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A cool, hazy Saturday morning on April
29 saw 120 Antiochians take part in the
Commencement 2006 ceremony. For most
of the graduates, the event signaled a ﬁ nal
act as Antioch students. Some completed
their requirements in December or will ﬁ nish
them by August.
The class selected 11 of their fellow
graduates to address them. They were:
Erin McCarthy, Amber Hillman, Dylan Reiff,
Benjamin Garcia-Spitz, Jill Summerville,
William Parke-Sutherland, Sarah Staple-
ton, Michaella Rey, Katharine McDermott,
Marlene Hayes, and Daniel Solis.
President Steven Lawry intoduced Rev.
Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor at
Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church who spoke
on “The Freedom Caravan. …I suggest you
ﬁ nd your own voice and join the Freedom
Caravan,” Warnock told the graduates.
“There is yet something that the world needs
to hear that only you can say, in a way that
only you can say it. Find your voice. Join the
chorus and Caravan for Freedom.”
“So the caravan has to keep moving, pick-
ing up new passengers, who will bring their
own perspective to this kaleidoscopic image
called freedom,” Warnock said. “No vision
and you perish. No ideal and you’re lost.
Your heart must ever cherish some faith at
any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling
to, some rainbow in the sky, some melody to
sing to, some service that is high.”
For an 11-minute video highlight of
the Commencement Address and more
commencement photos, visit
www.antioch-college.edu/news/index.html.
06.COMMENCEMENT
“I suggest you ﬁ nd your own voice and join
the Freedom Caravan,” said the Rev. Raphael
G. Warnock (left) as he spoke to the 2006
graduating class.

ANTIOCHIAN
Half a Century of
Education Abroad
International study shaped to the
mold of human experience
Autumn 2006
The Antioch College Alumni Magazine
ALSO INSIDE:
Leland Clark leaves a legacy
Students publish research after Brazil trip

from the president
the view from ANTIOCH HALL
This issue of Antiochian features the Antioch Education Abroad program, marking
50 years of providing innovative overseas education for Antioch students. Like
many other aspects of an Antioch College education, Antioch’s study abroad
programs are distinctive—they stand apart from more traditional programs.

AEA programs enable students to study in
depth important and complex subjects, among
them the conservation of the Amazon and other
Brazilian ecosystems; the spiritual meaning and
cultural significance of Buddhism as practiced
today in India and Japan; the experiences of
women in Eastern European societies undergoing
rapid change; and the great artistic, musical and
dance traditions of Mali, in West Africa. Antioch
study abroad programs deliberately combine
the best of Antioch’s traditional commitments
to classroom study and experiential learning. In
Bodh Gaya, India, students study Buddhism’s
religious precepts while living in a monastery that
also accommodates monks and pilgrims from
Myanmar. In Mali, students apprentice with local
artists and often live in their homes. (Imagine
being able to study under an African sculptor
or choreographer!) You will read in this issue an
account of two students, Meredith Cobb ’06 and
Katie Watkins ’07, whose time on the Brazilian
Ecosystems Program was followed by a research
co-op in a nature preserve in Bahia. The very
significant results of their work have recently
been published in the journal Sociobiology.
Study abroad changes lives, as many of the
comments of AEA alumni interviewed for this
feature story attest. Study abroad challenges
previously accepted knowledge and values, as
students encounter markedly different ways of
thinking about social problems and political
participation, or discover new forms of artistic
expression. Study abroad can introduce students
to cultural resources and perspectives that may
become sources of ideas and critical insight for
the rest of their lives. Antioch study abroad,
by providing opportunities to learn in artists’
studios, nature reserves and monasteries, as
well as in classrooms, exposes students to the
complexity of the world in ways that deepen and
test the critical thinking skills they develop in
class in Yellow Springs.
Study abroad may be an essential element
in what philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum
characterizes as a cosmopolitan education.
“Through cosmopolitan education, we learn more
about ourselves.” Living and studying among
other communities can teach us that solutions
familiar to us may not be somehow “natural” and
“normal” for everyone, and that other ways of
living and organizing economies and government
are possible. Importantly, it reminds us of our
moral obligations toward others. “If we really do
believe that all human beings are created equal
and endowed with certain inalienable rights, we
are morally required to think about what that
conception requires us to do with and for the
rest of the world.” For me, Marcus Aurelius in
his Meditations speaks directly to the habits of a
cosmopolitan mind. “Accustom thyself to attend
carefully to what is said by another, and as much
as possible, be in the speaker’s mind.”
Study abroad changed my life. I went to
London for my junior year abroad (as it was called
in those days). Having grown up in a suburban
town in Florida, I found life in a great world
city—with its museums, music, theatre, bookstores,
and fascinating history—hugely stimulating.
London’s cosmopolitanism was perhaps its
greatest influence on me. I made friends with
people from Europe, Australia, South Asia and
Africa. Study abroad gave a measure of meaning
and purpose to my youthful restiveness, and gave
me the self-confidence to make a life living and
working abroad. Three years later I was on my
way to Botswana as a Peace Corps volunteer and
subsequently spent a total of sixteen years living in
Africa, the Middle East and India.
Antiochians should be proud of AEA’s
distinctive and distinguished programs. AEA
faculty and staff merit our appreciation and
admiration for all that they have accomplished.
Under the guidance of the Campaign Cabinet
and with the support of senior staff in the Office
of Institutional Development, I undertook in the
spring a review of The Campaign for Antioch
College. The Campaign, which was launched in
2001, has succeeded in securing contributions
of $43 million toward a fund-raising goal of $65
million. I recommended to the Board of Trustees
that we bring to a close the first phase of the
Campaign in March 2006, and reassess Campaign
priorities in light of the needs of the Plan for
Antioch College, a comprehensive set of initiatives
recommended by the Renewal Commission,
established by the Board of Trustees in 2003.
STEVEN LAWRY, PRESIDENT
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Autumn 2006
inside this issue
ANTIOCH COMMUNITY
32 Antioch Reunion 2006
For more than 20 years, an alumni tradi-
tion has been built with the College Work
Project, scheduled the week before alumni
reunion events.
20 Half a Century of AEA
For 50 years, Antioch’s Education Abroad
program has been a leader in providing in-
ternational study opportunities for students
who travel to India, Japan, Europe, and
Africa for a variety of programs
COVER STORY
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ANTIOCH MAIL
Recent letters and
comments from
Antiochian readers
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ANTIOCH TODAY
State of the College
| Murdock Named
Chancellor | Scholar-
ship Honors King |
New Core Curriculum
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ANTIOCH VOICES
Recently Published
Books by Faculty and
Alumni
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ANTIOCH IANA
‘The Disappearing
City’ Reappears
34
CLASS NOTES
Updates and notes
from Antioch alumni
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INMEMORIAM

An Antioch education is shaped to the mold of human experience.
This is a radically democratic education: every theory, every belief, every ideal is re-examined and subjected to the test
of experience. We ask our students to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Their work is marked by scholarly
rigor and civic engagement. They come to know the world by analyzing it and living deeply within it. They come to know
justice by studying it and practicing it. They become humanists in the broadest, deepest sense of the word: citizens
and scholars capable of meaningful action, continuous growth and enlightened leadership.
28 Leland Clark Appreciated
A pioneer and inventor, Leland Clark leaves
behind a legacy of 25 U.S. patents and
many people who he mentored.
8 Cyclists Churn
The ﬁ rst ever Yellow Springs Grand Prix
this summer provided an opportunity to
expand town-gown relations.
26 Students Publish Findings
Two Antioch students studied the living
habits of ants last winter and published
their ﬁ ndings in the academic journal,
Sociobiology.

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Part of the Antioch Family
You may not be interested in events that
took place in the Middle Ages, but I’ll try
anyhow. I am not an Antiochian (although I
feel like one) but am writing on behalf of my
wife, Ethel (Roe) Oldt ’36, now 93 years old,
who has macular degeneration in both eyes and
is unable to read or write. She graduated from
Antioch in 1936. Our family relationship with
Antioch covers many years. Our daughter, Janet
Kotler ’65, also attended Antioch for several
years so we are really an Antioch family.
We are especially interested in your Spring
2006 issue with such splendid coverage of Coretta
Scott King ’51, because she was a voice student of
my sister, Esther Oldt at Antioch and became a
good friend of Esther. My sister spent almost her
entire working life at Antioch in various capaci-
ties, including music, the Co-op Program under
J.D. Dawson and with Mary Hunt. Her greatest
claim to fame, however, was that she developed
the Antioch Education Abroad Program and
served as Director for some years.
Your article on Mrs. King mentions Walter
Anderson. This also evokes a personal interest.
Hanging in our home is a picture of Anderson
at the piano, with my sister Esther singing and
Eleanor Roosevelt sitting nearby in her home
in Hyde Park, N.Y. Anderson had written a
“D-Day Prayer.” Mrs. Roosevelt had heard of it
and had invited Anderson and my sister to sing
it for her. My sister told us that President Roos-
evelt was an avid reader of “Antioch Notes,”
written by (then-President) Arthur Morgan.
My wife lived for a while in the Morgan
family home. She was very active in musical
affairs, was a voice student of my sister and
sang numerous solo parts in the Gilbert and
Sullivan productions directed by Basil Pillard.
Christmas when my wife could not afford to
return to her home in Denver, my sister invited
her to spend the holiday with our family in
South Haven Michigan, telling her that she had
three single brothers and could take her pick. I
turned out to be the lucky guy and in June we
celebrate our 68th anniversary.
We are much impressed by the ambitious
and forward-looking plans of President Lawry
and wish him every possible success.
ETHEL (PAT) ’36 AND LESLIE OLDT
LETTERS POLICY
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LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS

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Antioch Alum Remembers
I was struck by the headline on the cover of the
Spring 2006 issue of the Antiochian, “Antioch
Remembers Coretta Scott King ’51.” I’d like to
tell you another story using the same formula
only this time it would read, “Charles H. Weitz
’41 Remembers Coretta Scott King.” I spent my
working life in the United Nations System, starting
with UNESCO in the spring of 1947. At the time
of this story, I was the representative of the Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United
Nations to the United Nations in New York City.
For many years FAO had issued coins and
medals, collectors items, a small means of public
relations and a small way to get extra-budgetary
funds for the organization. Medals were for
“famous” people and by the mid-1970s, FAO
was honoring famous women.
One day I received a telex from Rome,
announcing that FAO was honoring Coretta
Scott King and I was to arrange an “appropriate
ceremony” for the presentation. The Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim agreed we could use
his private reception area just off the General
Assembly, never before allowed for any function
other than that of the SG. With the help of Andy
Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
and key staff, we set up a direct phone line to
Young’s office and worked out an eight-page
script noting where everyone was to be at the
precise hour and minute, and what each official’s
duty was.
Down I went and out of the UN to the corner
of 44th and First Ave., immediately across from
the USA Mission to the UN. Out of the USA
Mission came Coretta and Andy Young and a
host of mission staff. We waved, they crossed
First Avenue and Coretta and I met for the first
time. We were “old” true friends!
To Coretta, any Antiochian was a warm friend
and colleague. We hugged, kissed, and started
talking immediately. Leaving the mission staff
there, Andy Young, Coretta Scott King and I
walked up the drive to the diplomatic entrance
to the General Assembly building, talking a mile
a minute, through the doors to the escalator
where I turned around to ride up backwards,
Coretta two steps below me and Andy Young
behind Coretta. As we headed up, Andy started
telling a story, not a very “nice” story but with an
amazing punch line, and as the escalator reached
the second floor, we all three burst out laughing!
Coretta, with the warmth and joy she had, put
her left arm around my waist and her right arm
around Andy’s waist and we three turned toward
the waiting assembly. There was the President of
the General Assembly, the Secretary General of
the United Nations, the Director General of the
UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the five
Vice Presidents of the General Assembly, half of
the Undersecretary Generals and approximately
80 Ambassadors of missions to the United
Nations. And here was Charles Weitz, arm in
arm with Coretta Scott King and Ambassador
Andrew Young, all three laughing like fools. In
my mind’s eye I could see the execution squad
raising their rifles with me as the target. With a
great personal effort, I disengaged Coretta’s arm,
at which point she let go of Young; and like a
good little civil servant I fell into line.
Honor, glory, a moment of fame, and the
assembled multitude of dignitaries faded away,
and after appropriate farewells I went with
Coretta and Andy Young back to First Ave. and
44th St., where Coretta and I embraced again as
old friends and she went on her way with a wave
from the steps of the USA Mission. Fast forward
two years when the then Human Rights Com-
mission voted to go to Atlanta to honor Martin
Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his birth.
The majority of missions to the UN were going
so I could go representing the Food and Agricul-
ture Organization. Coretta and I met again this
time, in her eyes, as old friends, and certainly
out of all the UN Ambassadors and others who
journeyed with the Human Rights Commission
to Atlanta, a special friend, for was I not an
Antiochian and thus to her a special person?
The culmination was a meeting of the Human
Rights Commission where speech after tribute
was made to King. As neither my boss nor FAO
gave a fig for Martin Luther King, I was left to do
what I wanted, so I wrote my own words, short
but filled with the warmest possible tribute to
a great man. When I finished there was polite
applause.
But I did not go down from the lectern and
return to my seat. Instead, waiting until I was sure
every eye was on me, I turned and walked down
the platform from the lectern until I reached
Coretta. I put my hands on her shoulders, she
turned and smiled at me. I held out my arms and
great woman that she was, she rose from her seat,
turned and we embraced, with a long kiss given
and received on each cheek! And members of the
Commission and assembled guests and dignitar-
ies burst into applause.
I never saw Coretta Scott King again. It had
been a short, but very emotion filled two meet-
ings. What a great person.
CHARLES H. WEITZ ’41
333 W. MAIN STREET, APT. 503
MADISON, WI 53703
A privilege, a priority, a paradox…
To the bevy of donors and bidders, and com-
munity at large at the live and silent auctions
held Friday, June 23, 2006, during the Alumni
Reunion, I say “THANK YOU, on behalf of An-
tioch College. ” The auction event was extremely
well attended. There was excitement in the air
with the auctioneers, bidders and sideliners
bantering in the swelling crowd in the heat of
every moment with every word spoken. Fun was
had by all. Those of you who participated in any
way shape or form, my hat is off to you, yours,
mine et al. Perhaps another auction could take
place in the future on campus to involve everyone
once again.
One more thing before I go…
My goal was always CCC = Community,
Conversation, then Currency! This auction event
and ’06 reunion concludes my three-year com-
mitment as an Alum Association board member.
So may I again say thank you to everyone. It has
been an incredible, heartfelt journey for me, this
Charles H. Weitz
’41 remembers
that Coretta Scott
King treated any
Antiochian as a
warm friend and
colleague.

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allegiance I bear for Antioch College. May our
dear alma mater live on and on and on in the
quaint village of Yellow Springs.
With no regrets … and a ways to go before
I rest….
E. ANN BALDWIN BFA ’80
Great job on the online Antiochian! Over
and over you quote Horace Mann. Did you ever
write a bio of his life in Ohio? His contributions
in Massachusetts were progressive and lasting. I
was a history major, but learned nothing about
Ohio history. Recently I have read up on Mann
to find him one of my heroes, especially since my
group is buying an 1830s house in Lynn, MA and
wondered if he had visited the town. You might
do a two-part series on Mann with references for
further reading.
DAVID GASS ’67
Re: the photo of the student union caper I
had given to the Antiochian that you published
on page 37 of the spring 2006 issue. First, my
name is spelled with two ‘t’s and two ‘s’s.
Second, and most important: We were pro-
testing against, not demanding, the construction
of a student union!
A number of us thought that for Community
Government to take out a mortgage was fiscally
irresponsible, since everything that was sup-
posed to go inside the proposed student union
already existed elsewhere in some form, e.g.,
there were student mailboxes in the basement
hallway of the main building, a bookstore in
the same area, etc. Since the idea of that much
debt for questionable benefit was scary, we were
opposed. (If those with the edifice complex had
come up with the money as well as the idea, we
probably would have gone along.)
Someone, I don’t know whom, except that
it wasn’t me, although the fact that the original
photo was an 8”x10” points toward John Hoke,
came up with an idea. In order to make our
position clear and persuade members of the
community to think some more as they headed
toward Kelly Hall to vote for or against the
building, we decided to do something unusual.
So, a lovely “two-and-a-half hole” outhouse of
solid oak with ivy on its walls was located on
a farm down toward Xenia. The farmer who
owned it no longer used it, and was glad to
donate it to us. We rented the CG truck and
brought the outhouse to the Indian mound
on front campus, between North Hall and the
Horace Mann monument. This placed it on the
main walkway from the Cafe and Tea Room to
the Main Building.
In case there was misunderstanding, the
signs indicated what we thought was going
to happen if the building were approved. We
didn’t anticipate the graffiti years in the current
union building, but then again maybe we did.
To move this horribly heavy solid oak build-
ing, we woke up some freshmen living in a
nearby dorm and drafted them into service.
Some of them are in the photo, I believe. We
took the photo for our own amusement and
memory stimulation, and not as part of the
prank-hack-protest-whatever itself. Remember,
this festooned metaphor suddenly appeared on
campus, in a highly public spot, on the morning
of the plebiscite. I heard, from one of those
who strongly favored the building, that our little
effort cost them the election. Nothing much
was heard about a student union the rest of
the time I was at Antioch. Finally, weighing in
at about half of my present weight, I’m the guy
on the left holding the “$184,000” sign. Pete
Signell ’52, is imposing and anonymous in his
coat and hat, sitting inside. Frank Slezak ’51,
is the third seated co-conspirator from the left,
and Barb Castricum ’53, later Mrs. Slezak, is
lying in sultry state in front. Several other faces
are familiar, but my prosopagnosia prevents me
from identifying them. Besides, it was almost 60
years ago!
JOHN MICHAEL ‘MIKE’ KITTROSS ’51
CURMUDGEON, ICONOCLAST & GADFLY
The picture on page 37 is indeed the outhouse
picture. I note in its caption a desire to be told who
is in the picture. I know two of them. Barb Cas-
tricum is the young lady lying in the foreground.
Peter Signell ’52, is the young man “field testing”
the structure — he is seated inside the structure
with his hat pulled down over his head.
I am heading to the finish line, building an
electroluminescent light box for the excel-
lent reproduction of my large library of color
transparencies of all sizes as well as black and
white negatives. I will soon recopy the outhouse
negative, and if I do the job well, we will even be
able to read the messages that were hung on the
outer wall of the outhouse.
JOHN HOKE ’50
The new magazine is great! Keep up the good
work. I am also an alumnus of Lehigh University
(MBA 1969) and have been getting the Lehigh
Bulletin right along. I took note of your comment
that an alumni bulletin is a large investment.
Some time ago Lehigh announced that their
bulletin was costing them a lot of money to pro-
duce and so they were now asking for voluntary
subscriptions. Even though I have no particular
ties to Lehigh, I have been subscribing ever since
to the tune of $40 a year.
I don’t know if this would work for the An-
tiochian or not, but this check for $40, herewith,
should make me a charter subscriber.
AL KRUEGER ’55
CORRECTION
Bill Notley ’51 clariﬁ ed a class note on his
induction to the French National Order of the
Legion of Honor, saying his 35th Infantry
Division landed in Normandy 30 days after the
D day invasion. The Normandy campaign, he
added, lasted two-and-one-half months.
This photo from 1948 recorded a protest against
the ﬁ nancing of a Student Union on campus. In
the spring issue, the Antiochian wrongly suggested
the demonstration was in support of a union.

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I would like to thank Art Zucker ’55, chairman
of the Board of Trustees, for his thoughtful and
generous remarks and join him in welcoming all
returning alumni to campus for this reunion.
I took up the presidency of Antioch College
nearly six months ago. I have been inspired by
many of the things that the College does so well.
Despite a long history of financial problems and
high leadership turnover in recent years, the
faculty and staff work tirelessly on behalf of the
College’s distinctive educational values.
The College has risen to the expectations
set by the Board of Trustees at the outset of the
renewal process that it craft a curriculum that
would be intellectually compelling and attractive
to students who are looking to develop the quali-
ties of intellect and character that will ensure
their effectiveness in our very complex world. The
co-op experience, despite the reduction of co-ops
from five to three, remains at the heart of the
Antioch experience. Importantly, the experiential
learning of co-op will be better integrated with
classroom and academic learning, in ways that
will deepen the students’ ability to analyze com-
plex social, economic, and cultural problems and
ultimately to be more effective citizens. The first
co-op communities will be launched in the fall in
Washington D.C., New Mexico and southwest
Ohio, with significant support being provided by
co-op coordinators residing in these areas, most
of whom, by the way, are Antioch alumni.
The 2005 entering class was fully immersed in
the new curriculum, based upon interdisciplinary
and team-taught learning communities. Because the
new curriculum was very much a work in progress
during the traditional recruitment season in the
spring (2004), our incoming first-year class was very
small. Only 63 students enrolled in the fall of last
year. Fifty-three of those completed the full first-year
program, yielding a retention ratio of 83 percent.
I am pleased to report that the enrollment
picture for the coming year is looking very
good. As of Monday, June 19, the College had
received deposits from 130 prospective students.
Assuming that a significant majority of these
deposited students arrive in September, we would
realize a roughly 100 percent increase in first-year
enrollment this year over last year. I attribute this
growing interest in the College to Antioch’s tradi-
tional educational values and reputation, to the
new curriculum and improvements in campus
life, and to a very strong and effective student
recruitment effort managed by our talented and
committed staff in the Office of Admissions.
Building a new curriculum has been very hard
work and our faculty have been challenged and
stretched. We can all be proud of their academic
dedication, their imagination, and their commit-
ment to the mission of this wonderful institution
and the students it serves. There are hardly words
to express the appreciation the faculty deserve
for what they have achieved. Curriculum is at
the heart of any educational institution, and the
verdict is not yet in on the one that is now nearly
fully in place. In the very competitive educational
marketplace in which we work, continuing assess-
ment of the educational model and a willingness
to adapt, adjust, and improve are key attributes
of long-term success. While there is cause to be
excited about the new curriculum, we must not
hesitate to make adjustments to it, including
significant adjustments, where we see it failing to
serve our educational mission and purposes fully.
These matters are ultimately the domain of the
faculty; and I totally respect and trust their judg-
ment and leadership on curricular matters.
Achieving a 100 percent increase in admis-
sions, on a year-to-year basis, would be a tremen-
dous accomplishment. Growing enrollments are
vital to the College’s future. The College’s budget
relies on tuition as its principle source of revenue.
It was a chronic gap between expenditures and
revenue that led the Board to undertake the
renewal plan process in the first place. There have
been reductions in our expenditures — including
reductions in numbers of faculty — but we are
going to need continuing growth in enrollments
— and improvements in our retention rate — if
the College is to be financially stable and viable.
My staff and I have developed a long-term
strategic financial plan for the College. Based
on what we characterize as moderate year-to-year
growth in enrollments, the plan projects that the
College can achieve financial balance by 2011.
Achieving strong enrollments would be more
difficult if we were to cut further key curricular
capacities — especially faculty positions — or cut
back on key functions in admissions and institu-
tional development. While building enrollments,
we must retain the capacities that make Antioch
an attractive place to study. We must invest and
not cut. We must manage our resources prudently,
Lawry delivers ‘State of the College’
President Steven Lawry presented his ﬁ rst State of the College Address to the
campus community during Alumni Weekend on Friday, June 23. The following
is the complete text of his address.

