the book covers their earlier life together in the Foreign Service and then a decade
when Gordon served as President of the International House in New York City. “Most
married partners can feel lucky if one and one makes two,” said John C. Whitehead in the
Foreward. “With Barbara and Gordon, it is quite clear that one and one makes three.”

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Kathleen O’Hara ’90
“A Grief Like No Other” is the book no one wants to ever have to buy; sadly, many
people continue to need it. From 9/11 to Cindy Sheehan’s son – from mass tragedies
like the recent London bombings to Law and Order-type crimes that make the news
only to be replaced by another name, more people are left with the aftermath of dealing
with the violent death of a loved one. It brings its own special brand of grieving since
victim’s families can spend years dealing with legal ramiﬁcations, guilt, and a myriad of
other circumstances that don’t accompany “normal” deaths. Kathleen O’Hara knows
both sides of this coin. As a therapist, she has counseled hundreds of people dealing with
grief. As a mother, she saw her worst fears realized when her college-aged son was brutally
murdered in 1999. In the aftermath of Aaron’s murder, O’Hara developed the seven
stage journey that is at the heart of “A Grief Like No Other.” Although this is a book for
those left behind in the aftermath of violence, it offers concrete and practical steps and
stages, allowing family and friends safe passage through this incredibly harrowing journey.
Foreward by Dan Gottlieb ’52. Forthcoming from Marlowe and Company.
Richard A. Couto
“Courses in Courage: Antioch College and the Social Sciences.” Earlier than other
social scientists did, the contributors to this book (David Apter ’50, Cynthia Epstein
’55, Heinz Eulau, Gordon Fellman ’57, Fred Greenstein ’53, Allan Pred ’57, and Joan
Straumanis ’57) explored emerging areas of study such as gender equity, political
violence, peace, and conﬂict, and shaped these areas for the current generation of social
scientists and those to follow. Their interdisciplinary, problem-centered, and rigorous
scholarship has brought them the accolades of their professional and other scholarly
associations. They have achieved national and international acclaim for their scholarship
and hold or held prestigious positions at some of the best schools in the U.S. and abroad.
These six contributors came together at Antioch College in 2003 as representatives of
the post-World War II period when Antioch was a nebula that fashioned intellectual,
cultural, and political stars. They reﬂected on their personal backgrounds and their
scholarship, and the role that Antioch College had in building on the ﬁrst and training
for the second. In these pages, they speak to an element of the social sciences often
ignored — courage. They address the place of values in social science, the challenges they
addressed in their careers, and the challenge for future social scientists and their students
to continue interdisciplinary, problem-centered, relevant, and rigorous social analysis.
Editor Richard Couto is a founding faculty member of the Antioch Leadership and
Change PhD program. He has several national awards for his work in community-based
teaching and research. Published by Xlibris Corporation.
Brian Loudon ’03, Evelyn LaCroix ’04, Diane Chiddister, Scott Sanders,
and the Yellow Springs News
“T wo Hundred Years of Yellow Springs” gathers together the newspaper’s 2003 series
commemorating the village’s bicentennial. The collection is a fortunate product of the
town-gown community. Editor Robert Mihalek consulted with Antioch archivists Nina
Myatt ’53 and Sanders to build an interesting picture of Yellow Springs, starting from
the time when the great Shawnee Chief Tecumseh was believed a frequent visitor to the
healing springs. Antioch co-op students, adjunct faculty member Chiddister, and Sanders
contributed to the writing and most of the photos were supplied by Antiochiana. The
volume is notable for numerous fascinating events in the life of the community, but more
particularly for how thoroughly enmeshed have been the fortunes of the town and the
College. Published by the Yellow Springs News.

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ANTIOCHCOMMUNITY
REUNION 2006 P. 26
CLASS NOTES P. 29
OBITUARIES P. 38
* Leland Clark, ’41, Saved Lives, Changed Medicine
At the vanguard of a revolution in
medical technology, Leland C. Clark, ‘41,
will be remembered for the countless lives he
saved and improved during a half-century of
invention. Although not himself a physician,
he brought insights of biochemistry and
bioengineering that were to change the
practice of medicine forever.
Clark, 86, died Sept. 25 at the home of his
daughter, Rebecca, in Cincinnati.
With at least 25 U.S. patents and some 80
inventions to his credit, Clark deserved the
nickname, the “Edison of Medicine.”
Clark’s blood-sugar monitor, the ﬁrst device
to allow patients to regularly monitor their
own glucose levels, revolutionized the lives
of diabetics. His oxygen electrode has been
hailed as one of the great leaps forward in 20th
century medicine. That device allows doctors
to measure blood oxygen levels. This advance
made the development of open-heart surgery
possible — a procedure
now performed 750,000
times a year.
The oxygen electrode
found wide application,
saving the vision of
premature infants
undergoing treatment
for respiratory distress
syndrome, and even
protecting wildlife by
giving scientists a tool to
measure oxygen levels in
oceans and rivers.
Often called the “Father
of Biosensors,” Clark’s
visionary application of
engineering solutions
for medicine opened
new vistas for improving
medical care. In 1951
Clark developed, with
cardiologist Samuel
Kaplan, the ﬁrst practical
human heart-lung
machine. Their success owed much to Clark’s
ﬁrst invention, the bubble oxygenator, which
he developed in 1949 at Fels Research Institute
in Yellow Springs.
“He was a person who gave his all,” said
Dr. Rob Spokane, senior scientist at Yellow
Springs Instrument Co. who worked with
Dr. Clark at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center from 1984 to 1991. “He was
very dedicated to helping and using his talents
to make a difference — to improve the quality
of life for others. He committed his existence
to that end. He’s certainly one of my personal
heroes. He has made a difference in an
incredible number of peoples’ lives.”
Clark’s dream was to perfect artiﬁcial blood.
While that goal was never realized, he did
help produce valuable avenues for continuing
research.
He was born in Rochester, N.Y., on Dec.
4, 1918. He earned his bachelor’s degree in
chemistry at Antioch in 1941 and went on to
doctoral studies in biochemistry and physiology
at the University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry. Then Clark returned
to Antioch as an assistant professor of
biochemistry and as a research associate and
chairman of the biochemistry department at
Fels Research Institute.
In 1955, Clark went to the University
of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine
as a senior research associate in pediatrics
and surgery. Next, Clark spent a decade as a
professor in the department of surgery at the
University of Alabama College of Medicine.
According to his daughter, Susan Wooley, he
became unpopular there for recruiting and
training African American research assistants.
Clark returned to UC in 1968 as a professor
of research pediatrics, as well as head of the
division of neurophysiology at the Children’s
Hospital Research Foundation until
1991.
Clark was a university
distinguished service professor at
the UC College of Medicine from
1984 until 1991, and vice president
of research at Synthetic Blood
International from 1991 until 1996.
He wrote more than 400
publications in biomedicine and
bioengineering. Among the many
honors he received are: the Daniel
Drake Medal for Outstanding
Achievements in Medical Research
from the UC College of Medicine;
the American Heart Association’s
Kaplan Visionary Award; and
the 2005 National Academy of
Engineering’s Fritz J. and Dolores H.
Russ Prize recognizing outstanding
achievement in an engineering
ﬁeld of critical importance that
See CLARK, next page
Leland C. Clark ’41 with his original heart-lung machine.

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Ask Scott Warren how he came to teach
philosophy at Antioch and he does not
actually wax philosophical.
It had something to do with 1973, when
the now associate professor was immersed in a
graduate seminar on Crime and Delinquency
at the Claremont Graduate School. Armed
with a National Institutes of Health grant to
study aspects of the criminal justice system,
Scott and his classmate Rex Fine, went
undercover.
Philosophy, by one deﬁnition, encompasses
all learning that is not technical or practical,
but the two students were impatient. They
began applying for prison jobs and were
soon hired by the California Institute for
Women where their job would be to provide
research services to suggest ways to improve
administration of the prison. Their true
motive however was to advance prison reform
by looking for evidence of prisoner abuse.
At ﬁrst inmates treated them like “narcs,”
Warren recalled.
Persistence paid off after about two months
when an inmate named Judy “Lightning”
presented them with hand-made mugs,
declaring that they had “joined the gypsies”
and thus were accepted by at least part of the
inmate community.
In the following months the stories of
mental, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands
of the all-male staff of guards began to ﬂow
to them. Along with many other abuses, the
pair discovered that guards were reading the
prisoner’s letters to family and their lawyers,
letters that were supposed to be unread and
uncensored.
Scott and Rex began smuggling unopened
letters back and forth though they declined
occasional requests for weaponry.
Warren said they began to understand the
inner structure of the prison. They realized,
for instance, that the inmates were separated
into two main groups: the residents, who were
serving out their sentences and mostly wanted
to be left alone;
and the cons,
those who
considered
themselves
to be
political
prisoners.
They
also learned to
speak in code
disguised as casual
conversation,
to exchange
information
under the noses of
ubiquitous guards.
Among some of the
more notable prisoners at the prison during
this time were some of the female members
of the Manson group. T wo of these prisoners
would spend their one-hour per week out of
their cells working on their appeals in the
closet-sized law library where Scott and Rex
spent most of their time.
Warren formed very different images of
these two women. The younger, Leslie Van
Houghton, seemed to have spent enough time
in prison and could have been released. She
had been young, impressionable, and swept up
in the moment of the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Also, she had never killed anyone outright.
The other, Sadie Atkins, Warren summed
up by saying “When I looked into her eyes it
was like looking into two black holes that led
nowhere, there was no soul, there was nothing
behind there. It scared the devil out of me.”
Their days in prison grew short when they
were caught “sneaking around” an off-limits
“psychiatric ward,” which was really little
more than a series of diving-
bell-esque solitary cells
used to hold the
more rebellious
inmates.
The
conditions
were not
conducive
to mental or
social health,
Warren said. “If you
weren’t mentally
ill that place would
have made you
mentally ill,” he
added. Their prison
odyssey suddenly
ended after 11
months when a
new warden took
over and decided
he didn’t trust the
Claremont kids…with
good reason. The grad
students submitted their
report to Governor Jerry Brown — full of
reform recommendations — but it was never
acknowledged. They also continued to send
letters to their friends still in the prison but
could never be sure if they were delivered.
Warren said the experience left them
feeling they had failed; yet they had also
gained greater insight into the penal system in
the U.S.
The reigning philosophy of the penal
system, rehabilitation, had been exposed as
myth. He could see the system as punitive
— and increasingly punitive. Teaching and
learning, he discovered, should not divorce
practice from theory. These lessons formed
a philosophy of sorts, which he eventually
discovered he shares as part of highly valued
traditions at Antioch. The examples of neglect
and abuse he experienced at the California
Institute for Women continues to inform the
lessons he teaches.
Already a radical political philosopher, the
experience intensiﬁed Scott’s radicalism, and
destined him to work at a College that would
demand that he win victories for humanity.
The pursuit of knowledge in the interest of
human emancipation became his driving force,
and ultimately led him to to Antioch as his
natural intellectual and political home. In
some ways, his work in teaching philosophy
will always be a metaphor for liberating
students from the many prisons in which they
ﬁnd themselves.
Behind Bars: New Adventures in the Life of the Mind
CLARK, from previous page
Dr. Clark with his groundbreaking oxygen electrode.
contributes to improving the human condition.
Clark also received another distinguished
humanitarian award, the Antioch Alumni
Association’s Horace Mann Award.
Clark’s wife, Eleanor ’41, preceded him
in death in 1997. In addition to his daughter
Rebecca, survivors include: daughters, Susan
Clark Wooley ’64, of Cincinnati, Joan Tornow
’67 of Tacoma, Wash. and Linda Noyes ’70, of
Cincinnati; a brother, Woodums Clark; and
ﬁve grandchildren.
The Antiochian will return to the life and
achievement of Leland Clark (including a
REUNION tribute) in the next issue.

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REUNION
There is so much to celebrate at this year’s reunion. In
addition to meeting President Steve Lawry and learning
about the forward progress of the new curriculum and co-op
communities, the Alumni Association Board has planned an
exciting array of activities for the entire family.
Reunion 2006 will also honor the late Coretta Scott King
’51, and the late Leland C. Clark ’41. Glen Helen’s Outdoor
Education Center will also celebrate its 50th anniversity
To register go to www.antioch-college.edu/alumni. Also
look for the full schedule and any updates, as well as a list of
who’s registered. For more information, please contact the
Ofﬁce of Institutional Advancement at (800) 411-6780 or
alumni@antioch-college.edu.
2006
Alumni
Awards
Cliff Robertson ’46
(Academy Award-
winning actor/direc-
tor)
Rebecca Rice Award
for those who have
excelled in their
vocation or ﬁeld of
study.
Margaret “Meg”
Walker Hansson ’46
(entrepreneur, com-
munity activist and
mentor)
Horace Mann Award

for activities that
have had a profound
effect on the present
or future human
condition.
Barbara Slaner
Winslow ’68
(activist, Coordina-
tor of the Women’s
Studies Program at
Brooklyn College,
Antioch Trustee)
The Arthur Morgan
Award
for signiﬁcant
contributions to
community.
Jewel Graham
(Professor of
Social Welfare
and Legal Studies,
Emerita)
J.D. Dawson Award

for signiﬁcant
contributions to
Antioch College.
“Among the ﬁnest
traditional country
blues performers in
the world. Hammond’s
consummate technique
on conventional and
bottleneck guitars and
his dark, emotive vocal
style recall the glory
of such seminal blues
masters as Robert
Johnson, Son House
and Charley Patton.”
San Diego
Union-Tribune
Blues artist John Hammond ’65 will perform on Saturday, June 24.
A Grammy Award winner and winner of numerous Blues Music Awards
(formerly W .C. Handy Blues Awards). John has released 25 albums in
a career marked by his passionate commitment to the acoustic blues
tradition.
Blues Guitarist John Hammond ’65

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A Call to all Alumni of Color
A special outreach effort is being made by members of the
Alumni Board to all alumni of color to attend Reunion 2006 to
celebrate this year’s recipient of the J. D. Dawson Award, Dr. Jewel
Graham, who witnessed our growth from the late 60s through the
early 90s.
To the alumni of the Rockefeller Program, Antioch Program
in Interracial Education, New Directions, Poor People’s Alliance,
African American Studies institute, Third World Alliance, Lesbian/
Bisexual/Gay, Queers of Color, By Any Means Necessary, Unidad,
Men of the African Descent and all the other names we called
ourselves during our time, it’s time to create a new group called
AOC (Alumni of Color) to mentor the next generation.
In addition to the award presentation on Saturday morning, a
panel discussion on social justice with some of Jewel’s mentees will
take place on Saturday afternoon. See the web site for more details.
Alumni Association Board Members
Athena Turner Frederick ’82,
Doug Fischer ’92,
Bob Gates ’78,
Bradley Wilburn ’84,
Tim Eubanks ’00,
Steve Duffy ’77
25th Anniversary Work Project
Participating alumni have found this opportunity to spend time
working and playing with fellow Antiochians from the 30s to the
current students to be a grand adventure in receiving as well as
giving. Work Project has tackled a variety of projects including
wiring buildings; painting and repainting both interiors and
exteriors; washing, replacing and reglazing windows; revitalizing
lawns and ﬂower beds; building picnic tables, porches, and sheds; and
replacing bricks on Red Square.
Antiochiana has had The Record indexed and photos organized;
steps have been repaired; and furniture has been put together. There
have been so many tasks — most if not all done with at least another
alum with whom to dialog and argue. Working, eating and sleeping
together (as in dorms, that is) rejuvenates the mind and the body.
It’s a spa plan that’s free.
If you’ve never experienced the camaraderie of the work project,
come and join in the work and the fun as we celebrate our 25th from
Monday, June 19th-Thursday, June 22nd.
Penny Storm ’65
Alumni Association Board Member
25th Anniversary Work Project
June 19-22
2 0 06! June 23-25
A Call for Auction Donations
This year, the Alumni Board is planning an auction of donated
services and items to beneﬁt the College on Friday, June 23rd. We
ask all alumni to consider contributing an item that is portable,
such as a gift certiﬁcate to a beach house or vacation home here
in the States or abroad, services rendered that can go national,
gift certiﬁcates at national stores and outlets, art, antiques, and
handmade wares. Fellow Antiochians, please respond before May 1
and contribute to this exciting and very Antiochian event!
If you can’t donate, then come prepared to buy. I am personally
donating four to six items. If this event proves to be both fun and
successful, then it may become a tradition at Reunion. Let’s make
this happen in a big way! To make a gift, please contact Cary Callie
at the Ofﬁce of Institutional Advancement at (800) 411-6780 or e-
mail alumni@antioch-college.edu or go to the website www.antioch-
college.edualumni.
E. Ann Baldwin ’80
Alumni Board Member
Register @
www.antioch-college.edualumni

