The Antiochian — Fall 2000 (Antioch College Alumni Newsletter)

uch interaction was
made possible by
scheduling Reunion
during the Summer Block term.
Building upon the success of
Reunion 2000, next summer’s
Reunion 2001 will follow similar
scheduling. The dates for Reunion
2001 are July 26-29, preceded by
the Work Project.
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Antiochian
The alumni newsletter of Antioch College Fall 2000
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The
Wholeness of a
Broken Heart
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Antioch’s
Cave Diving
Biologist,
Jill Yager,
Is Twice
Honored
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Thirty-eighth Annual
Antioch College
Faculty Lecture
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Reunion 2000 included
the opportunity to attend the
Shakespeare Under the Stars
production of Romeo and Juliet,
performed by Antioch students
and actors from the Yellow
Springs area. Antioch theater
director Louise Smith directed the
spirited and inspired performance
of this classic, remaining true to
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The unusual dynamic of large numbers of
students and a few hundred alumni on campus
simultaneously marked Antioch College
Reunion 2000 – July 27 through July 30.
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the original while breathing new
life into the tragic tale of romance.
Highlights of Reunion 2000
included the four presentations of
the distinguished alumni and faculty
who were honored by the Antioch
College Alumni Association.
Those honored included:
● Nolan Miller, Antioch College
Professor of Literature, Emeritus,
and longtime distinguished faculty
member. Nolan was selected to re-
ceive the J.D. Dawson Award,
which recognizes signiﬁcant contri-
butions to Antioch College by
alumni or friends of the college.
Nolan taught in the Detroit Public
School District and at Wayne State
University before coming to Antioch.
His writing has been published in
The Saturday Evening Post and in
Collier’s. He is also the author of two
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IN U.S.
Antioch sets
standards in
national study on
student engagement
What makes for a good college?
And how can we tell? According to
a new study of the National Survey
of Student Engagement (NSSE)
that evaluates the quality of higher
education in America, Antioch
College received some of the
highest marks in the nation.
Antioch is recognized in the
study for its top scores in academic
challenge, student interaction with
faculty members, enriching educa-
tional experiences, and supportive
campus environment. Antioch re-
ceived the very highest scores in
ﬁve of the 10 measured categories.
In nine of the categories, Antioch
scored in the top 10 percent.
The report, published Nov. 13,
2000, said that students at Antioch
College “are highly engaged in
intellectually challenging activities,
setting standards for the liberal arts
colleges in NSSE 2000.”
Forty questions from the survey
were assigned to ﬁve clusters of
similar type activities to make up
the national benchmarks of effec-
tive educational practice. The ﬁve
clusters are: 1) Level of Academic
Challenge; 2) Active and Collabo-
rative Learning; 3) Student Interac-
tions With Faculty Members; 4)
Enriching Educational Experiences;
5) Supportive Campus Environment.
These clusters were each measured
for ﬁrst-year students and for se-
nior students, effectively creating
10 categories.
“Tools like the NSSE report can
help reframe questions about educa-
tional effectiveness and accountabil-
ity in ways that go beyond resources
and reputations,” said Russell
Edgerton, Director of The Pew

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members of their community –
either locally, nationally globally –
to work toward common goals,
thus exemplifying the concept
of “community” as advocated by
Morgan. Butzen graduated from
Antioch College with a degree in
Political Science and has been ac-
tive in community work ever since.
After a brief foray into the world
of political campaigns as an ofﬁce
manager for a state representative
candidate, she returned to commu-
nity work, becoming lead organizer
for the Logan Square Neighborhood
Association. Her work included
developing an award-winning
community crime prevention
program and the recruitment and
training of neighborhood leaders.
Butzen holds the position of
Executive Director of Lakefront
SRO Corporation, in which she
supervises the development of
more than 600 units of single-room
occupancy housing. Butzen has
received numerous awards for her
work, including the W. Clement
Stone Business Award and the Out-
standing Achievement Award for
novels, Why Am I So Beat? and Moth
of Time. Now in his ninth decade,
Nolan continues to serve as associate
editor of the Antioch Review. His
moving presentation was entitled “A
Conversation with Nolan Miller.”
● Mario Renato Capecchi
’61 received the Horace Mann
Award. The Horace Mann Award
recognizes alumni who have “won
some victory for humanity,” follow-
ing Mann’s advice to the graduating
class of 1859. The award is given
to people whose personal or pro-
fessional activities have had a
profound effect on the present or
future human condition. Mario
Renato Capecchi’s research in the
ﬁeld of human genetics has been
on the cutting edge for nearly two
decades. His techniques for gen-
erating mice with speciﬁc tar-
geted genes that are inactivated
have established new ways of
exploring how genes work in
mammals. His method of research
has been widely emulated and
has inﬂuenced such diverse life
science disciplines as biology,
medicine and agriculture. After
his undergraduate degree in
chemistry and physics, Capecchi
earned his doctorate in biophysics
at Harvard University, where he
served as Assistant Professor at
its Medical School. For the past
11 years, he has been Distin-
guished Professor of Human
Genetics, School of Medicine,
and he also holds the position
of Investigator of the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute.
Capecchi has received numerous
and prestigious awards, including
the Kyoto Prize, which is often
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Students,
Alums
Community Leadership from the
YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago.
Her presentation was “Ending
Homelessness: Lessons from
My Antioch Experience.”
Other highlights included
the always-popular Bundooley
Softball Game, in which team
members, including President
Bob Devine ’67, challenged all
players at the ball diamond. The
Bundooleys managed to pull it
out 17-16 this year, owing at least
a percentage of the victory to
some late-inning assistance from
student “ringers.”
Other sport-related activities
included a golf outing, headed
by Dean of Students Scott Warren
and bicycle rides led by Chris
Zurbuchen ’80.
There were also several panel
discussions. The ﬁrst, “The Role
of Cooperative Education in a
Liberal Arts Education,” included
referred to as the Japanese Nobel
Prize. He spoke on “Manipulation
of the Genome in the Twenty-ﬁrst
Century.”
● Stanford B. Friedman ’53
received the Rebecca Rice Award,
which recognizes alumni who by
their actions, achievements and
leadership have distinguished
themselves and their alma mater by
excelling in their vocation or ﬁeld
of study. Following his psychology
degree at Antioch, Friedman re-
ceived a medical degree from the
University of Rochester, where he
was appointed instructor in Pediat-
rics and Psychiatry. There, he re-
searched the relationship between
physical disease and psychological
issues. Many of the present-day
achievements in the ﬁelds of adoles-
cent health care and of behavioral
pediatrics are based on his research.
Friedman is now Attending Pedia-
trician and Professor of Pediatrics
at the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine. He has also served
on the editorial boards of seven
journals and was the Editor of the
Journal of Development & Behav-
ioral Pediatrics for 12 years. His
presentation was “A Blue Jay
Goes to Antioch.”
● Jean Butzen ’79 was se-
lected for the 2000 Arthur Morgan
Award for her work in creating
housing for the homeless. The
Arthur Morgan Award recognizes
alumni who have brought together
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Nolan Miller, Professor
of Literature, Emeritus
Mario Renato Capecchi ’61
Stanford B. Friedman ’53
Jean Butzen ’79
Dianne Brou Fraser ’68,
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REUNION 2001
July 26 – 29, preceded
by the Work Project
July 23 – July 26
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President and Dean of Faculty,
presented “Liberal Arts in the 21st
Century.” Robert Pryor, Associate
Professor and Director of Buddhist
Studies and Suzanne Kolb, Assis-
tant Professor of Environmental
Science and Assistant Director of
Antioch Education Abroad, pre-
sented an update on the Education
Abroad program.
On display throughout Reunion
in the Herndon Gallery was an
Alumni Art Exhibit, curated by
Assistant Professor of Photography
Dennie Eagleson ’71. In the Glen
Helen Building, the photographs
of College Editor Emeritus Irwin
Inman ’41 were exhibited.
The Summer Institutes presen-
tation featured Kathryn Leary ’75,
President and CEO of The Leary
Group; and alumni faculty for the
Summer Entrepreneurial Institute:
Professor Ann Filemyr,
Director of the Writing
Institute; and Profes-
sor Victor Garcia,
Language Institute
Faculty Member.
President Bob
Devine’s “State
of the College
Address” outlined some of
the recent successes of the College
as well as its strategies for contin-
ued improvement. Members of
the senior administration presented
updates on their particular areas
of responsibility to round out the
Address.
Fast becoming a Reunion
tradition is “The Amazing Antioch
Trivia Bowl,” or “What do you
get when you cross a low-budget
TV game show and Antiochiana?”
Most-verbose host Scott Warren,
Dean of Students, kept the action
rolling with the help of Antiochiana
judges Nina Demchuk Myatt ’53,
Curator, and Scott Sanders, Special
Collections Archivist.
As always, Reunion featured
several special dinners, lunches
and brunches, as well as the
meetings of the Alumni Associa-
tion. The Div Dance with “Clean
Gene” Lohman ’71 kept revelers
going well into the wee hours on
Saturday.
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For more information on Reunion
2001, call (937) 767-6380.
Pat Linn, J.D. Dawson Professor
of Cooperative Education and
Professor of Psychology and
Women’s Studies; Eric Miller ’81,
Assistant Professor of Cooperative
Education; Campbell Graf, former
Director of Cooperative Educa-
tion, Wilberforce University; and
an Antioch College student. The
other panel discussion “Antio-
chians Through the Different
Eras” featured Steve Schwerner ’60,
Mary Elizabeth Rusnak ’95 and
Kathryn Mazaika ’80.
Also on tap were a Student Video
Festival, featuring the work of former
and current students and Student
Senior Projects presentations.
Larry Stone ’64, CEO of
Metron, presented “Search for the
Ship of Gold,” a fascinating venture
into the extensive recovery efforts
by scientists and engineers in 1989
to recover gold bars and coins from
an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of
South Carolina.
The faculty presentation, “Co-
operative Education: Bringing the
Best from the Past into the Future,”
featured J.D. Dawson Professor Pat
Linn. President Bob Devine ’67
and Hassan Nejad, Executive Vice
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Class of 1975
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By Robert H. Devine ’67
Antioch College President
ntioch College cel-
ebrated its ﬁrst com-
mencement of this century,
on Saturday, April 29, award-
ing degrees to 101 students
in a powerful, orderly and
peaceful three-hour outdoor
ceremony. This year the
senior class selected Mumia
Abu-Jamal and activist
Leslie Feinberg to be our
commencement speakers.
This selection generated
considerable controversy,
both within and outside of
the Antioch community.
The strongest response
came from the Fraternal Or-
der of Police and auxiliary
organizations seeking to
prevent Mumia from speak-
ing. For the month preceding
the commencement, the
College was under siege by
those seeking – by phone,
mail, e-mail and racist ﬂiers
distributed to Village resi-
dences in the dead of night –
to threaten, harass, intimi-
date and disrupt the
College’s commencement.
While a great deal of this
protest was reasonable, a
signiﬁcant portion was
hateful, racist and obscene.
In our communication
with those protesting, we
noted that Antioch – ﬁrst
and foremost an educa-
tional institution – has al-
ways sought to develop in
students the capacity for
critical thought in confront-
ing differences; in weighing
the merits of what they lis-
ten to, read or experience;
in reﬂecting on their en-
counters with the world;
and in seeking the truth.
Campus
News
Editor’s note: Antioch College President Bob Devine
wrote a letter earlier this year in response to the many
questions he was ﬁelding regarding Antioch’s ﬁrst
commencement of the century. What follows is a
shortened version of that letter.
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brought together 100 vil-
lage residents, ranging in
age from 16 to 85, who had
volunteered to be “Peace
keepers” for the event.
This outpouring of com-
munity support served as an
incredible afﬁrmation of the
central role of the College in
the life of the Village, and
students were in awe of the
support of their “elders.”
The Peace keepers
were each given bright
yellow tee-shirts, boldly
lettered “Antioch Hosts.”
These volunteers signed
up for parking duty, trafﬁc
control, media wrangling,
commencement seating,
forum hosting, protest
buffering, and various
Peace-keeping positions
around the campus.
At the same time, meet-
ings between the Antioch
administration, physical
plant staff, Village, and
Yellow Springs Police
Department prepared for
the logistics of managing
trafﬁc, crowds, protests and
contingencies. The excellent
and professional support
of the Yellow Springs Police
Department was central
to this effort. The College
went out of its way to
accommodate dissenting
We stressed that the air-
ing and discussion of such
differences are essential in
an educational institution,
even when the discussion
of those issues is deemed
to be difﬁcult, painful or
sensitive. We insisted that
the issues involved in the
Abu-Jamal case were
signiﬁcant and meaningful
to our students, and that
there was much to be
learned from the free and
open exchange of ideas. We
saw our role as providing an
environment where widely
varying points of view could
be expressed, and where
our students and the wider
community could be en-
gaged in the debate.
Toward that end, we held
a series of dialogues and
fora on campus during the
weeks preceding com-
mencement, and sought a
climate in which all points
of view could be expressed
and considered without
threat or intimidation. One
forum was conducted the
morning of the commence-
ment, which was moved
back one hour to accommo-
date the meeting.
Two weeks before com-
mencement we began solic-
iting the assistance of the
Village in managing the
challenges of commence-
ment. After several
preliminary meet-
ings, we
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voices, while at the same
time preserving the integ-
rity and honor of the com-
mencement exercise.
On the day of commence-
ment, media trucks were
located on Corry Street,
protestor parking was lo-
cated on the “golf course,”
and a tape boundary line
was set up on front campus
to restrain both press and
protesters at a modest dis-
tance from the commence-
ment ceremony itself. Our
most difﬁcult challenge, as
is often the case, would be
the twenty or more media
outlets that were present.
On Friday afternoon we
held our traditional pre-
commencement celebration
for graduating students of
color in Spalt 007. More
than 100 parents, family,
alums, and friends packed
the room. A number of alums
from the ’80s were present
to honor Limited Residency
Degree Completion candi-
date Chas. Brack. Harry
Belafonte, grandfather of
one of our graduating seniors,
was also in attendance. Dr.
Johnny Mack Erkins ’71 de-
livered an inspiring keynote
talk, and a moving series
of personal reﬂections
left many teary-eyed, and
old and new alums bonded
across the years.
Approximately 1,500
attended the Saturday
morning commencement
exercises, a third more
than are usually present.
Our other keynote
speaker, activist Leslie
Feinberg, provided context
for the address by Abu-
Jamal. She outlined the
details of the Scottsboro
cases, and the climate of
Philadelphia in the late
1970s and early 1980s, and
some of the details of the
Mumia case, and then the
6-minute tape was played.
Mumia Abu-Jamal spoke
about exemplary ﬁgures
in history, and the values
that made them exem-
plars. He spoke of Nelson
Mandela, Paul Robeson,
W.E.B. DuBois, Ella Baker,
Angela Davis and others,
and their struggle, against
adversity, to help the less
fortunate. (A full transcript
of the speech was printed
in local papers.)
Ten student speakers
reﬂected on their experi-
ences at Antioch, and in a
very diverse range of ex-
pression, gave thanks to
parents, faculty, staff and
fellow students. One of the
student speakers reﬂected
on the protesters, and the
importance of their dissent
to democracy, and asked
for a moment of silence for
fallen police ofﬁcer Daniel
Faulkner. Retiring Professor
of Chemistry Stan Bernstein
reﬂected on his 25 years at
Antioch and thanked his
students for his own educa-
tion. Two United Electrical,
Radio Machine Workers of
America (UE) 767 staff
members spoke eloquently
of their affection for the
graduating seniors. The de-
grees were awarded amidst
the sort of warm and caring
celebration that all have
come to expect of Antioch
College commencements,
and as is our tradition, the
ceremony concluded with
Horace Mann’s challenge,
“Be ashamed to die until
you have won some victory
for humanity.”
Commencement 2000
proved to be emotionally
moving, intellectually chal-
lenging, and peaceful.
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Dr. Johnny Mack Erkins ’71
UE 767 staff Amy Alexander
UE 767 staff Charlene
Minter-Fisher
Jesus
Canchola-
Canchez
Patti
Ventura
Bart Leib
Shayna
Plaut
Rachel
Borgatti
Kevin
Franck
Rachel
Biesemeyer
Tim
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Damien Joyner and Karla
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Antioch’s
Cave Diving
Biologist,
Jill Yager,
Is Twice
Honored
by Stephen C. Haldeman
Most of us will never
know the feeling of ex-
ploring a place that no
human being has ever
before seen. For Jill Yager,
Professor of Environmental
and Biological Science
here at Antioch College,
it’s a frequent occurrence.
In March, two organizations, the
Women Divers Hall of Fame
and the Karst Water Institute,
honored Dr. Yager for
her contributions
and work in sci-
ence and cave
exploration.
Jill began underwater
cave diving over twenty
years ago while teaching high
school biology on Grand Bahama
Island. Since then she has investi-
gated hundreds of unexplored,
underwater caves, and identiﬁed
several new forms of life. Jill com-
mented on her passion for studying
caves and the animals unique to
them. “There’s just so much work
to be done. So many caves, not
enough time.”
Perhaps her most remarkable
discovery was that of a new class
of crustacean, which she named
Remipedia. “It’s not a new species,
a new genus, a new family, a new
order,” says Jill, “it’s a whole new
class, which is way up there on the
scale. That’s really exciting.” Before
her discovery, the scientists only
recognized eight classes of crusta-
cean. Now, thanks to Jill Yager,
they’ve had to extend their catalog.
Dr. Yager was inducted into the
Women Divers Hall of Fame at the
group’s inaugural awards ceremony
March 24-26, 2000 at the “Beneath
Tragic Loss
in Costa Rica
The Antioch College community
is still recovering from the terribly
tragic and sad news that a Coopera-
tive Education student and a former
student were shot to death in Costa
Rica in March.
The two young women were
Emily Howell, 19, of Lexington,
Ky., and former student Emily
Eagen, 19, of Ann Arbor, Mich.
Their lifeless bodies were discov-
ered on March 13 near the Carib-
bean coastal town of Puerto Viejo,
90 miles east of San Jose.
Howell had been in Costa Rica
since January 2000 on Co-op.
Eagen, who withdrew from the
school in summer 1999, had been
visiting Howell for some weeks
along with a third student, Shaun
Sellers.
A memorial service in Kelly
Hall on March 16 honored the
memory of the two Emilys. Col-
lege President Bob Devine said the
tightly knit campus had been hit
extremely hard by the tragedy. “We
are a very intimate and supportive
community, and are coping with
this tragic incident as best we can.
The memorial service allows the
private reﬂective space to grieve for
the death of these two individuals
at the same time that we celebrate
their lives,” he said. Remarks by
Robert Pryor, Director of the Bud-
dhist Studies program at Antioch
College, and Scott Warren, Dean
of Students at Antioch College,
opened the services.
Two trees were planted between
Birch Dormitory and the Rockford
Chapel following the Kelly Hall
service. “I know the entire Antioch
Community joins me in expressing
our sympathy to the families of
Emily Howell and Emily Eagan.
The trees will help remind us of the
promise and spirit of these remark-
able young people,” Devine said.
A memorial photography show
in the Jenny Read Gallery of the
Antioch Art Building celebrated
Howell and Eagen by commemo-
rating their time in Costa Rica.
The June show was arranged and
facilitated by Shaun Sellers and
Tony Romeo. The striking photos
featured work by Sellers and
Howell. The exhibit provided an
opportunity for students who were
on Co-op or otherwise off-campus
during the March memorial service
to celebrate Emily and Emily’s
lives and memory while still in
a supportive atmosphere.
Adam Howard, an adviser to
the slain women, said Howell was
a dedicated student who had
worked with migrant workers in
Kentucky on her previous Co-op
project. Her skills in Spanish
coupled with a growing interest in
photography led her to Costa Rica,
where she had been documenting
the people and culture on ﬁlm.
Eagen was an education major
who wanted to teach, Howard said.
On her last Co-op project, she
worked for an agency that serves
the developmentally disabled.
Scott Warren, who knew both
victims, called Howell “a wonder-
ful person, very warm, very caring,
very community oriented. She was
involved in community service,
had a lot of friends, a great stu-
dent.” He described Eagen as high-
spirited and intellectually curious.
“They were both terriﬁc citi-
zens. These are not folks who
found themselves in trouble, ever.
That makes it doubly tragic to be
victims of this kind of crime,”
Warren said.
In July, a 16-year-old Costa
Rican youth convicted in the kill-
ing of the two women was sen-
tenced to 15 years in prison. Olger
Campus
News
the Sea Exposition” in Secaucus,
New Jersey. The ﬁrst honor society
of its kind, the Women Divers Hall of
Fame “has been established to recog-
nize women divers who have con-
tributed signiﬁcantly to the explor-
ation, understanding, safety and en-
joyment of our underwater world….
This elite group will include the most
notable women leaders and innova-
tors of the 20th century.”
On March 4, the Karst Water
Institute named Jill Yager as Cave
Scientist of the Year. The Institute’s
mission is to increase awareness
about caves and foster education and
research. This is only the second
time that the Institute has bestowed
the honor. “That’s very awesome,”
says Jill, “Another honor – two hon-
ors in one month – I can’t believe it.”
“Caves are really important,”
she explains, “not only water-ﬁlled
caves, but air-ﬁlled caves, because
what
goes on
above
the ground
can affect
what’s in the
cave. If you’ve got
a healthy cave, that means
the ecosystem above it is
healthy. So, they’re a really good
indicator of an environment that’s
clean, and they’re very susceptible
to pollution. There have been caves,
for example in Kentucky, that have
literally had so much pollution in
them that they’ve caught ﬁre.”
Jill also brings her knowledge
and research with her to the class-
room. “I’m always talking about
caves. I talk about the biology of the
caves. If it’s environmental science,
then I talk about how caves are so
highly endangered. For example,
this semester it’s really pertinent
that they understand what’s going
on in Mexico. From Cancun south,
it’s turning into what they call a
Mayan Riviera, and they’re cutting
down the forests, they’re building
huge hotels, they’re sucking the
ground water out of the ground,
and that’s actually submerged caves.
They’re throwing their trash just out
in the forest, and all of that pollution
is sinking into the caves, which is
where the drinking water comes from.
There’s a huge amount of environ-
mental education that can be done.”
On a recent expedition to Cuba,
National Geographic ﬁlmed Jill for
an upcoming feature which will
run on their new channel. She has
also appeared on The New Explor-
ers with Bill Curtis, Smithsonian
World (featured alongside the fa-
mous, globe-traversing V oyager
aircraft and the Hubble Space Tele-
scope), and 3-2-1 Contact.
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Photo by Dennie Eagleson ’71
Jill Yager
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Castro Cruz received the maxi-
mum penalty for murder that a
minor can under Costa Rican law.
He could be released after seven
years, authorities said. Cruz was
accused of ﬁring one of two guns
used in the murders. Police said he
then wrecked the victims’ rented
vehicle and sold the gun. Another
Costa Rican man is under arrest
and facing trial for the killing and
a Nicaraguan suspect wanted in
the case is a fugitive.
Police said earlier that the two
women may have given the three
suspects a ride in their vehicle.
They also said the motive for the
murders was perhaps robbery,
and that the murderers may have
been under the inﬂuence of drugs.
Gifts may be made to the
Antioch College Annual Fund
in memory of Emily Howell and
in memory of Emily Eagen.
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Campus
News
An Open
Letter to
the Antioch
Student Body
Editor’s note: The co-op department
is working on updating alumni support
directories for major cities. Letter has
been edited for space.
by Gabrielle Idlet ’92
Like the lifetime Antioch friends
I keep in close touch with, I was
shocked and horriﬁed to hear of
the murders of Emily Howell and
Emily Eagen. When I was a student
at Antioch in the early ’90s, three
of my classmates passed away in a
series of terrible coincidences over
the course of several months, and
I remember how terrifying and
painful their deaths were to all of
us on campus, not just to those who
knew them intimately. Antioch is
so small and close-knit, any such
horror reverberates through every
member of the community. I can
only imagine how shaken you must
feel, having lost friends to un-
speakable, intentional violence.
You are too young to have to face
such naked evil, and I wish to God
there were a human way to undo it
or even cushion the impact of it upon
you in some small way. None of us
yet knows exactly what happened in
Costa Rica, and at this point, at least,
it seems that what took place there
might have happened anywhere.
Upon hearing the news last week,
I found myself talking with other
alumni about the illusion we had of
safety, when we were students at
Antioch. Obviously, like you, and
like the decades of Antioch students
who preceded us, we left the safe
haven of Yellow Springs (which I
miss desperately, now) and went out
on co-op to a challenging job. I guess
we imagined that the cloak of safety
we felt on campus extended to the
world beyond us, simply because
co-ops were part of our common
group experience. Others did it and
survived just ﬁne: we would too.
Thankfully, we generally did.
I would not be the person I am
without having gone to Antioch.
From the day I set foot on campus
I felt I had ﬁnally found my tribe,
though I wouldn’t have described
it that way at the time.
I was among people who were
ﬁercely committed to following the
brave trajectories of their own jour-
neys, no matter what. I was among
people who were not afraid to leap
into the unknown, to live their be-
liefs, to question all that had been
presented to them as fact. Co-op
was a critical part of that experience.
As much as we may have seemed
cavalier about the adventures we
were embarking on by ourselves,
we were all scared and we were
all gutsy as hell, and, I am realizing
now, we were ridiculously lucky.
I believe that the co-op program
is a crucial and invaluable part of
the education Antioch provides,
and I remain thoroughly convinced
that I couldn’t have picked a better
place to go to school.
But it occurs to me that your
alumni may be able to be of use
to you as you make the courageous
leaps you are making every day.
I want to suggest that we consider
developing an active alumni net-
work that operates in tandem with
the co-op department to ensure that
you have immediate access to older
people looking out for you wher-
ever you have chosen to be. I am
certain that there are people from
my time at Antioch who would be
willing to serve as resources for
co-oping students in their areas. I
realize that this occurs unofﬁcially
sometimes, but it seems to me that
we could be doing a lot more to
provide tangible safety nets for
you as you explore the world.
There is no reason that a co-oping
student should feel alone in a new
city when doubtless there are Antioch
alumni living there who could: ac-
cept a collect call from a student in
trouble, provide a temporary bed to
a student who is suddenly without a
place to live, meet for coffee with a
student in emotional distress, brain-
storm to solve any of the myriad
problems that come up in work and
in life when you’re young and by
yourself in an unfamiliar place.