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but we must not cut the capacities that provide the
foundations for the College’s future well-being.
Our projections suggest that over the coming
five years this investment budget will require an
additional $20 million in budgetary support be-
yond what will be provided by tuition. The Board
of Trustees gave me the green light to try to raise
these needed funds from donations. We have suc-
ceeded in securing $15 million of the $20 million
that we need, thanks to a few large donations and
a great number of smaller donations from alumni
across the country. We are facing our greatest
proportion of shortfall in the coming financial
year, when we will require $2.3 million of the $5
million we project the College will need over the
next five years. We will be passing the hat before
the end of today’s session. Please give generously.
Indeed, the generosity shown by yourselves and
other alumni and those committed to Antioch’s
mission has been tremendous.
I said at the outset of my remarks that I have
been inspired by many aspects of my initial ex-
perience of Antioch. But I have also found some
things quite troubling.
“Campus culture” and “campus climate” can
be very difficult terms to define or phenomena to
describe. Because they are characterized largely by
a complex set of values and value judgments, they
are also terms that don’t easily invite agreement
on what a good or less good campus climate or
campus culture might be. So I am offering my
own value judgments here, but I think they merit
consideration and I think that matters of culture
and climate are relevant to the College’s future.
This is a liberal arts college, where students
are given the opportunity to learn how to think
critically and creatively and constructively about
the world in which they live; to prepare them-
selves for lives of meaning and purpose; to come
to know themselves and to know and to respect
others. An Antioch education does these things
and it does them well. Our alumni who studied
here over many generations, including today’s
generation, are testimony to this.
That said, there are aspects of today’s campus
culture that are not conducive to the fullest
realization of our educational mission. Radical
identity politics and identity-centered discourses,
while often drawing attention to mistreatment,
unfairness and hypocrisy in our society, also take
on a stridency and aggressiveness that too often
close down conversation, inhibit learning and
send off students who really should be here.
Amartya Sen, the Nobel-prize winning Indian
economist, laments “the terrible burden of narrowly
defined identities.” Narrow and supposedly non-
normative identities are often imposed by those in
power on those to whom they wish to deny power.
People suffer tremendously from these impositions,
and all the more where the dominant culture con-
structs racism, sexism and homophobia as enduring
and powerful instruments of oppression.
One goal of a liberal education and a liberal arts
college must be to foster a community of teachers
and learners who understand the extent to which
identity is predominantly socially constructed. An
President Lawry and his wife Deborah
enjoy a commencement event.
State of the College [continued]

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“Broadening identity should be our educational mission, not narrowing it.
We do this by welcoming here students of diverse backgrounds determined to
build an authentically fair and just world.”
PRESIDENT LAWRY
from the president [continued]
authentically liberal community must challenge
the social forces that impose narrow identities as a
strategy of oppression. At the same time, we must
understand that our future as a fair and just society
depends in large part on the success of efforts
that broaden humanity’s understanding of how
much we have in common. We do this in part by
acknowledging the nature and extent of the obliga-
tions we have to one another. Coretta Scott King
’51 spoke continually about the vision she and her
husband shared of the “beloved community.” This
vision was based on a simple but profound under-
standing of the human condition, namely, “we
are tied together in the single garment of destiny,
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”
Broadening identity should be our educational
mission, not narrowing it. We do this by welcom-
ing here students of diverse backgrounds deter-
mined to build an authentically fair and just world.
We build justice by working effectively in broad
coalitions, across diverse communities and groups,
and not only with those who give us comfort by
virtue of shared grievances.
Antioch College derives its essential character
from being much more than just an excellent
liberal arts college. The Antioch alternative must
be based on an education that is intellectually
rigorous and challenging, deeply grounded in
the liberal arts—and here is the difference—that
equips its graduates with the leadership skills and
personal values to build an authentic democracy
in this country and elsewhere. The ultimate test
facing democratic practitioners is the ability to
work effectively in diverse and even deeply divided
communities, not monolithic or narrowly selective
ones. This is what I believe deeply.
So our “narrowing” identity politics is a concern
for me. Another concern I have is for the College’s
community governance structures. Over many de-
cades, Antioch students have benefited education-
ally from the opportunity to participate in AdCil
and ComCil and other bodies that give voice to
student participation in campus decision-making.
These practices were fostered by Arthur Morgan
and Algo Henderson and other presidents prin-
cipally for their educational value. Community
governance is an important aspect of the Antioch
experience, and I support it. However, I have con-
cerns with community governance as it is currently
understood and practiced. There is a lack of clarity
of the responsibilities of various bodies and frankly
unrealistic expectations of the scope of authority
some bodies assert over a wide array of campus life,
administrative and business matters. Moreover,
and to my disappointment, there has been a
militancy and aggressiveness sometimes directed
toward the administration that is really unmerited
and not consistent with the educational mission of
shared governance structures.
The College has to take principal responsibility
for this state of affairs. We advertise participation in
community governance structures as a benefit of an
Antioch education. We have to be clearer on what
this in fact entails, and in ways that are in the best
interests of the College and its educational mission.
In the fall we will be convening a number of
initiatives to clarify the purposes and practices of
community governance. I will establish a broadly
based commission to look into these questions,
and we will have cross-campus discussions on the
future of community governance. Our delibera-
tions will engage students, faculty, staff, emeriti
faculty and alumni. I will keep the Board of
Trustees briefed on our progress and will ask for
their advice. I look forward to a thoughtful and
deliberate set of discussions.
There is cause for optimism about the College’s
future; there is cause for concern. The College faces
a set of financial challenges that we must overcome
in a decisive way. The cultural issues I have raised
speak to the heart and soul of the institution. All of
us have a lot of work to do. I am optimistic, but suc-
cess is not assured. I am eager to continue this task
and I absolutely need your support and your help.
I wanted to make sure that Phase II of the
Campaign fully supported the College’s needs as
identified by the Renewal Commission. These
involve major investment in new curricular
programs, including the Core program (which
you will also read about in this issue) and student
recruitment and College fund-raising capacities
as well as tangible improvements to the College’s
physical infrastructure. As the College builds its
enrollments over the next five years it is essential
that it fully fund the new curriculum and other
aspects of the Antioch educational experience
that are going to attract and retain higher
numbers of students.
We project that the College will need $20
million of cash revenue over the coming five
years above and beyond income provided by
tuition. Raising these investment funds is a
key goal of Phase II of the Campaign and I am
pleased to report that the College has already
secured $15 million of this amount. The
Campaign Cabinet and the Board of Trustees
have agreed that fund-raising focus on two key
projects, construction of a new student union
and major renovation of the Olive Kettering
Library. These two projects will together cost
about $13 million.
I am pleased to announce that Barbara
Winslow ’68 has agreed to serve as Chair of
the Campaign for Antioch going forward.
Barbara is a member of the Board of Trustees
and professor of women’s studies at Brooklyn
College. She has been a key supporter of the
Campaign and her generous giving has been
decisive in giving the Coretta Scott King
Center a strong start. Barbara succeeds Robert
Krinsky ’57, who assumes the role of Campaign
counselor. I look forward to working with
Barbara and Bob as they take up these new
responsibilities. The next issue of Antiochian
will include a full report on the Campaign’s
priorities and progress.

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Early discussions on development of the
Livermore Corridor have focused on leverag-
ing the planned Student Union project with
another proposal that would fill unmet needs
on campus and in the village of Yellow Springs.
President Steven Lawry reaffirmed at the June
1-3 Board of Trustees meeting that the College
will build an $8 million Student Union.
Since April, informal seminars of college and
village representatives have considered the benefits
of a joint Union-multi-use facility on the 20 acres
of Antioch property west of Livermore Street, said
Richard Jurasek, executive vice president. Danter
and Company of Columbus is conducting a
market feasibility study for such a project.
Financing for the union will be through gifts
and college resources, Jurasek said. An addition
of a multi-use center would need to be financed
by external partners, he added.
A second set of seminars have begun to consider
other uses for the property. Village stakeholders
have also been included in these meetings focusing
on a performing arts center and housing projects.
Jurasek feels the College should explore ways to
develop economies of scale in some of its services,
such as food service. “New traffic and new clients
who would use new multi-purpose space would be
adding to our revenue stream.”
Both the College and the village are small insti-
tutions with needs they cannot satisfy separately,
said Jurasek. Yellow Springs has recently commis-
sioned its own economic development studies,
he noted. Both institutions are “aggressively
redefining their futures” so there could be more
opportunities for partnership.
Meanwhile, the campus got a chance to shape
the early planning for a new Student Union this
year when the project architects conducted a series
of focus groups on campus. The focus groups were
expected to continue in September, Jurasek said.
The architects, Robert Loversidge and David
Votero, asked participants to forget the design and
function of the current student union and come
up with a vision of what they thought the student
union should be like.
At one of the focus groups participants said
a new Union should include updated dining
services, a bookstore, Community Government
offices, a coffee shop, and a dance-party space.
There were also suggestions to relocate a number
of existing groups, including independent groups,
and provide an information desk. Functionally,
among many considerations, there was interest in
adjustable spaces, connections with outdoor spaces
and easy accessibility.
Architecturally, participants favored an inclu-
sive-feeling building of open spaces that, rather
than follow new and futuristic trends, would fit
into the campus by echoing the best features of the
Main and Science buildings.
Livermore development considers village partnership
Cyclists churn past Antioch Hall during the ﬁ rst Yellow Springs Grand Prix, a bike race that attracted
more than 120 riders from kids to experts. Yellow Springs Police Ofﬁ cer Tim Knoth said the event had
a wholesome family feel, and 50 bike helmets donated by Dayton Children’s Hospital were given to
youngsters. The race, which Knoth said might become an annual event, was organized by the Yellow
Springs Bicycle Enhancement Committee, with the assistance of the Miami Township Fire and Rescue
Department and police ofﬁ cers representing Greene County, Cedarville, Yellow Springs, and state and
county parks.
GALLERY
JANUARY 22
ANDREAS KLEIN
German-born pianist Andreas Klein,
a Julliard graduate, has performed to
acclaim across the U.S. and Europe.
He is particularly admired for his
Mozart, and he brings a program
of great works by Beethoven and
Schubert, and the compositions by
Mozart that inspired them.
APRIL 16
JOHN AND RICHARD CONTIGUGLIA
A duo-piano team, identical twins
Richard and John Contiguglia
graduated from Yale. They also
studied with Dame Myra Hess
and have risen to a position of
preeminence in duo-piano and
four-hands performance. They will
perform an unusual program entirely
of original works for two pianists.
Events held at 8 p.m. in Kelly Hall
Presented by the Antioch College Music Department
Made possible by the support of the Adams Foundation
of New York City and Chamber Music Yellow Springs
Photos: (top) M. Klein; (above) Tania Mara

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10 elected to alumni board
The members of the Antioch College
Alumni Association Board serve an
important purpose. They are the elected
representatives of all Antioch College
alumni.
The mission of the alumni board is to en-
hance the engagement of the Antioch alumni
with the College. The board works through
an ongoing process of establishing alumni
chapters and planning an alumni reunion
each summer. In addition, the board’s three
annual meetings include updates on College
activities (recent and planned) so that members
may speak informedly to other alums about
Anitoch.
John Feinberg ’70, president of the Antioch
College Alumni Association, presented 2006
Alumni Board election results during the
Association’s annual meeting at Reunion 2006
on Friday, June 23, in Yellow Springs. John
extended his congratulations to the new and
returning board members and thanked them
for taking on the vital work of the college.
Ten Antioch College Alumni Association
board members were elected by Antioch alumni
constituents via mailed and electronic ballots
during the 2006 election. Fifteen Antiochians
stood for election on the 2006 ballot.
TERRY BOHNHORST BLACKHAWK ’68
Detroit, MI; Poet, Educator, Founding Director
InsideOut Literary Arts Project
JOHN DAWSON ’58
Lee, NH; Professor of Physics, Emeritus,
University of New Hampshire
ATHENA TURNER FREDERICK ’82
Huntingdon, PA; Registrar, Juniata College
MARTIN L. FRIED ’55
Jamesville, NY; Crandall Melvin Professor
of Wills and Trusts, Syracuse University
College of Law
TENDAJI W. GANGES ’71
Flint, MI; Assistant to the Chancellor; and
Executive Director, Educational Opportunity
Initiatives University of Michigan-Flint
PENNY LEE ’82
New York; NY
City Planner for Long Island City
SUSAN OPOTOW ’65
New York; NY Social psychologist and
University of Massachusetts Boston
STEPHEN SCHWERNER ’60
Yellow Springs, OH; Retired;
College Professor and Dean of Students emeritus
WAYNE SNIVELY ’63
Newberry Springs, CA; Retired Registered
Civil Engineer, State of California
DAVID THELEN ’62
Bloomington, IN; Distinguished Professor
of History, Indiana University.
new alumni board members
For the ﬁ rst time since 2002, a women’s
rugby team is competing on campus. The
Antioch Radicals started last spring and
returned in the fall to play on the College’s
lone ﬁ eld, thanks to the support of Executive
Vice President Richard Jurasek and Trustee
Sherwood Guernsey II.
Rugby is the ﬁ rst step in the College’s
plan to promote team sports at Antioch.
“Team sports play a unique role in the
development of individual character and of
community, and it’s a piece that needs to
be put back into the collection of unique
features that make up Antioch College,”
says Judith Kintner, physical education
coordinator. “This is where we get to do
something wonderful for community.”
Fans of the Radicals will remember the
overwhelming success six years ago of
Antioch’s ﬁ rst women’s rugby team. The
brainchild of Psychology-Sociology Professor
Melinda Kanner, the team engendered an
overwhelming response among faculty,
staff and students. “Each match displayed
without question the most exuberant
expression of unity and pride in this
institution that I have witnessed in my 16
years at the College,” remembers Kintner.
Though rugby has not been played at the
College since 2002, interest has remained
high. During the past three years, Antioch
College has also ﬁ elded a co-ed soccer team
that competes at area sports complexes.
Incumbents John Dawson ’58, Athena
Turner Frederick ’82 and Steve Schwerner ’60
were elected to their second three-year terms.
Joining the Board for three-year terms were
Terry Blackhawk ’68, Martin Fried ’55, Tendaji
Ganges ’71, Penny Lee ‘82, Susan Opotow ’65,
Wayne Snively ’63 and David Thelen ’62.
These 10 newly elected members join 18
continuing members of the Board. There is a
maximum membership of 30 members on the
Alumni Board. Up to two additional board
members may be appointed.
Radicals take
to the field
WOMEN’S RUGBY RETURNS
TO ANTIOCH CAMPUS

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Delta commemorates Coretta Scott King
India Davis ’08, a theater major
from Seattle, Wash., is the ﬁ rst
recipient of the Coretta Scott King-
Delta Air Lines Scholarship.
Davis’ scholarship is the first of five $10,000
gifts given to Antioch students by the Delta Air
Lines Foundation, a company-managed giving
system that is a separate entity from Delta.
The foundation is making the grant to
acknowledge the work of the late Scott King ’51,
who lent her support to democracy movements
worldwide and served as a consultant on
nonviolence to many international leaders. Scott
King, who was married to civil rights leader the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died earlier this
year at the age of 78.
The award, which was announced on April 27
to commemorate Scott King’s birthday, supports
the work of Antioch’s Coretta Scott King Center
for Cultural & Intellectual Freedom, which
focuses on applied ethics, including the philosophy
of human rights and equality at Antioch.
“I have always been a performer, acting and
singing wherever I went,” said Davis, who is
studying this fall in Mali as part of the Antioch
Education Abroad Program. “When I came to
Antioch, I didn’t think I wanted to be a theater
major. But for me, performance is a vessel
through which I can explore and claim my own
identity while creating social change.”
A member of the Coretta Scott King Center
committee, Davis is interested in trying to pass the
Antioch Racial Discrimination Prevention Policy.
The Delta Air Lines Foundation also will
provide additional in-kind support of $50,000, a
year for five years, for travel on Delta Air Lines.
That contribution will be used for undergraduate
students to fulfill public service requirements
and expand advocacy for efforts in civil and
human rights around the world. In addition, the
foundation’s gift will provide travel for college
symposium participants conducting lectures
related to King’s work.
“Delta is delighted to provide students like
India an opportunity to further their academic
goals and fulfill their dreams much the way
Mrs. King did,” said Scarlet Pressley-Brown,
general manager of Delta’s global diversity
and community affairs division. “In addition,
our partnership with Antioch will allow many
students to travel to locations around the world
to fulfill their undergraduate requirements in
community service.”
India Davis ’08
Last summer Antioch students registered
for classes online without having to return to
campus or wait in lines.
Called “myAntioch,” the web portal
has been introduced in stages to College
and University students. Sixty percent of
college students sequenced to study last
summer registered using the new system,
according to Doug Wamer, the College’s
registrar for technology and reporting
services.
In addition students now can view their
class schedules, academic credit history,
assessment scores and other information
with “myAntioch” from anywhere with
access the Internet. Now they can view
online, problems that might bar them from
registration. If students monitor their status
it will make it easier for them to gain earlier
access to the registration process whether
on-campus, from home, or while on co-op,
Wamer said.
Later in the year the College expects to
add new features, including the ability for
faculty to “grade” courses online and for
students to see their account statements,
make payments and access ﬁ nancial aid
awards online.
Students use new
online capabilities

Antioch Review celebrates 65 years
The magazine is so well seasoned that in its
65th year, it is celebrating with a $10,000 grant
from the National Endowment for the Arts.
“Challenge America: Reaching Every
Community” was the title of the grant and
Fogarty plans to use its funding to expand the
audience of the internationally recognized
literary magazine. He will look at traditional
methods of marketing a literary magazine with
an eye to electronic strategies to reach new
audiences in new places.
Already the Antioch Review, one of the oldest,
continuously published literary journals in the
United States, appears in more than 400 book-
stores and most college libraries, in addition to
libraries, bookstores and embassies worldwide.
Just this year, Central Books in the United King-
dom, Europe’s largest distributor of magazines to
the book trade and galleries, began to distribute it
in 40 British bookstores.
Fogarty is tickled with the grant and the doors
it will open. Fogarty arrived in 1968 and became
editor 11 years later in 1977 — seeing both the
best and the worst of publishing times. “We were
invited to apply for the NEA grant,” he says with
pleasure and pride.
Each year, Fogarty estimates he receives 5,000
fiction articles, 2,000 non-fiction pieces and
thousands of poems. “We have to boil the stuff
down,” he says. With 10 or so local volunteer
editors reading the fiction and non-fiction, mov-
ing through what he calls the slush, fills hours
and days and weeks. Writers, some who have
never published and others who have, submit
scores of manuscripts from all corners of the
world. They all want to be in the Antioch Review.
From the results of the first readings, Fogarty
makes final decisions on fiction and non-fiction.
It’s a process he savors. He closes his office door
and settles in for four-hour stretches to read. “I
need silence so I lock myself in my office. Some-
times I get so involved, I forget where I am,” he
says. “I’m sitting there with tears in my eyes or
I’m laughing out loud.”
With a quick reading style honed from years of
experience, the pile of manuscripts divides: elimi-
nate, possible and absolutely yes. “I want to be
off the page,” he says. “I’m no longer reading the
story in my hand, I’m experiencing it.”
He looks to Judith Hall, the journal’s poetry
editor for the past 10 years, to choose poems for
each edition. Two readers go through the poetry
received and then Hall, a faculty member in
the master of fine arts poetry program at New
England College and a recent recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship, makes final choices.
Like most literary magazines, the Antioch
Review staff is small. Fogarty, also the John
Dewey Professor in the Humanities emeritus,
works half time and has a part-time assistant
in addition to his volunteer editors. “Everyone
involved, the readers, the designer, is local,”
he says. The journal, an Antioch University
publication representing six campuses in four
states, has its roots in Yellow Springs. “It was
founded here and has been edited here ever
since,” he said. “It represents the intellectual
and literary values of the University.”
The Antioch Review is never stale. Fogarty pays
attention to how writing is received by an ever-
changing society. This summer the issue con-
tained all fiction, as people have more time to
read in the warmer months of the year. Another
issue looked at jazz.
“I like to think that we surprise people,” he
said. The latest issue, the fall issue, is all mem-
oirs. “Everyone has a story to tell,” Fogarty says.
“And there’s been an explosion of interest in the
form.” In four categories: family, neighbors, tran-
sitions and commentaries — 20 memoirs were
selected from 250 unsolicited manuscripts that
were received.
A social historian at Antioch since 1968,
Fogarty retired from teaching in 2003. Still, the
magazine keeps him busy. He also attends confer-
ences on his favorite topics of strange American
religions and communal living. He’s the author
of six books and received the PEN Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2003.
Writers, as people, mean a lot to Fogarty. He
realizes he is helping them establish themselves
in the tough world of writing. He’s made friends
along the way. “I say ‘no’ most of the time, so
when I accept a piece, I call the writer and I get
to say that I’ve accepted their writing,” he says.
“That’s great fun for me.”
NEA grant may help expand readership
BY EVELYN FROLKING
Robert Fogarty says putting together the Antioch Review is like
making good soup stock. For the past 29 years, Fogarty, as editor,
and a crew of volunteer readers have spent untold hours stirring
the slush of thousands of manuscripts and boiling it down to a
thick, rich stock of ﬁ ction, non-ﬁ ction and poetry.

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VISIT THE WEB
View a recent issue or subscribe
to the Antioch Review online at
http://review.antioch.edu

Nelson’s early years at Antioch, though,
have left a big impression. “Antioch gave me a
great deal of freedom,” he said during a recent
telephone interview. “Freedom to do things
to benefit me and freedom to make mistakes.”
He recalled spending entire academic quarters
taking three classes that had a single focus.
Today, he said, students at most colleges and
universities aren’t offered that flexibility. “I
found what it was like to do research,” he said.
“It prepared me to do research at an academic
level…Antioch left me with a lot of powerful
lessons that left me in good stead.”
Since his Antioch years, Nelson has
written widely on most of the major issues
confronting the academy: academic freedom,
collective bargaining, contingent labor,
corporatization, globalization, the Internet,
political correctness, sexual harassment,
and the relationship between teaching and
research. His books have included Manifesto of
a Tenured Radical (1997), Academic Keywords: A
Devil’s Dictionary for Higher Education (1999),
and Office Hours: Activism and Change in the
Academy (2004), the last two co-authored with
Stephen Watt. He regularly lectures around the
United States and abroad, and he’s frequently
interviewed about higher education.
Nelson, whose wife, Paula A. Treichler,
’65, serves on Antioch’s Board of Trustees
and is University of Illinois faculty member
internationally known for her work on AIDS,
gives a nod to the Antioch’s co-op program.
Those early experiences took him to an
elementary school in Harlem — where he was
fired for protesting corporal punishment used
on students — and to the National Institutes
of Health — where he and other students
attempted to rally prisoners to protest their
being used as subjects in medical experiments.
The co-op experience taught students what
they were good at and what they shouldn’t do
for the rest of their professional lives, he said.
As a youngster, Nelson grew up in
Philadelphia and frequently joined his father
at protests and speeches during the early
1960s, including a trip to Washington, D.C.,
where he witnessed Martin Luther King giving
his “I Have a Dream” speech. Nelson chose
Antioch because “it was the most left-wing
school in the country, basically,” he said. “I’m
convinced that I would have never made it
through another school. I like making up my
own mind.”
Nelson’s primary field of scholarship is
modern American poetry. His books Repression
Nelson elected to lead American Professorate
Cary Nelson ’67
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UPDATES ACROSS
THE CAMPUS
COMMUNITY
Cary Nelson ’67, a well-known scholar-activist who
learned early lessons about the politics of academia
and life while at Antioch College during the ’60s, was
elected in April to a two-year term as president of the
American Association of University Professors.
Nelson is professor of English and Jubilee Professor of
Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, where he has taught since 1970.
An author or editor of 25 books and the author of 150
articles, he has served on the AAUP’s National Council
for 10 years, the last six as a vice president.
and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the
Politics of Cultural Memory 1910–1945 (1989)
and Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry
of the American Left (2001) have been at the
center of the effort to reform and expand
the American poetry canon. But he has also
been an academic activist for years, defending
the rights of graduate students and part-
time faculty, joining union rallies across the
country. Nelson is also widely recognized as a
frank and witty commentator on the politics of
higher education.
His campaign for the AAUP presidency
mixed praise for the organization’s
accomplishments with warnings that change
is necessary if the group is to reach its full
potential. “The policy statements issued by our
committees, the investigations we conduct, and
the work of our national staff is of the highest
caliber. But we must do a more effective job of
communicating our accomplishments to the
professoriate at large. We need to focus on our
key missions, activate our membership, and
maximize our impact,” he said.
Nelson holds an editorship with an Oxford
anthology. His “Manifesto of a Tenured
Radical,” was hailed as a benchmark defense of
old-fashioned liberal education, according to
The Chronicle of Higher Education .
The Chronicle wrote this of Nelson’s AAUP
election: “Manifesto writers don’t typically do
well in general elections. The political track
record for satirists is even worse. And yet, this
spring, Cary Nelson managed to get himself
elected president of the American Association
of University Professors without a hitch.”
Despite his busy schedule during his AAUP
term, Nelson expressed the desire for Antioch
to continue producing citizens of the world
who are intellectual, educated, informed
activists. “People need to support Antioch,” he
says. “It’s about the country. It’s about what
the country needs.”
Photo: Courtesy of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign