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She is a leader in her ﬁeld. Testimony
of that comes from the number of newly
discovered animal species named after her.
Meet Deeveyae jillae, Yagerocaris cozumel and
Dodecalana yagerae. International Rules of
Nomenclature strictly forbid discoverers of new
species to name them after themselves, but it
doesn’t stop colleagues from naming them in
tribute to others.
Jill Yager, professor of environmental and
biological science, scored big in international
scientiﬁc circles in 1981 when she discovered
Remipedia, a new class of animal in a deep,
ancient Bahamian cave. She had found not
just a species, genus, family, or even order but
a new class of primitive crustaceans deﬁned by
a long, slender, segmented body in which each
segment has a pair of swimming appendages.
When she is not teaching at Antioch,
Yager continues to be occupied by the tiny
creatures, working to describe the latest three
new species. So far Remipedes include at least
ﬁfteen species belonging to six genera and two
families.
She plans to retire next year and move
to Mexico where she will conduct long-term
studies of Remipede behavior. Recently while
on a Fulbright grant, she kept a colony alive
in a tank for four months. The work produced
a treasure trove of observations about their
growth, longevity, feeding, reproduction and
other behavior.
During this time Yager discovered the
Remipede has a gland in its head that produces
a poison it uses to paralyze its prey. Yager
said she is particularly anxious to study this
toxin for its purely scientiﬁc value, but also to
understand its chemical properties. “Scientists
are looking all over the planet to isolate
organic compounds that might have medical
potential,” she said. Most biologists speculate
that we are now in the midst of a mass
extinction of species worldwide, so the window
for discovering beneﬁcial compounds may be
narrowing, she added.
With the possibility of global warming,
rising sea level and environmental pollution,
are Remipedes endangered?
The crustaceans’ complex environment is
rare and delicate — they live in low-oxygen,
brackish waters with peculiar temperature
gradients in deep marine caves. Because
they are only found in tiny enclaves around
the world (like the West Indies, Bahamas,
the Canary Islands and Western Australia)
Yager’s critters are pointed to as evidence of
continental drift. She believes Remipedes
are older than the original super continent
Pangaea or even its predecessor Gondwana
— perhaps as old as 350 million years.
There is much that is still unknown about
the crustaceans, Yager said. “We know very
little about their biology. We understand their
life cycle, and we don’t know what happens to
the eggs once they are fertilized,” she said.
Today there are about 10 researchers world-
wide who are studying Remipedes, nearly all
of them in collaboration with Yager. Her most
active current collaboration is with biologist
Chris Tudge, of American University and the
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, and
Dirk Brandeis of the University of Heidelberg
in Germany.
Yager ﬁrst became interested in caving
when her grandfather took her to a cave in
southern Indiana. “There was just something
about that cave that stuck in my memory as a
small child”. Her interest continued to grow
as an undergraduate at Earlham College where
she helped her biology professor to band bats
in caves.
After college Jill moved to the Bahamas
where she taught high school biology as well
as second and sixth grades. In the Bahamas,
Jill’s fascination with caves led her to begin
cave diving for fun in some of the many
unexplored caves scattered throughout the
Bahamas. After a while the thrill of the cave
diving began to wear off and Jill, a biologist by
training, noticed and began collecting small
animals in the caves. She had discovered
Remipedia.
As a result of her discovery and subsequent
work Jill has been featured in several public
television programs, a National Geographic
video, a Japanese nature documentary, and was
a science consultant for the 2001 IMAX movie
“Journey into Amazing Caves.”
In 1989 Jill received her PhD from Old
Dominion University and began to look for
work teaching biology. While attending a
party in Dayton, Jill learned that Antioch was
hiring a biology professor. As she was looking
for work and the job description matched
up extremely well with her interests and
specialties, she decided to apply.
On her ﬁrst visit to Antioch Jill gave a
short talk and afterwards headed to the back of
the science building where she had a chance
to eat pizza with and meet some of the science
students “It was so informal and so friendly
and so much fun that I was just crossing my
ﬁngers like crazy (that she would get the job).”
Jill did end up getting the job and has taught
at Antioch ever since. Entering her 17th
year of teaching at Antioch College, Jill had
this to say. “What I love about (Antioch) is
I have students that are really science geeks
and they love it as much as I do, and its very
encouraging.”
Biologist Revels in Exploration of the World ‘Down Under’
“Jillae yagerae”
Famous for her crustaceans,
Professor Yager hosts crustacean
dinners for her students on
campus.
Examples of Remi-
pedia the new class
of crustaceans
discovered in deep,
ancient caves in
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1930s
missile plant located on our side of town
— after some 20 years.
“In some states, and some areas, water
law is a ﬁeld all by itself. There are water
newsletters in print in Texas. All this is merely
scratching the surface, as subsequent research
will show.”
Marjorie Alfus ’47
Over the years Marjorie has been a fellow
in pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital in N.Y.,
an author of popular science articles, an
editor at McGraw-Hill, producer of local
science-based TV shows, producer of women’s
daytime fashion and beauty shows, and creator
of Alberto Imports, a manufacturing and
import ﬁrm largely credited with introducing
Italian knitwear fashions to the U.S. In
1969 Marjorie became the general counsel
and reporting head of Kmart’s Foreign
Department. She convinced Kmart to set up
its own manufacturing division and was made
president, she then traveled all over the globe
establishing plants and related businesses,
eventually adding more than 5 billion dollars
to Kmart’s operation.
Louis Ann Matthews, ’47
“I only attended Antioch for one year,
from August 1946 till I ﬁnished my second
work-section mid-summer in 1997, but as you
can imagine, my experiences that year have
remained among my most vivid memories of
my life in America. Since 1950 my home has
been New Zealand, but I also had four years
in England, one back in America and one in
France and Germany.”

Doris Weaver ’48
“Many years have passed from 1948-2006.
I’ve had various careers — chemistry teacher,
chemist in industry, and ﬁnally real estate
broker and VP . Retired since 1990 with
John Trauger ’38
“Are all of my classmates dead? The class
notes would indicate that students before 1940
no longer exist. I’m one who is retired after
a full life as a photojournalist and teacher at
Rochester Institute of Technology.”
Before serving in the Army Air Corps
during WWII, John attended the School of
Modern Photography and the Detroit Museum
of Art. At the conclusion of WWII, Time/Life
screened him for Standard Oil Company’s
CLASS NOTES
(Ohio) magazine photography where he
practiced his photojournalism for 18 years
– wherever in the North American continent
the company had operations.
After that at Corning Glass Works
John was supervisor of the glass, industrial,
ﬁlm, and public relations photographers.
Trauger became a full Professor spending
21 years teaching professional photography,
photojournalism, industrial, color, and medical
photography at the School of Photographic
Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of
Technology. John created the Biomedical
Photographic Communications baccalaureate
program under a Federal grant, the ﬁrst such
program in the United States, he also created
an internship program in biomedical areas.
After his years of photojournalism, plus
instruction in professional, industrial, and
medical photography, John retired with his
wife to Canadaigua to pursue personal projects.
speech. My past career choices suddenly made
sense and surprisingly, seemed rational and
judicious so I settled in for 20 years., where
among other tasks, I originated a summer class/
tour called ‘Shakespeare-At-Stratford’ and for
16 summers I was paid to go to England and
lead tours to see all of the productions of the
Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford and in
London.
“I retired from WWU some 20 years ago,
but taught again somewhat informally and
without pay wherever the winds of chance
and choice have pointed; in Hawaii at the
University, in Santa Fe, NM and in Port
Townsend, WA. In these last years, I went
on for additional training with the Spiritual
Eldering Institute and conducted groups
concerned with improving the quality of life
and living in our senior years. I believe I have
ﬁnally found my calling and await with some
eagerness and a modicum of anxiety the next
chapters of this eventful journey. Friends write:
276 Cowlitz Pl, La Conner, WA 98257”
Robert R. Cruse, ’42
“A course listing in the latest Presidential
ﬂyer has aroused my interest and comment.
The LC on Water Matters: I wonder if even
Antioch knows the depth and breadth of this
subject. For starters, let me refer you to two
U.S.G.S. Water Supply Papers, covering six
years of research on water evaporation control,
which I co-authored. This is obviously a
miniscule sub-topic. I sent the Antioch Library
hard-bound copies of both papers at the time
they were issued (early 1960’s).
Also, water played a big part in our
family subdivisions in Pima County, Arizona
(Tucson). Water? The Sonoran Desert? Believe
it!!! We chose our location because we found
the underground water tables, and subsequent
and belated development, including the
Tucson International Airport and the Hughes
Arthur Solomon, ’41
“A curious tale follows for those who might
remember my name and those relatively early
years at Antioch. Those of you who do, may
recall that I arrived on campus the same year
as George Geiger, in 1937 (Algo Henderson
was president then and Jessie Treichler his
able assistant), but I left after four years for
the wars in 1941. I served in the merchant
marine (bravely, of course), married Hilda
Golub between voyages, and returned to
campus in 1945 to ﬁnish my degree and
play ‘Romeo’ directed by Arthur Lithgow
’38. After much theater at the College with
Paul Treichler directing and some years in
the summer theater (I recall one summer
directing Vivan Bresnehen and Meredith
Dallas in ‘Pygmalion’), I earned a MA in
theater at UNC which catapulted me into the
professional NY theater for two years, forgo the
theatrical for the academic life, I earned a PhD
from Stanford in Speech Pathology and taught
all manner of speech for the next 35 years
including seven years on the Antioch faculty.
“In 1962, W . Boyd Alexander called me
at Chico State University and said ‘come
back,’ so I happily returned to campus where,
besides teaching, I counseled students under
J.D. Dawson along with Wally Sikes; was
talked into playing the ghost in ‘Hamlet’
(by the very persuasive Paul Treichler in his
new amphitheatre), and then, in my spare
time, originated a new type of undergraduate
speech program, encourage by the head of
research, Sam Baskin. I called it ‘Interpersonal
Communication’ which eventuated in a
book with that title, coauthored with Steve
Perry and Bob Devine ’67. On the basis of
that publication, I received an appointment
as Speech Department Chair at Western
Washington University where they were
particularly interested in someone conversant
with drama, speech pathology and general
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Hardy T rolander ’47
The HORACE MANN
SOCIETY
Hardy came to
Antioch seeking an
Electrical Engineering
degree with an element
that was missing at other
institutions – a liberal
arts focus. The diverse
education of the Antioch
curriculum was the
crucial difference in
providing him with the
skills he would need to
succeed as an engineer,
an entrepreneur and
as CEO of Yellow
Springs Instruments. In
recognition of the impact
Antioch has had on his
life, Trolander donates annually to the Fund for Antioch College as member of the Horace
Mann Society.
“Every Antiochian beneﬁts from the gifts of the alumni who came before them, and each
of us has an obligation to support the next generation,” says Trolander.
Members of the Horace Mann Society give annually to the College at the leadership
level of $1,000 and above. Their investment has a measurable effect on the lives of students,
faculty and staff at Antioch today.
To learn more about the Horace Mann Society and supporting the Fund for Antioch
College, please contact Lisa Glandon, Director of Annual Fund, at 1-800-411-6780. Or,
you can make your gift today with the enclosed return envelope or on our secure website,
www.antioch-college.edu/giving
two daughters: Diane and Dayle, three step
children, and six step-grand kids. Married
John. R. Weaver in 1981. Do lots of volunteer
work, travel, play golf, visit family and friends,
and take courses at University of Delaware.
I just keep busy and fortunately enjoy good
health.”
Lee Ballard ’49
“Out here in the hinterland it is
noteworthy and welcome to have visitors.
Marge and Bob Willkens ’50 stopped by brieﬂy
this summer. Much less welcome have been
the visits from a bear family. A bumper crop
of Mountain Ash berries has resulted in many
broken branches in the tree. Lee Ballard was
recently recognized by Missoula County as a
senior of the year for her work as the volunteer
coordinator of the Missoula Public Library.”
Herman Bergman ’49
“To bring some of my former classmates
who were on campus with me in the years
1944 to 1949 up to date, and from whom I’d
like to hear, I provide the following details.
My wife, Joan, and I moved to Florida from
San Diego about two-and-a-half years ago to
be closer to our three children. My oldest,
Karen, lives in Indialantic, is married and has
two children. She is a graduate nurse and a
pharmaceutical representative with Johnson
& Johnson. My middle daughter, Maurine is
a successful dentist in the Palm Beach area,
and my youngest, David, married with three
children, is a pediatrician in Alpharetta, GA.
“I retired three years ago from active
business life after more than 40 years serving
various corporations as Chief Financial
Ofﬁcer. Joan and I now like to spend our
time traveling, mostly to France, Italy, and
Germany. We try to go each year, and we
recently returned from three weeks in Italy and
Germany. In May we are scheduled to go to
Berlin as guests of the municipal government
since I was born in Berlin.
“Just a few days ago we personally survived
Wilma’s destructive hurricane, but again lost
our pool screen enclosure, just as we did the
prior year. Last year, however, Joan had the
traumatic experience of being completely
alone in our hurricane shuttered home without
phone or electricity while I was undergoing
a quadruple bypass operation at a hospital 30
miles away. I am fully recovered, and would
like to hear from classmates who remember
me.” 870S.W . Blue Stem Way, Stuart, FL
34997-7141
Mary B. Bowman, ’49
“So, after seven trips to Japan and 20 years,
I returned in April for further art study and to
see friends and colleagues. My teacher friend
in Tokyo has taught Japanese brush painting
for over 40 years. At 83 she is still teaching six
days a week most weeks. It was my third stay in
her home honing my painting skills in this Zen
meditative art. By this time at 78, I thought
I’d be really retired, but in this, the only art of
over 14 centuries of continuous usage, teachers
last. My teacher, Mr. Beika Inada, lived and
worked until he died in his home at 96.
“Later in the trip I painted large pictures in
the early morning, and my specialty of bamboo
improved. Seeing many gardens in spring
foliage was great, as were reunions with Osaka
friends, Mrs. Taniguchi and Mitsuzo Harada
and his family.
“For threads of meaning in all of this I
am grateful to Antioch for the groundwork
in my 35 year art studio and teaching career
in this narrow specialty. In addition Antioch
supported the sabbatical for my then faculty
member husband to do research for a year in
Japan. First as a freshman art major living in
Bingle, with Mrs. Corry as advisor and Ellen
Shufro as one of the hall advisors, I was Ms.
Brombacher. Later as married student, and
faculty wife from 1958-1970, I was Mary Bieri.
Following remarriage in 1974 I became Mary
B. Bowman.
“For almost 20 years now, I have lived
and worked in San Antonio, the eighth
largest city in Texas. But Yellow Springs is
still another home to me, and I have a son
and grandchildren who live in town. I noted
in February attending a granddaughter’s art
exhibition opening at Herndon Gallery, that
the art theater sign I had made here and
shipped to the college and Louise Smith is
still above the door. It was supposed to have a
seven year life….
“My best to everybody who wades through
this.”

