The Antiochian — Fall 2005 (Antioch College Alumni Newsletter)

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ntioch student Mark Wilkinson ’06 has known for a long time that he wanted to
become a teacher. He transferred to Antioch College as a junior last fall because
of the school’s reputation for invigorating students to explore beyond their horizons.
When he graduates next spring, he will apply to the master’s and licensure in education
program at Antioch University McGregor and become one of the ﬁrst to beneﬁt from what
could become a new era of direct collaboration between the College and McGregor.
Having served on the Massachu-
setts School Board for a decade
and then as a congressman for
that state, he left a distinguished
career to come west because he
believed that “the molding of
youthful mind and manners is the
noblest work that man or angels
could do” (quoted from Robert
Straker’s ’25 Unseen Harvest).
Mann’s educational philosophy
was progressive for his time. He
thought that a well-administered
education should lead to economic
and social justice and therefore
supported nonsectarian coeduca-
tion that would give everyone
equal opportunity to pursue a
meaningful life. He also held the
holistic view that students should
be encouraged to investigate
the broadest range of ideas and
practical knowledge and that they
should learn by practicing and
applying those intellectual skills.
Teacher training was a part of
the college curriculum from the
beginning, when Mann’s niece,
Rebecca Pennell, began teaching
didactics in the 1850s. Nearly half
of Antioch’s ﬁrst graduating class
went on to careers as teachers.
Pennell and Mann then opened
the summer Model School for
teachers the following decade,
when the methodology of instruc-
tion was still a relatively new ﬁeld.
The two started the Horace Mann
Normal School of Antioch Col-
lege in 1894 and offered classes
year round to train teachers going
into the public schools to
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Horace Mann’s school
should have a strong
education program
This fall, Antioch University will
launch a ground-breaking pro-
gram in education that links the
undergraduate College with the
McGregor graduate program and
allows Antioch students to earn a
bachelor’s and a master’s degree
in education and an Ohio teacher’s
licensure all in ﬁve years. The
start of the new Antioch College-
McGregor 3/2 program in edu-
cation marks the initiation of a
smart, cooperative relationship
between Antioch’s constituent
schools and might be the spark
that ignites the welding of a stron-
ger, more integrated educational
institution.
Commitment to
Teacher Training
When Horace Mann came to
Yellow Springs in 1853 to become
the ﬁrst president of a newly es-
tablished Antioch College, he had
ﬁrmly held beliefs on the purpose
and practice of a solid education.
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By Lauren Heaton
By Liz MacDonald ’04
After an exten-
sive national
search, An-
tioch College
has found its
22nd president,
Steven Lawry,
Ph.D. Though Lawry won’t join
the Antioch community full time
until January 2006, he has begun
the process of getting to know the
College, and, conversely, allowing
the College to get to know him.
Preparing for the Presidency
Lawry has been thinking a lot
about liberal arts colleges – not just
Antioch – lately. As he transitions
from his work with the Ford Foun-
dation to Antioch’s presidency, he
is studying a range of liberal arts
institutions. His ﬁnal task for the
Ford Foundation is to produce a
report on the liberal arts and civic
education in the U.S. “I will be
visiting New College in Sarasota,
Evergreen State College, colleges
in the Great Lakes College Asso-
ciation, attending meetings on civic
engagement and liberal arts, and
meeting foundation donors in the
ﬁeld of liberal arts education. It will
be an opportunity to prepare for the
presidency of Antioch College. ”
Lawry has been quickly coming
up to speed on Antioch College
by attending events such as Com-
mencement, Reunion, Board of
Trustees and University Leader-
ship Council meetings, and speak-
ing to alumni, students, parents and
donors on campus and across the
country. Continuing to meet with
as many Antiochians as possible is
one of his top priorities.
“I’ve made a point to talk to stu-
dents. There was a lot of satisfaction
[at Commencement]. Parents were
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by Dennie Eagleson
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by Liz MacDonald
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Mark Wilkinson ’06

A n t i o c h i a n 2
foundation for, and, true to its
legacy, is promoting a strong
education program in conjunction
with its sister institution across
the street.
McGregor grew out of the
College 20 years ago and has pros-
pered in large part because of its
education program, which current-
ly accounts for half of the gradu-
ate school’s enrollment. Each year
300 adult education students come
to McGregor to get their master’s
degree and teaching license.
According to Joseph Cronin,
Chair of McGregor’s Liberal
Arts Weekend College, some of
their students leave jobs paying
$80,000 a year to enter a profes-
sion that will give them the per-
sonal satisfaction of guiding youth
to create a better future.
But education is a very com-
petitive ﬁeld, and one whose
federal and state standards are
in a continual state of ﬂux and
reevaluation. McGregor has had to
remain ﬂexible in order to main-
tain its education accreditation
and to ensure its students can take
the speciﬁc content courses they
need in time to graduate with
either their license, their master’s
degree or both.
The College, which has never
focused on empirical guidelines
from the outside, offers courses
for an education major, but has
not been able to give students the
opportunity to earn a teaching
license in four years.
According to Antioch College
education professor Cheryl Keen,
because of the rigid and ever
sat down to strategize a way that
their respective schools, situated
in such intimate proximity, could
help each other thrive. They came
up with the new Antioch College-
McGregor 3/2 program that will
allow students entering as ﬁrst
years at the College to attain a
bachelor’s degree in three years
and a master’s degree and teach-
ing licensure from the state of
Ohio in two years.
“Our education program is a
strong program and there are a lot
of opportunities there that would
allow us to work with the best and
brightest students at the College
to beneﬁt both schools,” Gellman-
Danley said. “It also allows us to
respond to the growing need for
teachers in Ohio.”
The 3/2 program is innovative
in that it gives accelerated students
the fast-track option, with heavy
guidance from faculty and advi-
sors, toward an extremely useful
degree all within the same univer-
sity system. The program may be
one of the only ﬁve-year master’s
in education and certiﬁcation
programs in the state of Ohio, said
Zaki Sharif, dean of McGregor’s
School of Education. Many com-
parable schools offer ﬁve-year
education programs with just a
bachelor’s degree.
“This is a very nontraditional
approach,” Sharif said.
That is something which is
not so uncommon for Antioch, a
leader that stands apart from other
schools because of its creativity
and ability to respond to the needs
of a changing system.
changing content standards, many
schools offer a bachelor’s plus
teaching certiﬁcation in a ﬁve year
program, as Antioch College used
to do, she said.
Antioch and other small col-
leges don’t have enough faculty
on their own to teach speciﬁc
courses such as Ohio History or
English literature from the Vic-
torian period to the 20th century.
Many small schools don’t have
enough education students taking
the courses to justify instituting a
more dedicated program and are
leaving it to the larger universities
and state schools.
“Despite the pressures on a
small college like Antioch, we
found a route by which to connect
two of our schools and provide
this opportunity for students,”
Keen said.
Antioch College, whose focus
for the past year has been on cur-
riculum renewal and implement-
ing the plan for revitalization, has
the secondary challenge of ﬁtting
the increasingly rigid require-
ments for an education program
into the very student-guided and
interdisciplinary learning com-
munities model of education that
all undergraduate students started
in the fall.
Still, in a time of limited re-
sources, Antioch University lead-
ers feel the best thing to do is
make the strongest resources go
as far as they can. A little over a
year ago, former Antioch College
president Joan Straumanis and
Antioch University McGregor
president Barbara Gellman-Danley
administer academics as well as
discipline and moral instruction.
“To a greater extent than any
contemporary institution, this
small private college set the pat-
tern in full coeducation and non-
sectarianism which has formed
the basis of the state and mu-
nicipal colleges and universities
as we know them,” Straker said in
1955. Though perhaps biased by
his long-term focus on Antioch’s
history, Straker considers Mann’s
ideas on education to have set the
standard for higher education at
schools such as Harvard University
through the ’40s.
Nearly
150 years later,
Antioch College is the liberal arts
school with the practical co-op
component that Mann laid the
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The class of 1857,
Antioch’s ﬁrst graduating
class, had seven individuals
go on to teaching careers.
Teacher
Spotlight:
Ellen Raissa
Goldsmith
Edson ’75
By Desiree Stark ’07
E
llen Raissa Goldsmith
Edson ’75 has established
careers in both music and early
childhood education, and the two
often intertwine. Her area of
teaching expertise is in special
needs early education, demanding
that all children should have op-
portunities to learn even if their
learning needs are different.
As an Antioch student in the
early seventies, Ellen found the
experience a “much more intense”
connection with the world than
her sheltered city life in Los An-
geles. “I always wanted to have
more of a hands-on experience in
my education. I wanted to be con-
nected through my coursework to
activities that were meaningful in
my real life,” she says.
And she did just that – as a
student she created and co-taught
a course in a longtime passion,
Appalachian music and folklore.
After Antioch, Ellen moved
to rural New Hampshire, partly
to learn more about instrument
building with guitar-maker
Michael Gurian. She studied el-
ementary education at Keene State
College and earned her master’s in
early childhood special education
at Antioch New England. “At that
point I was teaching and needed
to keep teaching,” she says of her
master’s experience. Through the
program design at Antioch New
England she was able to keep
working while using her classroom
as a laboratory. “You know you
can’t do that in every master’s pro-
gram,” she notes. “I really valued
that experience.
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“The real difference of an
Antioch education is qualitative,”
said Cronin. “We want people
who think about their profession,
embrace it and treat teaching as a
vocation rather than just a job.”
Students such as Kai Cooley,
who graduated from Antioch
College in 2001 and is now ap-
plying to McGregor’s master’s in
education program, would have
beneﬁted from this joint accelerat-
ed undergraduate to graduate pro-
gram had it been available when
she entered Antioch as a ﬁrst year.
Cooley became interested in edu-
cation early in her sophomore year
at Antioch, she said.
But after speaking to profes-
sors and advisors, she felt she was
already too far along in school to
complete the
requirements
for an educa-
tion major
without staying
a ﬁfth year at
Antioch.
“I thought
you just took a
bunch of edu-
cation courses
and voilà, you
were a teacher,”
she said. “But
when I found
out exactly
what courses
I needed, I
couldn’t ask my
parents to pay
for that much more schooling.”
Discouraged from pursuing
education, Cooley instead chose a
psychology major – Self, Society
and Culture – and managed to
graduate with very few credits
that could be applied toward an
education degree. But four years
later, she is still living in Yellow
Springs and still feels called to
become a teacher.
Even with a B.A., Cooley is so
far behind what the state requires
that her entrance to the master’s
program may be deferred a year to
allow her to catch up with the re-
quired content courses for a license
in her preferred ﬁeld, middle child-
hood education. She would almost
be grateful for an extra year, she
said, to complete her requirements
without pressure and enter on the
same page as her classmates in the
master’s program.
Cooley and Wilkinson, having
come to McGregor by way of the
traditional Antioch College route,
will have important perspectives
to offer in terms of shaping the
new 3/2 program.
“I think it’s important that
Antioch be able to offer a path
toward education, and there are
deﬁnitely kids out there who
would be interested in the pro-
gram,” Wilkinson said. “With the
transition of the College, I’m very
interested in seeing how it will
turn out.”
How it Works
Beginning this fall, ﬁrst year stu-
dents at Antioch College will have
the opportunity to take a two-
credit introductory course, “Im-
ages of Teachers,” to see if they
might consider pursuing a career
in education. From that point on,
the bulk of their content require-
ments would be fulﬁlled by their
College courses and also speciﬁc
courses offered at McGregor’s
Weekend College. The co-op
requirements for college gradu-
ation would remain the same for
students in the education program,
and education students would also
complete a senior project on an
education topic.
“The courses at the College
will prepare students to make the
best decision about whether to be-
come teachers,” Keen said. “And
each will include an experiential
component so students can decide
what level they want to teach.”
After students attain their
B.A., they must still apply and
be accepted to the program at
McGregor, which Keen thinks
is a necessary step to ensure the
students who go on to ﬁnish at
McGregor are mature enough to
become teachers. The registrars at
both schools have been working to
ensure that a seamless transition
and credit transfer occurs when
students make the jump.
Once at McGregor, students
would explore the vocation of
teaching and ﬁnd out what the
profession is all about. They
would take anywhere from one
to two years to complete their
coursework in pedagogy and the
art of teaching, as well as fulﬁll
the student teaching experience
required for licensure by the state.
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Kai Cooley ’01
“The program was focused
on making sure that I had an
understanding of not only what
I needed to do with children but
also how I needed to be a mem-
ber of a group, how I needed
to understand families, how I
needed to work with the system.”
This became an important part
of Ellen’s philosophy in work-
ing with special needs children:
“Teachers number one need to
learn how to value working with
families.” Keeping up with her
end of the bargain, she was part
of a pilot program to integrate the
Massachusetts public schools with
Headstart, the federally funded
family-aid program. Eligible
families are supported in the ma-
jor aspects of early childhood de-
velopment, from nutritional needs
to academic support to mental
health concerns.
Though she is not exclusively
a music teacher – she has taught
preschool, kindergarten, and ﬁrst
grade – Ellen also believes in inte-
grating music with the early class-
room. She ﬁnds that incorporating
music helps young students learn
to read, collect their emotions, and
transition from activity to activ-
ity. “My approach to music is the
same as any kind of learning – ﬁll
the learning environment with any
kind of possibilities to participate.
Make sure there’s a place for
children to listen to music in the
classroom. Explore sound, wheth-
er it be through instruments or
other kinds of materials – make
sure that you sing with children
all the time.”
Coming from a highly musical
family, Ellen herself plays six- and
12-string guitar, auto harp, banjo,
and mountain dulcimer. She col-
laborated with her late father – the
award-winning ﬁlm composer
Jerry Goldsmith – on the theme
song for the television show “The
Waltons.” Presently, she is an
early childhood administrator in
Northﬁeld, Massachusetts, and
resides with her family in Hins-
dale, New Hampshire. Ellen has
already released one acclaimed
recording, “Family Fare, Folk
Songs for Children and Their
Families,” and is at work on a
second involving lullabies and
children’s love songs. •
Photo
by Liz MacDonald
’04
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This is a very
nontraditional
approach.
At McGregor, students can
earn a master’s and teacher licen-
sure for early childhood eduction,
or prekindergarten to third grade;
middle childhood education, or
fourth through ninth grade; ado-
lescent to young adult education,
or grades seven to 12; or special
education for grades pre-kinder-
garten through twelfth grade.
McGregor also offers Ohio prin-
cipal licensure and a master’s in
educational leadership, if students
want to go one step beyond.

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The Buen Dia Family School, an arts-
focused preschool with a Spanish/
bilingual component, has been working
with Antioch students for nearly
25 years.
The content portion of the 3/2
program at the College will be
extremely strong and will prepare
students who decide to pursue a
Ph.D. or higher degree in educa-
tion, Keen said.
is Buen Dia Family School, an arts-
focused preschool and childcare
center with a Spanish-bilingual
component, located in San Fran-
cisco’s Mission District since 1977.
Yvonne Gavre, the founding direc-
tor of this nonproﬁt corporation,
has been working with Antioch
students for almost 25 years. While
she can only surmise how much the
students actually learn from their
internship at Buen Dia, she believes
that by living independently, getting
on-the-job training and working in
a multicultural setting, they expand
their knowledge of early childhood
education and progressive ways of
guiding young children in a class-
room environment.
“Teaching is a dynamic process
and there is always more than one
way to solve a problem,” she said.
At Buen Dia students get a
taste of what it means to work as a
team with other teachers, prepare
snacks with the children, create
art projects, organize outdoor
activities, help with daily clean-up
and attend staff meetings. They
have the opportunity to interact
daily with 3- and 4-year olds and
to learn about a child-centered
curriculum. And not all of those
who come to train at Buen Dia are
ready to become teachers. Some
realize that they aren’t cut out for
the high intensity of the children’s
energy and others learn that they
truly love to work with this young
age, she said.
Laura Kopp ’07, a student
who co-oped at Buen Dia, said of
the experience, “Buen Dia helped
me to understand how to nurture
and facilitate a child’s develop-
ment. The staff meetings and
in-service days were informative
and the staff was supportive in
teaching me how to navigate a
preschooler’s mind and help the
children have good experiences.”
Gavre elaborates, “Students
say that many of their ideas about
education and personal values
are put to the test when they need
to make critical decisions in a
split second about how to guide
behavior or solve an immediate
conﬂict. It takes thoughtfulness,
sensitivity and critical thinking
skills to interact effectively with
young children.”
The University is using part of
a recent Pierson-Lovelace grant to
cover the tuition costs for Weekend
College courses Antioch students
take while registered at the College.
The grant will help to jump-start
the program and offer a subsidy
to students already strapped with
college debt. “When students hear
about the program, they’re really
excited because they can already
see a path to graduate school,”
Keen said.
Currently there are at least
eight students who have expressed
interest in exploring this avenue
toward licensure, Keen said. And
each year, an average of 15 to 20
ﬁrst-year undergraduate students
develop an interest in education. It
was a natural progression that the
opportunities to explore the educa-
tion ﬁeld be opened up, she said.
“This program is breaking
new ground,” Keen said. “We’re
beginning to see ourselves as an
integrated university.”
Collaboration Hopefully
the First of Many
Looking for the overlap between
Antioch College and McGregor to
fulﬁll a common mission makes
absolute sense, Gellman-Danley
said. At a time when the University
as a whole is working to unify and
get all of its parts ﬂuid and working
as one organism, the most obvious
case for cooperation is between
the two schools that sit no farther
apart than an Antiochian can ﬂing
a frisbee.
“In times of limited resources,
to be able to work with our sister
institution and rely on both of our
strengths made perfect sense,”
Gellman-Danley said. “We’re
working collaboratively rather
Teacher Spotlight:
Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr. ’29
Cornelius S. Hurlbut Jr. ’29 didn’t come
to Antioch planning to become a proliﬁc
geologist. In fact, he wasn’t quite sure
what he wanted to do.
G
rowing up as “sort of a
farm boy” in Massachus-
setts, Cornelius’ mother told him
that she didn’t want him going
to school in New England. “She
wanted me to get out and see a
little of the world, a little of the
United States,” he says. “I wasn’t
a very good student, but [Antioch]
took me anyway!”
Cornelius had to take a variety
of required classes at Antioch,
and geology was one of them. He
enjoyed the course and took his
Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr. ’29
The importance of the Antioch
co-op is still very much a part of
the program, and undergraduate
students would still be required
to complete 36 co-op credits, or
three co-op experiences with in-
dependent readings and reﬂective
writing projects. The co-ops can
be but are not required to be in
the education ﬁeld. Especially
with teaching, where presentation,
demeanor and effect are so impor-
tant, experience in the real world
is invaluable.
Antioch has a long co-op his-
tory with many schools around the
country and abroad, one of which
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Collaborating for a More Integrated Future?
Photo
courtesy of
Buen Dia Family School
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This program
is breaking
new ground.
We’re begin-
ning to see
ourselves as
an integrated
university.
Photo
courtesy of
Antiochiana

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Working with young children on co-op allows Antioch
students to discover if they are cut out to be teachers.
Inspiring Educators
O
ut of its own innovation, Antioch has always bred innovators, and the education
ﬁeld has been no exception. From Antioch’s own teaching programs that were like
no other, to the alumni in education who went on to challenge the status quo, Horace
Mann’s school has been inﬂuential in shaping the classrooms, the teachers and the
methods that would set new standards well before their time.
Arthur Morgan founded one of Ohio’s ﬁrst preschool programs when he started the
Antioch Nursery School in Yellow Springs in 1926. He wanted a “laboratory” where
the education students at the College could apply the concepts of psychology, childhood
development, and methods of instruction they were learning. Morgan also believed it
was vitally important to educate youth during their critical ﬁrst three years, a view not
commonly held at the time.
A decade later, Natalie Perry ’35 became an expert in the very new ﬁeld of educat-
ing the mentally handicapped and children with special needs. She published important
work on the special techniques needed to effectively educate mentally retarded children
and how schools for them should be organized. Around the same time, Antioch alumnus
A.J. Montanari ’40 started the Montanari Clinical School for mentally and emotionally
unstable children. Known as a “maverick educator,” Montanari explored sex, rebellion
and other childhood development issues that no one else was willing to discuss.
Again, a little later, Deborah Meier ’53 became heavily involved in pushing for
smaller classrooms and stronger counseling support for elementary and secondary
school students in the city schools. Meier was the ﬁrst public school teacher to receive
the MacArthur Fellowship in 1987 for her support of public school reform and was in-
strumental in securing several $100,000 grants for public schools in major cities across
the country in 1994.
As a university, Antioch will no doubt continue to graduate educators who will go
on to become leaders in their ﬁeld.
than both schools trying to stay
ahead in a very competitive ﬁeld.”
While the 3/2 program has a
common end, the undergraduate
and graduate pieces of the degree
are completed at two separate
schools, which complement each
other perfectly. The balance is
best described by Wilkinson, who
hopes to be the ﬁrst to try it out.
“On the one hand you have
Antioch students with a very
young, uncensored world view,
and on the other hand you have
McGregor students with an expe-
rienced perspective on real life,”
he said. “Both are important be-
cause one is an invigorating awak-
ening, and the other is pragmatic,
mature and stable. For me it works
extremely well.”
Wilkinson could have ﬁnished
his B.A. at McGregor’s Weekend
College and then gone straight
to the master’s program, but, he
said, he had no interest in limit-
ing himself by doing both his
undergraduate and graduate work
at the same school. During his last
year at Antioch and as he applies
and hopefully is accepted at Mc-
Gregor, he is excited about giving
his input and shaping parts of the
program for others who are to
follow, he said.
Wilkinson’s perception that the
College and McGregor serve two
very distinct but important needs
is one that Sharif and Cronin hope
others see as well.
Antioch students tend to bring
energy and curiosity, freshness
and spunk to a classroom, and
when they come to McGregor
they will have experience with
small and highly interactive
classes and close relationships
with professors, Cronin said.
McGregor’s students, by contrast,
bring intense dedication to their
studies and a bevy of experiences
to bear on their academic process.
“That’s why we think it will be
a good ﬁt,” Sharif said.
The transition from the Col-
lege to McGregor will work
smoothly for reasons owing to the
similarities between the schools
as well. Both schools evaluate
students with a qualitative as-
sessment system that focuses on
learning outcomes rather than
using the very blunt probe of the
traditional letter grade to ﬁnd out
what students have learned. And
perhaps most importantly, the
founding philosophy of the two
schools is the same: to prepare
students to lead meaningful lives.
“There is a core set of values we
all share in, it affects our pedagogy,
the way we teach our classes and
interact with students,” Cronin said.
“ All our degrees are liberal arts
degrees, there is deﬁnitely a family
resemblance between the two.”
Antioch has had a long history
of administering relatively indepen-
dent satellite schools in different
locations around the country, be-
ginning in the 1960s. At one point
there were as many as 30 separate
arms of the University, whereas
now there are ﬁve campuses in
Seattle; Keene, NH; Los Angeles,
and Yellow Springs. But the 3/2
program is the start of something
new, something binding to hold the
pieces together.
“The signiﬁcance of this pro-
gram is that for the ﬁrst time in the
history of the University we are
creating a type of bridge between
programs,” Cronin said. “The train
is rolling; we’re learning as we go.”
“It’s a small step, but pieces of
it will become foundational for
this institution,” Sharif said. •
professor up on a suggestion to at-
tend the Harvard Summer School
of Geology in the Canadian
Rockies. The experience “really
hooked me on geology as a sci-
ence to pursue,” he says. Back at
Antioch, he was an assistant in
the geology department, taking
the students out on ﬁeld trips. “I
enjoyed that,” he says. “We went
up into northern Ohio to visit
caves and sample the rocks, take
whatever rocks and specimens
back and study them.”
After completing his under-
grad at Antioch, Cornelius re-
turned to Harvard for grad school
– and stayed on as a teacher for 40
years. He also served as president
of the Mineralogical Society of
America in 1963.
However, he never forgot about
Antioch: “I went back and mar-
ried the daughter of a professor
there!” (Anne T. Dawson ’30).
As an educator, Cornelius
helped write and revise many
of the most popular books and
textbooks on mineralogy. “The
one I like best is Minerals and
Man,” he says, “selected as one of
the outstanding books of the year
[1968].” Related to such writing
was the need to conduct new and
updated research.
“One of the things that my
choice of science helped me to
do was quite a bit of traveling,
collecting minerals and studying
minerals,” he says.
He’s made two trips around the
world, and spent several seasons
in the high Andes. But his travels
aren’t the only thing that would
make his mother proud. “I think
I discovered about 10 new miner-
als,” he reminisces. Another min-
eral, Hurlbutite, was named after
him by colleagues.
Upon retirement, Cornelius
didn’t seem to lessen his pace.
Instead, “I switched my emphasis
to gemology and I wrote a college
textbook on gems!”
He won the prestigious Carn-
egie Minerological Award in
1993 and is Professor Emeritus of
Mineralogy at Harvard University.
Believed to be the oldest living
Antioch alum, he reports that he
played tennis into his 95th year. •
Photo
courtesy of
Buen Dia Family School
Sadly, Cornelius Hurlbut,
Jr. passed away Sept. 1,
2005. He will long be
remembered for his
contributions to geology
and higher education.