I realize that none of these
things could have made a differ-
ence for your classmates in Costa
Rica, and I hope that you will not
ﬁnd this letter presumptuous or
intrusive or ignorant of the particu-
lar pain you are in right now.
You may never need us, but
you should be able to reach out
to us. I would like to be a part of
making that happen. So, I want to
invite my fellow alumni and the
co-op department and anyone else
in the extended family of Antioch
who would like to take part in this
process to organize an alumni
safety net. You should know that
we are very much aware of what
has happened to your community
and we want to help. In the mean-
time, may you get through this
intact somehow. Our hearts and
our prayers are with you.
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Forum on Undergraduate Learning,
and Lee Shulman, President of The
Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
vancement of Teaching, in the in-
troduction to the report. “In short,
this report presents a magniﬁcent
opportunity to refocus our attention
on aspects of college quality that
really matter to student learning.”
Funded by a $3.3 million
foundation grant from the Pew
Charitable Trusts, co-sponsored
by the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching and
The Pew Forum on Undergraduate
Learning and administered by Indi-
ana University, the survey collected
information from 63,000 students
at 276 colleges and universities.
“The rationale of the survey
matches almost perfectly Antioch’s
rationale for why we offer the pro-
grams we do, in the ways we offer
them,” said Antioch College J.D.
Dawson Professor of Cooperative
Education, and Professor of
Women’s Studies and Psychology
Pat Linn. The NSSE report afﬁrms
that “challenging intellectual and
creative work is central to student
learning. Students learn more when
they are intensively involved in their
education and have opportunities to
think about and apply what they
are learning in different settings.”
Antioch’s cooperative education
program and international study
abroad programs directly reﬂect
these outcomes.
Antioch College President
Robert H. Devine said, “This report
reframes the discussion of how we
should assess teaching and learning.
The student responses from Antioch
College show that our student-
centered educational program and
community governance model
work well to help students realize
their full potential and go on to
make a difference in the world.”
The full NSSE Report can be
accessed at www.pewtrusts.org
and an abbreviated version can be
accessed at www.indiana.edu/nsse.
The results speciﬁc to Antioch
College can be found at
www.antioch-college.edu.
The Antioch College results
can also be mailed to you by
request. Call the Ofﬁce of Devel-
opment and Alumni Relations at
(937) 767-6380.
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Campus
News
Faculty
Symposium
by students Stephanie
McCreary and Neil Coletta
On April 15, 2000, fourteen
Antioch faculty members assembled
into panels to present research on
various topics to the community
in the Herndon Gallery. Organizers
of the event included the following
faculty: Suparna Bhaskaran, Andy
Carpenter, Dennie Eagleson, Jean
Gregorek, Frances Hasso and
Christiane Olivio. The all-day
affair was a landmark event for
strengthening inter-faculty and fac-
ulty-student relations. Community
members were given the chance to
gain insight into the scholarly pas-
sions of Antioch faculty.
Panel I was titled “Politics and
Practices of Transformation,” and
included Assistant Professor of
Political Science Christiane Olivo,
Assistant Professor of Cooperative
Education Adam Howard, and
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Frances Hasso. Christiane Olivo’s
presentation was titled “Can Poli-
tics of Civil Society Enhance
the event’s third panel, titled
“Legacies and Practices in Com-
munities & Places.” Pryor’s pre-
sentation, “The Yellow Springs
Dharma Center as an Example of
Current Developments in Ameri-
can Buddhism,” began with a brief
history of the Dharma Center,
opened in 1993. Pryor went on
to outline some tenets of the
so-called “New Buddhists” in
America. According to Pryor,
despite the differences in lifestyle
and cultural practice, this local
community still shares many tra-
ditional beliefs with the ancient
Eastern philosophy. Associate
Professor of Anthropology and
academic expert on “tourism,”
Melinda Kanner, delivered her
“Reinvigorating the Old South
Through Tourist Encounters.” The
presentation traced her long-time
fascination with and research of
Savannah, Georgia, and the cul-
tural impact of John Berendt’s
Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil. Kanner commented on
the personal reconciliation that
she had to make in order to do this
work – that of being both a tourist
and an anthropologist. Professor
of History Bob Fogarty, presented
“The Oneida Experiment,” a brief
exposition of Fogarty’s larger
work on one of the most remark-
able and revolutionary community
experiments in history. Among the
many theories and practices of the
“Oneida Colony” were experi-
ments in free love, a sexual system
in which males learned to not
ejaculate, as well as some of the
earliest work in the study of eu-
genics. Fogarty currently is work-
ing on a major documentary that
will be the ﬁrst of its kind on
Oneida. Associate Professor of
Communications and Environ-
mental Studies Ann Filemyr re-
counted her personal, professional
and political relationship with
former Antioch Theater Director,
Martin Worman. The title of the
presentation, “Remembering Mar-
tin in Malta: Searching for Roots
Amongst the Stones,” refers to
Filemyr’s experience producing
Worman’s play at a 1994 peace
Last spring Eric directed a
production of Sharon Shaver’s play
“Mud Bay Road” at the Antioch
Area Theater. As a teacher of cre-
ative writing, Professor Horsting
encouraged his students to write
as they do, not as he does, and as
a student of literature, he taught
courses in Shakespeare, the history
of poetry, international ﬁction, and
contemporary drama.
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Democracy?” and focused on how
people can bring democratic values
into civil society. Adam Howard
presented “De-Commodifying
Teaching and Learning,” which
centered on the problems of the
stratiﬁcation of educational meth-
ods according to the social class
of the student. Frances Hasso’s
presentation “Feminist Genera-
tions?: The Impact of Social Move-
ment Involvement on Palestinian
Women’s Lives,” studied the effects
of a Palestinian feminist organiza-
tion both during its existence and
after its demise.
Panel II was called “Discourses
on Bodies, Genders, and Sex-
ualities,” by Assistant Professor
of Women’s Studies Suparna
Bhaskaran, Assistant Professor
of Philosophy Andrew Carpenter,
Assistant Professor of British and
Post-Colonial Literature Jean
Gregorek, and Assistant Professor
of Psychology Kristin Anderson.
Suparna Bhaskaran’s presentation
“The Pukka and the Chekka:
Reﬂections on Section 377 of the
Indian Penal Code,” focused on
the effects of anti-homosexual law
in India. Andrew Carpenter’s pre-
sentation, “Kant’s Ubermensch:
Gender Norms, Sex Norms, and
the Embodiment of Cognition,”
argued one of the main critiques
of Kant – that he disregarded
embodiment. Kristin Anderson’s
presentation “Real Boys?: Con-
structions of Maleness, Mothering,
and Blame in the New Boys’ Lit-
erature” focused on the problems
of literature dealing with adoles-
cent boys’ lives. The main argu-
ment presented by Anderson was
that studying boys in relation to
girls was not a parallel endeavor,
and that the boys studied in this
literature were often “unraced,
unclassed and heterosexual.” Jean
Gregorek presented a paper en-
titled “Dangerous Genealogies:
Nietzschean Ressentiment in
Contemporary Cultural Studies,”
which addressed structures of
masculinity in the work of
Fredrich Nietzsche.
Robert Pryor, Director of the
Buddhist Studies Program, began
Thirty-eighth Annual
Antioch
College
Faculty
Lecture
The 1999 faculty lecture
was “Absence and Presence
in Poetry and Life: The
Case of the Missing Blue
Doorknob” by Professor
of Literature Eric Horsting.
The lecture took place in the
Herndon Gallery on November 30,
1999. Eric has since retired from
Antioch College and is Professor
of Literature Emeritus.
Eric taught at Antioch for 32
years. He received a BA degree
in English with High Honors, cum
laude and Phi Beta Kappa from
Middlebury College in Vermont
in 1963 and his MA in English in
1964 from Columbia University
in New York. Eric completed his
Ph.D. with honors at Columbia in
1975. His dissertation was a study
of a long pastoral poem by the
sixteenth-century English poet
Edmund Spenser. Professor Horsting
is a writer of poems and plays. He
has published over 100 poems in
journals and has been a contributor
at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Con-
ference in Vermont, a Fellow
at Ragdale Writer’s Retreat,
a student of Dutch poetry
translation in Amsterdam,
and a NEH fellow in poetry
with Helen Vendler. He
has also been a student
of Japanese theater in Kyoto,
Japan, a fellow of the National
Critics Institute at the Eugene
O’Neill Center in Connecticut,
and a NEH fellow in theater at
Princeton. He has written over
200 reviews of community, col-
lege, and professional productions
for radio and newspapers in
Southwestern Ohio, and was
appointed as theater reviewer
for the Dayton alternative paper
“Impact Weekly.” In 1997 he
was invited to join the American
Theater Critics Association.
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conference in Malta, following his
then recent death from AIDS-
related complications. “Images, Re-
sources, and Politics in Cuba and
Eastern Europe” was a two-member
panel consisting of Assistant Pro-
fessor of Photography Dennie
Eagleson, and Visiting Assistant
Professor of Communications
Chris Hill. “Behind the Blockade:
The State of Contemporary Pho-
tography in Cuba” depicted with
brilliant and vibrant detail a small
network of Cuban photographers
and their relation to the tourist
industry. Eagleson’s own sojourn
to the country was an attempt to
forge connections through the use
of her camera. Contemporary Cu-
ban Photographers, according to
Eagleson, tend to focus less on the
post-war Cuban political situation
and more on areas of cultural
identity. Chris Hill’s presentation,
“Citizen Producers in Eastern Eu-
rope,” emphasized the importance
of collective video and media ar-
chives and their ability to reﬂect
cultural dialogues. Several ques-
tions arise when considering the
nature of such archives in Eastern
Europe, particularly surrounding
the notions of speciﬁc collections
and their “gatekeepers.” ‘Who has
permission/access to the materials
and why?’ ‘What do they intend to
do with the footage?’, and ‘Who
decides what is to be included?’
All are valid concerns, for such
decisions may impact the way
that a story develops in which the
work of the archive itself plays a
part. The ﬁnal presentation of the
day was given by Rick Peterson,
Assistant Professor of Environ-
mental Studies. Reading excerpts
from his recently published book,
Conversations in the Rainforest:
Culture, Values, and the Environ-
ment in Central Africa, Peterson
conducted a critical examination
of the relationship between the
Central African peoples and their
lands, speciﬁcally those of Congo.
The terrain itself is of great intrigue
for environmental researchers as
it is a composite of mountain,
savanna and rainforest. Peterson
touched on issues of public health
and environmental agriculture,
accompanied by a brief but
illustrative slide show.
The Antioch community antici-
pates future faculty symposiums
and is grateful for the efforts of the
organizers and participants.
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Students
Volunteer
at Three
Rivers Avian
Center
By Jess Jessperson
Antioch Record
Dec. 3, 1999
On Oct. 7, 1999 seven
Antioch students drove out
to Brookes, West Virginia
to volunteer at the Three
Rivers Avian Center.
Jodi Berger, Brooke Decker,
Nohelia Ramos, Maggie Weber-
Striplin, Maya Nye, Jessica Swadosh
and Jess Jessperson loaded sleeping
gear and an enormous amount of
Caf food into the van. The seven of
us drove off. Some of us were sad
because we were missing the Will
Oldham show, but the sadness was
cured with a cassette tape of good
ole Will.
Antioch has had a relationship
with the Three Rivers Avian Center
for more than ﬁve years. Each term
that there is interest on campus a
student organizes the trip through
the Community Service Ofﬁce.
The center is located near the
top of Brookes Mountain. Wendy
and Ron Perrone are the directors of
the center. Their house is the only
building on the center’s property
FACULTY SYMPOSIUM 2000 Faculty members presenting their
research included: (top row, left to right) Adam Howard,
Suparna Bhaskaran, Dennie Eagleson, Frances Hasso, Jean
Gregorek, Christine Olivo, (bottom row) Ann Filemyr, Robert
Pryor, Andy Carpenter, and Bob Fogarty. (Not pictured: Kris
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Anderson, Melinda Kanner, Chris Hill, and Rick Peterson.)
Photo courtesy of Prof. Andy Carpenter
that has not been built by volun-
teers. In fact, some of the buildings
have been built by Antioch students.
Traditionally students arrive in
West Virginia to do manual labor:
ditch digging, ﬂight cage repair,
chopping wood, etc. This time we
arrived for the Migration Celebra-
tion. This is a fundraising event and
time to acknowledge important
contributors to the center. Unfortu-
nately the celebration was rained
on, but that did not stop it from
happening. We got up early to set
up for the event. The Antioch stu-
dents patched up the road for the
incoming trafﬁc and prepared the
food and information booths.
While the celebration was going
on, Brooke, Maya, Jess and Jodi
shared their expertise in hotdog
roasting with the customers, wear-
ing a very stylish plastic apron with
owls on it. Nohelia, Jessica, and
Maggie sold tickets at the entrance.
The rain did not stop. The celebra-
tion ended early. The people that
came out in the rain to support the
center were welcomed into Wendy
and Ron’s house. We quickly broke
down the set and booths and went
inside, where Antioch students
prepared dinner for everyone.
It was my fourth trip to Brookes
Mountain and I hope not the last.
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Traditionally
students arrive in
West Virginia
to do manual labor:
ditch digging, ﬂight cage
repair, chopping wood,
etc. This time we arrived
for the Migration
Celebration.
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Campus
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Author
Natalie
Goldberg
Connects
With
Antioch
by Fred Kraus
Best-selling author and
writing instructor Natalie
Goldberg returned to
Antioch Sept. 25 to read
excerpts from her new
book, Thunder & Light-
ning: Cracking Open the
Writer’s Craft.
Natalie was working on galley
proofs from the book while she
was writer-in-residence last fall.
She could be seen working on the
revisions and writing in Yellow
Springs at Dino’s, a favorite writ-
ing spot of hers.
We had a chance to talk with
Natalie shortly after she completed
her four-month stint as Visiting
Professor of Creative Writing.
The experience was energizing
for her.
“I really loved it. The energy
was just really, really good,” she
said, from her home/ofﬁce in Taos,
New Mexico.
The writer-in-residence assign-
ment was her second encounter
with the College. The ﬁrst was dur-
ing an Antioch Writers Conference
in Yellow Springs about two years
ago. “And I just fell in love with
Yellow Springs.”
“I always had the sense that
Antioch was a great place. I didn’t
know much about it, but I just re-
ally had that sensation. I can’t pin-
point why it was that I had that
feeling,” Natalie said.
Fortunately, the author and
painter was not disappointed.
“Well, it was even better than I
thought,” she said. “It was a tre-
mendous energy spot. I felt very
stimulated there.”
Actually, when she picked up
the ringing telephone in her studio,
she was taking a break from work-
ing on an abstract painting and
writing a letter to a friend from –
(insert the “Twilight Zone” theme
music here) – Yellow Springs. “So
it was an auspicious moment to an-
swer the phone,” she said, laughing.
Natalie helped to change the
approach to teaching writing with
the publication of her inspirational
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing
The Writer Within in 1986. That
book has sold nearly one million
copies. Since then she has written
ﬁve others and has conducted many
writing workshops throughout the
world. Her 1997 book, Living
Color: A Writer Paints Her World is
a chronicle of her engagement in
visual art. In her autobiographical
Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in
America (1993) she describes how
she was drawn into Buddhist prac-
tice. The personable author has been
practicing Zen meditation and
teaching writing seminars for 25
years. Shortly after college, Natalie
opened a natural foods restaurant
called Naked Lunch. She holds a
master’s degree in literature from
St. John’s School in Santa Fe.
Natalie, 52, who grew up in
Long Island, N.Y ., has made Taos
her home for many years. She is
accustomed to swooping into an
environment for a couple of weeks,
conducting a writing workshop,
then heading off for another project.
It was different at Antioch.
Here, she had an opportunity to
settle in a bit and interact in various
circles. “I felt very connected
there,” she said. “I felt like I really
ﬁt in. I was very comfortable.”
Since her ofﬁce was in South Hall,
she interacted with a number of
faculty members there. She said
she also ate at the Caf a lot, read all
of the posters throughout the cam-
pus, spent a lot of time at the Glen
and became friends with President
Devine – with Bob, she said.
And the students? “I loved the
kids I encountered,” she said, “even
though they were hard to deal with
and unruly.” It was that very unruli-
ness that led to good outcomes
in her creative writing course,
“Cracking Open the Heart of the
World.” “They weren’t polite,” she
said. “These students didn’t have
the typical middle-class values
and did not have a need to be po-
lite. They were not divorced from
their innate connection and so
could write their original mind
thoughts. And that’s what writing,
good writing, is about.”
Natalie discovered at one point
that some students were not attend-
ing her 10 a.m. creative writing
class. “I found out that Antioch
students are still up at 4 a.m. Some
weren’t making it to my class.”
To remedy the situation, Natalie
mandated that any student who
missed her 10 a.m. writing class
would be required to attend her 7
a.m. meditation class, which was
open to community members. She
thought this assignment would help
them to get to bed a little earlier.
“Then I found out that instead of
staying up until 4 a.m., and going
to bed early, like I planned, they
just stayed up the entire night and
showed up for the early class!”
When asked if she had one pre-
dominant impression of Antioch,
Natalie paused, then offered: “If
there is one thought that comes
shooting through my conscious-
ness, it is, ‘Rub against your raw
life.’ Yes, write that down: rub
against your raw life.” It is, she said,
a commitment to being wide awake.
Natalie’s painterly eye was
drawn to several images of the area.
Natalie’s painting of the downtown
drugstore was used as the College’s
1999 holiday card. “I also painted a
big gingko tree that was in my back
yard, as well as an interior scene
of Ye Olde Trail Tavern. I sit down
and draw it and add color later,”
she said. Her coloring scheme is
based more on tone impressions
than actual literal shades.
“I think Yellow Springs is sort of
a magical town in America – a secret
magical place. And because it’s in
Ohio, people will never ﬁnd it and
you’ll have it for yourself forever.”
An excerpt from Natalie’s
Thunder & Lightning: Cracking
Open the Writer’s Craft, can be
found in the September 1999 issue
of Poets & Writers, and an inter-
view with her is in September
1999 Advocate.
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Natalie Goldberg
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Goldberg’s class “Cracking
Open the Heart of the World”
Photos by Dennie Eagleson ’71

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Pat Linn’s research
has put Antioch
College back on
the map as a leader
in the world of
cooperative
education.
— Bob Devine, Antioch
president
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their notebooks, and “fast-writing
pens” (class requirements).
With a wistful and kind smile,
Natalie says, “Tell me everything
you know about red.” Then with
the grim seriousness generally
reserved for drill instructors and
karate coaches (insert mental im-
age of Mr. Miagi, of “Karate
Kid” fame, here) she charges,
“Ten minutes. Go!”
This would initiate a mad dash
of scribbling; all of us trying to
keep up with her. We soon real-
ized the folly of trying to go toe-
to-toe with Natalie Goldberg, the
fastest pen on either side of the
Mississippi, and each of us
settled in to his or her own indi-
vidualized pace.
Much to our collective horror,
the next phase of this process was
the reading of this “writing prac-
tice.” Observing our trepidation,
Natalie calmly directed us.
“Don’t think! Read!”
The material was what one
would expect from an Antioch
creative writing class – tales of
unrequited love, radical political
musings, feelings of subjugation,
and the usual accounting of the
unmentionable activities of the
preceding evening. How any of
this related to what we knew
about the color red, is as much of
a mystery as the actual demise of
the rest of the sculpture located
outside of the art building, which
now consists solely of two dis-
membered and rather ﬂummoxed
looking feet.
As Natalie soon recognized,
we’re all a little different here at
Antioch. I think she ﬁt right in. I
wouldn’t trade the experience of
her class for all the coffee shops
in New York.
One of our lessons about writ-
ing/life was a quote from a Zen
master. “If you walk in the mist,
you are going to get wet.” Well,
when you come to Antioch, with
its limitless diversity, and clamor-
ous intensity, you are bound to
get absolutely, to-the-bone
drenched.
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Antioch Professor
Patricia Linn
Receives
Cooperative
Education
Award
Pat Linn has been caught up in a
whirlwind of sorts over the past
several months. But Antioch’s
Dawson Professor of Cooperative
Education and Professor of Psy-
chology and Women’s Studies
doesn’t seem to mind the pressing
demands – most of which have
been of her own doing.
Most recently, Pat was awarded
the 2000 Cooperative Education
Association (CEA) Ralph W.
Tyler Award which is based on
merit and is not given each year.
The award recognizes outstanding
and distinguished research in co-
operative education. Pat was hon-
ored for her research study, “A
Lifespan Study of Cooperative
Education: Quantitative Aspects,”
a paper co-authored with former
student Jane Ferguson ’00.
The CEA, now in its 35th year,
is dedicated to promoting coop-
erative education as the premier
model of work-integrated learn-
ing. The CEA is the largest profes-
sional association for cooperative
education. Its member support
includes training, publications,
networking and online services.
Mark Loken, chair of the nomi-
nations committee, said, “Longi-
tudinal studies in cooperative
education are rare, and this study
contributes in a signiﬁcant way to
our understanding of cooperative
education.”
Pat received the award in Salt
Lake City during the CEA’s 37th
annual conference June 4-6, 2000.
“This is a terriﬁc acknowledgement.
I am really excited about this one,”
Pat said of the award.
“This is an honor –
and what makes it
even more gratifying
is that the study
wasn’t even published
yet. The committee
recommended the
award on the strength
of the research
itself.”
“Pat Linn’s
research has put
Antioch College
back on the map as
a leader in the world
of cooperative edu-
cation,” said Bob
Devine, Antioch
president. “Prior to his death last
year, J.D. Dawson, a cooperative
education pioneer, and for whom
the chair is named, recommended
Pat for this position. His instincts
then, as ever, are proving unerr-
ingly true. We are incredibly for-
tunate to have Pat’s intellectual
leadership in this key role.”
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A Student’s
Bones
by Stephen C. Haldeman
Student, Antioch College
During the Fall term of 1999,
Antioch College was proud to
welcome Natalie Goldberg as a
visiting instructor. I was one of
the twenty students who were
privileged to attend her class.
The fortuity to work with a
teacher of her caliber and reputa-
tion for a full semester was not lost
on us. It is entirely possible, how-
ever, that Natalie was as surprised
to see us, as we were to see her.
My ﬁrst memory of the class is
a picture of utter astonishment. She
is quietly staring at us, and we are
staring, bleary-eyed and sleepy
back at her, hands on our knees,
feet ﬂat on the ﬂoor. We began each
ensuing day with this posture,
which, because I was a bit tardy the
ﬁrst day, I assumed was simply a
daily-renewed gesture of respect
and bewilderment. It wasn’t until
one particularly lengthy stretch,
during which I felt that the period of
reasonable courtesy had long passed,
that I discovered that my class-
mates were actually meditating.
The period of meditation was
brought to an end with the chim-
ing of a brass, bowl-shaped bell,
that Natalie brought with her each
day. This feature had at ﬁrst con-
founded me beyond words, and I
gathered that it was a kind of
“doorbell” for our sleepy minds.
This was not, incidentally, too far
from the truth.
Now that we were, as Natalie
put it, “awake,” we began to
write. After much racket
and confused search-
ing, everybody
attempted to
locate
It wasn’t until one
particularly lengthy
stretch, during which
I felt that the period of
reasonable courtesy
had long passed, that
I discovered that my
classmates were
actually
meditating.
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Antioch
Receives
National
School-To-
Work Grant
by Stephen C. Haldeman
The Oak Ridge Institute
for Science and Education,
in partnership with the Na-
tional School-to-Work Of-
ﬁce, has awarded a grant for
$74,733 to Antioch College.
Each of the nine grants was given
through a national competition
to post-secondary institutions to
encourage, promote and build
upon local efforts in expanding
work-based learning for high
school students.
“The establishment of dynamic
linkages between secondary and
post-secondary institutions and the
partnerships established through
STW continue to be of extreme
importance in establishing a
system of life-long learning for all
Americans,” said School-to-Work
Director Stephanie J. Powers.
These grants have been
awarded to institutions of higher
education that have exempliﬁed a
strong commitment to the integra-
tion of learning and work, as re-
ﬂected in cooperative education,
structured internships, and/or ser-
vice learning curricula. The one-
year awards have the potential
for an additional year of funding
based upon the availability of
funds and demonstrated progress
of the awardee under the School-
to-Work initiative.
Antioch is partnering with
Sinclair Community College in
Dayton, and six Ohio high schools:
Shaw High School in East Cleve-
land, Cleveland Heights High
School, Linworth Alternative Pro-
gram in Worthington, Springﬁeld
North and Springﬁeld South High
Schools, and Miamisburg High
School. Antioch has been in con-
tact with other institutions as well,
including Cuyahoga Community
College, a co-op based community
college in the Cleveland area.
Cheryl Keen, Professor in the
Self, Society, and Culture major,
Liaison to Admissions and princi-
pal investigator for the grant,
stated that the vision for the grant
is to strengthen the link between
work-based learning and college
attendance in the partnered
schools; to inform partnered high
school students about co-op col-
leges in general and Antioch in
particular; and to ease the transi-
tion of accepted students from the
partnered schools to Antioch.
Pat Linn, co-author of the grant
and J. Dudley Dawson Professor
of Co-op, said, “We believe a lib-
eral arts cooperative education
program is well-suited to prepare
students for a range of possible
futures, for two reasons. First,
because employers say that high
school and college grads are not
well prepared for work in terms of
both career skills and ‘soft skills’
(skills we emphasize at Antioch,
like written and oral communica-
tion, teaming, critical thinking,
and cross-cultural competence).
Secondly, because students face a
future job market where the only
certainty is that they will encoun-
ter change, and broad liberal edu-
cation helps prepare for change.”
As part of the project, the
College has committed $35,000
for “Learning from Work” scholar-
ships to be awarded to one student
from each of the seven partner
schools. Plans have been made for
high school articulation allowing
for up to 12 college credits for high
school, work-based learning.