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At Antioch Alison “Tex” Clark, ’95, was an
outspoken anti-rape activist.
She ﬁnds no irony today that her ﬁrst
assignment working as a public defender in
Columbus was to defend an accused child
rapist.
After 10 years in the in the ﬁeld she still
views it as part of the territory to defend
accused sex offenders of various types, although
she has not drawn such a case in some time.
“Are we going to live in a country where, if
someone is accused of doing something we take
them out back and shoot them? Haul them off
to jail? Or is there a process?” she asked in her
ofﬁce at High and Broad Streets.
“There is a process,” she declared. It starts
with the Sixth Amendment.
“Sometimes I wish I wasn’t the person
protecting that constitutional right, but
someone’s got to do it and if you’re gonna do
it, you have to do it well.”
There are also many satisfying aspects
to her job. She gets the chance to defend
people from prison, many who have grown
up in abject poverty surrounded by violence;
people whose actions, rather than stemming
from a true criminal nature, she believes, may
have simply been the result of bad problem
solving. As their representative, Tex has the
opportunity to present her client’s side of the
story and bring the case into context, the
occasional chance to completely disprove the
accusers and keep an innocent person out of
prison.
Meeting Tex, one is immediately struck
how she appears younger than her years. In an
occupation dominated by elderly and middle-
aged men, she (in her early 30s) stands out.
A relatively small white woman with short
cut hair, she still would not have trouble
disappearing into a crowd of Antioch College
students. While not a physically imposing
person, she makes her presence felt when she
speaks. Her voice carries a tone of conﬁdence
and candor that makes ignoring or de-valuing
what she says difﬁcult. Her bearing is direct
and straightforward — an impression of
determination that serves her well when facing
down intimidating adversaries in her work.
At Antioch, Tex’s reputation as an activist
was built during many demonstrations,
including a student takeover of main building
meant to protest the school’s handling of
a rape that occurred during an education
abroad program. During the inception of the
Sexual Offense Prevention Policy, Tex was
consistently chosen to represent students’
passion for the policy to the outside world,
appearing on “Eye to Eye with Connie Chung”
and other national news shows.
While she entered Antioch College
intending to study history and political
science, Tex switched her major to
communications in order to have more fun
and work with her friends, who were mostly
communications majors.
Graduating with a major in video, she
was tempted to pursuing a career making
ﬁlms and documentaries. Ultimately, she
followed the plan she entered college with
and enrolled in law school. She chose
Northeastern University Law School, another
institution famed for its co-op program, and
began studying entertainment law. Soon her
interests switched to criminal law. “Gosh, if
the criminal law thing just didn’t get under my
skin,” she explained.
While taking a class in law school entitled
“Prisoner’s Rights,” Tex was the student
advocate to a prisoner who had served 15
years of his jail term. Her role as advocate
was to prepare this prisoner to appear before
the parole board for a murder conviction. To
prepare him, she assailed him with questions
like, “How could you?” and “Who gave
you the right?” She saw to it that he took
responsibility and showed remorse. This
practice left her client well prepared to face
the demanding questions of the review board,
and parole was granted.
Ever since that time, Tex had an afﬁnity for
“rattling the jail cells” and “sticking my ﬁnger
in the eye of the man.” That ended her career
in entertainment law. Instead, she focused on
becoming a criminal lawyer.
Joining the Ohio Public Defender’s ofﬁce
for her ﬁrst job, Tex discovered she had been
well prepared by a Northeastern co-op term
with public defenders in Washington state.
After six years she became a Federal Public
Defender in May 2004, a position she refers to
as “The Holy Grail of Public Defender work.”
She feels the attitude is more professional and
the playing ﬁeld is more even.
In Tex’s most famous case, she got a murder
conviction overturned due to insufﬁcient
evidence, by helping to expose the fact that
the main witness in the case lied in an attempt
to receive an early parole.
While the job can put Tex in
uncomfortable situations, it is not nearly
enough to stomp out her enthusiasm. The
beneﬁts of her work, both to her clients and
herself, allow Tex to conﬁdently declare “I
have the best job in the world.”
How does what she learned at Antioch
College apply to her career? “Before coming to
Antioch, I think my heart was in the right
place but I was mostly ignorant about the
systematic oppression of poverty and racism.
Antioch challenged me to look at myself on
these issues — to appreciate how complex and
pernicious race and class problems are in this
country, and now for many of my clients.” Tex
said she was also inﬂuenced by the attitudes of
her fellow Antiochians.
“Antiochians are instilled with the audacity
to believe that if you are determined enough,
and work hard enough, and join together, you
can create social change,” she said. “I think
that is totally true.”
As a Defender of Rights, ‘Tex’ Clark Is Still Relentless
Alison “Tex” Clark

