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Contents

T H E A N T I O C H I A N | FA L L 2 0 1 5

FEATURES 18 Reunion & Commencement 2015 22 An Interview with Mark Roosevelt 28 Young Alumni Spotlight: Bianca Stone 32 Inside Out: Applied Cultural Anthropology

36 Antioch and the Real Food Challenge 40 Remembering Leo Drey â&#x20AC;&#x2122;39 44 Antioch, Marion Ross and the Civil War 46 A Tale of Two Writers 48 Rise Above: A Bird's Eye View of Campus

DEPARTMENTS 02 From Our President 03 From the Alumni Board 04 From Our Readers 06 News 09 Asset News 13 Alumni Happenings

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Faculty Notes Special News Class Notes In Memoriam Postscript

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FROM OUR PRESIDENT This is my last president’s letter in the Antiochian. As such it should be full of gratitude, and, indeed, I am very grateful for how the Antioch community has responded to the many challenges of reestablishing the College. And it would also be nice to offer a recitation of all that we have accomplished together.

Mark Roosevelt

“We are so close to the most significant achievement since independence. We need your help to ensure a successful Early Initial Accreditation outcome. Please make a donation to the Annual Fund before October 31. And please stretch to make it as substantial as possible.”

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Yet that is not what the moment calls for. Instead, I must tell you that we are at a critical time—a time of great promise but also of great risk. And, for the very last time, I must ask you to dig deep, to do what you can to help us surmount yet another hurdle—achieving accreditation, the most important step in securing the future of the College. We are hard at work making final preparations for the early November accreditation site visit from representatives of the Higher Learning Commission. We feel confident about almost everything. A “mock” site visit in early August confirmed that we are strong, even well ahead of the curve, on all but one criterion—cash flow. It is this one exception that should make all of us nervous. But before I resort to my usual pleading, let me emphasize the incredible progress we have made together. The mock team repeatedly—and emphatically—said they could discern no other significant threat to our achieving fast-track accreditation. This is no small achievement. And I wish I could gather folks together in some pleasant place on this once again fine campus to relax, sit back, and celebrate all the good work that has been done.

But this is not the time. We have not had more than six month’s cash-in-hand at any moment since I came to Antioch, and I have grown accustomed to the tension that comes with having such a modest “cushion.” But the accreditors are likely to look at this issue with more critical eyes. It is true that our finances are much better. And we will emphasize how little debt we have—still only $6.2 million—and how our assets have grown, to more than $110 million. But they may still find the cash situation troubling. That is, unless we can make it stronger. We are seeking to put as much money in the bank as we can before the end of October. Please help us. If you have a pledge I ask you to accelerate payments, or even pay the pledge in full before the visit. I ask those who recently paid off pledges to make new ones. And I ask those who have been sitting on the sidelines to finally join us. There is no more important time than now. We are so close. And all that has been invested—over $100 million and so much hard work and thought and care— is at stake. And so many—students, faculty, staff, alumni, and those who know Antioch deserves a place in American higher education—are counting on us to get this done. After accreditation the College will still have challenging work to do and continued progress will always require the generous support of alumni and friends. But achieving accreditation will open doors that will take some of the pressure off those who have been carrying the load during these early years. As an accred-

FROM THE ALUMNI BOARD ited institution, we can apply for major private grants that are unavailable to us now. We can lower our tuition discount rate to derive additional revenue from students. We can borrow money to build and renovate residence halls, rather than fund those investments using operating and endowment reserves. What a journey this has been! Arduous and exhausting for sure. But when you walk the campus you can see and feel the progress all around you—in the renovated residence halls, Art and Science building, the Wellness Center, the Foundry Theater, the geothermal plant, the farm, and in the eyes of our capable, committed faculty, staff and most especially our students. And you know it has been worth all the effort. Thank you for all that you have done to bring us to this moment of such promise. There will be a time to celebrate. Perhaps then you will invite me back to campus. We can gather in the Horseshoe and raise our glasses to toast an accredited, vibrant, innovative, financially solvent Antioch College, confident that it will be able to offer transformative education not only to current students, but to generations still to come. What a great day that will be. Cheers,

Mark Roosevelt President

I became president of the Alumni Association and its Board following the annual meeting of the Antioch College Alumni Association during the 2015 June Reunion. Joining me as officers are Karen Mulhauser ’65 as vice-president and Tim Klass ’71 as secretary. The 2015–16 Alumni Board has 28 members, representing the six decades between the 1950s and the 2000s. We hail from the East, the Midwest, the South, the Mountain West and the West Coast. We are representative of Antiochians, diverse and alike at the same time. We bring varied individual experiences and talents to our common work on the Board. Our shared goal is two-fold. First and foremost, we support the work of the College staff and the policies of the College administration and the Board of Trustees. Second, we address the interests and perspectives of Antioch Alumni. Ours is important bridging work in the life of the College. In 2015 and beyond, both our opportunities and our challenges are impressive. This has always been the Antioch way; innovative and pace-setting, and, as a result, also living close to the edge. Denise Levertov has this kind of community in mind, and the relationships it produces, in her poem, “Beginners”.

James A. Hobart ’58

that cannot yet be forgiven. We have only begun to know the power that is in us if we would join our solitudes in the communion of struggle. So much is unfolding that must complete its gesture, so much is in bud.

there is so much broken

Yes, I grant this is a realistic and complex understanding. I also don’t hesitate to say Antioch is a reason for hope for the common world it helped prepare each of us to serve. I urge you to join the Alumni Board in offering our College our very best support. Antioch deserves it.

that must be mended, too much hurt we have done to each other

James A. Hobart ’58 President, Alumni Board

These lines might have been written specifically about Antioch:

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FROM OUR READERS As a ’54 graduate of Antioch, I am wowed by the photos of the changes and improvements that have been made to the campus and buildings as shown in the latest issue of The Antiochian. Frankly, though, I lusted for a sight of the buildings I knew back in the day—a lust briefly satisfied by a shot of North Hall from the outside. ( I noted that the fire escape just outside the second floor room I occupied as a freshman is gone.) Otherwise, I could not put myself in any of those photos.

When I was on campus (1960–1965), one of my fondest memories of my time there was the hootenannies and square dances and folk singing that took place just about every Friday evening in a red-brick patio (don't remember ’zactly where it was— near North Hall, I think) that—with typical Antiochian insouciance and political incorrectness (especially in those days!)— was called Red Square. Is it still there? In any case, it was certainly a student space that was well used back in the day! Hoping this will be a blessed day for you, I remain . . . Very gratefully yours, Ed Shaw ’65

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I bet I'm not the only alumnus from prerevision days who wants to visit what used-to-be, and especially know where all of those new buildings are located. Of course, attending a reunion would clear that up, but we don't all have the means to do that, and there is a simple solution for filling this void. Drones. If we can now see whole cities from drone captured photography, surely Antioch has the means and the eager know-how to capture its campus in like manner. I look forward to the next issue of The Antiochian hoping that I have planted an idea that will be actualized there-in. It's free and I know would be enjoyed by many. With fond memories, Patricia L. Scott Girardot ’54

Your recent article on Student Spaces mentioned that the college Tea Room (leveled to make way for the Union building) was open only to fourth year students. This has no basis in fact. The Tea Room stood in a modest house next to the large quonset hut housing the cafeteria (which doubled at night as the C-shop). It offered all students restaurant table service at lunch and dinner in return for a modest increase in prices. The food actually was quite good, prepared by a dedicated kitchen staff, and a steak (costing $1.85) was the height of extravagant indulgence. Some townsfolk ate there on Sundays, and paid and even tipped in real money as opposed to student coupons. I speak as one who rose through the ranks to eventually manage the waiting staff when Kenny Hamilton (father of Virginia Hamilton, later a renowned children’s book author) was sidelined by a heart attack. Among my memories are serving a alumni luncheon attended by Coretta Scott King, and training a lanky, very shy freshman, Eleanor Holmes, later the renowned Eleanor Holmes Norton. I might add that I lost my only source of income when the Tea Room was demolished, and had to leave Yellow Springs for the cold, cruel world. Lester Schulman ’55