A full-time Admissions Coun-
selor/Data Collector position was
also created by the grant. In Janu-
ary, Lori Warﬁeld was hired at the
College with the grant funds. “She
was observed by the site evaluator
to do ‘outstanding’ presentations
and have the ‘requisite energy,
enthusiasm, skill and knowledge’
to carry out the work of this
grant.” Lori comes to Antioch
after working as an admissions
counselor for Job Corps, a na-
tional job training program for
disadvantaged youth.
Lori is enthusiastic about the
work being done with the grant. “I
am thrilled about the opportunities
that cooperative education provides.
This grant allows us to publicize
these opportunities in such a per-
sonal way that is sure to attract
students to co-op colleges and
hopefully to Antioch.”
The basic strategies of the team
involve placing staff, faculty and
students in each of the partnered
schools for at least three days a
month in a variety of strategic ac-
tivities. Further approaches include
bringing students and liaisons to
campus, and preparing useful ma-
terials to use when the group visits
the schools. Arrangements have
also been made to schedule a
National Issues Forum in the fall
aimed at engaging community
stakeholders in developing strate-
gies to help build a committed and
productive work force.
So far, the program has been
extremely successful. They have
contacted more than 1,200 stu-
dents, and at least 100 parents.
They have also established vital
links with several other institu-
tions, and school ofﬁcials. The
goal is not only to increase the
number of students participating
in work-based learning who de-
cide to go to college (particularly
a co-op college that allows for the
integration of work and classroom
learning), but to increase the num-
ber of students already going to
college to consider doing work-
based learning.
Of the grant, Antioch President
Bob Devine said, “Prospective
students who have ‘learned how
to learn’ from work experience
in high school are a very attractive
group to us. This grant initiative
is an excellent way to support
partnerships with high schools that
have strong work-based learning
programs.” Antioch has a 78-year
history of cooperative education
and community service. The
College’s curriculum emphasizes
the development of broadly
educated global citizens and the
exploration of a wide range of
possible careers.
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THE VISION FOR
THE GRANT IS TO
STRENGTHEN THE
LINK BETWEEN
WORK-BASED
LEARNING AND
COLLEGE ATTEN-
DANCE IN THE
PARTNERED
SCHOOLS;
TO INFORM
PARTNERED HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS
ABOUT CO-OP
COLLEGES IN
GENERAL AND
ANTIOCH IN
PARTICULAR;
AND TO EASE
THE TRANSITION
OF ACCEPTED
STUDENTS FROM
THE PARTNERED
SCHOOLS TO
ANTIOCH.
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Fall 2000 13
Storyteller…
Professor
Harold
Wright
Awarded
Japan Study
Grant
by Stephen C. Haldeman
Storytelling is a tradition as
old as language itself. It’s a
common bond that has been
woven into the fabric of our
history. In this fast-paced
age of instant information,
it’s a rare practice; and only
a few bastions of this trea-
sured custom remain.
“That’s why I think there’s been
such a revival. It started people
realizing that something very im-
portant was lost. It touched a very
deep chord in a whole bunch of
people.” So says Harold Wright,
storyteller and Professor of Japa-
nese here at Antioch.
Harold has just been awarded
a $4,000 Curricular Research
Project Grant from the Japan Study
Program to further explore this
cherished art form. Japan Study is
a collaborative initiative in interna-
tional education managed by
Earlham College, which links the
member institutions of the Great
Lakes Colleges Association
(GLCA) and the Associated
Colleges of the Midwest (ACM)
with Waseda University in Japan.
Wright plans to utilize the
grant to do research on Japanese
storytelling, in a project he is call-
ing, “Remnants of the Japanese
Oral Tradition.” He and his
wife Jonatha Wright,
fellow professional
storyteller and
teacher of “The World of
Storytelling” here at Antioch, plan
to “take a couple of months and
travel the length and breadth of
Japan looking for these old-time
storytellers.”
After ﬁnishing his duties as
Program Director of the Kyoto-
Seika Exchange Program in late
summer 2000, he and Jonatha plan
to set out in search of Japan’s rich
heritage of traditional performers
of oral literature and storytelling.
They will pay special regard to
“the role of storytelling in contem-
porary times among the minority
groups of Japan.”
During their tour of Japan,
the Wrights hope to interview
and possibly record many diverse
groups and their folk traditions.
Some of the groups that they hope
to ﬁnd are: “any lingering chanters
of traditional tales like the blind
lute playing priest of old (Biwa
Hoshi); samisen playing women
of the tales of Osaka (Naniwa
Bushi); the men who perform
picture-plays for children from tiny
stages on the backs of bicycles
(Kamishibai); village storytellers
and grandmothers; vaudeville type
humorous storytelling (Rakugo);
Buddhist nuns who explained the
levels of Heaven and Hell through
story and pictures (Etoki Bikuni);
as well as other types of performed
narrative literature.” They also
hope to communicate with some
of the Japanese minority groups
such as the Ainu, the Korean-
Japanese, and the so-called outcast
group, the Burakumin.
Professor Wright hopes to
archive this work and
incorporate it into
a special
course.
“I was thinking about offering a
class that would ﬁt right in with
the kind of courses I offer, called
something like the Oral Tradi-
tion,” said Wright, “Instead of a
pure reading kind of class, where
you’re reading literature, you’re
actually listening to these tapes
and seeing video.” This would
allow students the opportunity to
be more engaged with this mode
of expression, in which interaction
is so essential.
Storytelling has always been
an important part of Harold’s
life. “I came from an Appalachian
background, and you know my
people were always storytellers.
They would sit around on Sunday
afternoon, or Saturday
night, just telling sto-
ries. So, I always
grew up
with
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that kind of oral tradition.”
His interest in professional
storytelling was inspired by his
award-winning translation of
Japanese “performance poet”
Tanikawa Shuntaro. Professor
Wright was invited to travel
as a translator with Tanikawa,
performing bilingual readings.
“I just really feel that story-
telling is a very real people-
to-people thing. I got into this
through basically performance
poetry. But the idea that, once
I appeared in front of people
without a piece of paper, and just
stopped reading off the page, and
basically began to tell as opposed
to when you’re reading, and then
you can see the eyes of the people
that are watching. There’s some-
thing about that that’s absolute
magic.”
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Prof. Harold Wright
Photo by Dennie Eagleson ’71

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Students
Work and
Learn
By Chris Garcia,
Assistant Professor of
Visual Arts: Ceramics
In July of 1999, four Antioch
College students and I went to
the Art Farm studio residency
program in Marquette, Nebraska
for two weeks. According to their
mission statement, “Art Farm
is set up to provide a work site,
resources and support for artists,
providing them with time to
experiment with new ideas or
projects while working and
living in a rural environment.”
The program is based on several
old farm buildings that have been
redesigned as living spaces and
artist’s studios. Housing consists
of a fully furnished old farmhouse
with kitchen and laundry facilities.
The studios are former calving
barns and a granary silo. The “pig
pottery” is an old hog house. In
exchange for accommodations and
studio space, artists-in-residence
are required to work 15 hours per
week on the grounds and buildings.
Our responsibilities while at Art
Farm consisted of a variety
of chores, including mow-
ing, cleaning out a barn,
ﬁxing site-speciﬁc sculp-
tures, and moving pallets
of lumber.
The idea of Art Farm
began in 1974 when Ne-
braska native Ed Dadey
returned to his family farm
and began working on
building himself an art
studio. He found several
abandoned barns in the
area, and began a complex
project involving the mov-
ing and joining of these
separate buildings into
one large space. Twenty-ﬁve years
later, the opus is still in progress:
growing, maturing, but as of yet,
incomplete.
“The barns,” as they are called,
have become the central unifying
theme to Art Farm. They represent
the ongoing creative impulse as
well as the ability to utilize a sur-
rounding culture and environment
in limitless ways.
In 1990, after inheriting the
farm from his parents, Dadey be-
gan formulating the concept of an
artist residency program. A year
later, he brought in his ﬁrst artist
through the Benis Center for
Contemporary Arts in Omaha.
In 1992, British artist Janet
Williams began a three-month
residency at Art Farm through the
Benis center. The following year,
Dadey and Williams became co-
directors of the residency pro-
gram, and were married in 1994.
The program has continued to
grow, and has attracted artists from
across the world. The range of me-
dia and approaches are immensely
varied, but one theme that arises
continually is the desire to experi-
ment and to use the natural re-
sources available in this rural
setting. Such projects include site-
speciﬁc works by Canadian artist
Brian McArthur, who utilized prai-
rie grass to construct large animal
forms. American artist Dawn
Detarando created three immense
bird forms from discarded brick,
entitled, “Upland Game Fowl.” The
forms reﬂect the life of the prairie,
with its wildlife lingering in the
shelter of the tall grass.
The project Antioch students
and I worked on consisted of the
building of a 30-ft. adobe snake
form based on the Serpent Mound
of Ohio. The project also acted
as a summer camp art project
for SOAR (Summer Orientation
About Rivers), an annual camp
organized by a local environmental
organization.
We began by digging out 3,000
pounds of clay from a natural depo-
sit under the resident artist’s farm
house. As we dug, we occasion-
ally found antique bottles, some
still corked and containing old
remedies and scented water. The
clay was shoveled out into buck-
ets, hauled upstairs, and sifted
into an earth mover.
After the clay was dug, we
baled cut prairie grass into long
shapes to act as the inner frame
of the adobe snake. The bales
were then tied together and laid
out in the design of the serpent.
The next step involved mixing
adobe in wheelbarrows (one part
clay, one part sand, and dry grass
“to taste”). The fresh adobe was
plastered onto the form and then
covered with a mixture of wet
adobe and grass seed. After ﬁnish-
ing the earthwork sculpture, chil-
dren from the SOAR camp came
in for two separate days (two
groups per day) to work with clay.
Each of the four Antioch students
Campus
News
and two artists-in-residence were
responsible for designing a project
or projects for a table of ﬁve to
eight children.
The completed clay pieces
were then ﬁred and incorporated
into the serpent form. At the end
of our time at Art Farm, we all
had managed to create a large
earthwork sculpture and some
individual work of our own. We
had spent long hours working on
the buildings and grounds, often
taking on jobs that included train-
ing in the use of unfamiliar equip-
ment. We had spent hot afternoons
swimming in the Platte River, and
cool nights talking under the im-
mense and incredibly beautiful
sky of Nebraska.
Art Farm, like “the barns,”
continues to be a work in progress,
while its atmosphere of potential
and steady growth makes it an ex-
citing environment for the working
artist. The residents are not merely
there for their own sake and the
efforts of their own creations, but
as part of a larger, unifying goal.
Art Farm is, in fact, a group project
and public art event. This collabo-
rative mission allows artists to
serve not only as participants in
the program, but also as draftsmen
in its continual conception.
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Art Farm is
set up to provide
a work site,
resources and
support for
artists, providing
them with time to
experiment with
new ideas or
projects while
working and
living in a rural
environment.
Photos by Dennie Eagleson ’71
Prof. Chris Garcia

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The
Wholeness
of a Broken
Heart
by Katie Singer ’83
review and interview
by Antioch student
Raenya Burkhart
The Whole-
ness of a Bro-
ken Heart, by
Katie Singer,
tells the story
of the silence
between
mothers and daughters, the love
that binds them together, and the
mystery that holds them apart.
Singer’s novel is about four
generations of women in a Jewish
family, starting in Europe before
the holocaust and ending in mod-
ern day America. Singer weaves
the stories of generations that came
before principle character, Hannah
Fried, into the novel, and recounts
the difﬁculty that very often goes
with knowing and understanding
where it is one came from.
The Wholeness of a Broken
Heart is heartwarming in its por-
trayal of family relationships, and
the diversity of people that very
often complete our families.
The Wholeness of a Broken
Heart was written by author Katie
Singer after she left her position
teaching at a Boston High School
and moved around the country for
the next few years house-sitting
and teaching an occasional dance
class in order to support her project
of full-time writing. On the brink
of homelessness at one point, a
woman she talked to suggested
that what Katie needed was a bene-
factor. Katie wrote up a proposal
of her needs and a wonderful thing
happened. A man named Bob
Levin ’42 came along and took
an interest in Katie’s book.
Bob decided to help fund the
book project for which Katie had
written her proposal. He had read
excerpts from her novel and de-
cided he was interested in reading
the completed version. He based
his decision on the fact that the
book was a ﬁctionalized account
of his parents and grandparents
eras. “It told a story that helped
me understand my own back-
ground.” When asked why he
chose to support the project,
Bob responded “I wanted to read
it, so it had to be written.”
Soon they became friends.
Katie would send Bob excerpts of
the novel and he would give his
advice as a reader. She introduced
him to a rabbi friend and lent him
several books she thought he might
like. “It was like a gift,” commented
Winning
Some
Victory for
Humanity
reprinted with permission
Arizona Tribune
March 22, 2000
by Joe Kullman
Add the name Henry B. Wallace
(Editor’s note: Mr. Wallace is an
Antioch College ’38 alum) to the
list of celebrated Arizona mountain
men. His legacy will be as a
modern version of an Old West
trailblazer. In the past, pioneers
conquered the wilderness. Wallace
is making sure a piece of it remains
untamed. He and his wife, Jocelyn,
chocked back tears on March 21,
2000 at the foot of Lone Mountain,
where about 50 appreciative friends
and neighbors gathered to salute
Wallace’s decision to keep devel-
opment off his 78 acres on the sce-
nic north Scottsdale peak.
The crowd raised champagne
glasses in a toast to the Wallaces as
a small boulder bearing a plaque
honoring the couple was unveiled.
The commemorative marker
should help assure that, at least in
these parts, 84-year-old Henry B.
will be remembered as more than
the son of Henry A. Wallace, vice
president under Franklin Roosevelt
and the Progressive Party’s 1948
presidential candidate.
The swath of rugged terrain
was slated for another phase of the
Sincuidados residential community
when the Wallaces bought it from
the developer several years ago.-
The land today is likely worth
$4 million undeveloped, said
David Benedict, a real estate agent
who is also a neighbor of Wallace
in Sincuidados. “If it was devel-
oped, you could probably sell the
individual lots for at least a quarter
of a million each,” meaning it
could have been worth upward
of $19.5 million.
The Wallaces recently handed
the property over to new caretakers
by granting a conservation ease-
ment to the Desert Foothills Land
Trust, one of the groups leading
land preservation efforts in the
Northeast Valley.
Now Lone Mountain’s eastern
slopes will be cleared only for hik-
ing trails, not for houses.
“We’re delighted,” said P. A.
Seitts, director of the land trust.
“We’re saving the mountain’s peak,
some big rock outcroppings, a
wash and a lot of vegetation.”
It’s the ﬁrst Scottsdale parcel for
the land trust, which has preserved
more than 200 acres of open desert
in several locations in and around
Cave Creek and Carefree.
The mountain is near an
expanse of state land Scottsdale
hopes to make part of its McDowell
Sonoran Preserve. The Desert
Foothills group plans to begin
guiding hikes on Lone Mountain
in the near future, Seitts said.
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Katie concerning Bob’s involve-
ment in her project. “It’s very chal-
lenging for individual artists of
today to make a living and do their
art at the same time. To have some-
body get behind me – behind the
book, was so supporting.”
It wasn’t until they had become
good friends that they realized they
shared something in common: both
were Antioch graduates.
According to Katie, the connec-
tion felt sort of ‘magical.’ “We
were total strangers, yet both had
this commitment to Antioch.”
First published fall, 1999, The
Wholeness of a Broken Heart is a
selection of Barnes and Noble’s
Great New Writer’s Program and
has been translated into Dutch,
Hebrew, and Finnish.
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Alumni
News
As we compile out third edition
of “Antioch College Noteworthy
Alumni,” we are turning to you
for your suggestions of Alumni
that you know or have heard
about whose achievements are
truly outstanding.
We also seek your input
in recognizing persons for the
college’s four annual Alumni
Awards as well as for individu-
als who would be potential
candidates to serve on the
Alumni Board.
The alumni awards consist
of The Horace Mann Award,
which recognizes a victory for
humanity; the Arthur Morgan
Award, which recognizes contri-
bution to community; the J.D.
Dawson Award, which recog-
nizes contribution to the Col-
lege; and the Rebecca Rice
Award, which recognizes indi-
viduals who are outstanding in
their profession.
If you would like to nominate
an individual for an Alumni Award,
please name the individual, the
suggested award and a statement
of why you are nominating the
person.
Please follow a similar proce-
dure for nominating someone to
serve on the Alumni Board –
you may even want to nomi-
nate yourself!
Please send your sugges-
tions for Noteworthy Alumni,
Alumni Awards or Alumni
Board members to:
Fred Kraus, Researcher/Writer
Ofﬁce of Development
and Alumni Relations
Antioch College
795 Livermore St.
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
or email:
Fkraus@antioch-college.edu
Thanks!
We’re seeking outstanding alumni.
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Alumni
News
Jay Tuck ’68
Is First
American
To Run In
Siberian
Marathon
by Stephen C. Haldeman
It’s minus 26 degrees Fahr-
enheit; January in Omsk,
2000 miles east of Moscow,
beyond the Ural Mountains.
It’s cold – Siberian winter
cold, which is, perhaps,
sublime inspiration for thick,
gut-wrenching novels of
human fortitude; but not
particularly conducive to
normal human activity, like
breathing, for instance.
You feel it the moment you
step off of the sleepless ﬂight from
Moscow. You’ve done your best,
but the polar chill has no respect
for thermal underwear, arctic
boots, Norwegian ﬁshing sweaters,
parkas, or anything else in which
you’ve managed to bundle yourself.
Just making your way down the
gangway to the half-heated airport,
then onto the rolling ice box of a
bus, is a formidable challenge.
The ﬁrst order of business is
obvious. You gracefully entreat
your amicable Russian hosts to
take you out into the woods for a
10K jog over the snowy ﬁelds and
frozen rivers. That is, of course,
what you do if you’re Jay Tuck,
1968 graduate of Antioch College;
and that is just exactly what he did.
He was in training, after all, and
there comes a time when you just
have to ignore those tiny, little
icicles forming on the end of your
mustache, and shake off the cold.
He came all this way, from his
home in Germany to Omsk, to be
the ﬁrst American to run in the an-
nual Siberian Ice Marathon, and he
could already hear the theme music
from Rocky XIV in his head.
First of all, and let’s be clear on
this point, this isn’t some cushy dog-
sled race. It’s a foot-race, just like
Boston, only a lot colder, and with a
lot less coverage on ESPN. Secondly,
Jay Tuck is not out of his mind. He i
s what some of us, with wide-eyed
wonder, refer to as “adventurous.”
In fact, Jay Tuck is an excep-
tionally gifted, and successful jour-
nalist. He is the Executive Producer
of the daily, network news magazine,
ARD-Tagesthemen. ARD German
Television (Channel One), where
he’s worked since 1971, is the larg-
est television network on the Euro-
pean continent. He has produced
over 400 television news reports
and documentaries, and shot news
features for NBC and CBS, the
CBC in Canada, and the BBC
in Britain.
Jay covered the Gulf War as
a foreign correspondent, and pro-
duced over 100 reports in seven
weeks, many from the combat
zone. He is the author of two
books published in eight countries,
High-Tech Espionage (St. Martin’s
Press, 1986) and The T Directorate
(St. Martin’s Press, 1988). Jay
has also written articles for several
renowned international magazines,
including Playboy, Der Spiegel,
Le Point and Oggi, and has lec-
tured extensively about security
issues on a number of interna-
tional symposiums.
So, how does a 54 year-old
journalist with a desk job, who’d
spent most of his life as a heavy
smoker, end up running in a frigid
marathon on the other side of
the world? He saw it on TV . “A
German banker went there and
ran. I saw the show, caught the
bug, wanted to do it.”
He trained for three months,
running 14 kilometers every night
after his television broadcast. “At
night because that’s when I had
time, and because that’s when
Hamburg is coldest.” Once a week
he’d run for 20 or 30 kilometers.
“I’ve only been running seriously
for ﬁve years. I do run marathons;
but at the back of the pack, with
the slow folks.”
So, after three months of train-
ing, Jay was off to Omsk. Omsk is
a large Siberian city about the size
of Munich, with a population of 1.4
million people. Before Perestroika,
it was a closed and secret city, due
to its defense industry. Jay, a recog-
nized authority on international,
high-tech espionage said, “I had
the impression that my daughter
and I were being ‘covered’ by the
local security people, but it cer-
tainly wasn’t a problem, and never
got in the way of our reception
from the local populace, which
was very warm-hearted.”
Omsk is a remote city, which
rarely sees foreigners. “You’re ac-
companied everywhere you go by
Whatever happened to Mickey McCleery? Richard H. (“Mickey”)
McCleery is one of many, many Antioch professors who made very
strong and favorable impressions on students. Alums are still
posing the question, “Whatever happened to Mickey McCleery?”
Mickey taught political science at Antioch from 1958 to 1965.
After a leave of absence in 1965-66, he and his wife, Althea, who have now been married 50
years, moved to Hawaii in 1967. Mickey, who had earned his B.A. at the University of Hawaii,
soon became involved in helping high school students better understand the culture of the
USA mainland – especially those who were planning to attend a college on the mainland.
“We do speak English in Hawaii,” explained Althea, “but the culture is vastly different.”
Mickey ended up teaching college-level courses at three high schools after he introduced
the idea of advanced studies in mainland culture to the Department of Education. He taught
night classes as well. He’s been retired from the Hawaii Department of Education since
1985. Mickey was actually out helping a friend install a cement sidewalk when we almost
caught up with him by telephone in July. “That’s just the kind of guy he is,” Althea said.
She added that her husband “still really enjoys hearing from his old friends and students.”
She noted the expression “taking a Mickey” came into usage for those taking his classes
because “he was a very good teacher but also very demanding.” You can try to catch up
with Mickey at his home in Anahola, Kapaa, Hawaii, 96746 at (808) 822-5918.
Would you like to know about a professor or administrator? Let us know.
by Fred Kraus, Researcher/Writer at Antioch College (937) 767-6380 fkraus@antioch-college.edu
a curious little crowd of people,”
said Jay, “If you’re a friendly per-
son, you can delight them simply
by waving and saying ‘hello.’
Conversation is immediate, if bro-
ken, and very friendly.” Actually,
Jay said the only serious “danger”
was that the local people “will insist
you swallow several bottles of
vodka before leaving their homes,
though being in town for an athletic
event helps.”
The 21.2 kilometer race is run
annually on January 7, which is
Christmas Day in Russia. There are
very few foreign runners. Jay was
the only one this year, and the ﬁrst
American ever. “It’s a family for
the locals,” he says, “There aren’t
any sponsored top athletes there.
Children are running, grandmas
and grandpas are running, and lots
of them only run ﬁve or ten kilo-
meters.” Even the local, swimsuit-
clad “Polar Bear Club” comes out
to run a few hundred yards.
“The Russians are wonderful
people,” says Jay, “and if you do
make it the full distance, you will
be pretty damned proud of your-
self, at least I was. I’m going to do
it again next year, in case anyone
cares to join me.”
So, it’s Christmas Day in Omsk.
Standing amidst a vast plain of ice
and snow, is you and 262 Russian
men, women, and children. A
handful of people are wearing
bathing suits. A few of the more
suspicious security folks seem to
be “keeping an eye on you.” What
do you do? If you’re Jay Tuck,
Antioch graduate of ’68, you run.
Jay Tuck can be reached at
JayTuck@t-online.de, or
www.ﬁlmvoices.com
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Doyou
know?
Photo courtesy of Jay Tuck ’68
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The Burglar
and “FBI”
by Kurt Hartmann ’51
Whether it was October or Novem-
ber I no longer recall. But I have no
doubt regarding the year. It was
1945, the long and bloody war
against Japan mercifully had just
ended, and I, a 19-year-old sailor,
was standing the signal watch,
midnight to 4 a.m., aboard USS
LST (Landing Ship Tank) 916,
anchored in Manila Bay. That inlet
is named for the capital of the Phil-
ippine Islands, a once elegant city
virtually leveled in the convulsive
redemption of a bombastic pledge
by Douglas MacArthur more than
three years earlier: “I shall return!”
To stave off tedium, perhaps
merely to keep from nodding off,
signalmen occasionally whiled
away the hours by holding conver-
sations via Morse code with other
vessels. When the sky was cloudy
these nocturnal chats could be held
over long distances, indeed, for by
setting the blinker vertically, a shaft
of light could be aimed at a cloud,
which then would “bounce” the
dots and dashes to another heav-
enly billow – and ﬁnally to the in-
tended receiver.
On this dark but hardly stormy
night I was engaged in a dot-dot-dash
dialogue with an anonymous signal-
man, no doubt some miles distant.
“What do you want to do when you
get back Stateside?” I asked, mak-
ing sure, in accordance with the
rules, that no word followed another
unless the receiver had conﬁrmed
via a dash – a comprehension of
each word as it was sent.
“I want to go to college,” he
signalled back.
“Where?” I asked.
“Antioch,” came the reply.
Antioch, I puzzled, isn’t that
an old city in the Bible or Syria or
some other arcane venue? Con-
vinced that I had misread the word.
I did not send the acknowledging
dash but waited for clariﬁcation or
correction of the transmission.
But it came again, ANTIOCH.
Yet, once again the letters ﬂashed,
this time with an obviously
“snapped” rhythm, A-N-T-I-O-C-H,
indicating my correspondent’s
exasperation or worse.
And so it was that at a velocity
to dispirit anyone not reared in the
Deep South, he outlined for me the
basic tenets of Antioch College, with
particular emphasis on my chief
interest, the work-study concept.
A week later amidst the ruins
of Manila I visited a freshly estab-
lished locale for explaining the
newly enacted “G.I. Bill of Rights.”
Several shelves of that ramshackle
ofﬁce were stuffed with college
materials, among them an Antioch
catalogue. An unapologetic burglar,
I purloined it and with particular
delight, once back aboard ship, read
that Antioch was planning to place
students with several U.S. newspa-
pers. Now all doubt had vanished.
As an aspiring wordsmith, one or
more of these journals would be
training grounds for me!
Separated from the Navy in the
early months of 1946 and in unac-
customed disobedience to my father’s
decrees – this one that I scatter my
college applications far and wide –
I dispatched but a lone inquiry, and
that to Yellow Springs, Ohio.
In due time [the application]
arrived, my attention drawn not to
the banalities of listing high school
courses, grades and extracurricular
activities but rather to a query at the
end of the application: “How did
you hear about Antioch College.”