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William Notley ’51
Inducted in the French National Order
of the Legion of Honor by French Consul
General Jean-Pierre Allex-Lyoudi.
Notley, 81, landed in Normandy, France
days after the initial D-Day invasion. He
was a member of the 35th infantry division,
which was part of the 15,000 men who moved
from Germany through France and into the
outskirts of Bastogne, Belgium in three days.
Notley earned both the Bronze Star and the
Purple Heart during the 19 months he spent
in Europe during World War II. In 1990, he
wrote a memoir called, ‘And Then There Were
None,’ about his experiences as a machine-gun
sergeant.
Notley and his wife Hilda have been
residents of the Foulkeways Continuing Care
Retirement Community in Gwynedd, PA since
1997.
David Parke ’52
In August of 2004, David accepted the
ministry at ﬁrst Unitarian Universalist Church
in Detroit, MI.
Byron Higgins ’53
Paddy Charteris Higgins ’54
“Still celebrating 53 years of wedded
bliss (June ’06). Although retired we’re still
very active with golf course activities and
volunteering. Paddy very proud of recently
receiving her 6,000 pin from the hospital
in Ludington, and an honored award from
the American Red Cross for 30 years of
volunteering as coordinator of blood services.
Jay Lorsch ’55
The Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human
Relations at Harvard Business School, Oct.
8 was inducted a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joined 196
fellows and 17 Foreign Honorary Members
of the 225th class of fellows which included
television journalist Tom Brokaw; physicist
and Nobel laureate Eric Cornell; Harvard
Law School dean and former White House
ofﬁcial Elena Kagan; historian and University
of Chicago provost Richard Saller; poet Susan
Stewart; and neuro-psychologist and genetics
pioneer Nancy Wexler.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences is an independent
research center that conducts multidisciplinary
studies of complex and emerging problems.
Current Academy research focuses on:
science and global security; social policy; the
humanities and culture; and education. With
headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
the Academy’s work is advanced by its 4,600
elected members, who are leaders in the
academic disciplines, the arts, business and
public affairs from around the world.
Jane Foster Jonston, ’52
“Jane Foster Johnston and husband, Carl,
have retired from world traveling after early
retirement in ‘92 from Denver Public Schools
and are at home for classmates to contact at
4126 South Wolff St, Denver, CO 80236.”
John Rockman, ’53
“You ask why I became a professor
— because every time my father and I had a
‘discussion,’ he always ended it with ‘Alright
professor,’ so why not. After a year of being Dr.
Corwin’s lecture assistant and lab coordinator,
plus a year of teaching anatomy for the nurses
at Vanderbilt University, I decided that college
teaching was for me. I spent three years at
a junior college in Kentucky and 36 years
at William Paterson College in New Jersey.
There, one semester, I had three generations
of one family in my class. I also had students
teachers to supervise – some were excellent and
others would not last long. My biggest problem
was my associates — they wouldn’t believe my
work-study experiences applied to what my
students should know — they had nothing to
offer. They especially object to my 12 pages of
Latin and Greek preﬁxes, sufﬁxes and stems for
scientiﬁc terms
— they were too lazy to master
them.
“I have been married for 48 years; we have
four children. The two boys are mechanics.
The oldest daughter is a pediatric nurse.
The other attended the Air Force Academy.
She married and has four children which
she home schools but the will enter public
school this fall. The two girls have been in the
‘Nutcracker’ ballet in Chattanooga for three
years.
“I came to Antioch for the experience I
could get in the work-study program and for
travel. I biked in Europe with Jean Sandford
and Carl Haag. I’ve been to all 50 states and
19 countries and I am still eager to go. I have
been back to Antioch for several reunions
and to some of the other 10 colleges I have
attended. I hope to see you all at this year’s
reunion. We go to my wife’s family and class
reunions in Alabama, too.
“In 1995-6 we built a retirement home
in the Hideout in the Pocono Mountains of
PA. Since we both grew-up on farms, we are
right at home in the woods with deer and wild
turkeys in our front yard everyday. I am on the
water and sewer board and active as a lecturer
for water protection and for the Audubon
Adventure program. We are active in Senior
Citizens, church, the local ﬁre auxiliary, several
social clubs and the woodworkers.
“The main activity here is eating (it
shows). We got to dinners at seven churches
and ﬁve ﬁre departments.”
Margeret Elizabeth Suter Grover (Mimi) ’54
Pelanie’s (Nom d’Art) art was featured
at the opening reception of poppies spa and
studio under 6060 Horseshoe Bar Road,
Loomis, CA. 95650 29 Oct. 2005. She can
also be found on the web at www.poppiesspa.
com
Frances Degen Horowitz, ’54
“After 14 years as president of the CUNY
Graduate Center, I am stepping down from this
post. I will stay on as University Professor and
President Emerita. Among highlights of recent
years was election to the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences.”
Alice Teeter Uyttebrouck ’55
“I would have graduated in 1955. My
friend, David really enjoyed the softball game.
“I was looking for someone I knew 50 years
ago. I recognized lots of names, but didn’t
recognize the people. Until we had our class
picture taken and there was a woman I had
known! Way back when, she was Shirley
Madsen from Greybull, Wyoming, and she is
now Mrs. Shirley M. Brainin, of Gold River,
CA. Fifty years is a long time, we had a lot of
catching up to do and vowed to write.
“A wonderful experience, that Reunion!”
Naperville, IL
1950s
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Lois Eaton ’57
“After one-and-a-half years of prerequisites
and four years of medical school I graduated
with my NMD from Southwest College of
Naturopathic Medicine in July of 2005 at
the age of 70. I plan to practice in Prescott,
Arizona with another NMD. I hope to
specialize in Lyme Disease and other chronic
diseases and also do neuro-feedback, which
may help some other people who don’t have
other ways of getting well. It was lots of work
but I hope to be able to help some people. My
mother died at almost 96, so I ﬁgure that I may
have some twenty years yet to practice.”
Peter Blume ’60
“After 24 wonderful years in Lexington,
MA, my wife Fredi and I relocated to the
Research Triangle area of North Carolina
in June, 2005. In September, I took a job
with WCPE-FM, the classical public radio
station in this region as Director of Business
Development. WCPE streams on the Internet,
and is heard worldwide at TheClassicalStation.
org. Our new home address: 137 Chimney Rise
Drive, Cary, NC 27511”
Gretchen Engle Schafft ’61
“It is always fun to read of the events in
the lives of old Antioch friends. I’d like to
add my own news. Married to Harry Shafft for
43 years, two wonderful sons and three little
grandchildren. My book, ‘From Racism to
Genocide: Anthropology of the Third Reich,’
came out in the winter and will soon appear in
Polish.”
H.F. Smith ’61
“While Bush-hog and his ‘Carpet
Bagger Scoundrels’ continue to cooperate
with the ‘criminally negligent intellectual
conglomerates’ and ﬂush our Republic down
the toilet we naively continue to survive
reasonably well and comfortably in the
Appalachian Mountains. Never expected
to reach three score and ten almost 45 years
after graduation. Had a summer job at the
Burnsville, NC, Yancy County McElroy
Museum as acting manager, what I always
wanted to be when I grew up.
“Peace and Imagination.”
Lorie Silber Brillinger, ’62
“I am living in Berkeley and retired two
years ago as a Nurse/Midwife. I seem to
be busier than ever, but most of it is very
rewarding. I have been married to David for 44
years, a Canadian who loves his job teaching
at UC Berkeley (statistics — and isn’t ready to
retire). We are depressed and angry at the U.S.
Government, and will go to Canada in a few
years, I’m sure! I am on the Berkeley Health
Commission, and the Ethics Committee at the
hospital. My mission in life is to reduce racism
in the medical community.”
Fred Woodress ’48, is the recipient of
a grant from the Community Foundation
of Muncie, Indiana, for the production of
his bio-play, “Wandering…from Kentucky,”
co-written with his wife Anne Blackmon
Woodress.
Heartland Stage Company of Muncie,
an organization that has produced original
plays and musicals for the past 14 years,
will stage this two-act play about pioneer
physician Daniel Drake, who founded the
ﬁrst medical school in Ohio, then was ﬁred
by his own faculty. He was an innovator
in the arts and medicine who saved many
lives, but he couldn’t keep his own wife
from dying.
A hospital in Cincinnati is named for
this early 1800s renaissance man. He spent
as much of his life in Kentucky as in Ohio.
Anne Woodress wrote the words to the
theme song based on an old folk song, sung
by a narrator, who plays different roles.
Woodress’ ﬁrst play, “Impasse,” was
based on his experiences as an 87th Infantry
writer in Patton’s Army during World War
II. It was staged at Antioch on June 2,
1948, with Tony Cermele ’50, directing. It
was later published in “Best One Act Plays
1948-49” by Dodd Mead and called a “war
play of superior quality” by a New York
Times reviewer.
“Impasse” is included in the latest
collection of Fred and Anne Woodress
plays, “Slave or Free and 11 Other Problem-
solving Plays.” Antioch’s Cliff Robertson
‘46, Oscar and Emmy Award winning actor,
wrote introductory remarks. Included in the
book’s photos are Rookery Hall members,
(where Robertson and Woodress lived)
as well as Marilyn Monroe and Woodress
during an interview in Hollywood, where
she was ﬁlming her ﬁrst starring role in
“Niagara.”
Contact Woodress at (765) 288-8892;
email: Axewoodz@aol.com.
During his days as a journalist, Fred Woodress interviewed Hollywood actors such as Marilyn Monroe, seen here at the
20th Century Fox studio lot on the set of her ﬁrst starring role in the ﬁlm “Niagra” in 1952.
Woodress’ Writing Career Yields
New Play on Frontier Physician
1960s
Bettie Thompson ’62
“I retired Dec. 31, 2004 after 34 years as a
reference librarian at Ann Arbor, Michigan
district library.”
Karl Grossman ’64
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Sweden. Karl is a professor in the Media and
Communications Program with the American
Studies Department at SUNY College at Old
Westbury. He has also authored books such
as “Power Crazy” and “Cover Up: What You
Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear
Power” and written/narrated/hosted multiple
television documentaries such as “Three Mile
Island Revisited; the Push to Revive Nuclear
Power.”
Roger Aamodt ’64
“I retired on April 1 after 34 years of
working for the National Institutes of Health,
the last 20 at the National Cancer Institute.
During that time I moved from my original
ﬁeld of radiation biology to focus on pathology
and cytology. During my time at the NCI I
organized a variety of human tissue resources
to facilitate cancer research. I also acquired a
reputation as an expert on the legal and ethical
issues related to the collection and use of
human specimens. My second wife Diane and
I are living in Gaithersburg, MD, just outside
of Washington, DC. We have been traveling
almost constantly since my retirement (she
retired eight years ago), mostly to ﬁnish
obligations that remained from my job. I have
also done a little consulting and found that I
like that a lot better than working. Always
happy to hear from my Antioch friends. Let us
know if you will be in the Washington area.”
Robert Burchess ‘64
“After living in NYC for the previous
25 years, I left it all and moved up to the
mountains of Vermont one-and-a-half years
ago, where I’m now loving on a big, old dairy
farm north of Rutland. I’m enjoying endless
views, stillness and slower time; doing lots
of poetry/staged readings and featured artist
exhibition, which have even gotten some
decent press in which recent work was said to
be reminiscent of Da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Figure Studies as seen through the eyes of Ego
Schiele. So, perhaps, there’s still hope in this
old life. I will probably soon get involved again
with theater, teaching or counseling. I love to
hear from old friends/Antiochians in Vermont
or otherwise. Write to: 59 West Road, North
Chittenden, VT 05763.”
Sheila Edwards Galland ’64
“I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer
February 2004. Many of the symptoms mimic
those of irritable bowel syndrome, bladder
control or esophageal reﬂux disease. My
internist and my gastroenterologist were
clueless. See your gynecologist! If you have
breast or ovarian cancer in your mother’s or
father’s family, you may have mutated BRCA1
or BRCA2 gene. Friends write: 36 Heritage
Rd, Actow, MA 01720.
Sylvia A. Law ’64
Named Phyllis W . Beck Professor at
Temple University School of Law, spending
the Fall 2005 semester as a visiting professor,
offering an interdisciplinary colloquium on
the intersections of health, medicine, law and
social policy. Throughout the semester, the
colloquium will bring together law students,
scholars from Temple and other universities,
and other professionals who work in these
areas to discuss such topics as the history of
the organization of health services, tensions
between health care ﬁnancing and access,
changing patterns of childbirth, conﬂicts
between science and morality in the context
of public school sex education, choice at the
end of life, race disparities in health care and
evaluation of existing alternative models of
health care delivery.
“Professor Law has been one of the nation’s
leading scholars in the ﬁelds of health law,
women’s rights, poverty, and constitutional
law, making her an ideal candidate for the
chair,” said Robert J. Reinstein, dean of
Temple Law. “This is a wonderful opportunity
for our faculty and students to work with one
of country’s most prominent law professors.”
Professor Law has served a major role in
dozens of civil rights cases before the U.S.
Supreme Court and in lower state and federal
courts, and has testiﬁed before Congress and
state legislatures on a range of issues. Law is
the author of ﬁve books and scores of articles
on health law, civil rights, and feminist legal
theory. She currently teaches constitutional
law, health law and family law at New York
University School of Law and co-directs the
school’s Arthur Garﬁeld Hays Civil Liberties
Program. Law has also held memberships in
numerous professional organizations, including
the Center for Reproductive Rights, the
Society of American Law Teachers and the
Bar Association of the City of New York.
Throughout her career, she has written
numerous books and articles on health law and
civil and political rights.
Janet Graham Bentley-Bell ’65
“Retired in 1997. Currently living in a
small rancho ﬁve kilometers south of San
Miguel de Allende in state of Guanajuato,
MX. Friends write: 220 N Zapatattwy Ste
11, PMB 564, Laredo, TX 78043-4464;
rojograndej@hotmail.com.”
Linda Donnelly ’66
“I recently retired after 26 years in
housing and community development in the
Columbus, Ohio area and moved to Spring
Green, Wisconsin. One of my last projects
before retiring was written about in the January
2004 issue of ‘Affordable Housing Finance.’ I
bought a prairie-style house and have a big
garden. I resumed classical piano and regular
yoga practice. I do a bit of bicycling, knitting
and meet new people. Still, I am keeping
professionally active as a member of the Village
Plan Commission and Associate Lecturer
teaching a graduate seminar in Central City
Planning at UW-Madison Dept. of Urban
and Regional Planning. I am happy as a clam
doing things I want to do in a place I want to
be.” 510 S. Lexington St., Spring Green, WI,
53588; lsdonnelly@charter.net
Wayne Press ’67
“Just hit the big 60 and don’t know if
I’ll ever grow up. After 30 years, ISO is still
paying me to do my hobby, getting to know
towns and their ﬁre departments. Now that my
two daughters are teenagers, my wife, Volga
ﬁnally got a job teaching ESL at a Camden,
NJ elementary school. We all visited Antioch
a couple of years ago on a Midwestern trip.
The science building was exactly the same as
when I began Antioch in 1962. I’m sure Steve
Gould’s trilobites were still rattling around in a
drawer somewhere. Friends write: 410 Jamaica
Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002.”
Mary Mayshark Stavely ’67
“After many years of teaching preschool
I am the Interim Director of the Child
Development Center at Keene State College
(third year). The only direct preparation at
Antioch for my profession was working on a
ﬁlm about the Antioch School called ‘Alone
Together.’ It has been an amazing work/life
experience. Daughter May Mantell (www.
maymantell.com) is a photographer who
combines theater and horses by her work in
Covalia. Husband Tom Stavely retired as I
will at the end of the year.”
Jennifer J Koster ’68
“Just returned from a fabulous trip to Easter
Island and Antarctica. Five family members
accompanied me — son Andy who works
for Yahoo in LA; daughter Jessica who works
Renaissance festivals; sister Margot; and sister
and brother-in-law Sue ’63 and Rich Regen
’62. Trying to retire, but keep getting called
for long-term subbing jobs. Montessori-trained
sub teachers are rare. 4374 Hamilton Ave.,
Cincinnati, OH 45223-1755; jkoster@eos.net
Marcie Roe Bishop ’69
Marcie is entering her sixth year as
principal of Spencer-Van Etten Middle
School in the poor, rural district near Ithaca,
New York. She lives in Ithaca with her
husband, John Bishop, who is on the faculty at
Cornell. Friends are welcome to call, e-mail,
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David Wilbur, ’70
“Beginning 10th year as sports wditor of
weekly newspaper. Mooreﬁeld Examiner.
Beginning ninth year (this fall) as attendance
director for Hardy County Schools. Both jobs
are “part time” but they keep me busy from late
August to June.”
Jill Woolums ’70
“After returning to graduate school and
receiving a MLS, I’m enjoying the academic
life again as a librarian for UC Berkeley. I’m
still playing with the art of movement through
yoga and pilates. Looking forward to a creative
retirement.”
Barbara C. Cohen, ’71
“I am a hostess an assistant manager at
Ristra Restaurant in Santa Fe, NM. I married
Al Chapman last June 19. He is a painter,
works on the Santa Fe Plaza and make my life
wonderful. Friends please write: 405 Estrella
Court, Santa Fe, NM 87501.”
Isabel Auerbach ’72
“In Dec. 2005 I presented several posters
at the American Public Health Association
Convention. I moved from New Orleans after
Katrina to Philadelphia a month later. San
Francisco helped several hundred New Orleans
friends get settled and connected here.
Everette Freeman ’72
Dr. Everette Freeman was named this
last Sept. as the eighth president of Albany
State University. Freeman has taught at a
variety of institutions throughout his career
including Jackson State University, Case
Western Reserve University, Michigan State
University, and Rutgers. He has also worked
with Eastman Kodak Company and was the
director of organizational development at
Fisons pharmaceutical in Rochester, N.Y.
Everette also has experience working with
the U.S. Energy Research and Development
Administration and the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission.
Dr. Freeman has served on the boards
of a wide range of private and non-proﬁt
organizations as well as having been a
consultant to multiple public and private
entities. He is also a member of Antioch’s
Board of Trustees.
Bonnie Goodell ’72
After 20 years of advocacy planning
and civil rights activism I am now burned
out. I am operating a bed and breakfast and
gardening to preserve the rainforest.
www.volcanoguesthouse.com
Lester P. Lee Jr ’72
Both an Antioch College graduate and
former Antioch College teacher, Lester has
published reviews in a number of journals
including ‘The Journal of African American
History,’ ‘The Times Literary Supplement’ and
‘The Dalhousie Review.’ He earned graduate
degrees from both Johns Hopkins University
and from Harvard University. He has taught
at the University of Massachusetts, Boston,
Antioch College, Rhode Island College, and
Northeastern University. He is a member
of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s
Library Committee, the advisory committee,
Peacework, for the American Friends Service
Committee, and he is the former director of
the Massachusetts ACLU as well as president
of the Cambridge Community Center.
Pamela A. Mackey ’72
“Retired from Federal Service since 1990.
Happily married with two grown daughters. In
2004 and 2005, I entered a juried and touring
statewide visual arts exhibition. I won First
Place in 2004 for my mixed media composition
titled, ‘Invincible.’ In 2005 my artwork titled
‘Gerontophratia’ won Best-in-Show. Eureka!
My purpose is to create visual art showcased
in juried and touring exhibitions. I believe art
must be affordable to the masses and accessible
to the disabled.”
Linda Michalowski ’72
Named Interim vice vhancellor for student
services and special programs for the California
Community Colleges Chancellor’s Ofﬁce.
She has returned to Student Services from
the Governmental Relations and External
Affairs division where she served for 10
months as interim vice chancellor and for ﬁve
years as director of strategic communications
and federal relations. She continues to serve
as director of the Communications and
Publications Ofﬁce.
Linda was the Chancellor’s Ofﬁce
coordinator for student ﬁnancial assistance
programs until 1998, leading student aid policy
development, representing community colleges
in state and national forums, providing
guidance to campus ﬁnancial aid ofﬁces, and
Jennifer J Koster ’68
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teaching Swedish and Thai massage technique.
Friends write: 1905 SE 54th, Portland, OR
97215.”
Dorothy Ann Gibson ’79
Dorothy is currently teaching in Early
Childhood Education and looking to help
children grow and learn.
Peter Kumble ’80
“I am now in my second year of teaching
full time in the department of landscape
architecture and environmental planning here
in Logan at Utah State University. This year
I’ve been able to make some very cool trips to
Belize, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Italy
on research projects or with graduate students
For Dave Goodwin’54, a co-op at Goodwill Industries grew into a full-time job after
graduation where, Goodwin laughs, “I was able to learn public relations at their expense.”
Later, he moved on to a career at Mead Corp. from which he retired as Manager of Corporate
Communications.
Goodwin has continued his
connection with Antioch, ﬁrst
with a term on the Alumni Board
as a member of the Development
Committee and today as the Chair
of the Glen Helen Board. Through
his work as a volunteer, he sees the
variety of ways alumni give back to
Antioch. “Planned Giving is a way for
everyone to give something at a level
that is personally signiﬁcant to them,
” says Goodwin. “While I may not be
able to give as much as I’d like now, by
including Antioch College in my will
and endowing my annual gift through
an annuity, I’m content knowing that
my support for Antioch will continue
in perpetuity.”
To learn more about Planned
Giving opportunities including
those that can provide ﬁxed
income for you and your surviving
beneﬁciaries, please contact Lisa Glandon, Director of Annual Fund at 1-800-411-6780
Miguel Santiago ’98
THE FUNDfor ANTIOCH COLLEGE
“Antioch College provides a unique educational model for the right kind of student,”
says Miguel Santiago ’98. An Antioch education provided Santiago with the critical
thinking skills needed to succeed in law school and as a practicing attorney. “I want to
ensure others have the same opportunities. Giving annually to the Fund for Antioch
College is one way I can make an impact.”
For one beneﬁciary of the Fund,
peace studies major Charlotta
Andersson ’06, making an impact
is also what matters. She has taken
Antioch ideals around the globe
on co-ops in Serbia, Ecuador, Egypt
and Oakland. Additionally, she
experiences the commitment of
Antioch alumni in her work in the
College’s Phonathon Program. “Our
alumni have wonderful stories they
share with us about their time at
Antioch and on Co-op. They are very
encouraging to us and give generously
in recognition of the importance of
Antioch in their lives.”
The Fund for Antioch College
provides for essential needs including
scholarships, faculty development,
library and technology resources and
campus maintenance.
You can join Miguel Santiago and thousands of others in supporting the College by
sending your gift in the enclosed envelope or visiting our secure website at www.antioch-
college.edu/giving.
1980s
administering community college ﬁnancial aid
programs. She came to the Chancellor’s Ofﬁce
in 1983 as an independent consultant to work
with the Extended Opportunity Programs and
Services (EOPS) program for disadvantaged
students, and in the following year was named
the Board Financial Assistance Program
Coordinator when legislation imposing the
ﬁrst community college enrollment fee called
for the development of a new ﬁnancial aid
program to ensure the fee would not pose
a barrier to the enrollment of low-income
students.
Throughout her 20-year career at the
Chancellor’s Ofﬁce, Linda has been an
advocate for the system’s colleges and
students in the state and federal legislative
and policy arenas. She has helped raise the
national proﬁle of the California Community
Colleges system as a model for providing
open access to higher education and career
development opportunities for low-income
and underrepresented students. She has served
on the American Association of Community
Colleges and Association of Community
College Trustees Joint Commission on Federal
Relations and was the 1998 recipient of the
American Association of Community Colleges
Governmental Relations Award. She led
the development and implementation of the
system-wide California Community Colleges:
The Way California Works public awareness
campaign.
Prior to joining the community college
system, Linda was research assistant for JD
Franz Research, a Sacramento ﬁrm with an
extensive education and public policy survey
research portfolio. A native of the east coast
and alumnus of Antioch College in Yellow
Springs, Ohio, she lives in Sacramento with
her teenage daughter.
David Scott ’72
David is now the ﬁrst executive director
of The Daughters of Hawaii, a nonproﬁt
corporation responsible for running the Queen
Emma Summer Palace museum in Nuuanu,
Oahu and Hulihee Palace in Kailua, Kona,
Hawaii. In 1979 David founded the Emporium
in Yellow Springs, which he later sold in
1982 to Wanita Murphy. He also served as
the executive director of the Historic Hawaii
Foundation for eight years and has also worked
with non-proﬁts in Michigan, Florida, and
North Carolina.
Larry Wolfe, ’78
“My wife Nan and I spent the ﬁrst half
of 2004 living and working in Suchitoto, El
Salvador. It was her work that brought us
there, but I found opportunities to volunteer
my time and skills; teaching in the library
and the public schools, and working with the
massage therapists in Clinica Capacitar —
on ﬁeld study courses. Friends feel free to
write.” 1061 Fox Farm Road Logan UT 84321;
peter.kumble@usu.edu
Betty Jean Anthony-McClendon ’80 (’82
AU)
Promoted in 1986 to payroll manager of
the Philadelphia Board of Education. She
was married to a United Methodist Minister
in 1986. She retired in 1996 and is currently
researching her family history and keeping
active in her church and community. She
enjoys visiting her grandkids and great
grandkids who keep her on her toes.
Zelka Linda Grammer ’83
Greetings from New Zealand. I am a
graduate of Antioch College now farming in
beautiful GE free/nuclear free NZ.”

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Ken Leinbach ’85
Ken, who holds a BS in biology from
Antioch College, is now the executive
director of the Urban Ecology Center in
Milwaukee, WI. The Urban Ecology Center is
a neighborhood-based, non-proﬁt community
center located in Milwaukee’s historic
Riverside Park.
Cynthia Rose ’85
Steve Rose ’84
Divorced 4/4/05. Their children, August,
15, and Alexander, 10, live with their mom on
Cape Cod and see their dad in the Berkshires.
New Addresses: Cynthia: Box 353 North
Falmouth MA 02556. (774) 392-0179
Steve: Box 855 Great Burrington MA 01230.
(413) 644-0102
Karla Pearcy ’85
“After working in international public
health for eight years (including stints in
Cuba, El Salvador, and Jamaica), I’ve settled
into life in Oregon with my partner/husband
and two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. I’m
now back in the ﬁeld Jewel Graham trained
me for at Antioch, social work! Would love
to hear from you, classmates.” P .O. Box 18048
Portland, OR, 97218
Kirana Stover,
’87
“I’ve been living in Sant Perce De Ribes,
a village 40 kilometers south of Barcelona for
he last 12 years. I’ve been with my husband,
Isaac for almost all of that time. We have one
son, Noah Shaanon Coll, born in November
2003. I live three blocks away from our blessed
yoga center of which I am the lucky ‘director.’
Please get in touch if coming this way! Friends
write: C. Santa Josep 10, 08810 Sant Perce De
Ribes BCN Spain, milana29@telefonica.net.”
Steve Weil ’90
“I’ve been living in Seattle, Washington
since 1992. After getting my master’s degree
at the University of Washington in 1997, I’ve
been working with computers. For the past
four years I’ve worked as a computer security
consultant. I’ve been married since 1995. No
kids yet but we’ve hosted exchange students
the past three years. I’ve been able to travel
throughout the world. I would love to hear
from old Antioch friends. Send me an email at
steveweil@yahoo.com.”
Patrick Masterson ’99
“I’m in Washington DC now, after a year in
California and three in New Mexico. If you’re
out this way it would be great to connect.”
1990s
Gifts to Antiochiana Sometimes Raise Questions
Among the riches at Antiochiana, the Antioch archives housed at Olive
Kettering Library, are thousands of photographs and other images dating from
nearly the entire span of the college’s history.
The design of “the Antiochan” encourages the use of various historical
photographs to frame its content. The older photos are fun and they serve
as a reminder of the depth of the college’s heritage and traditions. It will also
add to Antiochania’s collection if readers write in with information about the
people, events and times depicted in them, or donate their own materials.
Above is a 1884 photo of the rowdy Death’s Shade boys. Little is known
about it, except it was taken outside South Hall. According to University
Archivist Scott Sanders, the sign is reminiscent of the ones that hung in
the literary society halls (such as those of the Crescent Union or Adelphian
societies) which included a high-minded Latin motto. “This one says ‘if you
want peace, prepare for war,’ which I suspect was meant to poke fun at the
intellectual pursuits of the societies. Religio Loci means ‘spirit of the place’ in
Latin, but I have no clue what it refers to.”
The photo below was recently donated to the collection by Mike Kittros
’51, capturing a 1948 ‘demonstration’ demanding the construction of a
Student Union. Can you identify these activists?
In it’s 101st year, Antiochiana is a treasure of history and scholarship that
enriches the experience of students and the whole community.

