The Antiochian — Spring 2005 (Antioch College Alumni Newsletter)

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Antioch
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President
Steven Lawry, currently a senior ofﬁcial at
the Ford Foundation, has been appointed the
next president of Antioch College. Lawry’s
appointment comes after an extensive national
search chaired by University Chancellor
James Craiglow.
In his current position as Director of
Management Services at the Ford Foundation,
Lawry oversees the program budget and works
with nearly 80 program ofﬁcers and ﬁeld
ofﬁcers all over the world. Lawry has also
been the leader of Ford Foundation programs
in Africa and the Middle East.
“I am delighted to take up the presidency of
Antioch College at this important juncture in
its history,” said Lawry, who holds a Ph.D. in
environmental studies. In addition to Lawry’s
work with Ford, he has experience with USAID,
the United Nations, and as a Peace Corps vol-
unteer in Botswana. Lawry’s entire professional
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Save these dates:
Reunion 2005
Friday, June 17 through Sunday, June 19
Work Project Monday, June 13 through
Thursday, June 16
Look for information on the web at www.antioch-
college.edu, or e-mail reunion@antioch-college.edu.
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focus has been on the environment, human
rights issues, governance, peace, poverty alle-
viation, and the development of strong and
independent civil societies – evidence of his
shared commitment to many of Antioch’s
deeply held values.
In announcing Lawry’s appointment,
Chancellor Cragilow remarked, “Steve Lawry
brings to Antioch College an outstanding set
of management skills and a demonstrated abil-
ity to confront and solve very difﬁcult issues.
In addition, he brings a network and an under-
standing of the philanthropic world. Combined
with his Antiochian values base, Steve is poised
to lead Antioch College.”
Lawry is currently wrapping up loose ends
with the Ford Foundation and hopes to be fully
moved into his new role by the start of classes
in the fall. In the meantime, he plans on attend-
ing Commencement and Reunion 2005.

Obituaries
Kenneth Jones ’78 passed away De-
cember 8, 2004.
Daniel Katz Stein ’87 died Friday
November 5, 2004 of brain cancer at
Hospice of Dayton. He was 41. Dan
grew up in Nelson County, Virginia
and graduated from Antioch in 1987
with a BS in communications. He
worked at YSI, Incorporated in in-
formation services. He and Abi Katz
Stein ’86 were married for 17 years
and were active in the Yellow Springs
Havurah with their son Zachary (14)
and their daughter Hana (10). Dan
loved computers, photography, bicy-
cling, running, and the Blue Ridge
Mountains. His athletic, energetic
side took him skiing and on trips to
New York and Thailand, and “his
technophile side” drove him to the
cutting edge of scientiﬁc advance-
ment. He was always up on the latest
technology, becoming savvy with
computers, then video cameras, then
the internet-well before they became
popular,” his longtime college friend
Sam Williams Eckenrode ’83 said.
Dan wrote, “My story is a spiritual
and medical one. Journey with me
through this experience,” at the open-
ing of his weblog at www.life.katz-
stein.com
Carl Ballard ’97 passed away last year.
Nolan Case Adams ’06 died January
25, 2005. Nolan was a lifetime resident
of Vero Beach, Florida and was a 2002
graduate of Indian River Charter High
School. He is survived by his parents,
Raymond and Phyllis Adams of Vero
Beach; his maternal grandmothers,
Mary Jo Bridgford of Indianapolis;
and his paternal grandparents, Russell
and Julia Adams of Vero Beach.
F. Bloch, friend of Antioch College,
recently passed away.
Sarah T. Crome, friend of Antioch
College, recently passed away.
George Furman, friend of Antioch
College, died Wednesday, November
10, 2004 at the VA Medical Center in
Dayton. He was 82.
Jane E. Gordon died peacefully
December 15, 2004. Jane was born in
Brooklyn, New York on August 21,
1946, and grew up in the New York
City area. Gordon earned a BS from
State University of New York at Brock-
port in 1985 and gained a Ph.D. from
SUNY Albany in 1992. Jane lived in
Maine and in Rochester, N.Y. before
coming to Yellow Springs in 1992
where she served as an associate pro-
fessor of psychology at Antioch Uni-
versity McGregor from 1992 to 2003.
Joanne Elizabeth Hart, wife to
John Edward Hart, Jr. ’54, passed
away September 21, 2004. Joanne
and John were married for 45 years.
Joanne was born in Xenia, Ohio and
graduated from Bryan High School.
She also attended Virginia Intermont
College in Bristol, Virginia. Most
of her working life was spent with
Odiorne Industrial Advertising in
Yellow Springs where she retired in
1989 as one of three partner-owners.
In retirement, she and her husband
traveled internationally and enjoyed
many ocean cruises. When her three
children were young she served on the
board of the Community Children’s
Center and was involved with numer-
ous school organizations. Joanne
was a lifelong member of the First
Presbyterian Church, having served
as an elder and in the Presbyterian
Woman’s Association over many
years. For the last few years she has
been a regular volunteer at the Yel-
low Springs Chamber of Commerce.
Joanne is survived by her husband
and children.
Charles Carnes Helzer passed away
on Monday, December 13, 2004. Aged
45, Charles’ kindness and compassion
touched many friends and strangers
throughout his life. He spent most of
his life in Chicago where he graduated
from high school, but went to Ohio
to begin his college career at Antioch
College. He graduated from Hamp-
shire College on Amherst, Mass.
And attended Hamline College law
school in St. Paul, Minn. Helzer spent
ten years co-managing Mifﬂin Com-
munity Cooperative in Madison, WI,
where he served as newsletter editor
and volunteer coordinator. After law
school, Charles worked at Regent
Co-op in Madison. Charles returned
to Chicago recently to work for Con-
scious-Choice Magazine. Frequently
delighting others with his wit and
sense of humor, he will be profoundly
missed by his friends and family.
Robert Dingle Hammond, husband
to Mary Pitman Hammond ’51,
passed away September 11, 2004 at
Community Hospital in Springﬁeld,
Ohio. He was 78. Hammond was
born on June 12, 1926, in Tifﬁn. He
was the son of Olive and William
Hammond. The family soon after
moved to Yellow Springs where his
father started the W.A. Hammond
Drierite Company. Robert attended
school in Yellow Springs through the
11th grade and graduated from Upper
Arlington High School in Columbus
in 1944. He joined the U.S. Army Air
Corps in September 1944 and was
stationed as an air cadet at Shepard
Field in Wichita Falls, Texas and
Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi,
until his honorable discharge in 1945.
He attended Ohio State University,
where he received a Bachelor of Sci-
ence degree in animal husbandry and
general agriculture in 1950. In 1950,
he returned to Yellow Springs and
spent the next ﬁfty years managing
the family farm, Hydebrook Farm.
In 1981, he received the Little Miami
Incorporated ﬁrst Stewardship Award
for conservation-minded practices
that protected the Little Miami River.
He was a member of the American
Legion, the Phi Sigma Kappa Frater-
nity, a past president of the Greene
County Cattle Feeders’ Association
and the Springﬁeld Flying Club. He
was a licensed commercial pilot with
instrument and multi-engine ratings,
and at one time owned his own plane
and maintained a runway on the
farm. In addition to his lifelong love
of farming, he was a devoted family
man who cherished his wife, three
sons, two daughters-in-law and four
granddaughters.
Wilma ‘Billie’ Singer Hotaling,
wife to Dan Hotaling ’51, passed
away September 11, 2004 at the Island
Nursing Home in Deer Isle, Maine.
She was 79. Born in New York City in
1925, she grew up in Flushing, Queens
and attended Wheelock College. She
received her bachelor’s degree of sci-
ence in education in 1945. In 1949,
she married Dan Hotaling and taught
ﬁrst grade at the Dalton School in New
York for six years. For many sum-
mers she was a counselor and nurse at
Camp Killooleet and Camp Winooski
in Vermont. In 1958, Billie and Dan
moved to Yellow Springs and raised
four children together. She taught at
the Antioch School, directed a Greene
County Children’s Mental Health Pro-
gram, researched child behavior at the
Fels Institute and trained Head Start
teachers. Her life was ﬁlled with many
creative activities, including writing
(two published children’s books and
many poems), watercolor painting,
music, knitting, cooking and leading
workshops. A special highlight was
her active participation in the Yellow
Springs and Deer Isle Writers Groups,
as well as the Deer Isle Artists As-
sociation. After retirement, her life in
Deer Isle was a continuing experience
of beauty and a creative endeavor. She
is survived by her loving husband of 55
years, Dan Hotaling; a sister, Katherine
Clark of St. Mary’s City, Maryland;
two nieces, Lani and Chris Clark; and
four children and their families, Kim
Salloway of Barrington, Rhode Island,
Dale Hotaling of Yellow Springs,
Carey Hotaling of Freeport, Maine and
Clark Hotaling of St. Louis, Missouri.
Her later joy was grand-mothering
eight grandchildren, all of whom will
deeply miss her.
Mary R. King, friend of Antioch Col-
lege, recently passed away.
James R. McKee died Tuesday, Febru-
ary 15 in his home with his family by
his side. McKee served as the Antioch
University director of human services
for 32 years. He recently retired after
10 years with Union Institute and Uni-
versity in Cincinnati. He was a charter
member of the Ohio Chapter of CUPA,
College and University Professional
Association, which served 77 different
Ohio institutions. He was an active
member in his chuch, Mary Help of
Christians in Fairborn, assisting as
eucharistic minister for several years.
McKee is survived by his wife, two
sons, daughter, siblings, and grandson.
Anna Otten passed away March
31, 1997. Anna dedicated 35 years of
remarkable teaching to Antioch. Anna
worked as a housekeeper to put herself
through school, earned a doctorate and
ﬂuently spoke ﬁve languages.
Ann Julia Perrini wife to Peter N.
Nevraumont ’65 passed away in Octo-
ber, 2004. Ann Julia Perrini and Peter
N. Nevraumont were married for 27
years. Ms. Perrini died after a long
illness. They were partners not only
in life but in their publishing business,
Nevraumont Publishing Company,
which specializes in producing high-
quality natural history books. Mr.
Nevraumont continues to live in lower
Manhattan, where all points come
together, on Broadway between the site
of the World Trade Center and Battery
Park.
William Schutz, friend of Antioch
College, recently passed away.
Leo Wagner, friend of Antioch Col-
lege, recently passed away. •
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who has recently passed away,
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of the Antiochian so that we can
provide that information in a
future issue and otherwise up-
date our records. It would be a
tremendous help to use. Thanks
for your help.

Antiochian
Antioch College is a dynamic community
dedicated to empowering students to become
engaged citizens. Dedicated to experiential
learning and social engagement, Antioch
College provides a rigorous liberal arts pro-
gram of study. Students gain a comprehensive
understanding of knowledge and the ability to
integrate multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Through co-op semesters focused on work
experience, active participation in the shared
governance of the College, community service,
cross-cultural experience and a capstone Senior
Project, Antioch College students learn to collab-
orate, take creative risks, put theory into prac-
tice, and participate in shaping a better future.
Team 6 LEARNING OUTCOMES DESIGN TEAM,
led by Ann Filemyr, Interim Dean of Faculty &
Professor, Communications/Journalism &
Environmental Studies
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A
NTIOCH COLLEGE,
like its students, has
consistently sought
out educational
pathways that push the institution
to evolve and renew itself. 2005-
2006 marks the beginning of a new
educational model for Antioch. It
is not, however, brand new terri-
tory. Antioch is not an institution
that strives for perfection but one
that strives for change.
Antioch is one of the most in-
novative colleges in America to-
day. As evidence of this, it is clear
upon investigation that today’s
changes do not have a single leader
or visionary. What began as a desire
of the Board of Trustees to arm the
College with the tools for a stron-
ger future quickly became a group
project ﬂeshed out by individuals
such as Patricia Linn, Mavis Gru-
ver ’03 and Laura Markham ’80
(Renewal Commission members).
From here, the project was handed
over in its entirety. In 2005, the
realization of Antioch’s full capa-
bilities falls directly into the hands
of the community.
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Senior
Project Effects
Change in the
Community
By Perry Shoar ’08
Manuel Mendez’ ’08 senior
project has given him the perfect
opportunity to help those in the
community and to better the world
we live in. Perhaps this makes
him a very real embodiment of
the Antioch tradition. For his ﬁnal
project before graduation, Mendez
is crafting a documentary about
the Latino experience in Dayton.
In the process, he is giving a voice
to an underrepresented group and
creating positive change in a very
real way. As a Black Studies and
Communications major, his senior
project is relevant to his academic
concentrations on a fundamental
level.
In Dayton, a city of 166,000
people, there are 2,500 Latino
immigrants according to the 2000
census. In reality the number is
vastly higher, as the ﬂow of immi-
gration has steadily increased over
the last ﬁve years. Furthermore,
many of these immigrants have
come out of vibrant immigrant
communities in larger cities –
places where the motivation for
assimilation was not as strong,
and where a sense of solidarity
was much more accessible. In
Dayton, many of these new immi-
grants have had to step out of their
respective communities for the
ﬁrst time.
This brings many new chal-
lenges to the city’s new residents.
While many have lived in the
United States for some time or
even their whole lives, Appala-
chian East Dayton is the ﬁrst place
where they have had to leave Latino
communities. Some may have to
learn English for the ﬁrst time.
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A Teenage Drag
Queen Returns
to Antioch
All Grown Up
An
Interview
with
Linda
Butler
’70
Love at
Antioch
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AIMAC,
AMPAC,
and the Future of the
Antioch Media Center
Antioch
College
and Glen
Helen to
Host Summer
Honors Institute
By Rachel Moulton ’97

Classroom
Community
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Co-opCo-op
Why Expect Change?
Alumni, prospective students and
current community members all
leapt to a similar question when
the idea of a renewed Antioch was
placed on the table: Why change
Antioch, an already innovative
institution? This is an understand-
able question since the College
is continually re-evaluating itself
and adjusting to meet the needs
of a changing world. Why is such
a seemingly extensive change
needed now? The leaders of
Antioch College know that the
world is changing at a rapid pace.
They recognize too that an An-
tioch education is in no way less
relevant today than in was in the
1920s, 1960s or 1990s. Antioch is
a force in the world regardless of
the speciﬁc curriculum. That said,
Antioch would not be Antioch if it
were not looking at the world then
looking at itself.
Renewal is
a familiar process for An-
tioch, but it is the extent of
the commitment of the en-
tire community that makes
this particular moment in
the College’s history so
signiﬁcant.
The Key Is Integration
According to Rick Jurasek,
Interim President, Antioch has
always enjoyed a double-anchored
ethos. Antioch’s distinctive ethos
includes the embrace of experi-
the full support of the faculty and
administration.
Antioch has proven that people
develop a different kind of cogni-
tive capability when they engage
in integrated learning. “Integrated
learning is hard to accomplish,
because the tradition in western
learning is the teacher and the
students,” Jurasek admits. This
traditional model may work, but
in order to produce integrated
learning, teachers have to ﬁgure
out how to build bridges, blur
divisions, and make connections
in the classroom in a way that
they may never have done before.
The faculty as individuals and as
a body have to stretch. They have
to be willing to stretch. Luckily,
Antioch College faculty thrive
when presented with a challenge.
This transition is a natural one,
but Jurasek and Interim Dean of
Faculty Ann Filemyr recognize
that this process is still difﬁcult.
“It requires a more nuanced,
more complex delivery system.
It requires a redeﬁnition of how I
understand my work as a teacher,”
says Jurasek. In concrete terms,
Antioch’s commitment to in-
terdisciplinary learning will be
reinforced by thematically based
Learning Communities (LCs).
Students will be able to investigate
intellectual problems from several
different perspectives. All classes
will be interdisciplinary and
ential learning. The second ethos
or anchor, according to Jurasek,
is the College’s commitment to
self-governance or participation as
learning. “Those [self-governance
and experiential learning] have
been our hallmarks,” comments
Jurasek, adding that Antioch’s
next step is not to alter the anchors
of the institution but to expand
upon them. “There is a third an-
chor in the institution’s ethos that
has always been there in the back-
ground, but we are in the process
of making it concrete. That’s the
commitment to integrated learn-
ing.” Jurasek points out that many
institutions, especially private
institutions, will say that a subset
of their institution is experiential
learning and that they too are
committed to integration. It turns
out in most cases, however, to only
be a subset of their ethos, allowing
but not enabling students to par-
ticipate in experiential learning.
“At Antioch we are doing more
than that; experiential learning
is our foundation. Integrated
learning is crucial to making this
foundation a lasting educational
model.” Jurasek elaborates by
saying the institution, the faculty
in particular, are examining what
was once taken for granted as part
of an Antioch education – integra-
tion of classroom, community
and co-op – and bringing it to the
forefront of the institution with
The faculty are at the forefront
of this innovation. Twelve teams
were assembled and leaders were
identiﬁed for each team (see
sidebar). These teams address
everything from enrollment man-
agement to e-learning to co-op
communities. Now that the faculty
have taken the reins, the Plan is
moving forward rapidly. In the
fall of this year, for example, Core
Program Learning Communities
will launch the new Antioch, be-
ginning a course of study that the
graduates of 2010 will recognize
as purely and singularly Antioch.
The changes occurring at the
College in the new millennium
are, in fact, the start of a new An-
tioch. It is an Antioch that will not
ignore its own history. This pro-
cess will take time. According to
Jocelyn Robinson, Associate Di-
rector of Admissions, we should
not expect to see a brand new
Antioch all at once: “The Plan
will take several years before it is
fully implemented, but you can
already feel the rhythm of it.”
While the College is in the midst
of ﬁnding a new rhythm, it is
clear to all involved that its heart
remains the same. The three C’s –
community, cooperative educa-
tion, and classroom – remain the
center of an Antioch education.
Talk to faculty, students,
administration and staff
and you will hear a similar
message: Antioch College
is embarking on yet
another innovative chapter
in its distinguished history.
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Photo by Dennie Eagleson ’71
Colette Palamar, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, and Julie Gallager, Assistant
Professor of History, map out a possible calendar at the February 2005 faculty retreat.

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team-taught by professors from
different disciplines. These LCs
will form the core of Antioch’s
new classroom curriculum.
Students entering in the fall of
2005 will choose from an array
of learning communities for their
fall and spring study terms. The
Antioch faculty are the visionaries
of today. Chemists are working
with ﬁlmmakers. Poets are work-
ing with biologists. Philosophers
are planning learning experiences
with dancers and biochemists.
Faculty from diverse disciplines
are coming together in new ways
to collaborate, dream, and plan
for unique opportunities. All
of this planning will result in a
deeper faculty/student engage-
ment. Diverse interdisciplinary
and multi-disciplinary approaches
will bring students and faculty
together to explore contemporary
themes and problems, and as the
College shapes these speciﬁc
Core LCs designed for ﬁ rst-year
students, they are also looking
towards models for second, third
and fourth year students.
At Antioch, it is truly a time of
shifting paradigms.
Co-op Communities
As any graduate knows, part of
the key to making it through all
four years is a willingness to
strike out on your own, to be
ﬂexible and to meet whatever the
world hands you. In the past, this
may mean that you ﬁnd yourself
standing in Copley Square in Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, hiking back-
pack on both shoulders, wondering
at the storefronts, newsstands and
street performers. Standing there
in awe, you are also trying to ig-
nore the fact that the Youth Hostel
is not going to cut it for three full
months. How do you ﬁnd a job
and a place to live in a big city
where housing prices are impos-
sible even for long-term residents?
Part of the charm of Antioch is
surviving this scenario and others
like it, but it has become nearly an
impossible feat for many students.
The new educational model, how-
ever, does not deny its students the
opportunity to strike out into the
world. Even the most mundane
tasks – like securing a room to
rent for the ﬁrst time – shape an
Antioch
College student’s experience.
The genius of experiential
learning as Antioch College has
enacted it for the largest part of a
century is the carefully managed
solo experience. Jurasek and
Filemyr acknowledge the im-
portance of this experience.
“The carefully managed solo
experience is powerful. Antioch
does not plan to abandon it. At
the same time, Antioch recog-
nizes that it is a very demanding
model for 18-22 year olds. It is
emotionally, ﬁnancially, physi-
cally and cognitively difﬁcult,”
offers Jurasek. Recognizing these
difﬁculties, co-op is evolving to
intentionally pursue more integra-
tion and connectedness. “We are
going to pursue a learning web,”
says Jurasek. “What is unique
here is this new foundation to our
ethos, which is intentionality and
integration. We know that con-
nected learning and intentional
cohort building produces deeper,
longer lasting learning than the
solo experience in the classroom
or on co-op.”
Part of the process now is to
craft new events out in the ﬁeld
which support and supplement
that powerful and pure solo learn-
ing experience. For example, there
may be an in-the-ﬁeld seminar
which is focused on the city it-
self, say Chicago or New York.
There may be another in-the-ﬁeld
seminar which is focused on what
co-op calls student professional
development, which include the
self-management and self-starting
skills one needs to successfully
deal with a new situation. Lo-
cal alumni will interact in more
intentional ways that might range
from friendly support – chicken
soup for the co-oping student – to
support in the job place. Faculty
Team 1
MARKETING
TEAM
TEAM LEADER: Rick
Jurasek, Interim President
of Antioch College
Team 2
ENROLLMENT
MANAGEMENT
TEAM LEADER: Michael
Thorp, Dean of Admissions
and Financial Aid
Team 3
BUDGET
TEAM LEADER: Deb
Caraway, Director of
Business Operations/
College Controller
Team 4a
PHYSICAL
FACILITIES
TEAM LEADER: Rick
Jurasek, Interim President
of Antioch College
Team 4b
TECHNOLOGY
TEAM LEADERS: Mark
Swanholm, Director of Major
Gifts and Annual Fund and
David Manley, Director of
Information Technology
Services
Team 6
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
DESIGN TEAM
TEAM LEADER: Ann
Filemyr, Interim Dean
of Faculty & Professor,
Communications/
Journalism & Environmental
Studies
Team 7
PLANNING/
FUNDRAISING
FOR THE
CENTER FOR
CULTURAL AND
INTELLECTUAL
FREEDOM
TEAM LEADER: Beverly
Rodgers, Visiting Assistant
Professor of Cooperative
Education
Team 8
CO-OP
COMMUNITIES
TEAM LEADER: Adam
Howard, Associate Dean
of Faculty & Professor,
Education
Team 9
FIRST YEAR
LEARNING
COMMUNITY
TEAM LEADER: Colette
Palamar, Assistant
Professor of Environmental
Studies
Team 10
COMMUNITY
AND CAMPUS
CULTURE
TEAM LEADERS: Shalini
Deo, Staff Ofﬁce of
Multicultural Affairs &
Implementation Coordinator
and Tania Hutchinson,
Ofﬁce Manager, Community
Government
Team 11
E-LEARNING
TEAM LEADER: Janice
Kinghorn, Assistant
Professor of Economics
Team 12
COURSE OF
STUDY THROUGH
TO GRADUATION
TEAM LEADERS: Dennie
Eagleson, Associate
Professor of Photography
and Louise Smith, Associate
Professor of Theatre
Implementation Teams
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Integration
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are on the verge of inventing new
integrated activities which bond
the students closer together in the
ﬁeld and still preserve the power-
ful, tough learning that goes on in
a solo experience. In this way co-
op will model the classroom, and
the classroom will model co-op.
Co-op communities will be
staffed with full-time staff or
faculty that live in any given city or
rural area – Boston is an excellent
example. Students will receive
regular, face-to-face attention
from the College while still on
co-op and will be linked up with
other students in the area who are
dealing with similar life experi-
ences. While an Antioch student
left on his or her own to ﬁnd this
network may have struggled, failed
and found a different path that
led them away from Antioch, a
student of today will experience
the same freedom so valued in the
past while also being ever mind-
ful of his or her close link to an
educational institution that wants
him or her to live fully and think
critically.
A committee composed of stu-
dents, faculty and staff is currently
engaged in a deliberate process
to select the sites for the co-op
communities. Under the leader-
ship of Adam Howard, Associate
Dean of Faculty and Professor of
Education, Team 8 is looking at
potential co-op communities and
measuring their value. Decisions
will be based upon availability of
co-op jobs and the concentration
of active alumni. Students will
be clustered in co-op communi-
ties throughout the US, and these
Communities will have between
20-30 students. Some of the pos-
sible co-op community sites under
consideration include: New York
City, Boston, Raleigh/Durham,
San Francisco, Chicago, Northern
New Mexico, Denver/Boulder, Co-
lumbus, Austin, Washington, DC,
and Baltimore. The options are
limitless and will allow students
to live and work in both suburban
and rural communities.
provide support for the develop-
ment of writing and quantitative
skills.” The learning community is
intended to be the location for the
students’ activities for the semes-
ter. They will have three faculty
members from different disci-
plines, and in addition to those
three faculty, there will be a co-op
faculty member; math and writing
tutors; and fourth-year student
teaching assistants. Filemyr states
that this is the kind of educational
model that “builds community in
a very intentional way.”
Second and third-year learning
communities will become more
focused, allowing students to pur-
sue depth in their chosen ﬁelds of
interest. For example, a mathmati-
cian and a physicist could teach
an upper level LC together. All
graduates will be self-designed
majors, and in their ﬁnal year,
they will have two terms of study
on campus where they will focus
on the topic of their choice and
work on a senior project.
Beginning with the
Core Program Learning
Communities and expand-
ing beyond into students’
second, third and fourth
years, innovative learning
will shape the future
Antioch and prepare the
graduates of 2010 for
future victories.
Alumni Involvement
The Plan naturally increases the
opportunity for alumni to get in-
volved with current students. Stu-
dents in co-op communities will
have the opportunity to interact
with Antiochians from a variety
of generations in a constructive
way, and alumni will ﬁnd the
renewed Antioch familiar in the
most important ways. The current
learning outcomes might look fa-
miliar to graduates from any era.
They include, but are not limited
to, deliberative action, social