by Scott Sanders, University Archivist
ANTIOCHIANA
“Mr. Wright’s assumptions are often emotional, his deﬁ nitions ﬁ ne-spun and
his deductions extravagant. Yet, with all his turgid exaggeration, his pages
disclose gems of fresh and pungent thought. As usual, his high-strung denun-
ciation and prophecy are to be taken not as philosophy or fact but as a mental
tonic — or more pertinently, an aperitif.” —Huh?
Though hardly useful as the book review
it purports to be, the preceding inscrutably
extravagant prose from a September 1932 Spring-
field (Mass.) Republican may offer insight into the
inspirational qualities, both positive and nega-
tive, of America’s most famous architect, Frank
Lloyd Wright. The book was his latest work,
“The Disappearing City,” his Utopian vision
of planned development called the distributed
city or “Broadacre.” Wright foretells both the
absolute takeover of the automobile as the na-
tional transportation system and the inextricably
linked rise of the suburb.
Arthur Morgan, a civil engineer by profession
and a social one by inclination, was still president
of Antioch College when “The Disappearing
City” was published, so it was perhaps a natural
addition to the library when it was new.
I didn’t know any of that until last March
when I checked my email one morning as we so
often begin our days. I’d received a message from
Andrew Steele, a former student from the 1990s.
Like other Antiochians I know, he’d been search-
ing the online auctioneer eBay for all things
Antioch. I call these people my “network of
spies” because, whether they’re looking to build
their own collections of Antiochiana or not, they
usually check with me to see if the archives wants
the item or not. Sometimes they even buy them
for us. Andrew had written to let me know that
an old Antioch library book is for sale on eBay,
adding “I hope it’s not stolen.” Well, thanks to
the library staffers that came before us, it didn’t
take long to find out that it had been removed
without permission… sometime before 1956.
That year an inventory of the entire library
collection was done to determine just how many
volumes had come up missing since the move
across campus from the old Horace Mann Library,
a building we now know as Weston Hall, to the
then brand new Olive Kettering Library. An index
card was made for any book unaccounted for at
the time and, since the Antioch library still has its
card catalog (despite full access to Ohiolink, one
of the largest online library catalogs there is), it was
easily found. Books not recovered within a year or
so were formally removed from the collection.
I followed the link to the auction site. The
seller had photographed the book inside and
out so prospective buyers could see the lovely old
college library bookplate, the design a woodcut
of a Main Building tower by former Professor of
Aesthetics Robert Whitmore. The plate itself was
produced by the Antioch Bookplate Company,
founded by Morgan’s son Ernest (class of 1929)
and today, under the ownership of Lee and
Vicki Morgan (both class of 1966), one of the
top small businesses in the Miami Valley. For
some strange reason we’d clipped a bit of artwork
from the book jacket and glued it to the front
cover, now faded but once green as grass. Usually,
deaccessioned books are stamped with the word
“Withdrawn” in big letters, so there’s no question
about their provenance when they show up in
used bookstores or for sale on the Internet, but
this one had no such marks. A quick trip through
Bookfinder.com yielded several copies of “The
Disappearing City” for sale, ranging from $300
to an autographed copy priced at over a thousand
dollars. All I had to do now was get it back.
The seller was clearly a lover of books and he
had a spotless record as an eBay vendor, so I felt
it would be safe to contact him directly. Surely he
wanted to do the right thing. But eBay’s policy is
to report suspected stolen property to the police,
so I did. When I told the dispatcher at the Yellow
Springs Police Department that I wanted to report
a theft of some fifty years ago, she laughed at me,
but they sent an officer to the library anyhow.
Sergeant Nipper took my report, made a few calls,
and then suggested that I should follow my first
instinct and just talk to the seller. So I did. Turns
out our book had ended up in the estate of an old
friend of his father’s, but no one could say how it
had gotten there. It didn’t matter to me, and they
were happy to return it.
A couple weeks later it arrived safely in the
mail. “The Disappearing City” had become rare
since its unauthorized exit from the collection
over half a century ago, so it is now part of the
non-circulating Bessie Totten Room for Rare and
Finely Printed Materials just down the hall from
Antiochiana. We even got a little publicity out of
its return in the March 30th issue of The Yellow
Springs News.
Scott Sanders with
“The Disapperaring
City,” lost for 50 years.
“The Disappearing City”
reappears after 50 years
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MICHAEL GOLDFARB ’72
Ahmad’s War, Ahmad’s Peace: Surviving Under
Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq was named to
The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books
of 2005. It focuses on the martyrdom of Ahmad
Shawkat, an Iraqi Kurd whose political newspa-
per espoused a fierce commitment to democrat-
ic principles in the early period of reconstruc-
tion. Michael Goldfarb, a National Public Radio
correspondent, hired Shawkat as an interpreter
when he covered the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The book is about his friendship with Shawkat,
whom he valued as a writer, an intellectual, a
scholar, and a patriot. It also offers a window to
what happened in Iraq during the early stages of
the current war. Shawkat was shot by gunmen
in 2003 at his newspaper office because of his
writings. The book follows a 2003 documentary,
“Ahmad’s War,” produced for WBUR-FM, the
NPR affiliate in Boston, which won the 2003
Radio-Television News Directors Association’s
Edward R. Murrow Award. Published by Carroll
& Graf.
LEE MONTGOMERY ’80
The Things Between Us is an alternately wrench-
ing and riotous memoir of a family reuniting as
one of its own is dying. The Montgomerys of
Framingham, Mass., are the last of a dying breed
— New England WASPs who effortlessly combine
repression, flamboyant idiosyncrasy, and alcohol-
ism with sometimes disturbing, often amusing
results. Torn apart by drink and dysfunction,
they have studiously avoided assembling under
one roof for more than a decade. But when Big
Dad is diagnosed with aggressive stomach cancer,
the siblings return to Four Corner Farm to help
their parents navigate the specialists, treatment
options, pain management, and, most difficult
of all, their own anguish. Published by Simon &
Schuster Canada.
BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG
The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel is a collection
of poetry by the Antioch associate professor
of creative writing and literature. It confronts
the relationship between the self and death,
especially as inflected through sexual desire,
which can kill us as easily as save us. The poems
explore different possibilities: a punishing God
who resists physical love, and a generous one
who celebrates it; a fear of death connected to
sex, and an accommodation of death connected
to love. Ultimately, these poems seek to recon-
cile the earthbound with the heavenly, and to
embrace both the physical and the transcendent.
His poetry has appeared in journals such as Paris
Review, Pleiades and North American Review, and
was anthologized in the Pushcart Prize anthol-
ogy for 2005. In 2003, he was awarded a grant
from the Ohio Arts Council. Published through
the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, Kent State
University Press.
BRIAN DAIZEN VICTORIA
Zen at War (second edition), is a compelling his-
tory of the contradictory, often militaristic, role
of Zen Buddhism, by the director of the Antioch
Education Abroad Buddhist Studies Program in
Japan. This book documents the close and previ-
ously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful
religion for Japanese militarism throughout
World War II. Drawing on the writings and
speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars,
Victoria shows that Zen served as a powerful
foundation for the fanatical and suicidal spirit
displayed by the Imperial Japanese military. At
the same time, the author recounts the dramatic
and tragic stories of the handful of Buddhist
organizations and individuals who dared to
oppose Japan’s march to war. He follows this
history up through recent apologies by several
Zen sects for their support of the war and the
way support for militarism was transformed into
“corporate Zen” in postwar Japan. The second
edition includes a new chapter on the roots of
Zen militarism and an epilogue that explores
the potentially volatile mix of religion and war.
With the increasing interest in Buddhism in the
West, this book is as timely as it is certain to be
controversial. “Zen at War is a wake-up call for
all Buddhists. Victoria has shown in a passion-
ate and well-documented way that Buddhism is
not immune to the kind of distortions that have
been used throughout human history by virtu-
ally all of the world’s religions to justify so-called
holy war,” said John Daido Loori, Roshi, Abbot
of Zen Mountain Monastery. Published by Row-
man and Littlefield.
PHILIP FRIED ’72
Big Men Speaking to Little Men , the author’s
third book of poetry, begins in World War II
Atlanta, Ga., as the poet’s birth is punctuated
by a home run swatted out of a local stadium.
That baseball hangs in the mythic Southern sky
and simultaneously arcs forward into the poet’s
historical time. As the book unfolds, myth and
NEW BOOKS
VOICES
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GROSSBERG
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history haunt such true and imagined places
as a Hudson Valley high school where Ralph
Waldo Emerson is reincarnated as a science
teacher, a Bronx apartment where a small boy
becomes a mirror to please his mother, and a
Paris square where Victor Hugo plays hopscotch
to achieve utopia. Throughout, Fried explores
with humor and compassion the intersection
of personal myth and historical moment. He
listens for the dialogue between “big men” and
“little men” that helps define the self in history
and the history of the self. Fried’s poems have
appeared in numerous journals and antholo-
gies. His two previous books of poetry are
Mutual Trespasses (1988) and Quantum Genesis
(1997). Fried is also the founding editor of The
Manhattan Review. Published by Salmon Poetry,
Ireland.
IVETA JUSOVA
The New Woman and the Empire examines the
intersections of gender, race, and colonial
issues in the work of four culturally, socially,
and nationally disparate New Women: Sarah
Grand, George Egerton, Elizabeth Robins, and
Amy Levy. Iveta Jusova, director of the Women’s
Studies in Europe Program and assistant profes-
sor of Women’s Studies at Antioch, under-
scores essential differences in these women’s
negotiations of the Victorian colonial narrative
and ascertains how these authors located the
fin-de-siecle New Woman project in relation
to the late-Victorian colonial contest and the
racially biased narratives of evolution. Seek-
ing to contribute to our understanding of the
discursive strategies available to late-Victorian
women’s efforts to create space for their feminist
agenda in public discourse, the book urges the
reader to confront the fact that the success of
these strategies was often predicated on margin-
alizing others. It underscores the various ways in
which the work of all of the examined authors
supported British imperialist efforts. Published
by Ohio University Press.
JOHN VAN WILLIGEN
AND ANNE VAN WILLIGEN ’87
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms,
1920-1950 is based on interviews conducted
by the University of Kentucky’s Family Farm
Project to examine the vanishing family farm.
Supplemented by archival research, photo-
graphs and recipes, the volume illuminates how
the revolutionary change from subsistence to
market-based agricultural production that was
prompted by economic stress and government
policy altered not only the production, prepara-
tion, and consumption of food in Kentucky, but
the social relations within the state’s rural com-
munities. John van Willigen is a professor of
anthropology at the University of Kentucky. His
daughter and coauthor, Anne van Willigen, is
a regional consultant for the Kentucky Depart-
ment for Libraries and Archives. Published by
University Press of Kentucky.
DON CLARK ’53
The revised fourth edition of Loving Someone Gay
includes new research, a gay rights guide and
new material on gay marriage and domestic
partnerships. The original 1977 edition
brought a positive profile of gay identity to
a general audience and contributed to the
groundswell of the gay rights movement. In
the 1980s, AIDS forever changed not only gay
communities, but also the global landscape
as prejudice yielded to knowledge that the
HIV virus crosses the imagined barriers of
gender, sexual orientation and lifestyle. A new
edition responded to the crisis. According to
the publisher, Loving Someone Gay remains the
most comprehensive profile of positive gay
identity in print, offering courageous support
and compassionate guidance for gay men and
lesbians and the friends and families who love
them. Published by Celestial Arts.
KATHAN BROWN ’58
Magical Secrets about Thinking Creatively: The
Art of Etching and the Truth of Life presents 13
“magical secrets” — creative strategies exempli-
fied by the different approaches to art-making
taken by artists, the author and founder of
Crown Point Press, Kathan Brown, has worked
with. Sophisticated and yet straightforwardly
explained, the magical secrets help the reader
understand fundamental strategies such as how
to creatively use the physicality of materials
or how an artist may enter a mental state that
encourages creative connections. Clear explana-
tions of printmaking processes and stunning
reproductions help to illuminate the secrets. An
accompanying DVD features Brown’s popular
“Magical Secrets” lecture. At once authoritative
and inspiring, Magical Secrets offers a deeper
understanding of the creative impulses in us
all. Brown is also a printmaker. This is her sixth
book. Published by Crown Point Press.
DIAZEN VICTORIA
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of the matter
CORE
INTEGRATION IS KEY: PROMOTING SUCCESS
AND ENCOURAGING INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
getting to the
(from top left) Anne Bohlen, Associate Professor of Communications | Peter Townsend, Professor of Geology
and Environmental Science | Jill Yager, Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences | Denise Eagleson,
Associate Professor Photography | Scott Warren, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science | Janice
Kinghorn, Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of the Core Program | Beverly Rodgers, Associate
Professor of Anthropology
FACULTY IN THE ROUND TABLE

The Core program is Antioch College’s new ﬁ rst-
year curriculum, implemented during 2005-2006.
It is designed to continue Antioch’s commitment to
integrated learning, but in a way that provides suf-
ﬁ cient structure to maximize student success and
appeal to more prospective students.
In the Core, three faculty members present the
semester-long courses that apply the perspectives
of three academic disciplines to an important aca-
demic issue. Part of the liberal arts tradition, the
Core is meant to explore overlaps and connections
in disparate areas of knowledge. “This is the highest
level of integrated learning,” according to Andrzej
Bloch, Interim Dean of Faculty.
Several notable outcomes ﬂ ow from this organi-
zation. Students stay together as a cohort through-
out the course, and the class is together on campus
throughout the ﬁ rst year. This is an important way to
support young students during a very critical time,
when close to two out of three students drop out.
The Core will be followed by a “year of explora-
tion” through two Co-op Community semesters and
upper-level courses that are also integrated, but pro-
vide opportunities for students to explore. “Linked
courses” are similar to the Core, being team-taught
by two or more faculty members. “Clustered cours-
es” are separate, say, economics and history. One day a week, however, they combine to
study related issues (such as the Industrial Revolution). During this year, students choose
a faculty mentor to guide them toward in-depth study.
The 20-Month Program completes the four-year curriculum. It begins when the
student, under the guidance of a mentor, plans the curriculum of the Individually Guided
Major. Whether it is zoology or ﬁ lm score composition, students design their own major.
Co-op jobs, study abroad, even public service experiences may be a part of a student’s
curriculum. For courses not offered on campus, the curriculum provides for students to
take specialized courses elsewhere.
For more information about Antioch’s Core
Curriculum contact the Office of Admissions,
Antioch College, 795 Livermore St.,
Yellow Springs, OH 45387 (800) 543-9436
HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN TO PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS AND
PARENTS THE VALUE OF THIS CURRICULUM?
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Scott Warren: Our curriculum reflects the way the world works. In other words the world today is incredibly
complex, integrated and multidisciplinary — that’s the nature of the problems that we face. An old-fashioned
liberal arts curriculum that has very discrete, compartmentalized disciplines doesn’t reflect what’s required to
come to terms with the world today.
Our curriculum is the most interesting that I’ve ever seen. We used to think we had an interconnected
curriculum but we didn’t. Like in my area — History, Philosophy and Religious Studies — students still said
they were majoring in history or philosophy. It looked interdisciplinary on the surface but underneath
(when it was actually carried out, and how faculty saw themselves) it was much more traditional. The way
these learning communities are organized around certain themes and problems in the world — whether
it’s revolutions, or water issues — and then team taught from three different perspectives, that is about as
integrated and integrative as you can get.
Janice Kinghorn: One of the things students respond to is telling them that we break down artificial
barriers. They like that. The disciplines put you in boxes. We get rid of those barriers and embrace a larger
context. What I think they don’t get right away is the value of integration.
I had students who came into the course not liking a discipline, saying “I don’t want to study that, I
don’t like that.” But they learned that they could take the discipline they did want to study and use that as a
lens through which to delve into the other.
One fellow was interested in organic farming but simply wanted nothing to do with economics until
we did a paper about the structure of markets. It was a revelation to him that he could look at the market
for organic produce — and that indeed was interesting to him and it was economics. So using what stu-
dents liked, or at least appreciated, to understand something they didn’t think they liked, in retrospect,
resonated with them.
Beverly Rodgers: I’ve come to see it as teaching students to use multiple perspectives when looking at the
same thing. It’s a tremendous research skill and it is a mature skill. We are prone to find an expert or some-
one we like to read and absorb that opinion, and it’s from one perspective. In the Core they learn very early
on that college, and life in general, requires you to use multiple perspectives, or multiple lenses, to examine
the same phenomenon. It is really productive. We also explored the ability to understand the difference
between self-representation and ‘other’ representation.
We did have parents in our class during Visitors’ Day and I think we had a positive response. They were
very pleased with what we were presenting, because it seemed we were force-feeding maturity, because we
were using multiple perspectives. It wasn’t Comp 101… this and that 101… it was more demanding, at a
higher level, truer to life. It was nearer to what I consider Antioch’s mission.
During year one, Antioch’s new curriculum offers a structured
environment of integrated study with faculty teams of three.
Thereafter students progressively focus in depth on majors of
their own design. It is a balance between promoting success
and encouraging intellectual freedom. Last summer, seven of
the professors described their experiences.

HOW WILL THIS
CURRICULUM AFFECT
STUDENTS’ ACCEPTANCE
TO GRADUATE SCHOOLS?
Peter Townsend: In the sciences we have a
very good record of getting people into graduate
school. I think this current track will be as suc-
cessful as we have been in the past. In the fall of
the first year our students will be doing the Core
that everyone does, but then in the spring they
will be doing a science core. When they come
back in the second year they will be completing
that science core. That will give them the founda-
tion to go into the more advanced sciences.
All people are more effective when they look at
things from multiple perspectives and our Core
program is designed to help people learn early on
to look at problems from multiple perspectives.
So from that respect I think it will do a good job,
although I think our co-op program has done
that in an excellent way in the past anyway. Our
students have graduated being more capable of
solving problems — analyzing situations, looking at
multiple solutions, and working at problems from
multiple directions because of co-op.
Anne Bohlen: We’re trying to develop skills
that they can use anywhere — skills in critical
thinking, skills in writing, quantitative skills,
skills in research. I think that sometimes gets
lost when you are just trying to impart a body of
knowledge. We have consciously tried to provide
specific tasks — assignments, coordinated group
discussions, and public interaction with people
in the field — to underline some of these very
important things they are going to be using
anywhere. There is far more information in an
evaluation than a grade. Students also compile a
portfolio of their best work throughout their four
years which they can share with graduate schools.
Warren: That’s a question I get asked a lot. I
think it’s going to be positive, because of the way
the transcripts are going to be set up and the
way evaluations are going to be written. Parents
have said to me, “My kid is going to come out
of Antioch with a transcript that says he took a
course in revolutions? What is that going to tell the
world, and what does that mean to the world?”
But that’s not all the transcript will say. It’ll say
“Revolutions” and then underneath it will say
“Introduction to Philosophy,” “Introduction to
Communications,” “Introduction to African
American Studies.” That is something that eases
their minds knowing that the transcript will still
have traditional references to subject matter and
disciplines that people understand. And as you
go further on along the curriculum you become
more focused in a more traditional sense.
The Core is an introduction to the liberal
arts and it’s the best one I’ve ever seen. I think
parents will be impressed by the fact that students
have had a focused, disciplined kind of program.
But they’ve also had this creative and integrative
kind of immersion in the liberal arts as well. I
think it will make them very attractive to gradu-
ate programs.
Medical schools more and more care less about
a very traditional scientific background. There are
requirements. You have to have organic chemistry
and certain things they require. But you can major
in Eastern religions and still take all those courses.
You can be pre-med and not major in the sciences.
They are more interested in people having general
critical thinking and writing ability and so forth.
Kinghorn: I sat on an admissions committee
in graduate school (the New School for Social
Research) in economics before I came to Antioch.
We were not interested in how many economics
classes you had or even how much economics you
knew. The candidates we were looking for could
think, they were empowered learners who had the
basic necessary skills. Once they got there we could
teach them economics.
HOW DO YOU DELIVER
A BODY OF KNOWLEDGE
USING THIS STYLE OF
EDUCATION?
Kinghorn: Bodies of knowledge change, espe-
cially in the world today. Even if we had the most
traditional program, we could not impart in four
years a complete body of knowledge. Students
need to be lifelong learners—so how can we best
equip them? We know how the world is: you could
end up doing something you never expected. So
that is how we can best serve them, more so than
making sure they move from A through H of some
body of knowledge.
Bohlen: We have the body of knowledge, but
we’re also focused on methodology — ways of ex-
ploring, how to conduct research, how to be a life-
long learner, how to successfully find information,
how you possibly make social change. We expose
them to people who are working on issues, and
we talk about all the things you have to do to have
an impact in society. We want to prepare citizens
who are active, and who want to be participants in
society and who want to make change.
Jill Yager: There are still going to be streams in
the curriculum. Students will still be able to base
their majors on the expertise of the faculty who
are here. It’s not like they are going to design
their degree plan taking just one course from ev-
erybody. They are going to come in here with an
interest in anthropology or biology. The faculty
here are experts in their fields — anthropology,
photography, filmmaking, economics, geology,
environmental science: Students will be able to
devise their degree plans based on who’s here
and how that makes sense to them.
Warren: It’s a challenge. But looking back at what
we did in my course, “Revolutions,” it is mind
boggling the amount of knowledge we were able
to come to terms with. By the end of the term
the three of us were looking at each other saying,
“You know these students have not only had
introductions to philosophy, communication,
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“We’re trying to develop skills that
they can use anywhere — skills in
critical thinking, skills in writing,
quantitative skills, skills in research.
I think that sometimes gets lost
when you are just trying to impart a
body of knowledge.”
ANNE BOHLEN

and African American studies, but they’ve also
been exposed to art history, to American social
and political history, and to black culture.”
For example, the last week I did what I call the
“Beethoven revolution” in music and the “Picasso
revolution” in art. What I did is I took them
on a history of music from Haydn and Mozart
to Beethoven. I demonstrated how Beethoven
expanded the development section of the sonata
form, by which composers of that time were
constantly imprisoned. Mozart, as clever as he was,
was always trapped by it. Beethoven found a way
to transform the development, so that is where the
creativity of the composer is at its best. Beethoven
made the development the dominant part of
the whole form. By doing that he revolutionized
music. He opened up the floodgate that led to
Romanticism. Then I took them through Brahms,
Wagner and Schoenberg, and his twelve-tone
technique. Beethoven made that possible when he
made the creativity of the composer more impor-
tant than the objective form.
Similarly, they learned about Africa, they learned
about Latin America, they learned about American
labor history, and they learned about black filmmak-
ers. We obviously are not delivering in-depth knowl-
edge. Sacrificing that allows us to provide a pretty
solid introductory foundation. They know when
they come out of this course, for example, what the
revolutions are in philosophy, even thought they
only read two philosophers. They know what the
sociological and cultural issues are in Bob’s (Devine,
Professor of Communications and Media Arts) area,
in communications. They know what paradigms
are, what the pertinent issues are, even though they
haven’t studied them in depth.
That’s how we do it. I think one reason our
community worked so well is that the three of
us were in the classroom at the same time all
of the time. We didn’t take turns. So that on
the French and Russian Revolutions, Bob and
Jahwara (Giddings, Associate Professor of Afri-
cana Studies) were there, and we would bounce
off each other and contributed to each other’s
delivery of the subject, the students really liked
that. We questioned each other, we had argu-
ments, we had debates. Students also read a lot
and wrote every week.
HOW DOES THE NEW CORE
CURRICULUM CONTRAST
WITH THE PREVIOUS
ANTIOCH CURRICULUM?
Denise Eagleson: In the previous curriculum,
I don’t think we paid attention to the first-year
students. There were some 100 level courses that
had a lot of first-year students in them. But now
we are really paying attention to where they are
developmentally and we are providing, I think, a
really rich curriculum for them. Faculty are bring-
ing the best of what we know about our fields,
and we’re getting to have these really enlivening
conversations with colleagues. So we are being
inspired to work outside of our known fields of
familiarity and comfort. I think something has
happened in terms of an infusion of a wider
world for all of us. We are getting to grow out of
our smaller boxes into bigger worlds. It is giving
us big benefits and it’s going to benefit students.
Kinghorn: Before, no one paid attention to
teaching students how to present material — “that’s
not my job, I teach economics” — well now yes, it is
our job. Faculty members took that responsibility
seriously — to do not only the disciplinary content,
but the writing, the presentations, the group work
— things that would have fallen through the cracks
because it’s no one’s job.
Warren: At first, I was against it (the Core cur-
riculum). I thought it was the wrong plan in the
wrong place at the wrong time. But then I started
working on it. The more I worked, the more
enthusiastic I became. I became one of its biggest
proponents. I think alot of faculty went through
the same process. The more we worked on it, the
more it became ours. Talking about teaching has
energized all of us.
I can only speak to the past 10 years. The stu-
dents are going to get a richer interdisclipinary
experience in terms of the liberal arts if that’s
what they want — because we have a structure
that allows it to emerge — and I think they can
do it without sacrificing depth, because of the
way the last two years are going to be organized.