PRESIDENT

HONORARY MEMBERS

Mark Roosevelt

Kay Drey · Terry O. Herndon ’57

EDITOR

Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton ’60

Matt Desjardins

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI BOARD

LAYOUT DESIGNER

James A. Hobart ’58 President

Paige Hake

Karen Mulhauser ’65 Vice President

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS

Tim Klass ’71 Secretary

Jennifer Jolls · Kateri Kosta

Phillip Brigham ’97

Brennan Burks · Scott Sanders

Michael Cassselli ’87

PHOTOGRAPHY

Shelby Chestnut ’05

Dennie Eagleson ’71 · Carly Short

Laura Ann Ellison ’89

Whitney Saleski · Charles Strawser

Christelle Evans ’94

Daniel Reibert

Claryce Evans ’59

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Gordon Fellman ’57

Frances Degen Horowitz ’54, Chair

Karen Foreit ’67

Barbara Winslow ’68 , Vice -Chair

Seth Gordon ’00

David Goodman ’69, Secretary

Charlotte Boyd Hallam ’60

Edward H. Richard ’59, Treasurer

Helen Harris ’05

Shadia Alvarez ’96

Glenda Cox May ’81

Thomas Carhart ’74

Susan (Shay) Jean Mayer ’79

Charles Fairbanks

Aimee Maruyama ’96

Atis Folkmanis ’62

Tanya Mink ’65

Jay Greenspan ’76

Stan Morse ’65

James Hobart 58

Jilana Ordman ’98

Joyce O. Idema ’57

Larry Pearl ’55

Maxwell King

Mark V. Reynolds ’80

Jay W. Lorsch ’55

David Scott ’72

Maureen Lynch

Allen Spalt ’66

Sharon Merriman ’55

Penny Storm ’65

Sharen Swartz Neuhardt

Paula A. Treichler ’65

Elise Roenigk ’64

David Vincent ’65

Silvia Turner ’67

Deborah L. Warfield ’94

Malte von Matthiessen ’66

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COLLEGE NEWS

2015 Solar Sheep

SOLAR SHEEP ARRIVE AT ANTIOCH For the third year in a row, sheep have come to graze at the Antioch Farm. This year, however, they are living in a distinctly different location—the five-acre Antioch solar farm. In August, eight Dorper-Katahdin ewes arrived on campus. One is brown with spots and the remaining sheep are white. The small “self-fertilizing lawnmowers” will live within the fenced-in solar array eating the grass between the numerous solar panels and potentially sheltering underneath the panels. This is a pilot project that will last for a yet-to-be-determined amount of time. The length of this year’s program

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will be determined by factors such as the sheep’s behavior. The goal is to study the way sheep behave around the array—an arrangement that has worked at other solar farms—and learn more about their graze patterns to see how many are needed to manage all the vegetative growth in the field off Corry Street across from the Glen Helen Nature Preserve. For the duration of the sheep’s time at the College, students and staff will manage the drove. Antioch students who work on the farm—either on co-op or as volunteers—will give them fresh water and organic grain each morning. The sheep and the solar array are part of Antioch’s vigorous commitment to sustainability and discovering better ways of living. Antioch now has renew-

able geothermal energy pits under the farm, renewable solar energy adjacent to the farm, and now, living lawnmowers fertilizing the solar farm ground.

COLLEGE ANNOUNCES LARGEST GIFT IN RECENT HISTORY Antioch leadership announced in May that the College received a $6 million grant from the Morgan Family Foundation. It is the largest gift the College has received since its 2009 independence from Antioch University, and also the largest single grant the Morgan Family Foundation has ever awarded. This new

grant brings total contributions from the Morgan Family Foundation to more than $13 million since the College’s first efforts at independence in 2007. Frances Horowitz, chair of the Antioch College Board of Trustees, called the grant “a great vote of confidence in the College’s future and a significant budget boost” and noted that she hopes others will be moved to demonstrate their commitment to the College and its vision in a similar way. “This transformational gift is a strong testimony to the soundness of our plans for continued innovation,” said Horowitz. “We wouldn’t be here today without the generous and consistent support of the Morgan Family Foundation and we are so very grateful for their commitment to our work.” The Morgan Family Foundation is a private foundation, established in 2003 by Lee and Vicki Morgan as a vehicle for family philanthropy. In 2014, the foundation distributed grants totaling approximately $2.4 million to charitable organizations, primarily in St. Cloud, Minn. and Yellow Springs, Ohio.

RE-CREATED ANTIOCH ANNOUNCES TENURED FACULTY This spring, Antioch announced its first tenured faculty since the school reopened in 2011. Dr. David Kammler and Dr. Gabrielle Civil were granted tenure in May and celebrated at a Community Meeting in June. Kammler, associate dean of academic affairs

Gabrielle Civil

and associate professor of chemistry, came to Antioch as a visiting professor in 2002 after receiving his Ph.D in chemistry from Indiana University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Harvard University. From 2008–2011, he was an assistant professor of chemistry at Wilberforce University, where he taught majors classes in Biomedical Science and Health Services Administration, as well as general education classes. In 2011, Kammler joined the new Antioch College, where he currently teaches chemistry and chemistry-related classes for the biomedical science and environmental science majors. Associate Professor of Performance Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist poet, conceptual and perfor-

David Kammler

mance artist, originally from Detroit. She has premiered over 40 solo original performance art works nationally and internationally. She has also served as a discussant and facilitator for engaged conversations about the work of other contemporary performers and artists. She holds an undergraduate comparative literature and English degree from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. and Ph.D in comparative literature from New York University.

ANTIOCH ADDED TO PRINCETON GREEN COLLEGES Antioch was proud to be added to the

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COLLEGE NEWS

The Olive Kettering Library

Students in the OKL

Photo Credit: Carly Short

Princeton Review’s 2015 Guide to Green Schools for the first time. Based on a comprehensive review of over 2,000 colleges, the Review selected 353 schools that offer an enhanced student experience through academics and green campus initiatives.

faculty, staff, alumni and trustees engaged through focus groups, individual interviews, surveys and a community forum.

This summer, Compass Consulting Services, completed a diversity audit for the College. Organized by the College’s Task Force on Diversity, the purpose was to gain a better understanding of the diversity assets, issues and concerns on campus. The Task Force will use the results as one tool to develop a strategic plan for diversity at Antioch. The audit involved students,

This summer, Antioch's Olive Kettering Library became an independent member of the state-funded OhioLINK (Ohio Library and Information Network), continuing to give students, faculty and staff access to the collections of 88 Ohio college and university libraries. As the Kettering Library continues to grow its collection, OhioLINK membership significantly

DIVERSITY AUDIT

LIBRARY NOW INDEPENDENT MEMBER OF OHIOLINK NETWORK

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expands academic resources available to the Antioch Community. OhioLINK members can request materials, view journal articles online, search authoritative databases, and make use of other OhioLINK services that enhance research and education.

REUNION 2016 DATES SET Mark your calendars! Reunion will be held on campus from September 8–11, 2016. The theme will be Theater and Performance.

ASSET NEWS

The Wellness Center Photo Credit: Carly Short

THE WELLNESS CENTER

WELLNESS CENTER CELEBRATES FIRST ANNIVERSARY The Wellness Center celebrated its first anniversary on September 8. The Center’s membership at over 2,000, is more than double their initial membership goal of around 800. With the support of more than 300 donors, the Center also exceeded its $1 million fundraising goal. From swim lessons to group fitness classes and intramural sports like basketball, volleyball and kickball, the Wellness Center is a resource for the campus community

and Yellow Springs. The Center continues to adapt as College and community needs evolve. For example, Antioch students successfully lobbied for and initiated weekly women’s only hours, outside of the Center’s regular operating hours.