Antioch has an astound-
ing network of people out
in the working world today,
and co-op communities
will take full advantage
of those connected to the
College in order to estab-
lish an off-campus environ-
ment that is as engaged
and challenging as the on-
campus environment.
Student-Centered
Learning
Above all else the new plan for
Antioch hopes to increase student-
centered learning. All students –
in consultation with a faculty
advisor – will design an individu-
alized major and course of study.
As the curriculum continues
to evolve, the best examples of
Antioch’s commitment to student-
centered learning comes in the
form of the Core Program Learn-
ing Communities, required for
entering students. “The ﬁrst year
is marked by immersion in the
liberal arts,” says Ann Filemyr,
Interim Dean of Faculty. “Each
learning community will intro-
duce students to Antioch College
and our 3 C’s – co-op, classroom
and community life. They will
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Spring 2005 5
engagement, intercultural ef-
fectiveness, critical thinking,
knowledge and inquiry, skill and
innovation across the liberal arts.
The College wants to make better
use of its history, and its alumni.
As alumni know, a demonstrat-
ed ability to evaluate knowledge
and evidence in a comprehensive
and rational manner can carry you
through a lifetime of investigation.
It will help guide the Antioch
students of today.
If you are interested
in getting involved,
please contact the
Alumni Relations Ofﬁce
at 1.800.411.6780. Help
preserve and renew
Antioch College by
investing in the Antioch
students of tomorrow.
Implementation
“Antioch is still here after 150
years because it is always trying
to meet the world where it is,”
says Robinson. “I see possibilities
arising that we never envisioned
and a new spark between faculty.”
The Implementation demands the
broadest possible community par-
ticipation. As referenced earlier,
students, staff, faculty and others
comprise 12 working implementa-
tion teams across subjects from
marketing to graduation require-
ments. In addition to team mem-
bership, community members
are able to participate in various
activities of the Implementation
teams and subteams. Each team
has designed appropriate methods
to reach into the community to
insure a broad range of partici-
pation. Such activities include:
presentations, community fora,
surveys, focus groups, etc. The
guiding principle for implementa-
tion is to ﬁnd a balance between
open processes, gathering com-
munity input, receiving commu-
nity feedback on work in progress,
and careful revision combined
with a clear focus on efﬁcient use
of time and movement toward the
completion of important work.
“This is an opportunity for
faculty to work collaboratively.
They will be the ones to build
community in the classroom,”
says Filemyr as she discusses the
process the College is currently
undergoing. Michael Thorp, Dean
of Admissions, looks around at
what is happening at the College
today and is pleased to be among
such a collaborative group: “We’ve
all done our preliminary work, the
teams are now working together.
We meet as a larger group, and we
walk away thinking that was the
best meeting I’ve ever had at An-
tioch.” Thorp continues by saying
that the faculty are doing an excel-
lent job of expressing what they
need from the administration and
vice versa.
Students and commu-
nity government are involved.
“Within this particular his-
torical watershed for the College,
there is no great leader or primary
thinker,” says Jurasek when asked
to identify the Arthur Morgan
of today.
“This is a shared
enterprise and it is not an
enterprise located in the
imagination and hard work
of a single person. The
best way to understand
who is in the driver’s seat
is to think about the por-
traits hanging in a ‘grand
hall’ somewhere and real-
ize this is not a portrait of
a single person. This is a
photograph of the entire
faculty.”
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Core Program Learning
Communities 2005-2006
Core LC experiences are expected to be broad-based general education
experiences for entering students. They will include complementary cross-campus
learning experiences (library, computer skills, co-op preparation,
wellness, etc.) and an immersion in the liberal arts.
These Core LCs will introduce students to Antioch, build on their writing
and quantitative skills, and give them a sampling of what is
available to them on and off campus.
Embodied Minds/Thinking Bodies
This course will explore the interconnectedness of the body and mind from the perspectives of
Human Biology, Chemistry, Nutrition, Physiology, Philosophy, Psychology and Movement Studies.
Relationships between knowing, doing and being will be explored through movement and by asking
questions of where knowledge is situated. What are the biological and chemical processes involved
in thinking, in knowing? How do we know what we know? Through readings, lectures, discussions,
movement and experiments students will consider how the physical self is the basis for our experi-
ence and understanding of the world and our place in it.
American Cultural Narratives in Image and Text
This course will explore some of the cultures and peoples who inhabit and construct the landscape of
the Americas. This study will use as resources: ethnographic studies, autobiography, literature, docu-
mentary ﬁlm and photography, and various forms of cultural expression. We will investigate questions
of identity, authenticity, relationship to community, race and nation, and the complexities involved in
both self-representation and representation by others.
Revolutions: Practice and Theory
This course will examine theories of revolutions, and the structure and dynamics of the practice of
revolutions. Three professors from Africana, Communications and Philosophy studies will assist stu-
dents in understanding revolutionary theories (scientiﬁc, philosophical and disciplinary revolutions)
and revolutionary practices (political, communications, arts and other cultural revolutions). Students
will also beneﬁt from exposure to experts from beyond the College, by way of workshops and lectures.
A Sense of Place
In this core program, students will explore the notion of sense of place, beginning with a study of the
local environment and moving outward to an investigation of our global environment. We will explore
such issues as trade and monetary exchange, environmental destruction and ethics, social justice, art
making and aesthetic appreciation, and the world of work. These investigations will involve develop-
ing skills in mathematical and economic modeling, philosophical thinking, and artistic expression.
Reading, problem-solving, lecture, and discussion will comprise a signiﬁ cant part of weekly class
times in this 16 credit learning community. Our exploration will involve a substantial experiential
aspect; we will take frequent ﬁ eld trips, work on visual art projects in the ceramic studio, and develop
service-learning opportunities in a variety of places in the local community.
Still under development are: Environmental Justice, combining media and ﬁ lm studies with environ-
mental history and chemistry; and Water Matters, combining poetry with biology and chemistry.
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Others may have trouble with
life in an essentially suburban
environment. Another big issue
is a lack of dialogue between the
Latino community and others.
Such dynamics lend themselves
very well to under-representation,
alienation from society at large
and de-facto segregation, and were
a motivating factor in undertaking
the project, Mendez explained.
Carolina Silva at Dayton’s East
End Community Center originally
identiﬁed the need to create a
documentary with the intent of
encouraging greater understand-
ing across social and cultural bor-
ders, and the goal of facilitating
participatory citizenship. Former
Dayton City Paper editor Nick
Wilkinson ’02 called Antioch
College Professor of Communica-
tions, Dr. Anne Bohlen, about the
documentary. As one of Mendez’
academic advisors, she encour-
aged him to head the project.
In addition to mentoring the
project, Bohlen serves as what is
in effect an executive producer.
Producers are typically involved
with grant-writing, and this is
especially important in documen-
tary ﬁlmmaking, which is not an
investment project in the way that
commercial media is.
An award-winning docu-
mentary ﬁlmmaker, Bohlen won
funding for the project from
the Denison University-based
Ohio Campus Compact. It is not
uncommon for documentary
ﬁlmmakers to receive additional
funding through educational
projects and for The Latino Ex-
perience Documentary, funding
is coming from a side project that
seeks to promote media literacy
among Latino youth living in
Dayton. This money will mainly
provide for the costly translation
and transcription of interviews, as
the documentary will have Span-
ish and English subtitling.
The media literacy project will
work through English as a Second
Language classes at Dayton’s
Colonel White High School over
a period of eight months. Students
will analyze mainstream media
coverage of the Latino community
in local television, radio, daily,
weekly and community news-
paper outlets and keep a news
log. This work will translate into
promoting better understanding of
what media programming really
says, versus the claims of main-
stream media makers. Another
piece of the project will involve
the high school students in the
production of the documentary
itself, offering them a real under-
standing of how media is made
and more importantly, how one
makes his or her own media.
The project will give students an
introduction to community media
and afford them a rare chance
to learn how to make media for
themselves, by themselves and
about themselves.
“Most kids are exposed to
commercial media, so this was
a great opportunity to introduce
them to community media and
media literacy,” says Bohlen. “It’s
to teach the students what media
is designed to do, and that is to
manipulate you. As a viewer, they
take you where they want you to
go. [Media literacy] makes them a
much less passive audience.”
Students are involved in the
process of making the documen-
tary as it is being recorded. Men-
dez shoots interviews and B roll,
which is more illustrative footage,
of different programs centered on
Latino constituencies and Latino
leaders in the community. He
edits this footage together into a
rough cut, which is then shown
to the students for their critique.
Many of the ideas were put forth
before shooting began, so the
input of the students is very valu-
able. The whole process is one of
constant reﬁnement, but is also an
opportunity for students to be in-
volved in the creation of the ﬁnal
product.
Mendez had much to say about
the content of the documentary,
and was particularly eager to
express his reasons for taking on
the project. “This is meant to give
the Latino population a voice.
There is a lot of discrimination
and a lack of support for Latinos,
and immigrants in general,” said
Mendez.
“What stood out for me is that
many immigrants are coming
from bigger cities, like Chicago.
I’d really like to know why they’re
coming. It’s easy for them to stay
within their immigrant commu-
nity there, and not have to deal
with the language barrier when
they ﬁnd jobs.”
While this is hard work for
Mendez, he stressed the sense of
reward he feels in working with
youth. Making a documentary
has proven to be a great learning
experience as well; however, Men-
dez emphasized his hopes that
the documentary can be used as
a learning aid for others. Watch-
ing the video will be particularly
helpful, he feels, for those who
do not come from a multicultural
background. He hopes to distrib-
ute the video to those involved
in public service, such as police,
health care, emergency services,
social service agencies, librar-
ies, and others, with the intention
of promoting dialogue about
the issues that face the greater
Miami Valley Latino population
speciﬁcally, and the immigrant
community more generally.
The Latino Experience Docu-
mentary will be shown, along
with all other ﬁlm and video
senior projects, at the Little Art
Theatre in downtown Yellow
Springs. Both Mendez and Bohlen
are thrilled with the video’s poten-
tial to educate those in the com-
munity. Likewise, those involved
in making the documentary are
proud of the way that it enables
the College to reach beyond itself
in the educational process and
allow students to engage in the
world around them.
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Manuel Mendez
Senior
Project Effects
Change in the
Community
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Photo by Courtney Combs ’06
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‘‘
What stood out
for me is that many
immigrants are
coming from bigger
cities, like Chicago.
I’d really like to
know why they’re
coming. It’s easy for
them to stay within
their immigrant
community there,
and not have to deal
with the language
barrier when they
ﬁnd jobs.

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UniversityNews
Arts at
Antioch
University
Southern
California
On February 3, an Artists Recep-
tion for the public highlighted the
opening of two distinctive photo
exhibits on the campus of Antioch
University-Los Angeles. The ﬁrst
ﬂoor gallery featured the Tibetan
Photo Project, with rare 1932 pho-
tos of Tibet as well as photos taken
by Tibetan Monks who are now
living in exile in India. The upper
gallery featured the celebrated
photos of writer/photographer
Janet Sternburg. Both exhibits
were open daily through April 29.
The Tibetan Photo Project be-
gan four years ago as a mission by
co-founder Joe Mickey, a Califor-
nia photographer concerned about
the plight of Tibetan Monks who
ﬂed to India as refugees from Chi-
nese oppression. With the support
of Kodak, Mickey gave the monks
disposable cameras to help them
preserve their cultural heritage. The
cameras have allowed the monks to
depict their unique life experience
from their own point of view. Their
images offer an insider’s view of
the great joys and deep sorrows of
their life in exile. The exhibit also
includes black & white photos from
a 1932 expedition by three intrepid
Americans to Mount Konka, Tibet.
As a special feature of the
reception, Mickey delivered a
lecture and slide show titled
“Tibet and the Opening of China.”
For details, go to www.tibetan-
photoproject.com.
Janet Sternburg’s photo display
in the upper gallery is titled “The
Behavior of Light.” Sternburg was
recently selected by The Utne
Reader as “One of the 40 most
exciting creators… artists who
offer a thoughtful sense of where
the arts are headed.” Her work
gives us images that are at the
core of photographic enterprise,
documenting lives and illuminat-
ing reality. Moreover, there is a
serendipitous similarity between
Sternburg’s technique and the Ti-
betan Photo Project, as both rely
on minimal means to capture their
photos – namely, simple throw-
away cameras.
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Antioch Seattle
Receives
$6.1M Grant
from Gates
Founation
By Perry Shoar ’08
Antioch University Seattle (AUS)
has been granted $6.1 million
from the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation to expand its Early
College program. AUS, which
used an earlier $3.3 million grant
to bring college classes to eight
Early College high schools, will
use the latest donation to open 10
similar schools in several other
states. Early College schools are
designed for students to complete
their high school diploma in four
years, while at the same time gain-
ing either an Associate’s Degree or
a similar level of college credit.
The idea of allowing high
school students to take college
classes is about 30 years old.
Afﬂuent students have traditional-
ly been the benefactors of the edu-
cational philosophy, and have long
been able to earn college credit
in their high schools through
Advanced Placement courses. By
removing the gap between high
school and higher education, The
Early College initiative will pro-
vide the same beneﬁt to students
with limited incomes in a highly
supportive environment. The
main inspiration for the program
is the idea that academic chal-
lenge – and not remediation – is
the best way to motivate students.
While the Early College ini-
tiative broadly targets all under-
served students, models vary. For
example, the Portland Community
College program works with those
students who have already left
high school or are at risk for drop-
ping out. AUS speciﬁcally aims
its Early College program at Na-
tive American students. AUS staff
increased collaboration between
the OEC and Antioch College,
and the new program will provide
further opportunities for the two
entities to work together.
Students participating in the in-
tensive two-week residential pro-
gram will live on site at the OEC.
Antioch faculty with expertise in
environmental science, biology,
botany, geology, and environmen-
tal studies will collaborate with
land stewardship professionals
working in Glen Helen as well as
local community leaders to deliver
a varied and highly experiential
course of study. Institute students
will participate in lectures, ﬁeld
and laboratory investigations,
interpretive hikes, fora, interview
sessions, and organizational meet-
ings to gain a better understanding
of the multiple challenges and
perspectives surrounding environ-
mental issues.
In addition to the many learn-
ing opportunities found in Glen
Helen, the Institute students will
also have full use of the Antioch
College campus, including the
computer labs, scientiﬁc equipment
and the library. The high school
students will be encouraged to
attend lectures, panel discussions
and other events taking place at
the College to further enrich their
experience. Students will also be
invited to speak with Antioch fac-
ulty members, staff and students
about a range of issues to better
understand the college experience.
The ODE has been coordinat-
ing Summer Honors Institutes at
public and private colleges across
Ohio since 1986, and 20 states
across the US have similar pro-
grams for gifted youth.
Glen Helen is a 1,000-acre na-
ture preserve adjacent to the cam-
pus of Antioch College in Yellow
Springs Ohio and managed by the
Glen Helen Ecology Institute. The
Outdoor Education Center, founded
in 1956, is located off of Ohio 343
just northeast of Yellow Springs
and is a unit of the Institute. Its
camps serve thousands of students
each year with unique environmen-
tal education opportunities.
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facilitates community outreach,
working with tribal councils to
bring students into the program.
In the United States, only three
percent of Native Americans have
a college degree, compared to
34 percent of whites. The latest
grant will enable AUS to expand
its model into seven other states.
Special focus has been given to
Alaska, where about 25 percent of
residents are native. “We are most
certainly interested in establishing
an early college program in that
state,” said Linda Campbell, AUS’s
Early College high school program
director. Antioch Seattle also plans
to expand its program to Oregon,
California, New Mexico, New
York, North Carolina and Texas.
Though the Early College
initiative is new and does not
have a lengthy track record, early
signs of effectiveness have been
overwhelmingly positive. Average
student attendance is more than
90 percent, with over two thirds of
ninth-graders who enroll in a col-
lege course earning a C grade or
better. This is made more remark-
able by the reality that many who
enter the program do so learning
below grade level in math and
reading. There are currently 46
early college high schools across
the country, including eight in
Washington State.
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Antioch College and
Outdoor Education
Center Receive
$44K Grant to
Host Honors
Institute
The Ohio Department of Educa-
tion (ODE) has awarded Antioch
College a grant in the amount of
$44,000 to host a Summer Honors
Institute for gifted high school
students. The Antioch College
program will center on environ-
mental thought, ecology, land
stewardship and environmental
leadership. The program will be
administered through the Outdoor
Education Center (OEC) in Glen
Helen. This award is the result of
After the University Leader-
ship Council’s annual retreat
in Providence, RI, the group
took a pilgrimage to the
gravesite of Horace Mann
in the North Burial Ground
in Providence. (The City of
Providence even kept the cem-
etery open late!) As they were
driving back to the hotel, they
reﬂected on how Mann would
probably be both a bit sur-
prised, and proud, that Antioch
had not only survived 150+
years, but had become the re-
markable institution that it is.
Perhaps he would be amazed
that not only his words, but
his Antioch, have endured and
inﬂuenced so many people.

Antiochian 8
CampusNews
A Fond
Farewell
to the
KSU
Program
By Kristen Muir ’05
For over a decade,
Antioch College has
enjoyed a lively ex-
change program with
Kyoto-Seika University.
This cross-cultural ex-
perience has served as
a deﬁning moment in
the education of both
Antioch and Kyoto-
Seika students in their
understanding of the
complex interplay of
simultaneous national
and global identities.
Like Antioch’s cooperative
education program, the KSU pro-
gram allowed students from both
schools to visit different nations
not as tourists, but as participants.
To the sadness of professors, ad-
ministrators and students alike,
this program is coming to an end.
In Spring 2004, the President
of Kyoto-Seika University, Pro-
fessor Nakao Hajime, decided to
end all exchange programs, citing
the cost of the programs and the
university’s declining enrollment.
States Professor of Foreign Civi-
lizations and Language Harold
Wright, “It was a shock for me.”
Though Hajime had wanted the
program to end immediately,
Wright persuaded the school to
allow the program to continue for
another year, allowing Antioch
students preparing to visit Japan
to study at KSU this summer.
In 1987, Wright visited Japan
with a NEA grant to translate Jap-
anese poetry. While there, he was
invited to visit Kyoto-Seika Uni-
versity. Wright had been searching
for a suitable school to collaborate
with Antioch in an exchange
program. Kyoto-Seika University
seemed the perfect ﬁt. “It just
felt right,” says Wright, citing the
liberal, progressive values that
form the backbone of the school
and mirror Antioch’s own values.
The sister college relationship
was born with a faculty exchange
program, and 1991 marked the
beginning of the student-exchange
program. Since then, 14 groups of
KSU students have journeyed to
Antioch, and as many Antioch
students have visited Japan. “I
should have retired a long time
ago,” says Wright, “but I’ve had
too much fun with this program.”
Brad Choate ’05 visited Ja-
pan through the KSU program
in the summer of 2004. “What
the KSU program did that was so
unique was that it gave us time
to explore the culture ourselves
rather than only having people
teach us the culture.” Danny Solis
’06 also studied at KSU during
Summer 2004. “The idea of doing
ﬁeldwork in Japan is an amazingly
good one. Understanding Japan is
critical to understanding the US
and the basic global ‘scene.’” KSU
students are, like Antioch stu-
dents, unique in their commitment
to engage in the world.
For the duration of the pro-
gram, Kyoto-Seika students have
arrived at Antioch in the fall, and
stayed for six months, until the
middle of Spring term. While at
Antioch, they would form friend-
ships with many Antiochians,
including the students who were
preparing to study at KSU in
the summer. When that group of
Antioch students arrived at KSU,
those friendships would often
continue. This cycle of mutual
support helped make the program
the Japanese program.” Wright
has often been asked why he has
never, in 14 years, grown tired of
visiting Japan. He explains, “It’s
the excitement of the students that
lets me see Japan through new
eyes.” Indeed, Solis states, “Being
in a country that is so strongly
connected to its past and unique
cultural forms was exciting.”
The Kyoto-Seika University
exchange program has provided
Antioch students the opportunity
to expand their personal and intel-
lectual understandings of them-
selves and the world. Says Solis,
“It provided me inspiration for the
kind of historical and social work
I want to do in the US, especially
with communities of color.” Cho-
ate states, “It was really the free
time that made the program…
like seeing a Shinto longevity rite,
or walking halfway up a mountain
to participate in a summer ritual
of a moon cult.”
The loss of this extraordinary
avenue for individual growth is
saddening to the community. The
program prompted the creation
of Culture to Culture, a group
organized by the Academic Sup-
port Center that met regularly for
several years. Culture to Culture
helped create and enhance friend-
ships between Antiochians and
KSU students. While increasing
cross-cultural understanding and
appreciation, the regular meet-
ings were simply a way to have
fun, often featuring potlucks and
games.
Without Antioch’s exchange
program with Kyoto-Seika
University, the College will ﬁnd
itself with an absence that will
be difﬁcult to ﬁll, in terms of
both the academic and personal
impact the program has had on
so many. Choate reﬂects,“I never
would have had the opportunity to
climb Mt. Fuji without the KSU
program.”
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successful for the 14 years it has
existed.
In the ﬁnal season of the
program, Kyoto-Seika third year
Humanities majors Aoi Kasemoto
and Mao Yamamoto studied at
Antioch from Fall 2004 through
February 2005. Both make it clear
that the support provided by their
professors and friends at Antioch
helped them navigate language
barriers and other difﬁculties that
arose from their living in a culture
different than their own.
While at Antioch, both Aoi
and Mao took the opportunity to
explore ﬁelds beyond their KSU
majors, and both enjoyed the free-
dom in designing their own stud-
ies. Says Aoi, “We were allowed
to do what we wanted to do.”
Originally from Okinawa, Aoi
studied Queer and Women’s Stud-
ies at Antioch. “It’s difﬁcult to
study Women’s Studies in Japan,”
says Aoi, because the society is
so deeply rooted in patriarchy.
The knowledge she gained from
her classes led her to think more
about her own identity, and helped
her form new opinions about
feminism and queerness.
Mao, from Mei Prefecture,
studied Women’s Studies and
Photography. Because Mao is not
an Arts major, she does not have
access to the darkroom at KSU,
so she delighted in the ability to
produce her own photography
at Antioch. “I ﬁnd a vein to my
energy in photography,” explains
Mao, who enjoys capturing emo-
tion through extremely close-up
photographs of faces.
Both these students, from the
ﬁnal year of the program, said
they will miss their Antiochian
friends and teachers. States Mao,
“They gave us great days, knowl-
edge, skills.” Aoi adds, “And
conﬁdence.” Aoi and Mao both
hope to return to the US, possibly
Antioch, following their gradua-
tion from Kyoto-Seika University.
According to Wright, the
KSU program was one of the
most important things he has
done at Antioch. “The exchange
program has been the guts of

Spring 2005 9 CampusNews
AIMAC,
AMPAC, and
the Future
of the
Antioch
Media
Center
By Dan Freshman ’07, AIMAC
Student Coordinator
In the fall of 2004, two students
created a self-designed co-op to
revitalize the Antioch Indepen-
dent Media Arts Collective
(AIMAC) space and bring under
this heading the degenerated inde-
pendent groups of AIMAC and
AMPAC. The space, in a couple
of years of non-use, was serving
the purpose of storage for Com-
munity Government and a few
other Indpendent Groups (IG’s).
Upon entering the space, it was
apparent that much physical work
would be needed. Over the course
of the term, we cleared out the
piling junk, ﬁled away historical
work and records, and re-distrib-
uted usable materials to the proper
IGs. Picking the largest room, which
used to be the WYSO recording
room, we began our construction
efforts. A wall was built over an
unused partition containing ﬁber-
glass insulation and a studded
frame and covered with carpeting.
We cleared out the ﬂoor and its old
dingy rug, replacing it with dump-
stered carpeting and urethane noise
insulation padding – in a color con-
scious manner. We acquired foam
reverberation padding and applied
it in a checkerboard fashion to the
ceiling and hope to attain more of
it to complete the ceiling. Half-
cylindrical wooden encasements
containing a stud and ﬁberglass
insulation were installed on the
left wall to combat the negative
sound echo of the room’s parallel
wall structure (this was done with
help from the cafeteria, where
they let us steam our plywood in
their giant 130 degree dish washer
and steamer to mold it into a half-
cylinder). We also installed a 70-
inch piece of glass to the already
existing glass between the control
room and the recording room, as
well as an insulated door to the
already existing door. These two
partitions created sound-traps
between the two rooms making
them more audio-isolated and
better ﬁt for audio recording.
In the control room, much
progress has also been made.
Through local fundraising and
book drives, we were able to pur-
chase a few new items. We bought
a new computer nearly suitable for
audio production. Attached to it is
a soundcard speciﬁc for audio to
be sent in from an external mixer,
which we also were able to buy,
and connecting the two rooms
together, an eight-foot ‘snake’ was
applied. This allows eight micro-
phone inputs to be connected to the
snake in the recording room.
The recording studio is but a
piece of the larger puzzle that we
hope to complete. In the room
adjacent to the control room, we
seek to institute the community
broadcasting center, setup with
video editing equipment, internet
broadcasting stations, and the
goal of a student radio station (the
work for a radio station and FCC
license is 4 years in the making).
Work produced in the studio will
have the tools necessary to be dis-
seminated from the broadcasting
station, whether that be streaming
of produced media, streaming of
independent news media, or hope-
fully radio broadcasted media
of the same nature. This center
would be at the whim of all the
IGs, and also the greater com-
munity. In our last room, we have
Dan Freshman ’07 in the recording studio.
Photo by Liz MacDonald ’04
a video library consisting of 2,035
ﬁlms on VHS, which we hope to
expand, categorize and make ac-
cessible to the community.
Although we have a basic
structure to the overall center,
we are lacking in many physical
materials. We need cables, micro-
phones, and signal processing gear
for the recording studio, as well as
computers and speciﬁcally RAM
and hard disks for the video edit-
ing suite and Recording studio,
and broadcasting gear for the in-
tended radio station. We could use
new ampliﬁcation and studio mon-
itors, and a general upgrade of any
gear related to audio production.
As well as any associated ofﬁce
supplies, including networking
materials, printers, paper, etc…
This space, with a little more
growth, could become what it
used to be. That is, an image of
grandeur and academic worthi-
ness, completely student-run.
Better than any historical book
or nostalgic lecture, is the experi-
ence, for me, of digging through
past records of events taken place
and organized from this space.
“Agency is the ability to act freely
despite structure,” says Professor
Bob Devine ’67, in his media and
social change class. Despite the
scarcity that this project faces, we
feel that this student-run indepen-
dent media center can again be
built to inspire thought and action
used for positive change in our
community and beyond. We need
the help of those who have come
before us, seen the rise and chal-
lenges facing student endeavors,
but more speciﬁcally, people who
have seen students, despite these
odds, rise above those challenges
and create work that epitomized
the unique character and soul of
Antioch College.
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Students applied soundproof-
ing material such as carpet,
foam and egg cartons to the
walls and ceiling to sound-
proof the recording studio.