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very satisﬁed with the experience,
and I also heard complaints and
took note of those from alumni,
grads, and students,” says Lawry.
Why Antioch?
Lawry cites Antioch’s success
in training critical thinkers as a
major motivation for taking up
the College presidency. “I see in
Antioch a vital liberal arts insti-
tution that fosters the skills and
knowledge to think critically and
imaginatively about one’s identity
and one’s place in the world.
“I’ve had an interest in higher
education leadership for some
time,” he continues. “ At the Ford
Foundation I’ve worked with col-
leges in South Africa, the Middle
East and India. In the United
States, the liberal arts are arguably
in trouble. Many large public and
private institutions undertake to
deliver a liberal arts education, but
are also under pressure to teach
technical and vocational material
relevant to the work place. What
can get lost is explicit development
of critical thinking, analytical and
communications skills essential to
a rounded life and, I might add, es-
sential to successful careers and to
making meaningful contributions
to understanding and solving the
problems faced by the societies and
communities in which we live.”
As proof of Antioch’s continued
commitment to impart such skills
onto its graduates, Lawry points to
the learning outcomes developed
as part of the Plan. These outcomes
are: Knowledge and Inquiry; Skill
and Innovation; Critical Thinking;
Intercultural Effectiveness; Social
Engagement; and Deliberative Ac-
tion. “Students and faculty will be
pursuing these outcomes through-
out their journey on campus. They
embody the really essential liberal
arts educational values and if we
can achieve these outcomes
Antioch will be providing a very
distinctive and relevant education.”
Presidential Priorities
Making sure Antioch achieves
these outcomes is among Lawry’s
top priorities as president. The
Plan for Antioch, developed with
trustee, administration and faculty
leadership over the past two years,
sets out a detailed strategy for the
College’s renewal. Key elements
of the Plan include a reformed
curriculum centered on rigorous,
interdisciplinary learning com-
munities, a streamlined co-op
program that better integrates the
co-op experience with the aca-
demic program and develops ini-
tial co-op jobs in a smaller number
of host communities, and new and
renovated physical facilities. He
plans to work closely with Rick
Jurasek, who has been serving as
interim president since July 2004,
and who, according to Lawry, “has
provided tremendous leadership to
the renewal plan and to the
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EAGERLY
AWAITS THE
ARRIVAL OF
STEVEN LAWRY
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‘‘
‘‘
I’ve made a
point to talk to
students. There
was a lot of
satisfaction [at
Commencement].
Parents were very
satisﬁed with the
experience, and
I also heard
complaints and
took note of those
from alumni,
grads, and
students.
transformation of the College.”
When Lawry takes ofﬁce in Janu-
ary, Jurasek will move into the role
of Executive Vice President.
Closely related to the successful
implementation of the plan is the
ﬁnancial well-being of the College.
Stronger enrollments are key to
the College’s ﬁnancial health. “We
need to get the core elements of the
renewal plan implemented – the
curriculum, co-op communities,
facilities. Simultaneously, we will
be vigorously communicating these
achievements to prospective stu-
dents, with the expectation this will
result in increased enrollments.”
Lawry adds that while stronger en-
rollments are important for the Col-
lege’s ﬁnancial viability, “We need
also to build endowment, which
is much smaller than it should be.
Successful colleges today rely on
endowment income to fund innova-
tive educational programs, attract
good students with scholarships,
and make up operating deﬁcits in
difﬁcult years.” Lawry will eventu-
ally be proposing to the Board of
Trustees a long-term strategy for
building the endowment. “Our
new Vice President for Institutional
Advancement, Margo Tucker, has
some great ideas for endowment
building, including greater emphasis
on planned alumni giving.”
Lawry is impressed by the deep
commitment of alumni to the Col-
lege. “During Reunion, alumni ex-
hibited a real keenness to assist the
College, helping with recruitment,
events, fund raising and contribut-
ing time in a great variety of ways.”
Lawry wants to encourage even
greater alumni leadership on behalf
of the College’s future, and wants to
make sure that the College provides
the kind of support alumni need to
be effective in organizing events
and representing the College in their
communities around the country.
“Alumni have very strong,
positive associations with the time
they spent here and high expecta-
tions for the future of the College.
I’ve heard a lot of enthusiasm for
renewal and have had some very
candid and frank discussions about
their concerns, particularly about
issues relating to the University,
which I think can be largely
assuaged.” Lawry is eager to
start a dialogue about these and
other issues and in the fall will be
meeting with as many alumni and
potential supporters as possible. “I
also want to talk to alumni about
today’s Antioch students, who are
intellectually serious and socially
engaged in all the ways you would
expect Antioch students to be.”
International Qualiﬁcations
Lawry’s interest in social justice
and public policy began when he
was a student at Florida State Uni-
versity. As an undergrad, he studied
government and international rela-
tions, and then earned his master’s
in urban and regional planning.
Extracurricularly, he served as an
ACLU lobbyist to the Florida leg-
islature, where he had a particular
interest in prison reform.
Following college, Lawry
joined the Peace Corps and served
in Botswana for four years, where
he worked as a regional planner. At
the time, Botswana was embarking
on a major land reform. However,
the redistribution of land rights
primarily beneﬁted large commer-
cial operators and had a negative
impact on small holders – a large
concern for Lawry. His experience
in Botswana led to an interest in
land reform, which he pursued
back in the United States at the
University of Wisconsin’s Land
Tenure Center.
As a doctoral candidate, Lawry
did his dissertation research
in Lesotho, a small country in
Southern Africa, on the problems
facing small livestock holders in
managing communally-used graz-
ing lands. After earning his Ph.D.,
Lawry went to work for the Land
Tenure Center as Associate Direc-
tor in charge of Africa.
While in this position, Apart-
heid was ending in South Africa.
The African National Congress,
led by Nelson Mandela, requested
that the Land Tenure Center or-
ganize training for about a dozen
of their staff. Lawry sought and
received funding from the Ford
Foundation to provide this train-
ing. “So then I was in Ford’s orbit,”
says Lawry.
President Elect

F a l l 2 0 0 5 7
‘‘
Shortly after, Ford was opening
ofﬁces in Southern Africa, ﬁrst
in Namibia and then in Johan-
nesburg, and they invited Lawry
to come onboard as their program
ofﬁcer for rural poverty and re-
sources. In this capacity, Lawry
shaped major initiatives on land
reform in South Africa.
Lawry moved on within the
Ford Foundation to direct the Mid-
dle East ofﬁce in Cairo from 1997
to 2001. Here, his focus was pri-
marily on grant making in Egypt
and Palestine. Lawry described this
position as an important leadership
and management opportunity. “It
was about shaping a program that,
in Palestine for instance, helped
support the movement toward a just
peace, helped develop groups that
were advocating for democratic
institutions in Palestinian society.”
After four years in Cairo,
Lawry returned to the U.S., where
he headed the unit that supports
Ford’s overseas operations. His
role included signiﬁcant ﬁscal re-
sponsibility as well as strengthen-
ing the foundation’s accountability
systems. It is from this position
that he joins Antioch College.
A Question of Values
Chancellor James Craiglow, upon
announcing Lawry’s appointment,
made reference to his “Antiochian
values set.” Former president
Bob Devine has commented, “He
really gets Antioch and its com-
mitment to social justice.” Even
Lawry himself stated that he was
“struck by the similarity” of the
public-service missions of Antioch
and the Ford Foundation.
As Lawry describes the impor-
tance of a liberal arts education, the
implication is that this education
should be used for the betterment
of the world. It is from this place
of shared values that he speaks of
leadership and institution building.
“I have been committed through-
out my adult life to working with
others in building a more just and eq-
uitable world. This commitment has
had many expressions, but important
among them is building strong
institutions that can sustain the hard
work of social change over the long-
term. I am essentially an institution
builder, recognizing that institutions
have many facets. Among these are
leadership that is clear, focused, and
determined, but that also seeks and
shapes consensus and broad com-
mitment to shared goals and values.”
It’s All Connected
Lawry clearly understands the
complexity inherent in the task of
leading Antioch College through
this critical juncture in its history.
“Having a strong program, a
strong curriculum and better facili-
ties all assume the College is
healthy ﬁnancially. Financial
health has a number of dimen-
sions: strong enrollment, funding
the Plan, and a much stronger en-
dowment. These allow us to do the
kind of innovative things Antioch
should be doing as a distinctive
liberal arts college.”
Lawry seems prepared, on all
fronts, to take on this challenge.
Five years from now, Steven
Lawry envisions Antioch as “an
institution with a diverse, intellec-
tually and socially engaged student
body – a larger student body.” In
addition to stronger enrollment, he
looks forward to students having
“strong co-op experience that is fo-
cused and linked directly with aca-
demic experience.” More generally,
he anticipates leading “a college
that is feeling more conﬁdent and
secure about its future, intellectu-
ally, culturally and ﬁnancially.” •
I also want to
talk to alumni
about today’s
Antioch students,
who are
intellectually
serious and
socially engaged
in all the ways
you would expect
Antioch
students to be.
‘‘
President Elect

A n t i o c h i a n 8
UniversityNews
Jim Craiglow
Antioch
University
Chancellor
Announces
Retirement
James H. Craiglow has
announced that he will be
stepping down from the
role of chancellor of An-
tioch University effective
June 30, 2006. Craiglow
and the Board of Trustees
have agreed that the door
will remain open for a con-
tinuing relationship.
“I have spent almost three decades
of my professional life at Antioch,
all in administrative capacities,”
said Craiglow. “You would have
to scan the archives, but 20 years
as a CEO is likely a record for
longevity in Antioch’s history.
Managing is an incredibly com-
plex art and it is accompanied by
rewards and endemic stress. It is
time to explore other interests I
have ignored for too long.”
Craiglow held the post of presi-
dent and CEO of Antioch New
England Graduate School for 16
years (1986–2002), following a
nine-year tenure as associate dean
of Antioch New England. In Feb-
ruary of 2002 Craiglow accepted
an interim role as chancellor of
Antioch University. In October of
that year, the Board of Trustees
removed the temporary title and
extended his contract, appointing
him chancellor of the University.
As chancellor, Craiglow
developed greater stability and
collaboration within the manage-
ment structure of the University,
co-chaired the Renewal Commis-
sion which designed parameters
for a transformed curriculum at
Antioch College, successfully
guided the University through
its most recent reaccreditation
review, helped to generate $2.5
million in foundation support
for campus-based initiatives, led
national searches for presidents
at Antioch College and Antioch
University Southern California,
and championed cross-campus
University collaborations around
student learning outcomes assess-
ment, e-learning, curriculum devel-
opment, and technological sharing.
During his tenure, doctoral pro-
grams were established in Seattle
and Santa Barbara, and numerous
master’s and certiﬁcate programs
emerged in the University System.
“I’m proud of what I have been
able to contribute to the growth and
evolution of Antioch University,”
said Craiglow. “ Antioch continues
to be an innovative, creative, and
dynamic force in higher education,
and has steadfastly adhered to its
historical core values of social
justice, advocacy for change, en-
vironmental stewardship, and stu-
dent-centered, life-long learning.”
The ﬁve-campus Antioch Uni-
versity includes Antioch College
and Antioch University McGregor
in Yellow Springs, Ohio; Antioch
New England Graduate School in
Keene, NH; Antioch University
Seattle; and Antioch University
Southern California with campuses
in Los Angeles and Santa Bar-
bara. Antioch University serves
more than 5,000 students and
has an annual operating budget
of $81 million.
Craiglow made his announce-
ment during the University’s
Board of Trustees meeting held at
the Antioch New England campus
June 2 and 3. As news of the an-
nouncement spread, colleagues
spoke of his leadership and legacy.
Former chair of the Antioch
University Board of Trustees, Dan
Kaplan ’76 of Westmoreland,
NH, commented, “Of all the
people who have served Antioch
in the past few years, no one has
been as dedicated to the institu-
tion as Jim Craiglow. He has
made a real difference – in both
his tenure as president of Antioch
New England and as chancellor
of the University. During his time
as chancellor, Antioch has grown
and thrived and Jim Craiglow was
the leader who made that happen.”
Dr. Neal King, interim presi-
dent of Antioch New England
Graduate School, commented,
“Modest, self-effacing, and decent
to the core, Jim Craiglow embod-
ies the bedrock values of Antioch
New England and Antioch Uni-
versity – social justice, service
to community, and progressive
education. Jim’s ceaseless living
of these values in devoting his
adult life to Antioch and the Mo-
nadnock community has won him
unparalleled trust, affection, and
esteem from all who know him.
He is unique and beloved.”
Dr. Barbara Gellman-Danley,
president of Antioch University
McGregor, said, “Jim Craiglow
dedicated three decades to
Antioch University, creating a
legacy that is unmatched. His
recent years as chancellor mark
a noticeable growth in the adult
campus enrollments and a trans-
formational Renewal Plan for
Antioch College. His leadership
and communication skills brought
cohesive and strategic vision to
the University’s leadership team
and the Board. Antioch will be
a better place as a result of Jim’s
contributions for many decades
into the future.”
From Antioch University
Seattle, Dr. Toni Murdock, presi-
dent, wrote, “Jim Craiglow has
been on the University leadership
council since I arrived at Antioch,
ﬁrst as senior president and then
chancellor. I have always followed
his example in observing his
leadership and direction for the
New England campus and found
him to be a graceful chancellor
who empowers his presidents and
delivers his advice and wisdom at
appropriate times. He has an en-
dearing smile and a commitment
to the Antioch University System
like no other president or chancel-
lor with whom I have served in
my eight years at Antioch.”
Dr. Laurien Alexandre, Direc-
tor of the Ph.D. in Leadership and
Change Program and Dean of Uni-
versity-wide Programs, reminisced,
“From the ﬁrst moment I met Jim
Craiglow, some 13 years ago, I was
in awe of a number of things. First,
his uncanny ability to remember
the bands and release dates of every
rock ‘n’ roll song from the ’50s and
’60s. And, if you enjoy baseball
metaphors, Jim has one for almost
every moment of organizational
life. I was also totally amazed by
Jim’s memory of Antioch’s history
over the past 25 years. He seemed
to be able to recall every decision
made and where every dollar was
placed. In more recent years, I have
been impressed with Jim’s ability
as chancellor to lead the University
Leadership Council with ﬂuidity,
complexity, caring, and tremendous
loyalty. Antioch has been made a
better institution by Jim’s presence
in our midst. His retirement will be
felt deeply and widely.” •
‘‘
‘‘
Antioch
continues to be
an innovative,
creative, and
dynamic force in
higher education,
and has stead-
fastly adhered to
its historical core
values of social
justice, advo-
cacy for change,
environmental
stewardship, and
student-centered,
life-long learning.

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Michael B. Alexander
Sherborn, MA
Bruce P. Bedford
St. Michaels, MD
Frances Bond
Baltimore, MD
Amy S. Chappell ’73
Indianapolis, IN
David Crippens ’64
Inglewood, CA
Leo A. Drey ’39
Trustee Emeritus
St. Louis, MO
Daniel Fallon ’61
New York, NY
John D. Feinberg ’70
Boulder, CO
Dianne Brou Fraser ’68
Jackson, MS
Everette Freeman ’72
Indianapolis, IN
Sherwood Guernsey, II ’75 AU
Pittsﬁeld, MA
Reuben T. Harris ’69
Monterey, CA
Hal Joseph ’54
Indian Wells, CA
Daniel J. Kaplan’ 76
Westmoreland, NH
Jeffrey Kasch ’63
Milwaukee, WI
Lillian Pierson Lovelace
’51, ’89 AU
Trustee Emeritus
Santa Barbara, CA
Board of
Trustees
University News
Antioch
Graduate
Accepts
AUSB’s
Horace
Mann
Award
By Chris Mortimer ’05
Lillian Lovelace ’51, A
valued patron of Antioch,
a board member of the
AU Santa Barbara Board
of Visitors, and Trustee
Emeritus of Antioch
University, jointly
accepted the Horace
Mann award (bestowed
by AUSB) with The
Human Rights Watch.
Along with her husband Jon,
Lillian supports numerous non-
proﬁt organizations. She currently
serves on the boards of the Capital
Group Foundation, the Governors
of Idyllwild Foundation, the Los
Angeles Museum of Contempo-
rary Art and the Foundation for
Santa Barbara City College. She is
also Chairwoman of the Pierson-
Lovelace Foundation.
Antioch Announces
New Center Named for
Coretta Scott King
Antioch College is pleased to an-
nounce the naming of the Coretta
Scott King Center for Cultural and
Intellectual Freedom. Mrs. King,
a 1951 graduate of the College, re-
ceived the College’s prestigious Hor-
ace Mann Award for “victories for
humanity” in 2004. During her ac-
ceptance speech, Mrs. King reﬂected
on her days as a student at her “be-
loved Antioch,” and she celebrated
the inﬂuence of her alma mater on
her life’s work. Ms. King has devoted
herself to the struggle for human and
civil rights, and continues to speak
out against injustice. It is with much
pride that Antioch announces that the Center is named in her honor.
The new Coretta Scott King Center will focus its efforts on applied
ethics, including the philosophy of human rights and equality – issues
that people have struggled with since the beginning of time. The devel-
opment of the Center is particularly relevant during this period of history
where the freedom to think clearly about ethical issues in a global soci-
ety is essential.
In order to fulﬁll the Center’s mission, a new endowed faculty chair
in Humanities will be established. The teaching, advising, research, and
leadership of this new faculty member will infuse all aspects of the cur-
riculum and campus life with the dynamic work of the Center.
In addition to weaving applied ethics and ethical decision-making
throughout the curriculum, the Center will also sponsor programming
and events open to the public. This fall, the Center will present a sympo-
sium on indigenous peoples. •
But Lillian has never sought
the limelight. She has turned
down awards in the past, never
seeking credit for her good works.
Indeed, the only reason that she
accepted this award was because
it was bestowed by the Antioch
University Santa Barbara – and
because it was the Horace Mann
award for “victories for human-
ity.” Lillian agreed to accept the
award – but only on the condition
that the Human Rights Watch
share it with her. The Human
Rights Watch – a support com-
mittee which has just been es-
tablished in Santa Barbara– is an
investigative group that uncovers
and records human rights viola-
tions in 70 countries, ensuring
that these events are not covered
up or forgotten. Lillian’s condition
was accepted and Human Rights
Watch representative Jane Olsen
received the award along with her.
The ceremony was attended by
over 240 people and was presided
over by LucyAnn Geiselman,
president of Antioch University
Southern California. Others recog-
nized included John Romo, Santa
Barbara City College President;
Henry Yang, UCSB President;
Mayor Marty Blum; and the county
Supervisor of Schools, Bill Cirone.
Over a thousand of Santa
Barbara’s residents are alumni of
the University – it is a popular and
honored part of the community. •
Niels P. Lyster ’54
Indianapolis, IN
Thomas A. McNicol ’02 AU
Springﬁeld, OH
John G. Merselis, Jr. ’96 AU
Williamstown, MA
Larry Stone ’64
Reston, VA
Paula Treichler ’63
Champaign, IL
Barbara Slaner Winslow ’68
Brooklyn, NY
Arthur J. Zucker ’55
Raleigh, NC