Considering the events in the far
Paciﬁc, that was a question, in ball-
park terms, veritably waiting to be
swatted out of the stadium – for here
was my opportunity to be a story-
teller, if not yet a bonaﬁde journalist.
Thus in a virtual schoolboy’s
hand I sketched out the tale of
learning about Antioch via the
dots and dashes of Samuel Finley
Breese Morse’s code.
Within weeks the mails deliv-
ered a notice from Antioch, sum-
moning me to New York City, there
to be scrutinized and interrogated
by the college’s director of admis-
sions, the fabled Fressa Baker
Inman, who, not surprisingly, has
since been nestled into the pantheon
of Antiochiana as “FBI.”
Three-button jacket pressed to
a fault, muted necktie in place and
polished and repolished footwear
a’gleaming, I found myself rigid
and slightly atremble in one of a
Gotham City hotel’s straightback
chairs, ﬂanked by a platoon of
other aspirants, those, each, as I,
ﬂaunting the lapel pin which adver-
tised us as genuine, undoubted, if
not fully-certiﬁed war heroes.
One after another they passed
through gilded doors into Mrs. (the
term “Ms” having yet to be minted)
Inman’s sanctorum, each ﬁnally
emerging and looking, if I remem-
ber well, slightly unsettled, a triﬂe
sheepish and palpably unsure.
When it came my turn, I found
myself across from a formidable
appearing lady (on the model, per-
haps, of a later Katherine Graham),
she in a
CEO-type full-back leather
chair, I on a gun-metal folding con-
traption. For an eternity not a syl-
lable passed between us, though
intermittently she directed the most
baleful of glances in my direction,
no doubt as she perused those sheets
devoted to my less-than-sterling
high school achievements.
But – at last – after turning
those pages, I saw the furrows
soften on her brow, the barest hint
of sunlight tip-toeing into her eyes
– and an infant smile toying with
her lips.
Finally. She looked full on me
and chuckled: “Oh! You’re the
Morse Code man! – What a de-
lightful story you told. I hope it’s
true because our public affairs
ofﬁce has gotten a lot of mileage
out of that yarn!” Left humanely
unmentioned was the subject of
my high school grades.
Two weeks later another enve-
lope arrived at my parent’s upstate
New York home. It announced my
acceptance for the fall term at Antioch
College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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P.S. Neither efforts by the writer
nor by Antioch ever established
the identity of the other signal-
man. He apparently searched for
and hopefully found his future
elsewhere.
Kurt Hartmann describes himself
as “a semi-deactivated newspaper-
man, until recently a resident
of Carmel, California and now
living in Ashland, Oregon.”
● Daniel C. Bailey ’89*
● Stanley R. Bean ’58*
● Kristine Briggs ’85
● Amy S. Chappell ’73, Chair,
Development Committee
● Nancy R. Crow ’70*
● Anthony E. Davison ’85
● Marcia Brussel Dugan ’53
● Anita Hoffman Ehrenfried ’71*
● John D. Feinberg ’70, Chair,
Association/Reunion
Committee
**
● Dianne Brou Fraser ’68,
President
● Reuben T. Harris ’69,
Vice-President, Chair,
Nominations Committee
● Helen Richards Hawthorne ’48
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● Michael L. Israel ’60, Chair,
Community Committee**
● Harold Joseph ’54*
● Betty Kapetanakis ’74
● Norman N. Lichtin ’44
● Deborah F. Malaga ’98*
● Warren McKay ’59
● Melvin P. Melnick ’67
● Larry W. Rubin ’65
● Stanley W. Slocum ’52
● Paula Lazarus Spier ’45,
Chair, Academic Committee
● Cy L. Tebbetts ’52, Chair,
Admissions Committee
● Seth Allen Young ’59**
● Arthur J. Zucker ’55
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● Peg (Ohman) Bracken ’40: In
the 60s everybody’s Mom had a
copy (or so it seemed) of The I
Hate to Cook Book, by Peg Bracken.
The satirical but practical survival
guide for reluctant cooks made
Bracken a household name when
the book hit print in 1960.
Bracken is 81 and lives in Port-
land, Ore. The I Hate to Cook Book
was her second book, written when
she was 40, and The Complete I
Hate to Cook Book – a subsequent
and larger edition – is still in print
with its refreshingly anarchic ap-
proach to cooking. Bracken credits
its runaway success – which took
her by surprise, she says – to the
book’s attitude as well as the doable
recipes that she had collected from
her friends. Bracken never stopped
writing books (The I Hate to House-
keep Book, among others.) Her latest
is On Getting Old for the First Time,
a collection of essays on aging.
“When you get well along in
the decades, you really do think
more and more about this fairly
interesting process you’re going
through,” Bracken said. “It’s really
a pain in the neck watching your-
self fall apart – some parts faster
than others.” Bracken was currently
coping with a devastating ﬁre in
December 1999 that destroyed her
home ofﬁce. She lost all of her pro-
fessional material, including copies
of her foreign editions and most of
a work-in-progress. At the time of
the interview, she was still trying to
salvage any fragments she could
ﬁnd in the rubble. “Bits and pieces
– that might be the name of my
next book,” she joked. When asked
if she manages to laugh at every-
thing, Bracken didn’t hesitate:
“What else are you going to do?”
– By Renee Enna. Reprinted from
the Chicago Tribune, Jan. 19, 2000.
● Yellow Springs and Beyond
(Wild Goose Press, 1998) features
the photography of Antioch College
Editor, Emeritus, Irwin Inman ’41.
The vibrant photographs focus on
the unique world of Yellow Springs,
Ohio, as well as a smattering of
scenes from San Francisco to
Keokuk, Iowa. “I am interested,”
he says on the dust jacket, “in vi-
sual illustration of the time-honored
search for what it means – for a
community as well as a person – to
be human.” Inman’s compassionate
eye captures moments that are
touching, humorous and beautiful,
in a panorama of neighbors, chil-
dren, gatherings and landscapes.
● Lawrence McK. Miller ’45
has written a comprehensive and
moving biography of Clarence E.
Pickett, entitled Witness For Hu-
manity (Pendle Hill Publications,
1999). Clarence E. Pickett, a
Quaker pastor, teacher, and leader,
served a dynamic and inﬂuential
role in his position as the Executive
Secretary of the American Friends
Service Committee (AFSC), begin-
ning in 1929. The AFSC, a Quaker
organization dedicated to peaceful
and benevolent service “in which we
can conscientiously serve humanity,”
was organized by conscientious
objectors of World War I. Under
Pickett’s leadership, the AFSC
jointly received, along with the
(British) Friends Service Council,
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947, for
its relief and refugee efforts in Eu-
rope during the crisis of the Second
World War. Witness For Humanity
is the poignant story of a compas-
sionate humanitarian, who held
passionately to his peaceful convic-
tions to help and inspire thousands.
Clarence Pickett was a trustee of
Antioch College from 1936 to 1948
and his two daughters, Rachel and
Carolyn were graduates.
● The Crimson Edge: Older
Women Writing, Volume Two
(Chicory Blue Press, 2000), edited
by Sondra Zeidenstein, is an an-
thology of ﬁction, memoir and po-
etry by seven women writers past
the age of sixty. Each author’s cre-
ative writing is followed by an
afterword in which she talks about
what is currently on her mind as an
artist. The ﬁrst story of the anthol-
ogy was written by Barbara
Moore Balzer ’49. “Transition”
is the beautifully crafted story of
a woman coming to terms with
mortality and transformation. As
she drives home from her family’s
summer getaway, towards the
beginning of a new school year
and group of students, she ﬁnds
herself taking many detours, and
travelling back through her own
memories. It is an engaging and
subtle story of the journey we all
take through the currents of the
past, and the trials of fate.
● Fred Greenstein ’53 is the
author of a new book The Presi-
dential Difference: Leadership
Style from FDR to Clinton (The
Free Press, 2000). The book offers
lessons for presidents, their inner
circles and the voters who put them
in ofﬁce. Professor Greenstein ana-
lyzes the leadership qualities of the
modern presidents and rates their
performance in six areas: commu-
nication, organizational capacity,
political skill, vision, cognitive
style (how the president processes
information) and emotional intelli-
gence (which Greenstein describes
as “the president’s ability to man-
age his emotions and turn them to
constructive purposes, rather than
being dominated by them and al-
lowing them to diminish his leader-
ship”). Greenstein is Professor of
Politics at Princeton University.
● Dolores C. Moses ’53 is the
author of Family Matters (Cherry
Street Publishers, 2000). From
upward-mobile and successful
technocrats, living in enviable
suburban comfort, to their nearby
blue-collar counterparts, most,
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haunted by a sense of personal
insigniﬁcance, watch apprehen-
sively as life-long employing in-
dustries shrink, even disappear,
their jobs and careers curtailed or
eliminated. The novel examines
these dilemmas and their impact on
family and community. The family
values of the principal characters,
their parents and offspring, remain
the central focus of the book.
● John Hoins ’56 is the author
of Woods Walkers (University Edi-
tions) and the cover is designed by
Kaye Hoins ’57. Comments on the
novel include “It has a wonderful,
quasi-mystical, anthropological
foundation about man’s continuity
with history and nature. It has enor-
mous visual possibilities, set, as it
is, in the forest primeval. Most of
all, it has a hero who has lived
nearly entirely by his own lights, a
man apart, with an almost religious
sense of perspective and reverence
for life. But, also a man who feels
alienated and at an emotional
crossroad.”
● Joan Goldsmith ’65 and Ken-
neth Cloke are co-authors of Resolv-
ing Conﬂicts at Work: A Complete
Guide for Everyone on the Job
(Jossey-Bass, 2000). The book is
designed “to assist everyone who
works,” from management to the
front-lines, in learning to utilize
conﬂict as a constructive resource.
The authors work with conﬂict on
a personal and organizational level,
stressing open-minded communica-
tion, and mutually beneﬁcial coop-
eration. The process outlined,
employs eight interrelated “paths”
toward understanding and successful
resolution. Resolving Conﬂicts at
Work can be a valuable tool in the
work place, as well as in personal
life, for turning the destructive po-
tential of conﬂict into an effective
and advantageous mechanism.
● Philip Fried ’66 has published
two volumes of poetry, Mutual
Trespasses (Ion: 1988) and Quan-
tum Genesis (Zohar: 1997), and is
now completing a third. Recently,
his poems have appeared in Tin
House, Birmingham Poetry Re-
view, and Talking River Review.
Volume 9 #1 of his poetry journal,
The Manhattan Review, features a
tribute to Polish poet, Zbigniew
Herbert.
● Jennifer Wolfe ’68 is the author
of Learning From the Past: Histori-
cal Voices in Early Childhood Edu-
cation (Piney Branch Press: 2000).
Suitable as a textbook or reference
book for post-secondary students
in the history or foundations of
Early Childhood Education, Learn-
ing from the Past gives the reader a
front-row seat at a historical dis-
cussion that has been taking place
for centuries. In Learning from the
Past, readers will hear thoughts of
Plato, John Amos Comenius, Jean-
Jacques Rousseau, Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi, Friedrich Froebel, Rob-
ert Owen, John Dewey, Maria
Montessori, Patty Smith Hill,
Caroline Prat and Lucy Sprague
Mitchell. Wolfe devotes one chap-
ter to each of these 11 important
ﬁgures in the history of Early
Childhood Education. Compelling
illustrations and photographs, many
not previously published, bring the
history alive for the reader. The
book is also a treasure trove of in-
formation the reader can reach to
for further reference – including
websites, videos, and information on
current schools still following prac-
tices established by these thinkers.
Learning from the Past is notable
for its inclusion of three women
profoundly important in the ﬁeld of
Early Childhood Education: Patty
Smith Hill, Caroline Pratt, and Lucy
Sprague Mitchell. Their innovative
thinking and dedication to children
will inspire the reader.
● How To Help Your Kids Choose
To Be Tobacco-Free: A Guide for
Parents of Children Ages 3
Through 19 (Newmarket Press,
1999), is the newest book by noted
family psychologist, Robert
Schwebel, Ph.D. ’70. Filled with
practical strategies and sugges-
tions, his latest book offers a pow-
erful and comprehensive program
for preventing or ending a child’s
tobacco addiction. Dr. Schwebel
uses techniques that have proven
successful in treating childhood
substance abuse during his twenty-
ﬁve years of clinical practice. More
importantly, Dr. Schwebel shows
parents how to create a safe climate
for healthy family discourse and
dialogue between parent and child.
Covering all ages from pre-school
through adolescence, Dr. Schwebel
believes it’s never too early to start
tobacco prevention with kids, and
it’s never too late to help those who
are already smoking. Dr. Schwebel
is the author of several books in-
cluding Saying NO Is Not Enough:
Helping Children Make Wise Deci-
sions about Alcohol, Tobacco and
Other Drugs; Who’s on Top, Who’s
on Bottom: How Couples Can
Learn to Share Power; and The
Seven Challenges book and work-
books designed to facilitate the
Seven Challenges Approach for
treating adolescent substance
abuse. Dr. Schwebel developed
the Seven Challenges Program in
1992. Today it is used around the
country in schools, outpatient treat-
ment, group homes, residential
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treatment, in-home counseling ser-
vices, and in juvenile corrections.
He practices in Tucson, Arizona,
and he serves as an expert at Parent
Soup of Village.com, under the
title: “Ask the Family Psychologist.”
● Karen Rosenberg ’72 is a clini-
cal social worker who has been in
practice for twenty-three years. In
addition to her clinical work, Karen
is a consultant for private and pub-
lic mental health and adoption
agencies. She has contributed nu-
merous articles on adoption to pro-
fessional journals. Along with
Victor Groza, she is the co-author
and editor of Clinical and Practice
Issues in Adoption: Bridging the
Gap Between Adoptees Placed as
Infants and as Older Children
(Grennwood Publishing Group).
Experts representing practioners,
researchers, advocates, and triad
members, explore the similarities
and differences between adoptees
placed as infants and as older chil-
dren. The book promotes better
integration of theory, practice,
policy, and research in working
clients who are members of the
adoption triad: adoptees, birth par-
ents, and adoptive families. For
the ﬁrst time, the separate practice
areas are bridged, pointing out the
signiﬁcant overlap between the
two populations and the similar
interventions that can be used
when working with adoptees
regardless of their age.
Developed as a resource text
for practitioners, researchers, stu-
dents, and adoptive triad members,
the ﬁrst chapter provides an over-
view of the clinical and practice
issues. Next the work presents is-
sues surrounding infertility, and
explores identity development
with a following chapter on search
and reunion issues. The ﬁfth chap-
ter discusses adoption support,
both historically and with current
developments and issues. The work
then examines ethics and offers
a model for ethical adoption prac-
tice. The ﬁnal chapter explores
treatment issues from a family
systems perspective.
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● Barbara Wallraff ’72 is the
author of Word Court (Harcourt,
2000). Culled from her popular
Atlantic Monthly column, Barbara
Wallraff’s new book deftly resolves
questions about how English
should be used. Word Court is a
collection of the best of Wallraff’s
columns – and a great deal more.
All kinds of questions are an-
swered, from the correct use of
“I” and “me” to how far we should
have to go to avoid using a preposi-
tion at the end of a sentence. Her
authority extends well beyond the
pages of the Atlantic. Wallraff
serves as a consultant to publishers,
writes book reviews, teaches at the
Radcliffe Publishing Course each
summer, and has taught editing as
a graduate-level seminar. For the
bicentennial of the U.S. Constitu-
tion, National Public Radio com-
missioned her to copy-edit the
Constitution. Anthony Burgess
once said of her, “Who is that
woman?” Wallraff is a senior editor
at The Atlantic Monthly, where
she has worked since 1983. She
lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
● Andrea A. Jupina ’73 is the
author of The Recruiter’s Research
Blue Book: A How-To Guide For
Researchers, Search Consultants,
Corporate Recruiters, Small Busi-
ness Owners, Venture Capitalists
and Line Executives (Kennedy In-
formation, LLC, 2000). Jupina
writes, “This book identiﬁes numer-
ous new technology-based informa-
tion tools. It covers the basics that
always did – and always will – drive
an executive search…. Perhaps the
most important fundamental of
recruitment is good judgment…. I
have attempted to intersperse this
book with common sense observa-
tions and ideas throughout. The
recruiting process should feel right
at a gut level. Even though the
Internet presents a vastly powerful
electronic want ad capability, this
does not alter the driving force of
executive search – and unbundled
search, for that matter. That is, many
companies will retain a recruitment
consultant speciﬁcally because they
want access to people not on the
job market.” The book is designed
as a tool and reference source that
empowers the user to get the an-
swers they need efﬁciently and
effectively. It is broken down into
two parts: “The Research Process,”
which covers everything from re-
cruitment to interviewing to legal
and philosophical issues; and “The
Recruiter’s Directory of Directories
– Plus Web Sites, Databases & CD
ROMs” with over 400 pages of
information, thoroughly cross-
referenced by topic.
● Jonathan Cohen ’75 is the
editor of Educating Minds and
Hearts: Social Emotional Learning
and the Passage into Adolescence
(Teachers College Press, 1999). He
has also co-edited The Psychoana-
lytic Study of Lives over Time:
Clinical and Research Perspectives
on Children Who Return to Treat-
ment as Adults (Academic Press,
1999) with B.J. Cohler.
● Patricia Brant Robey ’75 is
the publisher of Custom Riﬂes in
Black & White, by Steven Dodd
Hughes, for Fandango Press. The
book “presents an unusual and
curious look at 40 custom riﬂes
created by America’s elite crafts-
men during the ﬁnal 15 years of
this century. Profusely illustrated
with more than 250 black & white
photographs, the riﬂes are presented
in close-up and full-length views.
Each riﬂe is accompanied by infor-
mative text explaining the design,
function and esthetics, along with
a dose of workshop insight. The
stories and photos combine to
reveal the art and performance
of elegant working riﬂes.”
● Michael Shenefelt ’75 is the
author of The Questions of Moral
Philosophy (Prometheus, 1999).
Schenefelt is master teacher in the
General Studies Program in the
School of Continuing and Profes-
sional Studies of New York Univer-
sity. What gave Europe the power,
for nearly three centuries, to domi-
nate the world? Why did the weap-
onry and economic output of
modern Europeans overwhelm the
resources of nearly every other
region? Professor Schenefelt offers
answers to these and other intriguing
questions in his new book. Drawing
on his 20 years’ experience teach-
ing intellectual history, Shenefelt’s
book also explores Plato, Kant,
Aristotle, Marxism and problems
of religion, and it tackles such
questions as Why be moral? What
is the good life? Is democracy a
blessing? Why does God permit
evil? Professor Schenefelt de-
scribes the book as “a sort of stroll
through the gardens of the disci-
pline, where I hope to point out
some interesting sights.” His address
is 642 52nd St., Brooklyn, NY 11220;
michael.shenefelt@nyu.edu.
● Patricia Ohmans ’76 and
Garth Osborn are the co-authors
of Finding Work in Global Health:
A Practical Guide for Jobseekers
or Anyone Who Wants to Make
the World a Healthier Place
(Health Advocates Press, 1999).
Health Advocates is Patricia’s
consulting group.
Book
Notes
● Amy Schutzer ’79 is the author
of Undertow (Calyx Books, 2000).
The novel is a love story of two
women brought together by accident
– Dotty falls from the house she is
painting and is rushed to the hospi-
tal where she meets a nurse named
Macy. Love unfolds against a back-
drop of the weighed and sifted
pieces of their pasts. Undertow is
a vivid and moving exploration of
how the body and mind adjust to
the powerful currents of lies and
love. The novel is set against the
landscape of the Northwest and
the Northeast. Amy is published
in Hurricane Alice, Frontiers, and
Portland Review. She received the
prestigious Astraea Foundation
Fiction Fellowship for this novel
and the Barbara Deming Award.
She is at work on her second novel,
The Color of Weather, and lives on
women’s land outside of Estacada,
Oregon, where she works on the
We’Moon Calendar.
● The Boy Trap, the ﬁrst children’s
book from Nancy Matson ’89,
was published in October ’99,
by Front Street/Cricket Books.
It traces the adventures of “a 5th-
grader named Emma who tries to
prove in her science project that
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Elinor Spahr Littell ’36: “Elinor Littell
has moved to an assisted living complex
in Atlanta, Georgia, to be near her son,
Bob. Her husband was associated with
the NASA projects for many years, until
his retirement and death in February
1998.” Write: 3088 Lennox Road #247,
Atlanta, GA 30324.
Kay Penn Shaw ’36 moved to
Collington Retirement Community, also
home to George and Lauretta (Sanford)
Dankers ’38. Write: 10450 Lottsford
Road, Attn: Creighton Center Room
250, Mitchellville, MD 20721-2734.
J.A. Haynes (Tony) ’39: (Editor’s note
– due to the length of Mr. Hayne’s note,
some of this classnote has been edited)
“I graduated from Antioch in the class of
1939 and immediately went to work full
time on my coop job for Detroit Steel
Products Company in Detroit, MI. My
job was laying out steel window orders
for the factory to make. My salary was
$100 a month and I was quite upset at
the time because the engineering gradu-
ates got $125. Because I was a business
graduate, I got less. After working in
Detroit for a year, they sent me to Mem-
phis, TN, to manage a Package Window
Warehouse. I stayed there for a little
over a year, married and had my ﬁrst
daughter. In Nov. of 1941, they closed
that warehouse and sent me to Long
Island, NY to manage a similar ware-
house. But before long Japan bombed
Pearl Harbor and the United States was
drawn into World War II; this cut down
the use of steel and the steel window
business was being shut down. At that
time, Firestone Tire and Rubber Com-
pany in Akron, Ohio was going all over
the country recruiting workers and they
came to New York and offered me a job
at $225 a month – I had been making
$165. I worked for about a year in a
wing production plant and then was
transferred to the Salvage Department
where I did time-keeping work for the
duration of the war. Because I had tried to
get in the Service as soon as the war was
over, they let me go. I now had purchased
a house and had my second daughter so I
needed a job and ended up with Sacks
Electric Supply Company as an Assis-
tant Manager in the Appliance Division
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which they had just started. Television
was the latest craze and we grew with it.
We became distributors for Major and
Small Appliances in twenty some coun-
ties in Central Ohio. I worked at this job
until 1968 when family circumstances
moved us to central Mississippi where a
retirement house was built on the site of
my wife’s Dad’s house. I became quite
active in community affairs and was
secretary-treasurer of the Men’s Club for
many years, as well as heading up the
annual charity drive. So goes the life of
an old age [84] Antioch graduate who in
August celebrated 60 years of marriage.
Sure would enjoy hearing from any of
the thirty-niners that are still around,
especially my old roommates. Write:
191 McCool St., Noxapater, MS 39346”
Anton Brasunas ’43: “I am now (ﬁnally)
retired after teaching Metallurgy and
Corrosion at the University of Missouri
(both at Rolla and St. Louis) – married
an Ohio State nurse – have 3 children
(each of which has three children), en-
joyed all 3 of my Co-op jobs (New York
City; Columbus, Ohio; and Sewickley,
PA). I’ve traveled around the world (lec-
turing) going continually eastward (thus
I’m a day older than others born at the
same moment that I was). Enjoyed
Antioch’s (perhaps last) Thorne-Loomis
trip (with fellows Dave Vandeventer
’41, Hardy Trolander ’47, David Case
’43, Sydney Breese ’43). I was in
Camelot Hall at Antioch; worked in Tea
Room. Would love to hear from “pals &
gals” of Antioch. P.S. I’ve been a ‘Metric
Promoter’ for years.” Write: 8030
Daytona Drive, St. Louis, MO 63105-
2510. ebrasunas@AOL.com.
Mary Jane Pobst ’43 recently spent
three weeks volunteering as an English
teacher in Xi’an, China. Pobst, a retired
college librarian, was part of a 17-mem-
ber Global V olunteers group that taught
English to Chinese students young and
old in the ancient city of Xi’an. (Global
Volunteers is a St. Paul, Minnesota-based,
non-proﬁt organization that coordinates
more than 125 short-term service projects
in 20 countries.) “I have a better under-
standing of the Chinese culture,” said
Pobst. “My students became my friends.
They were respectful, eager to learn.”
Marjorie Martus ’45: “In 1948, after
two years with the cultural program of
the Department of State, I spent six
years living in Holland, working for the
U.S. government economic aid program
(Marshall Plan) in The Hague, returning
to the U.S. in spring 1954, the very day
of the Supreme Court decision in Brown
vs Board of Education. It was as much
of a culture shock returning to New York
City as it was landing in Holland shortly
after the end of WWII. In 1959, I joined
the Ford Foundation education program,
retired as program ofﬁcer in 1982, to
depart for Stanford University School of
Education with a one-year fellowship. I
stayed – such a nice place to live at that
time, now sadly declining as Silicon
Valley ambitions displace open land and
distort land uses. Besides studying eth-
nography and linguistics, the following
years were spent as a volunteer, on how
Latino students were acquiring English
language skills, and tutoring Latino
adults in English. Since about six years
ago, I have been volunteering with the
Housing Committee of the East Palo
Alto Community Alliance and neighbor-
hood Development Organization, as
support to the staff developing low-cost
and affordable housing projects. In 1987
I bought a home in Menlo Park (next
door to Palo Alto) just before the escala-
tion of housing prices to unbelievable
levels. Other activities: serving on local
government committees, studying the
Italian language and visiting Italy as
much as possible, joining a Buddhist
meditation group. Should any Antioch
friends want contact, try the internet:
herschepping@batnet.com.”
Dr. Jay H. Stubenhaus ’45: “Still
working three half-days a week for a
psychiatric day program, plus a ‘co-op
job’ as a locum tenens for a month in
Minnesota every summer! Write: 11 Old
Farm Road, Fairﬁeld, CT 06432.”
Mary Brombacher Bieri Bowman ’49:
“In April of 1998, my sumi painting
‘Bamboo Grove’ was dedicated for per-
manent display in the Nakashima Read-
ing Room of the James Michener Art
Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
In Sept. of 1999 my oriental-style mural
in acrylic colors on a textured wall
31×14 feet in a 20×40 foot photography
studio room in the historic King William
section of San Antonio was completed.
Teaching this Zen art continues for me
since 1969 and in San Antonio since
1986. Write: 4111 Medical Dr. Apt.
A201, San Antonio, TX 78229-5785.”
