Home Economics chair and later Curator of Antiochiana Jane Cape’s own account, likely written as an annual New Year’s letter, of her Fulbright years in Baghdad, Iraq (1952-58) establishing a Home Economics department and nursery school — a tenure that narrowly missed Iraq’s violent July 1958 revolution.
Avant-garde composer Harry Partch relocated to Yellow Springs in summer 1957 at the invitation of Professor Keith McGary, working out of a studio in Weston Hall — the campus newspaper’s account of his arrival, reprinted here, though he would leave Ohio again by October 1957.
The lead story of the final issue (April 15, 1954) of the Yellow Springs American, a short-lived weekly founded to counter Antioch’s progressive reputation — McCarthy-era accusations that the College harbored Communist sympathizers, whose publication caused advertisers to flee and the paper to fold.
Museum curator Paul Stewart Harris (class of 1929, later of the Met and the Smithsonian) recalls his 1923 arrival at Antioch under the new “Antioch Plan,” collected among alumni memories for the College’s 1953-54 centennial celebration.
A history of Antioch’s original library under founding president Horace Mann, written by Pat Aldred (class of 1952) for the November 1952 Antioch Alumni Bulletin, at the moment Mann Library (later Weston Hall) was being superseded by the new Olive Kettering Library.
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