CampusNews
A n t i o c h i a n 10
The Warmth
of Krakow,
Poland
By Courtney Combs ’06
The city of Krakow lies in the
southern part of Poland, close to
Slovakia. The Florianska Gate
protects the city center (Rynek
Growny), which holds evidence of
Krakow’s ancient past. Walking
down snow-covered cobble stone
streets, I can hear the trumpet that
sings every hour in each direction
of the earth. The same tune has
been played since the 12th cen-
tury to reassure that the city was
safe from invaders. The song is
interrupted in remembrance of a
brave (12th century) lookout who
died from an arrow wound to the
neck. This courageous soul saved
Krakow from invasion, but noth-
ing can save Krakow from winter.
Despite the weather, droves
of people, dogs and pigeons ﬁll
the center of town. In a hurried
search for food, I discovered a
nondescript Kebab stand. Behind
the counter was a thin, dark man
with an enormous smile. He
asked me “Where do you come
from? Holland? Italy? It doesn’t
matter where you come from, you
are very welcome here.”
I pretended that I didn’t under-
stand his question; I felt ashamed
to admit my nationality to a per-
son of middle-eastern decent. He
continued, “My name is Akram
and I am from Egypt.”
After I ordered my meal and
realized that Akram just wanted a
conversation, I disclosed my illu-
sion. “I’m sorry Akram. My name
is Courtney. I’m from the United
States. I pretended like I didn’t
understand because I am ashamed
of my government.”
Akram smiled at me and said,
“You are not the ﬁrst girl from
the United States to tell me this
sentiment. It doesn’t matter what
your government does, they aren’t
you. I have many problems with
the Egyptian government. They
never act the way the Egyptian
people want them to. I think your
government is the same.” Akram
asked, “Can I tell you a story?” I
agreed, punctuating my enthusi-
asm by accidentally dropping a
piece of chicken into my lap.
“I come from the land of sand
and sun. When I got to Poland, the
sand was replaced by snow, and
the sun was replaced by a gray
ceiling sky. In Alexandria, I have
a friend in every shop, a brother
on every street, and my family is
always by my side. When I ﬁrst
came to Poland, I didn’t know
the language, or the layout of the
streets, and what’s worse is that I
didn’t have a solitary friend. After
two weeks, alone and desperately
missing my home, I met my ﬁrst
friend in Krakow.
“Josef and I met in a nightclub,
where we began a long conversa-
tion that continued for a year.
“Before I continue with my sto-
ry, I must tell you something very
important about the life of Egyp-
tians. Poland is the only country
I have explored besides my home
and very few Egyptians leave their
country. The Egyptian government
has convinced most Egyptians that
the nation of Israel is an evil force
that oppresses the Palestinians.
The Israeli government has forced
Palestinians to move into ghet-
tos with curfews and restrictions,
which resemble the situation that
the Jewish community endured
in World War II, before they were
placed in the death camps. The
Egyptian government promotes
the hatred of Israel and its people,
and as I grew, I too learned to hate
the Israelis.
“One day, after almost a year
of spending all my free time with
Josef, he tells me that he must
return home. I assumed he was
from the United States because he
had spent several years studying
at the University of Wisconsin.
I asked Josef if he would return
to Wisconsin and to my surprise
he said, ‘No, I will go back to
Jerusalem.’ It was at that moment
that I realized that my country
had lied to me about the Israeli
people. Now, I understand that
the people of a nation aren’t rep-
resented by their governments.”
Akram’s story is an excep-
tional example of the power that
traveling can have on a person.
The importance of international
awareness is paramount in dis-
pelling misconceptions. Why let
other people tell you about the
world, when you can go and ﬁnd
out for yourself? Nationalism
serves many functions, but when
coupled with xenophobic tenden-
cies and a lack of information,
violence and hatred run rampant
throughout the world. These fac-
tors keep individuals from the
precious cultural experiences that
help evolve humanity. Traveling
is the antidote to a narrow world-
view. In every country from Costa
Rica to Poland, there is always a
friend that ﬁnds you right when
you need one.
When I ﬁrst arrived in Poland,
I was exhausted from a 20-hour
bus ride and ﬂustered by how un-
prepared I was for the Slavic
world. Even the lady at the infor-
mation booth at the train station
didn’t speak English, and under
the stress of my 40-pound travel
pack and the lack of sleep, I
almost cried when she snubbed
me at the counter. My ﬁrst impres-
sion of Poland was that it was a
bleak relic of communism. Poland
seemed like a place where no one
and nothing could be warm.
When I thought that I should
just get back on the bus to the
western world, a woman walked
up and said “I speak some
English. Can I help you?” This
stranger introduced herself as
Agnes. She not only helped me
ﬁnd my way, she helped me es-
tablish a respect for the strength
and beauty of the Polish people.
Agnes helped me carry my heavy
bags and took the tram with me
to my hostel. If I hadn’t taken the
long bus ride to Krakow, I would
have never known the ancient
beauty that is the snowy city, or
the warm-hearted people that
live in Poland. The importance
of international awareness is to
celebrate and relish the extraor-
dinary differences among people
and the elemental goodness that
all cultures contain. •
Krakow
Photo
courtesy of
Antioch Education Abroad

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Everything
You Ever
Wanted to
Know About
the Chamber
Singers (But
Were Afraid to Ask)
By Chris Mortimer ’05
The Chamber Singers date back
quite a ways. They were probably
a part of the Antioch Orchestra at
ﬁrst – and there are records of the
Antioch orchestra in the 1850s. At
that time, the entire group, orches-
tra and singers consisted of about
10 people. At some point along
the way, the Chamber Singers split
off from the orchestra, though the
two groups work together still.
The Chamber Singers probably
hit a high mark in the 1940s. In
those days, far from being restrict-
ed to just Yellow Springs, they
took part in festivals and tours
on a state and even national level.
Now, with the smaller student
body, the Chamber Singers oper-
ate on a more limited scale, but
James Johnston, musician-in-resi-
dence, keeps the tradition alive.
A tradition of which James has
been a big supporter is the inclu-
sion of non-students in the group.
As far as he knows, the Chamber
Singers have always invited inter-
ested parties from town, as well
as faculty, to participate, and it cer-
tainly helps the group – it ensures
that all the musical parts will be
represented by at least one person.
Before James Johnston took
over ﬁve years ago, the Chamber
Singers were taught by a local
voice instructor. James was teach-
ing ensemble classes at the time
and took on the added responsibil-
ity of the Chamber Singers, in ad-
dition to conducting the orchestra.
The number of people in the
group has ranged from four to 20
or more, with an average of about
eight to 10. At times the group has
been almost entirely or entirely
composed of women. Often the
number of singers in the group
will swell or shrink throughout
the semester.
Due to the uncertainty caused
by not knowing when people
will be able to participate – an
uncertainty exacerbated by the
last minute schedule changes that
frequently occur – the Chamber
Singers function best as a free,
adaptable and open group in
which members are welcomed
from any source. To accommo-
date this, James usually comes up
with more than one project that
he would like to do in a year and
ﬁts the projects to the number of
people and general circumstances
in a given semester.
The “relative levels of experi-
ence” of the chorus members can
also be a factor in what can or
can’t be done in a semester. A typ-
ical group of the Chamber Singers
is a motley crew of hobby singers,
those who take voice lessons and
singers who have not seriously
sung in years (perhaps not since
high school).
There is, James notes, a
deﬁnite schedule in terms of effort
and energy. The singers tend to
start out energetic and engaged.
Near the middle of the semester,
particularly during the winter
months, there is a lessening of
the energy and time. As the work
piles up and as people get sick, the
force of the group slackens. But
by the end, people start to focus
again and it all comes together.
This is a phenomenon often seen
in the theatrical arts. “There’s the
old mythology that if the dress
rehearsal is terrible, then the
performance is likely to be ﬁne,”
James says.
When asked, James cites last
semester’s adaptation of Dido and
Aeneas as both one of the most
ambitious and successful projects
he has undertaken “because of
its complexity.” This complex-
ity stemmed less from the music
than it did from the coordination
of one of the largest number of
people ever to work on a Chamber
Singers project in collaboration
with the Orchestra. Also, the work
itself was longer than most pieces
done by the Chamber Singers – it
was a true piece of opera, not a
collection of songs and shorter
works.
Amanda Calder ’05 played
one of the witches in the perfor-
mance. When asked about it, she
said: “…It was a true representa-
tion of an Antioch opera – com-
plete with various community
members, people not singing on
key all the time, and last minute
preparations.”
Dido and Aeneas had an
amazing turn-out: Kelly Hall was
nearly ﬁlled and everyone who
attended seemed to enjoy it.
Another big success was the
performance by an all-women cho-
rus of the music for Mendelson’s
operatic version of Shakespeare’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The
performance left several narrative
stretches intact, turning the whole
piece into a condensed version of
the opera.
After a break over the summer,
the Chamber Singers will resume
practice and performances this
fall. •
Fireﬁghters
Set
Presidents
Ablaze
By Liz MacDonald ’04
In the ﬁnal weeks and days lead-
ing up to the demolition of the
Presidents residence hall complex,
the dorms found a second use.
They served as a training ground
for several local ﬁre departments.
Fireﬁghters practiced navigating
and searching smoke-ﬁlled dorms,
rescuing victims, forcing entry
through locked doors, and, of
course, extinguishing ﬁres. Miami
Township ﬁre chief Colin Altman
’93 commented that the training
was “extremely valuable.”
Nationwide there has been
a rise in the number of ﬁres oc-
curring on college campuses and
the number of ﬁre-related deaths
on campuses. Ohio leads the na-
tion in the number of ﬁre-related
student deaths. The Center for
Campus Fire Safety, a nonproﬁt
organization that seeks to educate
people about campus ﬁre safety,
reports that 12 Ohio college
students have been killed in ﬁres
since January 2000. Just last
April, three Miami University
students lost their lives in a ﬁre
occurring at their off-campus
house. “This unfortunate trend is
something we are very cognizant
of,” Altman stated in an interview
following the training activities.
Antioch averages one or two
small ﬁres each year, usually
related to cooking or an item such
as a candle or incense left unat-
tended. “We have been very lucky
and they have all been small ﬁres
that were put out prior to our ar-
rival or that we could easily put
out using a ﬁre extinguisher,” said
Altman. “We are also lucky to
have some very fast acting hall
advisors.”
Madeline Lance, Director of
Campus and Residence Life, en-
sures that all hall advisors receive
ﬁre safety training at the start of
every term. “Also, all our dorms
are now equipped with automated
ﬁre alarm systems that notify the
ﬁre department immediately,”
she said.
With such frightening statis-
tics, the training that occurred in
Presidents was particularly impor-
tant. Thirty ﬁreﬁghters from three
different ﬁre departments were
able to practice the unique proce-
dures required in a dormitory ﬁre.
“The method used in a dorm is
different because it is a much big-
ger space. In a small house, a team
of two or three ﬁreﬁghters goes
in and follows each other search-
ing. If they can’t see, they follow
a wall to stay oriented. In a dorm,
it’s a larger group of ﬁreﬁghters
and the leader stays in the hall-
way, knowing each room is just a
small, contained space. Then the
crew goes in and searches a room,
comes back into the hallway and
searches the next room.”
In the weeks prior to the demo-
lition, the department conducted
non-destructive training using a

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enough for the birds to spread
their wings and ﬂy, space and cost
constraints sometimes prevent
them from having cages large
enough to accommodate some of
the bigger birds, such as the larger
hawks, eagles or owls, as well as
birds with special needs, such as
peregrine falcons and ospreys.
The Raptor Center accepts
birds from 11 counties, cooperat-
ing and coordinating their efforts
with various wildlife organiza-
tions. The nearest similar centers
are in Cincinnati and Columbus;
the Glen Helen Raptor Center is
the only one in the immediate
area. It helps more than 200 birds
a year and now, with a new ﬂight
cage for the larger birds, the Rap-
tor Center is much more effective.
Considerably more than twice
as large as the other cages at the
Raptor Center, the now completed
ﬂight cage is “L” shaped and
measures 100 feet long by 20 feet
wide by 16 feet tall, with an addi-
tional 50 feet of length completing
the “L.” This is the largest such
cage within a 17 county district.
It, and the other cages are a short
distance away from the ofﬁces of
the Raptor Center, placed with
the intention that the birds not be
disturbed or alarmed.
The creation of this cage in-
volved quite a lot of effort. Over
$10,000 was spent on materials
alone. As to the labor efforts, not
only did the project make use of
volunteers from the Glen Helen’s
Stewardship Committee, but the
construction was assisted by crews
from the Ohio Division of Wild-
life’s Spring Valley, Fallsville, and
Indian Creek Wildlife areas.
Great attention was paid to the
construction process. There were
many guidelines and safety proce-
dures, both for birds and humans,
and the types of birds to be kept
in the cage had to be considered.
The cage was built so that it is
both sturdy and long lasting. This
project was in the planning for
ﬁve years, and then took two years
to construct. The new enclosure
will not be open to the public for
the sake of the birds. There are a
number of open-houses planned for
the spring and fall, showcasing this
new addition. Interested parties
should contact the Raptor Center at
(937) 767-7648 or visit www.glen-
helen.org/raptor/raptor.htm. •
Yellow
Springs
Health,
Surveyed
By Chris Mortimer ’05
“One aspect of the environmental
justice movement is for communi-
ties to conduct their own health
surveys,” says Ann Filemyr, for-
mer Dean of Faculty and College
professor. Yellow Springs had
discussed compeleting such a sur-
vey in the past, but until Filemyr
spearheaded the project, it was
never done.
Ann designed and taught a
class called Environmental Jour-
nalism based around the planned
health survey, and it was from the
student body of this class that she
gained the requisite volunteers
essential for the project’s success.
Among these were Jim Tom-
linson ’05, Monica Vargas ’05,
Twyla Clark ’04, Javier Brienes
‘05, Chris Farber ’04 and cur-
rent Community Manager Shelby
Chestnut ’05. This large amount
of student involvement made the
survey possible.
There had been a similar project
discussed in town meetings at one
time, but the project had never actu-
ally been put into motion. In 2003,
however, YSI, Inc. was ordered to
spend $95,000 on environmental
projects as part of a settlement with
the State of Ohio. Pleased that the
idea had been on the table in the
past and learning of YSI’s involve-
ment in environmental projects,
Ann prepared a proposal for a new
health survey. It was accepted, one
of ﬁve local projects to receive
funding from YSI.
Once the grant had been ac-
cepted, Ann said that she “invited
all the people in town who’d been
involved in the talk about doing
such a project and, out of that
group, one person got really in-
volved – Joan Horn ’56. So Joan
got involved as a volunteer and
then a number of other people in
town, including some retired fac-
ulty, current faculty and students
and other townspeople not any way
really afﬁliated with the College
got involved as volunteers. So we
had a pretty good interest base to
really launch the project. And, as
such, the project got bigger than
my ﬁrst idea.”
From the start, Ann and the
others decided that this would be
a person-to-person survey. They
would not make use of mail-ins;
rather all interactions would be
directly between human beings.
Part of the reason for this was
efﬁciency: mail-in surveys have a
woefully low response rate. Be-
sides, the survey was intended to
have a personal touch. They want-
ed to get the town talking about
the issues. To do that, they needed
the interviewees talking ﬁrst. The
ﬁrst version of the survey had all
the needed information, but was
far too long. The length of a sur-
vey can be a serious disadvantage
in any effort to conduct a study by
approaching people on the street.
The longer it is, the less likely that
a pedestrian will agree to take it.
Because the length of the origi-
nal survey proved to be a liability in
these cases, a short version was de-
veloped about halfway through the
project. The on-the-street surveys
used the short form and the vol-
unteers arranged home interviews
using the long form. A total of 543
people were interviewed from Jan-
uary to September of 2004. Most of
the interviewers were students from
Ann’s class, like Jim Tomlinson,
while others were volunteers.
Ann didn’t merely direct and
organize the project. She was in-
volved at every level. She conduct-
ed interviews herself, whether door
to door or scheduled (including one
3-hour interview with a 40-year
resident of Yellow Springs). She
even took the survey herself.
The survey’s ﬁndings were
published in a bound format, en-
titled Yellow Springs Community
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smoke machine to ﬁll the halls
with smoke. “It’s very difﬁcult to
see, so they have to use their other
senses to navigate. They must ﬁnd
their way through the building
without getting lost, crawl through
the smoke and ﬁnd and remove
the victim,” explained Altman.
The weekend before the sched-
uled razing of the complex, things
heated up. “We were able to set
several ﬁres using straw bales
and wooden pallets. Because of
the constructions of the building
– metal ceilings and thick plaster
walls – some of the ﬁres got very
hot. It was a very realistic train-
ing. It generated a lot of smoke, lot
of heat and worked out very well,”
said Altman. •
A Gilded
(Flight)
Cage
By Chris Mortimer ’05
The Glen Helen boasts many things.
Among its treasures are a diverse
and wonderful ecosystem, a mu-
seum, and the Outdoor Education
Center. Also the Raptor Center.
The Glen Helen Raptor Center
is a place where injured birds of
prey may be treated before they
are released back into the wild.
Most other raptor centers have
the facilities to care for the birds,
but Antioch’s now has something
more – a ﬂight cage. Though
most centers provide cages large

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The Many
New Faces
of Antioch’s
Theater
Building
By Nikki Smith ’06
The campaign for renewing An-
tioch College can be seen in various
forms across the entire campus. As
grass grows upon the empty lot of
Presidents, rejuvenation is also be-
ing cultivated in the Theater Build-
ing. Pierre Nagley, a Yellow Springs
villager, recently completed a mural
just beyond the main entrance.
Nagley has created ever-evolving
murals that can be seen lining the
alley parallel to Xenia Ave in down-
town Y ellow Springs. According
to Nagley, the piece in the Theater
Building was an inspiration drawn
from the following quote by well-
known artist, Jerzy Grotowski: “In
this struggle with one’s own truth,
this effort to peel off the life mask,
the theater with its full-ﬂeshed per-
ceptivity, has always seemed to me
a place of provocation.” The quote,
incorporated into the piece on a
pair of double doors, is surrounded
by a doorframe of faces depicting
different expressions. The rest of
the mural, which ﬁlls the entire
wall, follows a similar theme. A
sea of diverse faces ﬂoat on top of
a captivating red background that
holds you for a moment to reﬂect. In
addition to over a dozen faces, the
piece also includes an oval mirror,
adding a component that brings the
viewer into the artwork and, most
importantly, the concept behind its
creation. •
Irwin Abrams
Speaks at
Nobel Prize
Exhibit
Moved by one of the bloodiest
battles in history, 40,000 dead in
a day’s time in Solferino, Italy in
1859, one man started an inter-
national humanitarian movement
to help wounded soldiers on the
battleﬁeld. Another man died
for his vision of racial equal-
ity in America. And a woman
spent decades tirelessly working
to free her native Burma from
socialist domination. Each made
it their life’s work to build har-
mony among people and nations.
These individuals are among the
more than 100 women, men and
groups to be awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize for wide-ranging and
monumental efforts to promote
peace throughout the world. An
exhibit titled “Nobel Peace Prize
Laureates” featuring 15 of those
honorees was displayed in the au-
ditorium of the Dayton Metro Li-
brary in downtown Dayton, April
Health Project. The ﬁnal report
was released in April of 2005.
As the results were analyzed,
there was one surprise. The most
frequent health issue affecting the
individual lives of villagers was
asthma. However, cancer is the
health concern with the greatest
impact on the community – on
those in Yellow Springs who re-
ported concern for a friend, neigh-
bor, or relative living with cancer.
Connected to these health con-
cerns, the primary environmental
concern in town is water pollution.
Interestingly, when the
residents of Yellow Springs were
asked what they most prized in
the town, the most common re-
sponse was green space. Further,
it was the attribute most prized
by those who had only recently
moved to Yellow Springs. Any
developments in the town should
keep these results in mind.
Indeed, the issue of the local
environment and the issue of health
crossed several times. Of those
surveyed, some 75% reported
“taking a walk in nature” during
recovery from illness. They also
mentioned increasing exercise and
changing their diet. The citizens of
Yellow Springs do tend to be health
conscious. They also buy organic
and local foods much of the time.
Last spring, Jim presented
the results of the survey to sev-
eral town commissions, including
Women, Inc., The Men’s Group,
the Human Relations Commission,
Community Service, Inc., and the
Environmental Commission. The
commissions (and town as a whole)
are discussing the survey and still
coming to understand just what it
means and how it should affect the
actions of the town in the future.
Ann hopes that the survey will
inspire further surveys. As this
one was a snapshot and sort of an
overview, “I think that a future
survey might be more narrowly
focused,” Ann says, “… and might
also involve medical practitioners
more directly. They were indirect-
ly involved: they came to com-
munity meetings to help shape
some of the questions; they gave
input into things they would like
to have asked. So they had input,
but another project might have
them more signiﬁcantly involved
in a leadership role… . Those are
some of my suggestions for future
surveys.”
Health insurance was dis-
covered to be fairly uncommon
among 18-24 year olds. This age
group is not only the least likely to
be uninsured in Yellow Springs,
but in the nation as a whole as
well. This would be a good place
to start for a follow-up project
or survey. Ann had hoped that a
“round-table” series of discussions
could have been organized during
the course of the survey, focus-
ing on those individual issues. It
didn’t happen then, but there is a
strong basis for it now.
The completion of the health
survey is not the end of the issue.
Though it has only been recently
released, Yellow Springs, led by
the Village Council, has already
begun to discuss the survey and
decide how to interpret the results
for the town.
“It will be great if, 10 years
from now, some of these same
questions are asked again, and you
can go back and say ‘well, 10 years
ago, people were concerned about
this, but … now, we’re really
more concerned about that.’” Ann
hopes that, in time, the problems
discovered and emphasized by the
survey will have been solved. •
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by
Nikki Smith
’06