Antiochian 10
CampusNews
Photo by Perry Shoar ’08
Senior
Proﬁle:
Shelby
Chestnut
By Perry Shoar ‘08
Senior projects are more than just
a graduation requirement, they are
a tribute to a student’s hard work
and a closing statement to one’s
education. More than a diploma,
they show the dedication and ef-
fort needed to walk across the
mound during commencement.
Senior Shelby Chestnut’s ’05
ﬁnal project, Reﬂection Eternal:
Memory and Visions of Identity, is
a piece of creative non-ﬁction and
photography she hopes will make
a lasting impact on its readers.
A Cultural and Interdisciplin-
ary Studies Major with a con-
centration in Communications,
Chestnut set out on an analysis
of identity politics. Much of her
study at Antioch has centered
on social theory and women’s
studies. In expressing her educa-
tion, Shelby wanted very much
to include personal experience in
her research. Incorporating her
own perspective while remaining
objective was a challenge and ulti-
mately one of Chestnut’s goals. “I
wanted to create a personal state-
ment to express and think about
all these social theories in identity
politics that I’ve taken in over the
years,” says Chestnut.
One can be exposed to many
creative, challenging and personal
understanding of identities in a
classroom setting, says Chestnut.
However, in traditional academia
such understandings must be
analyzed and cannot be left for
one to interpret as an individual.
For Chestnut, it is important not
to dissect these viewpoints into
right and wrong, but to gain per-
spective. “I can take ideas out of
someone’s work and use them in
positive ways for thinking about
larger things,” she says. “But I
can’t toss some of them out be-
cause I don’t agree with them.”
In addition to combining her
perspective with other viewpoints
and academic theory, Chestnut
wanted deeply to make her work
accessible. It is rare to express
knowledge gained during a
college career in a way that has
something to offer for those
who do not include academia as
a basis for their understanding
of identity. At the same time,
Chestnut does not wish to take
any theory out of her work. By
working to create harmony among
different bases of analysis, the
project is able to break barriers in
reconciling eclectic understand-
ings of how identity works and
how it is formed. Clearly, greater
understanding is necessary in
fostering social progress and this
is why Chestnut is so adamant
about keeping her work personal
and intimate, in addition to be-
ing analytical and scientiﬁc. She
maintains that if we can’t locate
ourselves within our own experi-
ence, we cannot locate ourselves
and work with other people in
their struggles.
Reﬂection Eternal, which will
be in ﬁve sections, could be seen
as an acknowledgement of the dif-
ferences people have with others in
their community and with whom
they interact. “In some sense it’s
a farewell to some of the experi-
ences I’ve had at Antioch, either in
the classroom or in my social life,”
says Chestnut. “It’s me putting out
my experiences for others to either
gain some sort of respect for or
support for their own questions.”
Seeing other senior project pre-
sentations was what gave Chestnut
the idea to put her ﬁnal project into
book form. Putting a year’s worth
of research into a book is a great
way to share one’s work with oth-
ers at a later time.
Her classroom experience at
Antioch has exposed Chestnut to
varied styles of scholarly analysis.
Lesbian Chicana author Gloria
Anzaldua has been one of her lit-
erary inﬂuences. Anzaldua’s
book, Borderlands/La Frontera:
The New Mestiza (Spinsters/Aunt
Lute, 1987), combines Spanish
and English poetry, memoir, and
historical analysis. Much like
Reﬂection Eternal, the book
shows that memoir and subjective
viewpoint can be integrated into a
scholarly analysis of social theory.
Borderlands was a ground break-
ing book that brought multiple
Women-of-Color’s perspectives on
their involvement in the feminist
experience. Similarly, Chestnut
has found much vision in Patricia
Hill Collins’ Black Feminist
Thought. This book was also a
source of Women-of-Color’s per-
spectives on feminist movements,
and was a good example of the
intertwining academic theory
with personal creative writing.
Chestnut also identiﬁes and
appreciates the inﬂuence her
professors at Antioch have had on
her. Steve Schwerner’s ’60 Civil
Rights Movement was one of the
most motivating courses she’s
taken. Aside from the course’s
content, Chestnut was impressed
by Schwerner’s teaching style. “It
was inspiring to see a man like
Steve make his entire career in
education about what he person-
ally knows, and his experiences,”
she says. “My favorite part of that
class was listening to him tell
stories about his own experiences
as a white man from New York in
the civil rights movement, and his
family’s involvement.”
Suparna Bhaskaran also
guided Chestnut’s academic en-
deavors. Bhaskaran’s class, Race,
Nation, and Empire pushed her
to maximize knowledge, even in
areas where her knowledge was
already extensive. “She thinks
about things in ways that a lot of
people don’t have the capability of
doing,” says Chestnut.
Memoir taught by Ann Filemyr
was a big inﬂuence on Chestnut.
“It made me realize that I don’t
have to be some self-proclaimed,
professionally trained writer
to write about myself and what
I think about the world,” she
says. “It’s as fun to hear about
everyone’s scandalous lives and
ﬁnd that mine wasn’t the only
one that was crazy. Also, I think
Ann is a person who is a really
good example of people who can
combine this academic world with
their own knowledge and their
own reality.”
Shelby Chestnut ’05

Spring 2005 11
CampusNews
Antioch Recipient of
Getty Grant
In addition to her other courses,
any photo class Chestnut has taken
allowed her to realize that the art
is a lot of hard work and effort
ultimately pays off. Photography
is a very effective medium for
expression of one’s thoughts and
one’s self, she says. Chestnut’s aca-
demic passion and respect for her
teachers is all the more remarkable
in light of her original plan, which
was to go to music school to study
cello. Only weeks before her high
school graduation, Chestnut de-
cided not to follow that path.
“I told one of my high school
teachers that I wanted to go
to school for academics, but I
didn’t want to be a part of a re-
ally conﬁning atmosphere. She
told me, ‘Well, it looks like you
need to go to Antioch!’” Chestnut
explained. The small performing
arts high school she attended has
Since 2002, the Getty Foundation,
one of the largest philanthropic
supporters of visual arts in the
country, has awarded over $7 mil-
lion to more than 50 colleges and
universities in a nationwide effort
to preserve historic buildings,
sites, and landscapes. The Campus
Heritage Grants have enabled edu-
cational institutions in 24 states to
research and develop conservation
plans to protect campuses in all re-
gions of the country, from Alaska
to Arizona, Maine to Mississippi.
Getty awarded Antioch College
$150,000 in 2004 for historical
campus planning, citing Antioch’s
historical importance as one of the
Antioch Professor
Attends Interfaith
Conference in
Indonesia
By Perry Shoar ’08
Antioch College Lloyd Professor
of Peace Studies & World Law
Patricia Mische was part of a del-
egation of 10 American religious
and civic activists who visited
Indonesia from March 14-24. The
trip sought to facilitate positive
relations between people of differ-
ent religious traditions in Indone-
sia and the United States.
December’s tsunami underscored
that natural disasters defy national
boundaries and are blind to cul-
tural factors such as religious
afﬁliation. Indonesia is the world’s
most populous Muslim country,
with large Christian, Buddhist and
Hindu communities. The delega-
tion aimed to help all people come
Victor Ayoub ’49
Yellow Springs, OH
Bruce P . Bedford
Treasurer
Palm City, FL
Frances Bond
Baltimore, MD
Amy S. Chappell ’73
Indianapolis, IN
David Crippens ’64
Inglewood, CA
Sandra K. Deming ’82 AUSC
Rancho Palo Verdes, CA
Leo A. Drey ’39
Trustee Emeritus
St. Louis, MO
Daniel Fallon ’61
New York, NY
John D. Feinberg ’70
Ex-ofﬁcio
Boulder, CO
President, Antioch College
Alumni Association
Dianne Brou Fraser ’68
Jackson, MS
Everette Freeman ’72
Indianapolis, IN
Sherwood Guernsey II ’75 ALS
Pittsﬁeld, MA
Reuben T. Harris ’69
Keene, NH
continued on next page…
together at this time to build
stronger bases for international
and inter-religious collaboration.
The 10-day exchange was
organized by Ohio University’s
Inter-Religious Dialogue Project
and was made possible by a grant
from the Ofﬁce of Citizens Ex-
changes in the Bureau of Educa-
tional and Cultural Affairs at the
U.S. Department of State. It was
an independent, nonsectarian ef-
fort that adhered to the principle
of academic freedom. The Inter-
Religious Dialogue Project has
hosted several delegations from
Indonesia in the past, with the
intention of promoting interfaith
discourse. “This was a return
visit,” Mische says. A national
conference in Jakarta focused on
the promotion of interfaith dialogue
related to peace, and included the
current delegation of 10 as well as
those who had previously come
from Indonesia to Ohio University.
Board of Trustees
Hal Joseph ’54
Indian Wells, CA
Daniel J. Kaplan ’76
Chair
Westmoreland, NH
Jeffrey C. Kasch ’65
Milwaukee, WI
Robert A. Levin ’42
Trustee Emeritus
Albuquerque, NM
Lillian Pierson Lovelace ’51, ’89 AUSB
Trustee Emeritus
Santa Barbara, CA
Niels P. Lyster ’54
Indianapolis, IN
Thomas A. McNicol ’02 McG
Springﬁeld, OH
John G. Merselis Jr. ’96 ANE
Williamstown, MA
Larry Stone ’64
Oakton, VA
Paula A. Treichler ’65
Champaign, IL
Barbara Slaner Winslow ’68
Vice Chair
Brooklyn, NY
Arthur J. Zucker ’55
Secretary
Raleigh, NC
six graduating classes whose stu-
dents had gone to Antioch. “After
taking a year and a half off after
high school, I knew that attending
Antioch was the next logical step
in my life.”
Chestnut’s most immediate
goal after her senior project is to
serve in Community Government.
She plans to spend the next year
preparing for and applying to
graduate schools where she will
continue her focus in communica-
tions and cultural studies. She
says that Washington State and
Arizona are both in the running
to become her next home. After
completing an Antioch education
in three years, including four co-
ops and seven terms serving as an
elected student member of AdCil,
one can fairly assume Chestnut is
up to the challenge.
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ﬁrst institutions of higher educa-
tion to admit students without
regard to race or gender.

“Since a large portion of this
nation’s distinguished architec-
tural heritage is found on college
and university campuses, it is
extremely important to incorpo-
rate historic preservation into the
campus master planning process,”
says Deborah Marrow, director
of the Getty Foundation and dean
for external relations of the J. Paul
Getty Trust. “We are delighted that
the response to this year’s Campus
Heritage grant initiative was so
strong, and pleased that we were
able to support so many high qual-
ity projects around the country.”
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Antiochian 12
CampusNews
Corrections
In the Fall 2004 Antiochian, the following errors appeared in the article “The Give and Take
of the Co-op Program,” by Lauren Heaton.
Gary Rudnick ’68 is a Professor of Pharmacology and runs his own research lab at Yale
University. His research is separate from that carried out in the Steitz lab and references
in which his work is attributed to the Steitz lab are incorrect. Rudnick is referred to as a
cell biologist that studies protein transport, which is inaccurate. He is a biochemist and
studies neurotransmitter transport. The research done in his lab has the potential to aug-
ment the process of discovery for drugs that treat psychiatric disorders. The statement
“brute force psychological drugs” is misquoted. Rudnick actually said that some pharma-
ceutical companies discover drugs using a brute force approach.
The caption “A co-op student working with Gary Rudnick ’68 at Yale” should read
“
Leslie Matthewson ’04 working with Gary Rudnick ’68 at Yale.”
In the 2003-2004 Gift Roster the following names were omitted:
Erna G. Gelles ’74 – Class of ’74
Dennie Eagleson ’71 – Gifts In Kind
Horace Mann Society
President’s Circle Dean’s Level Tower Members
Emma Jeannette Austin Joseph E. Connell ’54 Edwin C. Granai ’54
Roberta Messner Block ’54 Patricia Parsons Connell ’54 Allen R. Krueger ’55
Judith Wood Spock ’54 Theodore Kuwana ’54 Sharon Merriman ’55
Michael Spock ’59 Judith Nilles
Lawrence Paffendorf ’55
Our apologies to all those affected by these errors. Thank you for your generous support.