Ruth Gross Atherton ’51: “Was
pleased to have a visit from Anne Paton
Dimock ’53, whom I hadn’t seen in 47
years. Both of us still interested in nature
and geology. Since my husband of 43
years died more than two years ago, I’ve
become active in a Widowed-to-Widowed
(both men and women) program, which
saved my sanity. As Outreach Chair, I’m
trying to help start groups for Spanish
speakers and (hope, hope!) deaf and
blind people – I believe a ﬁrst for the
latter groups. Widowed-to-Widowed
functions as a grief-support group, and
then as a help in rebuilding lives.” Write:
4470 North Placita Del Paisa, Tucson,
AZ 85745.
Sho Maruyma ’51 has written a
thoughtful letter to the editor of the
Antiochian to explore ways in which
we can increase classnotes and updates
from alums. Sho writes “I feel I would
like to be more connected to Antioch
College alumni activities, especially my
freshman Rookery Hall mates of 1947.”
If you’d like to correspond with Sho, his
e-mail address is sjmaruyama@aol.com.
And, we agree with Sho, please let us
hear from you.
Hilda Mader Wilcox ’51: “Still enjoying
my half-time job working with American,
and foreign students, especially on their
writing, at New York State College at
Oneonta, where I also teach an occasional
course. My husband, Sam, and I return to
Italy in March, where we’ve often visited
my former students from the University
of Venice, but we’ll go to Sicily this time.
We’ve become good friends of Carole
(Levine) ’59 and Gottfried Paasche ’61,
who vacation near our upstate village.
Their vegetable garden is even bigger
than ours.” Write: 6 Pine Boulevard,
Cooperstown, NY 13326-1021.
Ruth Jones Hart ’53: “I’m living in the
mountains in Southern California and
would be happy to hear from anyone
who remembers me. Write: P.O. Box
1225, Idyllwild, CA 92549,
ruth.hart@juno.com.”
Alice Beasley Pardee ’53: “Last year I
joined a Square Dance Club – good exer-
cise, mental and physical, and wonderful
fellowship. I’m still involved in our V olun-
teer Fire Department, still Assistant Trea-
surer at Church, and am a member of the
Commission for the Elderly. I’m never
bored. Sons Ben and Bill, daughters Kathy
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and Faith – all married – and I have 3
granddaughters. My husband Hobart
died in 1992. Does anyone know of the
whereabouts of Ruth Rankin Fankhauser?
Over the years I have kept in contact
with Dorothy Russell, Professor at
Antioch in and around 1951. Miss
Russell was Director of the Campus
Nursery School, a demonstration school
for the beneﬁt of students and faculty
children. After leaving Antioch she
worked for the State of Maine. Now
“Dot” lives in Newcastle, Maine. Her
beloved sister, Rusty, died some years
ago and her nephews live at a distance.
As she is nearly blind, Dot writes with
the help of children who visit her in the
home. Dot is 87 years old and otherwise
in good health. She would love to hear
from former colleagues and students
(graduates as well as grown nursery
school students). Please write and help
her keep contact: Miss Dorothy Russell,
River Road, Newcastle, ME 04553.”
Alice Beasley Pardee, P.O. Box 1201,
Redding, CT 06875.
Arnold Chanin, M.D. ’57: “Time to
slow down! After 35 years in medical
practice this is the year to spend more
time writing (poetry), lecturing (on
inﬂuenza) and giving seminars (creativ-
ity for health care professionals).
Transitioning will be difﬁcult, but it has
to be done. Thanks to all my alumni
friends who have been so supportive in
this venture. May 2000 bring all the
dreams we fervently expressed in the
ﬁfties to fruition.” Write: 16922 Encino
Hills Drive, Encino, CA 91436.
Antonia P. (Cooper) McElrath ’57:
“After my husband, Dennis’ retire-
ment, ﬁve years ago from UC Santa
Cruz, where he was a professor of
sociology, and I taught ﬁgure drawing,
we moved to San Francisco. I am now
teaching ﬁgure drawing at the Acad-
emy of Art College in SF. We also
spend a lot of time traveling, espe-
cially back to Italy, where we lived for
ﬁve years. We enjoyed recent trips to
Turkey and Tunisia. Our daughter, her
husband, and our four grandchildren
live in Santa Cruz.” Antonia P. (Coo-
per) McElrath, 383 Lombard Street
Apt. 405, San Francisco, CA 94133.
mcelrath@itsa.ucsf.eau.
Harve E. Rawson ’57: “Have ﬁnished
two post-retirement stints (Dean of
Franklin College and Visiting Professor
of Psychology at Mississippi State).
My wife, Joyce, and I are now traveling
extensively (over 100 countries to date).
Working on two books: humorous tales
of my travels, and another about grow-
ing up in the Ozark Mountains during
the Depression and World War II.”
Ann Daniels Landau ’60: “I am selling
real estate in Boston’s western suburbs.
My husband, Richard, who worked at
Antioch Publications ofﬁce when we
were ﬁrst married, is retired from Boston
College development ofﬁce but still does
consulting for it. Our daughter, Ruth, is a
cantor in Portland, Maine. Our daughter,
Esther, is a professional ﬂutist in San
Francisco. We have four grandchildren
and a ﬁfth on the way. We are just mov-
ing to a condo right in Lexington Center.
Frieda (Henne) Young ’60, Penny
(Dunbar) Savard ’60, Dr. Joanna
Roberts ’60, others… where are you?”
Write: 1505 Massachusetts Avenue,
Unit 6, Lexington, MA 02420-3810.
ann@annlandau.com.
Brian K. Williams ’61: “Moved
from Lake Tahoe, 45-minutes away
to a lower elevation out of the snow.
Nevada’s ﬁrst town, Genoa, not far
from Carson City. Still writing nonﬁc-
tion books – now on number 18, on
management. Write: Box 12345, 218
Kinsey Way, Genoa, NV 89411,
briankw@mindspring.com.”
Robin Rice Lichtig ’64: “Robin Rice
Lichtig ’64 ﬁnally grew up, moving
from a downtown loft to the upper west
side. Continuing play writing, re-writ-
ing… New full-length (“Play Nice!”)
will be produced in NYC this spring.
Love to network with Antiochian play-
wrights, actors, directors and producers
(are you out there?) in New York.”
Write: 780 West End Avenue #6F, New
York, NY 10025.
Lawrence D. Stone ’64 was inducted
into the National Academy of Engi-
neering on October 3, 1999 at the
National Academies building in Wash-
ington, D.C. Larry was elected to the
academy for his work in search theory
and applications. Academy member-
ship honors those who have made
important contributions to engineering
theory and practice, including signiﬁcant
contributions to the literature of engi-
neering theory and practice and those
who have demonstrated unusual
accomplishments in the pioneering
of new and developing ﬁelds of tech-
nology. The academy has a total of
1984 U. S. members and 154 foreign
associates. Larry also co-authored the
book Bayesian Multiple Target Track-
ing which was published by Artech
House in 1999. This book presents
the mathematical theory of tracking
multiple targets such as aircraft, subma-
rines, ships, and missiles in situations
where the sensor information is ambigu-
ous and subject to error. He is presently
the Chief Operating Ofﬁcer of Metron
Inc., a scientiﬁc consulting company
in Reston, Virginia.
Jemison Faust ’65: “Just to let you
know what has been happening – I
continue to work as a painter here in
Newport, R.I. and show at my gallery
in Boston. About 10 years ago, I started
a business, which is doing really well,
called ‘Your Choice’ which helps
people clear out, store, ﬁle, reorganize
all their stuff.”
Bernie Guyer ’65: “When the
Antiochian arrives, I immediately scan
the news of alumni from the 60s and
the obituaries. I want to know how we
turned out. Have we made any mark on
humankind? After nearly 40 years, is
sentimentality surpassing science? This
fall our son, Sam (29) was married. He
and Andrea are living in Austin, TX.”
Write: bguyer@jhsph.edu.
F. Kim Hodgson ’65, general manager
of W AMU radio in Washington, D.C.,
and chairman of the board of National
Public Radio (NPR) has been ap-
pointed station manager of WDA V ,
Classical 89.9 radio, Davidson, NC
(effective Nov. 1999). Hodgson was
elected to the NPR board in 1994 and
its members selected him as their chair
in Nov. 1996. That position has im-
mersed him in strategic thinking about
the industry and helped him develop
relationships with public broadcasting
leaders nationwide.
Susan R. Feldman Brown ’66 is the
recipient of the Cushing-Gavin Award
in Nov. 1999. Along with three others
serving in the Greater Boston area,
Brown received the award from The
Labor Guild of Boston on behalf of the
region’s labor-management community.
The award is bestowed for excellence
in labor relations work exemplifying
professional competence, moral integ-
rity, and community concern. Brown,
of Newburyport, a member of the
National Academy of Arbitrators,
is the recipient representing support
professionals in the ﬁeld of labor-
management relations. She began her
labor relations work in 1980, after ﬁve
years as an Employment & Discrimina-
tion Specialist for the state of Vermont.
A contributor to several professional
journals, she presently is a member of
the Board of Governors of the NAA
and is on the Commission on Concilia-
tion, Mediation & Arbitration, South
Africa.
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John Redding ’66: “After nearly 38
years of employment in the Federal
government (Co-op time included), I
“retired” as Technical Advisor to the
Chief Information Ofﬁcer of the De-
fense Information Systems Agency.
After a two-week hiatus, I became a
research fellow at the Logistics Man-
agement Institute. The position seems
nearly perfect as it comes with wonder-
ful accouterments, pleasant associates,
a nice salary, no commitment, and an
eight hour day/forty hour week.” Write:
5 Cold Spring Court, Potomac, MD
20854. jredding@LMI.org.
Nick Kaufman ’67: “I am living in
Newton, MA and split my time be-
tween writing and ﬁlm making. I work
on educational ﬁlm projects for public
interest groups and publishers and am
trying to ﬁnish a coming-of-age novel.
My kids are Sashi (23) and Noah (20)
and my wife, Peggy, is a social worker
who works for Jewish Family and
Children’s Service. Have lost touch
with so many people and would love to
e-mail and say hello.” Write: 14 Clyde
Street, Newton, MA 02460-2209.
NKaufprod@AOL.com.
Virginia (Hanford) Stonebarger ’68,
who attended Antioch from 1940-1950,
is still painting and exhibiting. Her work
recently showed in the Gallery at the
Tucson International Airport. “I would
love to hear from some Antiochians.”
Virginia Stonebarger, 855 East River #8,
Tucson, AZ 85718.
Deborah Benson Woodroofe ’68 and
David Roger Allen ’66, celebrated
their ﬁrst wedding anniversary on
May 18, 2000, one year after their Red
Square wedding on the Antioch campus
during the 1999 annual reunion. They
were married by David Foubert, Mayor
of Yellow Springs, Ohio. The couple
ﬁrst met as undergraduates in 1965,
and re-connected and married 34 years
later. Debby and David send their
warmest wishes to all Antiochians ev-
erywhere and pass on sentiments stated
in the ﬁrst line of a very old song,
“‘Love is lovelier the second time
around.’ It really is true.”
John Cotten Lamb ’69: “I graduated
from University of Colorado in 1998
with a Ph.D. in Bilingual Special Edu-
cation. Now I teach ﬁrst grade in my
hometown elementary school, trying
to understand toothless 6 year olds as
my hearing wanes. Pretty funny. I have
worked with the Hmong in Colorado
for the last 12 years. I have 4 beautiful
women: Wife and 3 daughters. I love
to play blues guitar and sing. Hay Que
Luchar!” Write: 590 East Sutton
Circle, Lafayette, CO 80026.
jlamb@bouldernews.inﬁ.net.
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Laurie Marshall ’71: “I’m making art
with young people in a small rural pub-
lic school and a Waldorf-inspired parent
cooperative, called Hearthstone, in
Rappahannock County, V A, 70 miles
west of DC. I get to work with both my
sons, aged 17 and 14. I draw every day.
I’ve started a book called Empowering
Youth to Create the Culture of Wisdom.
I love experimental education.” Write:
4 Skyline Lane, Washington, V A 22747.
lmarshall5@earthlink.net.
Sam Hausfather ’72, Associate Pro-
fessor of Education at Berry College
in Mount Berry, Georgia, was named
Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies
in Berry’s Charter School of Education
and Human Sciences, in September
1999. Hausfather joined the Berry
College faculty in 1991 and has served
as lecturer, coordinator of the educa-
tion department, director of ﬁeld expe-
riences, and assistant professor of
education during the past several
years. He was promoted to associate
professor in 1998 and granted tenure.
Before he arrived at Berry College,
Hausfather’s career included teaching
at elementary schools in California,
New York, Washington, and Oregon.
He lives with his wife and two chil-
dren on the Berry campus.
Dr. Gwen Patton M.Ed. ’72: “is pres-
ently archivist with Trenholm State
Technical College in Montgomery. The
repository houses 13 special collections
of pioneer voting rights activists of
Montgomery. Gwen serves as Coordina-
tor for the National Historic 1965
Selma-to-Montgomery V oting Rights
Trail. The 54-mile route has also been
designated as U.S. Scenic Byway and
All-American Road. Gwen was ap-
pointed by U.S. Secretary of the Interior,
Bruce Babbit, to serve on the National
Advisory Council that oversees the de-
velopment of the Trail.”
Richard Lipsitz, Jr. ’73 has been
named to the expanded Cornell
University’s School of Industrial and
Labor Relations. Director of Buffalo
Labor Studies, Lipsitz has more than
20 years of experience with the labor
union movement. He has served nu-
merous roles including president of a
large hospital workers union in Buf-
falo and in other union activities. He
is president-elect of the Industrial
Relations Research Association and
on the executive board of the Coalition
for Economic Justice, a community
organization in Buffalo that works
with the local AFL-CIO. Lipsitz has
successfully negotiated labor agree-
ments with some of the area’s largest
employers including Buffalo General
Hospital and Tops Markets.
Thomas Tresser ’73: “I have recently
joined an Internet start-up company,
OurHouse.com, as a writer and pro-
ducer. OurHouse.com is located in
Evanston, IL. I would love to hear from
Antiochians in the Chicago-land area
and from folks involved in Internet and
New Media ventures. My wife, Merle,
and I moved into our ﬁrst house (previ-
ously apartment dwellers) this August –
so any new home owners out there? I
am reachable at tomt@ourhouse.com.”
Write: 1643 North Larrabee, Chicago,
IL 60614. tomt@ourhouse.com.
Dewey Jeffrey Duckham ’74: “Hello,
Duckham here – I’ve been in solo family
practice for close to twenty years in Los
Gatos, California. I have two great kids,
no wife and a continued interest in life.”
Write: 15251 National Avenue, Suite
#108, Los Gatos, CA 95032.
Elizabeth Gaines ’74: “I’m sorry to
have missed my 25th reunion, and
would love to get back and see Antioch
sometime. Fortunately, I can report that
there is life after Antioch! I am working
part time as a hospital switchboard
operator, which has been my bread and
butter for years. I retired from my ca-
reer in art in the early nineties, after
working in glass for over twenty years,
and got certiﬁcation in massage, which
I now do as a volunteer for people with
AIDS. I was married three years ago to
Nicolas Finck, both of us for the ﬁrst
time. Nicolas, who retired last year,
runs the local chapter of the American
Society of Dowsers, and we are both
active in putting on their annual West
Coast Conference, which will be held
in Santa Cruz in July. Family matters
have also been a major focus for us,
beginning with the deaths of Nicholas’
parents, followed by that of my uncle,
and in January the loss of my father.
I would be happy to hear from old
friends, either by e-mail or snail mail.
Thanks again!” Write: 438 Utah Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110-1435.
eliznico@pacbell.net.
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An informational series on how you can make a difference
Have You Considered… A Charitable Remainder Trust
A charitable remainder trust is a trust given special tax treatment by the
Internal Revenue Code. Essentially, a donor places an asset that produces
income into trust. In return for placing funds into trust, the donor receives an
income. The donor may elect to have the income paid over his/her life, or his/
her life and the life of a spouse, or for a period of time not to exceed 20 years.
For establishing the trust, the donor will receive a federal income tax de-
duction equal to the present value of the gift. (Present value = the amount the
charity can expect to receive in today’s dollars at the ending of the trust.) If
a donor contributes appreciated assets such as securities or real estate, the
donor avoids taxation on the appreciation while enjoying income from the
full value of the contributed funds.
There are two types of charitable remainder trusts: the charitable
remainder annuity trust and the charitable remainder unitrust.
With the charitable remainder annuity trust, a donor will receive a ﬁxed
amount of income based on the initial contribution on a yearly basis. The donor
may make only one lump sum contribution to establish the trust. The income
tax deduction is larger than that for a unitrust established for the same amount.
In contrast, multiple payments may be made to a charitable remainder
unitrust. In addition, the income stream from the trust may grow as principal
grows. The income stream is valued by a particular percentage of the principal
valued annually. Therefore, if the donor’s income = 7 percent and actual trust
income = 9 percent, a 2 percent increase would be added to the trust. Thus,
the donor would have an investment that grows.
Example:
$100,000 Trust principal
+ 9,000 Trust income = 9 percent year 2
109,000
– 7,000 Donor’s income = 7 percent year 2
102,000
+ 9,180 Trust income = 9 percent year 3
111,180
– 7,140 Donor’s income = 7 percent year 3
$104,040 Etc.
Charitable remainder trusts are great ways to make a signiﬁcant gift and
a wise investment at the same time. A minimum of $50,000 is needed to estab-
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ment and Alumni Relations, 795 Livermore St., Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387.
(937) 767-6380.
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Doug Goodkin ’74, head of the music
department at The San Francisco
School, received the Orff Schulwerk
Pro Merito Award on July 7, 2000 at the
Orff Foundation in Munich, Germany.
Mr. Goodkin is one of only three Ameri-
cans ever to receive this award. The Pro
Merito Award recognizes substantial
lifetime contributions to the ﬁeld of
music and movement education for
children in the approach known as Orff
Schulwerk. Originally pioneered by
composers Carl Orff and Gunild
Keetman in the 1950s, the Schulwerk
is a pedagogy that incorporates move-
ment, speech, song and instrument play-
ing to teach the elements of music to
children from their earliest school years.
At the San Francisco School, Mr.
Goodkin has taught children from age
three through eighth grade for 25 years.
His music program is not only recognized
for its ﬁne musical results with children,
but also forms a central role in the cer-
emonial life of the school community. Mr.
Goodkin is also director of the Bay Area
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Orff teacher certiﬁcation program held
each summer at Mills College, the larg-
est course of its kind in the country. A
proliﬁc writer and theorist on the role
of music in education, Mr. Goodkin has
published numerous articles in music
education journals as well as two popu-
lar classroom handbooks: A Rhyme in
Time and Name Games (Warner Broth-
ers Publishing). He also is the author of
the Macmillan/McGraw Hill textbook
series Share the Music.
Robin F. Levitt ’74: “In a very hotly
debated election, San Franciscans voted
this past November to tear down a rem-
nant of an elevated freeway left over
from this city’s 1960’s freeway revolt
and 1989 earthquake. Thanks to the
efforts of several Antiochians, includ-
ing Gabriel Metcalf ’93, Joan Hull
’61 and Charlotte (Thomas)
Breckenridge ’49, who worked on
the campaign, as well as Elizabeth
Sullivan ’93 and I, who co-chaired it,
San Francisco will be a more beautiful
city in the new millennium. Now with
a taste for San Francisco politics, I am
planning a run for the San Francisco
Board of Supervisors next November.
In the meantime, I am still architecting.
Recent projects include retail centers
in Portland, Oregon and Orlando,
Florida.” Write: 225 Lily Street, San
Francisco, CA 94102. rﬂevitt@att.net.
Thomas P. Day ’75: “I joined
Bellingham Cohousing two years
ago and can now look out of my apart-
ment window to my new home being
built ﬁfty feet away. Our common
house, a restored Victorian farm
house, has been renovated and an ad-
dition for a new dining room, kitchen,
ofﬁces, mail and laundry facilities has
been added on to the old house. There
will be 33 homes built when we move
in this March. I am working for the
Brain Injury Association of Washing-
ton as an Information and Resource
Coordinator in a four-county area.”
Write: 2600 Donovan Avenue, Apart-
ment 3, Bellingham, W A 98225.
tom@bellinghamcohousing.org.
Guy Shuman ’75: “After 4 years of
operating a ski and raft tour business, I
have opted for a life of semi-retirement,
while my children are still at home
(ages 14 and 16). Also trying to spend
time in some of the fabulous places
I discovered or learned about as an
Antiochian many years ago.” Guy
Shuman, 3385 Truman Ave., Mountain
View, CA 94040-4544.
Nancy Joachim, M.D. ’76: “I am prac-
ticing psychiatry in NYC, and recently
added acupuncture. Just renovated 2
small apartments into one big – a huge
amount of work. Have long relationship
with Richie, a playwright satirist. I still
do paint and would love to hear from
old friends! (Or new ones).” Write: 400
Riverside Drive 1G, New York, NY
10025. NJoachim@AOL.com.
Bryan Mong ’76: “On the brink
of the Millennium, I am married
and I have a 9 month old daughter,
Graciela. I have been living in An-
napolis, MD for the past 10 years.
I never thought I could live in one
place for a decade. I occasionally see
Joseph Kennedy ’76 in between his
trips to Costa Rica. Friends, please
write!” Write: B. C. Mong, 623 Wood
Lot Trail, Annapolis, MD 21401.
bcmong@worldclassvideo.com.
Spencer Rumsey ’76: “Yes, I’m still
contemplating my Long Island lawn.
Needs work. I continue to assign and
edit op-eds at Newsday, soon to be-
come part of the Chicago Tribune
multi-media empire. I say: Bring it on!
Meanwhile, I ﬁnd that ﬁrst grade is too
hard – for me, not my son. I’m a night
person and my wife is a way-too-
early-in-the-morning commuter to the
city. Why can’t elementary school start
at 10? My four-year-old son is a very
happy pre-pre-school dropout. Last
year, my true story, ‘Ambassador of an
Altered State,’ based on my AEA ex-
perience, was published in In Search
of Adventure: A Wild Travel Anthology.
In July, I showed some ’76 classmates
my super-8 ﬁlm of our graduation.
Kind of jumpy. Now they appreciate
why I’m a newspaper man. Write: 314
4th St. East Northport, NY 11731;
spencer.rumsey@newsday.com
Charles R. Doering ’77, Professor
of Mathematics at the University of
Michigan, received a Faculty Recogni-
tion Award on October 6, 1999. The
University [of Michigan] Record re-
ported: “In acknowledgment of his
distinguished research, his success in
providing new opportunities for stu-
dents to take part in applied mathemat-
ics research, and his contributions to
interdisciplinary scholarship at the
University and internationally, the
University of Michigan is pleased to
present to Charles R. Doering its Fac-
ulty Recognition Award.” Professor
Doering has also been the recipient of
an Excellence in Education Award in
1998, a National Science Foundation
Presidential Young Investigator Award
in 1989 and a Fulbright Scholarship in
1995. He has over 75 scholarly publica-
tions, and is editor of Physics Letters A.
Suzy Miller ’77: “After years of
obstacles, we ﬁnally have a baby
daughter! We picked up Daisy in
Kunming, China last December, and
she is a magniﬁcent ten-and-a-half
month old wonder. For more details,
check out http://daisyreport.tripod.com.
I am still a professional choreographer
loving my work, living on the gorgeous
central coast of California. Just saw
Charlie Doering ’77, and am in e-mail
touch with Jane Zarchen ’78, Abby
Lappen ’77 and Dan Bulos ’77.
Would love to hear from old friends;
motherhood has made me quite senti-
mental and appreciative of the rela-
tionships that form us. Write: 2580
Meadow St., San Luis Obispo, CA
93401. s.millerfuentes@att.net.”
Stephen Lane ’78: “I am teaching art
at Keio Academy of New York, which
is the New York branch of Keio Univer-
sity, Tokyo. I have a studio in New
York. My time is divided between mak-
ing paintings and teaching in New York
and Tokyo, as well as being a visiting
artist at art schools globally. Over the
past ten years I have had a number of
exhibitions in New York, Europe, Asia
and Russia. Gallery representation: OK
Harris Gallery, New York and Gallery
Ikeda Bijutsu, Tokyo. Write:
stephenlane99@hotmail.com”
Karen Wagner ’78: “Moved to Boston
area and still love it. Got married, got
divorced. Katie is 8, and an aspiring
actress (or Veterinarian). I worked for a
large Montessori School in Lexington
for 7 years, but I couldn’t take the bu-
reaucracy or the politics, so for the past
5 years I have run a Montessori pro-
gram for toddlers in my home. Besides
my business and my daughter, I’m in-
volved in Yoga, the Unitarian Church
and am still a big movie fan. Would like
to connect with any Antiochians in the
area. KRWagner@aol.com.” Karen
Rene Wagner, 12 Stanton Street,
Wayland, MA 01778-4804.
Judith Cohn Britt ’79: “Hey ya’ll, in
the true spirit of a life-long Co-op, we
are moving again! This time we (my
husband, our two children and myself)
will be heading to Knoxville, TN. Does
anyone out there know any Antiochians
I can look up… or have any tidbits of
advice regarding Knoxville? Thanks.”
Write: dbritt@u.arizona.edu.
E. Ann Baldwin ’80: “At present
on the faculty at Wesleyan Potters,
Middletown, Ct, Guildford Handcraft
Center, Guilford, Ct., and Creative Arts
Workshop in New Haven, Ct. teaching
clay and printmaking. Art work in pri-
vate and municipal collections. Third
consecutive exhibition of my prints
6/2000 at Alexey von Schlippe Gallery
of Art (Univ. of Ct. systems) at Avery
Point, Ct. Have received numerous
awards and been included in exhibitions
regionally. Looking forward to 20-year
reunion and alumnus exhibition at the
“old South Hall.” Write: P.O. Box 302,
Higganum, Ct. 06441-0302.”
Sharon Murray ’80: “I ﬁnished my
Ph.D. at UC Berkeley’s Department of
Environmental Science, Policy and
Management in January 1999. This
summer I moved to the Washington, DC
area as an American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) Sci-
ence & Diplomacy Fellow, working at
the U.S. Agency for International
Development’s Global Environment
Center. My work at USAID focuses on
integrated water resources and coastal
zone management, including efforts in
urban sustainability (my area of empha-
sis for the last several years). As a Jersey
Girl, I’m enjoying my return to the East
Coast, although I’m still in denial about
the hot, muggy summers!” Write: 2928
Yarling Court, Falls Church, V A 22042.