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18 through June 8, 2005. The
exhibit was created for the Dayton
International Peace Museum by
history students of Earlham Col-
lege in Indiana.
Featured in the exhibit is
one of our local “peace heroes,”
retired Antioch College history
professor, author, and one of the
world’s leading authorities on
the history of the Nobel Peace
Prize, Irwin Abrams. His book
The Nobel Peace Prize and
the Laureates, 1901-1987 was
selected by the American Li –
brary Association as one of the
“outstanding reference works of
1989.” An updated edition was
published in 2001. Other books
edited by Abrams include: Iraq
and Its Consequences: Thoughts
of Nobel Peace Laureates and
Eminent Scholars; The Words of
Peace: The Nobel Peace Prize
Laureates of the 20th Century
– Selections from their Accep –
tance Speeches; and Nobel
Peace Lectures 1971-1995.
Abrams was the featured
speaker at an exhibit reception
at the Dayton Metro Library,
Sunday, May 1. His presentation
was titled “The Woman Behind
the Nobel Peace Prize.” His talk
focused on Austrian born Bertha
von Suttner, with whom Nobel
corresponded and only met with
several times. She is credited
with persuading Nobel to add a
“Peace” category to his list of
Nobel Prizes when he was writing
his will. She herself was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. In
late May, Abrams traveled to Vi-
enna, Austria to present this same
paper at a symposium commemo-
rating the hundred year anniver-
sary of Ms. Suttner’s receiving
the Nobel Peace Prize. A question
and answer session followed the
library talk.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one
of ﬁve Nobel Prize areas awarded
each year by the Nobel Founda-
tion which was established in the
last will and testament of Swiss
inventor Alfred Nobel who devel-
oped dynamite in 1866 made his
fortune in the commercial use of
the explosive. A ﬁve-person com-
mittee elected by the Norwegian
Parliament selects the Peace Prize
recipients each year.
The exhibit at the library began
with Swiss paciﬁst and activist
Jean Henri Dunant founder of the
Red Cross, who won the ﬁrst No-
bel Peace Prize in 1901 along with
his Parisian colleague Frederic
Passy. It also describes the lives
and accomplishments of more
than a dozen winners including the
latest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Wangari Maathai, who founded
the Green Belt Movement in Kenya
to protest widespread deforestation
in Africa, as well as the 1977 win-
ner – Amnesty International.
Each exhibit panel displays a
photograph and brief biography
of one Nobel Peace Laureate. To
make the presentation more inter-
active, the exhibit creators posed
two questions at the end of each
biography to help reinforce the
primary accomplishments of each
Nobel Laureate, with the panel
text providing the answers to the
questions. •
Community
News
Associate Professor of Com-
munications Chris Hill and
Associate Professor of Litera-
ture Jean Gregorek organized
a panel on the cultural impact of
mass incarceration in the U.S. for
the Conference on Globalisation
and Representation hosted by the
University of Brighton, Brighton,
England this past March. Chris
presented a talk entitled “Habeas
Corpus: You Have the Body,”
which included a screening of
videos about prisons, and Jean’s
talk focused on the expansion
and globalization of U.S. impris-
onment policies.
Janice Kinghorn, Assistant
Professor of Economics, recently
gave birth. Laura Ann Nielsen
was born April 14, 2005 to Janice
and her husband, Randy Nielsen.
Laura accompanied Janice to the
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Washington Institute at Evergreen
College in June (see photo).
Christine Smith, Assistant
Professor of Psychology, and her
partner Julie Konik were married
on July 12, 2005 in Windsor, On-
tario, Canada.
Robert Devine ’67, College
Professor, served as executive di-
rector of Manhattan Neighborhood
Network* in New York, helping
that organization through a major
real estate deal, preparation for
refranchising, staff reorganization,
and the hiring of a new executive
director.
He also presented two work-
shops at the National Alliance for
Community Media Conference in
Monterey on the origins of demo-
cratic media and on “First come,
who’s served.”
He had an article from 2001 on
“Why Access: 33 Years Later”
reprinted in the current issue of
Community Media Review.
* Manhattan Neighborhood Net-
work is the largest public access
organization in the nation, with
a budget of $3.6 million, a staff
of 45 full time cablecasting
24 hours a day on four channels
to Manhattan’s 1.5 million resi-
dents and streaming world-wide.
Benjamin Grossberg, Associ-
ate Professor of Literature and
Creative Writing, received tenure.
Also, he had poems accepted for
publication by North American
Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron
Review and Agni Online. His chap-
book The Auctioneer Bangs His
Gavel won the open competition
from Kent State University Press.
They will print the chapbook in
Spring 2006. Additionally, he
planted a small apple orchard (50
trees), a long-time dream.
Margo Tucker Joins Antioch
College as Vice President of
Institutional Advancement.
Margo Tucker, CFRE, stepped
into the new role of Vice President
for Institutional Advancement
this August. Tucker, who joined
Antioch from the University of
Dayton’s School of Business, has
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a strong background in fund-
raising for higher education.
Previously, she worked at the
University of Kentucky, Edison
Community College and the Indi-
anapolis Art Center. Tucker holds
a bachelor’s of science degree in
microbiology and a master’s de-
gree in public administration.
“I think Antioch has a very
strong product to sell and a very
compelling case. That’s really what
attracted me to come here in the
ﬁrst place. Any time a college can
successfully connect its mission
and its stated purpose to what it
actually does, that’s impressive
and signiﬁcant and I want to be a
part of it,” says Tucker.
Because Tucker joins the
College in the midst of a compre-
hensive campaign and curricular
transformation, she has quickly
begun on the work at hand. “The
initial challenge is funding the
curricular transition,” says Tucker.
“Nothing is more important right
now than ensuring that faculty and
staff have sufﬁcient resources to
create the new learning communi-
ties curriculum. The campaign
has raised $42 million to this
point and we feel conﬁdent that
there is additional support avail-
able for this exciting new plan.”
Dennie Eagleson ’71,
Associate Professor of Photogra-
phy, received an Ohio Arts Coun-
cil Photography award at the Ohio
State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition at
the Ohio State Fairgrounds in Co-
lumbus, Ohio. The award was one
of 10 given by the Arts Council in
the professional division for excel-
lence in a particular medium. The
selected photograph, “Interior,”
was a color pinhole image created
on ﬁlm of an abandoned house and
was printed using digital archival
inkjet technology.
Antioch College welcomed its
new Director of Public Rela-
tions/Communications, Lynda
Sirk, to campus last July. Lynda
joins the Antioch community from
Dublin, OH, where she was for-
merly the Director of Public Rela-
tions for Dublin City Schools. •
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Janice Kinghorn, Assistant
Professor of Economics,
holding her daughter, Laura
Ann Nielsen
Photo
by
Dennie Eagleson
’71

F a l l 2 0 0 5 1 5
BookNotes
The Women Behind Mann
Acclaimed author shares her book on the Peabody sisters
By Scott Sanders
Antiochiana bid welcome to an old
friend in June when the College
archives, together with the Yellow
Springs Historical Society, brought
noted New England author Megan
Marshall to campus to discuss
her latest book, The Peabody Sis-
ters: Three Women Who Ignited
American Romanticism (Houghton
Mifﬂin, 2005). It was a special oc-
casion for so many reasons, not the
least of which was Megan’s birthday
that day (so we threw her a little par-
ty), and that she started the research
on her monumental book 20 years
ago right here at Antioch on the
second ﬂoor of the Olive Kettering
Library. In an engaging presentation
held in the Herndon Gallery before a
good crowd of local residents as well
as the Antioch community, Megan
shared several stories from her often
arduous research and read a few An-
tioch-related excerpts from the book,
a combined social history and triple
biography that has received academ-
ic and popular acclaim. The New
York Times Book Review said Megan
“paints so colorful and sympathetic
a portrait … of three remarkable
women, it seems ungrateful to ask
for more,” and The Washington Post
said “through Marshall’s beautiful
book, we can taste the ﬂavor of three
remarkable lives and pay tribute.”
People readily use the word “re-
markable” to describe The Peabody
Sisters, and speaking of people, even
People magazine thought “there’s a
screenplay in there somewhere.”
Apart from being leading ﬁgures
in the Transcendentalist movement
of the 1830s and 1840s, the Peabody
sisters were the women in Horace
Mann’s life. Mann and Mary Tyler
Peabody married when he was still
the ﬁrst ever secretary to the ﬁrst
ever state board of education in
Massachusetts. Mary’s older sister,
Elizabeth, and the younger sister,
Sophia, were also signiﬁcant in their
own right. Brilliant, energetic, and
effusive, Elizabeth had an extraordi-
nary career as an educator, publisher,
writer and reformer, making her all-
time mark as the early leader of the
kindergarten movement in America.
Sophia,
called
“Fye” by
her sisters,
possessed
immense
artistic
talents but
terrible
migraines
limited her output, and she was
bedridden much of her young life.
Like Mary, she also married one of
the more famous men of antebellum
America, author Nathaniel Haw-
thorne. The Peabody Sisters Letters
collection of Antiochiana, over 3,000
pages worth, which enticed Megan to
make her ﬁrst visit to Yellow Springs
in 1985, was gathered and organized
by Robert L. Straker ’25, who
donated the material to the archives
along with his voluminous Horace
Mann manuscript collection. Straker
not only transcribed every letter
himself, he indexed and cross-refer-
enced them as well, leaving behind
a veritable treasure and invaluable
research tool.
Megan’s work focused on the
sisters’ early lives; in fact, the book
ends with Sophia’s wedding in
1842, a decade before Antioch even
existed. Using mostly unpublished
sources and newspapers (document-
ed in over 100 pages of endnotes),
she discovered for instance the vast
inﬂuence their mother, Elizabeth
Palmer Peabody, had had on her
three daughters. She directed their
educations and taught them to aim
high in marriage as she had felt she
herself had not done, a lesson they
all learned well. Another of Megan’s
discoveries never before revealed
was that Elizabeth, who never mar-
ried, had previous relationships with
and contemplated marriage to both
the men that ironically became her
brothers-in-law. The window she pro-
vides on the Manns in particular, two
of the more important ﬁgures in the
early history of the College, should
entice any Antiochian to become ac-
quainted with The Peabody Sisters.
So what are you waiting for? •
But what also emerges is a picture of
an East Africa that has been forever
changed and not likely to return.”
Steven Cramer ’76 recently
published Good-bye to the
Orchard, a book of poems that was
a named a Massachusetts Honor
Book in Poetry for 2005 by the
Massachusetts Center for the Book.
Karen L. Erlichman ’84 re-
cently had her article, “Reﬂections
on Spiritual Direction and Tikkun
Olam,” appear in the May/June 205
issue of Tikkun Magazine. Also, her
essay entitled “Cultivating Compas-
sion” recently won the UC Berkeley
International House 2005 Vision of
Hope Essay Contest. It will appear in
a 2006 anthology addressing bigotry
and prejudice after September 11.
Richard A. Couto announces
the publication of Courses in Cour-
age: Antioch College and the Social
Sciences, which includes essays by
David Apter ’50, Cynthia Epstein
’55, Heinz Eulau, Gordan Fellman
’53, Fred Greenstein ’53, Allan
Pred ’57 and Joan Straumanis ’57,
Craig Calhoun, President of the So-
cial Science Research Councils says
of the book, “These essays are tell-
ing and stimulating. They should be
assigned to all undergraduates con-
sidering careers in social science,
and they will repay the attention of
graduate students and professors.”
The book is available online from
Xlibris for a discounted price of
$8.50. Order at www2.xlibris.com/
bookstore/search.asp. •
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Harold Wright has recently had
two of his translations of poems by
Shuntaro Tankawa published. They
are The Poetry of Men’s Lives: An
International Anthology and Writ-
ing as Citizens of a Diverse World.
Ann Bayley ’47 has written a
family saga called Tales of Two
Women. It is the story of a great-
grandmother who emigrated from
Germany to the United States in
1856. The other story is the semi-
autobiographical tale of the author’s
own migration.
Judith Linder Ashakih ’64 is
pleased to announce the publica-
tion of Gift of Incense: A Story of
Love and Revolution in Ethiopia
(The Red Sea Press, Inc. 2005). The
book chronicles Judith’s emigration
to Ethiopia in the early 1960s and
her marriage to African musician
Abubaker Ashakih. John Roth,
of the Westron Press says, “What
emerges from the pages of this book
is not simply a personal memoir
but also a living picture of a unique
time and place in East Africa before
it was forever changed by revolution
and famine. The reader, especially
the Western Reader, shares through
the life story of Abubaker Ashakih
the lives of a remarkable group of
Ethiopian and Eritrean people in
a country that had found a way to
balance Muslim and Christian tradi-
tions and to create a beautiful and
elegant culture that may well have
been unique in the modern world. If
only for this, Gift of Incense would
be a compelling and timely story
that cries out to be heard in a world
increasingly swept by the winds of
intolerance and religious violence.
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Commencement ’05
A n t i o c h i a n 16
Jessica Frechette-Gutfreund after
receiving her diploma.
The graduates
cheer one
another as they
accept their
diplomas.
Theatrezine, an acting troupe including Kaycee
Hinckley, Catriona Johnson, Justin Keen and Fernando
Romero, performed a medley of songs describing their
Antioch experience.
Commencement speaker John Sims ’90
addresses the graduates.
Finale for
the Class
of 2005
By Chris Mortimer ’05
We came, one by one or
in small groups. We took
a number and program
each. By turns we dem-
onstrated excitement,
joy, nervousness and
impatience. This mo-
ment was what we had
been building toward
for years. Gradually, we
formed into a disorga-
nized, untidy and quint-
essentially Antiochian
line. It seemed like we
spent hours there, wait-
ing. And then, ﬁnally,
slowly, the line began to
move; we were on our
way upstairs, on our way
to Commencement.
S
ome of us were
jaded, others
still optimis-
tic. None of us
were the same. We had all
come from different back-
grounds and lived different
lives. There were 92 of us
graduating; not all of us
were even there that day.
We traversed the main
ﬂoor, passing between
the groups of faculty and
students who stood there.
Congratulations and cheers
passed back and forth, but
the line kept moving. To-
ward the stairs.
We climbed the stairs
and began to ﬁle into Kelly
Hall. Walking into Kelly
Hall, down the aisles and
down to our seats, we were
greeted by a deluge of
good-will. It seemed for
a moment that the entire
community of Antioch was
in that room, along with all
of our immediate families.
The welcoming remarks
set the stage for the rest of
the program, beginning with
Rick Jurasek’s introduction,
in which he hinted at but did
not actually say Horace
Mann’s famous quote. This
was followed by two excel-
lent speeches by, respectively,
Trustee (and former profes-
sor) Victor Ayoub ’49 and
Steve Schwerner ’60 of the
Alumni Board. After they
ﬁnished, Rick Jurasek intro-
duced the Commencement
speaker, John Sims ’90.
Sims, known for his con-
tributions to the ﬁelds of art
and mathematics, currently
holds to position of Coordi-
nator of Mathematics at the
Ringling School of Art and
Design in Florida. He is
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’71
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’71
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’71
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F a l l 2 0 0 5 1 7
The faculty
lined the aisle,
congratulating
the graduates
as they entered
Kelly Hall.
Javier Briones
Gina Abelkop Diana Aivia, an opera major,
performed a song during the student
presentations.
After the cer-
emony Angelique
Roy joins her
family outside.
also the creator of the con-
troversial work The Proper
Way to Hang a Confederate
Flag, and is in the process
of developing a follow up
ﬁlm project. Sims took the
stage with noticeable enthu-
siasm, beginning by thank-
ing his own teachers at
Antioch College, including
Bill Huston. He introduced
himself, summarizing his
own Antioch experience. He
worked in Ward Churchill,
addressing the controversy
that had served as the
Spring term’s major debate.
At the heart of Sims’ mes-
sage was an exhortation for
the graduating seniors to
get out there and make a
difference.
Considerably more than
just the seniors heard him
and everyone in the building
seemed willing to heed him.
The student speakers
were next and to many, they
were the highlight of the pro-
gram. Those that spoke were
collected, intelligent,
subversive, idealistic and
incisive – the best qualities
of the students of Antioch
College. Not all spoke their
message, though. T wo sang
and sang beautifully. There
was a song of social justice,
dating from the ’60s and,
shortly after, a wonderful
operatic piece. In addition, a
group of four students call-
ing themselves Theaterzine
delivered a delightful and
comic look at the life of the
students at Antioch, to the
tune of Gershwin’s “Let’s
Call the Whole Thing Off.”
Then came the con-
ferring of degrees. It is
hard to capture this with
words alone. For seniors
it was the culmination of
everything. Even if we had
co-op jobs yet to do in the
summer, it was still a pow-
erful moment.
In his closing statement,
Jurasek returned to his
opening remarks on the
power of words and ended
by asking those in the
audience who knew them
to repeat Horace Mann’s
famous words with him,
whether students, faculty or
guests. The words ﬁlled the
auditorium:
“Be Ashamed to Die
Until You Have Won Some
Victory for Humanity.” •
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by Dennie Eagelson
’71
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by Dennie Eagelson
’71
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by Dennie Eagelson
’71
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by
Emily Sepik
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by
Emily Sepik
’02

A n t i o c h i a n 18
AlumniNews
From Non-
Proﬁt to
Technology
Via Football:
The Entre-
preneurial
Les Schmidt
By Liz MacDonald ’04
“Let me show you what the future
might look like,” said Les Schmidt
’76, extending a cell phone – his
latest project with the technology
giant Macromedia. The new tech-
nology available on this phone may
change the way we think of cell
phones almost entirely.
“Some people in America have
a hard time imagining what a
phone might do because they think
of it just as a voice device, but the
rest of the world is moving beyond
that,” says Les. One can look to
Japan to get a clue about the future
possibilities of cell phone usage.
The number of cell phone ac-
counts in Japan has exceeded the
number of land lines, and Japanese
people of all ages are using cell
phones for much more than talk-
ing. Some common uses include
checking email, online gaming,
listening to music and getting di-
rections around town.
“We’re at the early stages,” says
Les, “the next generation we’ll
get a real boost in capabilities and
phones will just become a part of
our lives in ways that we haven’t
seen before. Soon it’s going to
be TV anywhere on your phone.
You’re waiting for the train and
you can be watching the news on
your phone.”
These new cell phones are just
the latest in a long line of innova-
tions Les has had a hand in. “Well,
even though I’ve been at Macro-
media for two years, I’ve had four
jobs,” he laughs. He is currently
senior vice president. Les initially
joined Macromedia to assist with
a new product and website launch.
After the launch he held different
positions working with product
development and on cross-com-
pany initiatives.
It wasn’t just at Macromedia
that Les determined that he liked
new challenges. He was on co-op
in San Francisco working with the
American Civil Liberties Union
in a “summer intern-guy-to-ﬁnd
role” when the president of the or-
ganization approached him about
ﬁlling in as bookkeeper. “So I gave
it a try and got really interested in
it.” Les returned for his ﬁnal two
quarters on campus and took every
accounting course he could ﬁnd.
After graduation he returned to
the San Francisco ACLU and took
night courses to get his MBA in
tax. “So I’m working at a nonproﬁt
organization getting an MBA in
tax, which seems not to make a
lot of sense,” he laughs. He then
moved into the ﬁeld of public ac-
counting, where he had the oppor-
tunity to review the business plans
of numerous start-up companies.
“I was in a role with the managing
partner of the ofﬁce – we were
reading all these business plans
together and ﬁguring out which
venture capitalist would be most
appropriate to have a look at these
business plans.”
Eventually an opportunity came
through and Les decided to get on
board. “We hit it off and that’s
how I got started.” Les served as
CFO for the new company, called
Applied ImmuneSciences, which
specialized in biomedical devices.
After a few years he moved on,
working in educational software,
then medical information systems
and then a sports-focused dotcom.
The last job launched what Les
calls “a little vacation as the Chief
Operating Ofﬁcer of the San Fran-
cisco 49ers.” During this two-year
hiatus he got a taste of a different
world. “Technology changes all
the time. New machines, new
software, new things you can do
with it, but football – I likened it
to making wine. In wine-making
you pick grapes, you put it in a
bottle, it goes through a process
and when it comes out you either
like it or you don’t like it. It either
comes out great or it comes out
okay. Football is the same thing.
You pick a crop of players, you put
them together on the ﬁeld, you see
what the result is. If you don’t like
that crop you pick a new crop next
year. And it’s just not the degree
of dynamic elements that get my
juices ﬂowing.”
So, to the chagrin of all his
“die-hard sports buddies” who
would have loved the job, Les went
to Macromedia. “Football was just
too slow, so I had an urge to get
back to technology.”
Les’ love of technology extends
into his personal sphere as well.
“I’m very into solar electricity right
now. I’m just putting a solar power
installation into my home. It’s a
fun tech project, a fun building
project.” He does still coach his
kids’ soccer teams, though.
In the State of the College
address, Steven Lawry called An-
tiochians critical and imaginative
thinkers, people who are often
entrepreneurial. Les Schmidt is a
perfect example.
“It’s interesting, as I look back,
it all started with that Antioch ex-
perience. You learn to be adaptive.
Every three months there’s some
different environment to ﬁgure out
and for me at least, I discovered
that the ﬁguring out part is the fun
part. The sort of maintaining as
a normal condition is not the fun
part. And so that’s carried over into
my career. These start-up compa-
nies have gone from 0-20 people
when I join to a full public com-
pany with a seasoned management
team and I say, ‘Okay, that’s good,
thank you very much,’ and next
gig. But the theme, consistently, is
that a dynamic, changing environ-
ment is what drives me.” •
Peace and
Justice in
Topeka
By Chris Mortimer ’05
When you hear the word “prison,”
the word “choir” doesn’t immedi-
ately spring to mind. But, to the
Topeka Center for Peace and Justice,
rehabilitation means more than
merely prison time. The center
provides inmates the opportunity
to enrich their lives culturally and
intellectually.
The “prison choir” program is
named Veritas Voices. “Veritas”
means reality, real life or truth.
It was the ﬁrst project of Arts in
Prison, a program established by
the Center. Veritas Voices is based
in Topeka, Kansas, and is made
up of 15 community members and
20 inmates of the Topeka Correc-
tional Facility. Their ﬁrst perfor-
mance was in February 2005.
The head of this organiza-
tion is one Bill Beachy ’73. He
is single (though not a conﬁrmed
bachelor) and a Mennonite.
Bill majored in political econ-
omy at Antioch University (with a
focus in basic human problems). As
part of his Antioch experience, Bill
worked at the Washington Center
for Metropolitan Studies, associ-
ated with the Ford Foundation. One
of the things he did there was to
rewrite an older study entitled “Poli-
tics, Protest and …”
How was Antioch? For Bill it
was quite an experience. Indeed, it
was the turning point: Bill had not
left Kansas for a long time before
and he found himself in a newer,
unfamiliar, far more diverse world.
Now Bill looks back on his time at
Antioch with fondness. He not only
“had a good time,” but the experi-
ence at Antioch gave Bill a “new
way to think.” That new way has
not only served Bill, it has served
those whom he and the Topeka
Center for Peace and Justice have
helped.
Another project of Arts in
Prison is the Poetry SOSiety. Simi-
lar to the Veritas Voices, a citizen
who is a member of the choir heads
up the Poetry SOSiety. The Poetry
SOSiety is a group of both inmates
and free citizens who write, discuss
and share poetry. There are several
other programs in the works for
Arts in Prison. Bill is involved on
some level with them all, whether
it be organization, participation,
planning or oversight.
Another program of the Center
is the Victim/Offender Mediation
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program puts low-level offenders
in the same room with the victims
of their crimes (provided both par-
ties are willing). A trained media-
tor helps and encourages the two
sides to talk out their differences
and ﬁnd common ground. The idea
is that the victim gets to meet the
criminal face to face, ﬁnding clo-
sure, and that the offender gets to
see the victim as a person, not just
as an abstract. If they can ﬁnd
common ground, the criminal may
be less likely to return to crime. As
yet, this program deals mostly with
juvenile offenders, but less than 1%
of those offenders who participate
in the project have returned to
crime after their release.
But not all of the work done by
the Topeka Center for Peace and
Justice is prison-related. There are
other mediation projects besides
the Victim-Offender. The Center
has organized similar programs in
schools and between parents and
children. The former of these has
handled over 100 cases since it was
established in November of 2000.
An annual project of the Cen-
ter is the Peace Camp. Located
in northeast Kansas, it teaches
children a measure of non-violent
conﬂict resolution and encourages
a respect for the rights of others as
well. The Peace Camp is funded by
local grants and will have two one-
week sessions this year, with 100
children attending each session.
This is the ﬁfteenth year that the
Peace Camp has operated.
A large part of the Center’s mis-
sion is to champion the civil and
human rights of others. As part of
this, Bill tries to make sure that the
social victories of times past are
remembered. It was in this spirit
that the Center helped to establish
the National Brown vs. Board of
Education Historic Site in 1992.
The Site is located at Monroe El-
ementary School, one of the four
formerly segregated elementary
schools in Topeka.
Whether within the prison
system or in the outside world, the
Topeka Center of Peace and Justice
continues to work for a better world.
It has accomplished impressive
things and, though there is still
much to be done, Bill has made and
will continue to make his valued
contributions to the world. •
Building a
Community
of Deﬁcits
By Chris Mortimer ’05
In the April 4, 2005 issue of Time,
there was a special feature on 100
inﬂuential people in the world
today. The article covered many
meanings of “inﬂuential.” There
were the social and world leaders,
of course, from George W. Bush to
Hugo Chavez. There were business
icons like Martha Stewart. Politi-
cal commentators Michael Moore
and Ann Coulter both made the
list, as did cartoonist Art Spie-
gelman and Japanese writer and
animator Hayao Miyazaki. Amidst
those names and many more was
the name of LaDonna Redmond
’85. And there was another name
mentioned in the paragraph in
Time allotted for her biography.
The other name was Antioch.
President of the Institute for
Community Resource Develop-
ment, LaDonna Redmond’s goal
is a laudable and simple one: mak-
ing organic foods more available
and affordable. Organic foods can
be found in cities but organic food
stores are not only few and far
between, they are also often ex-
pensive – locally grown produce
is a rarity in cities like LaDonna’s
hometown of Chicago. LaDonna
wants this to change.
LaDonna’s involvement with
the issues of food and health
initially stemmed from the under-
standable desire to feed a newborn
son with severe food allergies.
Unfortunately, LaDonna and her
husband, Tracey, discovered that
the local supermarket in their
neighborhood of Austin, IL, didn’t
sell organic foods. The only other
food stores around were fast food
joints and convenience stores;
the food from these places would
have been even worse for her son.
LaDonna found that she had to
drive to other neighborhoods to
get organic foods – predominantly
upscale white neighborhoods.
LaDonna viewed this situation
as unfair, especially since the food
was a signiﬁcantly greater expense.
The Redmonds were determined
to ﬁnd a more viable alternative.
Investigating the best way to ac-
complish this, LaDonna came to
the realization that creating their
own organic garden might be the
solution. Residing in the city, the
Redmonds began to experiment
with what little space they had. In
their backyard they grew lettuce,
tomatoes and cabbage, among
other things. Tracey and LaDonna
found that not only did the garden
thrive, but that they acquired a lik-
ing for gardening. They expanded
their selection to include corn. At
this point, the garden was really
more of a mini-farm.
Now LaDonna and Tracey pro-
mote urban organic farming
through the Institute for Commu-
nity Resource Development. The
Institute has grown from a few food
councils and farmer’s markets into
a respected grassroots organization.
Thanks to support and infor-
mation from the Institute, seven
public schools in Chicago now
have salad bars in their cafeterias,
offering a more balanced diet.
The results have shown that the
students like the options offered
and will make use of the salad
bars. LaDonna hopes to expand
the number of schools that partici-
pate, as well as encourage younger
children to partake.
It hasn’t been easy. LaDonna
had no idea what she was getting
into at the beginning. She was
startled to ﬁnd out not only about
genetically modiﬁed foods but also
to discover that the food system
had gradually changed without
input from the public. The food
available had simply become less
healthy, possibly because glitz and
glitter and show often sadly trump
substance. Like many of us, she had
never thought about where her food
came from or why it was the way
it was. Not until her son’s health
forced her to investigate.
There have been other hurdles
as well, of course. One that
LaDonna cited has been to “build
a community of deﬁcits.” La-
Donna has always tried to build
good things out of bad throughout
her struggle. If one tries to create
gardens and farms in the heart
of Chicago and be successful,
there is little choice but to make
lemonade out of the surrounding
lemons. While those around her
might see vacant lots, abandoned
for years, as a waste and a junk-
pile, LaDonna sees them for their
potential, for what they could be.
But cynicism is a tough foe to
beat. Not everyone who works
with her sees it that way and
LaDonna has learned that a “com-
munity of deﬁcits” is sometimes
a hard sell to people not used to
looking for the redeemable things
about their neighborhoods.
LaDonna continues her work in
the Chicago area. A current goal
of hers is to establish a new gro-
cery store with the help
of the Kellogg Founda-
tion. This store, similar
to a food co-op and
owned by the commu-
nity, would deal primar-
ily in healthy organic
foods, making them far
more available to the
surrounding neighbor-
hoods. Another goal of
hers, more long-term,
springs from a discovery
that she made. She has
noticed a marked lack of
People of Color discuss-
ing the issues of health
and organic foods. She
hopes to support and
encourage leadership
among other People of
Color in this important
area.
Despite her work
today, LaDonna was an
economics major who
attended Antioch for
one memorable year.
One of her co-op jobs
was at the Library of
Congress. The other
job was in Atlanta, at
the Feminist Women’s
Health Center, which comple-
mented her later focus on health
and nutrition. LaDonna still re-
members the Div dances that she
attended when she was a student
and she loved Cabaret very much.
She was an active member of
the Third World Alliance (TWA),
an Independent Group. When the
administration of Antioch College
decided not to close the school for
the newly established Martin Lu-
ther King Jr. Day, LaDonna joined
fellow members of TWA in protest.
They held a press conference and
a demonstration. Today, there are
no classes at the College on Martin
Luther King Day.
Asked what her proudest
achievement was, what she con-
sidered her greatest success to
date, LaDonna had no hesitation
in her reply: her family, her hus-
band and children were dearest to
her. She did say, however, that the
Time article was pretty nice. •
E. Ann Baldwin ’80
Higganum, CT
Reynold Bean ’58
Crestone, CO
Ellen Borgersen ’72
Sausalito, CA
Michael Brower ’55
Cambridge, MA
Nancy Crow ’70,
Vice President
Denver, CO
Richard Daily ’68
Lakewood, CO
John F. Dawson ’58
Lee, NH
Steven Duffy ’77
Dayton, OH
Anita Hoffman
Ehrenfried ’71
Farmington Hills, MI
Tim Eubanks ’00
Austin, TX
Gordon W. Evans ’55
Interlochen, MI
John Feinberg ’70,
President
Boulder, CO
Douglass Fischer ’92
Inglewood, CA
Joseph M. Foley ’64
Columbus, OH
Ina Frank ’60
Ventura, CA
Athena Turner-
Frederick ’82
Huntingdon, PA
Robert Gates ’78
Phoenix, AZ
Edward Goldson ’62
Denver, CO
Gary Houseknecht ’66
Rockville, MD
Catherine Jordan ’72
Minneapolis, MN
Emily Kirby ’52
Riverwoods, IL
Tim Klass ’71
Seattle, WA
Patrick
Masterson ’99
Washington, DC
Dean Parmelee ’70
Dayton, OH
Kristen Pett ’90
Encino, CA
Miguel Angel
Santiago ’98
Dayton, OH
Molly Schultz ’98
Brooklyn, NY
Stephen
Schwerner ’60
Yellow Springs, OH
Penny Storm ’65
Titusville, FL
Bradley Wilburn ’84
Mountlake Terrace, WA
Antioch College
Alumni Board Members
2005-2006