Rodgers: When I took over teaching anthropol-
ogy, I looked at the syllabus for the first year anthro-
pology class and I said, “You’re kidding me!” There
were five textbooks for that class. They were too busy
reading and writing to actually take it in, and think
about it. Realizing that all first year students are
not at that 200-300 level when they come in, the
revisions we agreed to are reflective of letting them
have more time, more space, and then providing the
opportunity for outreach into the outside commu-
nity. I think that also should be a good precursor for
co-op and make them more successful there.
Also, in my course, “American Identities,” we
were in class the vast majority of the time, so we
had the opportunity to see students’ weak points
and strong points. I’d be hard pressed to do that
two times a week in a traditional class. It might be
mid-term before I caught on to where they were,
or were not, learning best. It becomes a lot more
apparent when you have the type of situation that
the Core provides.
Bohlen: One real strength of the Core program
is that we brought professors in from other fields
to do presentations. Another strength is they kind
of become a little community. They get to know
each other really well. They actually care about
each other. They come and talk about students
who are having problems and try to problem-solve
about how to help them get over this moment. It’s
really great!
Kinghorn: Yes, one of the goals for this was to
have the students form a closer bond or a better
sense of community, and, oh boy, we really suc-
ceeded at that! They bonded!
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WHAT DID YOU LEARN TO FINE-TUNE THE CORE IN THE FUTURE?
Bohlen: In “Environmental Justice,” I was kind of greedy. I included a documentary-making
component, but I also wanted to show them all of these ﬁ lms. I wanted them to see every-
thing. One of the things I am going to change is that I didn’t leave them enough time to do
the production end of it. One problem with the Core is that it’s over here, separate from the
rest of campus. So one way we tried to overcome that is to involve upper-level students as
TAs (teaching assistants).
Townsend: When you have a group of students living together and studying together all day
long, you are going to have group dynamics issues. We will continue to have problems.
Eagleson: We anticipate larger numbers of students in the fall, which will be challenging.
We will need to break up into small groups. But having more students is going to help us
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Karen Sirker ’82 is grateful for an experience she had as an Antioch student more than two
decades ago that helped her ﬁ nd inner peace. Sirker participated in the Buddhist Studies in
India Program, a journey that shaped her life and career path. Today, in her role at the World Bank
Institute in Washington, D.C., she is in the position to provide assistance to struggling communi-
ties in the Buddhist country of Sir Lanka.
“The AEA program may have saved my life,” she said. “I had many problems but I found I
could focus on love and compassion — unconditional love and loving yourself. What a gift the
whole program was.”

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It was at an assembly on Nov. 22, 1955, that
Antioch President Samuel Gould called for the
College to enable every student to study abroad.
With the United States in the position of world
leadership, he was concerned that less than 1
percent of American college students were having
any academic experience overseas.
“Just as nothing can take the place of a personal
relationship between people, nothing can take the
place of a personal relationship among nations,”
Gould later wrote in the Alumni Bulletin. “Such a
relationship develops from acquaintance to knowl-
edge, from knowledge to understanding, from
understanding to steady cooperation.”
Inspired by Gould’s idea, Antioch History
Professor Irwin Abrams quickly responded. He
wrote a memo offering to evaluate potential
European sites during his planned 1956 sabbatical.
His motivation was plain. As a conscientious
objector, pacifist and peace activist, he had studied
at the League of Nations and worked to organize
the Quaker International Voluntary Service for
Peace work camps in Europe. He was interested in
international cooperation and understanding —
one-on-one diplomacy that could serve to mitigate
ethnic and nationalistic antagonism. “It seemed
so natural for me to do this,” said Abrams, now a
professor emeritus of history.
Abrams had been part of the Experiment in
International Living, which in 1932 began taking
groups of young men to Switzerland. As an expe-
riential approach to cross-cultural education, EIL
was a powerful model for the young professor and
he became a faculty champion of Antioch’s new in-
ternational enterprise. Esther Oldt, on the faculty
since 1928, became AEA’s first director and Paula
Spier ’45 joined the office staff. By 1957, Antioch
Education Abroad was sending the first students
on adventures that reshaped their assumptions.
Early on, Antioch faculty members were in-
trigued with the possibilities for travel and study.
Increasingly, though, they grew disgruntled over
a variety of issues — some of their best students
disappeared during their third year on campus
to participate in AEA, they perceived that funds
seemed to be draining away from campus-based
programs, and crediting was being done by AEA
faculty instead of campus-based faculty.
One of the early controversies involved a program
in Guanajuato, Mexico, in which Antioch students
integrated into a conservative, Catholic community.
“There was only one town the least bit interested in
having a lot of radical American students, but they
weren’t happy with them running around in their
underwear,” recalled Spier, who later became dean
of the program. The students who benefited the
most, she believes, were those who were completely
immersed into another culture.
There were academic controversies, too. For
example, when Antioch first started granting
academic credit for a meditation course, it was
controversial among academics. But supporters
argued that Buddhist practices couldn’t be lim-
ited to intellectual aspects without also including
meditation — the two parts were inseparable.
“Whenever you teach religious studies there is a
concern that belief is required,” Pryor said.
Abrams, who was previously the international
studies director at the Great Lakes Colleges As-
sociation, drew on his experiences there to create
what is now known as Europe in Transition — one
of the oldest AEA programs, initially called the Eu-
ropean Urban Term. (The name change occurred
in 1972 when it was recognized as a GLCA pro-
gram.) In the beginning, Abrams set out to prove
that a semester-long program could demonstrate
academic rigor.
“I decided to try a shorter period to develop
cross-cultural experiences by studying urban
planning and the philosophy of cities,” Abrams
said. “Each student had a project they could
follow in each country, a comparative study,
and get urban planners in different countries to
come talk to them.”
“It was the best teaching I ever did,” said Abrams,
who later in his career served as president of the
International Society of Educational, Cultural,
and Scientific Interchange and evaluated study
abroad programs for the U.S. Department of
Education.
“Walking streets with students, teaching and
learning with them. We didn’t use books and we
did not go into any library,” he explained. “They
learned by observation and asking questions of
local officials. It was a great experience.”
Life-changing is a common theme among
alumni who’ve participated in AEA. “It changed
Certainly, the 25-year-old Buddhist program has become a stalwart portion of the College’s
50-year-old Antioch Education Abroad. Other AEA programs now involve Japanese Buddhist
studies, traveling to Brazil to study ecosystems, or going to Mali, West Africa to study art and
culture. In addition, students have three different European opportunities: political transition,
the arts or women’s studies. Some of AEA’s programs are consistently recognized among the
top 25 in The Student’s Guide to the Best Study Abroad Programs. As one of the oldest of its
kind, AEA regularly draws applicants from colleges throughout the country.
Sirker, for one, can attest to the fact that the AEA and Buddha program Director Robert
Pryor deeply affected her life. “I can’t thank Robert enough for this program,” said Sirker.
“He doesn’t know how much he changed my life. I will be eternally grateful…It was such a
deep experience learning Buddhism and practicing it. Only in retrospect did I realize (that the
teachers in the program) were the best teachers anywhere. I read books now about Buddhism
and they talk about those teachers.”
Across the United States, study abroad programs thrive — both those rooted at colleges
and independent models. Among them, Antioch is a pioneer in the history of international
study. Because the College was at the forefront of study abroad programming, it has been
a long-studied specimen and admired by others in academia. Its early founders have been
consultants to other colleges, and faculty members have widely published their studies.
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BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM
IN BODH GAYA, INDIA
Director Robert Pryor,
Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies
Students live at the Burmese monastery near
where the Buddha is said to have attained enlight-
enment, studying the history, philosophy, anthro-
pology, and meditation practices of a religion with
important impacts on Asian cultures.
BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM IN JAPAN
Director Brian Victoria,
Professor of Japanese Studies
A philosophical, cultural, and practical study of
Japan and its three major Buddhist traditions
while in residence at Japanese temples.
BRAZILIAN ECOSYSTEMS
Director Suzanne Kolb,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
An examination of biodiversity and environmental
protection in most of the major ecological zones of
one of the world’s most important natural regions.
EUROPE IN TRANSITION: INTEGRATION
AND POST INDUSTRIAL CHANGE
Director Daria Lucka,
Assistant Professor of Sociology
An in-depth exploration of contemporary social,
economic, and political changes across Europe
through a semester of study and research in
Germany, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech
Republic.
ANTIOCH IN GERMANY
Nicole Sauer, Resident Director
Students study art, humanities, science, and any
course of study offered at Tuebingen’s Eberhard
Karls Universitat. All classes are in German and
students live among Germans.
COMPARATIVE WOMEN’S STUDIES IN EUROPE
Director Iveta Jusova,
Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies
Examines social, economic, and political
systems as they inﬂ uence contemporary gender
theory, policy, and women’s identities. (Poland,
the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and the
United Kingdom).
ART AND CULTURE IN MALI, WEST AFRICA
Director Michelle Bach-Coulibaly,
Visiting Assistant Professor
Painting, pottery, sculpture, and music alongside
local masters open windows to traditional and
modern Malian life.
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Andrzej Bloch, Director,
Professor of Economics
Josielyn Inaldo, Assistant Director
Kim Sims, Assistant Director
Patricia J. Redway, AEA Assistant
Antioch students have a wide range of inter-
national experiences, from studying culture in
Mali, West Africa, to riding camels in Egypt.
AEA, unlike many college programs, offer
students speciﬁ c themes during travels abroad
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all of our lives,” according to Gerald Block ’67. A
native of Chicago’s southside, Block’s experience
in Europe became a pilgrimage of sorts. He was
a Jew going to Germany to study for a semester
in both Tuebingen and Munich, where he came
in contact with a group of Holocaust survivors
who had formed a small business community.
He viewed the tragedy of these people who, after
liberation from the camps, had gone to Israel and
to the U.S. without building successful lives. They
had made the tough decision to return to Ger-
many because of the government’s offer of repara-
tions. “It was a sad community where they felt they
were nobody,” recalled Block, who later received a
doctorate at the University of California and now
owns a chain of 22 clothing stores that focuses on
recycled products.
“I did not lose relatives in the Holocaust, but by
meeting these survivors it brought home the war to
me in a way that could not have been otherwise,”
he remembered. “In my way I was trying to answer
some profound questions about Germany…I talk-
ed to (non-Jewish) German friends who had lived
through the Nazi years, I met a survivor of Dachau
in Dachau, and I came away with a sense of what
humanity can do to itself.”
While in Germany, Block worked as a parking
lot attendant and as a menial laborer in a paper
mill alongside migrant workers from Italy and
Turkey. But the classroom experience was just as
vivid. He easily recalled studying Kafka in German
in a course taught by a Jesuit priest. “That was an
‘ah-ha’ moment for me,” he said.
“On the national scene today, there is some-
thing unique about our international program,”
said Andrzej Bloch, AEA director and dean of
faculty. “Unlike other programs, our programs
always have a theme of focus. In our Brazil pro-
gram, students just don’t go to Brazil they study
the environment. Other India programs study
general culture and society. Our students study the
historical and contemporary impact of Buddhism
on politics, society and culture.”
“All of our programs are very specialized, and
each is specialized in a different way,” agreed Pryor.
“That is their strength. They don’t appeal to ev-
eryone but they provide something that can’t be
found anywhere else.”
The tradition of academic rigor is reflected in cur-
rent offerings. The Women’s Studies Program was
originally patterned on the European term — stu-
dents take four courses during the semester with all
non-language courses spoken in English. Readings,
journaling and a capstone project are required.
Outside of the Europe in Transition program
and the Women’s Studies courses, though, lan-
guage immersion is an important piece of other
AEA programming. Not all students achieve flu-
ency, but for most, language study deepens the
cross-cultural experience. “Many students who
select the Brazil program have a strong background
in Spanish and can readily pick up Portuguese,”
said Suzanne Kolb, director of the Brazilian Ecosys-
tems program. “There are plenty of opportunities
to use the language.”
Antioch students enjoy a broad range of educational experiences during their
international trips. Studying nature in Brazil, dancing in the West African country
of Mali and learning Buddhist practices at monasteries in India and Japan are
just a few of the opportunities that are available each year.

Both women participated in the Brazilian
Ecosystems Program, a co-op program and
an Antioch Education Abroad experience. In
the end, Watkins and Cobb saw the beneﬁ t
of their work ﬁ rsthand: ants successfully
colonized in bamboo structures that had
been hung on trees. In addition, researchers
on site who were conducting genetic map-
ping of rare genuses of ants were able to
more easily develop complete colonies for
observations and study. Complete colonies
are often difﬁ cult to locate in the wild.
The Antioch students’ work was as im-
portant as that being done by the other
researchers; thus, their original research
became part of a journal article written by
their mentor and resident entomologist,
Dr. Jacques Delabie. The article, with the
two Antioch students listed as the ﬁ rst and
second primary writers, is titled “An Explor-
atory Study on the Use of Bamboo Pieces
for Trapping Entire Colonies of Arboreal Ants
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae).” It appeared in
the 2006 issue of Sociobiology.
Neither student knew the other before
arriving at the research site. “And we had
no idea what we would be doing,” Watkins
said. Part of the challenge was “ﬁ guring out
things on our own,” she added.
They came together to devise a semi-
natural habitat to colonize ants at the Cocoa
Research Center at Ileus in the northern
state of Bahia, Brazil. When they learned
that dried, hollow bamboo is a substitute for
dead or soft hollowed-out wood for bee colo-
nization, they thought the methodology also
might work for ants. Ultimately, they cut and
dried pieces of bamboo to construct struc-
tures in trees they believed would simulate
natural colonies. “Bamboo was plentiful and
hollow and it was free,” Watkins said. “We
thought it might work.”
They cut more than 130 pieces in varying
sizes and attached them to different variet-
ies of trees in conﬁ gurations they hoped
would segue with ant behavior. With their
growing knowledge of ant behavior and a
bit of luck, the passageways and spaces
would invite the tree loving ants to take up
residence.
In seven weeks, 47, or 36 percent of the
131 bamboo “traps,” were inhabited by
ants. This was an “extremely dynamic colo-
nization,” their article reported. “There was
a queen ant and larvae, the beginning stages
of colonization,” Watkins later explained.
During their study, they tracked patterns
of ant movement, including which species
colonized their bamboo habitats at various
heights from the ground and in different
types of trees. The students created a da-
tabase for recording observations and kept
detailed reports of their processes and
results.
The Ecosystems Program in Brazil, one
of several Antioch Education Abroad co-op
programs, was established in 1989 and is
the College’s only study abroad program
that enables students to engage in ﬁ eld
studies across a variety of biomes. Students
study ecology, ﬁ eld methodology and natu-
ral resource management alongside profes-
sors, graduate students, research scientists
and activists who are there to study issues
of the region.
The program is afﬁ liated in Brazil with
two universities, the Universidade Federal
do Parana and the Universidade Federal
do Mato Grosso. Many local and national
non-governmental organizations support the
program as well.
“We went everywhere, hitting all of the
bioregions and each part seemed a polar
opposite,” Watkins said of the diverse envi-
ronments in the country. They spent much
of their time, however, at the research cen-
ter working alongside Delabie. Delabie and
his colleagues study the taxonomy, ecology,
biogeography and genetics of the Formici-
dae family of ants.
When Watkins and Cobb weren’t in the
ﬁ eld, they had opportunities to interact with
the people and culture of Brazil. “Brazilians
are so happy with life,” Watkins said. “As
crazy and chaotic as the world can be, it was
nice to see people who can enjoy a simple
view of life.”
Cobb, an environmental education major,
also worked as a teaching assistant at the
Glen Helen Outdoor Education program
this summer after graduating from Antioch.
Watkins set off on another research co-op,
this time to Oregon State University to study
plankton in Monterey Bay on the Thomas
Thompson, a 300-foot research vessel.
The study-work academic plan at Antioch
drew Watkins, who is from Marysville, Ohio,
to Antioch. “I love it,” she said. “It’s one of
the most valuable programs here.”
Watkins sees herself growing as a sci-
entist. Next year, she plans to attend
graduate school at Ohio State University to
continue research in particle scattering in
the ocean. “The independence I have here
is important,” she said, regarding her time
at Antioch. “I feel like I’m growing, I see
the growth.”
In early 2006, two Antioch students spent several weeks on a Brazilian cocoa plantation to
study the behaviors of tree-loving ants. Katie Watkins ’07 and Meredith Cobb ’06 wondered
if the ants, like some species of honeybees and other social insects, could be encouraged to
colonize in semi-natural habitats. Their experiment was such a success that they became the
primary writers of an academic article that was published this year.
By Evelyn Frolking
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If there are distinguishing characteristics for
AEA programs throughout their history, it is
that they have never been large or generic. Often
experimental and entrepreneurial in nature, AEA
programs have sprung up and fallen away over
the years. Even today, AEA leaders and faculty
continually examine and reevaluate the needs. For
example, language courses on campus are begin-
ning to be supplemented with opportunities for
four-week intensive programs in Mexico, France,
Germany and Japan.
This fall, Antioch students are enrolled in
courses at Universidad de las Americas Pueble,
Mexico and Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan.
In addition to continuing their study of the lan-
guages, students are taking coursework in Latin
American studies or Japanese-East Asian Studies,
at their respective universities.
After 50 years of programming, Antioch
students continue to thrive in international envi-
ronments. Alisha Musicant ’05 acknowledges that
she took the Buddhism in India program more
seriously than most students.
While there, she took temporary vows as a
nun — meaning a shaved head, simple robes,
fasting after noon, celibacy, and no ornamentation
or entertainment. “It was an interesting oppor-
tunity to see what it’s like to be a monastic, in
a cultural sense—to test the limits of what I was
capable of,” she said.
Whether interested in different cultures,
philosophies or religions, Musicant said all the
students in the program were looking for similar
answers. “When it comes down to it, people just
want to understand what we are doing on this
Earth,” she said. “We are looking for why are we
here—how can we live on this Earth in a better way,
in a peaceful way.”
Back in Washington, D.C., Sirker is reflective.
She feels her experience as an Antioch student in
India played a significant role in her subsequent
choices. “When I came back, I wanted to work in
an organization with a spiritual as well as a social
change agenda,” she explained. She went to work
with the Quakers and before long was lobbying
for them at the United Nations on human rights,
disarmament and poverty issues.
Her first meditation teacher years ago urged her
to go to Sri Lanka to meditate at the pilgrimage
center of Kandy. When she was assigned to that
nation by the World Bank, she was able to make
the pilgrimage. “I felt like I fulfilled a promise,”
she said.
Despite her busy life, Sirker still uses meditation
to ease stress and find inner peace. “Although I’m
not a Buddhist, I have incorporated its teachings
into my life,” she said. “It has also opened doors to
other spiritual practices.”
An Antioch student learns to make clay pottery during her study abroad
experience. All photographs used in this feature were taken by students
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Through his academic career at four universities
and his practice as president of his own Yellow
Springs-based conflict resolution firm, Rothman
has forged into the muddiest struggles between
neighbors, co-workers, communities, and nations.
Now he punctuates 25 years with an internation-
al fellowship that has sent him to the Middle East
to study the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This year, he will straddle the fence of theory
and practice. Armed with a Fulbright Fellowship,
Rothman will spend a year as Distinguished
College Professor at Jezreel Valley College in north-
ern Israel. In addition to teaching, he will assist in
the development of the college’s Action Research
Center as it builds a “learning partnership” between
the community and the college to engage in social
issues and implement mutual knowledge.
“This college, just over a decade old, has the
explicit mission of bridging the divide between
university and community, between Arab and
Jew, between theory and practice,” Rothman said.
More than two decades ago, when his
professional journey began at Antioch College,
Rothman wanted to work in the field of inter-
group relations and peacemaking. An escalating
conflict between students, the staff union and
the administration helped fine-tune his passion.
“I got myself into sort of a mediation role
between the two sides,” he said. “A strike was
averted and problem solving began.”
Former Antioch Professor Jewel Graham
suggested Rothman should consider a career in
mediation. Rothman had never heard of that line
of work but he soon looked into it.
After completing his master’s degree in inter-
national relations at the University of Maryland
in 1985, Rothman moved to Jerusalem and began
his doctoral research exploring methodologies
for teaching and evaluating international conflict
resolution with a focus on intergroup relations.
From 1990 to 1994, Rothman alternated
between Israel and the U.S., serving simultane-
ously as director of peace and conflict studies
programs at Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges
and as director of numerous mediation initiatives
at The Leonard Davis Institute for International
Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Rothman has lectured and taught globally.
He has been a presenter at conflict resolution
conferences and workshops, and has written
numerous articles and books, including Resolving
Identity-Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations
and Communities (Jossey-Bass, 1997).
In 1998, Rothman brought his wife, Randi,
and three children back to his hometown where
he launched his consulting firm, The Aria
Group, and taught conflict resolution at Antioch
University, McGregor. The Aria Group specializes
in his trademarked mediation strategy called the
“Aria Method.” The system guides opposing fac-
tions through identifying and airing frustrations,
hearing out conflicting viewpoints, exploring
options and acting on solutions.
It was the Aria Method that Rothman employed
in 2001 when a federal judge appointed him head
mediator between police and angry residents fol-
lowing the Cincinnati race riots. “Identity-based
conflict is the deepest type, when people’s sense of
self is threatened and frustrated,” he said.
Other clients have included The Andrus Fam-
ily Fund, Greene County Children’s Services, the
Unitarian Universalist Association, the Common-
wealth of Virginia, and the Ohio Department of
Health-Ohio Sexual Assault Task Force.
Rothman’s career has earned recognition from
other Antiochians involved in peace studies.
“Jay is one of the most creative, conscientious,
forward-looking, accomplished, decent, visionary
workers in his field,” said Gordon Fellman ’57,
professor of sociology and chair of peace, conflict,
and coexistence studies at Brandeis University.
Former professor Irwin Abrams counts
Rothman as one of the first peace studies
students at Antioch College. “He has become
well-known nationally and internationally
for his work on mediation,” said Abrams, an
international expert on the Nobel Prize in
Peace. “He has a very special approach.”
Upon concluding the yearlong fellowship,
Rothman and his family will return to their
home in Yellow Springs. Rothman said his work
remains grounded in what he views as a distinctly
homegrown, Antiochian experience. “As the
world became more complex, Antioch became
the doorway to walk through to understand it,”
he said. For more on Rothman and his work, visit
www.ariagroup.com.
The problem with conﬂ ict for many people is they’ve had too many bad experiences with it.
| Not Jay Rothman ’80. | The Yellow Springs native and son of Phillip Rothman, professor of
education emeritus, discovered as a student in the late 1970s that getting into an argument
doesn’t have to be all that bad. In fact, it can often be a source of creativity and deeper
cooperation. “Too often, we ﬂ ee from conﬂ ict,” said Rothman. “Fight or ﬂ ight.”
Writer Dana Clark Felty ’98 covers religion and values
for the Savannah (GA) Morning News.
By Dana Clark Felty ’98
JAY ROTHMAN ’80 TO STUDY ARAB-ISRAELI STRUGGLE
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The $500,000 Russ Prize recognizes engineering achievement that significantly contributes to the
human condition, and Clark’s oxygen electrode has revolutionized the field of medicine within the last
50 years. A real-time monitor for a patient’s blood oxygen level, the electrode has made surgeries safer and
affected millions of lives in the half century since it was created.
When Clark presented his invention in 1956 at a professional conference in Atlantic City, N.J.,
his colleagues were stunned. “They realized how important this breakthrough was and were amazed
how simple the answer was,” commented William Heineman, University of Cincinnati distinguished
research professor of chemistry.
That meeting broke up so Clark’s colleagues could closely inspect his miraculous advancement. Now
premature infants could be monitored, newborns’ defective hearts could be repaired, and adults’ malfunction-
ing heart valves could be replaced. The applications have been wide, including use in cell culturing, molecular
genetics, aviation, space flight, soil chemistry, the food industry, water quality monitoring and other purposes.
Moreover, Clark’s invention led to a whole new industry of biosensors. Dubbed the father of biosensors,
Clark won a special award in Geneva, Switzerland, from the International Congress on Biosensors in 1992.
Clark had long been known as a scientist who exercised his creative ingenuity to solve human problems.
His first invention was the heart-lung machine, designed and developed in 1949 at the Fels Institute in
Yellow Springs. Contributing to the success of this machine were three breakthroughs. First, he developed
a bubble oxygenator to oxygenate the blood. Second, he devised a way to break up the oxygen bubbles to
avoid strokes. And third, he designed the machine of glass so it could be disassembled and sterilized.
Clark later pioneered use of this machine at the University of Alabama Medical Center. While there,
he also discovered the viability of liquid breathing. This led to the development of a perfluorocarbon-
based artificial blood, research that occupied much of his last three decades.
Clark grew up in Attica, New York, where his parents ran a general store. In the basement of the store
one day, he found an 1887 chemistry textbook. “It was love at first sight,” said his daughter Joan Tornow ’67.
Last year in his acceptance statement after winning the Russ Prize, Clark reflected on his early years.
“When I was a school child, one of my classmates was a ‘blue baby’ who died before graduation. Another
One of brightest moments in the career of Leland Clark ’41 came in February
2005 when he received the nation’s top award for scientiﬁ c engineering, known
as the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize.
Several months later Clark died of cancer at the age of 86, leaving a legacy
that includes over 80 inventions. His 25 United States patents include the
ﬁ rst successful heart-lung machine, invented in 1951, and the Clark oxygen
electrode, invented in 1956.
Heart-lung machine,
oxygen electrode among his inventions
classmate was deaf. I felt bad, because compared
to me these kids were not getting a fair shake,”
he wrote. “Giving everyone a fair deal gradually
became an overriding principle in my life and in
my work.”
As a child, Clark was mechanically inclined
and made his own toys. When he became inter-
ested in chemistry, he conducted experiments
at home. In high school he got perfect scores in
the state regents’ exams in science, winning a
full scholarship to any New York state college.
Instead, he chose to attend Antioch where he
felt he could study basic science, not just applied
science. He used co-op jobs and other job op-
portunities to work his way through.
Clark said he loved being a chemistry major
and was fond of saying that discovering chemistry
class “was like discovering that you could get a
good grade for eating chocolate ice cream.” His
mentor, chemistry professor Clyde S. “Doc”
Adams, taught him glassblowing, as it was custom-
ary at that time to make one’s own laboratory
apparatus. It was a skill that proved important to
Clark in perfecting his heart-lung machine.
Clark graduated from the University of
Rochester School of Medicine with a doctorate in
biochemistry and physiology in 1944. After that,
he joined the Fels Institute, in Yellow Springs,
to do developmental research on children. With
his restless creativity, Clark went beyond his job
parameters and started working Saturdays to
build a heart-lung machine in the garage building
behind Fels. “But mainly we were just curious,”
Clark recalled at the Antioch assembly address
in 1978. “Maybe you could keep a whole animal
alive with a machine — that would substitute for
his heart and lungs.” As Clark worked to perfect
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“In my life, invention has been like a bird in ﬂ ight, one wing lifted by pure curiosity, the other by the simple joy of building things.”
(above) Red blood cells were blocking oxygen
molecules in the platinum electrode that Clark
had originally designed.