After the recent disaster in
Indonesia, there was a natural de-
sire to add a humanitarian element
to the trip. The trip’s organizers
dedicated the conference to sup-
port their Indonesian colleagues
struggling to cope with the impact
of the disaster on the children of
Aceh and North Sumatra. In ad-
dition to the tens of thousands of
children who have lost parents,
siblings and friends, hundreds of
thousands have lost all access to
education. The Indonesian gov-
ernment reports that more than
1,600 schools in Aceh and North
Sumatra have been destroyed, and
that over 1,300 teachers have been
reported missing. The delegation
supported those from other parts
of Indonesia who were called upon
to aid educational programs in
the regions most affected. In as-
sembling an inter-religious group
of professions from Indonesia and
the United States with expertise in
group facilitation, trauma coun-
seling, peer mediation, conﬂict
management and service learning,
more resources and expertise were
available for the rebuilding of
Indonesia’s schools. Members of
the group contributed knowledge
in their respective areas of exper-
tise. “While we weren’t there to do
the long term rebuilding,” Mische
says, “we hoped to share our
knowledge.”
Mische was invited to be part
of the delegation because of ex-
tensive experience in interfaith
dialogue and peace education. “I
wrote this book, Toward a Global
Civilization? The Contribution of
Religions, which was the result of
a conference I had held on religion
and its role in peace activism
and conﬂict resolution,” Mische
said. “The organizers asked me
to join [the delegation] because
they were looking for professors
who worked on faith and peace
projects.”
Mische says she and other
members of the American delega-
tion wish to engage resources
within their own communities
to show solidarity with tsunami
relief, especially in rebuilding
schools and educational programs
in areas most affected by the trag-
edy. Those who wish to contribute
to their efforts can make tax-de-
ductible contributions through
People to People Aid, in Support
of Nurani Dunia, a 501c3 founded
by scholars at Ohio University
to support projects in Indonesia.
December’s tsunami was the larg-
est human tragedy in recorded his-
tory. In the face of such stunning
loss, many have felt compelled to
contribute to aid in the region in
some way, and Mische hopes to do
just that.
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Community
News
Janet Goldner, AEA Program
Director in Africa Art and Cul-
ture in Mali, West Africa, was in
Mali from late August 2004 until
early January 2005. She directed
the 3rd edition of the Antioch
Education Abroad Arts & Culture
in Mali Program, sponsored the
ﬁrst exhibition of the Association
of Women Artists of Mali, toured
with old friends, welded a bit, and
continued her ongoing cultural
research. Goldner plans to return
to Mali mid-August 2005.
Ann Filemyr, Interim Dean
of Faculty stayed healthy under
tremendous pressure to provide
transformational and empower-
ing leadership during a period of
intense change at the college. Ann
helped Antioch College transform
its curriculum and culture to re-
ﬂ ect its highest aspirations as an
educational institution!
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Iveta Jusova, AEA Program
Director of Comparative Women’s
Studies in Europe and Assistant
Professor of Women’s Studies is
pleased to announce the publication
of her new book, The New Woman
and The Empire, forthcoming
from The Ohio State University
Press in 2005. Her article “Gabriela
Preissora’s Women – Centered
Texts: Subverting the Myth of Ho-
mogeneous Nation” will appear in
the Spring 2005 issue of Slavic and
East European Journal.
Barbara B. Davis, Associate
Professor in European History,
researched in Toulouse, France,
archives concerning late sixteenth
century spirituality as reﬂ ected
in confraternal choices. Davis
attended the Sixteenth Century
Studies Conference in Toronto,
and the ACM-GLCA annual
meeting at the Newberry; the
subject of the Newberry Seminar,
Fall 2005 will be on slavery and
liberty. Reviews have appeared
in the “Renaissance Quarterly”
(history) and “Antioch Review”
(ﬁction). Review in progress for
the “Renaissance Quarterly” is
“From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in
Early Modern Europe,” edited by
Jeffrey R. Watt.
While in Europe this past May,
Davis fulﬁlled two long standing
desires: to visit the Mark Rothko
and Cy Twombly paintings now
in the Tate Modern (London); and
to visit Ravenna, Italy to see the
early Christian mosaics (ca. 6th
century A.D.).
Robert Fogarty, Dewey
Professor in the Humanities,
Emeritus, and editor of the Antioch
Review recently received a fellow-
ship from the Mary Baker Eddy
Library. The fellowship supports
Fogarty’s research on Anglo-
American Faith Healing.
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Antioch Professor
Attends Interfaith
Conference in
Indonesia
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Spring 2005 13
AlumniNews
Love at
Antioch
For Valentine’s Day,
the Ofﬁ ce of Devel-
opment and Alumni
Relations put out a call
for Antiochian couples
to share their love
stories with us. The re-
sponse was incredible,
with numerous couples
sharing their romances
with us. Here are some
of their stories:
How did you meet?
We met at a dorm party, how else?
Mary was in Norman and I was
in Connor. It was my fourth year
and I came to the the conclusion
that I had better get on the ball if I
was going to ﬁ nd a soulmate (al-
though I would not have called it
that, then). So I made a list of six
possiblities and began dating, but
I never got beyond number two.
She was beautiful and bright, and
on the rebound from a previous
boyfriend! How could I go wrong?
Mary Aronson ’62 and
Graydon McCormick ’62
In about 1980, I (Leslie) ﬁ nally
took Field Botany with Bob Bieri.
Mark was the TA. As the class
walked around in the Glen and
campus, I really enjoyed watching
Mark get into those plants, sniff-
ing and examining them… I
remember worrying that maybe
he was too much of a “jock” for
me, though… fortunately, Emily
Lambert ’82 gently made me
realize that probably wasn’t a
problem (which was wise, espe-
cially since Ultimate Frisbee
−
players aren’t exactly “jocks,” in
the ordinary sense of the word!)
Mark A. White ’82 and
Leslie Williamson White ’82
One enchanted afternoon across a
crowded Antioch cafeteria I saw
her. It was September 1959, our
ﬁ rst week at Antioch. Forty-six
years later, we have spent our
lives together.
Karl Grossman ’64 and
Janet Kopp Grossman ’64
Essentially via persistent pur-
suit by Antonio, who frequently
strolled Andrea’s dorm room
corridor in North Hall, hoping
to run into Andrea “by accident”
and to thereby open up lines of
communication. As it turned out,
Andrea’s dorm room was con-
stantly either occupied or under
siege by numerous boisterous
males vying for the attention of
her gorgeous roommate. This
situation, combined with the fact
that Andrea also had a boyfriend
on the other side of campus, as it
turned out, resulted in her never
being on premises in North. This
complicated matters for Antonio,
who nevertheless persevered.
Soon a love poem ﬂoated down
inside a balloon from Antonio’s
dorm window in Corry Hall to the
unsuspecting Andrea on her way
to answering mail call resulted
in a deepening relationship. Then
there was a night of hot dancing
on the Stoop, where we met spon-
taneously – sparks were ﬂying as
the 45s were spinning and a Mid-
night Movie, subsequent to which
our compatibility was ﬁ rmly
established.
John A. “Antonio” Spafford
’75 and Andrea Shpall ’77
Bonnie Raitt introduced us. Sort
of. I had been on co-op in Min-
neapolis. A record store there
had a poster of Bonnie Raitt on
the wall. She only had a couple
of albums at that point, so I was
surprised to see her on a poster.
I asked the clerk if I could have
it and he wrote my name on the
back of it. Before my co-op ended,
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I went back and got it. The next
quarter I put that poster up in my
room, 2 Craig. One day Harriet
was talking to some friends across
the hall. She saw the poster and
came over to tell me she liked
it. This was January 1974. I was
feeling pretty alone at the time.
I’d had a girlfriend earlier, but she
went on co-op and didn’t come
back. When Harriet walked in,
it changed the geography of the
room and blanked out my memo-
ry. I don’t remember anything we
said, but it must have been good.
We celebrate that day each year.
The other cool thing about that
poster is that it was printed on
hard cardboard, not paper. And
it’s big. I have no idea how I got
it from Minneapolis to Yellow
Springs without bending it. And
yeah, we still have the Bonnie
Raitt poster, and it’s still up on the
wall and I think it always will be.
Harriet Miller ’75 and
Scott Sparling ’76
Where did you go on
your ﬁ rst date?
To see the movie Blow Up –
which neither of us liked and
which we ended up leaving in the
middle. Interestingly we still al-
most never go to movies at all.
Jerry Scott ’78 and
Odette Batik ’77
On May 9th Bill and I will be
going to the movies, a date we
have celebrated every year in this
way since our ﬁ rst date on May
9th, 1946. When Bill asked me
to go to the movies, I was iron-
ing clothes and packing for a
weekend trip to Chicago to visit
a friend at Northwestern U. My
sister Wilma, who was a year
ahead of me at Antioch, was with
me at the time, and she offered
to ﬁ nish the ironing and have my
suitcase ready after my date. So
Bill and I walked downtown to
the movies (Tangiers), came back
to South Hall for my suitcase, and
Bill saw me off at the train depot.
That was the beginning of our
endless romance.
Bill Bauer ’50 and
Carolyn Cushman Bauer ’49
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Antioch students did not date
then. Nonetheless, we went to a
Greek restaurant in Fairborn.
Ron Sklar ’74 and
Mary Beattie ’75
While we were in denial and “just
friends” our ﬁ rst quarter, I’d say
we had a few experiences that
could pass for ﬁ rst dates: we saw
a non-memorable movie together
at the Little Theater. I remember
the tattered vintage dress that I
wore. We also went out to a me-
diocre sushi place in Dayton and
had much saké. Joe helped me to
discover the joys of food. He was
a foodie and coffee snob from the
SF Bay Area and I, having grown
up in Brooklyn, was only familiar
with “regular coffee” and take-out
pizza. With some help, I remem-
ber one evening being inspired
to make Joe a quite successful
quiche and feta-tomato salad
with sesame seeds. Another food
related date was sharing the ﬁ rst
strawberries of the season togeth-
er in Joe’s room in North Hall.
Megan David ’88 and
Joseph Green ’90
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What was it like to be a
couple on campus?
Because of all the GIs returning
from the war or beginning their
college careers after the war, there
were quite a number of married
couples on campus, and married
housing consisted of trailers,
double trailers, and homettes. Our
ﬁ rst home on campus was a trail-
er, “The Bauery.” Then we moved
to a double trailer, and the next
year to a homette. We as a couple
had our own compatible and sup-
portive neighborhood of Antioch
students who were just beginning
their marriages.
Bill Bauer ’50 and
Carolyn Cushman Bauer ’49
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1977 was the coldest winter on
record in Ohio. Governor Rhodes
held a vigil on the capitol steps in
Columbus and prayed for a break
in the weather. It was so cold that
winter, Stu caught pneumonia
walking back to Norment House
after playing basketball at the
gym. While recuperating in the in-
ﬁ rmary with lots of time to reﬂect
on the future, Stuart decided to
pop the big question, “Will you go
on co-op with me? Let’s not let the
quarter system deﬁne our relation-
ship.” A couple of weeks later,
we left campus for our respective
co-op jobs in Portland, Oregon.
T wenty-eight years later we are
still here.
Nancy Hoover ’78 and
Stuart Levy ’78
We were never really “a couple on
campus.” Well, we were, but not
with each other. It was messier than
that. After we met we spent a lot of
time together. And then not. I guess
the best part lasted about a month,
but it seems much longer now.
Later, I’d see Harriet with her boy-
friend. And I was with my earlier
girlfriend – she had come back to
Antioch. So a better question would
be, what’s it like to be on campus
and see someone you really like
with someone else? But you could
ask anyone that. It was 1974. Things
were crazy. There were no rules.
Harriet Miller ’75 and
Scott Sparling ’76
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“No, NO, NO !” Director Wil-
liam Fiedler (half-brother of
the famed Arthur Fiedler of the
Boston Pops Orchestra) shouted.
“You are just mouthing the
words. Sing them with feeling!”
It was the summer of 1942 and I
was in my ﬁnal year at Antioch
College. My studies had not kept
me from being a member of the
Chorus and from also having an
active social life. Said social life
was focusing more and more on
Miss Thea Drell who was also
a member of the Chorus. On
this beautiful summer evening
we were rehearsing the Brahm’s
Love Waltzes. Our director was
not happy with the way we were
doing it. “These are love songs,”
Mr. Fiedler continued. “Put some
emotion into your singing. Sing
them with feeling!” He pointed at
me but his voice was directed to
the whole Chorus. “Sing them the
way he is looking at her!”
Philip Hodge ’43 and
Thea Drell Hodge ’45
What is the most
romantic spot on
campus?
The main lawn was selected be-
cause the proposal happened there
after By stuffed Paddy’s mouth
full of grass and she ﬁnally sput-
tered that “OK June ﬁgures.”
Byron Higgins ’53 and
Patricia Charteris Higgins ’54
Read more Antioch Love Stories
at www. antioch-college.edu!
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A Teenage
Drag Queen
Returns to
Antioch All
Grown Up
By Liz MacDonald ’04
Thanks to the Treichler Memorial
Visiting Artist Fund, the legend-
ary Aurora Borealis graced the
stages of Antioch College again.
Though she didn’t appear in per-
son, but rather manifest in sound
clips and photographs, her energy
was very much felt by the crowd
as Aurora’s alter-ego, Peter
Ekstrom
’73, recounted his expe-
riences becoming the legend in
his one man show, I Was A Teen-
age Drag Queen.
The show chronicles Peter’s
transformation from a tormented,
closeted youth in Painesville,
Ohio to a conﬁdent, revolutionary
performer triumphing on the Ohio
stage. And though his story begins
and ends in the buckeye state, Pe-
ter’s odyssey takes him from New
York City to San Francisco via the
rural south in a van full of Gay
Liberation Front (GLF) drag
queens on the run from the FBI.
But the play’s narrative isn’t the
only journey taking place. For
Peter, the act of writing and per-
forming Teenage Drag Queen is a
journey back to performing.
“[Acting] was my original plan
for a career. Just after I gradu-
ated I was acting in a play in the
[Antioch] amphitheatre. In the
middle of this play I got this seri-
ous, heavy panic attack. I ﬁnished
the play and I ﬁnished the run of
the play, but it really crippled me
for years and years and years. I
spoke to this producer, Jon Jory,
who was my main mentor and he
said ‘Well, if you’re that scared,
just write. Just be a writer for
your profession.’ So that’s what I
started doing,” Peter explains.
Indeed, Peter has had a suc-
cessful career as a writer, com-
poser and lyricist. He has written
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The legendary Aurora Borealis
successful of which is his adapta-
tion of O. Henry’s The Gift of the
Magi. “[It’s] the main one that’s
been with me forever and brings
me some income every year, not
everything, but some, enough to
be really worthwhile. I did this in
1981 for Actors Theatre of Louis-
ville. It turned out to be very suc-
cessful for them. The piece is short
and its Christmas so that’s very
marketable, and they ended up
running it for 17 years in a row.”
The combination of the inﬂuence
of Actor’s Theatre and Peter’s
adaptation being published by
Samuel French, Inc. has enabled
other theatres to stage The Gift of
the Magi as well. “It got out: its
done a lot because its small.”
Small shows have been a main-
stay in Peter’s career, and his de-
sire to put on a small, inexpensive
show was another factor that led
to Teenage Drag Queen. “Maybe
about ten years ago or so, I real-
ized it would be very practical to
do a show by myself. That would
be the cheapest show, the most
inexpensive show of all. And I
wanted to be back on stage, I re-
ally wanted to overcome my fear
of performing and to see if I could
do it. And so I did.”
The jumping off point for
Teenage Drag Queen was a list
of titles Peter had compiled for a
series of short stories. While that
project remains on the backburn-
er, Teenage Drag Queen took on
a life of its own. Peter proposed
the project to Jon Jory at Actors
Theatre, and received a commis-
sion to write the piece. “Every
time the deadline came around I
hadn’t done much work on it and
I said, ‘Can I have another year?’
And he said, ‘Sure, sure, and
ﬁnally I just couldn’t do it. He was
stepping down as artistic director
and I asked what should we do
and he said, ‘ Ah keep the money!
[Laughs]. But I ﬁnally got around
to putting it all together.”
The story of Aurora Borealis,
which takes place from 1969 to
1973 (Peter’s years at Antioch),
could barely be contained on
stage. Despite its depth, Teenage
Drag Queen moves quickly from
one story to the next. Along the
way is a young, frightened Peter
whose secret lover – his next door
neighbor and the high school
football star – outs him and then
watches as his teammates beat
Peter. Soon after are scenes of the
deeply politicized Aurora, along
with a troupe of several other drag
queens (with names like Scarlet
Fever, Medulla Oblongata, and
Muscles Marinara) engaged in
gender f**k street theatre that
combined anti-sexism and anti-
Vietnam war agendas. “Antioch
gave me academic credit for being
a drag queen. That says something
about what Antioch was like at
the time,” Peter recounts. Peter
also started the ﬁrst gay group on
campus, a branch of the Gay Lib-
eration Front.
One particularly memorable
scene involved Aurora and the
rest of the troupe, known collec-
tively as the Sugar Plumb Fairies,
denouncing the book Everything
You Wanted to Know About Sex
But Were Afraid to Ask because of
homophobic passages. The Sugar
Plumb Fairies stormed a book-
store, pulling every copy off the
shelves, setting the books on ﬁre,
and then performing a Rockette-
esqe kickline and singing “We
are ﬂaming faggots!” This quick
pace, along with outrageous ad-
venture and edgy humor kept the
audience in the packed Antioch
Area Theatre engaged.
Another primary reason Peter
decided to do this performance
at Antioch was to raise money
for Solidarity Ohio, a gay rights
group that is raising money to
ﬁght Issue One, the anti-gay mar-
riage issue that passed in Ohio
last November. “I was asked to
do a beneﬁt for Solidarity Ohio.
The political angle of the show, I
think, is just as important as the
self-acceptance theme,” Peter
comments. “I wanted the current
generation to see some of the ba-
sic rights we fought for back then,
the oppression we had to over-
come, and still do today although
we have made great progress. The
story of the play leads me to a
return to activism, and a plea for
all to do the same so we can help
stop the destructive wave of right-
wing bigotry that has resurfaced
in America.”
Peter, who lives in New York
City, wrote most of the play at
the home of Karen Raben ’74, a
friend since his days at Antioch.
“Karen ﬁgures prominently in the
story. She has this beautiful house
in Miami and I would sit out on
the patio with my laptop and
write. Initially I had 150 pages,
which comes out to four hours of
material; now its down to an hour
and a half.” Peter is still trying
to tighten up the play and this
staged reading is an important
step in the process. Prior to this
performance, Peter did another
staged reading at the Manhat-
tan Club in New York City. “It
ﬂows pretty well now, I think. I’m
happy with it, but I want it even
shorter. [Tonight’s show] will be
videotaped, too, so I can see it and
know where it might wander or
where one story is too much and is
not needed.”
Peter’s desire to tell a rich yet
streamlined story illustrates the
teenage drag queen having grown
up. “I’m a very practical guy. I
used to believe in art for art’s
sake but not anymore. I’m a com-
municator. I want to get my points
across and if I do it in a way that
people can’t understand, then I’ve
failed. It’s not that I can’t have my
own personality in my writing; it’s
just that I’m not into pushing the
envelope for that sake alone. You
don’t want to alienate an audience.
Challenge them, yes; alienate
them, no.”
The wisdom gained in the years
since Peter took the stage is ap-
parent in the opening moments of
the play, as he questions his friend
Karen’s request for Aurora Bo-
realis to perform at her upcoming
commitment ceremony. “Why not
just Peter?” he asks. In recounting
the way Aurora Borealis allowed
Peter to become comfortable with
himself as a youth, Peter seems to
accept the person he is now. Peter
and Aurora, writer and performer,
insecure boy and over-the-top drag
queen merge to reveal a complete,
complex, and multitalented human
being. “Years later, a lot of people
came up to me, mostly gay people,
and said, ‘That was so neat what
you did at Antioch. You really
helped me. I was feeling so inse-
cure and to see you up there, being
so conﬁdent and just who you were
really helped me accept myself.’
That really meant a lot to me. I
don’t tend to look back and say
‘That’s what it was really all about.’
Although this play does that.”
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An Interview
with Linda
Butler ’70
By Liz MacDonald ’04
I recently had the opportunity
to speak to photographer Linda
Butler ’70 about her latest book,
Yangtze Remembered: The River
Beneath the Lake (Stanford Uni-
versity Press, 2004). Butler, who
studied music at Antioch and
received her master’s degree in
education from the University
of Michigan, made the leap into
photography after several years of
teaching. She has published sev-
eral books, including Inner Light:
The Shaker Legacy, Rural Japan:
Radiance of the Ordinary, and
Italy: In the Shadow of Time. She
has had her photographs displayed
in prestigious museums around
the world.
Yangtze Remembered is a por-
trait of the Yangtze River before,
during and after the construction
of the Three Gorges Dam. Butler
made eight trips to the region
between 2000 and 2003 to pho-
tograph the immense changes
taking place in both the natural
landscape and the human popula-
tion. As a result of the Dam, over
a million people were forced
to relocate, thousands of cities,
towns and villages were de-
stroyed, and a reservoir the length
of Lake Superior rose along 360
miles of the river valley.
Q: What were your primary
interests in photographing the
Yangtze?
A: When I went to China in fall
2000 I was looking for a project
and this is what touched me emo-
tionally. In the past books, many
of my photographs preserve things
that may disappear over time, but
I often worked in historic homes
or museums. In this case the loss
is real and immediate: what I pho-
tographed is now gone.
At ﬁrst I thought I would pho-
tograph the landscape and small
towns in the Three Gorges section
of the river. But soon I decided to
also include the big cities upstream
that were being torn down and re-
constructed in the hillsides. Some
of my most dramatic photos are
of what happened to these cities
over time. I also decided to make
before-and-after photographs of
the landscape. In a ‘before the
dam’ photograph of the second
gorge, the viewer can see the ankle
and the foot of a mountain as it
slipped into the river; in the ‘after
the inundation,’ image one sees
a grand expanse of water – like a
mirror that covers most of what
was beautiful. This book is much
more political and documentary
than anything else that I’ve done;
that too is a change of direction for
me. It’s about recording a moment
in history rather than making an
individual artistic statement.
Q: Would you describe your
experiences while taking these
photographs?
A: My ﬁrst trip was a pre-orga-
nized group trip. We were on the
Yangtze for ﬁve days. On the ﬁfth
day, I knew I had found my next
project. Our group was traveling
on a large cruise ship with 200
other passengers and one of the
employees was a river guide. He
was there to answer questions
about the river. I realized I would
need a guide to be successful, so I
asked him about arranging an in-
dividual trip for me and he agreed.
The two of us went on the ﬁrst trip
and it went very well, so I asked
him to arrange another. In the
ﬁrst year I made four individual
trips – I knew that I had to work
quickly before all the tiny villages
and historical sections of the cities
were destroyed. On the last three
trips I became fascinated by all
the construction along the river’s
edge and photographed that.
The travel was grueling in
terms of creature comforts. As
towns were destroyed, small inns
were destroyed as well, so on one
night, I stayed in a butcher’s home
and was awakened by the sound
of a pig being butchered. It was
like camping. After about two and
a half weeks, I began to miss not
having a warm bath so that’s how
long my trips lasted.
Q: Did you have to get permission to
photograph from the government?
A: I’d read a number of ar-
ticles about people who had ﬁlm
conﬁscated in China and I knew
there were certain dangers. I
also read about journalists who
felt that they could not have a
frank conversation with a rural
person because the government
trailed them and the rural people
wouldn’t open up in front of these
people. So I traveled as a tourist.
Tourists are allowed to take pho-
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Even if nothing disastrous hap-
pens to the environment, this proj-
ect caused an incredible amount of
suffering. Because this section of
the Yangtze is so heavily populat-
ed, the Chinese government will
have to move 1.3 million people
by the time the dam is completed
in 2009. Because of problems with
corruption, the people received
only a portion of what they were
promised, so I sensed a deep anger
among many of the rural people
who had to move.
Q: In the book, there is one photo
that really jumped out at me: Half
Blind Woman, Daxi, 2001. The
caption states that she asked you
to take her funeral portrait. Later
you say that you had to discontinue
this practice due to the number of
requests. There is a tremendous
intimacy in this photograph.
Who is she?
A: She is a woman who lived in a
small village and helped her family
by doing some of the farm work.
Talking to a woman like this, I re-
alized the incredible hardship that
rural people have endured over the
last 60 years. The woman lost one
eye because it was hit by a burn-
ing ember from a ﬁre; the other
became infected and there was no
money for antibiotics. She became
blind when she was quite young,
but married and had lots of kids
and they had lots of kids. There
were about 25 people in the family.
I saw her on two other trips. On
one I gave her a copy of the photo.
On another, I happened to arrive
in the village on the family’s ﬁnal
day. They were loading everything
they had onto a barge so they could
move upstream. Before they left
their house, I took a family portrait
of the whole family. The woman
was illiterate and didn’t know her
new address so I wasn’t able to
send her this last picture.
Q: The pictures tell a very compelling
story on their own, but the experience
of the book is greatly enhanced by
your narrative and the quotes from
Isabella Bird’s 1899 travelogue.
A: I was very inspired by writing
the text and I feel it is the best
writing I’ve ever done. Photog-
raphy gives you an entrée into
people’s lives, and once they trust
you, they talk to you about all
sorts of things. So I would take
photographs and then listen. At
night, I’d sit under a bare light
bulb and write in my diary. It is
like looking through a peephole
and being allowed into an inti-
mate world.
I’ve introduced several people
to the reader. One is a carpenter
who was living in the center of
the second gorge. I tracked what
happened to him and his family
over 3 years. Another person I
introduce is a porter in a large city
upstream. This particular porter
helped me on six of my eight trips.
Porters are on the bottom of the
totem pole and so it’s a picture
of what life is like for someone
who has very little power in the
system. In a sense it is a tribute to
these people to have their stories
told because it is not a story the
government is telling. In addition,
what happened is historically im-
portant because this is one of the
largest migrations sponsored by
a government in the last century.
It is a huge upheaval and a major
social experiment.
Quotes from Isabella Bird, the
British travel writer and amateur
photographer, allowed me to bring
the history of the river into focus.
Bird traveled on the river in 1897-
1898 so the reader can visualize
what the river was like a hundred
years ago thanks to her writing.
Her prose is so vivid I could feel
the bugs crawling in her mattress
and smell the opium pipes being
smoked on her boat. What an ad-
venturous woman!
At the beginning of the text,
I describe the dam, but then I
shift the focus to the river itself.
I wanted to portray the river as
this living presence, which is how
I felt when I was there. Isabella
Bird’s quotes helped to give depth
to the river’s story.
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government wants to encourage
visitation. My guide managed to
keep me out of trouble most of the
time. I still worry about some of
the people who were open with
me and I hope they have not suf-
fered as a result. As far as I know
the Chinese government hasn’t
paid much attention to this book.
Q: There is a lot of controversy
surrounding the Three Gorges Dam
project and a lot of unanswered
questions. In addition to the
photographs, you have also written
quite an extensive text. You manage
to capture the complexity of the
debate without blatantly taking one
side or the other. Was it tempting to
take one stance on the issue and only
present that side?
A: I’ve never particularly liked
diatribes. My attitude is to let the
readers draw their own conclu-
sions. There are truly positives
and negatives to the dam. On one
hand, the dam will provide clean
energy – something that is desper-
ately needed in China since the air
is horribly polluted because of the
use of coal. But there are also so
many frightening environmental
risks. No one can predict what
will happen.
Few people realize this but
there are more than 150 million
people who live upstream from
or along the reservoir. The city
of Chongqing is at the tip of the
reservoir and it is one of the two
largest cities in all of China. It has
all sorts of factories that produce
things like pharmaceuticals,
paints, automobiles, ceramics,
and paper. Some of the foreign
companies were attracted to
this area because of the lack of
environmental controls and both
foreign and domestic companies
dump industrial waste directly
into the river/reservoir. The gov-
ernment has been terribly inept
at controlling industry. I feel it
is inevitable that the water in the
reservoir will become poisoned
by industrial and human waste. I
hope I am wrong, but I suspect in
40 years people won’t be able to
drink from it.
ANTIOCH SUCCESS
STORY INTERVIEW
PROJECT:
Larry
Rubin ’65,
Quintessential
Antiochian?
By Pete Creelman ’67
This interview was conducted on
July 19, 2004 with Antioch Col-
lege graduate, Larry Rubin ’65.
It began in one of Larry’s favorite
restaurants, the Italian Spitzi’s,
where he graciously invited me for
lunch. Larry has been living in the
Washington, DC area for about
the past 30 years and works at an
advertising and public relations
ﬁrm, called the Kamber Group,
located there. Prior to that, he was
the Communications Director of
the Service Employees Interna-
tional Union, AFL-CIO, CLC,
also in DC. Larry is married, has
two teen-aged children and lives
in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Larry reported that he should
have graduated in 1965, but he
didn’t formally graduate until
much later, in 1998. He said he
had “drifted away” from Antioch
prior to his graduation year to
work in the south during the
civil rights movement. In 1996, he
decided that he really wanted to
“hunker down” and complete his
degree. He was shy four credits
and needed to complete his senior
thesis. The person that he started
his thesis work with in 1965 was
history Professor Irwin Abrams.
Despite being long retired, emeri-
tus professor Irwin Abrams agreed
to continue as his thesis adviser.
Former history major, neighbor
and alum, Steve Hoffman ’75
helped Larry organize his notes
and write a draft. Based upon these
efforts, he turned in a thesis which
Irwin Abrams said was good, but
offered some criticisms. Larry said
he could have graduated with this
effort, but decided not to. He told
retired professor Abrams that he
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Rubin ’65,
Quintessential
Antiochian?
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effort. He turned in a new thesis
which resulted in an A+ and he
ofﬁcially graduated in 1998.
Larry believed his experience
of leaving Antioch just a few cred-
its shy of graduation prompted
Antioch to initiate a program they
called the “non-resident’s comple-
tion program.” The College ad-
vertised Larry’s case as a “success
story,” Larry commented. “I had
an ‘extension’ which was only 38
years in duration! What was all
the fuss about?” We both laughed.
The program allowed other for-
mer students like Larry to com-
plete their few credits off campus
to get their degrees.
When he was asked what
brought him to Antioch College,
he said he had heard about it at
summer camp. There were two
summer camps he attended when
he was 16 and 17 years old, one
named Camp Gulliver and the
other Hickory Hill Camp. There
was a counselor at each of these
very progressive camps who was
an Antioch College student on a
co-op. These two Antioch co-ops
ﬁrst made Larry aware of the An-
tioch educational program.
Larry commented that he grew
up in a working-class neighbor-
hood in Philadelphia during the
McCarthy period (early 1950s).
His parents were quite leftist in
their thinking and views, and were
also considered Bohemians and
independent thinkers. He attended
all-academic Central High School
in Philadelphia which he said was
quite rigid in its approach. The
school assumed all students would
“follow the rules and pursue the
straight and narrow” approach
to life. “The rules were McCar-
thyite,” Larry said. “One time I
tried to do a report on Howard
Fast’s book Freedom Road and
they wouldn’t let me do it. I was in
school when they stuck the ‘under
God’ phrase in the pledge of al-
legiance and my parents wouldn’t
let me speak the pledge because of
that.” Even in his high school days
Larry was an activist who chal-
lenged authority.
He commented, “I didn’t so
much as apply to Antioch but
rather turn myself into it. Antioch
was the only College I had applied
to. In my junior year, I and anoth-
er high school student hitch-hiked
to Antioch. When we arrived, we
met with Fressa B. Inman, the
Admissions Director, and turned
ourselves in to her. We told her,
‘If you don’t take us we probably
won’t go to any other college.
Here’s our history and what we’ve
done.’ We didn’t so much apply as
to seek asylum at Antioch.” This
was 1959 and there were still so-
cietal remnants of the McCarthy
era lingering and Larry believed
Fressa Inman understood his situ-
ation. “I thought it would be the
only place I would be accepted
and not be persecuted,” he said.
Antioch College was his ﬁrst and
only choice and he said he never
regretted his decision.
“I was very grateful to Antioch
for ‘taking me in’ so to speak –
giving me ‘political asylum.’
I quickly came to realize that
what I had perceived as my own
idiosyncrasies were really quite
widespread at the time among
other students.” He went on to say,
“Antioch was encouraging us to
utilize what was best about us
to serve society and to get over
ourselves. We weren’t all that spe-
cial – that we just had some ideas
and interests which were good.”
Larry said he didn’t come to
Antioch knowing what he wanted
to pursue as a career. He changed
his major twice, from political
science to sociology, before set-
tling on history. “I knew I wanted
to work with people, and work
in politics, but at that time I had
politics confused with union
organizing. I thought they were
the same thing.” He said that An-
tioch helped him focus his career
selection because it gave him the
opportunity to work in the areas
of people and politics, both on
campus and off campus. He was
very active on campus, serving
on ComCil, and headed various
committees. He also became edi-
tor of the Antioch Record after
working as a reporter. Most of
his co-op jobs involved his work-
ing in the political arena such as
a peace group in San Francisco,
civil rights groups, the Institute
for Policy Studies in Washington,
and the National Student As-
sociation. He did other things
including working at the discount
department store, E. J. Korvette
in Brooklyn as his ﬁrst co-op job.
“I wanted a ﬁrst job just like most
other people had – I didn’t want
anything special,” he said. He
wanted to see what typical work-
ing people had to deal with.
The combination of his co-op
jobs and his being active in cam-
pus life and politics helped him to
better deﬁne his career goals. He
had planned to run for Communi-
ty Manager but when confronted
with the task of writing a paper on
why he wanted the position, he got
“writer’s block.” Rather than ap-
ply for that position he went south
in 1961 to work in the civil rights
movement. His ﬁrst experience
in the South was in a co-op job
in Georgia. “I never knew in my
own mind whether I went south
to avoid writing that community
manager paper, and then risked
my own life. I spent some time in
jail there and had a lot of time to
think about everything.” There
were other students he knew who
went down as well, including Stan
Boyd ’62, Charlotte Terri Shaw
’63, and others.
He also worked in Washington,
DC as a community organizer at
Southeast Neighborhood House,
and then he went back to the
South and Mississippi. He was
down there about a year. I com-
mented that it took a lot of guts for
Larry who was from Philadelphia
to go down to the South in those
years when there was rampant
racism and anti-semitism. Larry
agreed saying, “I got the job at
the National Student Association
as the National Education Direc-
tor because I kept telling people
I wanted a job where I’m doing
good for the world and no body is
shooting at me. I got shot at a lot
while I was in Mississippi.”
“While I was there at NSA, I
discovered it had been started by
the CIA and there was a big article
in Ramparts magazine exposing
the CIA connection.” To make
a long story short he said he had
worked from within to help reveal
‘‘
‘‘
I was very grate-
ful to Antioch for
‘taking me in’ so to
speak – giving me
‘political asylum’.
I quickly came to
realize that what
I had perceived
as my own
idiosyncrasies were
really quite wide-
spread at the time
among other
students… Antioch
was encouraging
us to utilize what
was best about us to
serve society and to
get over ourselves.
We weren’t all that
special – that we
just had some ideas
and interests which
were good.
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‘‘
‘‘
Antioch plays
a very, very im-
portant role in
this society. It’s a
place that’s will-
ing to take risks
educationally
and pedagogi-
cally. It’s willing
to use the latest
in pedagogical
techniques to
take those risks.
Most people
teach people to
adjust to society.
Antioch teaches
people to change
society.
Larry Rubin ’65−
more of the CIA story. He did
some things with Drew Pearson,
famous investigative reporter and
columnist of that time, who wrote
an expose about this. Pearson
suggested that to be safe he “hide
out” for two months until the story
came out, which he did. The irony
of this was he was trying to get
away from the excitement and dan-
ger of his work in the South and
here he was again, “knee deep” in
more intrigue and another anxiety-
provoking situation.
The most meaningful thing
to Larry about his Antioch ex-
perience was the community
life. This included the aspects of
involvement with other students,
extracurricular activities, etc. He
commented that in 1965 he helped
to organize a union of the mainte-
nance workers and housekeepers
at Antioch. Two years later he
was involved in organizing the
Antioch cafeteria workers. He had
been involved in labor organizing
in Mississippi, so people came
to him for help. He pointed them
to the United Electrical Workers
(UE), because this was the union
he knew and they were strong in
Dayton, Ohio.
He had grown up in a Phila-
delphia ghetto in a pretty rough
neighborhood. When he went to
Antioch, it was the ﬁrst time he
met a number of students whose
parents were college graduates.
This seemed strange at ﬁrst, but
then he came to realize just how
much at home he really was and
felt. “Antioch really expanded my
horizons and acceptance of folks
in a wider sense. I had grown
up in a mostly Jewish and Irish
neighborhood with few blacks.”
He said he had felt at home at
Antioch literally from the second
he arrived on campus. On Larry’s
ﬁrst visit to Antioch, hitchhiking
with a friend (before he applied),
“we met Steve Martinot ’
62 (who
was a student at the time and) a
political activist. Steve told us that
political activists were very much
revered at Antioch – much like
football heroes are looked up to at
other colleges and universities.”
When Larry heard this he knew
he was in the right place.
Antioch taught Larry, he said,
“that there was such a thing as
sharing and being in community
and that outside society wasn’t
hostile as a whole. I’ve been
emphasizing the psychological
and cultural aspects of my learn-
ing and have not really touched
on academics. I learned a lot at
Antioch academically, though
I wasn’t the best student.” If he
were to it do over again, he would
be a much more disciplined stu-
dent. “I learned the value of study
and contemplation, and that you
don’t have to be politically ac-
tive every second. You can stand
back and think about things. I
learned the value of knowing stuff.
I started out as a somewhat anti-
intellectual revolutionary type
and I came to realize that it is just
as important to be an expert on
things – to know things.”
Stephen J. Gould ’63, “who
turned out to be one of the intel-
lectual giants of our generation”
was a great example of this. He
got Larry involved in campus
politics. “Steve encouraged me to
run for president of the Antioch
NAACP chapter. I believe he
was the chair and was looking
for someone to take his place.”
Larry noticed that Steve spent a
lot of time “playing around with
these snail shells.” “I wondered
why was he screwing around with
these shells?” Back then, Larry
thought it was a waste of time –
just do the political stuff. Later
he came to realize how much of a
contribution to society Steve made
in paleontology, in part because
of his academic prowess. “At An-
tioch I learned that studying stuff
was important,” in part through
the example set by Stephen J.
Gould. “The trick was to ﬁnd
something you love to become an
expert in,” said Larry.
One of Larry’s more notable
achievements at Antioch College
took place after he left as a full-
time student and while working
for the United Electrical Workers.
After completing a project in
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, they then sent
him back to Antioch in 1973 to
help settle the big worker/student
strike. He was there for three to
six months. He sought to separate
the students and the workers strik-
ing, do what he could to address
their key issues, and help to settle
the strike, while working with
then College President Jim Dixon.
The workers wanted to settle, he
said, but the students were resis-
tant because they said they were
striking on behalf of the workers.
“The workers were afraid to settle
because the students were putting
a lot of pressure on them,” he said.
Larry told the key student leaders
that the workers wanted to settle.
It became a “student tail wag-
ging the worker dog situation,”
he said. “A lot of damage was
done to the school in the process.
It was terrible. I always regretted
what happened during the early
1970s, though I didn’t start it,”
he said. He actually helped to
settle the strike, though some of
the students involved considered
themselves his protégés.
Larry further commented
about his Antioch educational and
life experience, “Antioch plays a
very, very important role in this
society. It’s a place that’s willing
to take risks educationally and
pedagogically. It’s willing to use
the latest in pedagogical tech-
niques to take those risks. Most
people teach people to adjust to
society. Antioch teaches people to
change society. Antioch teaches
people to make changes in society
and thereby to make it better.”
Larry’s experience at Antioch
proves how students can come to
Antioch with a great diversity of
backgrounds and experience and
yet be treated very much as indi-
viduals and yet be nurtured and
allowed to grow and develop in
their own way and at their
own pace.
Larry proudly pointed to the
wall of his ofﬁce and a large styl-
ized map of Yellow Springs, Ohio,
showing the main streets and
many of the downtown stores as
well as the College. Larry said this
map has gone with him and been
prominently displayed in what-
ever ofﬁce he’s occupied. Yellow
Springs and Antioch remain very
strong in Larry’s mind and heart.
His adopted town of Takoma Park,
Maryland, he said, reminds him
very much of his beloved Yellow
Springs in its political awareness,
activism and environmentalism.
Thanks to you Larry, for your
great interview, which helped to
remind me of the many ways in
which Antioch has been so mean-
ingful to me and why Antioch still
remains a great educational in-
stitution, despite all of its troubles
and challenges. In a way, Larry’s
experience as an Antioch student
represents the quintissential es-
sence of the Antioch experience,
though most students don’t take 38
years to complete their degrees!
•