Rex O’Neal ’80: “I’m currently living
with my kids, Hunter, David, and
Remy, on a small farm east of Boulder,
CO. I was named as a partner in the law
ﬁrm, Cooley Godward LLP, in January
1999. Then in October 1999 I left to
help found a venture capital fund in
Denver called Words, Waves & Wires.
We currently own and operate three
companies located in Colorado, Utah,
and Florida. I also serve on the Board
of Directors of Emergency Family As-
sistance Association, a Boulder agency
assisting homeless families. Enjoying
life’s unusual twists and turns.” Write:
11321 Lookout Road, Lorymont, CO
80504. rexoneal@hotmail.com.
Bruce E. Semans ’80 has joined the
faculty of Southern Illinois University
School of Medicine as an assistant pro-
fessor of dermatology. He comes to the
School from Pathology Laboratory
Associates in Mobile, AL (1998-99).
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life – that I can actually walk my talk –
and know that my politics are repre-
sented by the work that I do, both in
my business and in the community.”
Her clientele is reﬂective of her com-
mitment to a progressive, liberal, and
egalitarian political vision. “Besides
high-proﬁle leaders and luminaries
such as Spike Lee, Patricia Ireland,
and the founders of Greenpeace and
Amnesty International, Jodi has placed
Holocaust survivors and entrepreneurs,
speakers who rely on personal experi-
ence, “so they can share their stories
and teach others that they have the
power within them to make a difference
in their lives, their communities, and
hopefully their world.”
Barbara Solow ’80: “I’m working as
a staff writer for an alternative weekly
newspaper here and loving it! Long
live advocacy journalism. Sam is now
2 1/2 and parenthood is still fascinat-
ing (and mysterious). Our region is
bigger and less like its old self. I’m
in touch with classmates Stephanie
Smith ’80, Cora Hook ’80, Lizzie
Olesker ’79, Glenn Paris ’80, Laura
Drey ’80 and Eric Bates ’83.” Write:
2110 Rufﬁn Street, Durham, NC
27704. bjsolow@mindspring.com.
Peter Kurland ’81 and Shannon
Wood ’81: “What do two Antioch
theater graduates do after they leave
Ohio and marry? They make a really
strange and funny movie that sells out
at ﬁlm festivals in Nashville, Los An-
geles and Atlanta to four star reviews.
Peter co-produced and Shannon was
the ﬁrst assistant director of EXISTO.
Ashid (Little Archie) Himmons, a
featured player in the ﬁlm, was an
Antioch student in the 70s. EXISTO
is a musical ﬁlm about love, art and
anarchy. In the near future, the world
is imprisoned by a stiﬂing morality in
which art is outlawed and the religious
right reigns supreme. A motley band
of revolutionaries led by the perfor-
mance artist Existo are all that is left
in defense of creativity. Check out
the web site at www.existo.com.”
Margaret Seiler ’81: “Living in Brook-
lyn, NY with my husband Hovey Brock
and daughters Livia (almost 5) and Lucy
(1 1/2). Got Master’s in Education from
Bank State College. Currently teaching
preschool part-time, and planning to
work with older kids eventually. Still in
touch with old friends, including Lisa
Bloom ’82, and Irene Tsatsos ’83. Read
Fred Reuss’s ’83 novel, Horace Afoot,
and Katie (Herzfeld) Singer’s ’83, The
Wholeness of a Broken Heart. Good
work!” Write: 50 Plaza Street #3B,
Brooklyn, NY 11238. hbrock@idt.net.
Steven L. Snyder ’81 was named a
partner in Kentucky’s largest law ﬁrm,
Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, in Jan. 2000.
Snyder joined Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs
in Sept. 1993 and concentrates his
practice in the areas of civil litigation
and copyright and trademark registra-
tion and litigation. He co-authored A
Reporter’s Guide to the Kentucky
Open Meetings and Open Record Acts
(1997), published by the Reporter’s
Committee for Freedom of the Press,
and authored Movies and Product
Placement: Is Hollywood Turning
Films into Commercial Speech (1992),
published by the University of Illinois
Law Review.
Ann Sorrel ’82: “Now living in South
Orange, NJ, a Newark suburb, in a house
complete with slate roof and leaded
windows! Bike commute daily to drop
off my two girls at daycare and then to
downtown Newark, where I have
worked for the past ten years as a public
defender. Continue to host travelers
from all over the world through my
membership in Servas, an international
peace organization. Regularly hear from
Sally Branch ’84, a former Co-op mate
at Crystal Run. Angela Amel ’84 is now
my neighbor at Lake Owassa, NJ, where
we have vacation cottages. I correspond
with Sharon Murray ’80, a former
Alaska Environmental Field Program
mate, who now has her doctorate and
lives in DC area. I also see Dave Woititz
’84, a computer entrepreneur.” Write:
373 Woodland Place, South Orange, NJ
07079. joel149@webtv.net.
Kathleen Keeting ’83 was a guest
on one of Art Bell’s last shows (from
Edmonton, Canada). Retiring Art Bell,
king of talk radio, asked Kathleen
Keating to return as a special guest
on April 12, 2000. Her ﬁrst appearance
on the show generated an overwhelm-
ing response, which was like no other
the program had encountered. Listen-
ers from all over the world, as distant
as the Philippines, called in to order
her latest book Final Warning. Previ-
ously a radio host and an investigative
reporter, Kathleen hits a nerve and
touches the souls of listeners which
has launched the Final Warning as
an international best seller. Reaching
approximately 500 radio stations
across North America, Kathleen ex-
poses conspiracies, uncovers proph-
esies and has gathered evidence that
science cannot explain.
Benay Shive ’83 and Jim Donaher ’83:
“…are proud to announce the birth of
their twins, Gertrude and David, April
29, 1999. Benay is already back at work,
enjoying her duties as Chief Tea Taster
at RC Bigelow in Fairﬁeld, CT. Jim dotes
on the babies as a “stay-at-home dad.”
Thanks and love to all!”
Freeman S. Deutsch ’84 received
an honorary Doctor of Human Letters
degree by Tennessee Wesleyan
College during the Heritage Day
convocation Feb. 29, 2000. Deutsch
is the senior software engineer in the
Science Education Department of
the Harvard Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
Among the software he has been
instrumental in developing are
MicroObservatory robotic telescopes,
Virtual Spectroscope, MouseLab,
WaveMaker, Billiards and Interactive
stereoscopic 3D. Among his responsi-
bilities include integrating work with
optical, mechanical and electrical en-
gineers, managing an extensive com-
puter network, managing NCSC web
server on Sun as well as his work with
supervising programmers and student
interns. Among Deutsch’s many hon-
ors was being named winner of the
1998 American Institute of Physics
“Best Physics Education Software
Contest” for his “MicroObservatory
Net.” He was the Carroll School 1996
Alumni Achievement Award winner,
the winner of the 1994 American Insti-
tute of Physics Best Physics Education
Software for MouseLab, as well as the
winner of the 1991 American Institute
of Physics Best Physics Education
Software for Wavemaker.
Elissa Olin ’84: “Still in NYC. Still
traveling and working Antioch style…
Just ﬁnished a great boat adventure. Very
inspiring. Now working toward becom-
ing a scuba diving instructor… Still
dancing and acting. Recently performed
the role of Annie Sullivan in “The
Miracle Worker” for a second time. Am
now working on another dance piece
with Gabrielle Lansner and Company
at HERE (in Manhattan). Still in touch
with Leigh Hilsinger ’81, Charles
Brack ’83, Jesse Zoernig ’85, Drew
Adair ’84, Karen Erlichman ’84,
Marcos Cocoves, et al. Would love to
hear from other friends and folks with
diving experience, stories, suggestions…”
Write: PO Box 1631, New York City,
NY 10276.
Paul Hays ’87: “Recent degree in Ge-
ography from Georgia State University,
with a minor in Anthropology. Working
with public health coalitions, and
against domestic violence, with some
media outreach and personal computer
donations. Speciﬁcally, Grady Coali-
tion. Interviewed on 89.3 FM about
Appalachian environmental and social/
political corruption issues, also absen-
tee landowners Broadform Deed. Stud-
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Previously he worked at Laboratory
Corporation of America in Tucker, GA
(1997-98); Richﬁeld Laboratory of
Dermatopathology in Cincinnati, OH
(1996-97); and on the staff of Luther
Hospital in Eau Claire, WI (1993-94).
He was a research assistant for the
National Institute of Neurological and
Communicative Disorders and Stroke
at the National Institutes of Health in
Bethesda, MD (1980-82) and for the
Department of Human Anatomy at the
University of California at Davis Medi-
cal School (1979). Semans completed
one-year fellowships in dermatopathol-
ogy at the University of Alabama at
Birmingham (1996) and in surgical
pathology at the University of Texas
Medical Branch in Galveston (1995).
His residency in anatomic and clinical
pathology was completed at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
in Madison (1994). He received his
medical degree from the University of
Wisconsin Medical School in Madison
(1989) and his bachelor’s degree at
Antioch College in 1980. He is a native
of Pittsburgh, PA. He is board certiﬁed
in dermatopathology, anatomic pathol-
ogy and board eligible in clinical pathol-
ogy. He is a fellow of the American
Academy of Dermatology, American
Society of Dermatopathology, College
of American Pathologists and American
Society of Clinical Pathologists. He
received the Wisconsin Society of Pa-
thologists Award in 1990 and was a
student grant co-recipient from the Na-
tional Science Foundation at Antioch
College Science Institute in 1978.
Jodi F. Solomon ’80 is featured in the
new book Women Who Mean Business:
Success Stories of Women Over Forty
(William Morrow & Co., 1999).
Solomon is the President of Jodi
Solomon Speakers Bureau in Boston.
Her business places hundreds of au-
thors, academics, celebrities, and activ-
ists at colleges and conferences around
the country. Says Solomon, “I feel that I
do to take a stance in what I do with my
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“B”. On-line a lot at public library in
Decatur, member Atlanta Bicycle Cam-
paign, United Farm Workers, Farm Aid,
Amnesty International, in touch with
some friends.”
Jennifer Kissinger ’88, runs the
Berkshire Cat Hospital in Lenox,
Massachusetts. The hospital is a full
service veterinary facility, which spe-
cializes only in cats, complete with
x-ray, a pharmacy, and a Cat Bed &
Breakfast. After Antioch, Kissinger
went on to the College of Veterinary
Medicine at Ohio State University. In
the practice labs, students performed
medical procedures on living animals
from the pound that were scheduled to
be put to sleep. The animals were put
to sleep at the end of the lab. It was a
practice Kissinger couldn’t deal with.
She told the Berkshire Advocate, “Hu-
man doctors don’t practice on home-
less people They do internships and
residencies. They are always able to
help people.” In December of 1992,
she was expelled from school when
she refused to participate in the labs,
so she took the university to court for
infringing on her religious beliefs. She
demanded that an alternative way to
learn be provided for her. Because two
students had brought a similar case
against the University of Pennsylvania
a year before, and won, Ohio State
settled out of court. Kissinger ﬁnished
her studies a year late by doing labs
on dead animals and models and
interning at spay neuter clinics at a
local animal shelter. It was hard for
Kissinger to continue at the school she
had taken to court. “People really re-
sented me. They felt like I had given
the school a black eye.” But, because
of these cases, most schools now offer
alternatives to their students. She also
introduced “Spay Day” to Berkshire
County this year. “Spay Day” is a na-
tional program that provides low in-
come families with free spay and
neuters for their pets. Kissinger also
writes a monthly column for Animal
Life newspaper and has done radio
shows about cats. She works with the
Berkshire Humane Society to spay and
neuter adoptive animals at low cost,
and on a summer camp there. The
hospital hosts aspiring vets through
Girls Inc.’s career day. She works to
educate her clients, especially through
two programs, which provide com-
plete preventive care for kittens and
senior cats. Kissinger takes the extra
time to educate her clients, and to ex-
plain the details of the procedures that
she is performing. Cats are the animal
Kissinger relates to best. “I am a cat
person by nature. I know how to read
them better than any other species.”
Andy Abrams ’93 and Kristine
Herman ’94 have published essays in
Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on
Sex, Violence, Equality and Activism
(Roman & Littleﬁeld Publishers, 1999).
Andy’s essay, “Asking for Consent is
Sexy,” was originally published in the
Antioch Record.
Dmitri Vietze ’93: “Antonia Curry
’93 and I got married three years ago.
Our daughter Anisa Indigo was born
last August. We’ve been in Portland,
OR for six years. I just started a mar-
keting company for “world music”
record labels. We’re moving to
Bloomington, where Antonia will
start on her MFA in Photography.
I also conduct workshops using music
to teach about cultural diversity. Old
friends, send us an e-mail. We’d love
to hear from you!” Write:
dmitri@teleport.com.
Meghan Kelly Yetzer ’94 has a new
address: 15037 Black Oak Rd., Prior
Lake, MN 55372. megyet@aol.com.
Greg Powers ’95: “I’m currently liv-
ing in South Florida. Since graduating
from Antioch, I’ve been a fork-lift
operator, probation ofﬁcer, crappy
poet, Americorps VISTA volunteer,
teacher for multi-handicapped chil-
dren, and a part-time revolutionary.
I’ve lived in Chiapas, Mexico, San
Pejro, Guatemala, and Ireland. I’m
going nowhere fast. Currently writing
a book about my travels; with the
working title: Loser. Oh ya, I had to
change my name. Write: 6540 S.W.
4 Set, Hollywood, FL 33023.
irish67@backpackmail.com.”
Giridhar Kamath ’96: “I will be
graduating from osteopathic medical
school on May 19, 2000. I’m writing
this after having completed a
29-hour pediatric shift. Some good
news from my side is that I’m getting
married to a wonderful doctor from
India on June 17, 2000. I met her dur-
ing an elective rotation in December.
I start a one-year internship near
Philadelphia at Delaware County
Memorial Hospital on June 19, 2000.
I’m ultimately planning on going
into Family Practice. My wife wants
to do Internal Medicine, followed
by a subspecialization in something
‘that makes money.”
Ken Rapoza ’96: “Ken Rapoza is still
a bottom-feeder in the great economic
food chain, working as a freelance
reporter for Salon Magazine, the Bos-
ton Globe, the Inter Press Service
Agency (thanks to Danielle) and the
New Bedford Standard Times among
others (like the famous Antioch Re-
view!). My wife, Jackie, still brings
home the bacon, but her multi-
national corporate commando boss
just told her that they are moving to
Dallas, so it goes. Just got back (Jan.
2000) from New Years in Brazil where
families and friends matter, to return
to the U.S. where families and friends
don’t. Hello to all!”
James E. Jessie ’97: “Greetings to the
class of 1997 as well as to the classes
before and beyond. My lovely wife,
Jewell, and I are living in Columbus,
Ohio. We are expecting our ﬁrst child
in Dec. We also are embarking on
building our own business. Shout out
to everyone in Co-op! Much love to the
Cape Verde ’94 crew. You know who
you are! Hello Ivan. I look forward to
hearing from my fellow Antiochians.
To Denise Michel-Bentley, keep up the
great work with Bonner. Let’s stay in
touch. Love & Peace out. Write: 4331
Chesford Rd. Apt. 1C, Columbus, OH
43224. bluesylver71@yahoo.com.”

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Colgan T. Mumma ’31 passed away
on February 6, 1998.
Carl A. Sipe ’32 and Mabel Long
Sipe ’30: It’s not easy to ﬁnd a
storybook romance anymore, but
there are still moments, and there are
still stories. The story of Carl and
Mabel Sipe is about as close as
you’re going to get to one of those.
They met at Antioch in 1929. Mabel
played the sax in Carl’s band. He
played the clarinet. He learned the
clarinet at Tressler Lutheran Orphans’
Home in Pennsylvania, at the age of
ten. Mabel was a farm girl, practical
and strong. Carl was a jokester, al-
ways good for a little slight of hand.
She was a school teacher and he
worked as an engineer for a company
that made ship’s logs. They had two
children, and three grandchildren.
Their son, Robert was tragically
killed by sniper ﬁre in Vietnam in
1967. Their daughter, Dorothy, mar-
ried Dennis Mull, one of Robert’s old
co-workers, in 1968. They were ac-
tive volunteers, and spent much of
their lives educating and entertaining.
On Sept. 7, 1999, Mabel collapsed
while taking one of her daily walks
around the block. She passed away at
the hospital on Sept. 21. Carl had
always said all he needed was Mabel
and a clarinet. He passed away eleven
days later, on Oct. 7. The last sen-
tence he uttered was: “She’s the
greatest.”
Ellen French Spalt ’33 died May 19,
2000 at Carolina Meadows Health
Center. She earned a B.A. in pre-
school education and met her future
husband, Evan R. Spalt ’34. She de-
voted herself to raising her family in
Plainﬁeld, where she lived from 1940
to 1980. At the same time she en-
gaged in extensive volunteer work for
the hospital auxiliary and the Visiting
Nurse Association. Notable was her
work beginning in the 1950s with
the local College Club, an association
of female college graduates, raising
funds for scholarships for young
women to attend college when such
funds were scarce. After arriving in
Chapel Hill in 1980 she volunteered
regularly at the NC Botanical Garden
which recognized her for 15 years
of service. Her life-long interest in
natural history was most obviously
manifested in bird watching. She
read, studied, hiked, traveled, and
generally shared her enthusiasm and
knowledge of birds, while compiling
an impressive “life list.” Birding was
a vehicle for friendships and a focus
for advocating habitat preservation
for birds and people. Ms. Spalt was
preceded in death by her sisters,
Maude D. and Frances S. French,
and by her former husband from
whom she was divorced in 1977.
She is survived by her daughter
and son-in-law Katherine and David
Miller of Princeton, NJ; and son and
daughter-in-law Allen and Susan
Spalt of Carrboro, NC.
Ullman Rosenﬁeld ’34 passed
away on January 19, 2000 in North
Bellmore, N.Y . After leaving Antioch
College he received his B.S. in educa-
tion from Teacher’s College and a
master’s degree in psychology from
Columbia University. Retired in mid-
1979, Mr. Rosenﬁeld was the vice
president of industrial and commu-
nity relations with the Ideal Corpora-
tion, a subsidiary of the Parker-
Hanniﬁn Corporation. Prior to that
position, he held a number of posi-
tions in a capacity of personnel direc-
tor or director of industrial relations.
In April 1977, Mr. Rosenﬁeld re-
ceived the New York WOR-TV Busi-
ness Community Service Award from
the New York Chamber of Commerce
and Industry. He also founded and
served as President of the Fairﬁeld
Industrial Park Association, sur-
rounding the Ideal Plant. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Phyllis Rosenﬁeld.
Robert E. Herman ’34 died April
24, 2000 in Troy, Ohio. He was a
retired employee of the City of Day-
ton and served in the US Army. He
was preceded in death by his wife
Zana Shock Herman.
Edward Cox ’35: Edward D. Cox
died peacefully in Seattle, W A., on
January 19, at the age of 87. In 1939,
Mr. Cox joined United Airlines, and
was released three years later to
serve in the Army Air Corps during
World War Two. He married Sarah
Marr of Troy, Ohio, during his stint
in the Army. After the war, he re-
joined United and worked in San
Francisco; Vancouver, B.C.; Chevy
Chase, MD., and London, England.
In 1976, he and his late wife settled
down permanently in North Tisbury,
Massachusetts. Mr. Cox was active
in several organizations, serving
as a long-term board member and
president of the [Martha’s] Vineyard
Conservation Society, and as trea-
surer of Friends of Family Planning.
He is survived by his three children
and eight grandchildren.
Eugene Charles George ’35 died
August 17, 1998 at home. He retired
from The Pittston Co., Lebanon, Va.
in Aug. of 1977. His interests included
golf and music including his “retire-
ment toy,” an electric organ.
Erik Thomsen ’35 died peacefully
with his family by his side on Febru-
ary 6, 1999. He married Alice
Barnard Thomsen, who graduated
from Antioch the same year. She
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O LIVER L OUD ❧
Oliver Loud, Professor of Physics Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor, passed away on
November 6, 1999, at his home in Seattle, surrounded by his family. He was 88 years old.
In a letter to the community, Antioch College President Bob Devine, wrote: “Oliver will be remembered
for his sixty-ﬁve years of teaching, his tireless political activism, and his commitment to making science
accessible, relevant and applicable to even the most fervently devoted non-science student.”
“Oliver graduated summa cum laude in Chemistry from Harvard College, completed his Master’s and
Doctorate degrees at Columbia University, and taught at Sarah Lawrence, Bryn Mawr, and the Teachers
College at Columbia University before ﬁrst joining the Antioch faculty in 1943. After a time teaching in
the Army Specialized Training Program at Ohio State and working as Technical Supervisor at Tennessee
Eastman Corporation, Oliver returned to Antioch in 1945 to begin a distinguished teaching career spanning
forty-eight years. Oliver’s principal focus was on teaching the non-science, undergraduate student, and
many generations of Antiochians were introduced to the sciences by his exemplary courses in ‘Physical
Science – World Picture,’ ‘Physical Science for the Consumer,’ and ‘Problems in the History of Western
Science.’ In 1966 the entire nation was informed of Oliver’s extraordinary teaching when Esquire Magazine
named him one of its thirty-three ‘Super-Profs.’ In 1978 Oliver was named Distinguished Antioch
University Professor and continued to conduct seminars in general education at the College, the Antioch
School of Law, Antioch New England Graduate School, and Antioch University Seattle until 1993.
“For decades Oliver served as a leader among his faculty colleagues, playing a key role in College
governance and curriculum development, up to and including the College’s most recent effort at curricular
redesign in the late 1980s. His was always a voice of reason, even during the most unreasonable of times
and under the most difﬁcult circumstances. His involvement with the Yellow Springs Committee for Racial
Equality, the 30-year effort at desegregation, and the Help Us Make a Nation, and African-American
Cultural Works organizations demonstrated his life-long commitment to building a fuller community,
and in 1994 the AACW acknowledged Oliver’s ‘exemplary service in Yellow Springs and in neighboring
communities’ with their Community Service Award. In May 1999, at the College’s annual Alumni Reunion,
Oliver and Frances returned to the campus, and Oliver was the honored recipient of the J.D. Dawson Award
in recognition of his years of loyal service to furthering he mission of Antioch College.”
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passed away in 1996. Erik was a
well respected oil ﬁnder for Amoco,
and an inventor of technology now
used by geophysicists worldwide
for ﬁnding oil. He was a dedicated
member and builder of several Uni-
tarian churches and fellowships. At
one time he served as president of
the regional Unitarian conference.
Albert B. Conkey, Jr. ’36 died Feb-
ruary 6, 2000 at the Hanover Terrace
Health Care in New Hampshire. For
38 years he was on the music faculty
at Chestnut Hill Academy in Phila-
delphia and served as head of the
Creative Arts Department. In 1942
he married Alice K. Wright, a fellow
musician with whom he frequently
played two-piano and fourhand pi-
ano music. Mr. Conkey founded the
Chestnut Hill Community Orchestra
and Chorus and directed them until
his retirement in 1978. He also
served the Presbyterian Church of
Chestnut Hill as organist and choir
director for 18 years. His many mu-
sical contributions were recognized
in 1971 when he was named the
Chestnut Hill Man of the Year. He
studied composition with Vincent
Persichetti and composed choral and
instrumental music most of his life.
After retiring to Maine he organized
informal chamber music groups,
composing music for them and was
a member of the Maine Composers
Forum. He served on the boards of
the Basically Bach Festival of Phila-
delphia, the Brunswick (ME) Orato-
rio Chorale, and helped organize and
performed in the musical activities
at the Round Top Center for the
Arts in Damariscotta, ME. Mr.
Conkey is survived by his wife,
Alice of Hanover, NH; a sister,
Jane C. Sundheim of Seven Lakes,
NC; and ﬁve daughters, Margaret W.
Conkey of Berkeley, CA, Jane F.
Conkey of Falls Church, V A,
Frances C. Trafton of Providence,
RI, Laura E. Conkey of Hanover
and Mary Adelaide Mankins of
Winchester, V A.
Caroline Ward Hechenbleikner
’36 died August 24, 1999 at
Woodbriar of Wilmington, MA
Nursing Center. After receiving
her B.S. degree in chemistry from
Antioch, she worked towards her
MS in chemistry at New York Uni-
versity. She worked for many years
with her husband for his company,
Brookﬁeld Chemical Co. in Sharon.
Helen Odell Greene ’38 died
December 26, 1999 at her home in
Beverly Hills. During a memorial
service for Ms. Greene the following
was said: “Helen Odell Greene is
loved for her words, actions and the
enduring example of strength and
courage she has taught us especially
during these last years since John (her
husband) died. She was thoughtful
about people’s interests, putting their
needs before her own.” Ms. Greene
and her husband were members of St.
Theodore’s Episcopal Church and
were instrumental in helping estab-
lish the ﬁrst church building. Survi-
vors include her son, John L. Greene
V; daughter, Patricia A. Corlett; and
her brother Frank Odell.
Frederic Paul Luther ’38 died
August 6, 2000 in his home near
Waveland, In.. Mr. Luther was presi-
dent of Frederic Luther Company
(sales and service of microﬁlm pro-
cesses) at Indianapolis for 33 years.
During his career he had also served
as president of National Microﬁlm
Association of Silver Springs, Md.,
was involved in sales of early
microﬁlm and audio-visual equip-
ment, and had also been in charge
of the motion picture production and
program for the Western Electric
Company. He had more than 50
articles published in professional
journals and was author of the book,
Microﬁlm: A History, 1839-1900.
Carl Pfeiffer Palmer ’38 died August
23, 1999. After leaving Antioch, he
graduated from Lehigh University.
He majored in ﬁne arts. He served
in World War II in France with the
tank destroyers battalion. Before
retirement, he was employed as a
supervising manager of advertising
for E.I. DuPont in Wilmington, Del.