For more than a decade, Jill Yager (below), professor of biology and environmental science, shared laboratory space with
Leland Clark in the Kettering Building. She recalls Clark remained involved with students until late in his life.
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(above) This photo of a mouse able to breathe
submerged in a perﬂ ourocarbon liquid became
worldwide news. Clark pioneered the ﬁ eld of
artiﬁ cial blood. The ﬁ eld exploded in the 1980s
over concern about the safety of the blood sup-
ply, but today the ideas put forth by Clark are
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his design, he used his glassblowing skills to build
his machines.
In 1958, Clark left Fels to become a professor
of surgery and biochemistry in the department
of surgery at the University of Alabama Medical
Center, in Birmingham, where the heart-lung
machine was used in hundreds of groundbreaking
open heart surgeries. Clark and surgeon Champ
Lyons repaired countless congenital heart defects
and prevented strokes by pioneering the use of
continuous monitoring of arterial-venous oxygen
using the Clark electrode.
He once told Heineman the story of his oxygen
electrode invention. Late one night, Clark — then
in his 30s — was opening a pack of cigarettes while
relaxing with colleagues after assisting in a bypass
surgery using his prototype heart-lung machine.
Although the surgery had been successful, Clark
knew that such procedures require precise monitor-
ing of oxygen levels in the blood. But the platinum
electrode he had originally designed wasn’t working
well; red blood cells were blocking oxygen mol-
ecules near the electrode.
What happened next was one of many shining
moments in Clark’s career: “He was fiddling with
his cigarette pack and suddenly got the idea that
oxygen might permeate cellophane,” Heineman
said. Soon thereafter, Clark tried moving the two
electrodes close together, protected inside a glass
tube by a cellophane membrane. This innovation
allowed oxygen to enter and be measured with
no interference from the red blood cells. To test
the new oxygen sensor he needed to find a way
to pull the oxygen out of a control solution to
calibrate the sensor settings. He added glucose
and the enzyme glucose oxydase, as a catalyst, and
the oxygen was quickly removed.
Before long, however, he realized that by equip-
ping his oxygen sensor with a thin film of the
enzyme, he could read the decrease in the oxygen
recorded in the presence of glucose. Suddenly,
Clark had a simple device for measuring glucose,
also inventing the first biosensor for that purpose.
Today, electrochemical biosensors have been
designed to measure lactate, cholesterol, lactose,
sucrose, ethanol and many other compounds.
The most famous image associated with
Clark’s research is arguably a mouse submerged,
but successfully breathing, in a beaker of
perfluorocarbon liquid. This experiment proved
not only that mammals are capable of breathing
liquids, but more importantly that some com-
pounds contain enough oxygen to support life.
This breakthrough was later featured in the 1989
movie, The Abyss. But, more importantly, it had
major implications for the development of an
artificial blood. Such a blood has the potential to
save countless lives, especially in times of natural
disasters and on battlefields and other locations
where refrigeration is lacking. The blood would
simply provide oxygen to hungry cells until the
body is able to generate new blood on its own.
Clark said the years that he worked with Champ
Lyons at the University of Alabama Medical Center
were the most professionally rewarding years of his
life. But soon after Lyons died suddenly from brain
cancer, Clark returned to Ohio. From 1968 to
1991, he served as professor of research pediatrics
and head of the division of neurophysiology at
Children’s Hospital Research Foundation in
Cincinnati. From 1991 until his death, he enjoyed
his role as professor emeritus at Antioch.
“His creativity, embodied by the variety of
his inventions, was quite unique,” wrote Hardy
Trolander ’47 in a forthcoming tribute to Clark in
the National Academy of Engineering’s Memorial
Tributes, Vol. 11. “Through reviewing Clark’s in-
ventions it becomes apparent that his vivid imagi-
nation and ability to frequently combine chemical,
electrical, and mechanical principles simultaneous-
ly produced a variety of inventions making practi-
cal such large scale devices as heart-lung machines
for human open heart surgery all the way down
to micro-electrodes for measurements within the
brain,” wrote Trolander, an inventor and former
chairman of Yellow Springs Instruments Compa-
ny, which made commercially successful products
out of some of Clark’s inventions.
Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
Jill Yager, whose own cave research depends on
the Clark oxygen electrode, shared lab space with
Clark at Kettering Hall when she arrived at An-
tioch in 1989. “He loved to talk,” said Yager. “He
could go on for hours. He was a mentor, so sweet
and encouraging.”
In 1995, Clark endowed the Clark Science
Fund, which he expanded in 1999 in honor of
his wife Eleanor Wyckoff Clark ’41. The fund
provides essential supplies to students and faculty
to encourage experimental research.
At the Reunion Weekend memorial celebration
in June, speakers emphasized Eleanor Wyckoff
Clark’s critical role in her husband’s work. The
two first met on the steps of the Antioch Science
Building and grew together as scientists, marrying
in 1939. “Eleanor was a key component, a great
ally, a great supporter, a brilliant mind and a great
champion of his work,” said chemist Robert Spo-
kane, one of Clark’s protégés at the University of
Cincinnati. She was also his helpmate for the two
decades that he was legally blind.
“To us (their four daughters), Mom and Dad
were a team like the Curies,” said Tornow. “Mom,
too, combined an awesome ability for analytic
thought with remarkable common sense. She
could stay up half the night talking with Dad
about enzymes and oxygen levels and calibrations.”
In his acceptance statement for the Russ
Prize, Clark wrote, “I especially want to acknowl-
edge the contributions of my late wife Eleanor,
without whose emotional support and brilliant
mind I cannot imagine having the career I did.”
He went on to say, “I think it is important to say
… that in my experience, invention and creativ-
ity have a special mother — not good intentions
and not even necessity. At 86, I can now admit
that I built the first heart-lung machine before I
knew about the existence of defects in the heart
(some of which produce blue babies) or foresaw
any practical use.”
“In my life, invention has been like a bird
in flight, one wing lifted by pure curiosity, the
other by the simple joy of building things,” he
continued. “Working out the applications — the
humanitarian side — begins in earnest only when
the flight touches down. The applications are, of
course, the true goal of the work: to give everyone
a fair deal. But to make this happen we must hon-
or the true nature of invention. I can remember
the moment of each of my inventions and each
is most honestly characterized as playful flight.
The need for scientists to be allowed these flights
cannot be emphasized enough. And so, perhaps
the mother of invention is a wise woman, an
indulgent mother, who periodically makes sure
to free the birds from their cages so they can fly
freely for a while…I have loved my work.”
Leland and Eleanor Clark are survived by their
four daughters and their families. Daughters
Susan, Joan, and Linda all attended Antioch
(daughter Becky attended the University of
Cincinnati). Four of Eleanor’s brothers and
one of her uncles also attended Antioch.
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06.REUNION
Antioch alumni spent a week in mid-June
repairing a 12-foot fence that surrounds
the swimming pool of the College’s
gymnasium. The College’s Work Project,
just prior to alumni weekend, has been
on-going since 1985. Alumni enjoy meet-
ing and greeting other graduates during
the social events that weekend.
Reunion Weekend, June 22-25, led off with the 20th anniversary
Work Project, which refurbished the 12-foot-high fence around
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Instead of spending a late spring Monday at her home in Philadelphia, Joan Stockton
’65 was helping to paint and repair a deteriorating 12-foot fence surrounding the pool
area at the Antioch gymnasium.
Beginning on June 19, Stockton and other alumni participated in the College’s Work
Project, which began 20 years ago. Each year, graduates from as long ago as 1961
return to campus to add their own spit and polish — and much more — to the build-
ings and grounds. Over the years, Work Project volunteers have built decks and sheds,
repaired and sealed windows, completed landscaping and even accomplished archival
and indexing work at the library.
“It gives me the opportunity to pretend that the college belongs to me, instead of all
the students, faculty and staff,” said Stockton. This year, workers, who were joined by
students, came from as far away as Montana and Florida. Among the volunteers were
skilled tradesmen, who for a few days tackled projects that the College’s own grounds
staff doesn’t have time to do.
Darrell Cook, assistant director of physical plant, certainly appreciated the help. “This
is my favorite time of the year,” he said during the event. “Just listening to these people,
their life experiences and some of their stories here as students — they are a bunch of
cool people. They are really helpful to us in keeping everything looking nice.”
The idea for Work Project sprang from a conversation during an alumni reunion in
1985. E. Macdougall “Mac” Palmer ’61 and Bob Press ’60 were talking about volunteer
projects they did as students, such as the time in 1955 when Palmer helped build the
Cedar Center with salvaged material for Glen Helen’s Outdoor Education Center. Those
memories led to the formation of Work Project. “The ﬁ rst thing we did was clean up
a large tree that came down by the union building,” said Ralph Overton ’61, a retired
chemist from Kettering who has attended 15 Work Project functions.
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classNOTES
1930s
BOB WILSON ’39
“In the recent Antiochian no one admitted to
membership in my class of 1939. Nostalgic tidbits
had been printed twice before, so I thought tweak-
ing memories about administrators, faculty and
staff of the 1930s might stir some recall. Arthur E.
Morgan started the decade off, Algo Henderson
followed; Alexander, J.D. Dawson, Magruder, Ma-
son, Carlson, Stites, Leuba, Mathiesen, Patterson,
Inman, Chatterjee, Kingsley, Liddle, Schwab, Rod
O’Conner, Kenny Hamilton, ‘Dick’ Hall, Horton,
Kerr, Pillard, Norment, Burr, Geiger, Guernsey,
Schnurer, Sabatosh, Joe Curl, custodian of the
Men’s gym, and the queens of the kitchen: Lutz,
Nellie, Thelma, Irene. Anybody else? If not, check
in with Wingfield and have tea with Lady Alice.”
1174 Juniper, Coos Bay OR 97420
1940s
JOSEPH EHRMAN ’42
“I am treasurer of my high school alumni associa-
tion (23 years) and I am a 70-year veteran of the
Boy Scouts of America.”
1950s
DAVID E. APTER ’50
The International Social Science Council will
award the 2006 Mattei Dogan Foundation
Prize to Professor Apter for his interdisciplinary
contributions to the fields of sociology, anthropol-
ogy, political science and social science. Apter
is the Henry J. Heinz II Professor Emeritus of
Comparative Political and Social Development at
Yale University. The award will be conferred at the
ISSC General Assembly in Alexandria, Egypt in
November.
BETTY RHODES NOVAK ’51
“Missed many recent reunions because of being
the primary caregiver for my husband, John,
who had a severe stroke in June 1999. He passed
away in 2005. I retired in 1990 from a job of 14
years, which rekindled my chemical career in the
office of a suburban Cleveland firm manufactur-
ing research biochemicals. I recently went back
to high school in Parma to be a volunteer tutor
for GED math students. Fortunately the class
material didn’t include calculus. Looking forward
in June to a family wedding in New Mexico and a
tour with two of my sons and a daughter in Utah,
Silicon Valley and Arizona.”
HILDA MADER WILCOX ’51
“I’m still having a good time tutoring and teach-
ing a six-credit course in reading and writing for
international students (mostly Asian and Middle
Eastern) at the New York State University College
at Oneonta. I’ve lived for the last 37 years beside
lovely Lake Otsego in Cooperstown, where my
husband Sam worked till he retired as director
of social work at Bassett Hospital. Our son Toby
now works there as a nurse practitioner. I also stay
involved in peace-political-social concerns as well
as I can in this beautiful rural area of mostly small
towns, from which we emerge every year or two to
travel in Italy and, more recently, in France and
Central America. I also enjoy languages. Life has
been good. My husband likes to cook.”
PATRICIA NEAL GRAY ’58
“Ken and I are both retired from public service
careers. I retired five years ago as scheduler for
Senator John Kerry. I was with him for 14 years
and worked in the Presidential campaign in Vir-
ginia, South Carolina, Iowa and Ohio. I was also a
delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
We live from June until Oct. in Crystal, CO at
9,000 ft. altitude where there is no electricity or
telephone and many visitors. Crystal is between
Crested Butte and Aspen and the last six miles
are four-wheel drive only. Our principal home
is a log cabin on the side of Old Rag Mountain
adjacent to Shenandoah National Park where we
spend spring and fall. Since we became old people
we bought a townhouse in Charlottesville, VA,
so when it is unpleasant weather we can go to the
movies.”
JIM STONER ’59
Continues to teach management at the Fordham
Graduate School of Business. In March he gave
the keynote address, “It’s Not About the Profits,”
at Sri Lanka’s University of Sri Jayewardenepura’s
Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility.
Alexandra, his older daughter, is in her third
year at Columbia Medical School. Carolyn, his
younger daughter, is finishing her second year
at Duke. Barbara Stevens, Jim’s wife, continues
her consulting practice in solid waste manage-
ment, municipal services delivery and publishing.
97 Compo Road North, Westport, CT 06880;
stoner@fordham.edu
1960s
PETER BLUME ’60
Was recently hired by WCPE-FM, a listener-
supported, non-commercial radio station, as their
business development director. Peter has previously
owned and managed several publishing and print-
ing businesses. Based in Raleigh, NC, WCPE is
a classical music station broadcasting at 89.7 FM.
It is a three-time nominee for the Classical Radio
Station of the Year award from the National As-
sociation of Broadcasters. The station can also be
heard online at TheClassicalStation.org.
ECKHART DERSCH ’61
Has retired from Michigan State University after
35 years of teaching, research and outreach in the
natural resources management field, including
work in Nepal, China and eight of the Caribbean
Windward Islands. “One of my great joys is
realizing that the over 100 graduate and several
hundred undergraduate students who studied
with me are now working around the world
protecting our fragile planet for the benefit of
future generations.” He and is wife Helen enjoy
their new freedom as empty nesters, and “Eck”
in particular enjoys serving on several local land
protection boards. Hiking, camping and kayaking
in the Lake Superior region rejuvenates him.
PETER HOCHSTEIN ’61
“I’m still a freelance copywriter specializing in
direct mail, and also a very occasional freelance
business journalist, as I have been since 1995.
Still no victories for humanity, although over the
course of my career I’ve won a number of victories
having to do with getting people to charge things
with a green piece of plastic instead of some other
color. I’m currently involved in running an oral
history project for one of the ad agencies where I
spent much of my career, interviewing and record-
ing for posterity ad folks who are even older fogies
than I am.
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In 2004, I sold my apartment and moved in
with my childhood sweetheart, now Dr. Roberta
Jaeger. I’d been searching for years (I didn’t
know her new last name or where she lived)
until I finally found her living just 17 blocks
away. She’s brilliant, sweet, accomplished and
still looks like the beautiful 15-year-old I knew
back when. Other than that, life goes on. I write.
I travel with Roberta (recently Ecuador and
the Galapagos Islands, later this year Normandy
and Paris). I bike. I keep getting my prescription
for close up reading glasses changed. I survived
cancer (of the left kidney). A brilliant young
surgeon, located for me by my significant other
(Oi! Do I hate that term!) did the job laparo-
scopically, saving 95 percent of the kidney and
weeks of recovery. My son, Marc, is a writer
and section editor for American Banker, a daily
business newspaper. He is married. I have one
grandson and I also get to play with Roberta’s
grandchildren. Life is good. At long last!”
LUCY WOLLIN ’61
“I have been traveling several times a year, usu-
ally to France, for many years. I retired in 1995
and did some consulting work until 2002 when
I joined the Institute for Retired Profession-
als at the New School and became involved in
peer learning. I have a website reporting on the
Union Square Greenmarket – you can get to it by
googling Lucy’s Greenmarket Report.”
LORIN LEE CARY ’62
“I taught labor history at the University of
Toledo until 1999. Also did a Fulbright spin at
University of New South Wales in Sydney in
1980. Since retirement, I have focused on fic-
tion and photography. Check out my web site:
www.cambriacreations.com.”
FRANCES HEINSHEIMER
WAINWRIGHT ’64
“In 1967, I married Canadian artist Barry
Wainwright and moved to Montreal. I received
an MA from McGill University in 1973. From
1968-1997, I was a Radio Music Producer for
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in
Montreal. We have two children, Carla and
Julian, and a grandson Liam. We moved to the
Sunshine Coast of British Columbia in 1997.
I’m now retired from CBC, and am the artistic
director of the local concert society.”
ANN JARRELL ’65
“I have lived in Vancouver, BC, since 1969. My
husband, who is a University of Michigan grad
and former Peace Corp volunteer in Afghani-
stan, is a speech therapist. We met at a 1974 co-
op housing meeting and married in 1982. Our
son studies at the University of New Brunswick
in Fredericton. The majority of my life’s work
has been spent as an Administrator of an Adult
Day Centre (28 years) and Stroke Recovery As-
sociation of BC (three years). Retired in 2003.”
LAUREN BERKLEY SCHLESINGER ’66,
MIKE SCHLESINGER ’64
“On June 12, 2006, we celebrated our 40th an-
niversary. We have moved to La Costa, CA where
Mike has entered semi-retirement, although the
“semi” seems elusive at this juncture because his
clients will not let him stop practicing tax law.
Laurie is an antique dealer maintaining a shop
in Stamford, CT. Residing in California makes it
difficult for her to operate her business, but due
to the many trips Mike makes to service his clients
in the New York area, Laurie is able to replenish
her inventory on a fairly consistent basis.
Our real estate broker who sold us our house in
La Costa was Sherry Bloom ’61, and we frequently
go out to dinner with Sherry and her husband,
Marty ’59. We also see on a regular basis Ginita
Wall ’66. In terms of professional achievements,
Mike just published his 53rd article. Mike is also
quoted on a frequent basis in The New York Times
and has served for the last three years as one of
the guest commentators on new tax legislation for
Commerce Clearing House. Mike’s fifth book was
just published by Commerce Clearing House and
he lectures all over the world on taxes.
Mike believes that Professor Erma Adams
would be very proud of him. Laurie and Mike are
also world travelers having been to 34 countries
so far (many times more than once) and this
summer, the number will be increased to 37. This
extensive traveling is due in part to the lectures
Mike gives throughout the world.”Friends write
us at mikeschles@yahoo.com or if you wish to use
surface mail, 7348 El Fuerte Street, La Costa, CA
92009. We would love to hear from you.”
BILL CURTIS ’67
“I have been in Minnesota since 1987. I received
my MA in psychology with honors in 1983, and
am a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist-
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. I
now do divorce mediation. Working with people
in conflict keeps the synapses connected. I mar-
ried for a second time in 1995. After 25 years of
bachelorhood, figured I needed a change. No kids.
I am semi-retired. Daphne and I visited Antioch in
the middle of May 2006. My only (small) victory
for humanity was Neshoba County Mississippi,
1964. Would love to hear from Jerry Satlow,
David Brandes, Bill Dalton, anyone else.”
ALLAN KLUBER ’67
Is the producer of a new parent education video
series, Improving Parent-Child Relationships.
The 20-episode series combines in-home video
footage of typical parent-child interactions with
instructionally oriented parent counseling by
master parent educator, Carol Lynn Morse,
PhD. Parents viewing the series identify strongly
with the real life situations and report dramatic
gains in their parenting skills and efficacy. The
series is offered as a community college tele-
course and is being used by Head Start family
advocates. A streaming video trailer can be seen
at www.ImprovedParenting.com.
MARY MAYSHARK STAVELY ’67
“After many years of teaching preschool, I am
the Interim Director of the Child Development
Center at Keene State College (third year) in
southern New Hampshire. The only direct
preparation at Antioch for my profession was
working on a film with Peter Adair ’67, about
the Antioch School called Alone Together. The
field of early childhood education has been an
amazing work-life experience.
My daughter, May Mantell, (www. maymantell.
com) is a photographer. My daughter, Ila Man-
tell, combines theater and horses by her work in
Cavalia. My husband. Tom Stavely, retired last
year as I will in August. It would mean a lot to
me to be in touch with Antioch friends. Please
call (413) 498 4484 or email (until Aug. 11,
mmayshar@keene.edu).”
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selves for class notes. Notes may be edited for
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MARGARET KINSMAN ’68
“I am teaching English and American literature
in the arts, media and English department of
London South Bank University. My particular
teaching and research interests are in early 20th
century women writers, and in crime and mystery
fiction from the 19th century on. I am the Execu-
tive Editor of CLUES: A Journal of Detection,
published by Heldref Publications,Washington,
DC. The peer-reviewed CLUES is published
quarterly, and welcomes scholarly articles on all
aspects of mystery and detective material in print,
television and film. Visit CLUES online at
http:–www.heldref.org-clues.php.“
JAY TUCK ’68
“Retired in Dec. 31, 2004, from a position as
Executive News Director ARD German Televi-
sion Network Hamburg, with 35 years of network
television news reporting, including investiga-
tive stories on mafia, environment. I was a war
correspondent in two Gulf Wars and authored
four books, including High-Tech Espionage (St.
Martin’s). Now: CEO and Founder of Airtime
Dubai Ltd.” (A marathon runner, Tuck states that
he was the first American ever to run the Siberian
Ice Marathon.)
JAY LUTZ ’69
Received the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
from the French government on Feb. 27 in the
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art. Lutz is
the Frances I. Eeeraerts ’76 Professor of Foreign
Language at Oglethorpe University and chair of
the foreign language department. Lutz earned a
bachelor’s degree in literature from Antioch and
a master’s and doctorate in French literature from
Yale University. He is a teacher, author, speaker
and translator in both French and Swedish. Lutz
spent nearly 10 years living in France and working
as the translator for Joe Allen Restaurants.
MICHAEL I. VICKERS ’69
“Divorced in 1998 after 20 years of marriage.
Two wonderful children — Matt is 20 and in
college, Laura, 23, in medical school in New York
City. Currently ‘second-time-arounder,’ creating
new family with my partner Maria and her two
lovely daughters, aged 8 and 13. After Antioch,
two years in Madison under National Guard rule,
then drove into Boston and here I stayed. Active
practice of family therapy focusing on launching
adolescents, avoiding divorce, common sense post-
divorce parent coordination, and family ‘evalua-
tion’ for Family Courts. If you remember me, let
me hear from you! m-vickers@comcast.net”
1970s
JULIA REICHERT ’70
Reichert is a non-fiction filmmaker of A Lion in
the House, which has been featured at film festivals
around the nation and was aired on PBS in June.
Made with partner, Steven Bognar, the film tells
the story of five children and their families over
six years at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
cancer ward. The families are black and white,
rich and poor united by their battle against
disease. A Lion in the House , which opened at
the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, has been
praised for its intimacy and intensity with which it
explores the lives of ordinary people forced into
extraordinary crisis.
“I would never have considered taking on this
film if I had not myself gone through the experi-
ence of fighting cancer with my child…my life gave
me a goal: to help end the isolation that people
fighting cancer experience,” Reichert said. Along
with the film’s release, a national outreach cam-
paign has begun to strengthen support systems
for everyone fighting childhood cancer: www.itvs.
org-outreach-lioninthehouse. A second outreach
project, targeting young adult survivors of child-
hood cancer, has also been launched in conjunc-
tion with the film: www.survivoralert.org.
FRED STEIN ’70,
NIKKI WILL STEIN ’70
“Married to Nikki Will Stein. Sons Max (Kyle
Petersen), 33, and Benjamin (Laura Stein), 30.
We’ve lived in Chicago since graduation. Fred is a
commercial photographer and Nikki is the execu-
tive director of the Polk Brothers Foundation.”
DON MACLANE ’71
“MFA, sculpture, University of Oregon, 1973.
Eleven years as sculptor, contractor, steel fabrica-
tor and student. BSME, Portland State University,
Portland, OR, 1984. Twenty-two years working as
a mechanical engineer and manager for Tektronix,
Electro Scientific Industries and Xerox. Most of
this work was focused on design and development
of color ink jet printers and solid ink technology.
Listed inventor on nine U.S. Patents. Retired
from Xerox in February 2006. Now working on
kinetic sculpture and experimental musical instru-
ments in my studio in Portland. http:–web.mac.
com-donmaclane.”
LEANNE DODD-MATHIS ’71
“I got married seven-and-a-half-years ago. Now
living in Jacksonville, FL. Had a liver transplant
three years ago. Alcohol and drug free five-and-a-
half-years.”
JOAN S. HALL ’71
“Life’s been good to me so far. Jeff and I met in
California in 1975 and have enjoyed life together
from 1976 onward; no children, but two excellent
nephews and a grand niece.”
MARK POMERANTZ ’71
“Made presentation to Sustainable Resources
Conference in Boulder on College Based Social
Entrepreneurship Center. Presented workshop
with Seattle University on Creating Sustainable
Non-Profit Organizations. Teaching a course at
Seattle University on Social Entrepreneurship.”
JOHN ALEXANDER RILEY ’71,
VICTORIA ANN LEUBA ’71
“We have moved within walking distance of
Victoria’s place of work and John has an easy
commute on a the Spokane transit system. We’ve
still got room for guests and enjoy having Antioch
friends visit.” 704 W. Cleveland Avenue, Spokane,
WA 99205-2346 (509) 328-4328 e-mail:
Viki vleuba@comcast.net; John pyrite@comcast.net.
PATRICIA J. CHUPA ’72
“Entering my 50th decade, ought to be exciting
enough! I am circulation supervisor at the Shelton
WA branch of the Timberland Regional Library
System (27 branches in more than five counties).
I hope to see Antioch-Seattle come to Olympia,
WA, soon! I keep in pretty regular contact with
alums Viki Leuba and John Riley, and would love
to locate and hookup via email with other sisters-
friends from 1967-72!” chupaszedlak@earthlink.
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MARK S. KATZ ’72
“After 25 years of systems design, Sylvia and I
found something even softer in creating pillows
and toys (and made and lost millions). Son, Ben,
has the farm, Sarah is in DC and we’re provid-
ing therapeutic foster care to adolescents. I think
often of the special relationships at Antioch.”
MICHAEL MEYERS ’72
Published an op-ed piece in the Washington Post
titled “Stop the Black-Only Treatment.” Executive
Director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition
and former Assistant National Director of the
NAACP.
NORA NEWCOMBE ’72
Newcombe, a developmental psychologist, has
been awarded the G. Stanley Hall lectureship by
the American Psychological Association’s Divi-
sion Two (Teaching). In the late 19th century,
Hall was a pioneer in the scientific study of
adolescence and also began his teaching career as
a member of Antioch’s faculty. Newcombe will
make her award presentation at the APA’s August