W YSO 91.3FM

WYSO WINS NATIONAL REPORTING AWARDS FOR NEWS AND ARCHIVE PROJECT WYSO 91.3FM won three national reporting awards from Public Radio News Direc-

tors, Inc. The station took first place in the Series—Small Newsroom category for Rediscovered Radio by Jocelyn Robinson, WYSO’s archives fellow. Robinson came to WYSO through the station’s Community Voices training program, and went on to develop a documentary series based on the station’s rich civil rights and social justice archives. The award came just as WYSO opened its newly digitized archives to the public for the first time. Awards also went to pieces produced by managing editor and economics reporter, Lewis Wallace—first place in the Best Use of Sound—Small Newsroom category for “Why Did Dayton Produce So Many Inventors And Inventions? WYSO Curious Pops THE ANTIOCHIAN: FALL 2015

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ASSET NEWS Open An Answer,” and second place in the Best Writing—Small Newsroom category for “Why is that lake next to Route 4 in Dayton so blue? WYSO Curious takes a trip to Dayton's Florida.” Both stories are part of the station’s series WYSO Curious, which is based entirely on questions submitted by Miami Valley residents. The Ohio Associated Press also honored WYSO’s newsroom for work produced in 2014, including second place for general excellence and first place for continuing coverage, feature reporting and best reporter (Wallace) in the Radio II division. “We’re proud of all this work, and especially pleased to continue the tradition of excellence in reporting that is part of WYSO’s history,” said WYSO General Manager Neenah Ellis.

WYSO BROADCASTERS’ BALL On June 19 during the Antioch College Reunion and Commencement Weekend, WYSO hosted a Broadcasters’ Ball in the Antioch College Foundry Theater. Attendees enjoyed refreshments from Current Cuisine, the Yellow Springs Brewery and the Emporium. The Ball was structured like an hour-long radio program hosted by Nikki Dakota. WYSO played historical audio excerpts from their archive and included live “actors,” who picked up where recordings left off. For example, while playing a 1970s recording of old time string band, The Corndrinkers, band members entered from the wings and took over where the recording left off with a live performance.

THE ANTIOCH REVIEW

THE REVIEW RECEIVES GRANT The Antioch Review has once again been awarded an Ohio Arts Council Grant for continuing operating support. The Review has also been named a finalist for the National Magazine Awards conducted by the Columbia School of Journalism four times in the last seven years, for its essays and fiction. It recently co-sponsored a symposium at the Bard Graduate Center in New York on the future of museums that will be the basis for a forthcoming issue. Celebrating its 75th year (in 2016) of publishing the “best words in the right order,” The Review’s offices are on the second floor of Antioch's Olive Kettering Library.

GLEN HELEN

GLEN HELEN PERMANENTLY PRESERVED On August 10, Antioch College and The Trust for Public Land, Tecumseh Land Trust, USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service and the Ohio Public Works Commission announced the easements that finalize the College’s commitment to permanently protecting the 1,000-acre Glen Helen Nature Preserve. “For decades, Glen Helen has shaped the lives of Antioch College students, Miami Valley residents and Ohioans far and wide,”

said President Mark Roosevelt. “The conservation easement ensures that future generations will also have the opportunity to be personally enriched by Glen Helen’s splendors.” This agreement includes the preserve’s full 973 acres—though a previous protective conservation easement on 563 acres of the riparian corridor was completed in February 2013 for $1.2 million. This portion was funded by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Restoration Resource Sponsorship Program and The Upper River Fund. The final easements in August were made possible in part through $940,650 from the Clean Ohio Fund, $100,000 from the Village of Yellow Springs, $39,034 from the Glen Helen Association and $567,500 from the federal Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program. The Tecumseh Land Trust will be responsible for monitoring the easements on an ongoing basis. “The Antioch College trustees made it a priority to see to it that Glen Helen was permanently protected,” said Nick Boutis, director of the Glen Helen Ecology Institute. “Everyone whose lives have been shaped by their time in Glen Helen can rest assured that the preserve is now safe and secure.”

THE FOUNDRY THEATER

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ASSET NEWS

The Skin of Our Teeth Photo Credit: Amanda Egloff

This summer marked the second season at the Foundry Theater since re-opening. In August, the Performance Program presented The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder. Written between the Great Depression and the Second World War, the play examines the Antrobus family and how they weather catastrophes, including an ice age brought on by an encroaching glacier, a destructive flood and a devastating war. Through it all, the family endures, challenged not only by the natural disasters that surround them, but also by the conflicts, betrayals and violence within themselves. It was the second full-length play directed

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by a faculty member in the Performance Program since the re-opening of the College. Louise Smith, associate professor of performance, directed a cast that included Antioch students: Sean Allen, Hannah Priscilla Craig, Jack Hassler, Cole Gentry, Alli King, Malka Berro, Soleil Sykes, Katherine Schule, Marcell Vanarsdale, Meli Osanya, Alana Guth, Will Brown, Gaerin Warman-Szvoboda; Visual Arts faculty Michael Casselli; and Yellow Springs community member Abi Katz-Stein. Antioch alumna, Dr. Jill Summerville ’06, provided dramaturgical assistance, and Foundry Theater Technical Director Amanda Egloff designed the set.

Since February, the Theater has hosted a number of community and campus events, including the Yellow Springs Community Dance Concert, the Yellow Springs High School’s production of West Side Story, In the Making, a weeklong performance art festival at the end of spring quarter and the WYSO Broadcaster’s Ball during Reunion/Commencement Week. Volunteer Work Week refinished the theater floor and created new shelving and storage for cables. A memorial bench was installed outside the Theater to remember Roger Millard Husbands ’63, a dedicated and regular contributor to Volunteer Work Project.

ALUMNI HAPPENINGS The Office of Alumni Relations is a link between alumni and campus, bringing your talent, life experiences, and expertise into our classrooms. We seek to do this through our Chapter network, Affinity Groups (Science Professionals, Alumni of Courage), PODIUM: Antiochian Speakers Bureau, and the Antioch Mentor Program (AMP). PODIUM: Antiochian Speakers Bureau provides faculty and students the opportunity to host distinguished alumni and friends as speakers and experts in residence. These relationships between Antiochians, friends, and the College are valuable links between the real world and the classroom. This kind collaboration is what our mission looks like in action and goes far in the re-building of Antioch College. We also hope PODIUM increases

connections between alumni by providing a talented pool of speakers, workshop leaders, and subject experts for regional alumni chapter events.

or edit your information. Once you are on The Stoop, your name, fields of interests, expertise, and contact information will be available for students to access.

Please consider going a step further and becoming a mentor. Every three months Antioch students go out into the world to learn by doing—to bring theories into their lived experiences. It takes the community to make sure students are supported and connected. Joining AMP is a rewarding way to give back to the College and enhance student learning on campus.

Thank you for staying connected to Antioch. We look forward to building these new programs with you! Feel free to contact us with any questions or suggestions at alumni@antiochcollege.org or 937-767-2341.

Becoming a member of AMP is simple. Go to The Stoop (Antioch's online alumni community) to create a profile at alumni. antiochcollege.org/login/register. If you already have an online profile, then sign in to access "My Profile" at alumni. antiochcollege.org/myprofile to update

Sincerely,

Amanda Cole Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Fund

Thanks to the more than 100 volunteers who came out in support of the June Volunteer Work Project. Volunteers logged over 3,000 hours of work and formed 11 different work crews saving the College $70,000 of labor expenses. Volunteers also came together in early October and contributed to the beautification of the campus. Antioch College thanks all alumni, friends and neighbors who have volunteered in recent years.