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CLASS OF ’55 SPONSORS IRWIN
ABRAMS FUND FOR PEACE EDUCATION
Attendees at the ’50s reunion last June had the extraordinary privilege of reconnecting with Irwin
Abrams – one of our most treasured teachers. We discovered to our great pleasure that he has lost
none of his high energy or his deep commitment to peace. Most of us had never forgotten the many
ways he taught us how to think. In his History of Western Civilization (later The Historian and West-
ern Civilization), we learned to compare and evaluate sources and to bring a healthy skepticism to
any written history – regardless of the author.
Irwin came to Antioch to establish the Department of History after service as a World War II
conscientious objector with the American Friends Service Committee. He taught European history
and international studies for over three decades, developing an experiential teaching method and
helping the College pioneer education abroad. Retired in 1979 because of Ohio’s mandatory age
requirement, he started a second distinguished career, focusing on the history of the Nobel Peace
Prize, ultimately becoming the global authority on the Prize.
To honor Irwin’s 90th birthday (February 2004) and his life of service and achievement, the
Class of 1955 is sponsoring the Irwin Abrams Fund for Peace Education. The Abrams Fund will
provide grants to assist the efforts of Antioch students who have had experience in their home, job,
or the Antioch community participating in peace studies and peace-building efforts. The grants will
enable those students to conduct research related to peace, such as the history of nonviolent action,
societal inﬂ uences on conﬂ ict, and the role of the environment in promoting peace.
The Irwin Abrams Fund for Peace Education is already off to a great start with 100% partici-
pation from the Class of ’55 Reunion Steering Committee, including two $5,000 matching grants.
The Committee is asking the entire alumni community to join in this effort to honor Irwin by offer-
ing gifts above and beyond their regular support of the Annual Fund. Checks are most welcome, as
are other forms of giving, such as appreciated stock. (For how-to-do-it information, contact Mark
Swanholm ’92 at the College, 1-800-411-6750.) Gifts to the Abrams Fund will be considered part of
the $65 million Campaign for Antioch College.
Theatre
Graduate
Wows
Audiences
By Perry Shoar ’08
Nicolas Ruley ’02 received high
praise in a Washington Post re-
view of Rick Abbot’s “Play On!”
Ruley, who did not expect the
show to be reviewed at all, was not
aware of the nature of the article.
He also did not expect that a ma-
jor paper like the Post would be
the place people would read about
his performance. Upon learning
of the review from a co-worker,
he became extremely ecstatic and
ran up and down the halls of the
mental hospital where he works,
screaming. Without having read
the article, he immediately ran to
the closest convenience store and
purchased the entire rack of 27
papers. Eager to share his joy, he
was not aware that the only part of
the review that was positive was
what addressed him personally.
Indeed, the other cast members
and the show’s director were all
given very harsh criticism.
The article was unusually
scathing in its coverage of the
play, the director and the actors,
with the exception of Ruley, who
was given cheers for his portrayal
of actor Saul Watson. “Play On!”
is a comedy in which an unskilled
and unlucky community theatre
stages a ﬂop play. This “play with-
in a play” is penned by Rick Ab-
bot, who’s been known in the past
for light-hearted productions such
as “Dracula: The Musical?” and
“Bride of Brackenloch!” Meant
to be a cheerful depiction of an
English murder mystery by an
unskilled acting troupe, complete
with a disastrous opening night
performance, “Play On!” wound
up being a real-life ﬂop.
Sensitive to what his fellow
actors may have felt, Ruley’s
impatience to announce his joy
quickly changed to apprehension.
Far from being happy for him,
many of Ruley’s fellow actors
were extremely jealous. “I have no
regrets,” says Ruley. “But [their
reaction] certainly diluted the joy
of having a favorable write-up in
one of the nation’s three leading
newspapers.”
Regardless of his fellow actors’
reactions, the experience has been
very positive for Ruley, who has
landed more upcoming roles. For
Ruley, the experience has been a
memorable lesson in diplomacy,
as well as a conﬁdence booster.
Learning to take praise gracefully
is not always easy, says Ruley,
“Every actor has something they
want to say, but there’s this point
where you have to simply say, ‘It’s
an honor to be nominated!’ but
you have to be nominated ﬁrst!”
Now living in Baltimore,
Ruley gives a lot of credit to his
Antioch experience in shaping
his passion of acting. Although
he chose to attend Antioch on a
whim, he thinks very highly of the
opportunity and experience of be-
ing a theatre major at the College.
One of four theatre majors in his
class, Ruley called his time at the
College “one of the most intensely
stressful and intensely motivating
and fruitful theatre experiences
that I’ve ever had in my life.”
Working under Louise Smith
’77, Ruley was exposed to a new
way of thinking of the art of
theatre. “Three by Three,” Ruley’s
ﬁrst performance at Antioch, was
an eye opener. For the ﬁrst time,
he became aware of what it was
like to do theatre from the inside
out; that is, having much greater
input in the creative process.
Smith, who was still in the process
of writing the play when practice
began, gave Ruley a wonderful
lesson in what theatre could be.
Having done theatre since junior
high, he was only aware of the
more mundane aspects of high
school theatre. “Three by Three,”
a chronology of women’s struggles
and alienation throughout time,
was Ruley’s ﬁrst experience with
more unorthodox ideas of per-
formance. Smith gave Ruley and
other students a unique creative
opportunity to solidify her ideas
and heighten the themes she was
working with. Those involved had
to be twice as accountable for any
decisions made. “There was this
new life we were bringing into the
world,” Ruley says. “It was really
stressful but in another way it was
very gratifying. It’s give and take.”
Coming from Antioch’s tightly
knit theatre community, the reali-
ties of theatre outside school were
somewhat of a disappointment
for Ruley. “Trying to land roles
is difﬁcult in the world of acting,
and very straining. Casting deci-
sions are made very arbitrarily,”
says Ruley, who also said that the
politics of theatre outside of An-
tioch came as a surprise. “Trying
to ﬁnd a role is pretty near impos-
sible,” Ruley says.
“There was this one role, in
Oedipus Rex, that I’d auditioned
for this past year. It was with a
really, really unacclaimed group
that performed out of a high
school. I’d heard about the audi-
tions from a friend. We both de-
cided to go out for it and I got this
script, and I wanted the role of
Theresius, the blind prophet. And
I researched the character and I
read the lines over and over and
over. And I looked at blind people
and studied them, and I do this
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and see characters that I try and
emulate and follow them and try
and copy all their mannerisms. It’s
performance art itself and it’s fun.
And I went to this audition, and I
nailed it. I did very well and got
no callback whatsoever… from
this little company that performs
out of a high school! They got
reviewed, they got terrible re-
views, and the show was kind of a
failure. It shows that it was a good
thing I didn’t get cast. On the ﬂip
side, for the show that was re-
viewed in the Post, I’d heard about
the audition 20 minutes before
during happy hour. And I didn’t
even get a call back; I was cast on
the spot. I don’t want to pass off to
future generations not to research
your lines and just go audition, but
it goes to show how ﬂippant the
industry really is.”
“The thing I miss in the DC
metro area is the ability to call
up my friends and make art with-
out this stupid notion of politics.
That’s what Antioch gave me and
what I can’t ﬁnd anymore and
what the industry isn’t today.” In
the end, Ruley says, he misses the
sense of community he felt
in college.
Fortunately for Ruley, this year
will be a productive time for his
art. In addition to working in the
hospital and at a Starbucks, he is
currently playing the role of Ro-
meo in Good Night Desdemona,
Good Morning Juliet, a show he
began producing. After playing
Mercutio in an Antioch produc-
tion of Romeo and Juliet, Ruley
welcomes the change. This sum-
mer, he will direct another Ten-
nessee Williams one act, called “I
Can’t Imagine Tomorrow,” before
he applies to graduate school.
Judging by his words and his
glowing opinion of Antioch, Ruley
may well need to readjust his stan-
dards for future experiences within
his art. Ruley’s continuing desire
to make theatre a collaborative
creative process and his emphasis
on community show that while a
student can leave Antioch, Antioch
will never leave the student.
•
Antioch
Prankster
Steals Spire
By Christopher Cassels ’87
In the weeks before my gradua-
tion from Antioch in the spring of
1987, I think I was getting wistful
and already nostalgic about my
soon-to-be-over college years in
Yellow Springs. People were start-
ing to arrive for the graduation
ceremonies, and one night I was
up talking with Charles Patter-
son ’88 when the topic of Antioch
pranks came up. I became imme-
diately pained that my own class
had no deﬁning prank and decided
to take action. It was without irony
that I strolled intentionally past
the inscribed quote on the Horace
Mann monument on my way
across campus and stole one of the
four huge metal spires that topped
the corner towers of Antioch Hall.

This wasn’t anywhere near as
difﬁcult as it would be today. The
much-needed, successful $44 mil-
lion “Campaign for Antioch Col-
lege” fundraising that concluded
in 1993 was just starting in 1987,
and the campus facilities and
buildings were in a lot of disrepair
back then. South Hall was still
boarded up, Corry was closed, and
the spire from south-east corner of
Main Building had apparently fall-
en off the roof at some point. Giv-
en the condition of things, few
people seemed to notice or care,
and the spire was put in storage.
In the 1980s we didn’t really need
pranksters to explain missing toilet
seats or water ﬁxtures. We needed
light bulbs in the dorms, phones
that worked, and half the sinks in
North Hall had black plastic trash
bags over them.
With the help of an accom-
plice, I took the spire home. I was
renting a very small room over
Deaton’s Hardware at the time,
and probably the most amazing
part of the whole prank was that
we managed to get it up the stairs
and ﬁt it into my room, where it
made an incredible decoration. It
was beautifully crafted, taller than
me, and had a fantastic patina.
Quite a few people (including
some faculty, as I recall) heard
about it and came by to admire
it. Everyone asked two questions:
“How did you get it?” and “What
are you going to do with it?”
The ﬁrst question was easy,
and I loved answering it: “I
walked in through a huge hole
in the wall of the maintenance
building and took it.” This was
true. The actual building on cam-
pus where any repair tasks were
supposed to occur had a gigantic
hole in one of its own brick walls,
and I just needed to slide a big
piece of plywood out of the way
to stroll on in.
In answer to the latter ques-
tion, I had decided that stealing
the spire was going to be both
prank and protest, and that the
absence of a historic architectural
adornment from the Main Build-
ing of campus was going to make
a point. If someone really cared
about it being gone, why wasn’t it
up on the roof where it was sup-
posed to be in the ﬁrst place? I
started working on a ransom note.
Photos were taken to prove I had
it, although one of the college
clerical staff had already seen
us lugging it down the middle of
Xenia Avenue, and had woken up
Dean of Students Steve Schwer-
ner ’60 in the middle of the night
with the news. In the photos, I
hid my face behind a bandana,
sunglasses, and cap, and held up
a copy of the latest issue of The
Record. Just because I wasn’t
at Antioch in ’73 didn’t mean I
hadn’t picked up skills for situa-
tions like these.
I started out the ransom note
by quoting Thomas Paine: “These
are the times that try men’s souls.”
I hope there’s a copy of it some-
where, because I don’t remember
everything I demanded. I did
insist that vanilla ice cream must
be served at the next Community
Meeting, and I remember at-
tending it and enjoying that plain
vanilla cone immensely. I suspect
that campus authorities were also
there, and witness to my happily
basking in the initial success of
the College quietly giving in to
one of my demands. The kidnap-
ping of the spire was now on the
front page of The Record, along
with the photo, in which I was
also wearing the same, easily
recognizable, leather jacket that
I wore every day on campus, and
I could kind of tell that my time
was about up.
Ultimately, word got back to
me that the Dean’s Ofﬁce had de-
creed that I’d exceeded the allow-
able limits of fun. The speciﬁcs of
their impending response weren’t
relayed, so I couldn’t even plan
any last minute clever counter ac-
tion. I also just wanted to graduate
without undue problems, so I gave
the spire back.
By then I’d become fond of
the thing, and wasn’t about to put
it back where I’d found it, where
anybody could just walk in and
take it. I think it was made of
copper, and I hated to think about
how much it would’ve been worth
to some thief as scrap metal.
Another accomplice and I carried
it back to campus, and were plan-
ning to leave it in the middle of
the hallway of Main Building, but
a campus security guard stopped
us and made us hand it over.
I haven’t been back to Yellow
Springs since 1990, but I was glad
to see that the spire was back in
place then, and I hope that some
of that $44 million from the previ-
ous Campaign for Antioch was
spent down at Deaton’s on some
good sturdy bolts.
Being unsure of the statute of
limitations in Ohio, Cassels is ly-
ing low about his current where-
abouts, although campus ofﬁcials
believe he and Rachel Aptekar
’86 are raising their three chil-
dren in Davis, CA. Underground
sources indicate that if his latest
demand that The Antiochian
publish the spire-napping story
is met, he will be donating at
least $100 (in unmarked bills, of
course) to the current Campaign
for Antioch College with a chal-
lenge that all other alumni who
read and enjoy the story will do
the same.
•
Nicolas Ruley ’02

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BookNotes
In Resources Under Regimes, it
is revealed how different societies
bring different values and assump-
tions to bear on the best way of
responding to the challenges posed
by the world’s limited resources.
Josephson analyzes the experiences
of the industrialized and indus-
trializing nations and presents a
critical analysis of how politicians,
bureaucrats, scientists, engineers
and industrialists respond to the
depletion of resources that will
constitute the global environmental
crisis at the beginning of the twenty-
ﬁ rst century. Paul R. Josephson
is Associate Professor of History
and Director, Program in Science,
Technology and Society, Colby Col-
lege. His previous books include
Industrialized Nature: Brute Force
Technology and the Transformation
of the Natural World and Red Atom:
Russia’s Nuclear Power Program
from Stalin to Today.
Steven Cramer ’76 recently
published a collection of poems
entitled Goodbye to the Orchard.
Cramer has written several other
poetry collections: The Eye that
Desires to Look Upward, The
World Book and Dialogue for Left
and Right Hand, available at www.
sarabandebooks.org.
Ken Dermota ’81 has published
his second book on the news media,
And Well Tied Down: Chile’s Press
Under Democracy (Praeger).
Edward Carmien ’85 recently
published The Cherryh Odyssey,
a collection of essays and articles
written about science ﬁ ction and
fantasy writer C.J. Cherryh which is
available from Wildside Press and
major online booksellers.
Ria Newhouse ’98 and April
Spisak ’98 recently published their
article Fixing The First Job, which
was published in the Library Jour-
nal of August 2004.
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James Bieri ’50 recently pub-
lished Percy Bysshe Shelley: A
Biography. The book covers the
life of England’s most radical and
controversial Romantic poet, begin-
ning with Shelley’s birth in 1792,
up through 1816. Shelley, who called
poets the “unacknowledged legisla-
tors of the world,” left an unmatched
literary legacy, espousing love,
nonviolence, championing freedom
and decrying political, religious and
sexual tyranny. A second volume
will be published, covering Shelley’s
life from 1816, through his Italian
years, to his untimely death in 1822.
Bieri earned a BA from Antioch
College in 1950, and a Ph.D. in psy-
chology from Ohio State University
in 1953. Retirement in 1987 allowed
him time to research his Shelley
biography.
Ed Granai ’54 recently pub-
lished Letters From Somewhere, a
war memoir containing over 400
letters written to his family while
stationed in Italy during World
War II. A lawyer, a legislator and
businessman, his ﬂ uency of the
language and his knowledge of the
culture in Italy made him the only
American soldier ever to be named
an honorary citizen. Part travel-
ogue, part war story and mostly love
story, Letters has been hailed as
“eloquent and ardently poignant.”
Miriam Blumberg Schneir
’55 has published several books.
Invitation to an Inquest, Pantheon,
Feminism: the Essential Historical
Writings, Feminism in Our Time and
many articles relating to feminism.
Diana Slattery Reed ’63 is
pleased to announce the publication
of her ﬁ rst novel, The Maze Game.
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Mark Winheld ’64 published
Light: A Jewish Cowboy’s Journey
in July 2004. A 406-page anthology
of selected newspaper stories, fam-
ily memoirs and spiritual adventure
stories, the book chronicles Win-
held’s life as a father, husband, and
journalist across New York, South
Dakota and Ohio. Light also reﬂ ects
the author’s Russian-Jewish back-
ground, and his eventual personal
acceptance of Evangelical Chris-
tianity. Winheld graduated from
Antioch College in 1964 and earned
his M.A. in Anthropology from the
University of Arizona. He served
as a reporter from 1969 until 1998,
most recently for the Binghampton,
New York Press & Sun-Bulletin.
Jeff Jones ’70 is the subject of
A Radical Line: From the Labor
Movement to the Weather Under-
ground, One Family’s Century
of Conscience. Written by Thai
Jones, A Radical Line chronicles
his family’s history of activism.
Conceived while he was pursuing
a master’s degree at the Columbia
School of Journalism, the book was
initially supposed to be a class proj-
ect. Thai’s grandparents were Quak-
ers and communists. Thai’s parents,
Jeff Jones and Eleanor Stein, were
both heavily involved in the Viet-
nam era student movement. Jeff was
a California kid who went east to
Antioch College and later to New
York City. Inspired by the writings
of Marx, he soon became an SDS
leader, helped give birth to the radi-
cal Weather Underground move-
ment and led the historic “Days of
Rage” protest in Chicago. In 1969,
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after divorcing her ﬁ rst husband,
Yippie leader Jonah Raskin, Elea-
nor dropped out of law school and
later met Jeff. The two continued
their activist work together, eventu-
ally going underground until their
arrest in 1981, which the author
cites as his earliest memory. The
couple now lives in Albany, New
York. A Radical Line was recently
published by Free Press.
Kymberlee Maxine recently
published a Small Book of Yoga:
Notes on the Practice, which can be
purchased at www.amazon.com.
Joyce Ann Edmondson
recently published The Listening
Tree – Fifty Stories of Grace-full
Everyday Living, which can be pur-
chased at www.amazon.com.
Paul R. Josephson ’75 has re-
cently published Resources Under
Regimes: Technology, Environ-
ment, and the State, a comparative
evaluation of natural resource man-
agement. By comparing centrally
planned and market economies,
colonial and post-colonial govern-
ments, and democratic versus
authoritarian societies, Josephson
determines to what extent a form
of government and economy
determines how social and envi-
ronmental problems presented by
the transformation of nature into a
humanized landscape are addressed.
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Spring 2005 23
Rod Serling ’50 Remembered
By Fred Woodress ’48
Rod Serling ’50 ranks along with CBS greats Lucille Ball and Edward
R. Murrow from the Golden Age of Television, according to biographer
Gordon E. Sander in his 1992 biography, Serling: the Rise and Twilight
of Television’s Last Angry Man.
As a daily newspaper TV editor during the 1950s, I had a front row seat
for this exciting television. When network press releases arrived on my desk
featuring Antiochians Rod Serling and Cliff Robertson ’46, I highlighted
their names in headlines. Rod’s brother Bob (Scoop) Serling ’42 was my role
model as an enthusiastic would-be journalist my freshman year at Antioch in
the fall of 1941. As editor of The Record, Serling exposed the numbers racket
in Yellow Springs and rumor had it he was threatened for doing so.
After my return from World War II service with the 87th Infantry in
Europe, I found Antioch crowded with returning veterans including a new
Serling, younger brother Rod. The paratrooper veteran had fought in the
Paciﬁ c. Those who knew him were impressed with his charm and his radio
script writing skills. Bob had left Antioch to become a successful United
Press journalist, author and aviation consultant.
The Sander book is the second biography of Serling I’ve read. I was
fascinated with Joel Engel’s book published in 1989 but didn’t like his inter-
pretation of Rod. He came off much better in the 1992 Sander book. I have
yet to read the 1997 biography by Peter Wolfe. There also was a recent PBS
program about Serling.
Antiochians would be interested in Sander’s Chapter 4, “Yellow Springs;
(1946-1949).” In these 14 pages about Rod’s life as a single student, then
a married one, “in trailertown” (we called it Splinterville) Sander wrote:
“One of the most fascinating and neglected periods of Rod Serling’s life is
the eight years he spent in Ohio, ﬁ rst at Antioch, then as a novice TV staff
writer and free lance scriptwriter based in Cincinnati.”
The biographer said during this same eight-year period the Dayton-Cin-
cinnati area was a feeder for the networks, “supplying such future talents as
Jonathan Winters… Rosemary Clooney… the Mills Brothers… and fellow
staff writer of Serling’s at WLW, Earl Hammer Jr., creator of The Waltons,
and Serling himself.”
The Yellow Springs chapter began with Horace Mann’s famous
“Ashamed to Die” quote. Throughout the book the author illustrated exam-
ples of Rod tackling controversial subjects and openly challenging the TV
industry for its shortcomings – what we might expect from an Antiochian.
Don Scobel ’51, Rod’s roommate, was quoted along with
Antiochians John Kittross ’51, Carson (Kit) Davidson ’49,
Barbara Brunswick Agranoff ’48 and Rudy Ruderman ’49. Sander
should have interviewed fellow WNYC intern Helen Richards Hawthorne
’48 about their WNYC internship. He did describe Rod’s test parachute
jumping to support his low pay internship.
Pearl Bentel, a scriptwriter from Pittsburgh who taught Rod scriptwrit-
ing at Antioch in 1947 and encouraged him, was mentioned. She returned
to Antioch as his student the short time he spent on campus as a Writer in
Residence on 1962, when he was paid a salary of $3,000.
Carol Kramer ’50, who married Rod at Rockford Chapel in June 1948,
was given extensive coverage in the biography. The book contrasted Carol’s
background with Rod’s. Her maternal grandparents and surrogate parents
had ties to the Tafts and the ﬁ rst president of Ohio State University.
Carol, who talked to my Arts Criticism Honors class at Ball State in the
1990s via speakerphone, told us that Orson Welles was supposed to become
the spokesman for Rod’s Twilight Zone. When he turned them down, Rod
became the introducer, which made him the most recognized writer on TV
at the time. The biographer described the Welles turndown in detail. Rod’s
high school classmates in Binghamton probably weren’t surprised. They
always thought he would become an actor.
Actor-director Sydney Pollack, who appeared in a Twilight Zone drama,
told the author: “I think Rod was a performer at heart… he had a sharp
sense of theatre.” Frank Stanton of CBS once said, “he was the only writer I
had ever met who looks like his work.”
An interesting fact mentioned in the book is that Sam, the Serling broth-
ers’ Dad, sold his family home to pay Antioch for Bob’s tuition.
The author said Rod was not too happy during his return to Antioch in
the 1960s as a writer-in-residence. His daughters didn’t enjoy his celebrity
status in Yellow Springs when people downtown would stop him for an
autograph. And Sander said the students on campus were not impressed,
regarding Rod as part of the establishment.
Rod found his teaching niche at Ithaca College in upstate New York,
where he had more rapport with his students, according to the author. “It
was teaching more than anything else that gave Serling the greatest plea-
sure during the last few years of his life. (He) was a popular ﬁ gure at the
college, where he would schedule special evening sessions to show his ﬁ lms
and talk about show business. He was also popular in town.”
“Requiem for a Heavyweight,” one of his best known works on
TV and ﬁ lm, besides the proliﬁ c number of Serling scripts written for the
Twilight Zone, was created ﬁ rst as a short story for Nolan Miller’s writing
class at Antioch in the 1940s. Miller gave Rod much encouragement.
Sander described Rod’s appointment as the newly created manager of
Antioch Broadcasting System in November 1948 at the salary of $500 a
month. He supervised a staff of 35 including Rudy Ruderman and his wife,
Carol, who as his girl Friday, typed scripts and corrected what the author
called his “horrendous spelling.” Carol urged him to enter one of his ABS
scripts in the Dr. Christian Radio Show; he won third prize and a trip to
New York City.
Rod was a talent dynamo, acting, writing, directing and producing. “At
ABS, Serling was the star of his one-man show,” wrote the biographer, “as
he would be years later with the Twilight Zone and he loved it.”
Names of actors, directors, writers and producers Rod Serling worked
with during his professional years reads like who’s who of show business,
i.e. Spielberg, Gleason, Pollack, Begley, Benny, Burnett, Cummings, Fran-
kenheimer, Kiley, Landau, Vidal, Robinson, Newman, Meredith, Antioch’s
own Cliff Robertson and many others.
Rod Serling’s untimely death came on June 28, 1975 from a heart attack
during open-heart surgery.
Harriet Van Horne, TV critic of the New York World-Telegram, wrote:
“Rod Serling died this weekend at 50, too talented, too valuable a citizen
to be cut down in his prime.”
She said at the time of his death he was “earning his living as a profes-
sor. He should have been where he belonged, in the thick of television, turn-
ing out wise, touching and, occasionally, very spooky scripts. In a medium
that produced few giants, Rod stood bold and tall. He was one of the ﬁ rst
dramatists to cast a critical eye upon the social order. And in time, the me-
dium punished him with its displeasure.”
Antioch’s inﬂ uence on Rod can be understood in her last paragraph:
“Rod Serling had a special fondness for the scene in which arguments for
evil are advanced, colorfully, incisively and then, abruptly toppled by a
statement of blazing truth. In a world that needs truth tellers, Rod Serling
will be greatly missed.”
Those of us who knew him on campus and later on the Antioch Alumni
Board were most fortunate. All of us from Antioch can be proud of the
inﬂ uence Antioch had on Sam and Esther Serling’s sons Rod and Bob and
their successful careers. Carol Serling and their daughters Jody and Nan
help carry on his name, his writings and the Twilight Zone mystique which
has become part of our language.
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Fred Woodress ’48 is proud
to announce the publication of his
new book, Slave or Free & 11 Other
Problem-Solving Plays, co-authored
by Anne Blackmon Woodress, with
a foreword by Cliff Robertson ’46.
Slave or Free is a compilation of
58 years of playwriting from “Im-
passe,” written in 1946 in William
G. B. Carson’s English 16 Playwrit-
ing Class at Washington University,
St. Louis, to Slave or Free about
Sacagawea and York of the Lewis
& Clark Expedition. Slave or Free
was chosen a ﬁ nalist out of 1,100
scripts submitted for Actors Theatre
of Louisville’s Annual Ten Minute
Playwriting Contest, Humana Festi-
val 2004.
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Fred Woodress, a retired journalism professor, is the author of Slave or Free and 11 other Prob-
lem-Solving Plays with wife Anne Blackmon Woodress, with introductory comments by Cliff
Robertson, Oscar and Emmy Award Winning actor, for AuthorHouse, January 2005.