meeting in New Orleans. She has also won the
G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contri-
bution to Developmental Psychology, awarded by
APA’s Division seven (Developmental).
“Confusing, but nice to get both Hall awards
after musing about Antioch’s G. Stanley Hall
Hall for four years,” she said. She has also been
elected a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, the first Temple University
faculty member to be so honored. The James H.
Glackin Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Temple,
Newcombe was among 195 new 2006 AAAS
scholars. Co-director of Temple’s Infant Lab, she
is a nationally recognized expert in cognitive de-
velopment, specifically spatial development and
memory development. She said the pure science
that psychologists in her discipline have been do-
ing for decades has now reached a point where it
is ready to be translational and have an influence
on education, people’s thinking on parenting
and making policy for young children.
“So I’m really excited, in terms of the disci-
pline of cognitive psychology, about the idea that
we’re at the point where we can start to have
an impact,” Newcombe said. “That’s one of the
reasons being elected a fellow of the American
Academy is so exciting. It is a big conduit for
being able to work in groups, help write reports
and really make sure that the science we do has
an impact.”
She is a fellow of four divisions of the
American Psychological Association (General,
Experimental, Developmental, and Psychology of
Women), of the American Psychological Society,
and of (the other AAAS) the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, has been
a Visiting Professor at the University of Penn-
sylvania and at Princeton, and a Cattell Fellow.
Newcombe is a past President of Division Seven
(Developmental Psychology) of the American
Psychological Association.
DAVID M. SHERMAN ’72
Received the XII International Veterinary Con-
gress Prize of the American Veterinary Medical
Association at the 143rd Annual Meeting of
the AVMA July 18 in Honolulu. The 73,000-
member AVMA is the national professional
association for American veterinarians. The XII
International Veterinary Congress Prize honors
veterinarians who have contributed signifi-
cantly to the international understanding of
veterinary medicine.
Sherman’s path to the award began at Antioch
College. Numerous opportunities and experienc-
es at Antioch laid the foundation for his inter-
national career as a veterinarian. His grounding
in livestock agriculture and rural veterinary
practice came from a variety of co-op experiences
on farms and in veterinary clinics in Greene
County. His first international experience came
through the Antioch Education Abroad program
when he spent the academic year 1969-1970 at
University College Nairobi in Kenya. His com-
mitment to improving the lives of rural people
in developing countries through animal health
and livestock production was borne out of the
Antioch philosophy of service to society.
Sherman is currently working in Kabul,
Afghanistan where, for the last two years, he
has served as Country Director of the Dutch
Committee for Afghanistan. In that position, he
was responsible for implementation of an $11.5
million program funded by USAID to establish
a national network of private sector veterinary
field units in Afghanistan.
Since becoming a veterinarian, Sherman has
worked and consulted in over 20 countries for
a variety of international agencies. His activities
include: transboundary animal disease control;
’60–’70
THE HORACE MANN SOCIETY
Penny Storm ’65
Penny Storm joined the Horace Mann Society with the start of
Antioch’s fundraising campaign. “I really believed in the college and
I wanted to dig a little deeper,” she said. “I decided it was time to
give a little more money at a time when Antioch really needed it,”
said Penny, who was already a regular Annual Fund donor.
Her years at Antioch are still vivid to her. “It was a wonderful time
to be our age,” she said. “Antioch was always just a little bit ahead
in everything — in drugs, dress, freedom, and political activism.”
The elementary education major said she was a political activist in
high school. “I didn’t want to be at a place where that wasn’t impor-
tant. Today, I don’t think we, as a society, have ever reached a place
where we don’t need social activism.”
“Academically, the thing Antioch gave me was the ability to think,”
she said. “Memorable faculty, co-op jobs in pediatric departments of
hospitals in the U.S. and Great Britain, and the AEA program — all
were part of the Antioch experience that were of special beneﬁ t to me.”
David Sherman ’72 (center, rear, with satchel) with a group of livestock owners at a veterinary clinic in
Aqtepa village, Balkh Province, Afghanistan in March, 2005. Sherman has been awarded the XII Inter-
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community-based animal health service delivery;
goat health and production; livestock disease
investigation; veterinary education; and, promot-
ing international understanding of the impor-
tance of veterinary medicine in developed and
developing countries.
Following graduation from Antioch, Sherman
received his veterinary degree from the Ohio
State University in 1977 and an MS from the
University of Minnesota in 1979, where he also
completed an internship and residency in large
animal medicine. He became board certified in
Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1990.
Sherman joined the Section of International
Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University School of
Veterinary Medicine in 1990 and was appointed
its Head in 1995. At Tufts, he also helped create
the Center for Conservation Medicine and was
made its Director in 1997.
He has also served on the faculties of the
University of Minnesota and Tufts University.
He is author of Tending Animals in the Global
Village: A Guide to International Veterinary Medi-
cine (2002), co-author of Goat Medicine , (1984)
and past Editor-In-Chief of the journal, Small
Ruminant Research .
JANET (NELSON) SULLIVAN ’72
Received the Distinguished Public Health Service
Award of the Westchester (NY) County Board of
Health in April. Sullivan, a physician, was recog-
nized for innovations that have enhanced quality
public health in her role as chief medical officer of
Hudson Health Plan, the county’s largest Medicaid
managed care organization. Douglas G. Aspros,
county health board president, announced the
award with the words, “Your innovative programs
directly help thousands of residents, their families,
and the community’s health care system.… Your
creativity in promoting preventive health care
through physicians has assuredly reduced the
number of individuals suffering from preventable
illnesses and diseases.”
JOHN EVANS ’73
“I am presently holding together some very diverse
strands of human tendencies and enjoying it.”
ARTHUR NICHOLS ’73
“Have had three beautiful daughters and an
exciting and fulfilling 30 plus years of marriage
to my (late) college sweetheart. An art career is
challenging at best, but I continue to try to have it
all. Started a new business venture in April 2006,
Singing Cove Press, note cards and small fine arts
prints. Email, or write! ajnichols@gwi.net; PO Box
205, S. Freeport, ME 04078.”
TRISHA ARLIN ’75
“Received an MFA in film (1997) at Columbia
University. I live in Brooklyn, NY. I’m writing
a novel, but my day job is a technical writer for
HBO’s IT department. I’ve become a big ole
Jew, at progressive leftie Park Slope shul,
Kolot Chayeinu. I edit their journal:
www.kolotchayeinu.org blog at trixiefriganza.
blogspot.com”
JEFF BRUNING ’75
“I’m retired after a 20-year career as a solo
practitioner of general medicine. Kitty and I have
a home on 10 acres of redwood forest on the
northern California coast.”
DEBBORA (DEBBY) BARTEL QUAYLE ’75
“After a stint in corporate America that lasted
too long, I returned to my liberal arts roots to
work at Hamilton College as Director of Help
Desk and Training in Information Technology.
The work is great and I love being in touch with
today’s youth. I have a daughter and son from a
previous marriage. My daughter graduated from
Rhode Island School of Design in Jewelry De-
sign and my son is in college studying computer
science. My partner, Matt, and I live in central
New York State with our five cats and one dog.
Matt runs a nature sanctuary where, among
other things, he takes miles of digital video foot-
age of the sanctuary’s fauna and flora. We edit
that into something viewable and turn it into
DVDs to sell for the sanctuary. It’s great fun
and keeps me in touch with my biology. Friends
can reach me at debby.quayle@gmail.com or at
dquayle@hamilton.edu.”
MARGARET WRIGHT BUTTERFIELD ’76
“I have just retired after 28 years as a wildlife
biologist with the last 13 years as the director
of the Kevin P. Clinton Wildlife Center. We
have relocated to Boise, ID, during the summer
months and plan to winter in our new condo in
Florida. Both kids are in college and we are about
to step up the ‘fun’ in our lives. Love to hear from
old friends. 13407 N. Seventh St., Boise ID 83714;
wright8888@prodigy.net”
ABBY S. LAPPEN ’77
“I have been married 25 years and our son Avi,
23, is a graduate of Brandeis University and cur-
rently traveling in Latin America. Although I am
still choreographing and dancing, mostly I use this
aspect of my life to lead groups with the mentally
ill and developmentally disabled.
Songwriting was such a natural and organic
shift. I’ve been at it since the end of the last
century…I released my first album Outside the
Box in 2004 and am currently completing my
second album, Soul Reasons. My web site is
abbylappen.com. You can hear two new songs
there and six more at sonicbids.com-abbylap-
pen. You can hear clips from Outside the Box
at cdbaby.com.”
NICHOLAS MOLNAR ’77
“I currently work in the field of Information
Technology for Morgan Stanley & Co. in New
York City.”
VICTOR SANCHEZ ’77
“After Antioch I have made a number of
documentaries and have continued to work in
community based media. In 2004, I traveled to
South Africa with a group of 14 kids from Har-
lem to make a documentary about a baseball
team from Harlem that travels to South Africa
to play baseball with South African youth and
to learn about South African politics, culture
and history. In June I travel to Brazil to make
a documentary about youth soccer in Belo
Horizonte. This year I am celebrating 20 years
of marriage to Suzanne and we have three sons,
Caetano 14, Langston 11, and Ornette, 8. They
are amazing kids, native New Yorkers to the
soul, and they are fantastic baseball and soccer
players.”
FRANK SHOOSTER ’77
“I just started my 25th year practicing law and
working in the family call center business. I’m
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kids between us in a house next to the Everglades
that looks like a believe-it-or-not museum from all
the oddball items we’ve picked up in our travels.
Love to hear from classmates. I can be reached at
freeplanet@aol.com.”
KAREN WAGNER ’78
“After a long divorce wrap-up, my daughter
Katie, 15, and I are ensconced in our new house
in Natick, Mass. I have just accepted a position
at a Montessori school five minutes away from
home, close enough that I can walk our wheaten
terrier, Duffy, at lunch time.
Just completed a production of “The Laramie
Project” at a local community theater, acting eight
different roles. Investigating the world of Match.
com. Traveled to Atlanta for a week this summer
to train teachers. Would like to hear from any
alumni who knew me from 1975–78.”
LISA JELLISON ’78
“Being interviewed for Montessori schools in
Maryland and Pennsylvania, I was impressed by
all interviewers commenting on my being an
Antiochian. Their comments were spoken in
words of respect and admiration. I even sensed
envy in one in Lancaster, PA. I belong to an
awesome time and era in this country — Antioch
in the seventies. Just want to hold on to those
days — they are a sedative in the post-911-His
Fraudulency world of now. I would love to
hear from fellow ’70s — especially the ’78ers,
particularly those who lived in Birch Hall in the
fall of 1974.”
RICHARD MILGRIM ’79
Richard has been working as a tea potter in
Japan for the past 27 years. In 1979, he began
studying Chanoyu and met Dr. Sen Soshitsu,
then the 15th generation Grand Master of the
Urasenke School of Tea. From 1979 through
1984, he apprenticed to four Master potters,
working in Kyoto, Hagi, Bizen and Mino.
Since 2000 he has been dividing his time
between his studio outside Kyoto and Concord,
MA, where he has been working with American
materials to create new styles, which he hopes
will add to the palette of tea wares in Japan and
help to reinforce the cultural bridges that have
been built between these two countries. His
work was featured in May at The Japonesque
Gallery in San Francisco. He also presented
a slide lecture on his work sponsored by the
Urasenke Foundation of San Francisco.
www.teaceramics.com.
1980s
LIZ GRANIRER ’80
“Have split from my husband of 25 years(!) and
am enjoying having my own place with my son,
Alex, who’s almost 16, and discovering what I
want to do with the rest of my life. Still living
in London and currently dividing my working
week between two magazines, one for parents
Right Start and one for pre-teens Young Performer,
as deputy editor and editor respectively.”
JOHN WIPFLER ’80
John Wipfler was named Chief Executive Of-
ficer of Orthopaedic Associates of Portland on
May 3. Previously he served as CEO at Eyecare
Medical Group in Northern New England. He
has also served as executive director and gener-
al counsel for the Maine Health Care Finance
Commission, assistant attorney general for the
State of Maine representing the Department of
Human Services, and as a healthcare attor-
ney at Pierce Atwood in Portland. Wipfler, a
resident of Portland, earned a BA in psychol-
ogy from Antioch College and a Juris Doctor
and Master of Business Administration from
Boston College.
CHERYL CHIPMAN ’81
“Katie Jones and I are planning to go to the
reunion. We’d love to see other West Hall P-
groupers or other folks. Keilan, Carole C., Mark,
Jonathon, Lee J., Lisa G., John W., Sue B. …Please
come, too!”
GAIL H. HOFFMAN ’82
Gail Hoffman was named Vice President for
Strategic Initiatives for U.S. Newswire, a media
services company, in June 2005. Previously,
Hoffman was President of The Hoffman Group,
a public affairs firm she founded in 1995. In the
Clinton Administration, she served in the office
of the Deputy White House Chief of Staff, on
Attorney General Janet Reno’s confirmation
team, was Special Assistant to the Attorney
General for Legislative Affairs and then Director
of DOJ’s Office of Public Liaison and Intergov-
ernmental Affairs.
Hoffman was Director of Surrogates in the
communications nerve center of John Kerry’s
2004 Presidential Campaign. She co-chaired the
1992 Clinton Campaign Crime and Drug Policy
Task Force, and served on the Presidential Transi-
tion Team.
Hoffman also worked in state government and
for nonprofit organizations. She led the successful
legislative campaigns to pass the Brady Bill and
assault weapons ban, as Legislative Director of
Handgun Control, Inc. from 1987-1992.
She resides in Washington, DC with husband
John Pike, the founder and Director of GlobalSe-
curity.org.
MIKE SLURZBERG ’82
“Twenty-five years of fitting nicely into the ‘what
a long strange trip it’s been’ category. I’ve been
a sound tech for rock-n-roll tours, Vegas sound
man and system designer, consultant, corporate
marketing rogue (Bose Professional) …lately a
photographer (which I should have been all
along), and dad to Zach, 8, and JP…Juliana
Paige, 8.”
KABBA ANAND
(FORMERLY DANIEL ROSENBERG) ’82
“After serving for three years as Chairman of
the National Certification Commission for
Acupuncture and Oriental medicine, Anand
is enjoying his private practice in Maui. He
pioneered the inclusion of complementary
therapies at Maui Memorial Medical Center,
and has served as an allied health staff member
there for over four years. An advocate of integra-
tive medicine, Anand has focused his attention
in the field of oncology and will teach in No-
vember at the Society for Integrative Oncology’s
third annual conference.
He is a columnist for Acupuncture Today and
devotes much of his time to the practice and
teaching of qigong.
Anand has been producing documentary
films for public access television, and enjoys
surfing, mountain biking, dancing, and hiking.
He can be contacted at kabba@hawaii.rr.com.”
’70–’80
THE FUND FOR ANTIOCH COLLEGE
Athena Turner-Frederick’82
For Athena Turner-Frederick, consistency has been her gift to
Antioch as an annual fund donor. “As a student leader, mother, a
woman working with private non-proﬁ ts, state subsidized programs
and academia, it always comes down to little money and lots of
ideas,” she says. But regular annual fund gifts allow the College to
plan ahead, creating one stable source of revenue the college can
count on.
“Through our perseverance; our value is gold, whatever we do
transcends color, class and gender. Our honor in holding up what
is a right and true.”
“Alumni, we must keep our love, our passion, and our stance,
to help Antioch determine to be,” Turner-Frederick said. “With my
smile in place and my tactful style and being the best example,
along with what little money I can contribute, to me, this is what I
can give Antioch.”
The Fund for Antioch College provides for essential needs in-
cluding scholarships, faculty development, library and technology
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DAVID P. HANES ’83
“Inge and I have been married 13 years and have
two children, Astrid and Peter. After graduate
school in biomedical engineering I worked
for a while and then went to medical school. I
now practice hospital-critical care medicine in
northeast Philly, and would love to hear from
old friends!”
KEITH MAHONEY ’83
“Returned to Italy after leaving Antioch. Stayed
there until 1989. Moved to Atlanta, married a
woman from Ohio, started my company, got
involved in politics, got uninvolved in politics.
Moved to Florida in 2005. Have four kids and two
grandchildren.”
MARK METZGER ’83
“I have been married for 18 years now to
Jackie. We have a beautiful daughter, Marissa,
who is 10 years old. I have been the owner
of Highcliffe Clothiers, Washington D.C.’s
premier custom clothing store for the past 11
years. I still buy fabrics from my old co-op em-
ployer in California. Exotic silks. That was the
start of my love affair with fabrics and creating
wonderful clothing.
When not working in my store I pursue my
new passion, which is carp angling. I am the
Washington, D.C., and Delaware Chairman
for the Carp Anglers Group. Recently I placed
fourth in the Austin, TX, team championships
and in June, 2005 represented the U.S. in the
World Carp Championships (200 teams from
37 countries). Wish me luck!! 2006 Amend-
ment. I was on the winning team for the
nation’s champion carp fishing team and was
featured on the front page of the Wall Street
Journal Feb. 2005 with the dot picture and
all…one of the few people to be featured for
their hobby. Where are my old friends? Would
love to hear from you….”
ERIC I. GOTTLIEB ’87
“I am the father of twin boys Sam and Gus,
born 10 June 1997. I am associate professor
of mathematics at Rhodes College. Served at
the Instituto de matematicas y fi sica in Talca,
Chile, from July 2004 to July 2005. Active in my
neighborhood association.”
FREDERICK PAEPKE ’90
“Since 2001 I’ve been working as a Systems
Administrator for the University of Michigan
Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI. I’m looking for any
and all of the Class of ’90 folks who entered An-
tioch with me in January: Suzie, Arika, Tattoo
Max, Moss, Hans, Erica, Chaos, Lyda, etc.”
1990s
KATY WOLK-STANLEY ’90
“Married to Dale Montgomery. Two sons, Colin
and Emmett, 10 and 8. They’re in a Japanese
immersion school, which is very cool. Dale is a
paramedic. Never-ending house remodeling and
parenting pretty much fills our date book.”
ELIOT STRIKON ’92
“After travel, adventure, marriage, two boys,
and a few master’s degrees, I’m living outside of
Boston. I am happy to discuss the spiritual aspects
of changing diapers, and open mind and social
conservatism. Zei gezunt!”
ADAM SCHWARTZ ’94
“I’ve been working for Oracle Corp. — big soft-
ware — for the last seven-plus years. I ended up
here after working at the computer museum and
then a small software company that got bought
by Oracle right before we went under. Living in
Malden MA, just outside of Boston. Hi all!”
ADAM S. KONKOLY ’95
“Winter quarter, 1994, was unfortunately the on-
set of my mental illness. I had a severe breakdown
on campus. Since then it’s been rough to say the
least. Denny suggested that I attempt to contact
alumni who were around that chaotic quarter in
1994, to act as mirrors to reflect what the Antioch
culture was at this time and perhaps what stu-
dents’ perceptions were. Please help! If anyone out
there remembers, please reach out and drop me a
line. Peace. adphenkoly@yahoo.com.”
JUSTIN I. SCHLESINGER-DEVLIN
(JUSTIN DEGNAN) ’95,
ELIZABETH SCHLESINGER-DEVLIN ’97
“We are about to finish our third year in Apache
Junction, Arizona, located in the rapidly growing
East Valley outside of Phoenix. I continue to serve
John Calvin Presbyterian Church as their pastor,
which keeps me busy both with the congregation
as well as in our community as a board member of
Community Alliance Against Family Abuse. I was
recently accepted into the Doctor of Ministry sat-
ellite program of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary,
which will take about three years to complete.
Elizabeth continues to teach kindergarten
in the local public school district and just com-
pleted her master’s in early childhood education
from Northern Arizona University, and she
completed it in just one year! She’s also already
started to research doctoral programs for when I
finish my current course work.
Our family now numbers four with our son
Zechariah, who will soon be turning three, and
with our daughter Delaney, who turned six this
summer. We are about to celebrate our 10-year
wedding anniversary, which gives us cause to
remember the wonderful wedding ceremony
which took place in the Yellow Springs Presby-
terian Church as well as the reception breakfast-
brunch that was in the ‘private’ dining hall at
Antioch College. Does anyone else remember
the 7 a.m. wedding we had that was held on the
very same day as the Strawberry Festival?!? We
certainly do, as well as all the great memories
and friends from our days at Antioch.”
WALTER SCOTT ’95
“Since graduation, Rain and I have been living in
the Washington, D.C. area. Rain is the educa-
tional director for a Jewish Humanist congrega-
tion and I build software for Fannie Mae. Our
extended family includes daughter, Mariyama,,
now in middle school, Rain’s two grown children
and several former foster children whom we visit
often. We also try to do our bit of repair of the
world. Rain is involved in several dialogue groups
between Jews and African Americans, and I work
on issues of suburban sprawl and mass transit.”
CORBY WISE ’95
“My wife Carrie and I live in Mount Vernon, OH,
with our two-year-old daughter Eleanor, and our
standard poodle, Cecil.”
MEGAN ROSADO ’97
After graduating from Antioch, Megan took a job
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Coalition (CAWC), a position considered so
emotionally draining that the agency does not
recommend a stint of more than two years spent
as a counselor. At the end of her first two years,
the agency created a new position, Head Coun-
selor, especially for Megan. Since then, Megan
has continued to rise up the agency’s ranks, first
serving as a Legal Advocate and then a Volunteer
Coordinator. She also serves as co-facilitator of
a batterer’s group, a counseling program for the
people who had been abusive. She also directs the
recruitment and training of shelter volunteers.
ROY SLAYTON ’98
“My wife and I moved from Seattle to Raleigh,
NC, in August.”
DANYEL MCDANIEL ’99
“I am married with two children, Savannah and
Brayden.”
DYLAN MCCAMENT, ’99
Dylan McCament received first place in the
best business writer category for Division II in
the Associated Press Annual Awards. He is city
government and business reporter for the Mount
Vernon (OH) News.
2000s
ROBERT GOODMAN ’00
“It’s been some ride! I transferred out of Antioch
to Franciscan University in ’96, graduated from
there, lived in TX, moved back to NYC. Hi! to
Maples and all I know!
BETH GUTELIUS ’00
“I consult to the city on non-motorized trans-
portation, trying not to get co-opted and still
make meaningful advances within the context
of a large, bumbling bureaucracy. It’s kind of
fascinating and sometimes frustrating. I make
art, most notably included in a traveling show
called paper politics. I explore Chicago on bike
and foot. I’ve won three or four victories for
humanity. They were small.”
TIFFANY E. SIZEMORE ’00
“I lived in Yellow Springs for about a year-and-a-
half after graduation. I came to (Washington) D.C.
to go to law school and graduated in ’04. I have my
dream job at the DC Public Defender Service rep-
resenting indigent children and adults in the city.
I am dating a very cute hippie boy. I go camping
several times a year now and visit Yellow Springs at
least once a year.”
SEAMUS HOLMAN ’00
“I moved to Chicago for a few years and got into
web design at In These Times magazine. I came
back home to the Seattle area last year to start a
web development company. Now in the process
of setting up a home in Tacoma with Liz. Just
getting into gardening.“
CHAD JOHNSTON ’01
“Hi all… I’m now, somehow, the director of a
small non-profit cable access station in Chapel
Hill, NC. I’m still a pain in the ass, still a little
crazy, and still thinking about my life at Antioch
… anywho … cheers to you all.”
CECILE VEILLARD ’01
“I miss a lot of my friends from Antioch whose
contact info I didn’t get before leaving. Please feel
free to email me at planetlove77@yahoo.com.”
HILARY VIENS ’02
“I moved to Philadelphia, PA, nine months
ago after obtaining my MSW at Smith College
School for Social Work. I live with my girlfriend,
Summer, and our two dogs (how gay! ha ha). I
am committed to activism in many areas and
spend time volunteering with women in the
prison system in PA.”
DAISY CARDENAS ’03
“I’m on my way to medical school.”
DONVAN COREY LYONS ’03
“I designed and launched teamabunai.org,
a growing collective of artists, musicians,
writers, and more. The site is chock full of other
Antioch alumni and former residents. We per-
form live electronic music in Chicago as OAO.”
JESSE RHOADS ’03
“I’ll graduate medical school in 2007. I’ll then
pursue post graduate medical education in
psychiatry.”
CHAD HAGEDORN ’04
“This summer I am taking a 2,500 mile bike
ride, Denver to Yellowstone to Oregon to Mex-
ico, to raise money for the People’s Institute
for Survival and Beyond, an amazing anti-racist
organization I have been connected to through
work I have been doing in New Orleans — and
partially through Common Ground (another
amazing organization you may have heard of). I
miss you all class of 04!”
MICHAEL L. HOGAN ’04
“I am currently attending William Mitchell Col-
lege of Law in St. Paul, MN.”
LAURA KARNES ’04
“I cannot stop moving! Thanks Antioch. After
graduation I went to San Francisco, then to BC,
then back to MI in fall of 2004. I miss Yellow
Springs immensely. I miss the community of activ-
ism. Ann Arbor is friendly territory. Peace out to
all. I think on old times often.”
DEREK HENRY ’05
“I’m going to UNC Chapel Hill for my
master’s starting in the fall. Go, go magic
Library Science!
JUDITH WOLERT-MALDONADO ’05
“I’m one of those who stuck around the little
village of Yellow Springs. I entered Antioch in
the winter quarter of 1994, then left in 1996. In
that time, I bought a house here, began learn-
ing about and working with the migrant farm
worker communities in southwest Ohio and
became a photojournalist (currently with the
Dayton Daily News) and independent documen-
tary filmmaker.
I returned to Antioch in 2003, and finally
graduated in 2005. I would love to catch up
with folks from the old days (remember when
tons of students would show up for the regular
Friday and Wednesday night dances in the
dance space?). I will go for my MFA in cinema-
tography next year (2007) in either LA or
NYC. So, if you want to come through your
little old college town and need a place to
crash, I’ll still be here through the end of
fall 2006.”
’80–’00
PLANNED GIVING
Mike Kittross ’51
“Antioch did an unbelievable amount for me,” according to John
Michael “Mike” Kittross. “The more I go through life, the more I
discover just how much I gained. I was a mess… a shy little kid,” he
said. “You can’t go out on co-op jobs without learning how to interact
with the world.”
“I felt that I was going to a small college where everyone else was
smarter than me,” Kittross explained. “But when I later went for a
master’s degree, I felt I could teach every course that I took.”
“A great deal of the world just opened up for me at Antioch,”
not to mention he met his late wife Sally Sprague Kittross ’52, on
campus. Kittross decided to set up two Hugh Taylor Birch Society
charitable gift annuities to beneﬁ t his alma mater because it made
him feel good. “It is nice to have the income ﬂ ow, plus the tax ad-
vantages were substantial,” Kitross said. He has continued making
donations to the Annual Fund as well.
“I love Antioch,” he said.