Save the date for future projects: January 24–30 March 6–12 Please visit alumni.antiochcollege.org for more information.

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FACULTY NOTES

In July, BETH BRIDGEMAN, instructor of cooperative education, took a group of five students to the Seed Savers Exchange conference in Decorah, Iowa. Seed Savers Exchange is the largest non-governmental seed bank in the United States. At the conference, students learned that 97 percent of all seed varieties have been lost since 1900 and that the six largest agrochemical corporations own 85 percent of the world's seed. The students are interested in saving seed from the Antioch Farm and in starting a seed library. To this end, Bridgeman facilitated a six-day Seed School from September 29 to October 4 on the Antioch Farm in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance.

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LEWIS TRELAWNY - CASSITY, assistant

KEVIN MCGRUDER, assistant professor

professor of philosophy, presented the paper “Uncovering the Athenian Stranger’s Debts to Tyrtaeus and Theognis in Book 1 of the Laws,” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco as part of a panel sponsored by the Society for Greek Political Thought. This paper takes up the political thought of Plato in relation to poetic reflections on the good life and the nature of community. On August 28, Trelawny-Cassity also held a discussion, open to the larger Yellow Springs Community, of Albert Einstein's essay “Geometry and Experience” at the Yellow Springs Philosophers’ Roundtable. Faculty members Barbara Sanborn and Flavia Sancier-Barbosa helped facilitate the discussion of Einstein's essay.

of history, recently had his book, Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890 to 1920 published by Columbia University Press. Over the summer, he was also selected to speak at a prestigious slave narratives seminar at Princeton University, and will spend time this fall speaking about his research at two U.S. Housing and Urban Developmentsponsored conferences. In August, he was interviewed on WYSO’s Book Nook with Vick Mickunas.

GABRIELLE CIVIL, recently tenured asso-

ANDREW THOMPSON, visiting assistant

RAEWYN MARTYN, visiting assistant pro-

ciate professor of performance, delivered the lecture “Experiments in Joy: Black Feminist Performance Art (in) Practice,” at the Women’s Art Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota in June. That month she also attended the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and in July, she organized WIGOUT, a celebration of former Antioch theater professor Martin Worman at the College. In August, she attended the Alternate Roots Annual Meeting in North Carolina and was one of approximately 20 theater artists invited to attend the prestigious National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation in Minneapolis.

professor of sculpture and installation, concluded his one-year appointment, offering two independent studies in addition to his regular courseload of Intro to Sculpture and the foundations course Visual Language: A Focus on 3D. The first independent study was on “Literature Inspired Art” with Cleo van der Veen ’16, while she was on co-op in Medellin, Colombia.

fessor of visual art, was invited in January to produce work for the exhibition Field Recordings at The Physics Room gallery in Christchurch, New Zealand. Martyn and a collaborative group of students and faculty also worked intensively on their Whole House Reuse project in Christchurch for an exhibition that opened at Canterbury Museum in June. This summer, Martyn was awarded an Arts Faculty Residency at Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, Mich. She then traveled into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to begin an ongoing painting project, “Camping Paintings.” Images of these projects can be found at walkerfalls.wordpress.com.

The second independent study was “Papermaking” with Julia Navaro ’16, Evera Rayne ’16, Aubrey Hodapp ’17, and Katie Olson ’17. This course was a continuation from the Invasive Zine collaboration between Thompson and Kim Landsbergen, associate professor of environmental science. The Invasive Zine was a small publication combining poetry, photography, art, and science writing about the topic of invasive species.

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SPECIAL NEWS: PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH of the committee voted by ballot, ranking their preferences. We agreed to invite the top 11 candidates for interviews with the committee at an offsite meeting in early September. It is our intent to reduce this group of semifinalists to between three and five finalists, who will be invited to a second offsite meeting planned for early October.

Malte von Matthiessen ’66

09/01/2015 Dear Community, As Chair of the Presidential Search Committee, I write to update you that we are on track to find Mark Roosevelt’s successor. The full committee met on August 20 with our consultants from the executive search firm Isaacson Miller (IM). The Presidential Search Committee is made up of 20 members—representatives from the board of trustees; college administrators, faculty, students; and a representative from the alumni board. At our meeting on August 20, we reviewed the biographical information of 25 active prospects; 12 from the active prospect list that was carried over from our July 20 committee meeting plus 13 new prospects. We then narrowed this group of prospects to 17 candidates. The members

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The Board of Trustees has scheduled a meeting for late October with the intent of meeting with one or two finalists; following which, we will make an offer to the finalist. Hopefully, the finalist will be available to meet with representatives of the Higher Learning Commission during the accreditation site visit to the College in early November. In summary, at this point we are on track, on schedule and very encouraged by the interest that our presidential search effort has generated as we work to bring back Antioch College to its former glory. Sincerely,

Malte von Matthiessen ’66 Chair, Presidential Search Committee

SPECIAL NEWS: ACCREDITATION 09/01/2015 Since the re-opening of Antioch College in 2011, we have been actively pursuing accreditation. We know this is one of the most critical elements of re-establishing the College and will bring myriad positive developments including increased student enrollment. Our efforts have already been successful. In 2013, Antioch was granted “fast-track” status for early initial accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). This status allows Antioch students to receive Title IV federal aid for the first time this fall quarter. Now, we are fully invested in preparing for the next phase—the site visit. Antioch will host a comprehensive evaluation for initial accreditation from November 2–4, 2015. In August, the College hosted a “mock” site visit to help the College community prepare for November’s site visit. Overall, the mock site team, a group of scholars from peer colleges, was very impressed with our efforts. Two members of the team, who also visited in August 2013, stated they saw substantial progress in our movement towards accreditation. The team praised the College on the first four of the five HLC criteria for accreditation and provided helpful feedback for improving our efforts on the fifth: 1. Mission: The institution's mission is clear and articulated publicly; it guides the institution's operations. 2. Integrity: The institution acts with integrity; its conduct is ethical and responsible.

3. Teaching and Learning—Quality, Resources and Support: The institution provides high quality education, wherever and however its offerings are delivered. 4. Teaching and Learning—Evaluation and Improvement: The institution demonstrates responsibility for the quality of its education programs, learning environments and support services, and it evaluates their effectiveness for student learning through processes designed to promote continuous improvement. 5. Resources, Planning and Institutional Effectiveness: The institution's resources, structures and processes are sufficient to fulfill its mission, improve the quality of its education offerings and respond to future challenges and opportunities. The institution plans for the future. (The mock site team recommended the College strengthen its business plan and develop plans to accelerate studentderived revenue.) In addition to the November site visit, the College must also compile an Assurance Argument—a written report detailing how the College is meeting requirements for accreditation. To navigate this process, Antioch has convened the Assurance Argument Steering Committee. This committee is creating a constructive report that provides compelling evidence to support the award of initial accreditation. This report will also serve as a tool for institutional planning, change and growth. A summary of the report will be made available via the College website to alumni once it is submitted to the HLC.

Dr. Lori Collins-Hall

The site team will evaluate Antioch based on the written argument and their experiences visiting campus. The HLC Board will then use the site team’s evaluation, the Assurance Argument and the results of an Institutional Actions Council hearing to make a decision regarding Antioch’s initial accreditation in June 2016. Sincerely,

Dr. Lori Collins-Hall Vice President of Academic Affairs

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REUNION & COMMENCEMENT

Members of the class of 2015 at Commencement.

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converses with Al Denman. Center: The Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner Story at the Foundry Theater.