ClassNotes
Antiochian 24
Students initiated into Anchors Hall in 1927
Mr. Morgan addressing a crowd
Students on a Thorne-Loomis Tour
A survey company on co-op with the Morgan Engineering Co.
Albert O’Neall ’31 writes: “Last week
I received a copy of the Fall 2004 edi-
tion of the Antiochian and have been
reading it ever since! It’s interesting to
see what is going on at Antioch now – as
compared to 70 years ago. That number
seems impossible, but I was a student
at Antioch from September 1927 until
June of 1931. It does not seem pos-
sible! I was a little sad not to see more
names from the “past,” but that 70 years
makes a huge difference. I do remember
Connie Hurlbut ’29. And there was a
death notice for Hadley Case ’33 who
would have been there when I was, but
I do not seem to remember him. As
someone said, “It is hell to get old,”
but it sure beats the alternative! After
reading some of the Antiochian I went
through my photo album, and found
some photos that might be of interest
for your archives – and here they are.
The nicest photo is “Mr. Morgan ad-
dressing a crowd” on campus, east of
North Hall. You can see him standing
– in about the middle of the photo. This
was probably at commencement about
1929 or 1930. Then I have a photo of a
survey party, on a co-op job with the
Morgan Engineering Company. (Sur-
veying for planning for a ﬂood control
project for the city of Springﬁeld, Ohio.)
Then there are two photos of students
on a Thorne-Loomis tour, sponsored
by the College. The College sponsored
several of these tours in 1931 and 1932,
and I had the pleasure and privilege of
traveling on four of them (and was in
charge of three of the four). Then I am
not sure about the last photo! When I
was at Antioch the bottom three ﬂoors
of South Hall were loosely organized,
mainly for intramural athletic purposes.
This was the new group of students
assigned to Anchors Hall-South Hall,
(ﬁrst ﬂoor west) in the ﬁrst period in
the Fall of 1927. For “initiation” into
Anchors Hall we were required to sleep
in these lovely outﬁts for the ﬁrst period.
The clown in the middle, with the tie
(Bill Waltemath) said he was not going
to sleep naked like that, so the neck tie!
(It is my understanding that the College
ofﬁcials said that this was too much like
a fraternity, and they abolished the halls
organizations. Too bad!) My purpose
is to thank you for the newsletter, and
to recall some of the “good old days.” I
went through all four years at Antioch
as “Bert O’Neall.”
Bob Wilson ’39 writes: “Antioch in
the ’30s… (As recalled on my 91st
birthday.) Arthur E. Morgan was presi-
dent in the fall of 1931. Miriam Dick-
erson from the Records Ofﬁce was the
hostess for a picnic in the Glen for the
newly arrived freshies and we soon
learned that ‘Dick’s’ personality had a
major impact upon this friendly home
away from home. The faculty had
personalities that didn’t always show
in the classroom. Hermie Schnurer
taught French to a handful of us in the
Corner House. When he showed up
one morning, more disheveled than
usual he explained he had stayed up
’40s
Larry Miller ’41 writes: “I enjoyed
the piece, “More Infamous Pranksters
of Antioch College” in the Fall 2004
issue. I had somehow missed the ﬁrst
installment. Here is a story of another
prank, on in which I was personally
involved, probably in the academic
year 1940-1941. I was among several
freshman who lived in an off-campus
residence, Gunsway, with the assis-
tance/supervision of two senior class-
men. A rivalry developed between our
house and another off-campus house
down the street, closer to the center
of Yellow Springs. Some students
from this other house secretly put
some Limburger cheese in our living
room’s standing lamp that cast a light
upon the ceiling. When the lamp was
turned on there was a stink through-
out the house. In retaliation, some
of us under the leadership of the two
senior classmen, got up at 2 a.m. one
night, went over to their house, and
attempted to remove from the closets
in the bedrooms, every single pair
of trousers. These pants to be neatly
folded and transported to the second
ﬂoor of the girl’s dormitory on cam-
pus. We were almost completely suc-
cessful until one student woke up and
caught us in the act. We ﬂed the scene,
regretfully leaving some trousers on
the porch. The College administra-
tion was never able to identify exactly
who had been involved in the prank,
but Gunsway was reprimanded. No
further pranks took place that year
between the two off-campus houses.”
Martin Huff ’45 writes: “Four years
ago, Anne Huff ’43 and I moved to
Oakland, CA’s Piedmont Gardens, a
continuing care retirement commu-
nity. I’ve just been elected president
of the Resident Council. Other new
ofﬁcers: Secretary: Winifred Olson
McLaughlin ’45; and Treasurer:
Newell Landes Erwin ’47. Anne was
Assistant Secretary several years ago.
Our local Neighborhood League is
governed by a seven-person Steering
Committee. It has two Antiochians
on it – Jim Ploss ’72 and myself. The
C.E.O. of The California Association
of Homes and Services for the Aging
is Anne Burns Johnson ’68. All in
all, a pretty good concentration of
Antiochians!” (Martin Huff trans-
ferred to UC, Berkeley after almost
ﬁ ve years in the Merchant Marine)
Friends write: 110 41st St., #501,
Oakland, CA 94611-5239, martin_
huff@hotmail.com
all night reading Franz Werfel’s ‘Forty
Days of Musa Dagh,’ the tragic tale of
Armenians trying to escape the Turks
post WWI. Hermie’s compassion re-
placed the French Lesson that day. Al-
bert Liddle wore spats, carried a cane
and taught English Literature. After a
faculty party he climbed an oak tree
that overlooked Livermore Street to
recite a bit of Milton’s ‘L ’ Allegro.’
George Geiger required more atten-
tion in his philosophy class than he
did on the tennis court, but the latter
was more fun. For eats it was the café,
Tea Room or Tavern; haircuts Sanford
(25 cents) or Geigner (40 cents). The
all-inclusive intramural program had
students playing Slim Dawson’s fac-
ulty teams. J.D. Dawson packed us off
to co-op jobs. Basil Pilliard directed
our plays. We dove off the cliffs into
the Miami River with Freddie Peake
’26, the math assistant. When prohibi-
tion was repealed in 1933, sloe gin was
substituted for the home brew we had
been drinking in the speakeasies of
Dayton and Springﬁeld. DIV dances,
poker in the dorm, parties in the Glen,
and occasional trips to Cincinnati to
dance to Jan Garber and to Columbus
for Artie Shaw. John Dewey stared
at the ceiling of Kelly Hall as he
quietly voiced a bit of his philosophy.
Jose Limon danced in the old Opera
House and came to lunch with us at
the Limehouse. Arthur Rubenstein
played in a cold Springﬁeld hall to a
scattering crowd who paid 50 cents
for an enchanted evening. With few
cars on campus those who had them
were generous in providing a ride to
the co-op job or the speakeasy, but the
lack of mobility for off-campus activ-
ity made for a friendly community of
faculty and students. When “Pomp
and Circumstances” was played on a
scratchy seventy-eight record player,
we walked up to the Horace Mann
mound to receive our degrees and toss
tassels across the mortar board, we
might have been moved again by the
challenge. “Be ashamed to die until
you have won some victory for human-
ity!” For most of us that year it was
soon to be WWII, the GI Bill, a job
and a family… Always leaving some
space where the Antioch experience
could be recalled with gratitude and
warmth.”
’30s
Photos by Albert O’Neall ’31

Spring 2005 25
’50s
Carlton Wheeler ’50 writes: “I relo-
cated to Oregon in 1991, after thirty-
four years in Puerto Rico, where I had
a plastics extrusion factory.” Carlton
Wheeler, 7915 West Highway 126-#28,
Redmond, Oregon 97756-9257, 541-
504-4482, carlwhee@bendcable.com
William R. Ginsberg ’52 writes:
“Time marches on. I am now an
“Emeritus” professor at Hofstra Law
School, but not “retired.” I do substan-
tial work in the ﬁeld of open-space
protection with various conservation
organizations and am active with or-
ganizations in the housing, planning,
music and arts organizations where I
serve on various boards and commit-
tees. Grandchildren are Simon and
Zachary, soon to be seven and ﬁve.”
Ann Reilly Pratt ’52 writes: “Greet-
ings to fellow Antiochians. I’d love to
hear from members of the class of 1952
or members near that time period. After
Antioch I earned a Ph.D. in Psychology
in 1970 at the University of Minnesota.
Then I went on to teach at Elmhurst
College in Elmhurst, Illinois. Then I
taught at Capital University in Colum-
bus, Ohio. An annual prize exists in
my name for the highest achieving
Psychology major at Capital University.
I retired from Capitol University in
1985 and was widowed in 1998. Re-
cently, my mission has been paved by
successful eye surgery. I live with my
daughter-in-law, my late son’s wife.”
Ann Reilly Pratt, 33554 Wolf Hill
Road, McArthur, Ohio 45651
Neysa Corrigan-Neumann ’52
writes: “Retired from Eckerd Col-
lege after 18 years. Trying to reach
Anne Fairty George who attended
Antioch with me. Last known address
was in Pomona, New York. Our high
school reunion (57th) is in November.
Wishing to invite her! Thanks for any
help.” Neysa Corrigan Neumann 4801
Osprey Dr. S. E-205, St. Petersberg,
Florida 3371. Neumannb@eckerd.edu
Theodore Fritsch ’53 writes: “Af-
ter graduate study at Yale Divinity
School and ordination in the United
Church of Christ, I served churches in
Southern California; Portland; Maine;
Bronxville, New York and Westwood,
Maine. Mary Ann Ball and I have
two sons, Peter and Andrew, and
four grandkids: two in Singapore and
two here in Cape Cod.” Theodore
Fritsch, 70 Landing Lane, North Cha-
tham, Maine 02650, 508-945-2171,
tfrit@comcast.net
Judy Rubin Bramson ’54 writes:
“I’m downsizing by giving up the
house I’ve lived in for forty-ﬁve years,
for a house half its size. It’s a rundown
1922 Sears Catalog Craftsman that
besides being much smaller, needs
a fortune to ﬁx it up! I’ll be much
nearer to my kids and my younger
granddaughter’s school is only one
and half blocks away.” Judy Rubin
Bramson, 321 Twenty-Fourth Street,
Sacremento, California 95816
Ruth Steegmann ’54 was presented
with a distinguished service award
at the annual conference on the New
York Association of School Psycholo-
gists on October 14, 2004. Her com-
mendation, the Leadership in School
Psychology Award was given in Buf-
falo, NY. In recognition of her public
school based career where she super-
vised several interns over the years,
her service to NYSAP as Publications
Chairperson and Chapter C represen-
tative, and her continuing career as
Clinical Coordinator of the School
Psychology and counseling Psychol-
ogy programs at State University of
New York, Buffalo.
Alice V. Teeter Uyttebrouck ’55
writes: “I was seventy-three in May
of 2004. As the years go by, I ﬁnd
myself thinking of things I used to
do and cannot do now, like jump
rope. So, when my sixty-ﬁfth year
approached, I decided to do one of
those things, namely horseback rid-
ing. Particularly, posting when the
horse trotted. I practiced a bit, sitting
backwards on a chair. I did ride and it
was great! Now I won’t say I used to
anymore. Hurrah!” Alice Uyttebro-
uck, 1101 Iroquois, #216, Naperville,
Illonios, 60563-9376, 630-717-9512,
whitegables@ntsource.com
Richard Kellaway ’56 writes: “I am
living in an ofﬁce building which I
own in the historic district of the old
whaling port of New Bedford, MA.
After years of serving parish ministry
and religious action organizations
(with piles of sermons, papers and
articles), I have a splendid loft with
gallery space to share an extensive
collection of international folk art.
I am currently, working on a major
biography of Rev. William J. Potter,
my distinguished late 19th predecessor
here and the founder and mainstay of
the Free Religious Association. I am a
compulsive traveler (with too much of
the world yet to see), art collector and
opera lover. I am happily and ami-
cably separated with delightful new
partner, two adult children and two
grandchildren.”
Gwinn Lacy ’57 writes: “On June 3,
2003, I retired from the Mercy Health
System after 10 years as a chaplain. I
had served as clergy in the West Ohio
Conference of the United Methodist
Church from 1963. I have a BA from
Earlham College in Richmond, Indi-
ana, a Master of Divinity from Wesley
Theological Seminary in Washington,
D.C. and a Doctor of Ministry from
United Theological Seminary in Day-
ton, Ohio.”
Niela Miller ’57 writes: “I have been
invited to be a mentor for Antioch
University’s relatively new PhD pro-
gram called “Leadership and Change”
(which was described in a previous
Antiochian). I combine my back-
ground in the arts, education and psy-
chology to train people professionals
to enhance their effectiveness through
the use of metaphorical arts and psych
processes. On a personal creative
note, I have been composing for the
piano, doing colored pencil drawing,
and doing a memoir project. I was
saddened to hear of the deaths of Walt
Anderson and Art Lithgow, both of
whom I knew, studied and worked
with and admired. Shakespeare-Un-
der-the-Stars coincided with my years
at Antioch so I got to compose, act,
make props and, generally, learn my
Shakespeare up close and personal!
Contact me through my website:
www.peoplesystemspotential.com.”
Harve E. Rawson ’57 writes: “I re-
cently passed the 156 mark for coun-
tries visited. I guess the wanderlust
from my co-op jobs taking me to new
and different places just never wore
off. I enjoy traveling and have recently
published my second travel book
(my ﬁ fth book overall). It’s entitled A
Delightful Ordeal: Travel Tales that
Teach. The books takes a number of
different countries few people actually
visit and examines what their cultures
are like and might teach us: all the way
from Saudi Arabia to Newfoundland
to Chile to the 10 best train rides in the
world. I’m also a reviewer for Fulbright
Scholar applications in psychology,
write grants for local non-proﬁ ts, and
am busy preparing myself for my
longest trip ever – a four-month trip
around the world to countries I haven’t
visited yet.”
Harvey Birenbaum ’58 writes: “I
have retired after 39 years teaching
in the English Dept. at San Jose State
University of California. My two
main areas of specialization were
Shakespeare plus other Renaissance
literature, especially drama; and the
study of myth, especially in relation
to culture in general. I’ve published
ﬁ ve books over the years, including
Myth and Mind, Between Blake and
Nietzsche: The Reality of Culture,
and The Happy Critic. During the
summer of 1997, I taught a course on
Shakespeare at Antioch.”
Ellen Shatter ’59 writes: “I didn’t
graduate from Antioch. I only lasted
a year there and ﬁnished my studies at
Queens College. After having worked
for thirty-three years as a librarian at
the San Francisco Public Library, I re-
tired and moved to Providence, Rhode
Island. I’m enjoying my retirement
greatly. Sorry, I haven’t won any great
victories for humanity.” Ellen Shat-
ter, 75 Chace Avenue, Providence,
Rhode Island 02906, 401-714-0417,
e2shatter2@cox.net
Carl Ulrich ’59 writes: “Paula Nee
Kreisberg ’59 and I are now retired
and living in Edmonton, after leav-
ing our acreage near Peers, Alberta,
where we lived for the last thirty
years. I had worked for the town of
Edson as the Director if Community
Services and Paula had a private prac-
tice as a mental health therapist.” Carl
Ulrich, 4712-143 Street NW, Edmon-
ton, Alberta, T6H 4C8, Canada, 780-
434-2423, culrich@incentre.net
’60s
William Morris ’60 writes: “I retired
from community college teaching (de-
velopmental reading) and live about an
hour North of Lake Tahoe in a lovely
town of 2500 souls in a lake studded
section of the Sierra. My wife Toni and
I live in a four bedroom home awaiting
Antioch alumni or student visitors! My
son and two granddaughters live in
Australia; my daughter and two grand-
sons live in Texas. I hope to attend the
2005 reunion and ﬂy to New Zealand
and Australia in the fall. Check out
www.puzzlechairs. com for my family
business and great gifts. I would love
to hear from classmates!”
HF (Smitty) Smith ’61 & Sue Smith
’61 write: “Going on eight years, still
living “our dream” in the quiet, rural
Appalachian mountains of western
North Carolina. Abundant wildlife
shares our thirteen acres of hardwood
forest, acres fertile land, mountain
storerooms, spring water, propane
fuel (we’re not electricity dependent).
Dealing with prostrate cancer these
past three years. One in six will con-
tract this disease! Heed these words!!
Go straight to Dr. Critz’s Radiother-
apy Clinic of Georgia (www.RCOG.
com). Guaranteed best treatment that
is currently available, anywhere! For
more info query through our email
Jane Carroll Carman ’44 writes:
“Ed Carman ’39 and I married in
1940. We lived and worked all over
the U.S. including a year in Missis-
sippi and three years in the Philip-
pines. Ed ﬂew airplanes during and
after World War II. Our marriage has
survived for sixty-four years. Coping
with and conquering life’s hazards,
and achievements, I give credit to an
Antioch education. Antioch made me
unafraid to job-hunt anywhere, ﬁnd
places to live, have three children and
live to be 84. My son Tom Carman
’71 loves his life as an elementary
school principal. Acquiring a Master’s
degree at Berkeley and being a high
school counselor for twenty-two years
were major highlights of my life.”
Jane Carroll, 100 Heavenly Court,
Roseville, California 95747-8315
Phyllis Drescher ’45 writes: “ I’ve
been retired since 1989. I taught con-
versational English in Dailan, China
in 1992. I was an Original Senecan
and ﬁrst Course Developer of the
Early Childhood Education Program
1967-1987. I obtained an MA in Hu-
man Development, with a special
interest in social interaction between
teacher and children in preschool
programs. This later turned into a sab-
batical study of European preschool
programs in 1979. I went on to teach
creative programming of preschool
programs. My latest hobbies are
gardening, doing pottery with my
grandchildren and playing my oboe
with preschoolers.”
Dudley Josselyn ’46 writes: “I have
four grown children and eight grand-
children. My wife of 51 years, Doro-
thy, died last year. I am a conservative
evangelical Republican and I do not
agree with Agenda 21 or sustainable
development.”
Margaret Bourcier ’49 writes: “After
forty-six years in one place, I am in
the throes of down-sizing to a smaller
house in a different area, near Oneonta.
I am moving to be near my daughter.”
P.O. Box 187, Morris, NY 13808, 607-
263-5703, laddiesmbmathis@aol.com
Betsy Purdy Mazursky ’49 writes:
“My granddaughter who is studying
political history at Kenyon asked me
what “actions” I took at Antioch. It was
during the war and there were Jamai-
cans brought to Ohio to peel crops.
I organized dances for them with
Antioch girls. Their interaction was
disappointing but the crops were well
taken care of.” Betsy Purdy Mazursky,
509 No. Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills,
California, 90210
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Diana Slattery Reed ’63 writes: “I
published my ﬁrst novel in 2003 – The
Maze Game. It is Science Fiction. I have
branched into electronic interactive
media and performance in the last nine
years. Currently, I am working on my
Ph.D. with the Planetary Collegium, out
of the University of Plymouth, UK. My
day job is in educational multi-media at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I have
two kids (not seven, per the directory!)
and four grandkids. I am home in Ire-
land, having serious fun!” Diana Reed,
33 Woodlawn Avenue, Albany, New
York 12208, slattd@r pi.edu
Terri (Charlotte) Shaw ’63, of Wash-
ington, DC, is almost retired from The
Washington Post and has begun a new
career as a translator and interpreter.
She has been interpreting in courts,
medical ofﬁces, hospitals and confer-
ences. She also became a grandmother
twice this fall. Her daughter, Natasha
Stovall and her husband, novelist
Colson Whitehead, had Madeline
Juniper Stovall Whitehead on October
4th. Her stepdaughter Gemesa Gray
and her husband, Andre Chinn, of the
journalism department at the Univer-
sity of Oregon, had Owen Gray Chinn
on Nov. 3. Terri also teaches skiing at
Whitetail resort in Pennsylvania. She
enjoyed hearing from Antioch Friends,
SuzyQ Groden ’63, Joel Schulman
’64, Ellen Shatter ’63, Karen Mills
’65 and cousin Dick Barnet ’63 and
would like to hear from others at
t.shaw@rcn.com.
Daniel Gildesgame ’65 writes: “I am
currently teaching high school math in
the Bronx, New York City and would
love to hear from my old Design/Art
people, as I am returning in my work
to those thoughts, to apply them to my
work. I have been in Yoga for the last
year or so, and that has provided a great
deal of focus.” Daniel Gildesgame
Ph.D., 100 Waller Avenue, White
Plains, New York, 10605
Bernie Guyer ’65 writes: “On October
22, 2004, seven Antiochians (and two
current spouses) from the class that
started in Mills/Caldwell in September
1960 got together for an evening of
schmoozing, laughing and dinner in
Crystal City, VA. Tom Newbury and
Abby Dunning Newbury were in town
from Alaska. Mark Post ’66 and Steve
Longstreth came from California.
Steve (and Mary Ellen) Goldberg
’65 and Dennis Merrill ’65 came up
from Richmond, VA. Sandy Davis
(Falls Church, V A) and Bernie Guyer
(Baltimore) were the local townies. Bob
Wasserman ’65 had intended to come
but cancelled at the last minute because
Ray Constance Hearne ’67 writes:
“The ﬂoods of hurricanes Frances and
Ivan removed precious from my long
lane in the valley of Big Sandy Mush
(near Asheville), but left my cove Gaia
and my old mountain hut unscathed! In
1998, I moved here from York county,
Pennsylvania, where I had restored a
1798 stone house which I ran as a B+B
for sixteen years. Present career to be
discovered! I began my sixth year in
France on May 1, 2004 and walked
ﬁve hundred miles to Santiago de
Compostela, Spain as a peace walk; I’m
working on a photo exhibit now. Friends
please write!” Ray Constance Hearne,
91 Bald Creek Road, Leicester, North
Carolina, 28748-5410
Arthur Rosenstein ’67 retired last
year after 26 years in the manufacture
of airplane engines for General Elec-
tric in Massachusetts. He is enjoying
the wonderful climate of Southern
California and working part-time at
the local Trader Joe’s.
Joan Wiener Jones ’68 writes: “Mov-
ing to Boetar for one academic year. My
husband will be a senior visiting fellow
at the Kennedy School of Government,
Howard after being to Awl. Brewer No-
vember 3-June 28, 2004. I am an R.N.
We have four children ages 12-27.”
Mary Staller ’68 writes: “My life has
seemed like a continuation of my An-
tioch education, with many changes
of location and occupation. I seem
now to have settled with my husband
and work partner, Richard, in North
Carolina. After an on and off career
as a social worker (most recently in a
hospice) and a meditation teacher. I
also seem to have settled into a career
involving the intuitive and alternative
healing arts. I have a private practice,
teach workshops and have an appren-
ticeship program. Our biggest accom-
plishment (other than really enjoying
ourselves) is a guided meditation CD
that’s become a top seller on Amazon.
com.” Mary Staller Maddux, PO. Box
150, Sonoma, California 95476, 707-
933-9111, mem@heartofhealing.net
Diane Ohlsson ’69 writes: “Hi Antioch!
I’ve been in Berkeley now since 1975.
All started with 1967 co-op job here;
knew I had to return. Writing a book
about my adventures as a realtor here
for 29 years. A comedy of course. Have
had several exceptionally fun experi-
ences working with Antiochians buying
or selling real estate in the East Bay
marketplace.” Diane Ohlsson, 1204
Stannage Avenue, Berkeley, California
94706, 510-280-2139, 510-526-5273,
realdi@aol.com
of business in Europe. After 40 years,
it wasn’t that easy to recognize each
other. I’d say that Newbury was the
most recognizable, but with a head of
gorgeous white hair. There were some
pretty hefty beer bellies in the crowd.
Goldberg was still trying to look svelt
and intimidating! Lots of stories were
told about knees (and other body parts)
that used to work well. There were a
few harrowing medical tales. It’s quite
remarkable that in this group of 7 An-
tiochians we had 3 PhDs, 1 lawyer and
1 MD. That’s not a bad post-graduate
education record. There were a few with
many wives; most with many children;
some remarkably long marriages – 40+
years. By the way, there were lots of
senior moments of short-term memory
lapses. I think we mostly decided that it
was accidental that we had gone to An-
tioch. There were a few older siblings
who had attended. There was an occa-
sional inﬂuential teacher. Generally we
ended up in Yellow Springs unaware of
what we were getting into. But I didn’t
hear any regrets from this crowd. We
remembered a few old teachers and
some classic co-op job experiences. All
in all it was a very warm evening. The
group honored the memories of Steve
Straker ’65 who died this summer at
age 61 or 62 and Bob Brody who passed
away tragically in 1996. Steve spent his
entire career at University of British
Columbia where he was a respected
teacher. Brody was a marine biologist
who last worked at the St. John River Man-
agement District where he was contrib-
uting to the preservation of the marine
environment. (See group photo.)”
David Allen ’66 writes: “Hello from
David Allen a.k.a. Yazz Cudd. During
the last calendar year (2003-2004), I’ve
acted in six Hollywood studio movies
and in two national HBO TV series
shows (The Wire and The West Wing),
all shot in Baltimore, Maryland and
Washington, DC areas. I’m chair of
the ‘movie actor’s co-op organization’
(MACO), an actor’s self help, mutual
beneﬁt group in the Washington, DC
area. And I also teach movie history at
the community college of Baltimore
County, Maryland. I’ve written a
movie history book titled ‘Maryland
Movies/Maryland Cinema’ about the
hundred years of feature ﬁlm produc-
tion in the state of Maryland. Also,
I participated in the internet, on-line
Antioch Alumni chatline and contrib-
ute money to Antioch every year. I still
folk dance and have acquired ﬁfty dif-
ferent Antioch red square folk dances
from the sixties.” David Allen, 21257
Mikules Manner Lane, Freeland,
Maryland 21053, DavidAllenUSA@
yahoo.com, yazzcudd@yahoo.com
address: shfsmith@aol.com. Early
diagnosis is your best chance for an
86% cure rate or better.” HF Smith,
8 Crystal Creek Crone-RR#2, Green
Mountain, North Carolina 28740
Marc Gurvitch ’62 writes: “I resided
in the DC area for 25 years. My son
Josh was born in 1970 and is currently
a teacher in Denver. His mother is An-
tiochian Gerry Frees ’65. I moved to
Boston in 1991, married and now have a
9 year old son, Eli. I have been working
in the mental health area since 1972 and
became an RN in 1984. I am currently
working on a master’s in nursing.”
Mike Yarrow ’63 and Ruth Morris
Yarrow ’62
write: “Mike and Ruth
Yarrow are just returning as organiz-
ers for Western Washington Fellow-
ship of Reconciliation. They recently
were awarded the 2004 Distinguished
Citizen Award for Human Rights from
the City of Seattle and the UN Associa-
tion. Their son Matt is studying ecol-
ogy at the University of Chile (South
America). Their daughter Delia works
on housing for low income families in
New York City. Ruth and Mike enjoy
mountain backpacking.”
Michaela Grudin ’63 writes:
“Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron
and the Birth of Modernity, Sum-
mer Seminar (July 18-August 18,
05, directed by Michaela Paasche
Grudin, Ph.d. Seminar will be housed
at Campriano (see the website:
www. campriano.it) and, in addition
to study of the Decameron, include
conversational Italian with Lavinia
Bracci, and cooking lessons by the
villa chef, Luigi Ricci. Brochure can
be accessed on the web: www.lclark.
edu/dept/ccps (click on “travel”); or
contact michaelagrudin@yahoo.com
or grudin@lclark.edu.”
A group of Mills/Caldwell
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’80s
Shelley Diamond ’80 recently earned
her Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook
Graduate School in San Francisco. Her
dissertation title was “The Develop-
ment of Expertise in Self-Management
of Chronic Illness.” Dr. Diamond
is a psychotherapist at the Institute
on Aging, working with elderly and
chronically ill adults. She also gives
lectures and writes essays. “I have fond
memories of the students at North Hall
in 1975 and Presidents dorm in 1976,
the Wednesday night dances, the Glen,
Young’s Dairy, and Ha-Ha Pizza. As for
courses, Ben Thompson’s The Learner
and the Learning Process and a phi-
losophy class using the ﬁlms of Ingmar
Bergman made lasting impressions on
me. Best wishes to all from my time….”
Peter Kumble ’80 writes: “This past
year I accepted a tenure track teaching
position in the department of Land-
scape Architecture and Environment
Planning at Utah State University in
Logan. I am actually really enjoying
teaching full-time and have a great
bunch of graduate students to work
with. I had been a partner in a land-
scape architecture and resource
From left to right are: Jeff Gold, Danny Dover, Jonathan
Keehn, Jeremy Hollis
Crossing paths in Washington, DC, Public Service Commis-
sion member Rick Morgan ’72 (left), converses with utility
executives and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton ’60
(right) about rising energy costs in the nation’s capital.
Movement for Equality Now (SCLC/
W.O.M.E.N.). The award was given
at its 25th annual banquet and obser-
vance of the life, times and legacy of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Patton
serves as archivist at the Trenholm
State Technical College in Montgom-
ery, Alabama, which is the repository
for special collections of pioneer civil/
voting rights activists. Visit www.
southern spaces.org/contents/2004/
patton to learn about the archives and
to hear our alumna speak.”
Fred Smith ’74 writes: “When I
lived in Alabama there were so few
Antioch alums around that I prom-
ised myself if I ever moved to the
Northeast I would make contact.
So I moved to New Haven a couple
months ago, where I am a Professor
of Forensic Science at the University
of New Haven. I’d sure like to tag up
with some Antiochians one of these
days.” fpsmith@mindspring.com,
fsmith@newhaven.edu, 203-932-7105
Charles B. Lerner ’74 writes: “I’ve
been a chiropractor for 18 years and
an acupuncturist for the last 7 years.
I love helping people and have a par-
ticular interest in oriental medicine.
I am pursuing a MS in acupuncture
currently and plan on continuing my
education in integrative medicine. I’m
divorced and have 2 children, Gavin
age 20, and Danielle age 15.” Charles
Lerner, PO Box 281-853 Bantam
Road, Bantam, CT 06750, 860-567-
2300, drlerner@msn.com
Debbora Bartel Quayle ’75 writes:
“After a stint in corporate America
that lasted too long, I returned to my
liberal arts roots to work at Hamilton
College as Director of Help Desk &
Training in Information Technology.
The work is great and I love being in
touch with today’s youth. My own two
children have ﬂown the coop. One just
graduated from college as an artist/
jeweler and the other just started col-
lege. Matt (my partner) and I ﬁll the
void with birding, hiking and making
nature videos and caring for our crop
of pets and backyard critters. Would
love to hear from old friends.” Debby
Bartel 3787 Dawe Avenue, Clinton,
New York 13323
Iris Valanti ’75 wites: “Dear Friends,
I got unceremoniously laid off in
June after 14 years at the same col-
lege theatre department. So began an
unanticipated re-evaluation of career
and subsequently life, that has now
landed me at the Greater Pittsburgh
Community Food Bank as the new
Public Relations Coordinator, and
loving it. Since I always thought art
was food for the soul, as necessary
as bread, I guess it follows that bread
must be as necessary as art, and I get
to spend my life helping people have
both. Still freelance directing – just
ﬁnished a much praised production of
David Hare’s Skylight. Friends email:
creepingivy@earthlink.net.”
Amy Sherman ’76 writes: “I used
to feel bi-coastal and now I’m just bi-
county; working in LA at UCLA as
Director of Development for UCLA
Libraries; and living in OC with (2nd
husband) Robert Simon. In our blend-
ed family, we have ﬁve children be-
tween the ages of 15-22, although our
nest in primarily empty. Life is good.
I’m looking for Libby Silberling with
whom I had an amazing visit on Mt.
Desert Island in Maine about ﬁve years
ago. I’d love to ﬁnd her again. I can be
reached at amys@library.ucla.edu.”
Caroline Campbell Rodgers ’76
writes: “It’s amazing what sometimes
follows an Antioch education. I wound
up spending 20 years in journalism –
ﬁrst at the New York Post, then at the
National Enquirer. Late in the game I
married and had two beautiful girls.
Unfortunately while our children were
still young, my husband died from
lung cancer. A year after he died, the
twin towers fell and I was among those
tested for anthrax exposure at Ameri-
can Media. Since then we’ve moved to
Pennsylvania, where I’ve been work-
ing as a substitute teacher while my
children attend third and sixth grade
at a Quaker school.” Caroline Rodg-
ers, 133 Bellevue Ave, Springﬁeld, PA
19064, 610-328-1225, Crbiz1@aol.com
Dale S. Brown ’76 writes: “I have done
something I would have considered
impossible during my Antioch days –
completing 25 years of government ser-
vice in the same job and retiring. Now
I have 2 years “off” to determine my
next career in social justice. Will start
a series of co-ops.” Dale Brown, 4570
MacArthur Blvd, NW #104, Wash, DC
20007, dale-brown@mindspring.com
Alan Bitterman ’76 writes: “After
way too many years working at “ca-
reers” that made no sense, I’m ﬁnally
pursuing my Ph.D. in Educational
Psychology at Rutgers University. I’m
teaching there as well. Really loving it.
Hoping to be a professor in a few years.
Maybe at Antioch… who knows?
I’ve also written about 60-70 original
songs. Guitar and piano. Hey… just
trying to keep busy. Looking for John
Jacobs and Carol Hunsaker. Any info?
Write AlanBitterman@msn.com.
Thanks. Be well.”
Michael McCoy ’77 writes: “A mo-
mentous summer: 1) I passed the half-
way point in my Counseling Masters
program, 2) I celebrated my half-cen-
tury birthday and, a week later, 3) our
son, Aaron, celebrated his ﬁrst birth-
day.” Michael McCoy, 7431North-
ridge Ave., NE, Albuquerue, NM
87109, michaelm@kaibab.net
Gerri Chizeck ’77 writes: “This is
my new address: 12530 Indianapolis
St, Los Angeles, CA 90066, 310-390-
6518, Gchizeck@aol.com”
Lynn Hirschberg ’79 writes: “I am
in my 6th year teaching preschool spe-
cial-ed in Xenia and Tim is in his 22nd
year as a shoe repairman also in Xenia.
Our sons Andy (15) and Nicky (11)
are doing ﬁne. Both are good athletes
and good cooks and great company.
We drove out to Seattle this summer
to visit Anna Seaberg ’78 and Hollis
’79 as well as Eileen Ronsheim. Would
love to hear from Julie Baenziger –
lost your address.” Lynn Hirschberg
Sontag 1047 E. Hyde Road, Yellow
Springs, Ohio 45387, ltansontag@cs.
com
Jim Dinsmore ’69 writes: “better to
love one person wholly and fully than
to love mankind.” Jim Dinsmore, the
non-proﬁt, non-prophet.
‘A Fight Against Terror’ –
A poem for Labor Day, 2004
The ﬁght against terror
Is our own terror
We fear most
A subterfuge at best
As the war in Iraq, Afganistan, wherever
It is a question of survival
The strong against the weak
Can we destroy them
Muslim holy men
Women and children
In our almighty quest
To invoke the almighty
As if we destroy the evidence
Driving the innocent into the earth
Like the Nazi’z
We can wave the American ﬂag
And be free
September 11 is proof posititve
American lives wrapped in American ﬂags
Are worth more than our liberties
Our Constitution
Our faith in a system
Gone amok
Thank you, Osama
For reminding us
Of our misdeeds
American Indians pay close attention to this:
Our founding fathers did not include you
You are free
Osama would not touch you
With knife or bomb
You are descended from the gods
Only Americans have the right
To destroy you
In the name of Christ
Lover of mankind
Perverted by the American perverts
With their submissive wives
And their god-awful arrogant children
Who want to take over the world
So sure they are right
With all their might
With all their might
’70s
Jeremy Hollis ’71 writes: “Last sum-
mer a few of us got together in North-
ern California (Nevada City). We are
1971 graduates.”
Gwen Patton ’72 writes: “Dr. Gwen
Patton was presented the “Drum
Major for Justice Award” by the
Southern Christian Leadership Con-
ference/Women’s Organizational
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Jeanne Papish, 2960 E. College Ave
#H2, Boulder, CO 80303, 720-406-
0684, jredhead@comcast.net
Laura Camozzi ’82 writes: “This
summer it will be 12 years since we
moved to Tucson and I’m just now
beginning to feel entirely at home in
this very hot but funkily interesting
place. I teach in the English Depart-
ment at the University; David Berry
’79 is the principal of a middle school.
Elliot is 14 and starting high school in
the fall at his progressive Antioch-like
school; Alice is 7 and in the process
of rejecting pink as her favorite color.
Scott Tremiel ’81 will visit in May.
Wish I could go to Bob Fogarty’s
party in New York.” Friends email
berry@email.arizona.edu
Edward Carmien ’85 writes: “Mar-
ried a dozen years (JoAnn, a Rutgers
Dean), two kids (Kate and Gillian), As-
sistant Professor at Rider University’s
Westminster Choir College (up for the
big T this year), new book out about
Cherryh (see Book Notes), two stories
out in ’05, recently helped fellow
Mark Zoole ’85 celebrate a very An-
tioch wedding in St. Louis along with
other A-people: Karl, Chris, Jaime and
Mike. No other Antiochian sightings to
report. carmine@mac.com.”
Angela Pringle ’85 writes: “I was at
Antioch from 1981-1983. I now reside
in NYC. I am an international singer/
performance artist. I would like to
perform in the Yellow Springs/Antioch
area. www.angeleyerecords.com.”
Daniel Kalish ’86 writes: “I have a
wonderful 6 year old son, Asa Kalish,
who occupies most of my time, when
not being a dad I run a large natural
health care clinic that provides care for
over 6,000 patients. I am now living in
Oakland, California. This next year I
am teaching seminars with Diana
Schwarzbein, MD, an endocrinologist
who has written several books and
specializes in menopause and weight
loss. My own book on natural female
hormone balancing is just completed to
be published early next year. Love to
hear from old friends.” Daniel Kalish,
5960 Broadway Terrace, Oakland, CA
94618, 510-928-1882, dr@drkalish.com.
’90s
Greta Egar Gosewisch ’92 writes:
“I need help ﬁnding a job! I am totally
lost!! But I did ﬁnally get my degree.
I ﬁnally got my BS in Chemistry from
conservation ﬁrm in Ann Arbor and
prior to that, Washington, DC. The
coolest thing about moving back to the
West are the mountains and big land-
scape vistas. Logan is in the Cache Val-
ley and the quality of hiking and biking
never ceases to amaze me. I will try and
get back to YSO this year for the 25th
reunion (now that’s scary). Friends feel
free to write: peter.kumble@usu.edu.”
Douglas Kohn & Susan Reva
Bloom ’81 write: “Our news is all
medical, mostly upbeat. Reva was
accepted into Clayton College School
of Naturapathic Medicine and began
studies this fall toward her ND. Pres-
ently, as a licensed Holistic Health
Practitioner, her massage therapy
practice is booming, and she has an
ofﬁce at the Redlands Holistic Health
Center, here in Redlands, California.
I am six months since diagnosis with
thyroid cancer, but after major neck
surgery in June and radiation in Au-
gust, I’m back to running and playing
golf, just ﬁnished leading the mara-
thon High Holy Days, and with Reva
am traveling to ﬁve Eastern European
countries in October, writing on the
Holocaust. Friends write or visit at
31052 E. Sunset Drive North, Red-
lands, CA 92373, or retroreva@aol.
com or dougkohn@aol.com.”
Ken Dermota ’81 writes: “I have
published a second book on the news
media, … And Well Tied Down:
Chile’s Press Under Democracy,
(Praeger) to positive reviews. I wrote
a how-to manual on the investigative
techniques used in that book and in
Chile Inedito (Ediciones B) for use by
Chilean journalists. The U.S. embassy
in the Dominican Republic published
a version of that manual for Domini-
can reporters. Besides working as an
editor for Latin America at Agence
France-Presse, I teach at Howard Uni-
versity and am invited State Depart-
ment speaker to Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic, the Dominican Republic
and Peru. My wife, Beatriz Elena
Leon, builds her law practice when
we are not with Eddie, three. Friends
write: ken.dermota@afp.com.”
K. Leigh Hilsinger ’81 has moved.
Friends write: 2580 Dagget Avenue,
Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601
Jeanne Papish ’81 writes: “Now
living in Boulder, Co. Boulder is a lot
like Yellow Springs, only more spiri-
tual and less political. I ﬁt in here like
I did at Antioch. I didn’t ﬁt in at many
mainstream places. Attempting to
make a living as a Professional Orga-
nizer – organizing homes and ofﬁces,
not political events. Antioch ideals
of community analyzing beneath the
surface level, and really thinking in-
stead of becoming a societal automa-
ton are still very much in my life.”
’00s
Jennifer Gerberick ’00 writes:
“I’ve been working as the Executive
Director of Main Street Mansﬁeld
for over 2 years now. In this position
I am an urban planner and run the
economic development activities for
Mansﬁeld, Ohio. I work to strengthen
small business growth, revitalize old
neighborhoods, save historic buildings
and bring the community together for
common goals. I am married to Mark
Kime, an executive chef with Western
Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio
and we have one son, Samuel John.”
Jennifer Gerberick, 52 Clifton Ave,
Mansﬁeld, OH 44907, 419-612-8910,
Jennifer@downtownmansﬁeld.com
Cara Moore ’02 writes: “After work-
ing as a legal researcher/law ﬁrm
librarian in Atlanta for two years, I
enrolled in CUNY School of Law
to pursue a career in public interest
law. I am still very much interested
in working within the realm that my
Antioch senior project explored – that
of social movements generally and
issues surrounding sex work and hu-
man trafﬁcking speciﬁcally.” Cara
Moore, 70-33 153rd St. #3, Flushing,
NY 11367, 516-526-7571, cmoore618
@hotmail.com
Me/’irah (Susan Merrick) Lliinsky
’04 writes: “Hi all! I don’t know what
class to put me in, as I began in 1963
and ended in 1984. (I think.) I was
Susan Merrick. Now, I’m Me’irah
Lliinsky. I left my Clinical Social
Work private practice in 1999 to go
to rabbinical school – (that means to
become a rabbi) Reconstructionist,
and that’s where I am still. I have
3 more years to graduation. I spent
the last two studying in Israel. (Who
would have thought???) I also do art-
work – illumination of biblical verse
– very colorful. And after 30 years
of marriage, to a wonderful husband,
and two remarkable sons, now 31
and 23 years old, we divorced, lov-
ingly, to venture on separate spiritual
paths. SO I am looking for a nice
Jewish (hip) man. And guess what? I
am living in the same community as
Stephen ’66 and Rebecca Lawrence
Tobias ’66, and helped me a great
deal to make my transition from the
west coast to the east.” Me’irah Iliini-
sky 101 W. Allens Lane, Philadelphia,
PA 19119. Meirah@earthlink.net
the UMN-IT. I need you!! I still be-
lieve!!” Greta Gosewisch, 2700 24th
St. NW, Rochester, MN 55901, 507-
289-1130, gretagos@charter.net
David Benson ’92 & Mara Stein
’90 wish to send their love and good
wises to all they remember. We have
been married for 10 years now and
have two children, Isaac(8) and Jac-
lyn(0.03). After leaving Antioch we
were both afﬂicted with the co-op
syndrome: we lived and worked in
ME, MA, NH and WI before set-
tling here in East Lansing, Michigan.
Mara received her MSW from Smith
in 1994 and is currently running the
local Early Head Start program. After
years of graduate school, David has
just earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical En-
gineering. David is starting a post-doc
at MSU in Astronomy and is looking
for a position where he can teach (edu-
cate). While David often feels that his
work is not socially redeemable, we
are both looking forward and doing
our best to live up to Horace Mann’s
ideals. bensond4@mus.edu, www.
pa.msu.edu/~ benson/
Leah Birkhold ’95 writes: “After
leaving Antioch and ﬁnishing my
undergraduate degree, I moved to
San Francisco to attend law school.
I work in a small family law ﬁrm.”
Leah Birkhold, 2070 Fell Street
#5, San Francisco, CA 94117.
Buggirl92002@yahoo.com
Lindsay Dunn ’96 writes: “I am
currently dividing my time between
New York City and Mexico City. In
New York I have been waitressing at
“Bonita” and studying Anthropology.
I would love to hear from old friends.”
Ben Leon ’99 writes: “I’ve been liv-
ing in San Francisco for ﬁve years.
After a few years as a graphic designer
I recently began a career in ﬁlm. I
have worked as an art director on
three small budget ﬁlms including
a collaborative ﬁlm project entitled
“Una pelicula de la Mission” which
won best feature award at New York
International Latino Film Festival.
More recently, I have taken a full
time job building sets and doing
lights and camera work for a small
but extremely successful gay porn
studio.” Ben Leon, 2096 Mission, San
Francisco, CA 94110, 415-864-5376,
ben94110@hotmail.com
LeLa Becker ’99 writes: “I am cur-
rently launching a natural cosmetics
line, called Naturally LeLa. This
takes up a lot of my time, energy
and ﬁnances; but nobody says mak-
ing a dream come true and making
it in the Bush world these days was
easy. So that’s my life.” LeLa Becker,
421 Pennsylvania Ave, Morgan-
town, WV 26501, 304-216-2933,
slingindrinks@sbcglobal.net
Anastasia
Goodstein
’95 writes:
“Hi everyone!
Anastasia &
Jon got wed in
Naples, FL on
December 4,
2004. Happy
holidays – keep
in touch!”