Reunion 2005
A n t i o c h i a n 20
Photo
by
Don Benning

Photo
by
Jack Palmer
The Class of ’55 Row 1: Alice Uyttebrouck, Mike Brower,Sharon Merri-
man, Barbara Evans, Barbara Schram, Shirley Madsen
Row 2: Art Zucker, Paul Fishkin, Lee Cass, Larry Pearl, Gordon Evans,
Alan Rolan, Row 3: Graham Humphrey, Tom Groves,
Edna (Eddie) Carch Groves, Bob Ginsberg
President of the Alumni Association Board John
Feinberg ’70 enjoys a cold one from the beer truck.

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Members of the classes of
the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s
and beyond.
Winners of the Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Awards –
Lee Morgan ’67, winner of the Arthur Mogan Award;
Judith ’52 and Atis Folkmanis ’53, winners of the Rebecca Rice Award;
Marica Dugan ’53, winner of the JD Dawson Award; and Seymour
“Si” Reichlin ’4 05, winner of the Horace Mann Award.
Stre-e-etch. One of the work projects was cleaning up the
landscaping near the Theatre Building.
Photo
by
Elin Shalcross
’67
Photo
by
Elin Shalcross
’67
Photo
by
Elin Shalcross
’67
Robin Sheerer ’63 landscaped in the Emilys’ Memorial Sculpture Garden.
Photo
by
Jack Palmer

A n t i o c h i a n 22
Photo
by
Don Benning

Photo
by
Jack Palmer
Reunion 2005
Photo
by
Jack Palmer
Members of the classes of the ’40s.
Music was everywhere at Reunion ’05 – there was
folk dancing on red square, karaoke in Spalt 007
and DJ Clean Gene Lohman spun tunes
on the stoop.
Members of the class of ’55 honored Professor Emeritus Irwin Abrams (pictured ﬁrst row, third from the right) by creating
an endowed fund in his name. They have successfully raised over $60,000 in gifts and pledges to date
for the Irwin Abrams Fund for Peace Education.
Save these dates
Reunion 2006
Friday, June 23 through Sunday, June 25
Work Project Monday, June 19 through
Thursday, June 22
Look for information on the web at www.antioch-college.edu, or e-mail alumni@antioch-college.edu.

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Photo
by
Don Wallace
’60
Photo
by
Don Benning

Photo
by
Don Benning

Photo
by
Don
Benning
Penny Storm ’65 auctions off a Furry Folk puppet donated by alumni award
winners Atis ’53 and Judith Folkmanis ’52.
Members of the classes of the ’60s.
Gary ’66 and Rosalind Houseknecht ’66
still going strong forty years later.
Photo
by
Elin Shalcross
’67
Photo
by
Don Benning

The stoop was a popular
place to meet up
with old friends.
The Furry Folk lamb enjoyed
much love from alumni.
Nina Coleman ’93, Kyle Bennett ’95 and family enjoy hanging out
on the stoop after dinner.

A n t i o c h i a n 24
ClassNotes
’40s
Arthur Solomon ’41 writes: “A curi-
ous tale follows for those who might
remember my name and those rela-
tively early years at Antioch. Those of
you who do may recall that I arrived
on campus the same year as George
Geiger, in 1937 (Algo Henderson was
president then & Jessie Treichler his
able assistant), but I left after four years
for the wars in 1941. I served in the
merchant marine (bravely, of course),
married Hilda Golub between voy-
ages, and returned to campus in 1945
to ﬁnish my degree and play “Romeo”
directed by Arthur Lithgow. After
much theater at the College with Paul
Treichler directing and some years
in the summer theater (I recall one
summer directing Vivan Bresnehen
and Meredith Dallas in Pygmalion),
I earned a MA in theater at UNC
which catapulted me into the profes-
sional NY theater for two years, forgo
the theatrical for the academic life, I
eared a Ph.D. from Stanford in Speech
Pathology and taught all manner of
speech for the next 35 years, including
seven years on the Antioch faculty.
“In 1962, W. Boyd Alexander
called me at Chico State University
and said ‘come back,’ so I happily
returned to campus where, besides
teaching, I counseled students under
J.D. Dawson along with Wally Sikes;
was talked into playing the Ghost in
Hamlet (by the very persuasive Paul
Treichler in his new amphitheatre),
and then, in my spare time, originated
a new type of undergraduate speech
program, encourage by the head of
research, Sam Baskin. I called it ‘In-
terpersonal Communication’ which
eventuated in a book with that title,
coauthored with Steve Perry and Bob
Devine. On the basis of that publica-
tion, I received an appointment as
Speech Department Chair at Western
Washington University where they
were particularly interested in some-
one conversant with Drama, Speech
Pathology and General Speech. My
past career choices suddenly made
sense and surprisingly, seemed ratio-
nal and judicious so I settled in for
20 years, where among other tasks, I
originated a summer class/tour called
‘Shakespeare-At-Stratford’ and for 16
summers I was paid to go to England
and lead tours to see all of the produc-
tions of the Royal Shakespeare The-
atre at Stratford and in London.
“I retired from WWU some 20
years ago, but taught again somewhat
informally and without pay wherever
the winds of chance and choice have
pointed; in Hawaii at the Univer-
sity, in Santa Fe, NM and in Port
Townsend, WA. In these last years, I
went on for additional training with
the Spiritual Eldering Institute and
conducted groups concerned with im-
proving the quality of life and living
in our senior years. I believe I have
ﬁnally found my calling and await
with some eagerness and a modicum
of anxiety the next chapters of this
eventful journey.” Friends write: 276
Cowlitz Pl, La Conner, WA 98257
Robert R. Cruse ’42 writes: “A
course listing in the latest Presidential
ﬂyer has aroused my interest and
comment. The LC on Water Matters:
I wonder if even Antioch knows the
depth and breadth of this subject.
For starters, let me refer you to two
U.S.G.S. Water Supply Papers, cover-
ing six years of research on water
evaporation control, which I co-au-
thored. This is obviously a miniscule
sub-topic. I sent the Antioch Library
hard-bound copies of both papers
at the time they were issued (early
1960’s).
“Also, water played a big part in
our family subdivisions in Pima
County, Arizona (Tucson). Water?
The Sonoran Desert? Believe it!!! We
chose our location because we found
the underground water tables, and
subsequent and belated development,
including the Tucson International
Airport and the Hughes missile plant
located on our side of town – after
some 20 years.
“In some states, and some areas,
water law is a ﬁeld all by itself. There
are water newsletters in print in
Texas. All this is merely scratching
the surface, as subsequent research
will show.”
Louis Ann Matthews ’47 writes: “I
only attended Antioch for one year,
from August 1946 till I ﬁnished my
second work-section mid-summer
in 1947, but as you can imagine, my
experiences that year have remained
among my most vivid memories of my
life in America. Since 1950 my home
has been New Zealand, but I also
had four years in England, one back
in America and one in France and
Germany.”
Mary B. Bowman ’49 writes: “So,
after seven trips to Japan and 20
years, I returned in April for further
art study and to see friends and col-
leagues. My teacher friend in Tokyo
has taught Japanese brush painting for
over 40 years. At 83 she is still teach-
ing six days a week most weeks. It was
my third stay in her home honing my
painting skills in this Zen meditative
art. By this time at 78, I thought I’d
be really retired, but in this, the only
art of over 14 centuries of continuous
usage, teachers last. My teacher, Mr.
Beika Inada, lived and worked until
he died in his home at 96.
“Later in the trip I painted large
pictures in the early morning, and
my specialty of bamboo improved.
Seeing many gardens in spring foli-
age was great, as were reunions with
Osaka friends, Mrs. Taniguchi and
Antioch Graduate Receives Chancellor’s
Distinguished Scholarship Award
By Chris Mortimer ’05
Dictionaries at the University of Massachusetts merely display her picture under the word “scholar.”
Antioch College graduate Esther Kingston-Mann has taught American Studies at the University of Massa –
chusetts for the last 40 years or so. Her academic career has been as varied as it has impressive: diversity
in education, gender studies, anthropology, law, history (both American and Russian) and sociology.
Earning her B.A. from Antioch in 1961, Esther Kingston-Mann went on to achieve both her M.A. and Ph.D.
at John Hopkins University.
Kingston-Mann has contributed over 30 chapters or articles to various and sundry academic journals, all
top rank within her ﬁeld. She founded the Association for Women in Slavic Studies and is afﬁliated with
the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (at Harvard), as well as the International Association
for the Study of Common Property and the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
She has written grants and received recognition from the American Council of Learned Societies, the
Guggenheim Foundation, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Rock –
efeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
Now she can add another honor to her distinguished career. On June 3rd, at the Commencement exercises
for the University of Massachusetts, she was awarded the prestigious Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholar –
ship Award for 2005.

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ClassNotes
Mitsuzo Harada and his family.
“For threads of meaning in all of
this I am grateful to Antioch for the
groundwork in my 35 year art studio
and teaching career in this narrow
specialty. In addition, Antioch support-
ed the sabbatical for my then faculty
member husband to do research for a
year in Japan. First as a freshman art
major living in Bingle, with Mrs. Cor-
ry as advisor and Ellen Shufro as one
of the hall advisors I was Mary Brom-
bacher, later as a married student, and
faculty wife from 1958-1970, I was
Mary Bieri. Following remarriage in
1974 I became Mary B. Bowman.
“For almost 20 ears now, I have
lived and worked in San Antonio, the
8th largest city in Texas. But Yellow
Springs is still another home to me,
and I have a son and grandchildren
who live in town. I noted in February
attending a granddaughter’s art ex-
hibition opening at Herndon Gallery,
that theater sign I had made here and
shipped to the College and Louise
Smith is still above the door. It was
supposed to have a 7 year life…
“My best to everybody who wades
through this.”
’50s
Jane Foster Jonston ’52 writes:
“Jane Foster Johnston and husband,
Carl, have retired from world travel-
ing after early retirement in ’92 from
Denver Public Schools and are at
home for classmates to contact at 4126
South Wolff St, Denver, CO 80236.”
David Parke ’52: In August of 2004,
David accepted the ministry at ﬁrst
Unitarian Universalist Church in
Detroit, MI.
John Rockman ’53 writes: “You ask
why I became a professor – because
every time my father and I had a
“discussion,” he always ended it with
“Alright professor,” so why not. After
a year of being Dr. Corwin’s lecture
assistant and lab coordinator, plus
a year of teaching anatomy for the
nurses at Vanderbilt U., I decided that
college teaching was for me. I spent
three years at a junior college in Ken-
tucky and 36 years at William Pat-
erson College in New Jersey. There,
one semester, I had three generations
of one family in my class. I also had
student teachers to supervise – some
were excellent and others would not
last long. My biggest problem was my
associates – they wouldn’t believe my
work-study experiences applied to
what my students should know – they
had nothing to offer. They especially
object to my 12 pages of Latin and
Greek preﬁxes, sufﬁxes and stems for
scientiﬁc terms – they were too lazy to
master them.
“I have been married for 48 years;
we have four children, two and two.
The two boys are mechanics. The
oldest daughter is a pediatric nurse.
The other attended the Air Force
Academy. She married and has four
children which she home schools
but they will enter public school this
fall. The two girls have been in the
Nutcracker ballet in Chattanooga for
three years.
“I came to Antioch for the experi-
ence I could get in the work-study
program and for travel. I biked in
Europe with Jean Sandford and Carl
Haag ’52. I’ve been to all 50 states
and 19 countries and I am still eager
to go. I have been back to Antioch for
several reunions and to some of the
other 10 colleges I have attended. I
hope to see you all at this year’s re-
union. We go to my wife’s family and
class reunions in Alabama, too.
“In 1995-6 we built a retirement
home in the Hideout in the Pocono
Mountains of PA. Since we both grew
up on farms, we are right at home in
the woods with deer and wild turkeys
in our font yard everyday. I am on the
water and sewer board and active as
a lecturer for water protection and for
the Audubon Adventure program. We
are active in Senior Citizens, church,
the local ﬁre auxiliary, several social
clubs and the woodworkers.
“The main activity here is eating
(it shows). We got to dinners at seven
churches and ﬁve ﬁre departments.”
Frances Degen Horowitz ’54 writes:
“After 14 years as President of the
CUNY Graduate Center, I am step-
ping down from this post. I will
stay on as University Professor and
President Emerita. Among highlights
of recent years was election to the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.”
’60s
Gretchen Engle Schaffer ’61 writes:
“It is always fun to read of the events
in the lives of old Antioch friends. I’d
like to add my own news. Married
to Harry Shaffer for 43 years, two
wonderful sons and three little grand-
children. My book, From Racism to
Genocide: Anthropology of the Third
Reich, came out in the winter and will
soon appear in Polish.”
Lorie Silber Brillinger ’62 writes:
“I am living in Berkeley and retired
two years ago as a Nurse/Midwife.
I seem to be busier than ever, but
most of it is very rewarding. I have
been married to David for 44 years, a
Canadian who loves his job teaching
at UC Berkeley (statistics – and isn’t
ready to retire). We are depressed and
angry at the US Government, and will
go to Canada in a few years, I’m sure!
I am on the Berkeley Health Commis-
sion, and the Ethics Committee at the
hospital. My mission in life is to reduce
racism in the medical community.”
Robert Burchess ’64 writes: “After
living in NYC for the previous 25
years, I left it all and moved up to
the mountains of Vermont 1 1/2 years
ago, where I’m now living on a big,
old dairy farm north of Rutland. I’m
enjoying endless views, stillness and
slower time; doing lots of poetry/
staged readings and featured artist
exhibition, which have even gotten
some decent press in which recent
work was said to be reminiscent of
Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Figure
Studies as seen through the eyes of
Ego Schiele. So, perhaps, there’s still
hope in this old life. I will probably
soon get involved again with theater,
teaching or counseling. I love to hear
from old friends/Antiochians in Ver-
mont or otherwise.” Friends write:
59 West Road, North Chittenden,
VT 05763
Shelia Edwards Galland ’64 writes:
“I was diagnosed with ovarian
cancer February 2004. Many of the
symptoms mimic those of irritable
bowel syndrome, bladder control or
esophageal reﬂux disease. My inter-
nist and my gastroenterologist were
clueless. See your gynecologist! If
you have breast or ovarian cancer in
your mother’s or father’s family, you
may have mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2
gene.” Friends write: 36 Heritage Rd,
Actow, MA 01720
Janet Graham Bentley-Bell ’65
writes: “Retired in 1997. Currently
living in a small rancho ﬁve kilome-
ters south of San Miguel de Allende
in state of Guanajuato, MX.” Friends
write: 220 N Zapatattwy Ste 11,
PMB 564, Laredo, TX 78043-4464,
rojograndej@hotmail.com
Wayne Press ’67 writes: “Just hit the
big 60 and don’t know if I’ll ever grow
up. After 30 years, ISO is still paying
me to do my hobby, getting to know
towns and their ﬁre departments. Now
that my two daughters are teenagers,
my wife, Volga ﬁnally got a job teach-
ing ESL at a Camden, NJ elemen-
tary school. We all visited Antioch a
couple of years ago on a Midwestern
trip. The science building was exactly
the same as when I began Antioch in
1962. I’m sure Steve Gould’s trilobites
were still rattling around in a drawer
somewhere.” Friends write: 410 Ja-
maica Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002