Top Right: A future Antioch College graduate? Middle Right: Class of 2015 graduates strike a pose. Bottom Right: Commencement speaker Dr. Clarence Jones catches up with Professor Kevin McGruder following Commencement. Photo credit: Carly Short and Dennie Eagleson

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Looking Back While Leaning Forward: An Interview with Mark Roosevelt By Matt Desjardins

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In May 2015, Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt announced that he would step down after fulfilling his five-year contract. When he arrived on campus in January 2011, his charge was formidable: re-start Antioch—a college with a distinct mission and a significant place in the landscape of American higher education but also a history of financial woes and an alumni community unsure of whether the task was doable. When Roosevelt began his work, few dollars were in the bank and almost all campus buildings were in substantial disrepair. He soon realized that the re-creation of Antioch was likely going to be a 20-year project—a relay race, not a sprint. On a warm August day he sat down to candidly reflect on his leg of the race.

Q. What accomplishment are you most proud of over the last five years? A. I’m very proud of a great deal of the work we’ve done, but I would have to say restoration of the belief that rebuilding Antioch is actually possible may matter most. I think most alumni thought re-starting Antioch was a laudable goal, but doubted it was possible. And, yes, it’s still daunting, but we now have a great many signs that if we keep the momentum going, it can be done. Q. Were there moments when you were worried about Antioch’s progress? A. There have been many times where it looked pretty grim. For example, when our initial request to start the accreditation process—something called a PIF, Preliminary Information Form—was rejected, and we had to start again from scratch. But, you learn a lot from those moments. You have to face your fears. What would it be like for the College to not make it? Momentum, and tipping points, are interesting concepts to me. Keeping it flowing, constantly moving forward is what makes this all possible.

In a difficult enterprise with many doubting its success, you need good news and forward momentum. We crave it and we do what we can to achieve it. Regaining momentum when you have lost it is therefore a real challenge, and cannot be done often. Most of the time I felt that we have had the momentum with us. Q. You’re a huge admirer of President Abraham Lincoln. What have you learned from studying Lincoln that has helped you succeed at Antioch? A. It’s a big question, as studying Lincoln has taught me so much. Perhaps most relevant to our work here, Lincoln has taught me that often what needs to be done can be so overwhelming that if you spend your time second-guessing and give in to your fears you will likely falter. You have to keep your foot on the pedal—it’s essential. It may be difficult sometimes to envision how Antioch arrives at a place of safety, but you can be assured that it won’t if you don’t keep moving forward. You know, Lincoln lost more than he won, and faced such gigantic obstacles that he had to forge ahead, not know-

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Q. Who are your other heroes? Sources of inspiration?

ing what external events might influence his chances, for good or bad. I get that, and that’s similar to the work here. For example, if Antioch gains accreditation, we know many good things will happen but we do not know all of them or maybe even most of them. You don’t always know what will come of just keeping on, but you just have to keep it alive, keep struggling, and moving forward.

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A. At this point in my life I’m not so much in search of heroes as I am of guides. I am especially interested in people who are trying to figure it all out. A professor of mine once said about Samuel Johnson, “Wherever you were going in life, you will meet Johnson on his way back.” I’m always seeking out those on their way back. Other than Lincoln, most political people don’t help you understand life. The best of them can show you how to get somewhere, to get something done, which is of course very valuable. The three-term governor of Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis, was a mentor of mine. He was persevering and resilient, he got

stuff done. And he was knocked around a ton politically. He’s a great example of the sad fact that that as things wind down, they don’t always rhyme. He went out under such lousy conditions. The amazing thing about Lincoln is that he crosses all these boundaries. As a politician, he got more done than anyone I know, and yet he was introspective and philosophical. He was constantly exploring more existential issues. When asked about his religion he said that “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.”

Q. Do you view yourself as a change agent? A. Yes. There have been very large challenges at each of the most significant jobs I’ve held. A perceptive member of the Antioch Board of Trustees once told me that I have a “fatal preference for the slim chance.” I think that’s true. When I became Superintendent in Pittsburgh, the city schools were in real trouble, in danger of being taken over by the state government. It was a turn-around. And of course Antioch had been closed. And in these jobs, although I play to win, you also have to accept that you can never declare victory. There are markers along the way that matter a great deal and can provide some satisfaction. I think now of meeting federal improvement standards, winning a Gates grant to empower effective teachers and raising $150 million for the Pittsburgh Promise. And I think of recruiting capable idealistic students

and faculty, opening renovated buildings, raising $80 million, and preparing for accreditation at Antioch. Q. What was your most important goal at Antioch? A. My goal was to get the College on its feet and give it a fighting chance—and working together; we have done that. We have a foundation now of doing things well, of high standards and high aspirations. And now other folks will take on the work and advance it. I get how important it is to hand over the baton, which is not something I understood when I was younger, and that to some considerable degree you have to step away. For instance, I’m only peripherally involved with the search for the next College president, but I care enormously about who that person will be and the institution they will inherit. But you have to relinquish control and trust those who have supported you all along—in this case the College’s Board

of Trustees. At St. John’s my role will be less dramatic. They are not in transition. I think I am ready for that very different sort of challenge. Q. How important has family been to you while helping re-start Antioch? A. Immensely important. I found domestic happiness later in life. I would guess I appreciate it more for that fact. I know that I do not take it for granted. But having a happy home life is a double-edged sword. Yes, it helps you survive high stress times, but it also makes you want to spend more time with your family, which also makes you resent the stress and the long hours. Q. What will you miss most about Antioch College and Yellow Springs? A. The answer to both is people. The quality that I will specifically miss the most in Antiochians is idealism. People here believe they can make a positive impact and feel an obligation to try. They aspire.

“Lincoln has taught me that often what needs to be done can be so overwhelming that if you spend your time second-guessing and give in to your fears you will likely falter. You have to keep your foot on the pedal—it’s essential. It may be difficult sometimes to envision how Antioch arrives at a place of safety, but you can be assured that it won’t if you don’t keep moving forward.”

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I’ve loved living in Yellow Springs. I’ll miss its livability. My family will miss Mills Lawn School and the outstanding teachers and administrators who have cared for our daughter Juliana. There are so many genuinely supportive and understanding people in the Antioch alumni community and in Yellow Springs whom I will miss. Q. Do you have any regrets? A. Of course. I wish we had one more year of planning before opening. I should have seen that more clearly and moved immediately to negotiate away the “reversion clause” in the Asset Purchase Agreement that was driving the need to move so fast. I would have liked less pressure to raise funds so I would have had more time just to move around campus and interact with

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everyone. I would have liked to teach a course I have taught elsewhere—“Making Public Policy in the Real World.” Q. How would you like to be remembered at Antioch? A. That I gave it my all and did the very best that I could. For having helped to create circumstances that give the College a fighting chance. And for having tried to bring people together and not separate them. Divisiveness was really off the charts when I first got here and it’s gotten much better. The first year was truly rough—unexpectedly rough. At the time I accepted the job, I underestimated how deep the riffs were. Q. Where do you see Antioch College going?

A. I’m optimistic about the future of Antioch. But I think to be ultimately successful the College needs to stay entrepreneurial—actually get more entrepreneurial. Honestly, I think we stayed a little too “inside the lines” due to several factors. I hope the next phase of Antioch will include asking how we can continue to build on experiential learning in all of the work of the College, not just co-op. We need to continue to ask how we can make this the school for the “applied” liberal arts. It will be up to others to execute it, but it seems central. And then of course creating a sustainable financial model. That is critical to the College’s long-term success. Many people can dream; finding the resources to actually bring—and keep—that dream alive is another matter entirely.

MARK ROOSEVELT'S GREATEST HITS Historic advances have marked Roosevelt’s tenure as Antioch College president. Among the most noteworthy: Careful and strategic enrollment growth from 35 students in year one to nearly 270 today. The students of the new Antioch are bright: The most recent freshman class averaged 1800 on the SAT in critical reading, math, and writing, placing Antioch in the top 20% nationally. More than a third of the student body are the first in their families to go to college and roughly half are Pell-eligible—a number more than double that of most other liberal arts colleges.