J. HENDERSON BARR ’32
A key designer of the St. Louis Arch and preemi-
nent architect and artist, J. Henderson Barr ’32,
died at age 96, at his home in Cornish, ME, on
Dec. 3, 2004.
Barr, along with partners Eliel and Eero Saa-
rinen of the famed Finnish Saarinen Architec-
tural firm in Bloomfield Hills, MI, designed uni-
versity campuses, civic buildings and the award
winning General Motors Technical Center.In
1947, the Saarinen firm won the competition
for the Jefferson National Expansion Memo-
rial in St. Louis, which led to the construction
of the famed arch. Barr was named associate
designer on the project. He also created a large
color rendering of their winning entry that has
been lauded as one of the finest examples of
architectural illustration.
During his career, Barr also worked with
figureheads of American architecture and
industrial design, among them Albert Kahn,
Walter Field Kellogg, Otto Kuhler, Henry
Dreyfuss, and Norman Bel Geddes.
Barr was born in Detroit on Oct. 28, 1908,
and lived his early years there, where his father
was involved in the budding automotive industry.
He developed his artistic talent at private art
institutes in Detroit and attended Antioch
College. Birmingham architect Wallace Frost, a
family friend, urged him to pursue Architecture.
In 1929, he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts at
the University of Pennsylvania, later transferring
to Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where
he completed his education and met his first wife,
Helen Symonds. He raised a family under the
stresses of the Depression, accepting any design
job he was offered.
Trains had always been his greatest passion,
and he was thrilled to be designing streamlined
locomotives and interiors for the B&O, Milwau-
kee, and New York Central Railroads. During
WW II, he worked at the Boston engineering
firm, Chas T. Main, designing naval shipyards,
industrial plants, factories, and power dams, and
honing his skills as an architectural illustrator.
Under the “New Deal” of his hero Roosevelt,
he designed housing projects in Baltimore and
Washington.
In 1947, Barr married Elinor Hopkinson,
daughter of Boston portrait artist Charles
Hopkinson, and the growing family lived in
Birmingham while he continued advancing
his career with the Saarinen firm. They moved
to Vermont in 1956, where Barr established a
partnership in Burlington with another former
Saarinen architect. As Vermont’s preeminent
architects, they designed dozens of residences,
schools and college buildings throughout the
state. He retired from architecture in 1970,
devoting his time to rendering.
For the next 12 years he produced scores of
ultra-realistic illustrations for architects I.M. Pei,
Warren Platner, Hugh Stubbins, and Dan Kiley.
During his retirement, he and his wife trav-
eled regularly to Europe. Always an enthusiast
for realism, he took many thousands of 3-D
photographs wherever he went. In 1983, he lost
his eyesight to macular degeneration, utter heart
break for a man whose vision was his life. In
1975, he and Elly moved from Vermont to their
“summer home” in Maine, not far from his
sister and brother. In their later years they didn’t
stray far from New England, enjoying annual vis-
its from their far flung family. Elly died in 2001,
and he was fortunate to have friends and family
living nearby, granting him his choice to live at
home on his remote hilltop with the spectacular
view of the White Mountains. He leaves his
daughters Sally Molina of Miami, and Margaret
Fowlie of Edmonton, Canada; two sons James
F. Barr of Wellesley, MA, and Douglas Barr of
Cornish, ME; six grandchildren and four great-
grandchildren.
RICHARD (DICK) PALMER ZEUMER ’40
Died Feb. 4 at Cherry Meadows Hospice
Residence near his Neenah, WI home. He was
born in Norwood, OH, on Nov. 19, 1915. He
married Francis Hubbard on Oct. 12, 1940, in
Greenwich, CT.
Dick attended Antioch and graduated from the
University of Cincinnati with a degree in business
administration. He was a Lieutenant JG-Flight
Instructor in the U.S. Navy. Flying was a lifelong
interest and he volunteered parking airplanes at
the Experimental Aircraft Association Air Show
for over 20 years. Dick was employed by Marathon
-American Can-M&T Chemicals at the Menasha
Ink Plant, retiring in 1975 after 27 years.
He was a member of the Neenah Rotary Club
for many years, served on the Neenah-Menasha
YMCA board of directors from 1978-83 and
was a life member of both the National Muzzle
Loading Rifle Association and the National Rifle
Association. He was an NRA Certified Rifle In-
structor and a Charter Hunter Education Instruc-
tor (Master Instructor) for the Wisconsin DNR,
certifying over 7,500 students. He was involved
with the Boys’ and Girls’ Brigade as a leader and
rifle team coach for 57 years and accepted the
S.F. Shattuck Award in 2005. Dick served on the
Brigade board of directors as a Director Emeritus
and was a former member of the Board of Trust-
ees at the First Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Fran,
two daughters, Nancy Kranpitz and Katie Fleis;
a son, Rick Zeumer, and a son-in-law, Eugene
Cochran, as well as seven grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren.
RICHARD MAYLON BROWN ’41
Died of cancer March 11 in Naples, FL. He was
born March 17, 1918 in Lakewood, OH, the son
of Clarence Arthur Brown and Edna (Toudy)
Brown. His father was a prominent bank officer
and worked with the Cleveland Red Cross for
many years. Brown graduated from Antioch
College with a bachelor of science degree, then
moved to the Detroit area where he became chief
metallurgist during a 43-year career with Revere
Copper & Brass. He also taught jewelry making
and was a volunteer at the Women’s Center of the
Women’s Resource Center at Schoolcraft College
in Lavonia, MI.
He is survived by his wife Mary Schaus
Brown; three children, Lucia (Frank) Cooper of
Lima, OH, Ric (Christine) West of Bloomfield,
MI, and Kathy Browne of Canton, MI; two
step-children Linda (Larry) Weidner of Naples,
John (Janna) Buckey of Dublin, OH; a grand-
daughter, Karen Mayers of Farmington, MI; five
step-grandchildren, Lesley (Eric) Summerour of
Naples, Scott (Kristin) Weidner of Naples, Erin
(Scott) Ownbey of Davis, FL, Devon Buckey,
and Audra Buckey; and one sister, Carol Adams
of Topsham, ME. He was preceded in death
by his parents and by a brother, Edwin Brown.
Contributions may be made to Hospice of
Naples, 1095 Whippoorwill Lane., Naples,
FL 34105.
INMEMORIAM
OBITUARIES OF
ANTIOCH ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
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MARY BARR KLAUS ’43
Died Sept. 1, 2005, at Bethesda North Hospital
in Cincinnati, at age 87. She was the daughter of
Glen G. Barr, a lifelong Union City resident and
Orpha nee Swallow. Wife of the late Lawrence
Klaus ’42, she is survived by her son, Martin Barr
Klaus of Cincinnati; sisters, Leatrice Wright of
Poland, OH, and Jane Torees of Bloomington,
IN; granddaughter, Krista Liotta of Lansdale, PA;
grandson, Martin Lawrence Klaus of Warren,
OH; great granddaughter, Kate Elizabeth Liotta,
and great granddaughter, Emily Rose Klaus.
Mary lived much of her life in Union City, IN,
where she was born on June 4, 1918, and gradu-
ated from high school in 1936. She went on to
graduate from Antioch College, where she met
her husband. She also lived in Morganton, NC,
Plainwell, MI, and since 1998, in Cincinnati. She
enjoyed playing tennis, golf, and bridge.
MARY JANE POBST ’43
Died of cancer at Hospice House in Concord,
NH on April 18 at age 85. She was born in
Georgetown, Ohio, on Nov. 4, 1920, the daugh-
ter of Walter and Nina Pobst. She earned a BA
in sociology at Antioch College, an MA in Edu-
cation at Putney Graduate School of Education,
and an MLS at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.
A pioneer in library networking and automation,
she worked at Washington State Library as
Associate Director of Research and Planning,
and at Columbia University Library as Head of
Technical Support and Acquisitions.
She was a peace and civil rights activist, pacifist,
war tax resister, licensed pilot, world traveler,
international volunteer, musician, author, avid
reader, gardener and high school basketball star.
Near the end of her college career at Antioch, she
was elected Community Manager, which post she
promptly resigned to protest the installation of a
ROTC program on campus. She was married to
Horace Reed ’43, until their divorce in 1970.
During the early years of their marriage, Mary
Jane and Horace lived and farmed in Celo,
NC, an intentional community established in
the 1930s by former Antioch President Arthur
Morgan. They began their family there and
subsequently moved to Putney, VT. In later
years, Mary Jane served on the board of trustees
of Celo Community.
She is survived by her brother, John Pobst
’52, of Barre, MA: four children; Judy Reed ’68
of Keene, NH, Mark Reed ’69 of Trondheim,
Norway, Scott Reed ’72 of Sunderland, MA,
Gail Prager of Mountain View, CA; and seven
grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to the
American Friends Service Committee, Peace
Action, or Amnesty International.
LEILA BRISBANE BOYKIN CRANE ’48
Died Feb. 28. She was born in Bluefield, WV,
on Dec. 9, 1925 to Lemuel W. and Eula Bruce
Boykin. She started college at West Virginia Wes-
leyan in 1943 and later graduated from Antioch.
After that she stayed in Yellow Springs, doing
public relations for The Antioch Area Theater.
In 1949 she married Stanley Crane. They
moved to New York City in 1950, and she worked
to support him while he got a graduate degree.
From 1952 to their retirement in 1989 the couple
had three children: Douglas, Ann and Leila. They
worked in New York, London and New Jersey
and for 30 years in Southport, CT.
While a mother in Connecticut she was active
in community affairs. She was co-chairman of
the elementary school PTA, president and public
relations officer of the local League of Women
Voters. She was also active in the local Demo-
cratic Party and was a charter member of the
Historic District Commission. Both Stanley and
Leila were concerned with civil liberties, going
on the March on Washington in 1963. When
the children were older, she became a writer for
the Fairfield Citizen-News and then The Norwalk
Hour, a position she held until 1989 when they
both retired to a lakeside cottage in Woodstock.
Even then she was active in the local League of
Women Voters, the Historic District and Historic
Properties commissions, and voluntered at Old
Sturbridge Village.
Memorial contributions may be made to the
Hartford Stage Company and Antioch College.
JEROME STONE ’49
Died on Feb. 6 at age 80, at his home in San
Antonio, Texas. He was born in Fort Scott, KS
and was raised in Omaha, NE. He served with the
U.S. Army in France and England during World
War II, then graduated from Antioch and traveled
the United States extensively in the employ of
Little Brown Publishing Company, Law School
Book Division. He is survived by his wife of 58
years, Betty, and two sons, Jason and David.
JEANNE WILENSKY ’49
Died March 29, at age 82 at University of
California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento
from injuries sustained in a car crash. Born May
15, 1923, in Lexington, MA. Wilensky lived in
California for the past 50 years and spent the past
20 years living in Glencoe.
She attended Antioch College where she met
the future wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and
became involved in the early stages of the Civil
Rights movement. She was proud to advance the
cause of civil rights in the 1940s, peace in the
1960s, and grass roots democracy her whole life.
She was an organic gardener before the term was
coined. A retired clerk for the City of Berkeley
WIC program, she was involved in the Moun-
tain Ranch Community Club, Master Garden-
ers, the Rail Road Flat and Glencoe Craft Club
and AARP. She also rescued animals.
She is survived by sons Steve Wilensky of
Glencoe, Mike Wilensky of Piedmont, and Dan
Wilensky of New Jersey, and their wives, Pat,
Margarita and Debbie; and grandchildren Kate,
Hannah, Megan and Molly Jean. The Wilensky
family wishes all donations in her memory be
given to assist the survivor of the accident, Kim
Smith of Rail Road Flat, in her recovery. Checks
should be made out to: Jeanne Wilensky Memo-
rial, F.B.O., Kim Smith, Bank of Lodi, P.O. Box
637, San Andreas, CA 95249.
JEAN B. BLAIR ’51
Died May 29 in Cleveland, OH at age 77. She
was an equestrian, animal lover and founder of
Becky’s Downtown Food & Spirits. Since 1953,
Blair had lived in Hudson at the family’s Blair
Farm, where she taught children how to ride
horses and encouraged them to love and respect
animals. She liked the outdoors, open spaces
and the farm, even with its water well, outhouse
and a leaky roof that often required creative
patchwork.
It was while riding horses in the early 1950s
that she met her husband, Robert, who died
in 2001. Blair grew up in the Shaker Heights
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INMEMORIAM
area, graduated from Orange High School and
attended Antioch College.
Twenty years ago, she opened Becky’s Down-
town Food & Spirits with her daughter, Rebecca.
Known to patrons as simply Becky’s, the neighbor-
hood tavern draws all walks, from theater goers
to neighborhood residents, college students to
professors. Becky’s is now owned and operated by
her son, Timothy, but still exudes the spirit and
atmosphere created by his mother.
She once again teamed with Rebecca about 14
years ago to develop a 650-acre family property
in western North Carolina. At Blair Farm, Blair
and her husband raised horses, sheep, goats, and
German shepherds. In addition, she was a medi-
cal laboratory technician in Cleveland in the early
1950s. She also worked with her mother, Irene
Tripp, who founded the Chagrin Valley Trails and
Riding Club and similar foundations in North
Carolina and Arizona.
HAWLEY (AL) BREWER ’51
Died Jan. 5 at his Sedona, AZ home after an
illness of several months. Born in Rochester, NY
on Oct. 7, 1927, Brewer grew up in Radburn,
NJ. He served in the U.S. Army, and took part in
the occupation of Germany. After his discharge
he attended Antioch College where he met his
wife, Barbara Hyde ’50. Following graduation the
couple moved to her hometown of Phoenix.
He served as manager of the Sedona office of
Walker and Armstrong. He was active in civic
affairs including Rotary, Sedona-Oak Creek
Canyon Chamber of Commerce, and Friends
of the Library before his retirement in 1993.
Brewer was preceded in death by a son, Roger;
and is survived by his wife of 56 years, Barbara; a
daughter, Clare Stewart of Scottsdale, his brother,
Rollin of Sedona; four grandchildren, and one
great-grandchild.
ELLEN (NELL) QUIGLEY MALONEY ’51
Died Aug. 7, 2005, at Greene Memorial Hospital
at the age of 79. She was born in Bellefonte, PA,
the daughter of Hugh Merriman Quigley and
Elinora Reynolds Quigley. She started at Barnard
College then transferred to Antioch College where
she earned a bachelor of science degree in geology.
At Antioch she met her husband, Joseph E.
Maloney. They married in 1950 and moved into
Antioch College’s “Trailer Town.” Over the years
Nell lived in Dayton, New York City, and Shilling-
ton, PA before returning to Yellow Springs. She
worked at the Dayton Museum of Natural History
for several years and was director of Camp Blue
Heron, a nature camp in Canada. Nell was known
for her many collections put together in her trav-
els as well as her photographs and drawings. She
also spent a lot of time in the Glen and was one
of the people responsible for organizing the first
Glen Helen Nature Arts and Crafts Show.
Nell is survived by: her husband, Joseph;
daughters Alice Allen and Katherine Vassallo;
four grandchildren; a brother, Hugh Quigley; a
cousin, Louise Evans; Mayoko (Koko) Yamashita,
an exchange student who became part of the fam-
ily, and five nieces and nephews.
NEIL ROSS FETTER ’52
Died on Feb. 4. Caroline Laurie Fetter reports
that he admired Antioch College very much and
talked very thankfully of his professors and time
spent there.
WILLIAM R. GINSBERG ’52
Died on May 14 at his home in Manhattan at
age 75. He was a leading advocate for the preser-
vation of open space, a professor of environmen-
tal law and a New York City commissioner of
parks and recreation.
Ginsberg was born on June 10, 1930, the son
of a lumberyard owner and a homemaker. He
graduated from Antioch College in 1952 and
received his law degree from Yale in 1955. After
moving to Manhattan, Ginsberg became involved
in the reform movement of the Democratic Party,
and in the late 1950’s became president of the
Lenox Hill Democratic Club.
He was the lead lawyer in a 1979 case that for
the first time allowed tax exemptions for privately
owned nature preserves. He helped write state
legislation creating conservation easements, which
protect property owners’ rights while preserving
open space. He wrote the state report on the
nearly 22,000 tons of toxic chemicals buried in
steel drums near a residential development beside
Love Canal in upstate New York.
Ginsberg retired in 2004 as the Rivkin Radler
distinguished professor of environmental law at
Hofstra University, where, in 1974, he originated
one of the first environmental law classes in
the country. He was also an associate of the
Manhattan law firm of Sive, Paget & Riesel since
1983. Eric A. Goldstein, a senior attorney at
the Natural Resources Defense Council, called
Ginsberg a pioneer in environmental law, about
which he taught and wrote extensively.
In an interview with the Hofstra Law Report,
the law school’s alumni magazine, at the time of
his retirement, Mr. Ginsberg said: “I take credit
for having been involved in the preservation of
30,000 acres in New York State. I know that’s
minuscule, but I’m going to keep at it.”
In 1979, Mr. Ginsberg was the hearing officer
for the state task force investigating the Love
Canal contamination case. Two years later, the
Hooker Chemical and Plastics Company reached
an agreement in federal court to clean up the Love
Canal site. Ginsberg was co-editor with Philip
Weinberg, of Environmental Law and Regulation in
New York (West Publishing, 1996), which Gold-
stein of the Natural Resources Defense Council
called the leading treatise on environmental law
in the state.
Besides his son Joshua, he is survived by
another son, Mark, also of Manhattan; a sister,
Alane Carter of Naples, Fla., and by his com-
panion of 10 years, Arlene Sterne. His wife of
38 years, Susan Karelitz Ginsberg, died in 1991.
CARLETON SMITH ‘52
Carleton Kennard Smith, 80, died Feb. 3, in
Greenbrae, CA following two strokes. He was
born in Harrison, ME, June 7, 1925 to Carroll
Kennard Smith and Dolores Witham Smith.
He grew up in nearby Bridgton, Maine. Follow-
ing his graduation from high school in 1943 he
enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was wounded
in the Battle of Okinawa in May, 1945. Through
the G.I. Bill, he attended Antioch College from
1948–1952 where he received a degree in engi-
neering. He met Phyllis Osborne at the freshman
dance and they were married in Yellow Springs in
1950. Growing up in Maine, he never dreamed
he would attend college and he said that being
able to attend Antioch changed his life. Always a
builder, he helped build the Glen Helen Building.
He said they searched for stones with fossils in
them to put over the fireplace.
He worked for 10 years for Turner Construction
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and then for 25 years for the Bechtel Corpora-
tion of San Francisco, ending his career as the
construction manager of its Mining and Metals
Division. During that time, the family moved
from New Jersey to Michigan, Red Lake Ontario,
Montreal, Quebec and Arles, France, to name a
few. They settled in San Francisco in 1974.
When he retired, he and Phyllis enjoyed travel-
ing and spending time at Sea Ranch and they
stayed closely connected with family and friends.
Phyllis died in 1992. Carl remarried in 1997.
He is survived by his wife Cathie, daughters,
Cynthia Esterle, Linda Smith and Amy Smith ’85;
son-in-law, Warren Lager; grandchildren, Jordan
Lager and Rachel Smith; stepson, Patrick Howard;
stepdaughter,
Juliet Salbato; brother, Wyvern Smith; sister-in-
law Verna Smith; brother-in-law George Mizner
’52; sister-in-law Joanne Osborne Mizner ’52;
brother-in-law Duncan Osborne and sister-in-law
Jane Osborne. Contributions may be made to
Redwood Coast Medical Services, a non-profit or-
ganization, at P.O. Box 1100, Gualala, CA 95445
ROBERT SOMERS ’52
Died last year of acute myleogenous leukemia at
the age of 75. Jackie Bandel Somers, still in their
Berkeley, CA home, says that his life was active
and fulfilling.
TONI (MARY JEANNE)
MEGHREBLIAN WALTON ’52
Died May 27 at the age of 76, a resident of
Birmingham, AL. She was born in Camden, NJ
and first lived in nearby Marlton. Walton was the
first born to Joseph Levi and Catharine Roberts
Walton. She earned her undergraduate degree
at Antioch and her master’s degree from Simmons
College. Walton explored several careers including
teaching and sales, but her true passion and expe-
rience lay within the field of social work where she
was able to help others.
She was an adventurous individual who had
a love of people, travel and politics, and found
enrichment in her many life experiences.
Walton was preceded in death by her parents.
She is survived by her brother, two children and
four grandchildren. They are: brother, Don and
Laveta Walton of Costa Mesa, CA; son, David
and Toni Meghreblian of Little Rock, AR;
daughter, Susan and Mark Dunlap of Birming-
ham, AL; and grandchildren, Jack and Micah
Meghreblian of Little Rock and Nicolas and
Luke Dunlap of Birmingham. Donations may
be made to Heifer International, PO Box 8058,
Little Rock, AR 72203
NANCY JOANNE LOUGHRIDGE ’53
Died June 27, 2004 in Sarah A. Todd Memorial
Home, Carlisle, PA. She was a resident of Walnut
Bottom, PA.
Born Sept. 30, 1930 in Beaver Falls a daugh-
ter of the late William H. and Ruth (Louthan)
Loughridge, she received a bachelor’s degree
from Antioch College and a master’s from the
University of Michigan, where she was employed.
She was also employed with the University of
Southern California, Dickinson College, and the
University of Cincinnati, where she retired as
the director of library collections. She also held
positions with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Perry
County Times and Cumberland County Histori-
cal Society. Loughridge is survived by two sisters,
Jean Shadron of Tucson, AZ and Alice Smith of
Cedar Glen, CA, plus many nieces and nephews.
Memorial contributions can be made to the
American Cancer Society, the Humane Society
of the United States, or the Cumberland Valley
Animal Shelter.
RIMVYDAS (FRANK) SILBAJORIS ’53
Ohio State University Professor Emeritus of Slavic
East European Languages and Literatures died
Dec. 3. Born in Kretinga, Lithuania, in 1926, Sil-
bajoris dreamed of becoming a teacher. The Nazis
deported him to Yugoslavia, Austria and Germany
where he worked heavy labor and agriculture
jobs until the end of the war. He was living in a
displaced persons camp in Augsburg when he
applied to a program in which the UN and other
organizations brought students to the U.S. with
the sponsorship of an American college.
As part of a Lithuanian quota, he and his
brother came to Brooklyn where they washed
dishes in a restaurant until Frank learned from
the World Student Service Fund that Antioch
College had offered to “adopt” two students. The
other was Egon Tons ’53, a Latvian who had also
been forced into labor by the Nazis. Antioch stu-
dents donated $1,000 to cover personal expenses
of the two students. Another $1,000 came from
the New Land foundation of New York. The
men were admitted on full-tuition scholarships
as transfer students from Johannes Gutenberg
University in Mainz, Germany, thanks to Terry
Hickey, assistant director of admissions who was
in Europe at that time.
He earned his MA and PhD in Russian Litera-
ture from Columbia University. After teaching at
Oberlin College (1951-63), Case Institute of Tech-
nology (1957-58), and Colby College (1961-62),
he joined the new department of Slavic and east
European languages and literatures at The Ohio
State University as an associate professor in 1963.
He was promoted to Professor in 1967, where
he taught until his retirement in 1991. As Profes-
sor Emeritus, he continued to teach periodically
for the department and also served as Visiting Pro-
fessor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas,
Lithuania; the University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill; and Northwestern University.
A distinguished scholar of Russian, Lithu-
anian and Latvian literature, Silbajoris was the
author of seven books and the editor of five oth-
ers; he published some 150 articles and nearly
300 book reviews. In addition to many univer-
sity grants, he was awarded grants from the Ford
Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson Founda-
tion. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
from the Latvian Academy Sciences in Riga in
1991. He contributed greatly to his profession
with service as President of the Institute for
Lithuanian Studies (1978-84) and the Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
(1973-74); as Vice-President the Tolstoy Society
of America (1987-88) and the Association for
the Advancement of Baltic Studies (1984-86).
CAROLINE MORAN BALL ’54
Died April 9, at the University of Colorado
Hospital in Denver. She suffered from pulmo-
nary problems since the spring of 2005, and
in February 2006 was referred to the National
Jewish Medical Center in Denver where she was
diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension. During
her stay, doctors discovered the very rare PVOD,
which severely limited available treatments for
hypertension. Among the survivors is her hus-
band Lawrence ‘Larry’ Ball ’57, who would have
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had his 49th wedding anniversary on June 20. “I
have lost the greatest soul-mate one could wish
for,” said Ball. “I am slowly recovering.”
CATHERINE HARTMAN STOREY ’55
Died on April 20, at her home in Summit,
NJ, from cancer. At Antioch she majored in
advertising and marketing, and met her hus-
band, Warren Storey ’54, in the Antioch Record
office where he was a reporter. She was born in
Chicago and graduated high school in Monroe,
WI. After college, she accompanied Warren to
the Panama Canal Zone where he served in the
Navy for two years. While there, she worked for
the G-2 intelligence department of the Army.
After returning to the States she worked in
advertising for Montgomery Ward and Revlon
Inc. in New York.
She contracted multiple sclerosis at age 35
and struggled with this disability for the rest of
her life. She was nevertheless active in the local
PTA and the Unitarian Church in Summit.
Nicknamed “Cate” in later years, she collected
illustrated children’s books as a hobby. She is
survived by Warren, two daughters, a son, and
a brother.
STEVEN H. GROVES ’57
Died at age 71 on March 27, after being hit by
an SUV while on his daily bicycle commute
to Lincoln Laboratory. Groves, a physicist for
MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory for more than 40
years, was well known for his breakthrough
research, done as a graduate student at Harvard
University. This research on the band structure
of gray tin was published in 1963. After a year
spent as a research fellow at Harvard, he joined
Lincoln Laboratory, where his thesis work led to
continued exploration on similar substances for
many years.
His work on crystal growth and semiconductor
materials has led to the fabrication of diode lasers,
high-gain and high speed photo detectors. He also
spent a year working at the Royal Radar Establish-
ment in Malvern, England in 1970.
Groves received his bachelor’s degree from
Antioch College and his master’s and doctorate of
philosophy from Harvard University in 1963.
He was born in Madison, WI, where his father,
Harold Groves, was professor of economics for
the University of Wisconsin. In Groves’ youth,
much of the family time was spent working with
architect Frank Lloyd Wright, to build the Unitar-
ian Church in Madison. Groves and his brothers
were enlisted to help haul stone for the church
construction when the congregation was low on
funds. In May, 2005, when the church became a
National Historic Landmark, a celebration was
held honoring Groves and the others who helped
with the construction.
An avid outdoorsman, he was happiest in a
kayak, on skis, on his bicycle, playing with his
grandchildren, and vacationing with his family.
He met his wife, Anne DeCecco Groves ’57, at
Antioch. They were married in 1956. He was
looking forward to returning to England for his
50th wedding anniversary this July with his chil-
dren and grandchildren. In addition to his wife,
he is survived by his two children, Katherine
Groves of Paradise Valley, AZ, and Eric Groves
of Acton; and four grandchildren; two brothers,
Thomas Groves of Naperville, IL, and Roderick
Groves of Albuquerque, NM; and a sister, Susan
Groves in Berkeley, CA.
Contributions may be made to the Wilderness
Society at 1615 M. Street, NW Washington, DC
20036.
EDYTHE (GREISSMAN) FASS ’60
Died Dec. 25 at age 70. Wife of the late Charles
Fass and sister of Judith Greissman, Edythe was a
spirited woman, with a passion for literature and
friendship.
ESTHER (STILLMAN) THELEN ’64
Died of cancer Dec. 29, 2004, in Bloomington,
IN at age 63. She was a prominent developmen-
tal psychologist who studied how the brains
of human babies help them move, learn and
generally function.
Thelen was a psychology professor and direc-
tor of the Infant Motor Development Labora-
tory at Indiana University. She and colleagues
studied infant movement, perception and
cognition and how perceptual motor skills in
infancy can say much about how people will
adapt later in life. Her work has been credited
with presenting a new view of how babies learn
to reach for toys, walk and accomplish some of
the earliest mental tasks, such as remembering
where things are. For years, most researchers
believed that infants reached and walked when
parts of the brain responsible for these activities
“matured.” But based on 19 years of research,
Thelen believed that these accomplishments re-
flect a complex interplay of factors that includes
babies’ changing bodies and their external
environments, as well as their growing brains
and nervous systems.
“Babies are constantly trying to figure out
things like ‘How am I going to look around?’
and ‘How am I going to see that nice smiley
face?’” Thelen told Indiana University’s Research
& Creative Activity journal in spring 2003.
“I believe the behavior we see is not residing
somewhere in the brain. Instead, it emerges in
the movement.” Mixing theory with experi-
ment, Thelen applied what is known as dynamic
systems theory — popularized under the name
“chaos theory” — to gain an understanding of
the overall behavior of a system. Her work has
influenced scholars in psychology, kinesiology,
cognitive science, computer science, robotics
and neuroscience.
Thelen was a native of Brooklyn, NY, and
a 1964 zoology graduate of the University of
Wisconsin. She received a master’s degree in
zoology and a doctorate in biology, both from
the University of Missouri, where she taught
psychology until moving to Indiana University
in 1985. She was a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and
the American Psychological Association and was
president of the Society for Research in Child
Development. She contributed to more than a
dozen journals in psychology, child development
and motor neuroscience. She also wrote or
contributed to a handful of texts.
Survivors include her husband, David
P. Thelen, whom she married in 1962, of
Bloomington and Lakeside, MI; two children,
Jennifer Thelen of Richmond, CA., and
Jeremy Thelen of Providence, RI; a sister; and
a grandson.
MICHAEL FAJANS ’70
Died June 12 in a motorcycle accident in Seattle
at age 58. An artist, Fajans was “very influential
in the development of the public art scene in Se-
attle, from the 1970s to the present,” according
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to Richard Andrews, director of the University
of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery. He called
Fajans’ death a “great loss.” Among his most
successful projects is his massive set of murals
in the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle, titled “Three
Sets of Twelve,” a meticulous celebration of the
jury system.
Born in Philadelphia, Fajans grew up in New
York City and graduated from Antioch College
with a bachelor’s degree in art and dance. He
was a dancer in New York until a knee injury
caused him to focus on painting. “There’s
always something magical in his depictions,”
Andrews said. “And he chose to use that magic
in the public arena.”
He’s best known for his paintings of people.
He was fascinated by the way light falls on flesh,
the way clothes fold around their wearer, how
habitual expressions leave traces. Although his
portraits could be radically unflattering, he
painted them as containers for spirit, painting
the spirit by inference. Besides painting, Fajans
loved his son, Pepper, his life partner, Cathryn
Vandenbrink, volleyball, and his motorcycle.
In 1998, he painted former Gov. Mike
Lowry’s official portrait, which hangs in the
foyer of the governor’s office.
Other murals Fajans created can be found
at the Port of Seattle, Sea-Tac Airport, the Pike
Place Market Child Care Center and on the
ferry, Stealth.
JAMES OLIVER PLOSS ’72
Died of cancer on Jan. 6. Jim was active in many
aspects of life in the Piedmont Avenue neighbor-
hood in Oakland, Ca. He was a longtime mem-
ber of the Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood Im-
provement League and served many years on its
steering committee. He was a founding member
of the Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood School
Association and a past member of the North
Oakland Community Development Board. He
also headed the area Home Alert program.
The Oakland City Council passed a resolution
honoring him for his neighborhood activism.
Ploss was a Ham Radio Operator. After the Loma
Prieta earthquake, he taught classes that trained
citizens and city first responders in preparation
for the federally required licensing exam.
His working career was with Chevron, where
he received numerous professional awards for web
design and software development.
He is survived by his wife, Peg; father, Robert
Ploss, Sr., and two siblings.
KATHARINE ‘MS. KITTIE’ PARKER ’75
Died unexpectedly from hypertension on
Dec. 30. Virginia “Ginger” Rhodes wrote:
“Kittie was my roommate during our time at
Antioch and was a wonderful and unusual
friend. She lived life very much on her own
terms, a good Antiochian to the end. She was
a true lifeline to the many AIDS patients who
she nursed in San Francisco, and to the gay
community there, which embraced her for her
continuous efforts to bring respect and dignity
to AIDS-related deaths.”
DAMU (LEROY WESLEY) SMITH ’78
Died May 5 of cancer at age 54. Smith was a
Washington, D.C., radio show host and peace
activist who most recently protested the war in
Iraq. LeRoy Wesley Smith was a native of St.
Louis who came to the District in 1973 after
studing at Antioch College. He took the name
Damu, which means “blood, leadership and
strength” in the Swahili language of Kenya.
Smith was one of the city’s preeminent civil
rights activists. He co-hosted the show “Spirit
in Action” on WPFW (89.3 FM), where his
advocacy continued “right up to the bitter end,”
according to his partner on the show, Milagros A.
Phillips. “He was a freedom fighter. I mean tire-
less,” said another friend, Dera Tompkins. “You
could not know Damu and not be politically
active. He demanded it.” Smith had many other
friends, including Jesse L. Jackson Sr., with whom
he traveled, poet Sonia Sanchez and actor Harry
Belafonte, who presented him with a plaque last
month for his community service.
The battle against South African apartheid
and the effort to designate a Martin Luther
King Jr. federal holiday were his favorite causes
during his first years in the nation’s capital. In
the 1990s, he joined Greenpeace USA, monitor-
ing corporate pollution on the Gulf Coast. He
coordinated the first National People of Color
Environmental Leadership Summit, in 1991,
creating links between the civil rights and the
environmental movements.
He founded the National Black Environ-
mental Justice Network, which arranged “toxic
tours” of an area in Louisiana known as Cancer
Alley. In 2001, he took author Alice Walker,
poet Haki Madhubuti and actor Mike Farrell on
a tour of the region, where black people experi-
ence a high level of cancer deaths.
Smith was sometimes controversial. After
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Smith
cautioned Americans and the U.S. government
against targeting Arabs. At a forum, he remind-
ed the audience that the former South African
President Nelson Mandela was once considered
a terrorist and that federal officials stood by as
southern politicians and the Ku Klux Klan ter-
rorized black people during segregation.
Love him or not, said a friend, Kwesi Ron
Harris, Smith “spoke with maximum clarity.
Whether you agreed with him or not, you had
to take notice. When he walked into a room,
you knew something was coming behind him, a
rush of energy.”
“He just had this passion for fairness and
justice and wanted all people to live in a world
that was compassionate,” added Phillips. On his
program, after criticizing the Secretary of State
and the Defense Secretary, he would end by say-
ing, “But you know I love you,” he recounted.
He fell ill while leading a delegation for
Palestinian rights in the Middle East. After his
return to Washington, doctors told him that
he was in the end stage of colon cancer. He is
survived by a daughter, Asha Moore Smith; a
sister and two brothers.
LAURENCE MAZEL
Noted jazz musician, Mazel died in March at age
57 after a long illness.
He was in born in Cambridge, MA. on
Nov. 1, 1948. He lived in Boston, Lawrence
and Andover. During his high school years he
was Northeast Regional tennis champion for
New England, and studied Mandarin Chinese
through a State Department intensive language
course, pursuits which he maintained through-
out his life. He attended University of Mas-
sachusetts at Amherst, then Antioch College,
where he studied and played music with Cecil
Taylor, Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille.
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In the early 1970s, he moved to New York City
where he began his music career as a trumpet
player and composer and adopted his stage name,
Raphe Malik. He played in concert and recorded
with Jimmy Lyons, Syd Smart, William Parker and
Cecil Taylor.
During the 1970s and 1980s, he traveled
extensively and was recognized as an icon in
avant-garde music by his fellow musicians and
audiences alike. He had the gift to traverse many
different musical styles and genres, and his
strength and endurance on the bandstand were
unmistakably his own. During the late 1980s,
Mazel moved back to Boston and maintained
himself setting ceramic tile, marble and granite,
as well as playing concerts and recording CDs
with his group, the Raphe Malik Quintet.
In 1992, he married Marguerite Serkin, and
moved to southern Vermont. He constructed
their family home while teaching music at
Bennington College, performing and recording
in a wide spectrum of musical genres. As his
health declined, he continued to document his
music and play live, and he traveled as his health
permitted. Mazel was known by his friends and
family as a colorful storyteller with an outland-
ish sense of humor.
He is survived by his wife of 15 years; a daugh-
ter, Lena Mazel of Guilford; two sons, Miles
Mazel of Guilford and Joel Ortlip of Denver; and
a sister Marjorie Hecht of Leesburg, VA.
Memorial donations may be made to the
Musician’s Emergency Fund in New York or
Morningside Shelter in Brattleboro.
ARTHUR STEINBERG
Died May 31 at the Judson Retirement Com-
munity in Cleveland, OH at age 94. He was a
genetics researcher who worked for a time at
the Fels Research Institute. His fundamental
research uncovered important hereditary condi-
tions in humans.
Steinberg was a Case Western Reserve
University professor of human genetics and
a professor in the medical school. He was a
teacher and researcher in genetics beginning
in 1941. He wrote more than 200 articles on
genetic variances within isolated populations.
He conducted major studies of distinct groups
including Hutterites, members of a religious
sect who live in tightly knit communities; Pima
Indians; Karaite Jews in Israel; Ainu in Hok-
kaido, Japan; San nomads of the Kalahari desert
plateau in southwest Africa; and Asian Indians
of Durban, South Africa.
Unlike some earlier and less-scientific research-
ers, Steinberg insisted that his graduate students
treat the people as partners, rather than merely
subjects. That included respecting their standards
of dress and behavior while working among
them. Steinberg’s contributions were recognized
by scholars across the world. He was president
of the American Society of Human Genetics.
He was a foreign member of the French society
for anthropology and human ecology, which he
spoke to in French, and an honorary member of
the Japanese Society of Genetics, where he spoke
in phonetic Japanese.
The World Health Organization frequently
consulted with him as did other health groups,
such as the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
He helped organize international congresses on
human genetics and hosted a symposium at Case
in 1980 that drew speakers from countries as far
away as South Africa.
Steinberg was born in Port Chester, NY. He
graduated from City College of New York in
1933 and earned masters and doctoral degrees
from Columbia University. He performed
research for the Navy during World War II.
He then held research positions at McGill
University, Fels Research Institute at Antioch
College, the Mayo Clinic, Children’s Cancer
Research Foundation and Children’s Hospi-
tal in Boston. He came to Western Reserve
University in 1956. His early work was in the
study of drosophila, fruit flies that are consid-
ered a model organism for genetic research.
His pioneering work in human genetics began
in 1950. He produced initial descriptions of
hereditary conditions and studied a wide range
of genetic diseases.
Steinberg was an editor as well as contributor
to scientific magazines. He taught an introduc-
tory course to undergraduates at Case as well as
the highly specialized graduate courses.
After he became an emeritus professor in
1982, he continued to collaborate with students
and colleagues. Retirement also allowed him to
pursue other interests. He became a certified
scuba diver when he was 70. Steinberg was
married for 67 years to Edith Owen, an actress
at the Cleveland Play House and Great Lakes
Shakespeare Festival. They lived in Shaker
Heights for many years. Survivors include: his
wife, Edith Owen; a son, Arthur Strimling of
Brooklyn, NY; and a daughter, Jean Strimling
Roy of Toronto.
HARRY STEINHAUER
Former Antioch faculty member, Steinhauer
passed away at his home in Santa Barbara, CA,
on Jan. 12 at age 100. Steinhauer was born in
1905 in Krakow, Poland. At eight years old, his
family moved to Toronto where he grew up in
poverty. Steinhauer earned a BA, MA and PhD
in French and German Literature from the
University of Toronto. Throughout his career,
Steinhauer taught at the Universities of Saskatch-
ewan and Manitoba, Ohio State University, Case
Western University, University of California:
Santa Barbara, and Antioch College.
In 1962 the German government awarded
Steinhauer the Order of Merit, First Class, of
the Federal Republic of Germany for his work
in German literature and culture as well as his
scholarly and teaching work. Steinhauer also
wrote-co-wrote the four-volumes in the Bantam
Dual-Language Book Series.
Steinhauer’s favorite pastime was reading, as
evidenced by his daily reading sessions with a
friend and neighbor and his recreational partici-
pation in reading circles.
During the McCarthy era, Steinhauer stood up
with his colleagues in refusing to testify and lend
legitimacy to the communist witch-hunts.
He recalled one of his fondest memories of his
time at Antioch and in Yellow Springs as when
he served as a member of MacDuff’s army during
a Shakespeare Under the Stars performance of
Macbeth.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Minnie
Singer Steinhauer, MD, who died in 1995. He
is survived by two daughters; Judith Steinhauer
and her companion Sheila Paine of Portland,
ME, and Esther Battle and her husband, David
Battle, of Yellow Springs; a grandson, Mark
Battle, his wife, Kathryn Thorson; and two
great-grandchildren, Zoe and Felix Battle of
Brunswick, ME.
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STEVEN LAWRY
President, Antioch College
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Editor-in-Chief, Director of Public
Relations and Communications
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Director of Alumni Relations
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Arthur J. Zucker
Chair
Retired, President
Zucker Associates, Inc.
Daniel Fallon
Vice Chair
Chair, Education Division
Carnegie Corporation
of New York