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OBITUARIES
Elaine Ogden McNeil ’33
Died in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Dec.
29, 2004, at the age of 91. She grew up in
Waterbury, CT and was valedictorian of her
high school class.
She attended Antioch College in Ohio
from 1931-33, did domestic work for a year
in the depths of the Great Depression while
taking night courses at Cleveland College
(1934-35), and then went on to earn her AB
and MA degrees at the University of Chicago
(1936, 1938), where she also met her husband,
Gordon H. McNeil, whom she married in
December 1939. She returned to graduate
study later in life, obtaining her PhD at the
University of Kansas in 1967.
At Chicago she worked closely with Talcott
Parsons on The Structure of Social Action
(1937) and with St. Clair Drake and Horace
R. Cayton (Black Metropolis, 1941). She
was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Her MA
thesis on “The Society Girl” was reported
in Time in 1938. Throughout her career she
studied and wrote on Negro-White relations,
the Urban Negro (which she had studied
while employed as a statistician by the Work
Projects Administration), and the Civil Rights
movement.
Her doctoral dissertation studied the
white membership of the Arkansas Council
of Human Relations, a prominent civil rights
group of which she was a Charter member.
She was an active member of interracial
groups wherever she lived, in Chicago, Cedar
Rapids, Evanston, and Fayetteville (where the
“World Affairs Group” and the Fayetteville
Community Relations Association promoted
public school desegregation). She was a long-
time member of the National Association of
Intergroup Relations Ofﬁcials.
Her dissertation studied the “liberal roles
of mediation and negotiation between white
policy makers and Negro communities,”
and throughout her career she devoted
enormous attention and effort to this. As a
social activist committed to social justice, she
promoted integration in the 1950s, helped
organize the University of Arkansas Human
Relations Council (1968-69) and initiated
the university’s Black Studies Program. Elaine
occupied positions of responsibility in the local
Unitarian Fellowship, the League of Women
Voters, the Single Parents’ Scholarship Fund,
the Modern Literature Club of Fayetteville, the
local chapters of the American Association of
University Professors (AAUP) and American
Association of University Women (AAUW),
and many other organizations. She chaired the
education committee of the Arkansas Advisory
Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights in 1963.
She began teaching sociology at the
school in 1958 rising to chair the department
from 1977 until her retirement in 1981. She
continued to teach as a volunteer.
Professor McNeil was an accomplished
scholar, and she is still remembered by
colleagues for her very high professional
standards. Her paper on “Models: From Max
Weber to General Systems Analysis” was
recognized in a prize competition by the
Midwestern Sociological Society in 1965.
She was also rather famous locally as an
organic gardener until the McNeils moved to
Butterﬁeld Trail Village in the late 1990s.
She is survived by her son, David, who
lives in San Francisco, along with three
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren in
California.
Betty Beale Makin ’41
Died on Aug. 17 at White Plains Hospital
(NY) after a very brief illness.
Makin was born in Chicago and spent her
early childhood in Iowa, returning to Chicago
to study at Frances Parker. She entered
Antioch College at age 16 and soon formed
close, lifelong friendships. After graduation,
Makin worked in human resources at NBC
and then at Babcock & Wilcox, both in
Manhattan.
She enjoyed gardening, swimming, and
socializing with friends. She was a skilled cook
and seamstress; she also had a ﬂair for creative
projects, like making dried arrangements. A
classical music fan, Makin loved to attend
concerts at Carnegie Hall and strongly
supported her children’s musical endeavors.
After her move to The Osborn, a retirement
residence, in 1999, she enjoyed taking
computer classes and participating in cultural
activities. A long-time resident of Rye, NY,
Makin was a member of the Rye Presbyterian
Church community. She also contributed her
time and enthusiasm to the Girl Scouts and to
local politics.
A devoted mother, wife, and friend, Makin
will be remembered for her independent
spirit, her resolve, her cheerful smile, and her
beautiful garden.
She is survived by her daughter, Valerie
Makin, of Weston, CT. Her husband of more
than 40 years, Robert Makin, died in 1998,
and a daughter, Melanie, died in 1970; her
brother, Robert L. Beale, Jr., died in November.
Memorial donations may be made to the
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Benjamin S. Berley ’42
Died May 24 at his home in Kingston, PA,
at the age of 85.
Born on Boston, Mass., April 6, 1919,
he was the son of the late Hyman and Anna
Budin Berley. He was a graduate of Kingston
High School, Antioch College of Ohio, and
Northwestern Medical School in Chicago.
As a physician, he interned at Denver
General Hospital, Colorado and served his
medical residency at the University of Buffalo
and Bronx Hospital, New York.
He served in the U.S. Army medical corps
with the rank of captain during WWII. Prior
to his retirement, he had a private practice
in Kingston and was on staff at Wilkes-Barre
General Hospital for 50 years.
Dr. Berley was the founder and director of
the pulmonary function laboratory at Wilkes-
Barre General Hospital. He was twice the
president of Northeastern Heart Association,
and vice president of the Pennsylvania State
Heart Association. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania Thoracic Society and member
of the Pulmonary Function Committee of the
Pennsylvania Thoracic Society. He was a
founding member of the Anthracilicotic Clinic
at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and an
examiner for Black Lung Pensions Applicants.
Rollee Efros ’45
Died Nov. 14 at the Hebrew Home of
Greater Washington in Rockville from the
effects of a stroke. She lived in Bethesda.
During her legal career she was a specialist
in appropriations law with several federal
and local governmental agencies. She moved
to Washington in 1952, later joining the
Washington DC Juvenile Court as a legal
consultant in 1961. She became a senior
mental health planner and legal consultant
with the district’s Department of Public Health
in 1963 and was instrumental in developing a
city-wide mental health program.
In 1964, she took a position with the old
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
and established the Legislative Legal Service
Branch, which handled legal, regulatory and
legislative matters. In the late 1960s, she
became legal counsel to the National Institute
of Mental Health.
Mrs. Efros represented the U.S. at an
international conference in Geneva in 1971
on developing mental health programs in
underdeveloped countries. She joined the old
General Accounting Ofﬁce in 1973 as a senior
attorney and was quickly named assistant
general counsel. Later promoted to associate
general counsel, she was the highest-ranking
woman at the GAO.
She responded to congressional inquiries
about federal spending authority, the proposed
Equal Rights Amendment and other matters.
She wrote legal opinions that clariﬁed the
limits of federal spending for health services,
environmental protection and military
procurement.
In 1982, she was the principal author of
the GAO’s four-volume “Principles of Federal
Appropriations Law.” Known as the Red
Book, it addressed legal issues concerning the
expenditure of federal funds. She often spoke
to groups on appropriations law. She retired in
1989.
Mrs. Efros was born in New York City and
graduated from Antioch College in Yellow
Springs, Ohio. She graduated from Columbia
University’s law school in 1948, one of only
four women in her class.
She lived in the District before moving to
Bethesda in 1960 and was a member of Temple
Sinai in Washington. She wrote poetry and
loved to do crossword puzzles, acrostics and
other word games.
Her marriage to Robert Lowenstein ended
in divorce.
A daughter, Carol Lowenstein, died in
1973.
Survivors include her husband of 28 years,
Seymour Efros of Bethesda; four children
from her ﬁrst marriage, Susan Barry of Seattle,
Elizabeth Lowenstein of Palo Alto, Calif.,
Linda Lowenstein of Centreville and Dr.
Steven Lowenstein of Denver; a brother; and
seven grandchildren.
Bob Luce ’45
Died Nov. 29 of acute respiratory failure
at Heartland Nursing Home in Boca Raton,
Fla. at age 83. A journalist, publisher, and
journalism teacher, Luce earned his bachelor’s
degree in journalism at Antioch College.
Robert Bonner Luce was born in Grosse
Point, Mich. In 1942 he joined the U.S.
Army Air Force, serving in the South Paciﬁc
where he created the “Daily Mission,” a troop
newsletter. After graduation, Luce moved to
Washington DC to take a job as the assistant
to the publisher of Kiplinger Washington
Agency and would later go on to publish
the company’s “Changing Times” magazine.
In 1960 he founded Robert B. Luce Inc., a
publishing ﬁrm. Bob later sold the business
in 1964 and became the editor of “The New
Republic”.
In 1969 He moved to New York City
where, after working brieﬂy with Metromedia
Inc. he became chief of Time-Life Book Clubs.
Before his retirement in 1979 he also worked
as the publisher for the newsletter division of
Harcourt Brace and Co.
At the age of 73 Luce moved to Florida
and began teaching journalism as an adjunct
professor at Florida Atlantic University where
he taught for six years before retiring once
again.
His marriage to Jean Luce ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Iris
Levenburg Luce of Boca Raton; two daughters
from his ﬁrst marriage, Jennifer Luce Reynolds
of Boulder, CO., and Anna Luce Auerbach
of New York City; a daughter from his second
marriage, Jan Luce Nance of Burbank CA.,
and four grandsons.
Marjorie Shatz Baskin ’48
Died on April 26 in Hamilton, Ontario of
lung cancer at age 78.
Wife, mother, scientist and community
activist, Baskin is remembered for her
passionate commitment to the many causes she
championed in Hamilton, the city she lived in
for over ﬁfty years.
Her father died when she was still an infant
in Denver. He was a lawyer and son of a
conﬁrmed socialist and social reformer. In fact,
his father was so committed to the cause that
he named his three children Reason, Equity,
and Lucidity. Marjorie was a child to Reason
and a niece to Equity and Lucidity in more
ways than one, and it is hard to deny the effect
that this had on her life.
Perhaps the most formative experience that
Marj had was her college education at Antioch
College. The ﬁrst president of Antioch was
the social reformer Horace Mann, whose
ideas and ideals inspired her for the rest of
her life. She often repeated his injunction:
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some
victory for humanity.” Marjorie lived by these
words, and they shaped her legacy.
Upon graduation and she married Rabbi
Bernard Baskin and moved to Baton Rouge,
La. Having grown up in Denver, a largely
white and racially uniform city, Marjorie was
appalled by the casual racism she saw in the
segregated Louisiana of the late 1940’s. This
was the ﬁnal formative experience that made
her the woman she became.
Some of her main accomplishments
include: being elected eight times to
Hamilton’s public school board, where she
served as chairwoman; serving as chairwoman
on the committee on aging of the Hamilton
district social research council; being the co-
founder and ﬁrst president of the Hamilton’s
transit system for the aged and disabled; being
a board member of the Hamilton Children’s
Aid Society; serving for many years as a board
member of St. Peter’s Hospital Geriatric
Centre; and being a founder and organizer of
the Hamilton school board’s elementary lunch
program.
Her activities on the behalf of the Jewish
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Jewish Appeal; the organization of a women’s
studies program that served all of Hamilton’s
congregations; and, in her earlier years, the
organization of the Temple Anshe Sholom
nursery school and youth group. In 1984 she
was the Negev Dinner Honoree for her acts of
public service.
Marjorie made more of her time than most
of us. I recall once, when I was about 10 or
11, waking up in the morning and feeling
unwell. I told my mother, who responded
characteristically: “I don’t have time to be
sick, and neither do you.” She was busy being
a wife and mother of three — Judith, Susan
and myself — and holding down a series of
increasingly important jobs.
Starting as a research assistant in the
department of metallurgy, she worked at
McMaster University for 21 years as a scientist
and a researcher. By the time she was done her
name appeared on 15 published papers. When
the McMaster Health Sciences Center opened,
Marjorie moved there and spent many happy
years in the department of epidemiology and
bio-statistics. Later she became director of
public affairs for the faculty of health science,
and was serving in that role when she retired.
A dull recitation of what Marjorie Baskin
did with her life loses the ﬂavor of the person
in the telling. She was funny and ﬁery; she was
political and passionate; she was lovely and
loving.
A life-long smoker, Marjorie died of lung
cancer.
Russell J. Holmes ’48
Died March 28, 2005, at York County
Hospital, Seven Valleys, PA, at age 81. He
was the husband for 57 years of the late Martha
E. B. Holmes.
He was born in New Brunswick, NJ on
May 3, 1923, the son of the late Lester C. and
Catharine D. Holmes. He was a graduate of
Antioch College and served for three years in
the U.S. Army Air Corps as a pilot and ﬁrst
lieutenant during WWII.
He retired from AMP Inc. in 1986 after
more than 37 years. He was active for many
years as a volunteer with the York/Adams Area
Boy Scout Council, serving in various roles
from cub master to district commissioner. He
was the recipient of the Silver Beaver Award
and the Wood Badge in Scout Leadership.
He served for 21 years on the Seven Valleys
Borough Council as councilman and as it’s
president, He was also the recipient of the
Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs’
“Crosswaite Award” for 20 years of community
service. He was the treasurer for many
years and an Honorary Life Member of the
Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Association of
Pennsylvania, as well as a member of York Post
Card Club. He was also a founder and member
of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of
York where he was treasurer for many years and
a former chair of it’s Board of Directors.
Russel is survived by a sister, Mary C.
Harmon of Kingston, NH; a daughter, Deborah
M. Holmes of Molde, Norway; four sons;
Christopher H. Holmes of Arnold, Timothy
R. Holmes of Bowie, Peter C. Holmes of San
Luis Obispo, and Jonathan D. Holmes of
Thomasville; ﬁve grandchildren, Elizabeth H.
Spiegel, Rebecca D. Rau, Mark D. Holmes,
and Audra C. and Austin D. Holmes; and one
great-granddaughter, Sydney E. Holmes. In
lieu of ﬂowers contributions may be made to
the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of
York, 925 S. George St., York, or to Antioch
College.
Rosalind Mirsky ’48
Died Sept. 15 in Portland, Oregon at age
82. She was born on Sept 13. 1923 in New
York City, the youngest of ﬁve children whose
parents had emigrated from Eastern Europe.
As a girl, she spent winters in New York City
and summers in a tiny town in the Catskills
named Mountaindale, where she helped in
her mother’s little store and developed her
strong love of nature. She graduated from
Mountaindale High School in a class of seven,
and went to earn a BA in political science at
Antioch College.
As a young woman, while working in New
York City at the International Ladies’ Garment
Workers’ Union, she met her future husband,
Dr. Noah Krall, a U.S. Public Health Service
ofﬁcer, at a lecture given by Eleanor Roosevelt
at the New School for Social Research. They
were posted to several places in the Eastern
and Southern United States. In 1956 the
family moved to Portland and she instilled
a love of literature, poetry, and education to
their three daughters, Cathy, Deborah, Becky,
and son Michael.
After their divorce Mirsky returned to
school, earning a master’s degree in counseling
from Lewis and Clark College. She was a social
worker for the State of Oregon in Roseburg
and Bend. After returning to Portland, she
worked well into her 1970’s at Neighborhood
House, a local social service organization.
Her old age may have been the happiest
time in her life. She adored her six
grandchildren, solitary reading, walks in
the woods, her two book groups, gardening,
music, and her wide circle of friends. She was
a passionate traveler. She had a special ﬂair
for decorating and color. She volunteered
teaching English to Russian immigrants and
tutored in a local elementary school.
Mabel Grover Mango ’50
Died of lung cancer Oct. 5 at Suburban
Hospital of Bethesda, MD at age 78. A social
worker and family therapist, Mango supervised
the Family Therapy Adolescent Program at
the former Taylor Manor Hospital in Ellicott
City, where she practiced family therapy and
trained mental health professionals in family
therapy for more than 16 years. She also had a
private family therapy practice in Bethesda and
worked part time at the Family Life Center in
Columbia.
Mango worked and trained extensively
with Virginia Satir, a proponent of the human
potential movement and pioneer in family
therapy. She was a founding member and
former president of the Human Learning
Resource Network and participated in Avanta,
an organization that promotes healthy
relationships.
Mango was born in Waltham, MA, and
spent most of her childhood in Gloversville,
NY. She graduated from Antioch College,
then traveled and worked in orphanages in
France to help children recover from family
traumas that occurred during WWII.
She moved to the Washington area in
1953 and by1960, she was one of eight women
in a pilot project at the National Institute
of Mental Health for training female mental
health counselors. The study was replicated
at Johns Hopkins University, which helped
establish a master’s degree program in mental
health counseling and served as a model for
the Psychiatric Institute of America.
Later, Mango worked with drug abusing
teenagers at Karma house in Rockville, a
training project that became a model for
Maryland.
She received her master’s degree from Kent
School of Social Work at the University of
Louisville in 1975.
Her commitment for helping families
was underscored by her passion for serving
victims of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
accident. Through her involvement with
Friends of Chernobyl center, U.S., she traveled
to Ukraine to meet with affected children and
families, helped establish social services and
contributed to charitable fundraising. She was
also a member of the Institute for International
Connections.
She was a member of the Cedar Lane
Unitarian Church in Bethesda.
Her marriage to Cyril Mango ended in
divorce.
Survivors include her daughter, Cecily
Mango of Kensington; a brother, Charles
Grover of Bethesda; a sister, Jean Grover
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Dr. H. Brian Landes ’52
Died Oct. 21, at age 75, at his Frederick
County, VA home. Dr. Landes was born Sept.
8, 1930, in London, son of the late Daniel
Godfrey and Deborah Lewis Landes. He
was a graduate of Antioch College, Cornell
University in Ithaca, NY, and Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland. He was
an Army veteran of the Korean War. He
was a physician and partner at Dermatology
Associates, retiring after 30 years. He was a
member of Hopewell Centre Friends Meeting,
serving as past treasurer. He was a team doctor
at James Wood High School for 32 years, past
president of James Wood Athletic Association
and volunteered as a kicking coach. He was
founder of the Coalition for Racial Unity, past
president of the medical staff at Winchester
Medical Center and past president of the board
of directors of Winchester Country Club. He
received the Virginia Interscholastic Athletic
Administrators Distinguished Service Award
and was inducted in the P . Wendell Dick
Athletic Hall of Fame at James Wood High
School. Surviving are his wife, Judith Ann
Myers Landes; a son, David Keith Landes
of Herndon; two daughters, Robin Landes
Meyering of Manassas and Jordan Emily
Landes of London; a sister, Patricia Landes
Guy of Philadelphia; a brother, Robert Landes
of Seattle; and four grandchildren. Memorial
contributions may be made to James Wood
Athletic Association Scholarship Fund, P .O.
Box 556, Winchester, VA 22601; or Blue
Ridge Hospice, 333 W . Cork St., Winchester,
VA 22601.
Harvey Birenbaum ’58
Died Sept. 30 of heart failure at the
Stanford (CA) Medical Center at the age of
69.
A teacher, poet, family man, and
scholar, Birenbaum was born July 8, 1936,
in Philadelphia. He received his bachelor’s
degree from Antioch College, followed by a
Ph.D. in English language from Yale in 1963.
Aside from two years spent teaching at
the University of East Anglia in England,
Birenbaum spent more than 35 years teaching
on the English and comparative literature
faculty at San Jose State University. He had
devoted his life to teaching and, over time,
developed a reputation for teaching his
students to think for themselves. He was also
a published poet and a dedicated father and
husband.
His students remembered him fondly as
both rigorous and generous. “He was the rare
person who manages to endow others with a
greater understanding of themselves and what
it means to be alive in the process,” said Sally
Ashton, a former student and a family friend.
“His unique perspective on the relationship of
myth, literature, and human consciousness is
dynamic and profound.”
McMillan said Birenbaum had the habit
of giving stuff away. “Many tangible things
Harvey gave me … but the greatest intangible
gifts Harvey gave me were the beginnings of
the ability to truly see that everything in the
world is interconnected and the importance of
the artist in naming and re-naming that … it
is the most important and abiding one to me,”
McMillan said.
“I was asked to teach a course that Harvey
had been teaching every fall for more than two
decades,” said English department colleague
Andy Fleck said. “He came to visit me in my
ofﬁce with a large stack of paper — materials he
had assembled over twenty years of teaching
the course, material that he thought I might
ﬁnd useful. That was just the way Harvey
worked — generous, wise, helpful, kind, all
behind the scenes.”
Birenbaum is survived by his wife of 42
years, Mary Birenbaum of San Jose, CA;
a daughter, Chandra Birenbaum of San
Francisco; and a son, Josh Birenbaum of
Washington, DC.
Phyllis Van Horn ’59
Passed away June 11 at her Vashon Island
WA home, surrounded by her beloved family,
June 11 at age 67. She was born Oct. 7, 1937
in Jamestown, NY and was raised on the
shore of nearby Lake Chautauqua. Phyllis
attended Antioch College where she studied
business administration and met David Horn
of Maumee, Ohio on a blind date. They
graduated, were married on campus, and
headed for Seattle on the same day in 1959.
She worked at the UW Medical School and in
the personal ofﬁce of Swedish Hospital, rising
to the position of director. In 1962, she and
Dave moved to Burton and fell in love with
Vashon Island. They later built a home at
Kingsbury Beach where they have lived for 30
years.
Phyllis became administrator of the
ﬂedgling Vashon-Maury Health Services
Center at the newly decommissioned Nike Site
near Center and worked to attract talented
young family physicians to practice on the
Island. She was instrumental in negotiating
the contract with Group Health, successfully
competed for grants, administered the large
site and it’s buildings, and promoted life-long
family healthcare. She retired from the health
center after 25 years in 1995, traveling with
Dave to Cambridge, England where they
lived for 18 months. She quickly learned the
history of the region, the famed university,
and important landmarks. Friends from the
U.S. who visited would always be impressed
by her knowledge that was “better than the
guidebooks.”
Phyllis was active in the Vashon Jaycee
wives club, helping to start the Strawberry
festival that we enjoy today. She belonged
to Ryther, the League of Women Voters,
VIG&CC Women’s Club, and volunteered
in Democratic campaigns and functions.
She enjoyed playing golf and rooting for the
Seahawks, Mariners, and Sonics. Phyllis
was a founding board member of the Vashon
Island YMCA, serving as Secretary/Treasurer.
She worked with an outstanding group of
volunteers to bring this vital community
resource to the Island.
Despite extensive traveling in retirement,
Phyllis always loved coming home to Vashon.
She leaves her loving husband of 46 years,
Dave, her son Jack of New Hampshire, her
daughter Amanda of Olympia, and son Jeffrey
of West Seattle. Funeral services were held
June 17, 2005 at Vashon Methodist Church.
Friends came to remember a wonderful and
dynamic woman. Donations in her memory
can be made to the Vashon Island YMCA,
9822 SW Gorsuch Rd., Vashon, WA 98070.
Ben Apfelbaum ’64
Died Sept. 23 from complications following
knee replacement surgery at Piedmont
Hospital. Ben, from the Antioch College
class of 1964 was an art curator and consultant
specializing in folk and vernacular art. He
was the director of exhibitions at the Spruill
Center for the Arts in Atlanta for the past ﬁve
years where he was known for wide-ranging
and often themed exhibits featuring dozens of
artists.
In one show, “Looks Good on Paper,” Mr.
Apfelbaum squeezed 129 works by 85 metro
Atlanta artists into the exhibit. “It seems
like a convocation of Atlanta artists talking
animatedly to one another,” Atlanta Journal-
Constitution art critic Catherine Fox wrote in
2001.
“He loved looking at art and discovering
new talent,” said Marianne Lambert of
Atlanta, curator of the Swan Coach House
Gallery at the Atlanta History Center
and ArtWalk at Lenox Square. “He never
missed an opening at local galleries. He’d
go to student shows and to all the shows in
alternative spaces.” The curator championed
young and emerging artists, by purchasing
their work and helping them to be exhibited.
“He was larger than life, passionate with
tremendous charisma,” Lambert said. “He’d
wear crazy Hawaiian shirts with lots of color.”
“Ben had an amazing ability to sweep into
a brand-new community and uncover artistic
talent that those of us who have been here for
years haven’t noticed,” said Barbara Archer of
Atlanta, owner of the Barbara Archer Gallery
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remarkable eye and was the most inclusive
of curators,” said painter Deanna Sirlin of
Atlanta. “He embraced art and artists.”
A Manhattan native, Apfelbaum earned
his master’s degree in American folk art studies
from NYU. He was also a folk art buyer for
Polo-Ralph Lauren Corp. and a curator for
the East River Gallery at the Manhattan
Psychiatric Center where he helped to show
and sell artwork of patients with the proceeds
going to the artists. Apfelbaum loved to ﬁnd
new culinary tastes and to give kitschy gifts to
friends when they met for dinner. There are
no immediate survivors.
Joffre M. Roberts ’64
Died Nov. 1 at age 66. Born in Martin’s
Ferry, OH, Roberts enjoyed a career as an
innkeeper. Survivors include his companion,
Daniel Thompson.
Stephen L. Ross ’65
Died July 9 at age 62. He was the devoted
father of Samantha and Stephanie, beloved
brother of Jim and Maggie, and cherished son
of Alice and the late Morton Ross. You were
one of a kind and touched so many. We love
you and will miss your warmth, unique humor,
intellect, and sage advice.
Jamie Frucht ’67
Passed away suddenly on Aug. 28, 2004 of a
heart aneurysm.
He was born in New York on Dec. 16,
1944 and was raised on Long Island. While
a student at Antioch College Jamie had the
chance to study in Dublin, Ireland and spent
a good deal of time in London, France, and
the Netherlands as well. A gifted, committed
writer from early childhood through to the last
days of her life. Jamie was awarded a Wallace
Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University in
1967. She published two books in her lifetime
and delighted her many friends by sharing
the wise, witty, ferociously original words that
poured from her pen. She also shared her love
of words with her students during the many
years she spent teaching English at Castlemont
High School in Oakland; she worked hard
to help students see writing as a way to
understand themselves and their world.
Some of Jamie’s happiest periods were spent
in her house in Albion on the Mendocino
coast, where she welcomed friends, taking
great pleasure in carrying them off to her
favorite natural haunts. Jamie was a kind,
loyal, loving friend, daughter, sister, and aunt.
She will be missed greatly by her nephew
Ehren Koepf and by the students and many
friends whose lives she enriched by the unique
“angle of repose” she assumed in this world.
Gordon Conable ’69
Died Jan. 12 of a heart attack at his
Riverside, CA home at age 58.
A free-speech champion, Conable
was president of the American Library
Association’s (ALA) Freedom to Read
Foundation (FTRF) since 1998. He was also
an ALA Council member and vice president of
west coast operations for Library Systems and
Services.
“Gordon was an unsurpassed champion
of intellectual freedom, a wise and generous
mentor to many, and a consummate librarian
who was a true leader of our profession,” said
John W . Berry, who succeeded Conable as
FTRF president at ALA’s 2005 Midwinter
Meeting. Characterizing Conable as “a giant
of this profession,” FTRF Executive Director
Judith Krug told American Libraries that
she viewed him as a “creative and brilliant
librarian” whose ideas were “so important to
where librarianship is going.”
Earning his MLS from the Columbia
University library school in 1976, Conable
began his library career that same year at the
Fort Vancouver Regional Library and rose
to become associate director of the library
system in 1978. He served as director of the
Monroe County (Michigan) Library System
from 1988 to 1998; during his tenure there, he
withstood controversy over the library’s adding
Madonna’s Sex to the collection. “It got very
ugly and hostile, and there were bomb threats
phoned in,” Robert Lepsig, who was a board
member at the time, said of the episode in
the Jan. 18 Toledo Blade. The episode earned
Conable the 2000 John Phillip Immroth
Award.
Conable’s wife, Irene Conable, a school
library media specialist, told the newspaper
that he considered librarianship “a place in the
world where he could have a professional life
that supported his philosophical beliefs.” FTRF
has established a fund in his honor.
Gary Doon ’73
Gary Doon age 56 of Dandridge, TN,
passed away Feb. 12, 2004. He was born on
June 23, 1947 in Berkeley, CA to Harry and
Janet Gagnon Doon, a military family. Gary
excelled in tennis and golf as a youth and
graduated from high school in Orinda, CA.
After serving in the U.S. army, Gary graduated
from Antioch College. In the 1980’s he
moved to Nashville to pursue his career as a
music professional, working with some of the
world’s most popular contemporary performers,
including Dr. Hook, BJ Thomas, MC Hammer,
Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna,
and Rodney Carrington among others. While
in Nashville he met his wife “Nead” and they
soon wed on the Brig o Doon in Scotland
while on tour with Michael Jackson. In 1995
Gary and his family came to East Tennessee
and made their home on Douglas Lake in
Dandridge. Gary beneﬁted from vast and
unusual life experiences and shared them
in many a ﬁne tale. He had an unmatched
optimism and a hearty laugh.
To his many friends and his family he was
a great source of joy. He will be sorely missed.
His survivors include: his wife, Nancy Doon
his children Hunter and Heather Doon, his
mother Jeannette Goodrum, his sister Sherry
Dunn, his step-sister Candace Ewalt, and his
step-brother Marr Goodrum.
Dale Sipes, ’74
Died Oct. 10 following an extended illness.
As a staff attorney and consultant for the
National Center for State Courts (NCSC)
in Williamsburg, VA, Sipes efforts for court
improvement reached courts around the world.
She was recognized for her work in case ﬂow
management and for her groundbreaking book
On Trial: The Length of Civil and Criminal
Trials (1988). One of her major contributions
was helping to establish NCSC’s International
Program, which has since expanded to ofﬁces
in eight other countries.
Her commitment to improving justice
extended beyond her afﬁliation with
NCSC. From 1995 to 2001, Dale was deputy
administrative director of the California
Administrative Ofﬁce of the Courts, where
her responsibilities ranged from Judicial
Council governance and secretariat services to
statewide trial court strategic planning to the
court interpreters program to jury innovations
to statewide research services.
Sipes and her husband, Larry, were inducted
into NCSC’s Warren E. Burger Society in 2004
for their signiﬁcant contributions and support
to the work of the organization, for which
Larry was a past president.
Sipes is survived by her husband and their
children, Laurel and Todd; by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Howard of Bethesda, MD; and
by her brother, Jack Howard of St. Petersburg
FL.
Matthew Eugene Buresch ’77
Died of melanoma at his Washington DC
home at age 51.
Buresch was a senior energy economist at
the World Bank who had lived in Washington
for 17 years. His career in international
economic development took him to more than
30 countries. He was devoted to renewable
energy and wrote a book, “Photovoltaic Energy
Systems: Design and Installation” (1983) on
the topic.
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Previously he had been a senior manager
at Deloitte and Touche and a manager at a
number of consulting ﬁrms. He also served as
a professor of business strategy at American
University of Bulgaria in the mid 1990s.
Buresch was born in Great Neck, N.Y. His
maternal grandfather was Allen W . Dulles,
former director of the CIA, and his paternal
grandfather was Eugene Buresch, chancellor of
Austria in 1934. He had dual American and
Austrian citizenship.
He graduated from Antioch University
and received a master’s degree in technology
and policy from MIT in 1985. He was a
trustee of A Rocha, an international Christian
environmental organization. His ﬁrst cousin,
once removed, is Avery Dulles the ﬁrst U.S.
theologian named to the Catholic Church’s
College of Cardinals.
He was a member and volunteer at Fourth
Presbyterian Church in Bethesda.
His marriage to Victoria Cox ended in
divorce.
Survivors include his wife of eight years,
Lyubomira Dzhonova Buresch of Washington;
two children from his second marriage, Jasmina
and Eugene Buresch, both of Washington; his
mother, Joan Buresch-Talley of Santa Fe, NM;
a sister, two half sisters, and a half brother.
John Kirkpatrick ’77
Died Dec. 12 at his downtown Louisville
apartment at age 51. An accomplished
journalist, Kirkpatrick had worked for a variety
of newspapers including the Dallas Morning
News, the San Jose Mercury News, and the
Louisville Courier-Journal. He had just joined
the Courier-Journal in April as assistant
business editor.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in
journalism at Antioch College and had also
done some undergraduate work at University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In announcing Kirkpatrick’s death, Courier-
Journal executive editor Bennie Ivory said,
“Aside from being a solid journalist, John was
a very kind-hearted person. He was the kind of
person we need more of in this world.”
During 18 years at the Dallas Morning
News he had been a writer and editor on
the metropolitan, lifestyles and business
news desks. “John was the consummate
professional,” said Ed Dufner, Dallas Morning
News assistant managing editor/business. He
said Kirkpatrick who could pick up a story
— no matter the subject — and get it in on
deadline. Dufner said when he learned the
news in the Dallas news room from a reporter
and three editors “they had tears in their eyes
… that’s how he’s remembered around here.”
After exploring a variety of religions John
had decided to pursue Judaism and had come
to care a great deal about it. He is survived
by two brothers, Thomas and Mike W ., and a
sister, Alice K. Welden.
LeRoy Whitﬁeld ’92
Died on Oct. 9 from complications related
to AIDS at age 36. Having lived with HIV for
15 years, he wrote for a range of publications
about both his personal experiences and the
broader politics of the epidemic, particularly
as they relate to African Americans. He
wrote for publications such as Vibe magazine,
POZ magazine, and HIV Plus magazine,
in which he had a monthly column called
“Native Tongue”. LeRoy was well known
for his speeches and writing linking poverty,
violence, and housing situations to the rise
of HIV in the black community as well as his
critical view of doctors and AIDS services
that rush people into using anti-retroviral
medications with pronounced side effects and
possible emotional backlash. LeRoy himself
struggled with the question of whether to
take the drugs until his death, he never did.
Among the many journalistic milestones
Whitﬁeld set was serving as the founding
editor of the Black AIDS Institute’s print
magazine Kujisource. Just one week after
his death, the National Association of Black
Journalists honored Whitﬁeld with one of its
2005 Salute to Excellence Awards for magazine
writing. Flowers and condolences may be
sent to LaRonya Whitﬁeld, 8947 S. Jeffery,
Chicago, IL 60617. The Whitﬁeld family has
asked that any memorial gifts be directed to
the organization Gay Men of African Descent
(www.gmad.org) in his name.
The ﬁnal rays of the winter sun illuminated “Emily’s Garden” on campus. The adobe and cement sculptures glowed with a color that
seemed to merge them with the surrounding leaves. The work was a 2003 Senior Project by Alena Schaim in celebration of the lives of
Emily Hagen and Emily Howell.