On the “fast track” to accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission. Following a 2013 site visit, the College earned the prerequisite “candidate” status and was placed on an accelerated path to accreditation. Roosevelt will participate fully in the College’s November site visit and comprehensive evaluation for initial accreditation.

Development of a vision and strategic plan for the College. Building on Antioch’s mission, Roosevelt launched an inclusive planning process that resulted in a roadmap for the College’s future. AC/2020: A strategic plan for Antioch College confirmed the institution’s desire to be the place where “new and better ways of living are discovered as a result of meaningful engagement with the world

through intentional linkages between classroom and experiential education.”

Sustained growth in the College’s fundraising efforts. Since 2009 when the commitment to reopen Antioch was made, more than 8,000 people have made over 40,000 donations totaling approximately $80 million. Alumni participation has grown from roughly 3% in the early 2000s to nearly 30% today. And donations have been secured from philanthropists who have not previously been associated with the College.

True independence through elimination of the “reversion clause.” Roosevelt successfully negotiated an agreement between the College and Antioch University—finalized in July 2013—that transferred ownership of NPR-affiliate station WYSO to the College and eliminated any future rights of the University to have claim on Antioch College’s campus or endowment.

Investment in campus infrastructure and facilities. Extensive renovations have brought the 165-year-old historic and long-neglected campus back to life. The renovations are guided by a Campus Master Plan that envisions a tight, no-frills campus with significant invest-

ments in solar and geothermal energy, with a plan to be carbon neutral by 2018. The campus will be both environmentally and financially sustainable.

Deepening the relationship with the Village of Yellow Springs. Roosevelt repeatedly articulated his belief that the futures of the College and the Village are intertwined and that shared facilities and programs should extend beyond traditional town-gown relations. Antioch renovated many of its facilities—including the Foundry Theater and the 2,000-plus member Wellness Center—to serve the community as well as the campus. This symbiotic relationship will deepen, as plans continue to develop for a multigenerational housing project known as the Antioch College Village.

Rigorous curriculum and applied liberal arts. Roosevelt recruited a faculty of scholar-practitioners dedicated to teaching, and oversaw the development of an applied learning curriculum that includes rigorous liberal arts and sciences study, an outcome-based foreign language program, and the renewal of one of the oldest and most robust cooperative education programs in America.

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Young Alumni Spotlight:

An Interview with Bianca Stone ’06 By Brennan Burks

This is the first in a series of young alumni spotlights bringing you closer to the lives of Antiochians near and far. In this feature, we spoke with Bianca Stone ’06. Stone lives in Brooklyn and is the author of the poetry collection Someone Else’s Wedding Vows, multiple poetry and poetry comic chapbooks, and contributing artist-collaborator on a special illustrated edition of Anne Carson's Antigonick. She is co-founder and editor of Monk Books, and she chairs The Ruth Stone Foundation for Poetry and the Arts, an organization based in Vermont and Brooklyn, N.Y. Her full-length collection of comic poetry, Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours, is forthcoming in 2016 from Pleiades. While her artistic life began before she arrived at Antioch, it was here where she learned to create. How long have you been writing poetry and illustrating? My whole life. Much of your poetry deals with internal conflict—obsession, anxiety, loss. And many of your illustrations take on a dual surrealist/cartoon-esque quality. How do you join the two? What’s your process?

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There’s a lot of importance with obsession and art. As thinkers we get fixated on certain things—and it’s very linked to anxiety too. I encourage obsession in my students. I look forward to obsession, because with obsession comes inspiration. And that’s really what every poet needs. It’s a tricky, wonderful thing. There’s a lot of dual emotion built into writing and drawing; a push and pull of personal vs. fictional. I think I very much appreciate the emotion and straight-forward honesty poets put into their work, but it must be balanced out with something else; humor, the surreal, music, etc.—I use those things in my poems to facilitate a very ordinary, human drama. In other words, it’s very much like the illustrations I do…it comes from the same place. Which is why I combine them as my oeuvre. I’m interested in the comic book form. I’m interested in form in general, and seeing how we can expand or contract it. I use mechanisms of the comic book—word bubbles, panels, “cartoon” drawing, humor, etc.—but my work is not beholden to being a comic strip. It also employs form from poetry. I like to think of art as all informing one another, because they surely do. I’m consumed with the idea of ekphrastic poetry or poetry

about art. It’s not about just writing a poem describing a painting—that’s boring and redundant. It’s more intricate than that: it’s like communing inside another artist’s inspiration—which is a powerful place. And because so much we project onto art is what we create in our own heads, the ekphrastic piece is totally our own—even though it is inspired by other art. It’s taking something, and making another thing out of it. And the two pieces inform and expand one another. How have your experiences from Antioch influenced your creativity, your identity as an artist? My professors at Antioch in the literature department paved the way for me to be the person I am today. I was lucky enough

to have Benjamin Scott Grossberg right off the bat for Creative Writing. Since I was from a family of writers, I was very much under the impression I knew everything, and didn’t need a creative writing

structure and form. I took all of his classes, (some twice!), and all his Renaissance Lit classes, which, for example, finally gave me the chance to fall in love with all those John Donne and Edmund Spencer

“Since I was from a family of writers, I was very much under the impression I knew everything, and didn’t need a creative writing class. I was so wrong, because there was so much I needed to build up and learn on my own, away from my family.” class. I was so wrong, because there was so much I needed to build up and learn on my own, away from my family. Dr. Grossberg taught me so much about reading and talking about poetry, for one thing. Really getting close to text. But also about

poems I could never bring myself to read before. There was also Modern British Lit and Postcolonial Lit classes with Jean Gregorick, whose endless brilliance and scholarliness were intimidating enough to corral me into being a better reader

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and thinker of literature. I had so much support from these two teachers, so much patience. I had come from a very untraditional background in schooling and needed closer attention with the rigors of academics. They gave me that. I had so many opportunities to grow as a person in those wonderful, intimate classes. I wouldn’t be where I am today without Antioch. The small classes, the thoughtful teachers, the energy of the students—it was a very creative environment and allowed me a lot of space to create and build on my talents. What are you working on now? I work a lot on The Ruth Stone Foundation that I started a few years ago in honor of my grandmother. We’re really laying the groundwork for our future programing and residencies. It would be a perfect co-op! My first full-length book of poetry comics is coming out in early 2016, so I have been wildly working on assembling that, figuring out structure, etc. since everything is somewhat fragmented. It’s a lot of fun putting it together. Do you have any words of wisdom for Antiochians pursuing an artistic career? You have to be humble at times, and listen to other people. And you also have to have total faith in your art. It’s important to put yourself out there, to be vulnerable, to try new things. Don’t worry about publishing right away. Focus more on being a better artist/writer. Worry about building a community of like-minded people around you. Start things together. Support each other. Because it creates a cycle of positive returns. Make as much time for creativity as you can.

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Inside-Out:

Applied Cultural Anthropology Takes Shape at Antioch By Kateri Kosta

What if experiential learning at Antioch meant leaving the classroom behind entirely for a quarter? What if students explored ideas about race, gender and citizenship sitting next to students whose contextual experience of the rules of power, privilege and access to the rights and obligations of citizenship have shifted by design? On their first day of class, students in Emily Steinmetz’s Inside Out: Race, Gender and Citizenship course started their spring quarter learning to navigate security at the Dayton Correctional Institution (DCI), leaving behind their phones, wallets, bags, and all of their belongings except for class materials and a photo ID. They moved through a metal detector, signed the visitor’s log, and traveled through two sally ports to the visitation room. There they—students from the “outside"—joined incarcerated women from the “inside.” An Inside-Out course brings together college students and incarcerated people to engage and learn as peers. Steinmetz, assistant professor of cultural anthropology, led the class in a

unique interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of citizenship, paying particular attention to the ways that race and gender shape people’s access to the rights, and to the protections conferred by citizen status. Steinmetz was certified by the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program in 2013 while she was working at American University in Washington, D.C. It was a comprehensive 60-hour intensive training program that offered guidance and parameters around curriculum development, institutional relationships, group dynamics and interactive pedagogical approaches. But when she tried to launch the program at American University, she hit a number of institutional roadblocks and wasn’t able to get it off the ground. “Interestingly, though Antioch has fewer resources than American University—which isn’t a surprise considering the difference in number of students who attend—it was actually much easier to start the program here,” said Steinmetz.