Bruce P. Bedford
Treasurer
Chair, CEO of
Paddington Resources
Sherwood Guernsey
Secretary
Attorney
MEMBERS
Michael Alexander
Managing Partner,
Echo Bridge
Entertainment, LLC
Amy Chappell
Associate Medical Director
Eli Lilly & Co.
Howard Coleman
General Counsel
Genesee Investments
David Crippens
Acting Executive Director
California African
American Museum
Leo Drey
Trustee Emeritus
Owner, Pioneer Forest
Dianne Brou Fraser
Retired, Senior Vice
President of Development
MINACT, Inc.
Everette Freeman
President,
Albany State University
Reuben Harris
Vice Chairman
C&S Wholesale
Grocers, Inc.
Hal Joseph
Executive Director
Coachella Valley
Enterprise Zone

Jeffrey C. Kasch
Retired, President-Director
M.W. Kasch Company
Lillian Lovelace
Trustee Emeritus
Community Volunteer
Niels Lyster
Retired, Vice President
of Marketing
American Phosphate
Export Association
Tom McNicol
Retired, Process
Development Manager, CME
International Truck
& Engine Corp
Sharon Merriman
Attorney
John G.Merselis, Jr.
Retired, Physician
Lawrence Stone
Chief Executive Ofﬁ cer,
Metron, Inc.
Paula Treichler
Retired, Professor & Director,
Institute for Communications
Research, University of Illinois
Barbara Winslow
Assistant Professor
of Women’s Studies,
Brooklyn College, CUNY
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Tullisse (Toni) A. Murdock
Chancellor
Antioch University
John Feinberg
President
Antioch College Alumni Board
Landscape Architect-Planner,
Principal, The Collaborative
OFFICERS
John Feinberg ’70
President
Nancy Crow ’70
Vice President
MEMBERS
Terry Blackhawk ’68
Ellen Borgersen ’72
Michael Brower ’55
Richard Daily ’68
John F. Dawson ’58
Steven Duffy ’77
Tim Eubanks ’00
Joseph M. Foley ’64
Ina Frank ’60
Athena Turner-Frederick ’82
Martin L. Fried ’55
Tendaji W. Ganges ’71
Edward Goldson ’62
Gary Houseknecht ’66
Catherine Jordan ’72
Emily Kirby ’52
Tim Klass ’71
Penny Jo Lee ’82
Susan Opotow ’65
Dean Parmelee ’70
Kristen Pett ’90
Miguel Angel Santiago ’98
Stephen Schwerner ’60
Wayne Snively ’63
David Thelen ’62
Bradley Wilburn ’84
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