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News of Carl Ballard’s death came as a
shock to many mid-90s Antiochians.
But none were as stunned as Carl himself.
The 33-year-old 1997 graduate — known
by many old friends as “Ray-Ray”— was listed
among the dearly departed in the spring 2005
issue of the Antiochian.
Fortunately, Carl is alive and well in
Washington DC, though he’s somewhat out of
touch with his college friends.
During a March fundraising phonathon,
a student worker reported news from a caller
that Carl Ballard had died.
“The phone number we had was for his
father,” said then-Antiochian editor Liz
MacDonald ’04. “I think whoever we spoke to
thought we were asking for Carl Ballard Sr.”
The elder Ballard passed away in 2002.
Carl Ballard surprised at his Antioch ‘resurrection’
Alumnus reported dead in Antiochian
alive and well and reconnecting with friends
Phonathon workers however believed it was
Carl Jr. who had died. His name was scratched
off the phonathon roster and in his records he
was marked as deceased.
The news reached the obituary pages of
the following Antioch alumni newsletter. The
issue hit about 14,000 mailboxes around June
1.
On June 2, Carl was soaking in a warm bath
and reading a book when partner Doug Miller
’93 got a call from old friend Ashley Posella
’97.
“She’s just bawling and she’s telling him
that I apparently have died,” Carl said. “And
she’s asking him, ‘How come you didn’t invite
me to the funeral?’
“And (Doug) is, like, ‘What are you talking
about? He’s sitting in the bathtub.’”
For Dave Goodwin a co-op at Goodwill Industries grew into a full-time job after
graduation where, Goodwin laughs, “I was able to learn public relations at their expense.”
Later, he moved on to a career at Mead Corporation from which he retired as Manager of
Corporate Communications.
Goodwin has continued his connection with Antioch, ﬁrst with a term on the Alumni
Board as a member of the Development Committee, and today as Board Chair of the Glen
Helen Ecology Institute. Through
his work as a volunteer, he sees
the variety of ways alumni give
back to Antioch. “Planned
Giving is a way for everyone to
give something at a level that is
personally signiﬁcant to them,”
says Goodwin. “While I may not
be able to give as much as I’d
like now, by including Antioch
College in my will and endowing
my annual gift through an annuity,
I’m content knowing that my
support for Antioch will continue
in perpetuity.”
To learn more about Planned Giving opportunities including those that can provide
ﬁxed income for you and your surviving beneﬁciaries, please contact Lisa Glandon, at
(800) 411-6780 or lglandon@antioch-college.edu.
PLANNED GIVING
Dave Goodwin ’54
Carl and Doug normally read the
Antiochian, but hadn’t yet received the Spring
issue.
After reassuring Ashley of Carl’s vitality,
they went online and found his short obituary.
“Well, isn’t this something?” Carl
remembered thinking. “Part of me just laughed
out loud — this is just so Antiochian.”
“Another part of me was deﬁnitely bummed
because it was just a sentence,” he said. “I
should have had something colorful about my
death.”
But as news spread over the next few days,
another reality began to trouble Carl — the
fact that so many people believed it.
Eight years have ﬂown by since Carl
graduated from Antioch with a bachelor’s
degree in communications.
After leaving Yellow Springs, Carl and
friend Tim Stickle ‘97 moved to Washington
D.C. where they hoped to launch their next
adventure.
“We were supposedly going to Alaska to
drink vodka, cut ﬁsh and be real men,” Carl
said. “But we needed money ﬁrst so we came
to DC.”
For the ﬁrst year and a half, Carl was
an outreach worker for Us Helping Us, a
nonproﬁt agency working to bring HIV/AIDS
awareness to black men. The job was ideal, but
it didn’t pay the bills.
Carl joined the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
in 1999 as an online assistant.
Carl and Doug recently exchanged rings
and celebrated their 10-year anniversary
together.
Now a NewsHour production assistant,
Carl regularly reports on Capitol Hill and
national news. His recent stories have included
the political conventions and the Edgar Ray
Killen murder trial.
After turning 33 this year, Carl had
reﬂected on some of the choices he had made
since the Antioch days — and if they were the
right ones.
One regret is not having kept in touch with
friends better.
The mistaken obituary was a “wonderfully
ridiculous” catalyst for doing that, he said.
“Like Ashley, clearly my intention was to
call her more,” Carl said. “It’s got me back in
contact with a lot of people I’d fallen out of
contact with.”
— Dana Clark Felty ’98 covers religion for the
Savannah (Ga.) Morning News. Rumors of her
celebrity can be conﬁrmed or denied by emailing
dana.felty@savannahnow.com.