A n t i o c h i a n 26
ClassNotes
A Trailblazer of
Environmental Justice
Reprinted with permission from the Toxinformer, May 2005
Ruth M. Heiftz ’57, M.D., M.P.H., was inducted
into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame
of the Women’s History Museum as a “Trail –
blazer” of environmental justice in March 2005.
The purpose of the annual induction of women
into the Hall of Fame is to make women’s actions
and accomplishments visible in San Diego, and
Ruth’s accomplishments are many – including
being one of the founding members of the EHC
[Environmental Health Coalition].
Twenty-ﬁve years ago while working in the ﬁeld
of workers’ heath and safety, she became con –
cerned about the ailments suffered by workers
who handled toxic chemicals every day in their
jobs. Her scientiﬁc nature made her ponder how
these same chemicals could be affecting the
communities nearby.
At that time there was no organization in the
area able to tackle these problems. Along with
other trailblazers in the community, the Coalition
Against Cancer was born (the name was changed
later in 1980 to Environmental Health Coalition).
Ever since she has been part of the board of di-
rectors, the body that guides EHC work.
Building on her commitment to workers’ health,
she fought for workers’ right to know about the
chemicals they were exposed to, and then to
expand that right to everyone. As part of EHC’s
Right to Know Campaign, she helped all San Di-
egans get the right to know about local polluters
in their communities in 1983. But having seen
the damage done to workers’ health from the ex-
posure to toxic chemicals, she recognized that
knowing about the risks was not enough. From
promoting pesticide reduction policies to ﬁghting
for the cleanup of San Diego Bay to educating
women about the impacts of toxic chemicals, pre-
venting harm has always been her priority.
Ruth explains that her greatest accomplish –
ment “has been to be part of a great collective of
people united by the same cause and the same
ideals, working towards the same goal: Environ –
mental and Social Justice.”
volunteer my time and skills; teaching
in the library and the public schools,
and working with the massage thera-
pists in Clinica Capacitar – teaching
Swedish and Thai massage tech-
nique.” Friends write: 1905 SE 54th,
Portland, OR 97215
’80s
Kirana Stover ’87 writes: “I’ve been
living in Sant Perce De Ribes, a vil-
lage 40 kilometers south of Barcelona
for the last 12 years. I’ve been with my
husband, Isaac for almost all of that
time. We have one son, Noah Shaanon
Coll, born in November 2003. I live
3 blocks away from our blessed yoga
center of which I am the lucky “direc-
tor.” Please get in touch if coming this
way!” Friends write: C. Santa Josep
10, 08810 Sant Perce De Ribes BCN
Spain, milana29@telefonica.net
’90s
Patrick Masterson ’99 writes: “I’m
in Washington, DC, now after a year
in California and three in New Mex-
ico. If you’re out this way it would be
great to connect.”
’70s
David Wilbur ’70 writes: “Beginning
10th year as Sports Editor of weekly
newspaper. Mooreﬁeld Examiner.
Beginning ninth year (this fall) as At-
tendance Director for Hardy County
Schools. Both jobs are “part time” but
they keep me busy from late August
to June.”
Barbara C. Cohen ’71 writes: “I am
a hostess and assistant manager at
Ristra Restaurant in Santa Fe, NM.
I married Al Chapman last June 19.
He is a painter, works on the Santa Fe
Plaza and makes my life wonderful.”
Friends write: 405 Estrella Court,
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Pamela A. Mackey ’72 writes:
“Retired from Federal Service since
1990. Happily married with two
grown daughters. In 2004 and 2005, I
entered a juried and touring statewide
visual arts exhibition. I won ﬁrst place
in 2004 for my mixed media composi-
tion titled, “Invincible.” In 2005 my
artwork titled “Gerontophratia” won
Best in Show. Eureka! My purpose is
to create visual art showcased in jur-
ied and touring exhibitions. I believe
art must be affordable to the masses
and accessible to the disabled.”
Larry Wolfe ’78 writes: “My wife
Nan and I spent the ﬁrst half of 2004
living and working in Suchitoto, El
Salvador. It was her work that brought
us there, but I found opportunities to
Larry Wolfe ’78

F a l l 2 0 0 5 2 7
Obituaries
ROBERT A.
LEVIN ’42
passed away peace-
fully in his sleep
early Tuesday morn-
ing, July 19, 2005. He
was born on July 24,
1919, in Ogdensburg,
New York. He was
preceded in death
by his wife, Kay, and
daughter, Betsy. He
is survived by his son, David Levin and David’s wife, Sandy Murdock,
and his daughter, Rachel Levin. He has many loving grandchildren:
Shane Thompson and his wife Jennifer, Anna, Nick, Peter, and Abby
Levin, and two great grandchildren, Hunter and Dakota Thompson.
Bob and Kay raised their children in Evanston, Illinois, and then
moved to a farm in Cleveland, Wisconsin. Bob moved to Albuquerque
in October, 1991, two years after his wife’s death, and has been active
in New Mexico civic life since then.
He joined the board of the Explora Science Center and in 1996
chaired the New Vision board, the board that successfully merged the
Albuquerque Children’s Museum and Explora.
He was Founding Chairman of the Walking Stick Foundation, a
joint Native American/Jewish spiritual retreat center in the wilder-
ness eight miles from Cuba, NM. He was on the boards of Jewish
Family Services, Hillel at the University of New Mexico, and the
Advisory Board of Seed University. He was a founding member of the
Arab-Jewish Peace Alliance of New Mexico.
He was a member of Congregation Nahalot Shalom where he
served on the board for one term and was a key member of the com-
mittee that raised the money to buy a building for the congregation.
Before moving to New Mexico he had been program planning
director of the National CIO Community Services Committee,
education director of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Ameri-
ca; president of Community Programs Inc, a consulting ﬁrm for not-
for-proﬁt institutions and community organizations; and Associate
Executive Director of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago.
In 1950 he was appointed by the United States State Department
to an international committee to advise UNESCO in the designing
of a program to reestablish democratic adult education in Germany
and Austria. He also received a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford
University to study adult education in England.
In the 1960s and 1970s he was chairman of the board of three
foundations: The Akbar Fund of New York, which made grants only
to Native American controlled projects; the Esopus Foundation, a
family foundation; and the Inner City Fund of Chicago.
A 1942 graduate of Antioch College, he later served on its board for
21 years and was Trustee Emeritus. He, with his wife, Kay, served as
Acting President
in 1975 during
an administra-
tive and ﬁnancial
crisis. In 1979 he
was awarded an
honorary Doctor
of Laws.
Bob’s journey
through the end of
life process was greatly assisted by many people, especially his large
family of friends in the Jewish community and the Presbyterian
Hospice Group, and the family thanks them all.
In lieu of ﬂowers, the family suggests individual contributions of
any kind to progressive issues and causes in the furtherance of the
peace he prayed for.