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When Steinmetz interviewed for her position on the faculty, she was asked about courses that she would like to bring to campus. One of them was the InsideOut course, which she believed would be an excellent fit given Antioch’s commitment to experiential education. “It is important that we can hire faculty with an appreciation for integrating experiential learning in the classroom from the outset,” said Lori Collins-Hall, vice president of academic affairs. Introducing a new course is subject to a process of approvals. Steinmetz’s formal proposal for the Inside-Out course addressed issues like educational requirements and potential risks and legal liabilities of holding class in a prison setting. She submitted it to Collins-Hall, who offered feedback. Then, since it was a special topics course, it went on to senior leadership for final approval to ensure that the course, like all of Antioch’s offerings, fit the philosophy of the curriculum

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and anticipated appropriate learning outcomes. Ultimately, Steinmetz got the go-ahead to run a pilot course. “The most difficult part of the process, was finding a prison that was ready to partner with us. DCI came through at the final hour before the course started," said Steinmetz. The class culminated in two final projects. The first, an autoethnography, in which students connected their own lived experiences with the theories, concepts, and accounts they encountered in readings and discussions. The second, an actionbased group project, where inside and outside students collaborated to research and address a relevant issue. Groups probed topics such as better prison orientation, improving access to the prisoners’ rights and responsibilities handbook, linguistic and disability accessibility in prisons, mandatory minimum sentencing laws, prison food and education opportunities, gendered disparities in pay and work opportunities for incarcerated people, and

challenges around finding employment after release. Several groups actually presented proposals for change to prison administrators. The group that examined prison orientation created an informative brochure that DCI then agreed to distribute to new inmates. An “inside” student conducted a small, qualitative research study with women incarcerated at DCI about the food service. And the group studying mandatory minimums launched a letter writing campaign and sent copies of letters signed by Antioch community members and incarcerated people to elected officials. Another “inside” student wrote a letter about the criminal justice system that was published in The Record, the College’s student newspaper. That same quarter, Steinmetz also offered two independent study options—“Current Issues in Criminal Justice” and “Disability, Race and Total Institutions”—to em-

power students to do their own research and action-based projects. “I think it’s important that we give students an opportunity to earn credit when they engage with action-based projects around social responsibility and activism. And I love the level of mentoring that I have been able to provide to students here at Antioch,” said Steinmetz. Students in the Current Issues class collaborated with the Prison Justice Independent Group and others on campus to

“The work that went into the Prison Justice and Disabilities Series definitely made me feel more connected to different facets of Antioch, Yellow Springs, and Ohio that I had yet to explore. Also, working with faculty, students and others in the Yellow Springs community who are passionate about current issues in criminal justice was truly amazing,” said Charlotte Blair ’16.

has since become a recurring initiative. Blair said, “We created lesson plans every week—a mixture of discussion of readings and writing prompts—and eventually made a zine which included poems, drawings, writing exercises, stories, and spoken word pieces. Little did we know, we ended up learning so much more from those women than they probably did from us,” said Garbos.

As part of her independent study, Blair, with Sophia Garbos '16 and Charlotte Pu-

The cultural anthropology program at Antioch investigates a broad spectrum of attributes such as language, religion, politics, ethnicity, gender and media that inform human existence. “I would call it applied cultural anthropology,” said Steinmetz, “and it’s an excellent framework for using experiential learning to reflect on students' own cultural practice while deepening awareness and understanding of cross-cultural diversity. It’s a platform for meaningful engagement with the world, both here at Antioch, and after graduation.”

“The work that went into the Prison Justice and Disabilities Series definitely made me feel more connected to different facets of Antioch, Yellow Springs, and Ohio that I had yet to explore.” present a widely-attended Prison Justice and Disabilities Series. The series included film screenings, a teach-in, and special speakers.

litzer ’16 (and Trinica Sampson ’16 who wasn't enrolled in the class, as well as community member Cathy Roma) created a reading and writing group at DCI that

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One Sustainable Bite at a Time: Antioch College and The Real Food Challenge By Brennan Burks

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“There is a real vulnerability to access to food, a vulnerability to climate change, and what we need most, in terms of food production and environmental sustainability...” —Kat Christen If you’ve been to campus in the last couple of years, have you toured the Farm, walking among the thyme and tomato plants, watching the chickens and ducks mull about? Have you had the occasion to join students and faculty in the North dining hall for invigorating conversation and a mindfully prepared meal with ingredients harvested from the Antioch Farm and other small, local food producers? Whatever you have heard or had the chance to experience, under the guidance of Food Services Coordinator Isaac Delamatre and his staff, food has become an integral part of Antioch's culture— a thoughtful process connected to the College's committment to sustainable living. In May, President Mark Roosevelt, College staff and students signed the Real Food Challenge (RFC). The RFC's primary goal is to shift $1 billion nationally of existing university food budgets away from industrial farms and over-processed “junk” food towards more local, ecologically sound and humane food sources by 2020. It’s a move toward what the RFC identifies as “real food.”Leveraging the power of youth and college food systems to develop a more healthy, fair and ecologically sound approach on campuses, the RFC and Antioch see the endeavor as not just a path toward better food in dining halls, but as a mission for social progress. For Antioch, this mission starts with the Farm. 28 percent of the College’s food comes from the farm, just 500 feet away from campus dining facilities. In accordance with the RFC’s guidelines, Antioch uses 56 percent real food, placing the College second in the nation in terms of real food consumption. Only Sterling College in Vermont ranks higher at 74 percent. But the foundation for this daily model of farm-to-table is proximal to the community’s sense of social responsibility, as much as it is to fertile space. “This is already a community of people who accept the idea that change needs to happen,” says Farm Manager Kat Christen, “and what the students and staff do here every day is action that’s tangible.” Christen says that students learn in a laboratorylike setting, developing skills to manage projects, support social initiatives, work with people and be part of a complete food production and consumption process. For Christen, it’s more than putting good food on students plates: “There is a real vulnerability to access to food, a vulnerability to climate change, and what we need

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most, in terms of food production and environmental sustainability—and what we’re doing here is pursuing models of resilient farming.” The solutions? At Antioch, thinking about how we produce what we eat and considering how best to support small farmers at a regional level rather than large corporations. A short walk from the Farm takes you to Antioch Kitchens. Typically three meals per day are served in Birch and North Halls, where theories and aspirations become delicious and healthful sustenance for the campus community. “I’ve worked in food professionally, talked to other chefs and organizers at other schools, and this, what we’ve built here, just doesn’t exist there,” Isaac Delamatre, food services manager, says of his work at Antioch. It’s truly a community effort. Six full-time cooks and nearly 30 student

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workers operate with a mission to feed and to engage with social issues around food. “Our political game at Antioch is one that’s conducive to producing the right type of food the right way,” Delamatre continues. According to Delamatre, food is central in the effort to economically empower local producers—the people in the Antioch and Yellow Springs community. Outside of the food produced at the Farm, 13 of the 14 food suppliers that the College partners with are within 30 miles of campus. (One of the qualifiers that the RFC uses to define “real food” is that suppliers be located within 150 miles.) Sara Brooks ’15, who graduated this summer with a degree in philosophy, has been central to developing sustainable food systems at Antioch. In fact, as a driving force behind Antioch signing onto the Real Food Challenge, she looks forward

to what it can reveal and what can then be learned from the assessment of college food practices. She’s always been looking for ways to get better, to be more effective: “When I started in 2011, before Isaac was hired, (student meals) were being catered and I was asked to design a plan for washing dishes. We were dealing with the basics and had a lot to build.” And build they have. After remodeling the kitchens, hiring staff, developing menus and relationships with food producers from the ground up, Brooks and Delamatre began to reflect on their progress. The RFC offered both a microphone for Antioch’s food progress and a tool to calculate the variables of what is cooked and where it’s sourced: “It’s an opportunity to self-assess and move forward,” Brooks says. For example, when we saw our coffee sourcing on a chart, we knew immediately that was an area to improve, a food goal to set.”