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Glenn Davis Argetsinger ’29 died
peacefully in his bed on October 15,
2004. He was 99 years old. Born in
Pipestone, Minnesota in February
1905, Glenn was a man who cared
profoundly about human rights,
liberal religion and politics and the
natural world. From Pipestone, Glenn
traveled east to Antioch College. Ar-
riving shortly after the incorporation
of cooperative education, Glenn’s
co-ops included working in a catsup
factory and running a jackhammer
during dam construction job. His most
signiﬁcant experience was teaching at
the Pine Mountain Settlement School,
an educational and social project for
poor Appalachian families. After An-
tioch, Glenn lived in Florida and South
Carolina, where he obtained a Com-
mercial Glider Pilot’s License. He later
returned to Minnesota in 1938, where
he met his wife, Elaine Magnusson.
After completing his MA in Guidance
and Educational Psychology in 1941,
he had two children, Joan Elaine and
Bruce Glenn. The McCarthy era saw
Glenn involved more in social activ-
ism. He was a strong advocate of the
Democratic Farmer-Labor movement
and joined the strikes of the Minne-
apolis Federation of teachers, picket-
ing all day in the sub-zero Minnesota
winter. Soon after, Glenn and Elaine
strengthened their ties to the Unitarian
Church and insisted that their children
enroll in the church’s weekly youth
program. Glenn retired in 1972 and
continued his activist work, protesting
the Vietnam War and reading lots of
left-wing literature. In 1996, Glenn
and Elaine moved to a senior residence
but continued their involvement in the
Unitarian Church. The appointment of
Kendyl Gibbons as minister was par-
ticularly pleasing to Glenn, who fer-
vently advocated equality for women.
Glenn continued to donate assiduously
to liberal causes and made sure that
Antioch College and the Unitarian
Society were both included in his will.
Even toward the end, when Glenn’s
severely impaired hearing hindered
communication with others in his
residence, nothing kept him from ex-
pressing his personality and passions.
He delighted in wearing controversial
buttons, his favorite reading, “PRAY
(for obscene mail),” and engaged many
of his caretakers with amusing stories.
Glenn is survived by his wife Elaine,
his children Bruce and Joan, and his
grandchildren.
Howard W. Fineshriber ’30 passed
away on June 5, 2004, in Chevy
Chase, Maryland. Mr. Fineshriber
was 96 years old. After graduating
from Antioch, Howard attended
the University of Pennsylvania Law
School. Following law school he be-
came the law clerk to Justice Horace
Stern of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court. After a year in private prac-
tice, Howard began a long career in
government service, culminating in
the position of Deputy Solicitor of
Labor for Unemployment Insurance
within the U.S. Department of Labor.
He retired in 1976. Mr. Fineshriber
was married twice: ﬁrst to Julia Kohn
who died in 1962. He married Phyllis
Hagedorn Cohen in 1963. Howard is
survived by his two children, Barbara
Fineshriber Adler and Frank Fine-
shriber; three grandchildren, William
and Craig Adler and Lynne Adler Ar-
senault; and six great grandchildren.
Mr. Fineshriber described Antioch as
“probably the best thing that ever hap-
pened to me.”
Virginia Dodge Kanter ’30 died
November 14, 2004 at the age of 98.
Efﬁe Willis Logan O’Connor
’32 died peacefully at her home on
January 29, 2005. She was 95. After
getting married to Rod O’Connor
’28 in 1937, she supported him in
his position as head of food services
at the Antioch Tea Room, later the
Antioch Inn. Their biscuits had a wide
reputation, though they did not make
it known that they had used whole
wheat ﬂour because that was consid-
ered to be too radical at the time. Wil-
lis held various positions managing
food preparation, including the Olney
Inn and the Lazarus employee caf-
eteria following her graduation from
Antioch College in 1932. She was an
avid organic farmer, an advocate for
the importance of nutrition to health
and a birding enthusiast. Willis also
had many friends who advocated
organic farming and nutrition, long
before it was a popular lifestyle.
These included J.I. Rodale, who pub-
lished Organic Gardening magazine,
Louis Brumﬁeld from Malabar Farm
and Dr. Foreman. Willis’ enthusiasm
grew following a sabbatical year in
1951 in which she and her husband
toured the nation in a pickup truck
with two Chow dogs, visiting college
dining rooms. While visiting a friend
from Antioch in California, they took
a seven week detour to partake in a
lecture series taught by their friend’s
neighbor, Adele Davis, at the cost
of 25 cents. Willis enjoyed sharing
her knowledge, stories and animated
conversation with her friends, young
and old. She is survived by her three
nieces and three nephews.
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Beverly Lipsett Viemeister ’49
BEVERLY LIPSETT VIEMEISTER DIED IN HER HOME ON MONDAY,
FEB. 21, AFTER A LENGTHY ILLNESS. SHE WAS 78.
Born in Manhassat, N.Y., she was attending high school there when a
young professional, Read Viemeister, spotted her near a Long Island rail-
road station. He was instantly smitten. So much so, that he ultimately fol-
lowed her to Yellow Springs where she had enrolled at Antioch College.
Read started what was to become a successful design business in Yellow
Springs, and they were married in 1946.
Although she dropped out of Antioch to have a family, Bev went back
to school some 20 years later. She earned a BA in secondary education
at Antioch in 1965 and a master’s degree in social work from Ohio State
in 1968. She became a licensed social worker and subsequently held a
number of supervisory positions at children’s services and mental health
agencies in Montgomery and Greene Counties and in New York City.
For almost 10 years, before her retirement, Bev owned and operated
Kings Yard Goods, an upscale fabric shop in downtown Yellow Springs.
It was her chance to indulge her love of lush colors and beautiful patterns.
Bev gave tirelessly and generously to improve the quality of life in the
village. She worked with the League of Women Voters in the early 1950s
to turn the Village garbage dump into the Village pool. She was active in
the Community Children’s Center, United Way, Business Organization of
Yellow Springs (BOYS), Glen Helen Association, and the Unitarian Uni-
versalist Fellowship, among others. She was a hard-working and dedicated
supporter of the Greene County Democratic Party.
In 2001, Bev received the well-deserved Arthur Morgan Award for
community service from the Antioch Alumni Association. The award
said of her, “you continually and willingly stepped forward to provide
dynamic leadership to make your community a better place.” Antioch
College was a major beneﬁciary
of Bev’s hard work and generous
contributions. She served on the
Alumni Board from 1961 to 1964
and was elected to the College’s
Board of Trustees in 1987.
She donated signiﬁcantly to
the College in both large and
small ways. Always of a practical
turn of mind, she provided funds
for the new signs that now direct
visitors around the campus. And
for the thousands of people who
attend events at the Antioch Inn,
she provided the wherewithal to
build the new restrooms – known
forever after by a grateful public, as the Beverly Viemeister Memorial
Toilets. Most recently, Bev served as chair of the board of the Glen Helen
Ecology Institute, a position she reluctantly resigned for health reasons.
Bev had legions of friends and for good reason. Her hospitality was
legendary and, to the end, those who knew her – and almost everyone did
– streamed through her comfortable living room and felt warmed by her
glowing smile and welcoming words.
She is survived by her four children, Tucker, Kris, Heidi and Roslyn
Viemeister, six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and her beloved
friend, Gordon Cowperthwaite
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Bernard L. Hyink ’35, a prominent
educator at USC and other California
universities who co-authored the pop-
ular textbook “Politics and Govern-
ment in California,” has died. He was
91. Hyink died June 24 in Fullerton of
internal bleeding, said his daughter,
Shirley Kramer.
The political science expert’s long
academic career was frequently inter-
rupted by assignments for the U.S.
and California governments begin-
ning in the 1940s. Then a professor
of political science and assistant to
the president at the University of
Redlands, Hyink went to Washington,
DC, for the US Civil Service Com-
mission, recruiting personnel for
agencies involved in World War II. He
also aided Army and Navy ofﬁcers in
setting up orientation programs for
recruits and wounded servicemen.
Hyink later returned to Washington
in the late 1940s as an educational
counselor for the National Institute of
Public Affairs, and in 1956 was a pro-
fessor at the University of Tehran. For
California, he subsequently served as
a consultant to the State Constitution-
al Revision Commission and to the
California Fulbright Commission.
Born in Hawarden, Iowa, Hyink
studied at Antioch College, earned his
bachelor’s degree from the University
of Redlands, master’s from UC Berke-
ley and doctorate from USC. He taught
at Redlands until 1948, and from 1949
until 1956 was dean of students at USC
where he taught political science from
1957 to 1960. After teaching for a
decade at what is now Cal State Fuller-
ton, Hyink served as president of Cal
State Sacramento from 1970 to 1972.
He then returned to Fullerton to teach
until his retirement in 1983. In 1959,
Hyink wrote his seminal textbook,
which has gone through some 15 edi-
tions and has become a major teach-
ing tool for state government, with
co-authors Seyom Brown and Ernest
W. Thacker. Hyink also co-authored
“Government in the Golden State” in
1968 and “Issues in California Politics
and Government” in 1977.
William Kornhauser ’46, UC Berke-
ley sociology professor emeritus, died
in his sleep July 3 in his Berkeley
home at the age of 79. He was well-
renowned for his political analysis and
brilliance, friends and colleagues said.
“He cared deeply about the issues
of the day,” said friend E. Richard
Brown, professor of public health at
UCLA and director of the UCLA Cen-
ter for Health Policy Research.
Kornhauser’s internationally
inﬂuential book, “The Politics of Mass
Society,” examines the preconditions
necessary for democracy and totalitari-
anism. Deeming the book “intellectual-
ly invigorating,” Todd Gitlin, professor
of journalism and sociology at Colum-
bia University, remembers Kornhauser
as an “incessantly” thoughtful man. His
passion for politics was salient, and his
engagement in social movement unfor-
gettable, friends remember.
As a professor in Berkeley dur-
ing the 1960s, Kornhauser always
engaged himself and mentored stu-
dents in the Free Speech Movement,
Brown, a former student of Korn-
hauser, said. “He certainly believed in
not just being a detached intellectual,”
said Daniel Ellsberg, a political activ-
ist famed for exposing U.S. govern-
ment secrets during the Vietnam War
in the Pentagon Papers. Kornhauser
encouraged people “to be active, and
to mobilize against the trend of mili-
tarism,” Ellsberg said.
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Eric “Ric” Folke Johnson ’39
“Ric” had two great passions: Antioch College and the non-proﬁ t organization Water
for People, which was founded to provide safe drinking water to people in rural areas
of developing countries.
Ric, as he preferred to be called, remained closely involved with both passions
through Antioch‚s co-op program. He helped mentor Antioch students during their Wa-
ter for People co-op jobs, which he helped to create. Though Ric died on September 10,
2004, he leaves a wonderful and inspiring legacy.
In addition to the co-op positions at Water for People, Antioch will tap into that
organization to bring speakers to campus. It will also be a potential resource for one
of Antioch‚s new learning communities under The Plan titled “Water Matters.” This
LC, taught by Jill Yager, David Kammler and Ben Grossberg, will take place in Spring
2006.
Ric’s generous bequest to Antioch will provide important funding to The Plan and
will ensure that his passions will live on for future generations. Some of Ric’s generos-
ity to Antioch over the years has also helped with very important campus renovations,
including Birch Hall.
Antioch College Professor and former College President Bob Devine became friends
with Ric over the years, and recalled: “In reﬂ ecting on his College experience, Ric
often noted that the passion for literature and writing that he discovered as an under-
graduate had been sustained throughout his life in his Editorship of the Journal of
the American Water Works Association, while his Antioch education in business and
management (including a year-long co-op in the Antioch bookstore) had given him the
practical skills and conﬁ dence to run a large and diverse organization
Ric loved keeping in touch with the College. He felt that Antioch had provided him
with a rich liberal arts foundation – and friendships – that had lasted throughout his
life, and wanted to pass that opportunity on to the current generation of students.”
A quote from Ric in Who’s Who offers an additional glimpse into the special person
that he was: “Success, I believe, must be measured not by level of accomplishment, but
by the maximization of one’s talents in achieving one’s objectives without compromis-
ing one’s own principles and those of the community. Earning a place in Who’s Who,
then, becomes less a measure of success than it is of high and community-approved
objectives. I’m happy to be a Who.” (1990)
Born in Oyster Bay, NY, on March
6, 1916, Ric was very interested in
sports at Antioch, and played baseball
(catcher) with an Antioch team that was
coached by Joe Curl (after whom the
gymnasium is named).
Ric was proud to be part of Antioch’s
famed “Lime House Gang,” which
included friends Joe Kim ’37, Amel
Menotti ’37, Charles Decker ‘40, Ca-
mille Menino ’37 and Peter Murray ’38.
Ric stayed in touch with the surviving
members of the Lime House Gang right
until his death. Ric also was part of the
cross-country trip sponsored by the
Thorne-Loomis Foundation to acquaint
Antioch students with business and
industry. On their seven-week trip across the country, the group traveled and slept in
a ﬂ atbed truck, visited various industrial sites, cooked for themselves and lived on a
dollar a day.
Careerwise, Ric was the retired Executive Director of the American Water Works
Association, a company he was with for nearly 40 years. One of things he was proud-
est of was that he edited the Association’s Journal for many years.
Some of his memberships and honors included: American Water Works Associa-
tion (honorary, medal for outstanding service 1981, George Warren Fuller award
1984); British Water Works Association (honorary); Institute Water Engineers and
Scientists (England), (professional associate, Friendship medal 1978); American So-
ciety Association Executives; Water Conditioning Association International (honor-
ary); Environmental Council, Institution Water and Environmental Management.
The son of Johannes Stefanus and Anna Alida Jansson, Ric was an only child. He
was married twice, with no children from either marriage.