A n t i o c h i a n 28
Obituaries
Arthur G. Marsh ’32, 97, of Bristol,
CT, husband of Barbara (Lawson)
Marsh, and widower of Ethel (Gar-
rigus) Marsh, died on Thursday,
March 3, 2005 at Sub-Acute Center
of Bristol. Mr. Marsh was born on
August 29, 1907, in New Hartford, NY
and was a son of the late George and
Louise (Thompson) Marsh. He was
raised in Bristol and attended Bristol
schools and Antioch College in Yel-
low Springs, OH. He worked for New
Departure for 36 years before retiring.
He also lived in Milan, OH and Brew-
ster, MA before returning to Bristol in
1991. He was a member of First Con-
gregational Church, Bristol. In addi-
tion to his wife, Mr. Marsh is survived
by a son and daughter-in-law, Robert
G. and Carol Marsh Sr. of Burlington;
a daughter and son-in-law, Beverly
and Andrew Parke of Buffalo, NY;
eight grandchildren and their spouses:
Robert G. and Mary Marsh Jr., of
Bristol, Jeffrey and Beejay Marsh of
Brigantine, NJ, Jonathan and Donna
Marsh of Bristol, Elizabeth Marsh of
Saranac Lake, NY, Jeffrey and Diane
Parke of Yucca Valley, CA, Sandra
Light of Woodstock, IL, Louann Cor-
bidge of Burlington, and Coreen and
David Thompson of Granby; seven
great grandchildren, Justin, Heather,
Alex, and Julianna Marsh, Janice
Parke, Ashley and Garrett Thompson;
one niece; and three nephews. In lieu
of ﬂowers, memorial donations may
be made to the First Congregational
Church Book of Remembrance Fund,
31 Maple St., Bristol.
Ruth Hutchinson Sevcik ’32, age 95,
of Oberlin and Cleveland, died Feb.
23 2005, at her home in the Kendal
Community. Wife of the late Edward
Sevcik; mother of Sally, Steven, and
Peter Sevcik; mother-in-law of Sue
Sevcik; sister of Anne Gieschen;
grandmother of three. A 1932 gradu-
ate of Antioch College, she became
the ﬁrst woman to serve as acting
regional director of the National La-
bor Relations Board. Memorial dona-
tions may be made to the Stephens
Education Fund that supports staff
education at Kendal.
Charlotte K. Mock ’35 of Frederick
Mennonite Community, Frederick,
PA, died Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005, at
her residence. She was 93. She was
the wife of Roy F. Mock, who died
April 3, 1993. Born Aug. 8, 1911, in
Philadelphia, she was the daughter
of the late John and Charlotte (Klep-
pinger) Clymer. She was a graduate
of Philadelphia High School for Girls
and had attended Antioch College
in Ohio. For 15 years, Mrs. Mock
was self-employed with Clymers of
Bucks County. She retired in 1972.
She was of the Presbyterian faith.
Survivors include her son, Richard
J. Mock of Gouldsboro, PA; two
daughters, Susan, wife of Frank York,
of Doylestown and Jane Marshall of
Clinton, CT; 13 grandchildren, and
11 great-grandchildren.
Francis Stratton Morse ’35, 94, a
lifelong resident of Spofford, NH,
died Monday, Feb. 21, 2005. He was
born March 15, 1910, in Brattleboro,
VT, the son of Edward Vane and
Nellie Rose Stratton Morse. His long
life was marked by his outgoing en-
thusiasm for the outdoors, enjoyment
in helping people, and his strong faith
in all of God’s promises. Raised in a
musical family, he remembered his
family singing at the Northﬁeld, MA,
revival meetings; the First Baptist
Church in Brattleboro and elsewhere
during his childhood; working on Ru-
dyard Kipling’s farm; muddy roads to
Boston; and Model T rides up Mount
Wantastiquet for Sunday picnics at
the top. In 1929, he graduated from
Brattleboro High School where he’d
distinguished himself in athletics in
track, skiing, distance swimming and
football. He attended Antioch College
in Ohio. During the Depression, he
worked in New York City at the boat-
yards. In Boston, he was an American
Airlines limousine driver; a deﬁnite
highlight in his driving jobs, of which
he had several, into his 80s. He spent
years transporting people to medical
appointments and driving community
buses. Loving mountains and also
boating, he took great pleasure in
sharing those joys. He climbed the
Northeast’s mountains many times,
and led many groups on hikes and
canoe trips. He inspired all ages with
his love of and keen observations of
nature as well as his unshakable faith
in the Lord’s care. His lack of fear
about anything was notable. In the
1950s, he organized a Boy Scout troop
in Chesterﬁeld. Following retirement,
he was a counselor at wilderness
camps in the White Mountains. He
continued skiing, hiking, swimming
and boating into his 90s. In October
1937, he married Marjorie Adams in
Putney, VT. They were married 25
years, living ﬁrst in Keene, where his
ofﬁce with The Monarch Life Insur-
ance Company was located, and from
1946, in Spofford with their three
children. Selling insurance was his
profession until retirement, and was in
part responsible for his huge interest
in health issues. He continued to live
in Spofford until a year ago, when he
moved to Hilltop House in Brattle-
boro. He was a city councilman in
Keene, a member of several organiza-
tions, and was active in town affairs
in both Spofford and Keene. An avid
reader, he always remained abreast of
local and world affairs, gave gener-
ously to missions and actively sup-
ported policies of his beliefs. He was a
member of the First Baptist Church in
Keene, then the First Congregational
Church, and the last two decades, The
Village Church in West Swanzey. He
married Eleanor Chamberlain in 1964
and helped raise her two children. On
April 1991, at 81, he married Signe
Landers. She predeceased him in
September 2004. Nearly every sum-
mer for 45 years, he attended Winni
CFO on Lake Winnipesaukee, and
introduced dozens of others to the
camp. He led many Bible study and
prayer groups, and remained active
in Full Gospel Businessmen Interna-
tional. His clear mind and enormous
love for his family and friends were
evident to the end. Mr. Morse leaves
his son, Robert E. Morse and wife,
Winnie Liu, of Castro Valley, CA; his
daughter, Martha Gehring and hus-
band, Don, of Wilmington, VT, and
son, David Morse of Middletown, CT;
four grandchildren, Heidi, Heather,
Daniel and Abigail Gehring. He also
leaves ex-wife, Eleanor C. Morse and
stepchildren, Cathy and Clifford Hall,
and their families; a niece, Elizabeth
Eisenhauer, grand and great-grand-
nieces and nephews, and close friends.
He was predeceased by a brother,
Kenneth, and a sister, Margaret.
Ethel O’Neil Barnes ’36 died on
April 19, 2004, at the age of 92. Ethel
attended Antioch between 1930 and
1936 and there met her future hus-
band, Harry Barnes ’34 (deceased
1971). She was fond of telling the
story of working in the library and
of ﬁnding it necessary to turn out the
studious Harry as she closed up for
the night.
Ethel went on to become an ad-
vocate for human rights, a political
activist, and an environmentalist,
while always pursuing her love of
horses and riding. Her volunteer work
with schools, libraries, churches, and
the 4-H horse program in Rockland
County, New York, and at the Fel-
lowship of Reconciliation in nearby
Nyack was recognized and honored
on numerous occasions. Her untiring
work to ensure the rights of abused
and disenfranchised peoples contin-
ued throughout her life.
Ethel’s brother, Robert O’Neil ’38,
also attended Antioch in the 1930s.
Two of Ethel’s daughters attended
Antioch in the 1960s, Vera Knoll ’66
and Elma B. Sanders ’72. At Antioch,
Vera met and married (in the Chapel,
reception at the Antioch Inn) Ken-
neth Knoll ’64. And three of Ethel’s
cousins – Thomas ’55, Steven ’57, and
Susan Groves’60 – attended Antioch.
Tom’s wife, Edna ’56, and Steve’s
wife, Anne ’57, also are Antiochians.
The Barnes are part of an extended
Antioch family within the still larger
family of Antiochians past and present.
William Pierpont McNair ’36 died
peacefully on January 30, 2005. He
was 91 years old. He had worked for
Kimberly-Clark for thirty years and
for Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital
for ten years. After the death of his
wife, Pauline Beaufort McNair ’39,
he lived with each of his three chil-
dren before dying in Newport News,
Virginia.
Katharine (Kay) Maxwell Hollister
’37 of Yellow Springs died peacefully
at home on Wednesday, April 13, two
days before her 91st birthday.
Born in Chicago on April 15, 1914,
she was the daughter of Donald He-
berd Maxwell and Virginia Senseney
Maxwell. She grew up in Wilmette, IL.
A longtime resident of Yellow
Springs, Kay ﬁrst came to town in the
1930s to study at Antioch College.
After graduation she went on to get
her MA in education from Northwest-
ern University and taught elementary
school in Winnetka, IL, and the An-
tioch School in Yellow Springs. While
teaching in Winnetka, she was visited
by fellow Antioch alumnus Barrett
Hollister ’36. They fell in love and
married in December 1941.
Kay was a devoted mother who
focused on raising her four children.
An active member of the Yellow
Springs Friends Meeting since the
early 1940s, she had a passion for
religious education. She served on a
national Quaker religious education
committee for over 40 years, contrib-
uting to Sunday school curriculum
development and teacher training.
Though Yellow Springs was always
home, twice she and Barry moved
their brood for two-year Quaker
service stints, once to Geneva, Swit-
zerland, and once to Philadelphia.
Continuing her mother’s activism
in the women’s right-to-vote move-
ment, Kay was a member of the local
League of Women Voters for 60
years, serving three times as chapter
president. When she and Barry moved
to New York City she spent nine years
as the hostess of Quaker House while
Barry directed the Quaker United
Nations Ofﬁce.
Kay was preceded in death by
Barrett Hollister, her husband of 62
years. In their ﬁnal years, Kay and
Barry were cared for by their son, Don.
She is survived by her children
and in-laws, Robert Hollister ’66 and
Catherine Donaher of Brookline, MA,
Ginny and Carl Freeman of Arcadia,
MI, Joan Hollister ’70 and Greg Finger
of Wallkill, NY, and Don Hollister
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Ethel and Harry Barnes
Carlisle, then for many years on Pine
Road near Mt. Holly Springs. After
their children left for college, he and
Lois moved to Harrisburg, where
they remained until 1997. Wally
owned and operated Piezo Crystal
Company for many years with friend
and partner, Herman Shall, designing
and manufacturing components for
radio communication devices for the
Armed Forces, private industry, and
space exploration. After selling the
plant, he continued as an engineer-
ing management consultant until the
early 1990s. After Herman’s untimely
death in 1970, he ably acted as sur-
rogate father and grandfather for the
Shall family, Tillie (widow); children,
Maxine, David, Donald, and Michael.
He and Lois moved to Birmingham in
1997 to be near their son. Lois died in
1997. He again fell in love and mar-
ried Peggy Benjamin in 1999. Wally
was a very kind, friendly, loving,
generous person. He was analytical,
inquisitive, academic, scholarly and a
patient teacher for Paul and Basja dur-
ing school years, and employees and
friends. He was known for his love
of travel and good food and wine. He
loved, and was loved in return, by all
who knew him. He was preceded in
death by his parents Sidney and Dora
Soskin Samuelson and his wife Lois
Samuelson. He is survived by his wife
Peggy Benjamin Samuelson; his sis-
ter, Polly Roseman of New York; son,
Paul N. Samuelson, M.D., (Carole)
of Birmingham, AL; daughter, Basja
Samuelson of Portland, OR; grand-
sons, David W. Samuelson, M.D.,
(Elizabeth) of St. Petersburg, FL;
and Marc N. Samuelson (Jamie) of
Houston, TX and three great-grand-
children. In lieu of ﬂowers, memorials
may be sent to your favorite charity.
George E. Sauer ’40, 88, of Interlak-
en Crossroad died Sunday morning,
March 13, 2005, at Kimball Farms
Nursing Care Center in Lenox. Born
in Dayton, Ohio, on Jan. 20, 1917,
son of Charles E. and Adeline Turner
Sauer, he was a 1935 graduate of Troy
(Ohio) High School. He earned a
bachelor of science degree from An-
tioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
An electrical engineer, Mr. Sauer had
been employed by GE in Pittsﬁeld in
the power transformer department for
more than 40 years, retiring in 1981.
He held several patents on transformer
windings. In his later years, he did
some consulting work for Gulf Oil
Co. He was a member of the National
Ski Patrol and was on the ski patrol
at Butternut Basin ski area. He was a
member of the GE Elfun Society and
the American Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers. He was an
ofﬁcer of the Stockbridge Land Trust
and of the Laurel Hill Association,
and was a former president of Old
Curtisville Inc. He volunteered at Ar-
rowhead in Pittsﬁeld, Berkshire Com-
munity College, Berkshire Botanical
Garden, Hancock Shaker Village and
Tanglewood. He and his wife, the
former Elodie Sherman, were married
Oct. 26, 1946, in Pittsﬁeld. Besides
his wife, he leaves a son, John E.
Sauer of Lenox; two daughters, Re-
becca Hurwitz of Amherst and Mar-
tha Sauer of Stockbridge; two sisters,
Barbara Weaver of Eutawville, SC,
and Nancy Elifritz of Lake Leelanau,
MI, and three grandchildren.
James Katten Woog ’41, a resident of
Westport, CT and longtime volunteer
in civic affairs, died Monday, April
4 at Norwalk (CT) Hospital. He was
82, and worked until his death as a
stockbroker.
Mr. Woog was born on November
11, 1922, in Crestwood, NY. He was
the son of the late Sidney and Carolyn
Katten Woog. After graduating from
Roosevelt High School at age 15
he entered Antioch College, where
he was elected as the community
manager, and served as the youngest
member ever on the board of trustees.
Following graduation from Antioch
he joined the Merchant Marines, as
a radio operator. His service dur-
ing World War II included several
crossings of the Atlantic and Paciﬁc
Oceans. He was in Japan just a few
weeks after V-J Day.
Following the war, Mr. Woog
joined the training program for Mer-
rill Lynch, and embarked on a career
as a stockbroker. He worked for
nearly 60 years, ﬁrst in New York and
later from his home in Westport. He
became executive vice president of
Propp and Company, and at the time
of his death was afﬁliated with Op-
penheimer and Company.
Mr. Woog and his wife Josephine
moved to Westport in 1956. He was
elected to the Representative Town
Meeting, was treasurer of the Long
Lots Junior High School PTA and
served on the board of the Nature
Center, but his greatest passion was
the United Jewish Appeal (UJA). He
was an active volunteer throughout his
ﬁve decades in Westport, including a
term as president, and was honored as
its Man of the Year.
In addition to his wife of 54 years,
Mr. Woog is survived by his son, Dan
of Westport; two daughters, Susan
Woog Wagner of White Plains, NY
and Laurie Woog of Westﬁeld, NJ;
their husbands, Stephen Wagner and
Jay Goldring; his grandchildren Josh
and Ben Wagner, and Abigail and
Hannah Goldring; his brother Alan, of
Mercer Island, WA, and several nieces
and nephews.
Memorial contributions can be
made to the UJA, the Crohn’s and
Colitis Foundation of America,
Westchester Chapter, or a charity or
organization of one’s choice. Condo-
lence notes may be sent to Josephine
Woog, 34 High Point Road, Westport,
CT 06880.
Alma ‘Pat’ Dettweiler ’42, 85, of
Duluth, formerly of Two Harbors,
passed away peacefully surrounded
by family on Saturday, March 26,
2005 in Lakeshore Home. She was
born in San Francisco, CA, on Feb.
19, 1920 to Judge Maurice T. Dool-
ing and Mary (Devlin) Dooling. Pat
attended Stanford University in Palo
Alto, CA, for two years, Antioch
College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and
Washington University of St. Louis,
MO, where she received a degree in
social work. She was united in mar-
riage to William J. Dettweiler. She
began her community involvement in
Minnesota with her husband, Bill, at
the Community Health Center Clinic
in Two Harbors. Her career included
child welfare work for Lake County
for nine years. She coordinated and
participated in craft activities at the
nursing home in Two Harbors, as well
as the Pioneer Craft Co-op for 25
years. In addition to her community
social work, Pat taught English as
a Second Language to refugees for
many years in Two Harbors, Duluth
and Texas. Pat was very active and
dedicated her life to working for
peace and justice, including her mem-
bership in Witness for Peace and other
organizations. Family was extremely
important to Pat, who was instrumen-
tal in coordinating family reunions
and fun times. She was truly a selﬂess
individual who strived to make the
world a better place. Pat was preceded
in death by her husband, William J.
Dettweiler; son, Gary Dettweiler; and
sister, Marge Burkett. She is survived
by her daughter, Mary Beth McDade;
two grandchildren, Jackson McDade
and Minaqua McDade; brother-in-law,
Ted Dettweiler and family; sisters-in-
law, Jan Sheeley and family and Phyl-
lis Holdredge and family; nephew,
Tim Burkett and family and nieces,
Yvette (Burkett) Cooper and family
and Charlotte Burkett and family;
cousins, Don Devlin and Joan Roop.
Paul Hugh Smith ’42 passed away
peacefully in his sleep March 5, 2005
in Tucson, AZ. He was 86 years old.
He moved from Ohio in 1956. He
attended Antioch College in Yellow
Springs, Ohio, received his bachelor’s
and master’s degrees from University
of Arizona where he also did work
toward his doctorate. After coming to
Caitlin, Susannah, Emily and Rebecca
Hollister, Brook (and Beth Atkinson)
and Heather Freeman; two brothers,
George Maxwell of Longmont, CO,
and Donald Maxwell ’45 of Redondo
Beach, CA; and numerous nieces and
nephews.
Contributions may be made to the
Friends General Conference (Reli-
gious Education Committee), 1216
Arch Street, Philadelphia 19107 or
the Greater Dayton Area League of
Women Voters, 131 North Ludlow
Street, Talbott Tower, Suite 1208,
Dayton, 45402-1703.
Robert R. Adams ’39, of Columbus,
age 87, died Tuesday, August 10, 2004,
at his residence. Born May 26, 1917,
in McConnelsville, Ohio, Bob was
a graduate of Antioch College and
OSU where he received his master’s
in metallurgical engineering. Bob
worked for Battelle Memorial Institute
for 43 years, beginning in 1936. Dur-
ing his long career, he set up Battelle’s
Geneva, Switzerland operations and
served as the director of the newly
formed Battelle Frankfurt, Germany
Laboratory. He was involved in co-
ordinating the formation of Battelle’s
nuclear and metallurgical pilot plant
facilities in West Jefferson. For many
years Bob and his family lived in Bei-
rut, Lebanon. On loan from Battelle,
he acted as Technical Advisor for the
Advanced Research Project Agency
ﬁeld ofﬁces of the Department of De-
fense. Returning to the US in 1970 and
until his retirement in 1981, he worked
on many other diverse projects for
Battelle, including the planning and
constructing of the Academy for Con-
temporary Problems and the construc-
tion of the coal-gasiﬁcation project at
West Jefferson. A life-long ham radio
operator, Bob devoted countless hours
to his hobby and to community service
through amateur radio. He served for
many years as the President of the
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
of Central Ohio. He is survived by
wife, Jane (Wolford) of Columbus;
daughter, Barbara Dutton of Laguna
Niguel, California; and son, William
of Westerville.
Wallace H.E. Samuelson ’39, 86,
died January 24, 2005 in Birming-
ham, Alabama. Mr. Samuelson grew
up in New York City. He was a gradu-
ate of Antioch College and Harvard
University, with a Master’s in Com-
munication Engineering. He married
Lois Samuelson in 1939. He brieﬂy
taught physics at Antioch College,
but his main occupation was in the
quartz crystal electronics business,
initially in Rochester, NY and Wee-
hawken, NJ and then later in Carlisle,
PA, where he moved about 1946. The
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Arizona, he worked at Hughes
Aircraft, taught in a two-room
schoolhouse on Mt. Lemmon, was
the principal of Catalina Foothills
School, and taught for many years
in the Amphitheater School District.
He is survived by his wife of over 57
years, Virginia C. Smith; daughters,
Peggi Ishman, Amy Dodd, Paula
Smith and his son, Jeffrey Smith. He
had three grandchildren, and seven
great grandchildren.
Betty May Douglass ’43 passed away
on February 15, 2005, at age 84, after
a long illness. She was born on De-
cember 28, 1920, in Postville, Iowa,
the daughter of Ray and Ruth Doug-
lass. She graduated from Roosevelt
High School in Washington, D.C. and
later graduated from Antioch College,
Yellow Springs, Ohio. She completed
her graduate work at American Uni-
versity in Washington, D.C. and
Stanford University, Stanford, Cali-
fornia. She married Jay Jansen of Am-
sterdam on February 7 and resided
in Claremont, CA. After her ﬁrst
husband passed away, she married
John LeClair in Santa Barbara, CA.
She worked to make the world a safer
place by working in international
affairs with the U. S. government, the
United Nations, and in academia. She
was a published writer and a member
of the Author’s League of America.
While living in Santa Barbara, she
worked at the United Nations Asso –
ciation Ofﬁce and the UNICEF store.
Survivors include nephews Lt. Col.
C. Douglass Couto (USAF-retired)
of East Lansing, MI and Edward D.
Couto, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth of
Des Moines, IA. The family suggests
memorials be made to the American
Cancer Society or the United Nations
UNICEF US Fund.
Conrad G. Malmgren ’43, age 86,
husband of Norma J. Malgren, died
Sunday, May 22, 2005, at home.
He was born on July 21, 1918, in
Sioux Falls, SD, grandson of Swed-
ish and German immigrants, and
son of the late George and Elizabeth
Malmgren.
One of the pioneers of South Car-
olina’s textile industry, Mr. Malmgren
came to the Upstate from Portland,
Oregon in 1953 to open Oconee
County’s ﬁrst large-scale garment
plant, Jantzen Southern, an expansion
of Portland-based swimsuit manufac-
ture Jantzen. He managed the Jantzen
plants in Seneca and Westminster
for 15 years before continuing his
career at Jantzen in Philadelphia,
PA; Brooks Uniforms in Dallas,
TX; Huntley Mills in York, SC; and
Blue Bell, maker of Wrangler blue
jeans in Greensboro, NC. He also
was New York division manager of
Sumerour & Associates, a national
management consulting ﬁrm. He was
active in the American Apparel Manu-
facturers Association, serving on its
technical advisory committee and on
trade missions to Europe. After his
retirement from the textile industry
in the late 1970s, Mr. Malmgren went
into business with his sons, opening
Clemson’s ﬁrst full-service travel
agency, Small World Travel. He was a
Presbyterian.
Mr. Malmgren graduated from
Antioch College in Ohio. He did post-
graduate studies in Yale University
School of Engineering, Harvard
Graduate School of Business Admin-
istration, and Northwestern College
of Law. During World War II, he
served as a Captain in he U.S. Air
Force, stationed in India, China, and
Europe.
A long-time Rotarian, Mr.
Malmgren served as president of both
the Seneca and Clemson Rotary Clubs
and was named a Paul Harris Fellow.
He also served on the Board of Direc-
tors at Oconee Memorial Hospital,
and was director of the South Caro-
lina Development Corporation and
the South Carolina State Chamber of
Commerce.
In addition to his wife of 64
years, he is survived by two sons,
John Malmgren and wife Sheila, and
Mark Malmgren and wife Patricia,
all of Clemeson; a daughter, Jeanne
Malmgren Melvin and husband, Jim,
of Walhalla; grandchildren, Jeff
Malmgren of Goose Creek, Kerri
Malmgren of New York City, Daniel
Malmgren of Tempe, Arizona, Kath-
leen Malmgren of Charleston, Ashley
Malmgren of Clemson, and Maya,
Metta, and Lia Melvin of Walhalla;
two great-grandchildren; and two
nieces.
He was preceded in death by a
brother, Robert Malmgren. Memorials
may be made to OMH Hospice of the
Foothills, 390 Keowee School Road,
Seneca, SC 29672.
Mildred Christian Sisson Atkins ’45,
79, of Des Moines Avenue, in Morgan-
town, WV , died on Thursday, Feb. 10,
2005, at Monongalia General Hospital.
She was born on March 26, 1925,
in Richmond, VA, a daughter of the
late Keeling Herndon and Lucy Chris-
tian Sisson.
She was a member of the First
Presbyterian Church in Morgantown,
where she was an Elder and a Clerk
of Session.
A 1941 graduate of John Marshall
High School in Richmond, VA, she
received her BA degree from Antioch
College in 1945, and her M.A. degree
in ceramics from WVU in 1976.
Mrs. Atkins was a reporter and
editor for newspapers in Spartanburg,
SC, Richmond, VA, and the former
Dominion-News in Morgantown
where she was a social editor.
She was also self-employed as a
potter for 15 years.
Mrs. Atkins was a founding
member of the Designers Craft Guild
of Morgantown, and was a volunteer
with the American Red Cross in
Morgantown. She is survived by her
husband of 52 years, Paul A. Atkins
Jr., and one brother, Keeling H. Sisson
III, of Pleasant View, TN.
She was preceded in death by one
son, Paul A. Atkins III, and one sister,
Lucy Higgins.
In lieu of ﬂowers, memorial dona-
tions may be made to the First Pres-
byterian Church Memorial Fund, 456
Spruce St., Morgantown, WV 26505.
Marjorie H. Bright ’47, a garden
club president and environmental
activist, died of a stroke Sunday, April
17, at Union Memorial Hospital. She
was 79, and had been a resident of Ro-
land Park Place for the past six years.
Marjorie Humphreys was born in Pitts-
burgh and earned a degree in econom-
ics from Antioch College in Yellow
Springs, Ohio. In the 1940s, she did
statistical work for the Gallup Poll
and the Ofﬁce of Population Re-
search at Princeton University. She
helped write a statistical history of
World War II psychological testing
of military personnel for the War
Department. She also was an aero-
dynamics editor on the staff of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Cambridge and wrote a monthly
guided-missile research bulletin. In
1947, she married attorney J. Paul
Bright Jr. The couple moved in 1949
to Ruxton, where she kept a garden of
perennials and trees. In the 1970s she
testiﬁed in favor of wetlands preserva-
tion before a House of Representatives
committee. She was president of the
Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland
from 1971 to 1973. She also was a past
president of the Bryn Mawr School
Parents Association and was active in
the McDonogh School and St. Paul’s
School for Girls parent groups. She
studied painting at Maryland Institute
College of Art and was among the
founders of the Print and Drawing
Society at the Baltimore Museum of
Art. She was a communicant of Epis-
copal Church of the Good Shepherd.
In addition to her husband, survivors
include a son, J. Paul Bright III of
Baltimore; three daughters, Priscilla
D. Bright of Bryn Mawr, PA, Barbara
B. Clawson of Portland, OR, and
Dena H. Bright of The Hague, Neth-
erlands; 11 grandchildren; and two
great-grandsons.
Russell J. Holmes ’48 , 81, died
Monday, March 28, 2005, at York
Hospital. He was the husband for 57
years of the late Martha E. B. Holmes.
He was born in New Brunswick, NJ
on May 3, 1923, the son of the late
Lester C. and Catharine D. Holmes.
He was a graduate of Antioch College
and served for three years in the U.S.
Army Air Corps as a pilot and ﬁrst
lieutenant during WWII. He retired
from AMP, Inc. in 1986 after over 37
years. He was active for many years as
a volunteer with the York Adams Area
Boy Scout Council, serving in various
roles from cub master to district com-
missioner. He was a recipient of the
Silver Beaver Award and the Wood
Badge in Scout Leadership. He served
for 21 years on the Seven Valleys Bor-
ough Council as a councilman and as
its president. He was also the recipient
of the Pennsylvania State Association
of Boroughs’ Chrostwaite Award for
20 years of community service. He
was the treasurer for many years and
an honorary life member of the Theo-
dore Burr Covered Bridge Society of
Pennsylvania, as well as a member of
York Post Card Club. He was also a
founder and member of the Unitarian
Universalist Congregation of York
where he was treasurer for many years
and a former Chair of its Board of Di-
rectors. Russell is survived by a sister,
Mary C. Harmon of Kingston, NH; a
daughter, Deborah M. Holmes of Mol-
de, Norway; four sons, Christopher H.
Holmes of Arnold, Md., Timothy R.
Holmes of Bowie, MD, Peter C. Hol-
mes of San Luis Obispo, CA and Jon-
athan D. Holmes of Thomasville; ﬁve
grandchildren, Elizabeth H. Spiegel
of San Clemente, CA, Rebecca D. Rau
of Pasadena, MD, Mark D. Holmes of
Millersville, MD and Audra C. and
Austin D. Holmes of Thomasville;
and one great-granddaughter, Sydney
E. Holmes of Millersville, MD. In lieu
of ﬂowers, contributions may be made
to the congregation of First Congre-
gational Church, Bristol or to Antioch
College, 795 Livermore Street, Yellow
Springs, OH 45387.
Mary Kiehl Rusco ’49 is deceased.
Retired Lt. Col. K. Stanley
Yamashita ’50, Ph.D., died Saturday,
April 9, 2005 at the White River Junc-
tion V A Regional Medical Center after
a brief illness. He was 80 years old.
Born May 17, 1924 in Los Angeles
to the late Kiyoo and Kikue (Higashi)
Yamashita, he grew up in the ﬁshing
village of Terminal Island. He gradu-
ated from San Pedro High School in
absentia while in a WWII internment
center in Poston, AZ. Yamashita be-
gan classes at Bethel College in MN,
but left to join the Army and served
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during WWII. Upon discharge, he
returned to college, receiving a BA
from Antioch College in OH.
He met Dorothy Viva Whitney
at Antioch and they married April 8,
1950, in Yellow Springs, OH. He was
working on a master’s degree in clini-
cal psychology when he was recalled
to active duty in 1950.
Yamashita spent 33 years in the
Army at duty stations around the
world, serving as an instructor in
counter-insurgency, human behavior,
and cross-cultural communication.
His many decorations included the
Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star.
He served with the 82nd Airborne
Division and wearing his green beret
was one of his greatest honors. At the
age of 41, Yamashita completed Jump
School and was known for being “ﬁrst
out – last down” to his fellow para-
troopers due to his small stature.
After retiring from the Army in
1978 to San Pedro, CA, Yamashita
returned to his studies completing
two master’s degrees and receiving a
Ph.D. in comparative culture from the
University of California, Irvine. His
dissertation was titled Terminal Is-
land: Ethnography of an Ethnic Com-
munity, and he subsequently presented
academic guest lectures focused on
that historical/anthropological topic.
His love of ships and the sea was
evident in his extraordinary per-
sonal library and from the telescope
perched near his balcony overlooking
the Los Angeles harbor. When he and
Dorothy moved to the Upper Valley
in October 1996, his balcony view
changed from the ocean to trees, and
he always longed for the ocean vista.
Sharing his experiences with
young people was important to
Yamashita and he spoke with many
classes in the Upper Valley including
Lebanon, Hanover, and Oxbow High
Schools, Thetford Academy, and
Dothan Brook Elementary School. He
shared with the students a ﬁrst-person
perspective of WWII in the South
Paciﬁc, highlights of his career in
military intelligence, and aspects of
his rich Japanese-American heritage.
He was a member of many organi-
zations including the Japan Society of
Boston, Military Ofﬁcers Association
of America, the National Maritime
Historical Society, and the Terminal
Islanders. A bibliophile, he regularly
donated books to the San Diego Mu-
seum and the San Pedro Bay Histori-
cal Society and served as a consultant
for naval and military history.
Yamashita is survived by his wife
Dorothy ’50; his daughters Karen Lea
Yamashita of Portola Valley, CA (Ted