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In 1919, Antioch College narrowly avoided
being turned over to the YMCA (just trust me).
That year America’s preeminent ﬂood control
engineer, Arthur E. Morgan, was made a member
of the board of trustees. Despite not ﬁnishing
high school and having just six weeks of college,
Morgan had so many progressive ideas about
education that his fellow board members asked
him to be president, and through the 1920s the
Antioch of Arthur Morgan grew steadily in most
all respects. Problem was, the campus hadn’t
changed much since 1853, and science facilities
were essentially nonexistent. Many agreed,
especially two notables: Professor of Chemistry,
Clyde S. Adams (known as “Doc”) and most
importantly Trustee Charles F . Kettering. As
head of research and development for General
Motors, Kettering was the auto industry in
Dayton, having invented the electric starter
(so we wouldn’t break our arms performing the
otherwise innocuous task of starting a car), Ethyl
gasoline, and several other gadgets including a
clockwork ﬂying bomb.
The story, as told several years later by Doc
Adams himself, goes like this: He and Physics
Instructor John Frayne drew up specs for a
science building on the Adams’ dining room
table, then stashed them behind the cash register
in the old Antioch Tea Room, a commercial
restaurant where the student union now stands.
During lunch there with Morgan, Kettering and
others, Adams steered the topic of conversation
to new buildings. When “Boss Ket,” as he liked
to be called, asked what they had in mind,
Adams promptly produced his strategically
hidden drawings complete with cost estimates.
Suitably impressed, Kettering decided to pay for
the whole megilla himself, remarking that he
would have to work an extra day per week to get
the money. Mind you, there wasn’t an extra day
in the week for the Boss to work, and he could’ve
written a check to fund the project.
Apart from serving the basic needs
of a modern science curriculum,
Morgan wanted a place to establish a
climate conducive to research at his
new Antioch, and in this way science
served a key role. The ﬁrst of these
freelance projects was Kettering’s
own, his abiding interest in unlocking
the secret of photosynthesis. While
he never found the key, his Kettering
Foundation, created to do this work,
continues today as an institute of
policy studies and international affairs. Science
also saw what could be termed the ﬁrst salvo in
the Green Revolution, the perfection of hi-bred
corn sponsored by Henry A. Wallace (a third
party candidate for president in 1948) and his
Pioneer Corn Co.
Perhaps its most lasting impact locally was
Science’s contributions to local business and
industry. Sergius Vernet was a New York area
inventor lured to pastoral Yellow Springs by
Morgan’s promises of low-priced lab space and
freedom to create. The result was Vernay Labs,
one of the largest employers in the village for
over 50 years. While his business left town a
couple years ago, Mr. Vernet’s legacy remains in
the Glen Helen Building (ofﬁcially the Vernet
Memorial) and the village Public Library. In the
1940s, Antioch students began a cottage industry
in Science, building precision instruments for the
Fels Research Institute across the street, and they
became Yellow Springs Instrument Co.
And in case I haven’t dropped enough names
on you good people already, great scientists were
once undergraduates here, including the late
great Leland Clark ’41 (an inventor of biosensor
technology known as “The Edison of Medicine,”
probably the best scientist nickname since “the
Wizard of Menlo Park” himself), Stephen Jay
Gould ’63 (the most famous paleontologist
not named Leakey, not to mention the only
Antiochian ever to play himself on The
Simpsons), and other great minds too numerous
to mention.
* Science As History
by Scott Sanders, University Archivist
ANTIOCHIANA
The Science Building was rededicated Sept. 9, after a renovation
prepared the ground ﬂoor for use in the new Core curriculum. Presenters
included Community Manager Shelby Chestnut, ’05, Janice Kinghorn,
Core Program coordinator, Richard Jurasek, then-interim president,
and project creative director, and Yellow Springs Mayor, David Foubert.
University Archivist Scott Sanders also offered the following remarks.

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J
une 2003 marked a momentous milestone
in the stimulating history of Antioch
College. Noting the occasion, the 150th
anniversary of the founding of the College,
the Board of Trustees of Antioch University
stepped decisively into the future. It voted
without dissent to establish a Sesquicenten-
nial Commission for the Renewal of Antioch
College, and charged it “…to develop a plan,
strategy, and timetable for the renewal of An
–
tioch College.” As a graduate of the College,
and newly elected to the Board of Trustees, I
was pleased to be witness to this historic event
and to participate in it.
The Trustees supported efforts by the college
administration during the decade preceding
2003 to strengthen the operating capacity
of the College within the constraints of its
current academic curriculum. None proved
signiﬁcantly successful. In the end, the Board
saw that if Antioch College were to build a
bridge into the 21st century, it would have to
think differently about how it was delivering
its academic services.
Thus the Board sought means to invigorate
the College with a new way of realizing its aca-
demic vision, a way that would make possible
a ﬁnancially healthy institution that could
strongly support its faculty, staff, and students.
The Board’s vital action in establishing the
renewal commission was a natural outcome of
its intensive search for a way to infuse a strong
Antioch College with the energy needed to
propel it forward as a leader in 21st Century
American higher education.
The renewal commission was jointly chaired
by then-Chancellor Jim Craiglow and then-
Board Chairman Dan Kaplan. In addition to
the co-chairs, the Commission consisted of
three trustees, ﬁve external members who were
nationally recognized experts on liberal arts
colleges, one member from the Antioch New
England Graduate School, and six members
from Antioch College: three faculty, the Com
–
munity Manager, the Registrar, the Director
of Institutional Research, and the President of
the College. I was one of the trustee members.
The Commission met in person ten times
over the course of nine months, nine of those
two-day meetings on the College campus in
Yellow Springs. Of course, outside of face-
to-face meetings, there were also meetings by
conference call. The email trafﬁc was virtually
nonstop. In other words, the work of the com-
mission was done in typical Antiochian style,
with broad, active, comprehensive participa-
tion.
At the ﬁrst meeting, we went over our charge
carefully and discussed in general terms how
we would proceed. Lots of reading material
was distributed. At the second meeting we
circulated among all members personal vision
statements that each of us prepared on the An-
tioch College of the future. These aspirations
served as our point of departure.
We discussed intently what each of us saw as
the mission of Antioch College, the shape and
rigor of its curriculum, the match between its
expectations and the outcomes it produced in
its graduates, and how we each felt it should
be situated in the future. These were not easy
discussions, causing us to learn more about the
College and our own perceptions of it. Hav-
ing started with a blank slate, or to use Dan
Kaplan’s phrase, “honoring no sacred cows,”
we then began to fashion what we felt were
foundational commitments for Antioch Col-
lege, stemming from its history and essential
for its future.
The four foundational commitments we agreed
upon were these: 1) Liberal Education. A
core feature of the Antioch College program
since its founding, we viewed a rigorous
liberal education as the best and most power-
ful form of learning for a world characterized
by complexity and change; 2) Cooperative
Education. Sometimes referring to this as
experiential learning, we saw it as essential to
enriching liberal education by combining cam-
pus-based study with real world experience,
and we included in this concept the idea of
Antioch Education Abroad, service learning,
ﬁeld studies, and certain community projects;
3) Advancement of the Human Condition.
We believed that Antioch College aspires to
produce leaders who are prepared and inspired
to “earn some victory for humanity,” in the
words of Horace Mann’s historic challenge; 4)
Appreciation for a Diverse and Inclusive Com-
munity. We agreed that Antioch College’s
historic tradition of extending higher educa-
tion to under-represented citizens, including
women, minorities, persons from low-income
families, and persons subjected to adverse so-
cial discrimination for a variety of reasons, had
strengthened the College’s learning environ
–
ment. It creates a laboratory for community
government and the responsibilities of citizen-
ship in a democracy.
Building on the base provided by the four
foundational commitments, we turned to
analysis and discussion of the vision state-
ments we had prepared. We were seeking a
ANTIOCHNOTES
In 1921 Antioch President Arthur Morgan began the tradition of publishing Antioch Notes.
These occasional booklets included views on educational philosophy and practice and
proved an excellent way to promote Antioch around the nation. For more than 30 years
Morgan produced Notes and later faculty and presidents sporadicaly continued the prac-
tice. The Antiochian is pleased to offer this platform to a new generation.
V ol. 63, No. 1, Spring 2006
A Bold Plan for Antioch College
Daniel Fallon ’61
Chair, Education Division
Carnegie Corporation of New York