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The late professor was also in-
volved in the grassroots Berkeley
Citizens Action, and supported the
McGovern presidential campaign in
1970 and the nuclear freeze move-
ment. Anne Kornhauser, who will be
a history lecturer at Princeton Univer-
sity this fall, describes her father as
“brilliant, engaged, loving.”
A Chicago native, Kornhauser
attended Antioch College in Ohio.
As a college work requirement, he
worked at Tennessee’s Highlander
Folk School, where he was exposed to
labor and interracial politics. Korn-
hauser then served in the U.S. Army
in 1943 as a navigator with the 20th
Bomb Squadron in Italy. He was dis-
charged in 1946. From the University
of Chicago, he earned a bachelor’s
degree in economics in 1948, a
master’s degree in sociology in 1950,
and a PhD in sociology in 1953. After
becoming a sociology instructor at
Columbia University in 1952, Korn-
hauser joined UC Berkeley’s sociol-
ogy faculty in 1953.
Kornhauser is survived by his
daughter, Anne, and his sister Ruth
Zubrensky ’49.
Elizabeth S. Goldsmith ’36 passed
away June 7, 2004.
Henry Somers ’36 passed away on
January 26, 2005 in Broomall, PA.
Russell Holt ’37 passed away Janu-
ary 25, 2004.
Harry Foreman ’38 recently passed
away.
James Myers, Jr. ’38 passed away
September 21, 2004.
Marit Beckman Thorson ’38
passed away October 16, 2004. Marit
Thorson of Bethesda, Maryland, was
the beloved wife of Phillip Thorson,
mother of Ingrid Mongini, Erik Thor-
son and Louise Thorson Gregory. Mrs.
Thorson was a longtime activist for
needy children, the aged and disabled
persons in Montgomery County and
the state of Maryland. She served as a
legislative representative for the Mary-
land State Conference of Social Wel-
fare and ended her career as Director
of Volunteer services, Montgomery
County. As director, she developed
and publicized the need and oppor-
tunities for volunteers, established a
student placement service in nonproﬁt
organizations and arranged volunteer
service for more than 200 public and
private agencies. Mrs. Thorson was
born in Finspong, Sweden, and came
with her family to the United States
at the age of 6 months. She grew up
in Pennsylvania. In her late teens, she
lived with relatives in Stockholm, Swe-
den and witnessed Nazi book burnings.
She was so outspoken that her relatives
had to get her out of the country. Ear-
lier she was an activist and fundraiser
for the Democratic party. In 1962, she
was chairman of the county Dollars for
Democrats campaign, which raised a
record amount. She ran for the Mary-
land House of Delegates in 1966, losing
narrowly to a Republican. Her friends
and family will deeply miss her.
David Myers ’39, cinematographer of
“THX 1138,” “Woodstock,” and “The
Last Waltz,” died August 26, 2004 of
natural causes in Marin County, Cali-
fornia. He was 90 years old. Born in
Auburn, New York, Myers began his
career as a still photographer after be-
ing inﬂuenced by the work of Walker.
While in an Antioch College student
work program with the Farm Security
Administration in Washington, DC,
Myers began shooting a photo essay
on federal civil servants. He was a
conscientious objector during World
War II and began his motion picture
career in 1954 via his friend, photog-
rapher Imogen Cunningham, who
told backers of a short ﬁlm she would
not make it without him. Before mov-
ing into concert documentaries and
feature ﬁlms, Myers was at the fore-
front of cinema verite documentary
ﬁlmmaking in the 1960s. He also
traveled the world for United Nations
and National Geographic documen-
taries and was part of the team that
shot the Oscar-winning 1972 docu-
mentary “Marjoe,” about one-time
child evangelist Marjoe Gortner. He
was respected among documentarians
for his ability to capture subjects in a
natural way and for his creativity and
inventiveness. Myers is survived by
his wife, Barbara, and a sister.
Elizabeth Hunt Sennott ’39 died
July 2004.
Martha Collins Schleit ’39 recently
passed away.
Irwin Inman ’41 of Yellow Springs
died of natural causes on Saturday,
March 12, following a brief illness. He
was 87.
Irwin, who was born in Keokuk,
Iowa, on Nov. 11, 1917, came to
Yellow Springs as part of Antioch
College’s Class of 1941. After gradu-
ation and service in the armed forces
in World War II, Irwin returned to
Yellow Springs, where he raised his
family, with the late Jean Shields In-
man, and began a long career as the
editor for Antioch University, from
which he retired.
After retirement, Irwin began a
fruitful new career as a photographer,
being entirely self-taught. His love of
children and his astute eye quickly
began producing portraits of many of
the children and landmarks of Yellow
Springs. He produced two books of
photographs of Yellow Springs, Yel-
low Springs and Beyond, published
in 1998, and More Yellow Springs,
released in 2003. Earlier this year,
he and Jimmy Chesire published a
book on Perry League, the village’s
t-ball program, A Thousand Strikes:
T-Ball Yellow Springs Style, featuring
Irwin’s photos and Jimmy’s columns
from the News.
Irwin is survived by his children,
Lee I. Feinstein, Richard Inman, Kate
Inman, and Robert and Margaret
Dickey and their children and grand-
children.
Chris Prouty Rosenfeld ’43 died
February 8, 2005, of injuries from a
fall in her home. Mrs. Rosenfeld was
born in El Monte, California and was
the ﬁrst woman to be elected Com-
munity Manager at Antioch College.
After moving with her husband to
India in 1956, she became heavily in-
volved in the local theatre movement
in New Delhi. In 1964, she moved to
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where she
helped organize the ﬁrst Saba Saba
Day observances celebrating the 1954
founding of the Tanganyika African
National Union, a Tanzanian political
party. After moving from Tanzania to
Ethiopia, she discovered her true love,
Ethiopian History. After moving back
to Washington, DC, with her husband
in 1974, she became a trustee of the
DC Public Library. She also volun-
teered at the Washington Ear and
National Archives. Rosenfeld also
edited the newsletter of the Society of
Woman Geographers, of whom she
was a member, for a number of years.
In 1994, Rosenfeld co-authored “The
Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia
and Eritrea” with her husband. Her
husband of 55 years, Eugene Rosen-
feld died in 1999. Mrs. Rosenfeld is
survived by her daughter, three sons,
a sister and ﬁve grandchildren.
Roberts (Bobby) Jackson ’44 of
New York died November 1, 2004, of
complications following a fall in his
apartment. He was 85 years old. A
transfer student for the 1939-1940 year,
he graduated from Antioch College
in 1944. He was a writer in New York
for some years and later worked at the
Bettman Archive. On his retirement
several years ago, he was CEO of Cul-
ver Pictures on First Avenue, New York
City. A short story of his, “Fly Away
Home,” appeared in Accent magazine,
a publication of the University of Illi-
nois Press and was named one of 1953’s
Best American Short Stories. Widowed
in December of 2003, Jackson is sur-
vived by two sisters in California, Mrs.
Jaquith Rhodes of Pasadena and Mrs.
Dorothy Anne Jones of Oakland.
Anne Tenney Long ’45, age 80, of
Glen Rock, NJ, died Tuesday, June
3, 2003. Before retiring in 1989, she
was an investment ofﬁcer and vice
president for the Bank of New York.
She was a graduate of Antioch Col-
lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio. She was
a 40-year member of the National
Organization for Women and active in
New Jersey Right to Choose. She was a
board member, president, and treasurer
for the Paterson Area Zonta Club, and
was chosen as its Woman of the Year
for 2003. She was treasurer of the Glen
Rock Woman’s Club and a life member
of the Glen Rock Ambulance Corps.
Cynthia Gault Smith ’49 recently
passed away.
Kurt Hartmann ’51
died Friday,
October 15, 2004 at his home follow-
ing a brief illness. Hartmann came
with his family to the United States in
1938, where he lived in Albany, New
York until 1944 when he enlisted in the
United States Navy. After graduating
from Antioch College in 1951 with a
degree in Political Science, he worked
for the National Labor Relations Board
in North Carolina and Philadelphia
until he became a journalist in West
Virginia and Washington, DC. In 1955
he assumed ownership of the weekly
newspaper in Seaside, CA, the News-
Sentinel and founded his own printing
business. He and his wife established
a bookstore in Salinas, California in
1978. Since his retirement in 1989, he
had returned to journalism writing and
in 2000, ended forty years as a Califor-
nia resident with a move to Ashland,
Oregon with his wife, Mary Louise.
Hartmann is survived by his wife, two
children and four grandchildren.
Celia Hektner ’51 recently passed away.
David G. Price ’52 passed away on
October 20, 2002.
Peggy Golde ’53, died suddenly on
September 11, 2003, in San Carlos,
California; she was the daughter of the
late Albert and Bobbe Golde; and she
was also the beloved sister of David
Golde. Peggy graduated Summa Cum
Laude from Antioch College. She
acquired her doctorate in Anthropol-
ogy at Stanford University.
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Obituaries
continued from previous page…
Steve Straker ’65 passed away sud-
denly on July 24, 2004. He would
have been 62 in September. Steve
grew up in Yon kers, New York and
spent his summers in Amherst,
Massachusetts. His dissertation on
Kepler’s optics was much quoted and
praised. He was a founding member
and passionate advocate of the Arts
One program and the Science and
Society Group at UBC. Between 1969
and 2003, he inspired generations of
students at UBC through his courses
in history and the philosophy of sci-
ence, many of whom remember him
as the best teacher they ever had.
Their letters ensured that he received
the Killam Teaching Prize in 2002.
He challenged all of us to question
what we knew and how we knew it,
always following his own unquestion-
able bedrock of values. He enlivened
every social and family gathering
with his wry and intelligent wit,
penetrating mind, and his good and
thoughtful judgment. Stephen Straker,
teacher, Owen Bay Mud Flatter,
dad, grandpa, exceptional horseshoe
pitcher, brother, perpetual gum boot
wearer, husband and ﬁrst baseman for
the Owls of Minerva remained young
in spirit during his last years. He is
survived by his wife Darlene Marzari,
his sister Nina Fraser, his children
Justin, Francesca Marzari, Robert and
Daniel, and his grandchildren, all of
whom will deeply miss him.
Derek Mills ’68 passed away March
7, 1998.
Gordon M. Conable ’69 died
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at the
age of 58 in his River Side, California
home. Former director of the Monroe
County Library System from 1988 to
1998, Conable was a strong advocate
of freedom of and access to informa-
tion. A notable accomplishment dur-
ing his tenure at Monroe County was
an overhaul in the way materials were
checked out, which greatly enhanced
patrons’ privacy. After graduating
from Antioch College with an art
degree in 1969, and received his
Master’s in Library Science from Co-
lumbia University in 1976. Gordon is
survived by his wife, Irene; son, Ted;
brothers, Daniel and Bill and sister,
Katherine Conable ’71.
Robert R. Corkum ’69 passed away
September 23, 2004 in Puerto Princ-
esa City, Palawan, Philippines. Robert
was born on August 5, 1946 in Niska-
yuna, New York. He was a recipient
of the National Merit Scholarship and
studied Marine Biology. Robert was a
Vietnam era veteran of the U.S. Navy
Medical Corps and served a tour of
duty at Portsmouth Naval Hospital
in Kittery, Maine. He served three
and half years in the Peace Corps
in Quezon, Philippines, where he
received a conferment as ‘adopted son
of Mulanay, Quezon, “for his efforts
establishing a medical clinic in the
area.” Back in the United States, he
worked for several years at Loon
Mountain, Lincoln, New Hampshire
and worked for a decade as a chem-
ist at O.D. Silkscreen in Woodstock,
New Hampshire. Robert loved the
unspoiled beauty of Palawan Island
and it’s cultural community and
moved there as a resident in 1986. He
left a wonderful legacy of humor and
selﬂess service in both the Philippines
and in New Hampshire.
Daniel Hennessey Goodwin ’70
died of cancer February 6, 2005, at
his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Mr. Goodwin was born in Baltimore
and grew up in Cooperstown, New
York. After graduating from Antioch
College in 1970, he lived in Mexico
and later earned a master’s degree
in anthropology with a concentra-
tion in Middle Eastern Studies at the
University of Texas in Austin. From
1979 until 1984 he was the editor for
the University’s Center for Middle
Eastern Studies. He moved to Wash-
ington, DC in 1984 to become acqui-
sitions editor for the University Press
Division of the Smithsonian Press,
responsible for anthropology and ar-
chaeology books. He became the edi-
torial director of the division in 1988
and director in 1992, a year noted for
Smithsonian publications on the Co-
lumbian Quincentennial. From 1994
to 1996, he was the acting director of
the Smithsonian Press, and from 1996
to 1998, he worked as director of the
Smithsonian Press/ Smithsonian Pub-
lications. Mr. Goodwin loved books,
whether reading, writing, editing or
publishing. According to his wife, he
not only remembered every book he
had read, but also every person he had
met. His survivors include his wife of
26 years, Andrea Meditch; a daughter,
Alexandra Goodwin; and a sister.
Delores Champiola Nutter Carter
’72 AU passed away November 7,
2004. She was the youngest child of
the late Rev. Matthew Haven Nutter
and Sadie Ellen Lisby Nutter, born
March 27, 1928 in Philadelphia,
PA. Beginning there and continu-
ing throughout her exceptional and
productive life, she repeatedly distin-
guished herself as a woman of abun-
dant energy, sensitivity, leadership
and organizational ability, creativity,
intelligence, talent and grace.
Her formative education began
in Philadelphia at James Rhodes
Elementary School and continued
at Sulzberger Junior High. She then
attended West Philadelphia High
School from which, to her parents’
delight, she graduated in 1945, the
only one of the family’s ﬁ ve children
to complete her secondary education.
She attended Central State University
at Wilberforce, OH, and graduated
cum laude in 1950 with a Bachelor of
Science degree in elementary educa-
tion. She continued her education
with a graduate study at Temple Uni-
versity. In 1972 she earned a Master
of Education degree in guidance and
counseling from Antioch College and
went on to become a national certiﬁ ed
counselor.
She was extraordinarily active at
Janes Memorial Methodist Church in
Philadelphia and Plymouth Congre-
gational United Church of Christ in
Washington, DC.
Delores was a special person with
a pleasant smile, a warm disposi-
tion, and exuded an aura of hope
and peace. She was a great spiritual
leader, social activist, and an energet-
ic visionary. An incomparable wife,
mother, sister, grandmother, aunt,
cousin and friend, she was and will
forever remain an inspiration to all.
She leaves to cherish her memory
and celebrate her life her husband of
53 years James T. Carter, daughters
Cynthia C. Burgess and Pamela L.
Carter; a son-in-law, Kevin A. Burgess;
grandchildren Brandon J., Kevin J.,
Tiffani J. and Angelica J. Burgess;
nieces Diane Daniel and Brenda
Dashkiwsky; brothers-in-law William
B. Carter, Joseph H. Carter, Dr. David
G. Carter, Sr.; sisters-in-law, nieces;
great-nieces, great nephews, cousins,
close friends and sorors.
Caroleen Sue Hickey ’75 passed
away recently.
Roger Flather ’76 passed away
November 22, 2004.
George Eimert Stoertz ’53 died in
his home in Reston, Virginia, on Oc-
tober 30, 2004. After graduation from
Antioch College with a BS in geology,
he was awarded a fellowship at Co-
lumbia University where he received
an MA in geology in 1954. He worked
32 years for the United States Geologi-
cal Survey, ﬁrst in Washington, DC,
later in Reston, Virginia. Assignments
for the Survey in his long career took
him to far places, including the Philip-
pines; Greenland, where he spent three
summers studying the ice-free area;
the Atacama Desert in Chile; and to
the deserts of Nevada, Utah, Oregon
and Washington in the United States.
After his retirement, he became inter-
ested in ﬂuorescence. He is survived
by his ﬁve children by his ﬁrst wife.
Barbara Schaeffer ’54 passed away
on September 11, 2004.
Edwin Nierenberg ’55 passed away
in early October 2004.
Benjamin Hacker ’57 passed away
recently.
Richard Melnick Wolf ’57 of Larch-
mont died on July 17, 2004 at age 69.
Dr. Wolf was born in Pittsburgh, PA
in 1934 to Louis and Sylvia (Harton)
Melnick. He received a PhD from
the University of Chicago and was
Professor of Statistics and Evaluation
in Education at Teachers College,
Columbia University. He was also a
respected member of the International
Academy of Education and the Inter-
national Education Association. Sur-
vived by his wife Marie Flueckiger
Wolf ’58, children Robert (wife Bar-
bara) Wolf and Susan Raegene Wolf,
a brother Harton (wife Jan) Wolf
and a sister Francine Rickenbach ’72
(husband Bruce Rickenbach ’69).
Karen Judson Hapgood ’61, wife
to Laurence J. Hapgood ’61, recently
passed away.
Winford Hambright passed
away recently. He is survived by his
wife Theda and son Peter ’62.
Esther Thelen ’64, wife to David
Thelen ’62, died of cancer, December
29, 2004. Dr. Esther Thelen, a psy-
chology professor at Indiana Universi-
ty, was known for study of childhood
development. Her research proposed
that environmental experiences in the
ﬁrst year of life play an enormous role
in shaping a person’s brain, and revo-
lutionalized her ﬁeld. Esther was born
on May 20, 1941 in Brooklyn, New
York. She attended Antioch College
and in 1977, received her doctorate in
biology from the University of Mis-
souri. Dr. Thelen is survived by her
daughter Jennifer, her husband David,
her son Jeremy, her sister Harriet
Saeck and her grandson.
Steve Straker

Obituaries
Kenneth Jones ’78 passed away De-
cember 8, 2004.
Daniel Katz Stein ’87 died Friday
November 5, 2004 of brain cancer at
Hospice of Dayton. He was 41. Dan
grew up in Nelson County, Virginia
and graduated from Antioch in 1987
with a BS in communications. He
worked at YSI, Incorporated in in-
formation services. He and Abi Katz
Stein ’86 were married for 17 years
and were active in the Yellow Springs
Havurah with their son Zachary (14)
and their daughter Hana (10). Dan
loved computers, photography, bicy-
cling, running, and the Blue Ridge
Mountains. His athletic, energetic
side took him skiing and on trips to
New York and Thailand, and “his
technophile side” drove him to the
cutting edge of scientiﬁc advance-
ment. He was always up on the latest
technology, becoming savvy with
computers, then video cameras, then
the internet-well before they became
popular,” his longtime college friend
Sam Williams Eckenrode ’83 said.
Dan wrote, “My story is a spiritual
and medical one. Journey with me
through this experience,” at the open-
ing of his weblog at www.life.katz-
stein.com
Nolan Case Adams ’06 died January
25, 2005. Nolan was a lifetime resident
of Vero Beach, Florida and was a 2002
graduate of Indian River Charter High
School. He is survived by his parents,
Raymond and Phyllis Adams of Vero
Beach; his maternal grandmothers,
Mary Jo Bridgford of Indianapolis;
and his paternal grandparents, Russell
and Julia Adams of Vero Beach.
F. Bloch, friend of Antioch College,
recently passed away.
Sarah T. Crome, friend of Antioch
College, recently passed away.
George Furman, friend of Antioch
College, died Wednesday, November
10, 2004 at the VA Medical Center in
Dayton. He was 82.
Jane E. Gordon died peacefully
December 15, 2004. Jane was born in
Brooklyn, New York on August 21,
1946, and grew up in the New York
City area. Gordon earned a BS from
State University of New York at Brock-
port in 1985 and gained a Ph.D. from
SUNY Albany in 1992. Jane lived in
Maine and in Rochester, N.Y. before
coming to Yellow Springs in 1992
where she served as an associate pro-
fessor of psychology at Antioch Uni-
versity McGregor from 1992 to 2003.
Joanne Elizabeth Hart, wife to
John Edward Hart, Jr. ’54, passed
away September 21, 2004. Joanne
and John were married for 45 years.
Joanne was born in Xenia, Ohio and
graduated from Bryan High School.
She also attended Virginia Intermont
College in Bristol, Virginia. Most
of her working life was spent with
Odiorne Industrial Advertising in
Yellow Springs where she retired in
1989 as one of three partner-owners.
In retirement, she and her husband
traveled internationally and enjoyed
many ocean cruises. When her three
children were young she served on the
board of the Community Children’s
Center and was involved with numer-
ous school organizations. Joanne
was a lifelong member of the First
Presbyterian Church, having served
as an elder and in the Presbyterian
Woman’s Association over many
years. For the last few years she has
been a regular volunteer at the Yel-
low Springs Chamber of Commerce.
Joanne is survived by her husband
and children.
Charles Carnes Helzer passed away
on Monday, December 13, 2004. Aged
45, Charles’ kindness and compassion
touched many friends and strangers
throughout his life. He spent most of
his life in Chicago where he graduated
from high school, but went to Ohio
to begin his college career at Antioch
College. He graduated from Hamp-
shire College on Amherst, Mass.
And attended Hamline College law
school in St. Paul, Minn. Helzer spent
ten years co-managing Mifﬂin Com-
munity Cooperative in Madison, WI,
where he served as newsletter editor
and volunteer coordinator. After law
school, Charles worked at Regent
Co-op in Madison. Charles returned
to Chicago recently to work for Con-
scious-Choice Magazine. Frequently
delighting others with his wit and
sense of humor, he will be profoundly
missed by his friends and family.
Robert Dingle Hammond, husband
to Mary Pitman Hammond ’51,
passed away September 11, 2004 at
Community Hospital in Springﬁeld,
Ohio. He was 78. Hammond was
born on June 12, 1926, in Tifﬁn. He
was the son of Olive and William
Hammond. The family soon after
moved to Yellow Springs where his
father started the W.A. Hammond
Drierite Company. Robert attended
school in Yellow Springs through the
11th grade and graduated from Upper
Arlington High School in Columbus
in 1944. He joined the U.S. Army Air
Corps in September 1944 and was
stationed as an air cadet at Shepard
Field in Wichita Falls, Texas and
Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi,
until his honorable discharge in 1945.
He attended Ohio State University,
where he received a Bachelor of Sci-
ence degree in animal husbandry and
general agriculture in 1950. In 1950,
he returned to Yellow Springs and
spent the next ﬁfty years managing
the family farm, Hydebrook Farm.
In 1981, he received the Little Miami
Incorporated ﬁrst Stewardship Award
for conservation-minded practices
that protected the Little Miami River.
He was a member of the American
Legion, the Phi Sigma Kappa Frater-
nity, a past president of the Greene
County Cattle Feeders’ Association
and the Springﬁeld Flying Club. He
was a licensed commercial pilot with
instrument and multi-engine ratings,
and at one time owned his own plane
and maintained a runway on the
farm. In addition to his lifelong love
of farming, he was a devoted family
man who cherished his wife, three
sons, two daughters-in-law and four
granddaughters.
Wilma ‘Billie’ Singer Hotaling,
wife to Dan Hotaling ’51, passed
away September 11, 2004 at the Island
Nursing Home in Deer Isle, Maine.
She was 79. Born in New York City in
1925, she grew up in Flushing, Queens
and attended Wheelock College. She
received her bachelor’s degree of sci-
ence in education in 1945. In 1949,
she married Dan Hotaling and taught
ﬁrst grade at the Dalton School in New
York for six years. For many sum-
mers she was a counselor and nurse at
Camp Killooleet and Camp Winooski
in Vermont. In 1958, Billie and Dan
moved to Yellow Springs and raised
four children together. She taught at
the Antioch School, directed a Greene
County Children’s Mental Health Pro-
gram, researched child behavior at the
Fels Institute and trained Head Start
teachers. Her life was ﬁlled with many
creative activities, including writing
(two published children’s books and
many poems), watercolor painting,
music, knitting, cooking and leading
workshops. A special highlight was
her active participation in the Yellow
Springs and Deer Isle Writers Groups,
as well as the Deer Isle Artists As-
sociation. After retirement, her life in
Deer Isle was a continuing experience
of beauty and a creative endeavor. She
is survived by her loving husband of 55
years, Dan Hotaling; a sister, Katherine
Clark of St. Mary’s City, Maryland;
two nieces, Lani and Chris Clark; and
four children and their families, Kim
Salloway of Barrington, Rhode Island,
Dale Hotaling of Yellow Springs,
Carey Hotaling of Freeport, Maine and
Clark Hotaling of St. Louis, Missouri.
Her later joy was grand-mothering
eight grandchildren, all of whom will
deeply miss her.
Mary R. King, friend of Antioch Col-
lege, recently passed away.
James R. McKee died Tuesday, Febru-
ary 15 in his home with his family by
his side. McKee served as the Antioch
University director of human services
for 32 years. He recently retired after
10 years with Union Institute and Uni-
versity in Cincinnati. He was a charter
member of the Ohio Chapter of CUPA,
College and University Professional
Association, which served 77 different
Ohio institutions. He was an active
member in his chuch, Mary Help of
Christians in Fairborn, assisting as
eucharistic minister for several years.
McKee is survived by his wife, two
sons, daughter, siblings, and grandson.
Anna Otten passed away March
31, 1997. Anna dedicated 35 years of
remarkable teaching to Antioch. Anna
worked as a housekeeper to put herself
through school, earned a doctorate and
ﬂuently spoke ﬁve languages.
Ann Julia Perrini wife to Peter N.
Nevraumont ’65 passed away in Octo-
ber, 2004. Ann Julia Perrini and Peter
N. Nevraumont were married for 27
years. Ms. Perrini died after a long
illness. They were partners not only
in life but in their publishing business,
Nevraumont Publishing Company,
which specializes in producing high-
quality natural history books. Mr.
Nevraumont continues to live in lower
Manhattan, where all points come
together, on Broadway between the site
of the World Trade Center and Battery
Park.
William Schutz, friend of Antioch
College, recently passed away.
Leo Wagner, friend of Antioch Col-
lege, recently passed away. •
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President
Steven Lawry, currently a senior ofﬁcial at
the Ford Foundation, has been appointed the
next president of Antioch College. Lawry’s
appointment comes after an extensive national
search chaired by University Chancellor
James Craiglow.
In his current position as Director of
Management Services at the Ford Foundation,
Lawry oversees the program budget and works
with nearly 80 program ofﬁcers and ﬁeld
ofﬁcers all over the world. Lawry has also
been the leader of Ford Foundation programs
in Africa and the Middle East.
“I am delighted to take up the presidency of
Antioch College at this important juncture in
its history,” said Lawry, who holds a Ph.D. in
environmental studies. In addition to Lawry’s
work with Ford, he has experience with USAID,
the United Nations, and as a Peace Corps vol-
unteer in Botswana. Lawry’s entire professional
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