Kitada); Mari Yamashita deMoya ’75
of Madison, WI (retired Lt. Col. Rich-
ard G.); and Dana Jean Yamashita
of Enﬁeld, NH (Mark Emmert); and
5 grandchildren, Brian and Andrew
deMoya, and Nathan, Terence, and
Kimberly Kitada. He was preceded
in death by his parents, his sisters Iku
(Yamashita) Kanai and Kei Yamashi-
ta, and his brother Tetsuo.
His ashes will be interred at Ar-
lington National Cemetery with full
military honors.
Rita A. Brewer ’52, 74, died Wednes-
day, May 11, 2005, at her home. Rita
Ann Kain was born on July 22, 1930,
in Fargo, ND, to Everett and Elizabeth
(Edwards) Kain. She graduated from
high school in Dunlap, IL, and from
Antioch College in Yellow Springs,
Ohio. She married Darwin Brewer
on Nov. 28, 1952, in Yellow Springs,
Ohio. Darwin died in 1991. Rita
owned and operated Brewer’s Tax
Service in Chetek for many years.
Rita is survived by two sons, Ken-
neth Brewer of Rice Lake and Andy
(Debbie) Brewer of Colorado Springs,
CO; two daughters, Elizabeth (Bill)
Estes of Colorado Springs, CO and
Cynthia Hanson of Prairie Farm;
eight grandchildren; nine great-grand-
children; and one sister, Frances Kain
of Hayward.
She was preceded in death by her
parents and her husband Darwin.
Nancy Joanne Loughridge ’53, of
Walnut Bottom, died Sunday, June
27, 2004, in Sarah A. Todd Memorial
Home, Carlisle, PA.
Born Sept. 30, 1930, in Beaver
Falls, a daughter of the late William
H. and Ruth (Louthan) Louthridge,
she received a bachelor’s degree from
Antioch College and a master’s degree
from the University of Michigan,
where she was also employed. She
was also employed with the Univer-
sity of Southern California, Dickinson
College and the University of Cincin-
nati, where she retired as the director
of library collections.
She also held positions with the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, the Perry Coun-
ty Times and Cumberland County
Historical society. Ms. Loughridge is
survived by two sisters, Jeanne Shad-
ron of Tucson, AZ, and Alice Smith
of Cedar Glen, CA, plus many nieces
and nephews.
Memorial contributions can be
made to the American Cancer So-
ciety, The Humane Society of the
United States or to the Cumberland
Valley Animal Shelter.
Sara Lou “Sally” Chalgian ’55, 71,
a resident of New Baltimore for the
past 12 years, formerly of Sterling
Heights, died Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005,
in Aventura Hospital in Aventura, FL.
She was born May 2, 1933, in Port
Huron. Mrs. Chalgian, who grew up
in Algonac, had many happy memo-
ries of swimming and boating in the
St. Clair River with her four brothers
and one sister, relatives said. She was
described as a loving and devoted
wife, mother, grandmother and friend
who dearly valued spending time with
her family. She loved having her fam-
ily together for the holidays and other
gatherings and entertaining friends
and family at many parties and fund-
raising events. Family members said
even when she wasn’t with her fam-
ily, she spoke to her grown children
daily and never tired of hearing about
their lives and her grandchildren.
She was a committed Christian who
practiced kindness and generosity in
all areas of her life, her family said.
She was one of the ﬁrst members of
Peace Presbyterian Church in Clin-
ton Township and served in various
leadership roles there for more than
40 years. She served as a Sunday
school and Vacation Bible School
teacher at the church. Mrs. Chalgian
also was a founding member of the
Human Relations Council and served
on the board of the Macomb County
Martin Luther King Jr. annual dinner
several times. For many years, she
served as chairwoman of the Macomb
County Family Independence Agency
Board and served on the board of the
Girl Scouts Otsikita Council. She
also was involved with the Northeast
Interfaith Center for Racial Justice.
She also was involved with providing
backpacks to foster children and shoe
boxes of school supplies for children
in the community. She was active in
local politics and was well known
for designing creative brochures
and writing newsletters. She served
on the Selective Service Board for
20 years, was president of the New
Baltimore Friends of the Library,
member of the New Baltimore His-
torical Society and tutored students
in Miami, FL. Mrs. Chalgian was
employed for more than 30 years as an
English teacher at Macomb Commu-
nity College, where she worked with
her husband. She enjoyed reading,
especially short stories and poetry,
and led book discussion groups. She
was the ﬁrst executive director of
the Displaced Homemaker Project
in Macomb County. A graduate of
Algonac High School, she graduated
from Antioch College with a major in
English. She earned a master’s degree
from Goddard College and did her
post-graduate work at University of
Michigan. She met her husband while
working at the Antioch cafeteria and
they would have celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary in April.
Her family said the couple created a
wonderful partnership and showed
by example how much two people
could love and care for each other.
After they both retired, the couple
spent the past 12 years enjoying their
homes in New Baltimore and Florida,
traveling and watching their grand-
children grow. She is survived by her
husband, Charles “Chuck” Chalgian
’58; children, Elizabeth (David) Mc-
Cullum of Hallowell, Maine, Douglas
(Susan) Chalgian of East Lansing,
Annie (Paul) Mahon of Washington,
DC, and Julie (Brian) Laxton of East
Lansing; siblings, Paul Hemenger of
Algonac, Tom (Darlene) Hemenger of
Rochester Hills, Pat (Joyce) Hemenger
of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and Eliza-
beth (James) Hill of Gull Lake; and
grandchildren, Elizabeth, Anna Rose,
Susan, Madeline, Jonathan, Hanna,
Sara, James, Charles, Andrew, Adam
and John. She was predeceased by her
parents, Guy and Lucille Hemenger
of Algonac and twin brother, Richard
Hemenger.
In lieu of ﬂowers, memorial con-
tributions may be addressed to the
Sally Chalgian Memorial Fund to help
disadvantaged children at Sally Chal-
gian Memorial Fund, 1860 Abbott
Road, East Lansing, MI 48823.
Karen Judson Hapgood ’61 passed
away in February 2003.
Irma Maria Wright ’63 of Yellow
Springs died Wednesday, May 25, in
her residence. She was 80 years old.
Born on November 15, 1924, in
Lucca, Italy, she was the daughter of
Lili (Cella) Mazzolini and Roberto
Mazzolini. She lived in Rome until
1957 when she moved to Yellow
Springs to care for her uncle, Profes-
sor Amos Mazzolini.
Irma graduated from the Univer-
sity of Roma with a master’s degree in
education. She attended the University
of Michigan and Antioch College.
Irma loved to study music, art and for-
eign languages. She enjoyed teaching
Latin, Italian and French to the youth
of Yellow Springs and to generations
of adults. She was a member of the
Clifton United Presbyterian Church.
She was preceded in death by her
husband, Glenn E. Wright.
She is survived by her children
and their spouses, Angela M. Wright,
and David K. Spyridon, and Maria
V. Wright, all of Yellow Springs,
Veronica M. and Richard Parthe of
New York, and Martin G. and Susan
K. Wright of Glenwood, MD; three
grandchildren, Alexander J. Wright,
Andrew M. Wright and Victoria S.
Wright.
In lieu of ﬂowers, memorials may
be sent to Hospice of Dayton or Sow-
elo of Yellow Springs.
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Patricia N. Harper ’66, MD, of Edi-
na, formerly of Topeka, KS, died at
age 60. Survived by daughters, Heidi
Burch and husband Stephen and Erica
Weber; grandchildren, Alyssa, Caitlin
and Sara; sister, Kathryn Wyand and
husband Keith. Patricia was the Chair
of the Mental Health Dept. of Park
Nicollet Clinic, and formerly with The
Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS.
Memorials to Doctors Without Bor-
ders or World Wildlife Fund.
Gaza Bowen ’67, internationally
known artist, shoemaker, shoe his-
torian, lecturer, instructor, martial
artist and former Costume Society
of America Western Region board
member died May 27, of cancer, at her
home in Santa Cruz. She was 61.
Born in Memphis, TN, and edu-
cated at Antioch College, Mrs. Bowen
was an artist whose work in the broad-
est sense was a continual inquiry
into the nonverbal communication
between people and objects. Her work
is included in many private and public
collections including Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Oakland
Museum, The Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco, The Getty Center for
Art and the Humanities, The Norton
Family Foundation, Powerhouse Mu-
seum in Sydney, Australia, and Duet-
sches Schuhmuseum in Offenbach am
Main, Germany.
For nearly 20 years Mrs. Bowen
focused her attention on shoes: their
construction, history, cultural mean-
ing and social signiﬁcance. As a shoe
historian and lecturer, she was a con-
sultant to costume curators at major
museums across the country and was
well respected for her breadth and
depth of knowledge about shoes.
Using unconventional materials
and impeccable craftsmanship, she
created shoe sculptures with a humor-
ous, but biting social commentary.
She is perhaps best known for her
“Shoes for the Little Woman” series;
a group of shoe sculptures created
chieﬂy from cleaning products for the
home. Her artist book, “The Red Shoe
Reader,” is a wryly executed discourse
on feminine sexual submission in
relationship to the high-heeled shoe.
She was a gifted and generous
teacher, her family said. She taught
the nearly forgotten art of handmade
shoemaking in her studio in Santa
Cruz as well as in various universities
throughout the country. She was well
loved by her students, many of whom
have gone on to become well respect-
ed artists in their own right.
She was also a member of the
inﬂuential “Group Nine,” a loosely-
knit group of women artists who
helped to deﬁne the wearable art
movement of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.
Some of her work from this period is
currently on display in the exhibition
“Artwear: Fashion and Anti-fashion”
in San Francisco, at the Palace of the
Legion of Honor, through October
2005.
In 1995, supported by fellowships
from the National Endowment for the
Arts and the California Arts Council,
she stepped away from the shoe idiom
and began exploring the relationship
between the personal and the politi-
cal, building mixed media sculptures
based on childhood memories. Her
artist book, “The Secret Game,” a
replica of Anne Frank’s Diary, was
inspired by a favorite childhood game
and explores her experience of grow-
ing up Jewish in the ’40s and ’50s in
the South.
In 1997 she began work on “Bib-
liotheca Memoria,” a life-size library
installation of books and furniture
built entirely of salvaged metals and
items found in the local dump. First
viewed at Couturier Gallery, Los
Angeles, the work has since been
installed at four other venues: Eloise
Pichard Smith Gallery, UC Santa
Cruz; Special Collections, McHenry
Library, UCSC; Institute of Con-
temporary Art, San Jose; and JFK
University Arts Annex, Berkeley, in
connection with Women’s Environ-
mental Artist Symposium 2001.
Her use of detritus as art material
led her to an artist-in-residency at the
San Francisco dump in 2000. Her
ﬁnal project from this four-month
residency is “The Waste Not/What
Not Catalog,” a spoof on the ubiqui-
tous mail order catalog.
In addition to her artwork, she
practiced yoga and the Japanese mar-
tial art of Aikido, which she started at
the age of 48. She achieved the rank
of 2nd degree black belt at the time of
her death.
The last two years of her life,
while struggling with her illness,
found her taking an 18-day boat trip
through the Grand Canyon in wooden
dories, snorkeling on the Great Bar-
rier Reef in Australia, and immersing
herself in the study and creation of
wood-block and linoleum prints – a
new medium for her. She was still
working on these prints a few short
weeks before her death.
She is survived by her husband,
Dennis Wheeler of Santa Cruz; son
David Bowen of Santa Cruz; sister Mi-
chelle Press of Connecticut; and many
friends whom she also considered to
be family.
Pamela Schlangen Acher ’68 is
deceased.
Daniel Goodwin ’70, a director of the
Smithsonian Institution Press in the
1990s, died of cancer on Feb. 6 at his
home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 57.
Mr. Goodwin, who joined the
press in the mid-1980s as an acquisi-
tions editor for anthropology and
archaeology, was responsible for
developing the Smithsonian Series
in Ethnographic Inquiry, which now
includes more than 40 titles, and the
Smithsonian Series in Archaeologi-
cal Inquiry, which has more than 20.
He was the director of the press from
1995 to 1998.
He received a bachelor’s degree
from Antioch College and a master’s
in anthropology from the University
of Texas.
Besides his wife, Andrea, he is
survived by a daughter, Alexandra,
and a sister, Jane Duel of Cooper-
stown.
In lieu of ﬂowers, contributions in
Mr. Goodwin’s name can be made to
The Maret School/Faculty Fund, 3000
Cathedral Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC 20008.
Shela Benjamin ’73, died on January
23, 2005, from Parkinson’s disease
and osteoporosis. She was born in
London on July 19, 1932, the young-
est child of Marie Cohen-Sintrop
and Benjamin Osterley. Born Sheila
Osterlenky, she changed her name in
1954 to Shela Osterley. During WWII
she and her sisters were moved to
the countryside; a newspaper picture
showing children leaving London
was of them. She received a Certiﬁcat
d’Etudes Commerciales Francaises
from the Lycee Francais de Londres,
and a Certiﬁcat de Langue Francaise
from the Universite de Paris de la
Sorbonne. She worked in Paris,
Zurich, and New York. She moved
to San Francisco in 1955, met and
married Samuel Brooks, with whom
she had two children, and divorced
in 1982. She earned a B.A. from An-
tioch College in 1973 and an M.S. in
social work from USC in 1977. She
changed her last name to Andersen,
after the children’s author, and then to
Benjamin, after her father. She had a
practice in clinical social work, work-
ing with abused women and women
with multiple-personality-disorder.
She was passionate about feminism
and social justice, and was much loved
within the feminist community in
Southern California. She was prede-
ceased by her sister Rosalind Donagi
and her brother John Osterley, and is
survived by her sister Reva Rappaport;
daughter Lisa Brooks and son-in-law
Peter Lyster; and son Mark Brooks,
daughter-in-law Jenni Bahrt, and
grandchildren Evan and Liam Brooks.
John Nathan Gilbert died on March
11, 2005, at the age of 87. He was
the beloved husband of Wilma and
cherished uncle of nine. Formerly of
Wabash, IN, he resided in New York
for many years. An actuary by voca-
tion, his real love was music, in which
he was active as choir director, church
organist, pianist and singer. His wry
wit, his gentle nature, the richness of
his intellect and his boundless gener-
osity will be missed.
Jane Maxine Hubbard Yager passed
away in Berne, Indiana on Tuesday,
February 14, 2005. She was born
February 21, 1914, in Austin, Ohio,
and graduated from Stivers High
School in Dayton class of 1931. She
also worked as an x-ray technician for
three years at Good Samaritan Hospi-
tal. Jane is survived by four daughters
including Jill Yager, a Dayton resident
and professor at Antioch College.
Antioch University
Marie Bernard, long-time Seattle
peace activist, died in her home on
April 10, 2005. Marie Bernard was
born Marilyn Chapleau on Nov. 24,
1936 in South Bend, Indiana to Louis
and Mary Chapleau.
Marie was an actress, Headstart
teacher, Catholic Worker, lifelong
student, activist against the Vietnam
War, Peace Corps Volunteer, and
voice against the death penalty and
police brutality.
Marie lived in New York as a
young actress and singer in the 1950s
and appeared in many off-Broadway
productions. She toured Germany,
Belgium, and Italy in a production
of Romeo and Juliet. She moved to
Seattle in 1965 and worked as a Head-
start teacher from 1971 to 1984. Marie
traveled extensively for her volunteer
and social justice work, including a
trip to Ireland in 1981 as a Catholic
Worker and to El Salvador in 1984.
She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in
Belize in 1986, where she worked to
integrate environmental education
into the curriculum of three elemen-
tary schools. Marie also continued her
travels to El Salvador, Guatemala, and
Nicaragua as a participant in Witness
for Peace and Mothers of the Disap-
peared. Marie was heavily involved
in peace and justice organizations in
the Seattle area. Just a few of these
include: the Fellowship of Reconcilia-
tion, the Ground Zero Center for Non-
violent Action, and Sound Nonviolent
Opponents of War.
She had a bachelor’s degree from
Evergreen State College and master’s
degree in conﬂict mediation from
Antioch University in Yellow Springs,
Ohio.
Marie was an avid reader and
loved learning. She loved ﬂowers and
gardening. She enjoyed taking her
grandchildren on walks.
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KENNETH B. CLARK, former member of the An-
tioch University Board of Trustees, died at age 90 after
a long battle with cancer. Clark was an educator and
psychologist who spent his life working for improve-
ment in the education of black children and inﬂuenced
the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down school
segregation.
Clark’s pioneering study on the effects of racial
discrimination was cited by the Supreme Court in its
historic 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education,
which declared segregation in public schools
unconstitutional.
He was the ﬁrst black professor to gain tenure at the
City University of New York and was a distinguished
professor emeritus at City College. He also taught at
Harvard, Columbia and the University of California.
For 20 years he served on the New York State Board
of Regents, which oversees public education in the
state, and was sometimes described as the con-
science of the board.
Theodore Black, board chancellor part of that time,
said Clark was a persuasive advocate: “He would
never come out with all guns blazing. Instead, he
relied on his mastery of the art of language.”
In the 1950s, Clark conducted a study he had devised
years earlier which showed that school segregation
marred the development of black students. The Su-
preme Court cited those ﬁndings in its unanimous
1954 decision.
In his research, Clark showed black schoolchildren
black and white dolls and asked what they thought.
Most preferred the white doll and said the black doll
looked “bad.” When asked which doll looked more
like themselves, some said the white doll. Others
refused to answer the question or cried.
Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that separating black
children from white “solely because of their race gen-
erates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the
community that may affect their hearts and minds in
a way unlikely ever to be undone.”
Thirty years after that landmark ruling, Clark
described himself as “bewildered” at the persistence
of de facto segregation and inferior education for
many blacks.
“I believed in the 1950s that a signiﬁcant percentage
of Americans were looking for a way out of the morass
of segregation,” he said in a 1984 interview with The
New York Times. “It was wishful thinking.
“It took me 10 to 15 years to realize that I seriously
underestimated the depth and complexity of Northern
racism. … In the South, you could use the courts to do
away with separate toilets and all that nonsense. We
haven’t found a way of dealing with discrimination in
the North.”
Clark was born in 1914, in the Panama Canal Zone
where his father was a passenger agent for the United
Fruit Co. When Clark was 5, his mother insisted on
moving him and his younger sister to New York City.
His father stayed behind as the family settled in a
Harlem tenement. His mother worked as a seamstress
and subsequently helped organize her fellow workers
into a union and became their shop steward.
Clark attended public schools but was steered toward
learning a trade – advice which made his mother livid
when she learned about it.
“Mama stormed into the school, more the shop steward
than the lady she usually was,” he recalled. “She told
my counselor, ‘I don’t give a damn where you send your
son, but mine isn’t going to any vocational school.’”
He attended Howard University, where one of his in-
structors, Ralph J. Bunche, later a Nobel Peace Prize
winner for his work with the United Nations, became
a major inﬂuence. He got his master’s at Howard, mar-
ried fellow student Mamie Phipps, and they both earned
doctorates in psychology at Columbia University.
He took part in research that contributed to Swedish
economist Gunnar Myrdal’s classic study of race
relations, “An American Dilemma,” and then became
an instructor in the psychology department at City
College in 1942.
In 1946, he and his wife formed what became the
Northside Center for Child Development to treat
children with personality disturbances. He served
as a consultant to the personnel department of the
U.S. State Department during the 1960s.
He never abandoned his belief in the importance of
education in overcoming racism. “I think that white and
blacks should be taught to respect their fellow human
beings as an integral part of being educated,” he said.
“A racist system inevitably destroys and damages
human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them,
blacks and whites alike,” he wrote.
His books included “Prejudice and Your Child” and
“Dark Ghetto.” He was a past president of the American
Psychological Association. Among his honors were the
NAACP’s prestigious Spingarn Medal in 1961 and the
Four Freedoms award in 1985.
After retiring from the Board of Regents, he set up
a consulting company in Hastings, specializing in
equal employment opportunity and afﬁrmative action,
his son said.
Clark’s wife died in 1983, in addition to his son, he is
survived by a daughter, Kate Harris.
“He was a great father, a great thinker and a great
contributor to the ideas and issues that impacted on
society,” Hilton Clark said.
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School of Law. By 1979, he had be-
come a law professor at the school,
and later was dean of students. He
spent the 1981-82 academic year as
assistant dean and director of the
minority student program at Rutgers
University Law School in Newark
before returning to the District per-
manently.
In 1982, he began his march
through a variety of positions in the
District’s government.
Former mayor Sharon Pratt noted
that more than 450 people attended
Mr. Hyman’s memorial service on
Memorial Day weekend.
“As tough and disciplined as he
was, he was fair,” she said. “He had a
sense of the people, a sense of life on
the street, an that came across as well
as his sense of the law.”
Mr. Hyman was a member of the
board of trustees of the United Plan-
ning Organization and the National
Conference of Bar Examiners. He was
an adjunct professor at the University
of the District of Columbia’s law
school.
He was a founding member of the
Consorts Social Club. He enjoyed
ﬁshing, golﬁng, gardening, music,
traveling, horse racing, cooking and
ﬁne wine.
His marriages to Joy Lecompte
and Elaine Johnson ended in divorce.
Survivors include his companion,
Eileen Hemphill of Washington; a
son from his ﬁrst marriage, Erias Ter-
rell of Ashburn; two children from
his second marriage, Jon Hyman of
Atlanta and Holly A. Hyman of New
York City; a daughter from another
relation ship, Gaile A. Hyman of
Fairfax; his stepmother, Thelma Fagin
Hyman of Washington; two sisters,
Carole Hyman and Pam Hyman, both
of Washington; three stepsiblings,
Barbara Fagin Manly of Newport
News, VA, and Pat Fagin Scott and
Darryl Hall Fagin, both of Washing-
ton; and seven grandchildren.
Antioch Faculty
and Staff
Geneva Lee (Benton) Gudgel, 86,
left her earthly life and entered into a
new life with her heavenly Father on
January 18, 2005 . She was born in the
country outside Yellow Springs, Ohio,
August 26, 1918, at the home of her
parents, Thomas and Liler (Chenault)
Benton. Geneva was a loving, kind,
and soft-spoken person. She loved to
bake and those who knew her could
depend on her baked goods for any
and all occasions. Geneva graduated
from Cedarville High School in 1938.
After graduation she worked in New
Jersey as a nanny and then attended
Wilberforce University. Geneva and
John Winston Gudgel were mar-
ried on December 15, 1946. From
this union were born two children,
Veda Kay and John Winston II. She
was a dedicated member of Central
Chapel A.M.E. Church where she
was involved with the Senior Choir,
Stewardess Board, Missionary Board,
Director of Benevolence Aid, and
recognized as a Woman of Distinc-
tion. She belonged to a number of
different organizations including the
Victorettes Choir, Gamma Phi Delta
Sorority, Jolly Stichers Club, Silver
Leaf Club, Retirement Set, and Yel-
lows Springs Senior Citizens Center.
Her career consisted of employment
at Antioch College, Wright Patterson
Air Force Base, Yellow Springs Se-
nior Citizens and Wilberforce Univer-
sity where she retired after 20 years
of service in 1986. She was preceded
in death by her parents, Thomas and
Liler Benton; sister, Emma Mae (Rus-
sell) Embrey; brother, Edward John
(Mary) Benton and infant brother,
Fielding; brother-in-law, Vernis (Vi-
ola) Gudgel; sister-in-laws, Margaret
(Louis) Goodson, Helen (Bill) Bass;
niece, Vercenia Bass Vance, as well as
numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.
Those left to cherish her life memo-
ries are her daughter, Veda (Jack)
Glenn, Columbus; son, John (Kathy)
Gudgel, Yellow Springs; granddaugh-
ter, January Curry; great grandson,
Rickey Tre’ Harris all of Dayton;
nieces, Joyce Goodson, Yellow
Springs and Ayisha (Frank) Duncan;
nephews, Norman (Irma) Bass, Ron-
ald (Jean) Benton, all of Springﬁeld
and Edward “JR” (Leighann) Benton,
Yellow Springs; special cousins,
Elizabeth Huguely, Dayton, James
Blanton and Anna Mae Beasley, Rich-
mond, Kentucky, Ethel Beaumont,
Detroit, Michigan and many nieces,
nephews, cousins and friends.
John Clarence Hawkins, 85, of Ce-
darville, passed away Sunday, April 3,
2005 at Greenewood Manor in Xenia.
He was born November 7, 1919 in
Springﬁeld, Ohio the son of William
L. and Florence Katherine (Bauer)
Hawkins. He was preceded in death
by his parents; his wife of 41 years,
Maria Kornder Hawkins in 1989, a
daughter, Rose Marie Myers in 2000,
a great-grandchild, 3 brothers; Harry,
Bill, and Paul Hawkins and a sister,
Lelia Mae Shope. He is survived
by his children; John P. (his friend,
Darcy Cost) Hawkins of Cedarville,
Lelia Mae (John) Siefert of Cincin-
nati, Clarence E. (Cindy) Hawkins
of Xenia, Linda DeLawder of Eaton,
OH; George E. (Lori) Hawkins of
Xenia, Helen K. Spallinger (her friend
Bruce), of Bluffton; Margaret L. (Joe)
Buettner of Monroe, James H. “Hank”
(Theresa) Hawkins of Jamestown;
son-in-law: James Myers of Colum-
bus, 14 grandchildren; 16 great-grand-
children. He retired after 25 years of
service from Antioch College. He was
a WWII Army AirCorp Veteran and
former member of the VFW in Yellow
Springs for years.
Maxine Mary O’Gara died De-
cember 1, 2004, in Eureka at age 91.
She had been a resident of Humboldt
County for the past 20 years. Mrs.
O’Gara was born in Salt Lake City,
Utah, the daughter of Mont and Sally
Obuchon, and was raised in the small
mining town of Standardville, Utah,
and the city of Los Angeles, Califor-
nia. It was in California where she
met and married her husband of 57
years, Mike O’Gara, who passed away
in Arcata in 1991. She was a home-
maker for the early part of her mar-
ried life, raising three children with
her husband, who was a professional
boxer and university professor. Later,
she worked in the administrative
ofﬁces of the University of Southern
California and Antioch College in
Yellow Springs, Ohio. Maxine was an
artist with a gift for raising plants. She
loved birds and had two of the oldest
and most pampered cats in the world.
She and her husband traveled often to
Peru, Colombia and Mexico to visit
their three children working in Latin
America. Her great joy was her family
and she asked about them every day.
She was clear of mind even to her last
moments, and she relished the oppor-
tunity to speak with each grandchild
and tell them she loved them. She is
survived by her son and daughter-in-
law, Dan and Penne O’Gara of Trini-
dad; her daughter, Colleen O’Gara
of San Diego; and her brother and
sister-in-law, Jack and Vi Obuchon of
West Jordan, Utah. She is also sur-
vived by nine grandchildren: Patricia
Clayton, Mike Clayton, Kathleen
Clayton, Dan Clayton, Tim O’Gara,
Robin O’Gara, Sean O’Gara, Jack
Kairy and Suzanne Kairy; 17 great
grandchildren; and six great great
grandchildren. She was preceded in
death by her husband, Mike O’Gara;
a daughter, Dawn Adams; a brother,
Homer Obuchon; and her sister, Betty
Vandre. A family graveside service
was held for Maxine on December 4,
2004, at the Greenwood Cemetery,
in Arcata, California. She was buried
near her husband on that day. Services
were conducted by the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A
memorial gathering is planned for a
family reunion at Trinidad in July of
2005. Memorial contributions may be
made to the Morris School Library,
2395 McKinleyville Avenue, McKin-
leyville, CA 95519. •
Marie is survived by six children,
Ivan Barashkoff, Sophia Barashkoff,
Catherine Barashkoff-Kirkland, Alex
Barashkoff, Andre Barashkoff, and
Yoshiko Matsui. She had eight grand-
children.
Marie dedicated her life to the
service of others. She strived to teach
compassion and forgiveness. She will
be missed.
In lieu of ﬂowers, please send do-
nations to the Ground Zero Center for
Nonviolent Action, 16159 Clear Creek
Road NW, Poulsbo, WA 98370 or the
Family Kitchen c/o Kay Peters, 331
17th Ave E. Seattle, WA 98112.
Erias Alexander Hyman, 60, a D.C.
government ofﬁcial for more that 20
years, died of a brain tumor on May
22 at Capitol Hospice of Northern
Virginia.
Mr. Hyman spent three years as a
deputy secretary of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Commerce during the Clinton
administration, but he was best known
as a lawyer who served in a number
of positions in D.C. city government
during the past two decades.
He had been the city’s acting
corporation counsel, interim director
of the Corrections Department, chief
of the adjudication ofﬁce and senior
administrative law judge, legislative
counsel to the D.C. Council and chair-
man of the D.C. Ofﬁce of Employee
Appeals.
In another job, as chairman of the
D.C. Parole Board, he earned plaudits
for The Washington Post’s editorial
page, which said, in 1994: “In the
(Sharon Pratt) Kelly administration,
however, Parole Board chairman
Erias Hyman has helped erase the
board’s image as a patsy. Mr. Hy-
man made early release no longer a
certainty, except as required by law,
and parole violators found themselves
returned to prison to serve their origi-
nal sentences, instead of two or three
months that had become the standard
under Mayor (Marion) Barry.”
Mr. Hyman was born in Phila-
delphia and moved to Washington
at a young age, graduating from
Theodore Roosevelt High School in
1962. He served as a combat medic
in the Army in Vietnam. He returned
to the United States and received a
bachelor’s degree from the University
of Pittsburgh while working as a news
reporter for United Press International
wire service. He then spent ﬁve years
as a manager at Westinghouse Corp.
in Pittsburgh while attending and
graduating from Dequesne University
School of Law in 1976.
Mr. Hyman became an assistant
district attorney in Pittsburgh, went
into private practice, then returned
to academia in Washington, where
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