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transformational model for a College that
could be successful in the future we sensed
was emerging in the United States. A critical
turning point occurred well into these discus-
sions when Antioch faculty member Pat Linn
spontaneously described ideas she had been
developing that brought together features of
rigorous campus-based academic work with co-
op work experiences in the context of groups
of students and faculty working together
within a common overarching framework.
This sent us into the academic literature that
described “learning communities,” and led to
our adoption of a working model of what we
came to call experiential learning communi-
ties. It was at this point that the renewal
commission added to its membership Barbara
Leigh Smith of Evergreen College in Olym-
pia, WA, the country’s foremost authority on
learning communities.
Believing that credible external validation
was essential to our success, I sought a grant
from the Mellon Foundation, a supporter of
“leading liberal arts colleges.” Recognizing the
singular presence of Antioch College in the
undergraduate landscape of American higher
education, Mellon readily awarded $50,000 to
support the work of the renewal commission.
The principal aim of the Mellon grant was to
assemble a panel of ﬁve expert external advi
–
sors to review the work of the commission and
provide advice and counsel as necessary. After
consulting with my associates at Carnegie
Corporation of New York, Vartan Gregorian
(former president of Brown University) and
Neil Grabois (former president of Colgate
University, and former Provost of Williams
College), and with ofﬁcers at the Mellon Foun
–
dation, I put together a list of ﬁve persons to
serve as an expert review panel. Each of these
ﬁve ﬁrst-choice experts accepted my invitation
without hesitation, and every one gave the
same reason: Antioch College is without peer
as a progressive innovator in liberal education
and its vital presence stengthens all of Ameri-
can higher education.
The members of the expert review panel were
Ronald Crutcher (President, Wheaton Col-
lege); Peter Ewell (Vice President, National
Center for Higher Education Management
Systems); Michael McPherson (President,
Spencer Foundation, former President, Ma-
calester College); Michele Myers (President,
Sarah Lawrence College); and Jo Ellen Parker
(Executive Director, Great Lakes Colleges
Association). The panel includes the foremost
experts in the nation on college-level assess-
ment (Ewell), liberal arts college ﬁnancing
(McPherson), and technology in support of
liberal education (Parker), in addition to two
innovatively successful college presidents
(Crutcher, Myers).
The idea of the learning community is that a
group of students with similar interests enroll
together in a course that has a common general
theme, but is taught from different disciplin-
ary perspectives by two or more faculty. A
standard plan calls for one faculty member for
every 15 students, and three faculty members
lead a course of 45 students.
Many exciting possibilities emerged as we
began to explore how the plan would work.
We focused on how the College might more
effectively provide productive co-op jobs and
integrate those more intentionally with the
academic program. This led the commission to
recommend that the College reduce the num-
ber of general locations for co-op jobs, to per-
haps as few as ten, and develop in these sites
“co-op communities,” each coordinated by a
faculty member who lived permanently in the
community. Even though students would have
academic interests in common, and opportuni-
ties to come together for a variety of purposes,
they could still be basically independent, living
and working as Antioch co-ops have always
done, managing a household and meeting the
responsibilities of a job. New co-op commu-
nities are being formed for fall 2006 in New
Mexico, Ohio and Washington D.C. We see
in these and future communities, prospects for
continual engagement with Antioch alumni
living in those area, as well as for facilitation of
relationships with co-op employers. Students
could also be linked to each other and to
Yellow Springs through emerging electronic
technologies for purposes of ongoing inquiry.
An important challenge facing the commis-
sion was how to maintain the integrity of a full
liberal arts curriculum with a small faculty that
can represent, through their own individual
expertise, only a limited range of disciplines.
Our solution was to recommend that the
College move toward a vision of challenging
and clear academic standards that an Antioch
student would have to meet by demonstrating
mastery through assessment. We believe that
this is a future-oriented strategy that many col-
leges will be required to adopt by a demanding
knowledge-based political economy in years to
come. The starting point is for the faculty to
deﬁne the academic outcomes that will be ex
–
pected of a typical Antioch graduate. A series
of staged assessments would then be designed
through which the student would demonstrate
progress toward the goal, and, ultimately show
mastery of the outcomes themselves. Along
the way students will craft for themselves a
continually growing portfolio of their own
work, as partial evidence of their intellectual
growth.
Authentic assessments will be designed that
will involve problem solving and creativity
as well as more traditional examinations such
as essays and oral argumentation. Some of
the assessments will be conducted with the
assistance of external examiners from other
institutions of higher learning, thereby serving
the double purpose of ensuring validity of the
examination while at the same time showcas-
ing the capabilities of Antioch students. An
outcomes-based approach like this changes
the role of faculty from primarily educator to
instructor, coach and facilitator of independent
learning by the student. In this way students
can study and persuasively master areas of
inquiry that may not be formally represented
in the expertise of the current faculty.
The renewal commission also addressed many
other areas, including physical facilities,
Antioch Education Abroad, technology, and
community governance and leadership. We
adopted a stirring proposal for an Institute of
Cultural and Intellectual Freedom to which
the late Coretta Scott King so graciously
lent her name. Recognizing that third- and
fourth-year students would experience learn-
ing communities of a different kind than
ﬁrst- and second-year students, we considered
the developmental aspects of the curriculum.
As students progress toward their BA or BS
degree they will move from general educa-
tion to more specialized work, and to greater
intellectual independence. The senior project,
long a valuable tradition at Antioch College,
will be maintained.
One of the external members of the renewal
commission, Tom Clough, is an experienced
consultant to liberal arts colleges with a
special expertise on ﬁnancial stability. With
his help the commission examined a variety
of possible ﬁscal scenarios and was heartened
to see how the elements of the plan worked
to strengthen the ﬁnancial operating core of
the College. The new curriculum will likely
double the functional average student/faculty
ratio from the current 7:1 to close to 14:1.
Also, the research literature on learning com-
munities shows not only that students in such
arrangements demonstrate greater learning
growth but also that their commitment to the
institution increases, and attrition is dramati-
cally reduced. In short, the College can be
healthy even at a small size and still have the
potential to grow, adding faculty and resources
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As the plan came together in what would be
its ﬁnal shape, we asked two outsiders for their
opinion on its prospects. Jean MacGregor,
Director of the National Learning Communi-
ties Project, provided this response as part of
her six-page single-spaced analysis: “My ﬁrst
reaction to reading the white paper was one of
excitement for the possibilities in this renewal
vision. The Executive Summary claims ‘we
know of no other institution which has con-
ceptualized the learning community approach
in the manner being proposed.’ Indeed, that is
the case.… So ‘Bravo!’ for a highly integrated,
imaginative vision for a renewed Antioch.”
Similarly, John O’Connor, Project director of
Engaged Campus for a Diverse Democracy at
the American Association of Higher Educa-
tion, included this reaction in his careful writ-
ten analysis: “There are small programs around
the country trying to bring these different
progressive pedagogies together; the Antioch
proposal is the most comprehensive that I have
seen. I applaud the conception.”
We then met separately with each member of
the ﬁve-person expert review panel selected as
part of the initiative sponsored by the Mellon
Foundation. After an hour of open discussion,
each member of the panel then wrote a short
essay with advice. Each response was quite
detailed. Their evaluative ﬂavor, however, can
be seen in a few excerpts. “The Renewal Com
–
mission has developed a bold and innovative
plan to transform Antioch College.” (Crutch-
er) “The overall curricular design presented
in the white paper appears to me to be both
exciting and workable.” (Ewell) “Antioch’s
Renewal Commission has moved with bold-
ness and dispatch to craft a promising plan for
the future of Antioch College.” (McPherson)
“The concept itself is distinctive and builds on
Antioch’s own tradition of combining rigorous
liberal arts study with student experience in
the work place and engagement with the real
world through work and community activity.”
(Myers) “This speaks to how well conceived
and developed the Experiential Learning
Community program is.” (Parker).
Informed by the thorough commentary we re-
ceived from our national experts, the renewal
commission prepared its ﬁnal report for the
Board of Trustees. After the Board had ap
–
proved the plan, we submitted it once again to
the ﬁve-person expert review panel and asked
for a single integrated analysis from the panel.
We received six pages of single-spaced advice
and counsel, which included these sentences:
“This renewal of Antioch College offers a
genuine opportunity for Antioch to reassert its
historical leadership role in American higher
education in the new century, to serve again as
a living laboratory for progressive educational
ideas.… Much of American higher education
suffers from an excess of caution and lack of
imagination. In stepping forward with a bold
new vision and a realistic, albeit risky, plan for
realizing that vision, Antioch’s leaders are do
–
ing the right thing for the right reasons.”
There are many complexities and puzzles in the
plan still to be overcome and teased out. Its
principal strength is that there is nothing like
it – nothing as perfect. That advantage is also
a daunting challenge. The renewal commis-
sion tested its ideas against current practice,
and appraisals from knowledgeable experts.
Still, it is a fact there are no existence proofs.
We don’t have the luxury of riding the “second
wave” – we envision a future that requires us
literally to form the avant-garde, forging a new
path. This will require unusual imagination,
energy and vision; and, above all, courage.
We see a college where faculty set high
standards, and then work with students who
construct knowledge for themselves. Our
vision includes a continuation of co-operative
education that places students in the real world
while challenging them to integrate that work
experience with reﬂective academic intellectu-
al analysis. We imagine a worldwide network
of Antiochians, past and present, centered in
host communities where, through commerce
with co-op students, a living sense of continual
renewal with a thriving intellectual home in
Yellow Springs is nurtured. And our future
includes a constructive system of ongoing
embedded assessments of intellectual growth,
so that students prove to themselves and others
in persuasive manner the breadth and depth of
the education they acquire.
Having committed itself to the plan at its
meeting in June 2004, the Board then pro-
ceeded energetically to begin the investments
necessary to implement the plan and simulta-
neously to begin the systematic improvement
of the physical plant and the ﬁscal infrastruc
–
ture, inclusive of faculty salaries. Each Board
member was invited to increase his or her
campaign pledge by 20 percent, and practi-
cally all have responded positively. The Board
authorized expenditures from funds raised in
the current campaign, as well as those that
could appropriately be taken from prior gifts,
and further directed the campaign to raise its
sights in order to provide critical funding to
implement the plan. Within six months of
the Board’s approval of the plan, a combina
–
tion of donors delivered more than $5 million
speciﬁcally targeted for its implementation.
These resources are already being energetically
deployed to invigorate Antioch College.
On campus, faculty, staff, and students have
organized with extraordinary energy and
imagination to capture the plan and make it
theirs. They proposed an acceleration of the
implementation, from Fall 2006 to Fall 2005,
and gave the plan a name — The CON-
NECTED Curriculum. The newly designed
Antioch College website describes how faculty
and students have organized the new academic
structure (www.antioch-college.edu/academ-
ics). With assistance from potential supporters
being contacted through the Campaign for
Antioch College, we hope to build a new com-
munity center, improve the residence halls,
enhance technology to ease access to learn-
ing resources, raise faculty salaries and recruit
outstanding students. The Ofﬁce of Admis
–
sions is well underway with a creative strategy
to inform new generations of Antiochians
about the exciting academic environment that
awaits them.
The plan for Antioch College is proof positive
of the enduring vision inspired by Horace
Mann in the nineteenth century and Arthur
Morgan in the twentieth. It is a touchstone of
hope that the Antioch College of generations
past can inspire and develop students yet to
arrive. It signals that Antioch’s fundamental
values can be kept alive and bright as a form
of higher education unique and incalculably
valuable for American society, now and into
the future.
Through the plan for Antioch College we can
make timeless the claim by the former higher
education editor for the New York Times,
Loren Pope, who wrote less than a decade ago,
“Antioch is in a class by itself. There is no
college or university in the country that makes
a more profound difference in a young person’s
life, or that creates more effective adults.”

This is the slate for your Antioch College Alumni Board. To
vote, please go online to www.antioch-college.edu/alumni or
cast your vote in your mailed ballot when you receive it.
Terry Bohnhorst Blackhawk ’68: Detroit, Michigan
Poet, Educator, Founding Director InsideOut Literary Arts
Project
John Dawson ’58; Lee, NH (Incumbent)
Professor of Physics, Emeritus, University of New Hampshire
Shalini Deo ’02; New York, NY
Law student, CUNY School of Law
Christian Feuerstein ’94; Elkridge, MD
Art Director, Career Communications Group
~
Athena Turner Frederick ’82; Huntingdon, PA (Incumbent)
Registrar, Juniata College
Martin L. Fried ’55; Jamesville, NY
Crandall Melvin Professor of Wills and Trusts,
Syracuse University College of Law
Tendaji W . Ganges ’71; Flint, Michigan
Assistant to the Chancellor; and Executive Director, Educa-
tional Opportunity Initiatives
University of Michigan-Flint
Robert Gates ’78; Phoenix, MD (Incumbent)
Attorney/advisor
Michael J. Heffernan ’96; Elkridge, MD
Systems Administrator, Pennsylvania Coalition Against
Domestic Violence
Penny Lee ’82; New York, NY
City Planner for Long Island City
Susan Opotow ’65; New York, NY
Social psychologist and UMass Boston Professor
Sheila Richmond ’57; Albuquerque, NM
Retired psychologist
Stephen Schwerner ’60; Yellow Springs, OH (Incumbent)
Retired; College Professor and Dean of Students emeritus
Wayne Snively ’63; Newberry Springs, CA
Retired Registered Civil Engineer, State of California
David Thelen ’62; Bloomington, IN
Distinguished Professor of History, Indiana University
ANNOUNCING: The Candidates
for Your Alumni Association Board
Dear Antiochian,
Please take a few minutes to vote in this year’s election for members
of your Alumni Association. You have an opportunity to select 10
directors from a slate of 15 alumni who wish to serve you and the
College. Ten directors will be elected to three-year terms and will
meet in Yellow Springs three times a year. We have included a brief
biographical proﬁle as well as a statement of candidacy provided by each
of the 15 candidates running for election.
This year, following last year’s prototype, we are also making available
an electronic voting system. This will help save money, trees, and
stamps. We hope you will help us advance into 21st century technology.
The electronic ballot will be accessible from April 15, 2006 through May
30, 2006. Included with the electronic ballot will be full proﬁles of the
candidates, their photographs, and a list of continuing Alumni Board
members. The recognition awards of the Antioch College Alumni Board
will also be described there.
Please go to www.antioch-college.edu/alumni to cast your vote.
In addition, we will be mailing you the entire ballot as in previous
years. Please note that we operate on the honor system, so we thank
you in advance for voting only once (either electronically or by mailed
ballot). You should receive your mailed ballot by May 15, 2006.
Winners of this election will be announced at the annual meeting of
the Alumni Association held on Friday, June 23, during Reunion 2006.
Those elected will attend their ﬁrst Alumni Board meeting in October
2006.
The mailed ballot will allow you to submit names of Antiochians you
think the Board should consider for future ballots, or for Alumni Awards
(described below). On behalf of the Alumni Association, we thank you
in advance for voting and hope to see you at Reunion 2006, June 23-25.
John Feinberg ’70, President
Antioch College Alumni Association
Nancy Crow ’70, Vice President
Antioch College Alumni Association
The Horace Mann Award recognizes a contribution by alumni of An-
tioch College who have “won some victory for humanity.”
The J.D. Dawson Award recognizes signiﬁcant contributions to Antioch
College by alumni or friends of Antioch.
The Arthur Morgan Award recognizes alumni contributions that exem-
plify the concept of “community.”
The Rebecca Rice Award recognizes alumni of Antioch College who by
their actions, achievements, and leadership have distinguished them-
selves and their alma mater.

The Antiochian — Spring 2006 (Antioch College Alumni Magazine)

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