He was a pioneer in the development
of phototypography and authored
the “Phototypography” column in
Graphic Arts Monthly from 1956
to 1983. In his retirement years, he
began painting again, particularly
watercolors, and designed and
printed his own Christmas cards,
even after he had become legally
blind. He is survived by two sons,
Philip Maston Palmer II ’67 of
Riverside, Calif., and Carl Madeira
Palmer of Henrietta, N.Y .; a daughter,
Legh Palmer Miller of Haddonﬁeld,
N.J.; and two brothers, Richard
Bradbury Palmer of Chapel Hill,
N.C. and John Trull Palmer of
Shreveport, La.
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E RNEST M ORGAN ’29 ❧
Ernest Morgan ’29 died Oct. 1, 2000 at his home in Celo, N.C. Ernest’s
life spanned most of the 20th century from his ﬁrst six years in St.
Cloud with gas lighting and horse and buggy transportation, through
50 years in Yellow Springs as a homesteader, small businessman and
civic leader, to the dawn of the 21st Century as an active retiree living
near the Arthur Morgan School in Celo Community, North Carolina.
As a student at Antioch in 1926, Ernest founded the Antioch Bookplate
Company, now The Antioch Company, in Yellow Springs. From 1942
to 1949, he published the Yellow Springs News, and was a co-founder
of the Yellow Springs Community Credit Union. In the late 1940s,
he served as chairman of the Socialist Party of Ohio, running for
governor, and also participated in Arab Relief efforts in the Gaza
Strip. In the early 1960s, he and his wife, Elizabeth Morey Morgan,
were part owners of Camp Celo, and he assisted Elizabeth in founding
the Arthur Morgan School and later the Celo Press, both in Celo,
North Carolina. In 1963, he co-founded the Continental Association
of Funeral & Memorial Societies. The Antioch Bookplate Company
was the village’s ﬁrst equal-opportunity employer and Ernie, as he
was affectionately known, was quick to hire minorities of all sorts:
African Americans, Jews ﬂeeing Nazi Germany, Japanese-Americans
and conscientious objectors. On his ﬁrst ofﬁcial retirement in 1970, he
moved to Celo and traveled a seven-state area as sales rep for the
Antioch Bookplate Company. The demise of his beloved Travelall
urban camping vehicle and his eventual retirement from his travels
allowed him to devote more time to his writing. This included a proliﬁc
number of letters to the editor, numerous papers, several books and
the regular updating of his original Manual of Simple Burial, which
sold over 250,000 copies and is currently in its 13th edition, retitled
Dealing Creatively with Dying. His autobiography, Dealing Creatively
with Life, was published in 2000 and reﬂects his abilities as a master
storyteller. Active right up until his death, he completed a tour of The
Antioch Company facilities in the U.S. in May. He was honored as the
company’s founder in Yellow Springs and shared his philosophy of
business and life at all three company locations, St. Cloud, Minnesota,
Sparks, Nevada, and Yellow Springs. At the time of his death he was
an active advisor to and supporter of Community Service, Inc. in
Yellow Springs, the corresponding secretary of Celo Community;
Chairman of the Board Emeritus of The Antioch Company; and a
board member of the Blue Ridge Memorial Society in Asheville,
North Carolina. Ernest was the son of former Antioch College
President Arthur E. Morgan and Urania Jones. After Urania’s death
Arthur married Lucy Griscom and the family lived in Dayton and
Yellow Springs. In 1983, 12 years after the death of his wife, Elizabeth,
Ernest married Christine Wise, who died in 1996. He also was
preceded in death by his daughter, Benetta, and brother, Griscom.
Surviving are his sister Frances Bolling of Centerville, Indiana; sons,
Art Morgan of Monticello, Indiana and Lee Morgan of Yellow Springs,
Ohio; daughter Jenifer Morgan of Celo, N.C.; seven grandchildren;
two great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. A
memorial service was held on Oct. 22 in the Glen Helen Building in
Yellow Springs and Oct. 29 at the Arthur Morgan School in Celo,
North Carolina. (Editor’s note: This obituary was excerpted from
the Oct. 5, 2000 edition of the Yellow Springs News.)

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Dave Sarvis ’38, of Mill Valley, Cali-
fornia, died on June 27, 1999. Mr.
Sarvis was born in 1913, in Nanking,
China to missionary parents. After
graduating from Antioch College in
1938, he earned an MFA in directing
from the Yale School of Drama. Dur-
ing World War II, Captain Sarvis was
awarded the Bronze Star, while serv-
ing in the Paciﬁc in the Japanese Lan-
guage Combat Intelligence section
of the Marines. After the war, Mr.
Sarvis moved to Los Angeles where
he worked in agitprop and political
theater. He later moved to San Fran-
cisco, where he became the driving
force behind the Labor Theater of
the California Labor School. At the
height of the McCarthy era he ap-
peared in the politically controversial
ﬁlm, “Salt of the Earth,” and in 1957
found himself an unfriendly witness
refusing to “name names” before the
House on Un-American Activities
Committee in San Francisco. Mr.
Sarvis also directed plays at the
San Francisco Interplayers and the
Actor’s Workshop with Herbert Blau
and Jules Irving. In addition to his
substantial original contributions to
Bay Area theater, he worked for over
20 years as a draftsman, engineer,
designer, and personnel ofﬁcer for the
Arthur G. McKee company. His mar-
riage to Ms. Mann ended in 1961
and, in 1963, he married San Fran-
cisco dancer, teacher, and choreogra-
pher, Gloria Unti. He co-founded the
Performing Arts Workshop with Ms.
Unti and was integral to its success.
While living in Mill Valley, he put
increasing energy into political work
for peace and justice. By his own
account it was the human suffering in
China, which he witnessed as a child,
along with the awareness of his privi-
leged position as a protected for-
eigner, that kindled the political
consciousness and sense of social
responsibility which endured through
his life. Mr. Sarvis is survived by his
loving wife, Gloria, four children,
ﬁve grandchildren and his beloved
dog, Mitzi.
Everett K. Wilson ’38 died on
December 31, 1999, in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina. After graduating
from Antioch, Mr. Wilson worked
for two years at Pine Mountain
Settlement School in Kentucky as
a teacher and principal. He served
for two years in World War II, in the
Army Specialized Training Program,
after which he earned his doctorate
in sociology from the University
of Chicago. He taught at several
institutions including Antioch, the
University of Michigan, and most
recently the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill. In 1948 he
began an 18-year teaching career at
Antioch. The camaraderie and intel-
lectual atmosphere he created in-
spired countless students to pursue
higher degrees – among them, Bill
Gamson ’55, Howard Schuman ’53,
Gordon Fellman ’57, Cynthia Fuchs
Epstein ’55 and Andrea Tyree ’62.
While at the University of North
Carolina, Mr. Wilson also occupied
high ofﬁce in the state, regional and
national professional associations.
He served as president of the North
Carolina Sociological Association in
1974; vice president of the American
Sociological Association in 1983;
and president of the Southern Socio-
logical Society in 1985. He also re-
ceived the ASA Distinguished
Contributions in Teaching Award in
1980. He was an author and editor of
several textbooks on sociology, as
well as the editor of Social Forces,
an International Journal of Social
Research. He is survived by Eliza-
beth O. Wilson ’38, his wife of 61
years, a daughter and son, three
grandchildren and countless friends
and admirers whose lives have been
immeasurably enriched by having
known him.
Laura Jean Ames ’39 died April 8,
2000 at the Paul Springs Nursing
Home in Alexandria, Va. She was an
administrative aide with the Ameri-
can Bankers Association from 1970
to 1978. She went to Washington
while serving in the W A VES during
World War II. In the late 1940s, she
was an assistant to Herbert Hoover
when the former president chaired
the Hoover Commission on Govern-
ment Reorganization.
Caryl B. Brown ’41 died May 15,
2000 at the Sunset House in Toledo,
Ohio. She is survived by her children:
Lucia (Frank) Cooper of Sylvania,
Richard (Cristina) Brown of West
Bloomﬁeld, MI, and Kathy (Norm)
Ankers of Birmingham, MI.
Manfred J. Pollak ’41 died April
24, 2000 in Fla. He was a native of
Vienna, Austria and entered the U.S.
in 1938, a refugee from Nazi perse-
cutions in Austria. In Austria he
graduated cum laude from the
Federal Polytechnical Institute of
Vienna with an Ing degree (B.S.
equivalent) in Mechanical and Elec-
trical Engineering and received
an (M.S. degree equivalent) Dipl.
Ing. in applied physics from the
Technical University of Vienna.
He received a teaching-assistant
fellowship in electrical engineering
at Antioch College and a B.S. in
Physics from Antioch. He did gradu-
ate study toward a Ph.D. in Physical
Chemistry as research fellow at the
University of Chicago under the late
Nobel Prize holder Prof. James
Frank, and in later years attended
the University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business. He was a regis-
tered professional engineer licensed
by the State of Illinois since 1946.
Most recently he was Managing
Director of P-K International Asso-
ciates, an organization that provides
service for industry in creating new
business for 10-20 years ahead. He
also was consultant and board mem-
ber of Berndt Associates, Inc. and of
Fidelity Electronics Ltd. having until
recently been President and Chief
Executive Ofﬁcer of this company,
which he founded in 1960 to estab-
lish North American Distribution
of Hearing Aids and other medical-
electronic devices manufactured
in Europe. The author of several
scientiﬁc papers in physical chemis-
try and approximately 50 papers and
articles in the ﬁeld of product engi-
neering, Mr. Pollak also has edited
technical publications. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Dr. Dagmar
Baranikova-Pollak.
Bertram M. Beck ’42 died on April
6, 2000 at the Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center in Manhat-
tan. A native New Yorker, Mr. Beck
majored in social science while at
Antioch and received a master’s
degree from the University of
Chicago’s School of Social Service
Administration. From 1967 to 1977,
Mr. Beck was the executive director
of the Henry Street Settlement on
the Lower East Side. From 1977 to
1985 he was general director of the
Community Service Society of New
York City which concentrates on
income maintenance, health care,
affordable housing and education for
lower-income city residents. After
1985, he was a dean and held other
posts at Fordham University. At the
time of his death, Mr. Beck was the
special assistant to Mary Ann
Quaranta, the dean of Fordham’s
Graduate School of Social Service.
He oversaw Fordham’s Bertram M.
Beck Institute on Religion and Pov-
erty, which he organized and which
was named for him several months
ago. He also was the executive direc-
tor from 1965 to 1969 of Mobilization
for Youth, which Dean Quantana said
brought “services to try to help the
young people of New York City.”
Along with his wife, the former
Deborah Berman, who is the execu-
tive vice president of the Real Estate
Board of New York and whom he
married in 1965, he is survived by
two daughters, Rachel Beck of
Washington, D.C. and Melissa Beck
of Brooklyn; and two sisters, Ruth
Korn of Manhattan and Alice
Simmons of Brookline, Mass.
Lucy Ann Hill ’43 died March 19,
2000 at Salisbury Center Genesis
ElderCare in Md. After graduating
from Antioch, she was a homemaker
and a librarian at Pinehurst Elemen-
tary School in Salisbury. She is sur-
vived by her husband of 54 years Dr.
Thomas C. Hill ’43 of Salisbury; and
four children, Thomas C. Hill III of
Portland, Ore; Lucinda M. Hill of
Arlington, Mass.; James A. Hill ’79
and his wife, Sherry Hahn ’78 of Ar-
lington and Sarah Ann Hill of White
Plains, N.Y .
Arnold D. Shufro ’44 died May 14,
2000 at the Norwalk Center. He
worked for more than four decades
as a textiles salesman in Manhattan.
Most of his working years were
spent with two ﬁrms, Loomskill and
Lauratex. He specialized in fabrics
for women’s clothing. Mr. Shufro
was an avid weekend sailor for many
years, sailing out of Compo Basin
in his Mercury sloop. He is survived
by two sisters, Ellen Orleans ’48
of Vinyard Haven, Mass. and Lois
Godfrey ’46 of Princeton, N.J.; three
children, Cathy of Woodbridge, Mark
of Westport and Carol of Weston as
well as seven grandchildren.
Elaine Lytel ’45 passed away on
January 16, 2000, at the age of 76.
Elaine was a political trailblazer and
leader, who helped to pave the way
for women in local government. She
was the ﬁrst woman and democrat to
hold a countywide ofﬁce as Onondaga
(New York) County Clerk. She also
served on the County Legislature,
and two four-year terms as Town
Councilor of DeWitt, New York.
Kelly S. Dellas said of her, “As a
feminist, Elaine worked tirelessly so
women could have the choices and
opportunities that we now too often
take for granted. As the ﬁrst female
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supervisor of the town of DeWitt, I
am acutely aware that it was Elaine’s
work that made my achievements
possible.” She was a member of the
Organization for Women, League of
Women V oters, National Women’s
Political Caucus, New York Civil
Liberties Union, and the National
Democratic Committee. “She
worked for legislation,” wrote Karen
DeCrow of the Syracuse New Times,
“to guarantee equality for women
and people of color and was a spon-
sor of gay rights legislation decades
before it passed…Her understanding
of the governmental process included
that insight that patience was the
virtue. One cannot make changes
overnight, but one deﬁnitely can
make huge changes.” Elaine’s son,
David Lytel, said his mother had
three great commitments in life –
motherhood, feminism, and public
service. “She was able to be seriously
committed to all three.”
Beverly Dawson Paull ’46 died on
July 3, 1999. She was born Beverly
Dawson in 1922 near Buffalo, NY .
Beverly attended Antioch College
and earned a bachelor’s degree in
1945. In that same year, she married
David Paull ’42, with whom she
had two children. After raising her
children, Beverly pursued a career
as a Medical Social Worker at the
Oregon Health Sciences University.
Having reached all of her goals,
she retired after 15 years in 1987.
Mr. Paull writes, “May she rest
in peace. She was a wonderful,
wonderful woman.”
Eve Kraft ’47 passed away on
November 11, 1999. Ms. Kraft was
a noted national tennis instructor,
coach and author. Tennis Magazine
acknowledged her as one of the 20
most inﬂuential people in national
tennis. In 1971, when Princeton Uni-
versity ﬁrst admitted women, Kraft
became the women’s varsity tennis
coach, leading the team to an unde-
feated record for the three years of
her tenure. She was the co-founder
and director of the U.S.T.A. tennis
teacher’s conference held annually
at the U.S. Open. She was the author
of two books on tennis, The Tennis
Workbook, and The Tennis Teacher’s
Guide to Group Instruction and
Community Tennis Programming.
Eve was inducted into the U.S.T.A./
Middle States Tennis Hall of Fame
in 1994, and into the International
Tennis Association’s Women’s Col-
legiate Hall of Fame in 1996. After
her retirement, Ms. Kraft became
active in the ﬁeld of community-
based mental health support ser-
vices. Working with the Princeton
Area Community Foundation and
the Carrier Clinic of Skillman, New
Jersey, she established the Steven A.
Kraft Fund. Her efforts were devoted
to providing a network of resources
to support families of the mentally
ill. She is survived by two sons,
Kenneth Kraft of Haverford, PA
and Robert Kraft of Los Angeles.
Robert S. Grogan ’48 died November
3, 1999 at his home in Cocoa Beach,
Fla. His ﬁrst years at Antioch were
interrupted by WW II in which he
served as a First Lieutenant in the
Army in Germany and France. He
returned to Antioch to complete his
last two years. He obtained his
master’s and doctorate degrees from
Columbia University. He served as
Superintendent of Schools in Clinton,
N.Y . and Montpelier, Vt. He was the
Executive Director of the Vermont
Superintendents Association and
taught at Norwich University. During
his years in Florida, he was an active
volunteer with the Cape Canaveral
Seashore. He is survived by his wife of
52 years, Barbara; and three children.
Joan Winelander Stern ’48 died
December 4, 1999 in Elkins Park, Pa.
Ms. Stern majored in mathematics
and statistics while at Antioch. She
worked as a systems analyst for a
number of years for the City of
Philadelphia, Gimbel Brothers and
Publicker Industries. After her mar-
riage in 1949 and the birth of her
children, her interests turned to books
and libraries and she devoted the
remainder of her productive life to the
growth and welfare of the Elkins Park
Library, nurturing it from a small
neighborhood facility in cramped
quarters in the old Township building
to a modern learning center in new
quarters in Elkins Park and had the
honor of presiding at its formal dedi-
cation as President of the Friends of
the Library in 1981. In addition, she
initiated the monthly used book sales
at the library, which have become a
landmark activity in the community
and devoted countless hours of her
time to pricing the books and manag-
ing the sales. She also worked at the
main desk of the library as a volun-
teer three or more days a week for
many years until her ﬁnal illness
made it impossible for her to con-
tinue. Ms. Stern is survived by her
husband, Horace A. Stern, a Philadel-
phia lawyer for more than 50 years;
a son, Robert A. Stern of Berkeley,
Calif.; and daughter, Carol Stern
McMichael of Merion, Pennsylavania.
Gene Trolander ’48 passed away on
March 18, 2000. Ms. Trolander was
the founder of the Women’s Park in
Yellow Springs, which was dedicated
in July 1998. She was also one of the
founders of the Women’s History
Project in Greene County, Ohio, of
the Feminist Health Fund in Yellow
Springs, and Women Inc. Gene taught
at several area schools and universi-
ties including Antioch School,
Sinclair Community College and
Central State University. Jewel Gra-
ham, a long-time friend and Professor
of Social Work Emerita at Antioch
College told the Dayton Daily News,
“She was also absolutely dedicated
to women’s issues. In later years, she
was an avowed feminist and worked
hard on women’s issues of all kinds.”
On March 29, Ms. Trolander and four
other community leaders were hon-
ored by the YWCA of Dayton at its
annual Circle of Women Recognition
Dinner. She is survived by her hus-
band of 53 years, Hardy Trolander
’47 and two grown children, Megan
and Pati.
Paul Michael Cutler ’49 died May 3,
1999. Mr. Cutler’s wife, Gail, sent a
copy of his memorial that listed a
“biography of accomplishments.”
The list includes: paperboy as a child
and, at age 14, became branch man-
ager over other carriers; Silverskates
Champion in speed skating; Pennsyl-
vania State Champion in speed skat-
ing; World War II veteran, U.S. Army
Tank Corps; Korean Conﬂict veteran,
U.S. Army; worked for Martin
Marietta Aircraft Company; Hospital
administrator, Hollywood West Hospi-
tal; Member of Los Angeles County
Mounted Sheriffs’ Posse; Participant
in Olympic Trials for the equestrian
Three-Day Event; Worked for Inter-
national Meat Company in Dallas,
Texas; Started El Paso Packing
Company; Designed and built, with
his wife, Gail, their home in El Paso
and maintained close and loving
contact with his family and friends.
Margaret J. “Peggy” Brown ’50
passed away on December 2, 1999,
at the age of 72. Peggy worked at
Antioch for many years, starting in
the Antioch Education Abroad ofﬁce,
then the Testing ofﬁce, and ﬁnally the
Registrar’s ofﬁce, from which she
retired. She was a volunteer for the
Glen Helen Association and its Na-
ture Shop; the Yellow Springs Library
Association, serving for a time as the
editor of its newsletter, ”Ex Libris;”
Planned Parenthood, its Book Loft
and annual book sale; Yellow Springs
Senior Citizens Center; and she led
a local Girl Scout troop. Long-time
friend, Dorothy L. Scott told the Yellow
Springs News, “She was loved by
people all over town. She had a vast
knowledge of local people and their
interconnections.”
Roger Allen Gaskill ’50 died March
16, 2000. In 1947, Mr. Gaskill en-
rolled at Antioch because of the
work-study program. He helped
build and operate the Antioch Broad-
casting System, working with his
good friend Rod Serling ’50. He was
given credit for his Navy college-
level teaching. Upon graduation in
1950, his Physics professor helped
him get a research assistantship at
M.I.T. At M.I.T., in the Dynamic
Analysis and Control Laboratory, he
helped build one of the ﬁrst comput-
ers. In 1961, Mr. Gaskill went to
Martin-Marrietta Corp. His inven-
tion of a new, simpler computer lan-
guage, “DAS,” led to his being
chosen as one of the Honors Night
recipients. His colleagues said this
helped lay the foundation for the
computer revolution.
John F. O’Neill ’50 died June 28,
2000 in Madison, Wisc. John lived
according to the call of Horace Mann,
Antioch’s ﬁrst president – “Be
ashamed to die until you have won
some victory for humanity.” John had
won many victories for those in need
during his career in social work, ﬁrst
as a child welfare worker in Wiscon-
sin and then as an educator, teaching
at the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee, Fresno State University
and and the University of Houston.
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He was the founding Dean of the
Inland Empire School of Social Work
at Eastern Washington University
where he provided inspiring leader-
ship for 15 years, until his retirement
in 1989. John holds an M.A. from the
University of Chicago and a DSW
degree from the university of South-
ern California. In retirement, John
expressed his love of music as a
craftsman of acoustic instruments
after training at the August Center
at Davis and Elkins College, W. Va.
He is survived by his loving wife,
Nancy Loomis O’Neill ’48; ﬁve
children, John (Mimi) O’Neill III of
Albany, NY; Kenneth (Joan) O’Neill
of Madison, Charles (Michaelanne)
O’Neill of Spokane, Wash; Judith
(Paul) Kurzynowski of Las Vegas and
Richard O’Neill of Auburn, Wash.
Nancy Ritter Cornish ’51 died May
22, 1999 in her home in Bethlehem,
PA. She was a property manager for
Cornish Associates in Bethlehem.
She was a coordinator for Live
Bethlehem Christmas Pageant for
20 years; active in Pennsylvania
Playhouse for 30 years; a member of
the Torch Club of the Lehigh Valley;
and active with AAUW Book Fair
for many years. Ms. Cornish was
publicity director for the Moravian
College Conservation Association
Film Series; a guide at the Sun Inn;
and served as a volunteer for MS
and the cancer society. She was ac-
tive in many community endeavors
including the Girl Scouts, Red Cross
Water Safety, Senior Citizen Swim
Program at Lehigh University, and
WLVT PBS station. In addition to
her husband, she is survived by two
sons, Noel F. of Bethlehem and Seth
A. of Belvidere.
Anne Poindexter Fischer ’54 suf-
fered a massive stroke and died on
August 31, 2000. She had moved to
the family home on Lake Michigan
and just ﬁnished renovating it beauti-
fully. She was planning to marry her
dear friend, Gene, in October. The
service included readings and recol-
lections by all but the very youngest
children. Her daughter-in-law played
the ﬂute and an old friend played a
rollicking song he had composed for
her sixty-ﬁfth birthday. Fifty of us
returned to the shoreside house to
reminisce and comfort each other
with a party that she would have
loved. On behalf of Anne’s Antioch
friends, the following was read at the
service on Sept. 3, 2000: Anne. My
friend. We were in our teens together
at Antioch College in 1949, ﬁfty
years ago. We both loved Antioch
and never lost our commitment to its
mission. We were both fun-loving,
glad girls and when our paths
crossed in later years we could talk
and laugh for hours about our shared
memories of college friends, Yellow
Springs, and all the years after those
early ones. We talked seriously and
sadly too about our life struggles
and changes, losses and regrets. And
proudly about our families and our
work. What a pal. We were never at a
loss for words and always caught up
fully even after long absences. She
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Evan Roland Spalt ’34, of Bay Head, New Jersey, died March 14, 2000, at Jersey Shore Medical Center,
Neptune, of complications of a short illness. Evan was born August 31, 1910 in Cleveland, Ohio, son of
Victor E. and Hattie Etzel Spalt. Evan attended Antioch College where he was Community Manager for
a year and earned his B.A. in English Literature Summa Cum Laude in 1934. He graduated in the midst
of the Great Depression, which left an indelible mark and inspired his life work. He began his career with
Johnson & Johnson in 1936 and soon was part of the team that founded its Ortho Pharmaceutical subsidiary.
Ortho was a pioneer in the research, development and marketing of contraceptive and diagnostic products
in the United States and around the world. His key role in Ortho’s growth was summed up as, “no man was
more responsible for its products being available to improve family life and health throughout the world.”
Evan retired in 1973 as executive vice president after 37 years with Ortho.
Evan maintained a life-long association with Antioch College as trustee from 1952 to 1961, member of various
college and alumni committees, and supporter of the Evan R. Spalt International Center. He epitomized the
Antioch ideal of commitment to academic excellence, practical experience and community service and
followed the maxim of Horace Mann, Antioch’s ﬁrst president, “Be ashamed to die until you have won some
victory for humanity.” He was recognized for service to the college with the J. D. Dawson Award in 1994.
Evan’s commitment to community service was manifested by many years on the Union County Recreation
Commission, where he supported park acquisition and day camp programs, the Raritan Planning Commission,
and various regional planning bodies. He maintained ties to the NJ Association of Planning Ofﬁcials long into
retirement. The NJPO awarded Evan its “Certiﬁcate of Merit” in 1992 for “signiﬁcant contributions to planning
and zoning and whose demonstrated love of New Jersey and his community makes him a valued leader of
thought and action.”
Evan was married from 1935 to 1978 to the former Ellen French ’33, of Concord Massachusetts, with
whom he had two children; they made their home in Plainﬁeld, NJ. In 1979, Evan married Victoria J.
Mastrobuono and moved to the Jersey shore where he was active in protecting its environment.
Sailing his beloved “Typhoon” from the Mantaloking Yacht Club, he became increasingly concerned about the
plight of shellﬁsh, wetlands that nourish them, and those who harvested them. He was a founding member and
past president of the Save Barnegat Bay Coalition, a leader in its ﬁght to preserve signiﬁcant shoreline from
destructive development. He was recognized by the Ocean County Chapter of the Izaac Walton League in
1991 “for his tireless and exemplary efforts to preserve the water quality of Barnegat Bay.”
Evan’s regional interests crossed the Hudson where he was a member of the New York Board of Trade, a
tenure begun with Ortho and actively continued long into retirement. He relished the theater, opera and
ballet, attending as many performances with family and friends as possible. He was a member of the
Princeton Club of New York.
Surviving are Victoria Mastrobuono, wife, of Bay Head; Katherine S. Miller, daughter, and David H. Miller,
son in law, of Princeton, NJ; Allen Spalt, son, and Susan Willey Spalt, daughter in law, of Carrboro, NC;
Rebecca Miller, Ashley Miller, Daniel Spalt, and Elizabeth Spalt, grandchildren; and Ellen F. Spalt, ﬁrst
wife, Chapel Hill, NC.
Memorials are suggested to Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH 45387; or, Save Barnegat Bay, 906-B
Grand Central Ave., Lavallette, NJ 08735; 732/830-3600.
was an inspiration, earning a profes-
sional degree, determining her own
life course, moving to work at the
College and creating a new life in
Ohio. She not only worked for the
alumni, she worked to protect the
historic campus and the natural
Glen that surrounds the school. She
is well loved in Chicago. We cel-
ebrated her return there and were a
little sad about her ﬁnal move to the
family home in Wisconsin. Too far
away from us. She always attracted
staunch friends and admirers, looked
wonderful, exercised, ate right,
dressed well, was gracious and in-
creasingly wise. And so much fun!
She used to wryly quote a poem that
went “…come grow old along with
me…the best is yet to be” and she
helped make that true for us for
a long time. I can’t count all the
ways I’ll miss her. We’ll all miss her.
(Written by Judy Spock ’54 and for
her husband Michael Spock ’59)
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Phyllis Sokolowsky Kuritzky ’54
died on November 18, 1999. She was
a retired social worker. Irwin H.
Pomerantz ’57 remembers: “We
both were raised in a small town in
Nassau County, Long Island, NY and
Phyllis was, for me, an early source
of information about the Antioch
College program. Despite being on
different divs, we managed to see
each other occasionally during our
two overlapping Antioch years, for
decades, both coming eventually
to the Silver Spring-Columbia,
Maryland area. We renewed and
strengthened our friendship over
the past dozen years. I have made a
contribution to the College in Phyllis’
memory. I urge alumni friends of
Phyllis, and others who knew her, to
consider a contribution to the College
in her remembrance.”
Arnold L. Leiman ’54 died on Feb-
ruary 16, 2000 at his home in Berke-
ley, Calif. Mr. Leiman was a popular
and innovative professor of psychol-
ogy and a faculty leader at the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley. He
taught at UC Berkeley for 36 years
receiving the campus’s Distinguished
Teaching Award in 1990 and the
highest faculty honor, the Berkeley
Citation in 1999. At the time of his
death, Mr. Leiman was chair of the
trustees of the McNair Program, a
national program to enhance graduate
participation of minority students.
Since 1996, he had been director of
UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in
Higher Education, promoting re-
search on policy problems and chal-
lenges of higher education while
continuing to teach and conduct his
own research. As a researcher in bio-
logical psychology, Mr. Leiman was
the author or co-author of a leading
textbook. First published in 1982
under the title “Physiological Psy-
chology,” it has been printed in four
editions and is used at 200 institu-
tions throughout the country. Mr.
Leiman is survived by his wife,
Lannon Leiman of Berkeley; a
brother, Melvin Leiman, who lives in
France; two sisters, Carole Abel of
New York City and Marlene Koslan
of Florida; and two children, Timothy
Leiman of Chicago and Jessica
Leiman, a doctoral candidate in
English at Yale University.
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Robert Lundeen Aller ’56 died on
August 12, 2000 in West Hartford, Ct.
After graduating from Antioch, Mr.
Aller received a Master of Science
degree in International Business from
Columbia University. For the next 20
years he worked as a ﬁnancial execu-
tive with Bendix International, ﬁrst
in New York City, then in Barcelona,
Spain and ﬁnally in Paris, France.
In 1979 he and his family moved to
West Harford, where he worked for
the Loctite Corp. until his retirement
in 1997, at which time he was senior
vice president and chief ﬁnancial
ofﬁcer. He felt a need to balance his
corporate career with a parallel com-
mitment to church, educational and
community institutions. He served
in leadership positions with The
Riverside Church in New York City,
St. George’s Anglican Church in
Barcelona and the American Church
in Paris. On his return to the U.S. in
1977, he renewed his connection to
Antioch College and served as chair-
man of its Board of Trustees during
critical times of reorganization and
growth. Mr. Aller received the Antioch
College Alumni Association’s J.D.
Dawson Distinguished Alumni Award
in 1988. In Hartford he helped the
Connecticut Historical Society deﬁne
new visions for its future, when he
served as a trustee and chairman of
the Board. Throughout his life, Bob’s
family was the source of his greatest
pride, and his legacy to all of them is
his steadfastness, his work ethic, and
the absolute integrity with which he
attended to all his affairs.
Marian Wiel Over ’56 died Septem-
ber 14, 2000. She recently moved to
Meadville, Pa., from Bend, Ore. She
was active with Friends of the Library,
Keystone Trail Association, and as
an ofﬁcer in the Unitarian Church in
Meadville. She is survived by sons,
D. Jeffrey and Kurt W., as well as
grandchild Jin-Si Over.
John B. Sawyer ’56 died on May 6,
2000 in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Dr.
Sawyer was a retired psychiatrist
and former Case Western Reserve
University instructor. In 1969, Dr.
Sawyer started his private practice
and began a 21-year stint as an assis-
tant professor of psychiatry at the
Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine. He practiced at
University Suburban Health Center
in South Euclid, Ohio, and at St.
Luke’s Medical Center in Cleveland
until approximately two years ago.
In spite of his debilitating disease,
commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s
disease, he continued seeing a few
patients privately until last year.
During his medical career, Dr. Saw-
yer also was a psychiatric consultant
to the Cleveland Suicide Prevention
Center, Horizon Center, Deepwood
Residential Center and QualChoice
Managed Mental Health Care. He
also worked with Mental Health
Provider Systems and did forensic
evaluations as a psychiatrist for the
Cuyahoga County Criminal Justice
Center’s Court Clinic. After earning
a medical degree in 1961, he served
his medical and psychiatric residen-
cies at University Hospitals of
Cleveland where he became the
hospital’s chief resident in psychia-
try in 1966. Survivors include his
wife of 37 years, Mary J.; daughters,
Rebecca A. Boyle of South Euclid
and Sarah E. of Shaker Heights; son,
Jeffery L. of Cincinnati, and a sister
Jane Sawyer Turrittin ’61.
Robert Kern ’57 died April 15, 2000
in Albuquerque, N.M. After leaving
Antioch, Dr. Kern spent a year in
law school and obtained a master’s
degree and doctorate in history from
the University of Chicago. After a
postdoctoral scholarship to the
Bancroft Library at the University
of California at Berkeley, Dr. Kern
taught at the University at Riverside
and the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst before beginning his 30-
year tenure at the University of New
Mexico. On the national level, he was
a founding member and former ofﬁce
holder of the Society of Spanish and
Portuguese Historical Studies and of
the Southwestern Labor Studies As-
sociation. Professor Kern wrote 10
books, two based on his dissertation
about problems and the moderniza-
tion of political structures in the
Spanish-speaking world. He later
created and co-edited The Historical
Dictionary of Modern Spanish His-
tory and The Regions of Spain: A
Historical and Cultural Guide. His
study of the Spanish Civil War, Red
Years/Black Years: A Political History
of the Spanish Anarchists: 1909-1937
was well known. He was preceded in
death by his wife, Elizabeth. He is
survived by his sons Jonathan of Stu-
dio City, Calif. and Joshua of Denver.
Kern also is survived by his wife of
the past eleven years, Susan Brake.
Mary Weatherup ’57 died March 3,
2000 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. At
Antioch, she was one of the “North
Hall ﬁre girls.” After college, she
made her home in Yellow Springs
and raised her three children. She
became a computer programmer at
Wright Patterson Air Force Base and
celebrated 23 years there in October.
She is survived by two sisters, Janet
Halverson of New York City and
Ruth Craig of Williamsburg, Va;
two daughters, Laura Mitracos
and Rachel Smith of San Francisco;
and one son Charles Weatherup of
Fairﬁeld, Calif.
Lynda Lloyd ’58 died on February
19, 2000 in Atlanta. After receiving
her degree in political science, Ms.
Lloyd began her career in broadcast
journalism, working as a writer at
a public station in Chicago, then at
Atlanta’s WXIA in the continuity
department. All the while, she was
writing short stories, two of which
were published in the literary maga-
zines Antioch Review and Ploughshares.
She became an advertising copy-
writer in the mid-1960s, working
for several Atlanta agencies as a free-
lancer and helping on campaigns
from Coca-Cola to IBM. At the time
of her death, Ms. Lloyd was working
on a “Gone With the Wind”-type
family saga novel.
Joan Patchen ’59 died on March 31,
2000 at home in Wellﬂeet, Mass. In
1954 she began her career at Antioch
as a theater and art student. She acted
in 20 productions, including the
Antioch Shakespeare Festival. She
also served as costume designer and
assistant stage manager. She was a
member of the original Trotwood
Circle Theatre Company. In 1984
Ms. Patchen had a one-woman exhibit
– Windows on Women: Farming in
Kentucky – at La Rousse in New
York City; and an exhibit at the Insti-
tute Audio-Visual in Paris. In 1985
she illustrated In Our Own Words:
A Feminist Dictionary by Cheris
Kramarae and Paula Treichler ’65.
She is survived by her sons, Matthew,
Daniel and Joshua Jenkins; her former
husband and life-long friend, Ken
Jenkins; four grandchildren; her sister,
Ann Goodman Mateos; her partner,
Betty Burkes, and Emily Burkes-
Nossiter.
Harold M. Caplan ’61 died on Janu-
ary 28, 2000 at his home in Boynton
Beach, FL. Mr. Caplan was employed
by Merrill Lynch in Dayton, Ohio for
more than 35 years and was an Assis-
tant Vice President. He was the hus-
band of Norma “Nicki” Caplan and
father of Thomas Caplan of Cincin-
nati. He also is survived by a sister
Susan of Hamilton, OH and a brother
Robert of Clarksburg, WV .

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Patricia A. (Tutt) Fetzer ’63 passed
away on November 4, 1999. Her
husband, Joseph Fetzer, wrote: “She
was an adored wife, and wonderful
mother to ﬁve beautiful children. We
lived in 13 happy homes across the
country, and all 5 children are college
grads who are doing very well. Patti
was active and very special to all who
knew her. We will all miss her badly.”
Hugh Johnston Wylie, Jr. ’65 passed
away July 30, 1999. He was an excel-
lent Japanese Art historian. He also
taught art history of Japan at the Uni-
versity of Toronto – nearly ten years
as an assistant professor. He was co-
curator of the Gallery of Korean Art in
Toronto. The gallery and his published
works will be a lasting credit to his
dedication to the Royal Ontario Mu-
seum and to the promotion of under-
standing the arts of East Asia in the
West. He was a respected scholar, able
to interpret complex information and
present it in ways both entertaining
and easily understood. His untimely
death is a loss felt by the academic
community and the Royal Ontario
Museum.
Lee Kolker Crippen ’66 died May
26, 2000 at home in Bethesda, MD.
An environmental lawyer, Ms.
Crippen also was a naturalist and
conservationist. She was a volunteer
at the National Arboretum where her
work in the herb garden included a
project to create a computer cata-
logue for the collection of herbs and
native American plants. She served
on the board of the National Herb
Society. After ﬁnishing at Antioch,
Ms. Crippen received her law degree
at George Washington University
Law School. In the 1980s she was a
litigator with the wildlife and marine
resources unit of the environmental
division of the Department of Jus-
tice. In the early 1990s, she was
counsel to Sen. Pete V . Domenici
(R- N.M.), specializing in environ-
mental issues on Capitol Hill and in
New Mexico. Ms. Crippen partici-
pated in activities aimed at raising
awareness of marine life and sustain-
able development as it affects the
Chesapeake Bay. Her ﬁrst husband,
Richard Kolker, died in 1981. She
is survived by her husband, Dan
Crippen of Bethesda; two children
from her ﬁrst marriage, Rebecca
Kolker of Bethesda and Jodi Kolker
Ferrier of Washington.
Peter Mikuliak ’67, of Post Falls,
Idaho died September 5, 2000, after
a long battle with cancer. He was
married to Dr. Pamela Olsen May
17, 1998. While at Antioch, he espe-
cially enjoyed the roles in his Co-op
jobs of short-order cook in New
Hampshire, coal miner in Canada,
deck-hand on a German banana
boat, and street musician while
working his way through Europe.
During the civil rights movement,
he went to Mississippi to help with
voter registration. After leaving
Antioch, he studied Russian history
for a year at Georgetown University.
Then, wanting to make history rather
than teach it, he joined the Peace
Corps, serving from 1969 to 1971 in
a small Brazilian village. Impacted
there by the extreme poverty he
found, he went on to study econom-
ics and business management at
Vanderbilt University, hopeful that
what he learned would help him in
assisting small business develop-
ment in poor regions of the world.
The rest of his life’s work grew from
his understanding that there must be
a meeting of the economic and spiri-
tual aspects of existence if we are to
reduce human poverty and suffering.
After working for his church for
several years in a variety of situa-
tions, Peter studied at St. Vladimir’s
Orthodox Theological Seminary
from 1976 to 1979. Then, after some
pastoral training in a drug and alco-
hol treatment center in Georgia, he
served for a year as director of a
drug and alcohol program in the
Native American ﬁshing village of
Tyonek, Alaska. From 1984 to 1993,
he was associate regional director
for the Cherry Hill, N.J., ofﬁce of
Church World Service/CROP, rais-
ing money to fund relief and devel-
opment projects throughout the
world. In that effort, he spoke to
countless church groups and social
organizations about world hunger.
During vacations, he led ecumenical
teams on trips to Russia to rebuild
monasteries that had been returned
to the Orthodox Church by the Rus-
sian government. After working for
International Orthodox Christian
Charities (IOCC) in the U.S. and
Russia, his international service cul-
minated in 1995 with his re-employ-
ment by Church World Service. As
regional director for the Balkans, he
worked with a multi-ethnic team
(Catholic, Muslim and Orthodox) to
coordinate post-war re-development
projects for each of these ethnic
groups. Peter’s descriptions of these
projects can be found on his website
at www.mikuliak.com. He was an
avid student of history, literature, art,
music, theology, and philosophy. He
loved gardening, baseball, and espe-
cially good food, appreciating a
wide variety of cuisines. Peter is
survived by his wife Pam, sister
Lubov Pavuk, Mayﬁeld, Pa., his
niece Kathy, nephews Sasha and
Mike, a large extended family, and
many friends who will miss him.
He was preceded in death by his
parents. Family and friends hope to
set up a memorial in his honor with
Church World Service to support the
projects that he started there, and
others like them. Contributions to
this or his medical expenses can be
sent to Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox
Church, 1703 North Washington Av-
enue, Spokane, Washington, 99205.
Henry M. Wieman ’69 died on June
6, 1999. He was 52 years old. Dr.
Wieman was the director of geriatrics
at the Fort Lincoln Family Medicine
Center in Prince George County,
Virginia. Sister Carol Keehan, presi-
dent of Providence Hospital in Wash-
ington, D.C. told the Washington Post,
“He was not only a great physician,
extremely competent and extremely
well prepared…he was the most genu-
ine human being.” A story in the
Washington Post, on May 30, 1999,
highlighted Dr. Wieman’s compas-
sionate and tireless practice doing
house calls for the elderly.
Harold W. Campbell ’70 and
Donna Myatt Campbell ’78 passed
away in December 1999. Hal died on
December 3, after a brief illness, fol-
lowed by his wife of 19 years, Donna,
on December 6 at Hospice of Dayton.
David Michael Anderson ’76 died on
September 6, 2000. After graduating
from Antioch, Michael joined the
Registrar’s Ofﬁce at the College that
same year. He served as University
Registrar for many years and had
recently been appointed College
Registrar. A memorial service in
Rockford Chapel and a tree planting
in Michael’s memory took place on
Sept. 29. Michael’s dry wit, profes-
sional expertise and deep dedication to
Antioch College will be sorely missed.
Obituaries
Nancy L. Over Castagnasso ’82
died as a result of injuries incurred
in an automobile accident on Jan.
11, 2000 near Steamboat Springs,
Colo. According to her obituary,
“Routt County lost a loved and re-
spected member of the community
when Nancy Castagnasso died.
Friends said she was an intellectual,
a leader, an activist, a compassionate
friend and most of all, a good per-
son. Whether she was supporting
ranchers as the president of the
Colorado Rural Development
Council or giving fresh-picked
roses and home-grown vegetables
to her friends, Ms. Castagnasso had
the ability to touch peoples’ lives.
‘Nancy had an intellectual wit about
her that she showed in sensitive
kinds of ways,’ said Renee Donahue,
a friend and colleague who worked
with Castagnasso in First Impres-
sions of Rout County, a child-care
advocacy group. ‘When she was
behind something, she had a great,
articulate way to express it,’ she said.
In addition to her instrumental work
with the rural development council
and First Impressions, Ms.
Castagnasso was the president of
Yampa Valley Partners, an active
member of Routt County Cattle
Women and the director of the
Child Care Network at the Discov-
ery Center. ‘Nearly 15 years ago
Ms. Castagnasso moved to the
Yampa Valley and never wanted
to leave,’ her brother, Jeff Over,
said. Since then, she and her hus-
band, Barry, raised state-champion
Clydesdale horses on their ranch
outside of Hayden. In addition
to horses, she raised dalmatian
dogs and always had a barn full
of kittens.”

Antiochian 34
Women
Ruggers
Scrum up to
Bring Campus,
Community
Together
by Fred Kraus
An icy wind swirling
off the football ﬁeld at
Yellow Springs High
School greeted the fans.
But the frosty weather didn’t appear
to bother Antioch’s ever-active
President, momentarily alone
among a crowd of spectators.
The 200-strong, mostly vocal
contingency had turned out on a
chilly December Friday afternoon
not to witness football, but to cheer
on the College’s third and ﬁnal
intercollegiate women’s rugby
match of the year.
Temporarily freed from a steady
stream of friends and acquaintan-
ces, President Bob focused on the
controlled mayhem on the
ﬁeld deﬁned as sport: A
University of Dayton
player ﬂings the ball
to a teammate just
before she herself
gets tackled near the
sidelines by a tum-
bling player in Antioch’s
blue and gold. Thud. Crunch.
Another player scoops up the
ball, takes three steps, laterals to
another who rumbles determinedly.
And brieﬂy. The ball changes pos-
sessions several more times before
the action stalls.
For a few moments it is simply
one team pitted against another,
determined to move an inﬂated
obloid to another location despite
the battling actions of another team
equally determined to move said
object in the opposite direction.
Bone-crunching, leg-churning,
lung-burning, eye-watering action.
Wait a minute! This is Antioch?
Anti-jock Antioch? Now a host of
competitive team sport?
Then, from up in the stands, a
cheer. Of sorts: “One-two-three-
four, I can’t feel my ass no more!”
Scattered laughter.
Ahh, there we go. Now this
seems more like it. A former pro-
test cheer gets a new life and lyrics
at the rugby match. President Bob
acknowledges the chanters with
a wry smile and raised eyebrow,
then returns his attention to the
grassy playing surface. Later, he
sends out accolades to the team,
which is designated a club sport:
“You ruggers are awesome!!!”
Certainly, that sentiment ex-
tends past the Rugby Club’s ﬁeld
performance. Coach Melinda
Kanner has assembled more than
a team of tough young women
hellbent for body-bashing.
The anthropology professor
has created a force that galvanized
campus, community and in some
respects, the nation. The event of
a team sport at the historically
non-sport college – its last ofﬁcial
intercollegiate contest was in the
1930s – prompted print coverage
in the Antioch Record, the Yellow
Springs News, the Dayton Daily
News, the Columbus Dispatch, the
New York Daily News and the New
York Times.
Dayton television stations broad-
cast footage of the matches as well.
Viewers watched TV screens to
see students, faculty, administra-
tors and community members
having fun – together. Suddenly,
there existed a common ground, a
common language, a non-threat-
ening common focus – a starting
point of discussion.
The irony of sports at Antioch,
the absurdity of the world in gen-
eral, the visual impact of young
women participating (and enjoy-
ing) such a physical test – all of this
seemed to combine with an innate
need to participate in a cause to
create a vehicle that seemed all
things for all people.
To be sure, it’s not like formu-
lating a new paradigm for world
peace, but sometimes, just some-
times, you just want to have fun
when the work is done.
Coach Melinda provided the
seed for this wave of enthusiasm
when she proposed that the physical
education department offer a rugby
course along with the other electives
in Fall 1999. Thirty-ﬁve students
showed up for her rugby course, for
which they receive P-E credit.
From there, it wasn’t too big a
leap to form a team, which turned
out about 20 players strong. The
coach, who played some rugby at
the University of Chicago, called
practice three times a week during
the season. It took a little research
and the help of library archivist
Scott Sanders to uncover the
school colors (blue and gold). The
team nickname – at this juncture –
The Rebels.
The ﬁrst match proved an
unexpected lightning rod with
an enormous turnout. Coach
Melinda was overwhelmed at the
campus and community support
for her young charges at that ﬁrst
game at Wittenberg University on
Nov. 11 (1999).
The two matches that followed
were equally well attended, al-
though the four streakers at the
ﬁrst match dwindled to two at the
second before petering out com-
pletely at the third. Whether that
was attributable to the cold or the
Homecoming ceremonies – with
Kate Donnelly as “king” – it’s
difﬁcult to say.
So what prompted Coach
Kanner to choose rugby?
“I’ve missed having sports in
my own life and I know my stu-
dents missed having sports in their
lives. Some are soccer players,
softball players, volleyball players,
and it was important to bring some-
thing like this to women at Antioch.”
“Why rugby? It’s pretty ex-
treme. Pretty novel. … It seems
like the sort of thing that would
attract some interest – and it did.”
Team member Shannon
McCarville, while acknowledging
that more than a few bruises ac-
companied the sport, remained
enthusiastic: “It’s a great experi-
ence and I love my team.”
Teammate Jessica Nease lik-
ened the correlation between the
“out there” quality of rugby for
women and Antioch: “Why not? …
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Coach Melinda
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assembled more
than a team of tough
young women
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I think Antioch is kind of ‘out there’
too. So it’s the perfect sport to
bring back.”
For the record, the team
came out on the short end of these
scores: 23-0 (Wittenberg), 12-5
(Wright State), 19-0 (University
of Dayton). But the victories for
this ﬁrst-year team delving into the
realm of women’s intercollegiate
contact sports for the ﬁrst time
were really won off the ﬁeld. Pretty
awesome showing, indeed.
Will the sport attract a different
kind of student to Antioch?
That’s a tough call. But Michael
T. Murphy, Antioch College Direc-
tor of Admissions, described
women’s rugby as “great fun, a
wonderful community builder and
good outlet for athletically oriented
students who come to Antioch.” He
Coach Kanner said the number
of students who initially turned out
couldn’t have pleased her more.
“It was astounding!” she said.
“But eventually, we ended up with
about 25 people, which is still
really something,” she said. “And
there were some very good athletes
among them. Julie Walker, a ﬁrst-
year student, proved to be very
good, and also Kim Evans, who
was just all over the ﬁeld.”
The coach also singled out the
play of Jane Ferguson. “She came
in with a background in soccer
and tennis, but over the course of
the season she really became a
force for us. She graduated – I
understand she’s now playing
rugby with the Chicago City
Women’s Club.”
“Then there was Laura Kerr, who
joined halfway through the season.
She looks like someone you’d see on
American Gladiator. And, oh, Kiley
Clapper, who plays ice hockey with
men – truly a competitive hard-core
athlete. She just skyrocketed and
became a standout for us.”
But what the enthusiastic coach
seemed to enjoy most was watch-
ing her team grow stronger over the
course of some 15 games, which
included two tournaments – the
Miami Valley Invitational and the
Ohio Rugby Union Tournament.
Victories were not easy to come by,
but the team ended up on the long
end of the score three times during
its inaugural season.
Coach Melinda fell victim to
her own intensely competitive
spirit and transformed into a
player/coach for three games.
“I get really pumped,” she said.
“It was really something to get
back into the scrum after 20 years
or so.” The coach ﬁlled in as a
“hooker,” a position that calls for
a player to relay the rugby back to
her teammates while in the scrum,
in which players from both teams
lock arms and vie for the ball. It’s
probably the most brutal position
on the ﬁeld. “And we won two of
the three games that I played,” the
coach exclaimed, leaving no doubt
that her competitive nature was far
from dulled by the years away
from the sport.
She did note that the team was
not fully invested in athletic com-
petition – the entire win-lose struc-
ture. “There really does not exist,
as a team, a drive to win,” she said.
“The players play because it’s fun,
which is great. But what I’m really
happy about is they have ﬁgured
out, in the absence of winning
games – or in the winning of few
games – how not to be depressed.”
Is there a No. 1 fan? “No ques-
tion, our most loyal supporter has
been Barb Stewart (Antioch Col-
lege Vice President of Administra-
tion and Finance),” said Coach
Melinda. “She’s always at the
games and has helped us to get
some rugby equipment.”
Student players have also
helped to raise money in order to
pay the membership fee required
for joining the Ohio Rugby Union.
“They went to Young’s and to the
Winds soliciting donations – they
even held an auction. We auc-
tioned off the ﬁrst victory ball.
Esther Sussaman won the ball and
donated it to Antiochiana,” the
coach said.
The women’s rugby team
now has its very own ﬁeld, lined
off on the golf course behind the
tennis courts. They will no longer
have to rent out the Yellow Springs
High School football stadium for
home contests.
But Coach Melinda isn’t letting
the ﬁeld grass grow beneath her
feet. Now that her team’s a member
of the Ohio Rugby Union, schedul-
ing should be much more regulated.
And PE credit will continue to be
awarded for rugby participation.
However, the coach has a plan
to help get male students involved
in order to help “raise the bar” for
the women. “Down the road, per-
haps the men can start putting their
own team together,” she said.
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said, “In the end, I don’t think stu-
dents will choose to come to Anti-
och because we have a rugby team
but rather for the intellectual, social
and personal growth possible here.
Certainly the national press cover-
age has been great for us.”
President Devine called the
popular sport “a wonderful outlet
and stimulating force for the Anti-
och community. It certainly repre-
sents yet another positive during a
very exciting period at the College.”
And for a school which favors
the untraditional over the tradi-
tional, women’s rugby offers more
than a smattering of each. The team
followed its fall campaign with a
winter/spring season that included
several more matches. And there
are many more in store for this fall.
And for a school
which favors the
untraditional over
the traditional,
women’s rugby
offers more
than a smattering
of each.
Melinda Kanner

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