As for the larger impact of the RFC, Brooks says that the students and institutions supporting the Real Food Challenge might not see a complete, national overhaul of food production systems: “We’ll always have those big corporations that grab the low hanging fruit, get their stamp of sustainability, earn more profit and call it a day.” But there already are “instances of change,” she says, “of students and people learning how to do activism around food, enabling them to make differences in their own lives.” And isn’t this how a grass roots movement really takes hold? In the choices we make each day? Through the RFC, Antioch and other colleges are showing that making tangible and measurable changes in the way food and dining budgets are conceptualized can work.

Photo Credit: Carly Short

Through the Real Food Campus Challenge, Antioch College will: »» Commit to serving over 60% Real Food by 2020; »»

Purchase more local foods, buy only single or direct source coffee, and continue the development of the campus farm;

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Institutionalize a Real Food Calculator to be run by the College’s assistant food service coordinator, a paid, student position;

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Establish a Food Systems Working Group—in Antioch’s case, an already established group called the Antioch College Food Committee (ACFC). This committee has open membership, and is facilitated by the assistant food service coordinator. Members include kitchen staff, students, faculty and general Antioch staff, as well as community members from Yellow Springs who are engaged with food issues and activism;

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“Long before sustainability became a popular word, Leo defined it in action: he harvested trees in his forests, one at a time, never clear cutting and always limited in number and distribution so the trees could reproduce as fast as they were harvested.” —Al Denman

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Remembering Leo Drey ’39 By Matt Desjardins

Though it may not always seem to be the case, the world is filled with good people, hard workers, philanthropists, patriots, visionaries, and even heroes. Many men and women have been described as courageous, humble, and loyal. However, it’s rare to find all of these things in one man. Antioch College alumnus Leo Drey ’39 was that rarity.

He set out buying old Missouri timberland—battered and neglected forests—and restored them. He conserved the land, nurtured it, and selectively sold timber practicing a conservation technique called individual-tree selection. And, even as he harvested select trees, thinning parts of the forests, the land blossomed.

The Antioch community lost one of its true heroes on May 26 when Drey passed away at his home in the University City neighborhood of St. Louis. He was 98.

Said former Antioch College Pastor and faculty member Al Denman, “Long before sustainability became a popular word, Leo defined it in action: he harvested trees in his forests, one at a time, never clear cutting and always limited in number and distribution so the trees could reproduce as fast as they were harvested.”

Drey and his wife Kay—both honorary Trustees of the College since 2008—have been the largest benefactors of Antioch College over the years. Drey is survived by Kay and three children, each of them graduates of Antioch College. Drey lived an exceptional life. A product of Clayton, Missouri, he grew up frolicking through the Ozarks, falling in love with the outdoors. He graduated from Antioch at the onset of World War II and served in the U.S. Army for five years. Following his service, he came back to St. Louis, realizing that the Missouri forests were again calling his name. He went into business on his own, blending conservation with the timber business, a combination unique at the time. It was 1950.

Working alone out of a small office in downtown St. Louis Drey's business multiplied. He lived in a modest house with his family. Few people knew that he was the largest landowner in the state of Missouri. He had purchased what was then the nation’s largest private hardwood forest—Missouri’s Pioneer Forest. In July 2004, Leo and Kay donated 146,000 acres of Ozark forest—an area the size of Chicago—to their L-A-D Foundation to ensure that these acres would never be razed and would remain open to the public for recreational activities for generations to come. THE ANTIOCHIAN: FALL 2015

Leo Drey Photo Credit: L-A-D Foundation

Drey held the College in his heart long after graduation. He served for years on the Board of Trustees and, it’s not hyperbole to say, without his financial commitment to Antioch over several decades, the College would no longer exist. Routinely and humbly he reached into his pockets and saved the school. He contributed greatly to the College Revival Fund and other efforts to re-start Antioch, but also erased debt over the years prior to closure. In total, Leo and Kay Drey donated more than $22 million to Antioch. It’s a staggering number, but Leo, while generous in his

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philanthropy, never sought recognition or personal gain. Said Rick Daily ’68, “Leo and Kay saved the College. They made it possible for the revival effort to get off the ground. Without them, none of this would be possible.” The Antioch College community celebrates the life of Leo Drey. His generosity and leadership were unparalleled, but what cannot be replaced is his glowing spirit and rock-solid character. He was a man of great integrity, a doer and thinker in the finest Antioch tradition.

He took Antioch founder Horace Mann at his word, sought victories for humanity and went out and won them.

Photo Credit: Lukas Kรถller

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150 Years Later:

Antioch College, the Civil War and Marion Ross By Scott Sanders

It is little surprise that the Civil War, as it tore apart the country, was extremely disruptive to Antioch College. In 1859, the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first president Horace Mann died in office and in 1863 Antioch was closed for the remainder of the war. It was a tumultuous time and many men and women from Antioch served in the Union Army or supported federal war efforts. But of all those who participated in the war, there is no greater story of an Antiochian in the Civil War than the exploits of Marion Ross of Christiansburg, Ohio. Ross enrolled in the Antioch Preparatory Academy (a feeder school to the College) in 1853. He had to leave school in 1855 but returned in 1859. Active in the Antioch Musical Association, he became its librarian in 1859 and its president in 1860. He is said to be the first Antioch student to enlist in the war effort.

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Ross joined the 2nd Ohio Volunteers and was promoted to Sergeant Major by the end of 1861. In 1862 his unit was under Maj. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel, commanding Federal troops in middle Tennessee. Mitchel planned an elaborate campaign to capture Huntsville, Ala., and especially Chattanooga, Tenn., a strategic rail and water transportation center. However, Chattanoogaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural water and mountain barriers to the east and south made encirclement likely unless they could block railroad reinforcement from Atlanta. James J. Andrews, a civilian scout and part-time spy, proposed a daring raid aimed at destroying the Western and Atlantic Railroad link to Chattanooga, thereby isolating the city from Atlanta. He recruited 22 volunteer Union soldiers including Ross, from three Ohio regi-

ments. On the morning of April 12, 1862, a passenger train with a locomotive named The General stopped at Big Shanty, Ga. so the crew and passengers could have breakfast. Andrews and his raiders took this opportunity to hijack The General and a few rail cars. His goal was to drive the train north toward Chattanooga to meet up with Mitchel's advancing army. The raiders chose to make their move at Big Shanty station because it had no telegraph. Along the way, Andrews planned to stop and tear up track, sabotage switches, burn covered bridges, and send false telegraph messages. The raiders steamed out of Big Shanty, leaving behind startled passengers, crewmembers, and onlookers, which included a number of Confederate soldiers from a trackside camp. The train's conductor, William Allen Fuller, and two other men, chased the stolen

train, first on foot, then by handcar, and since Andrews intended to stop periodically for sabotage, he would never be far behind. The raiders never got far ahead of Fuller during this time for a variety of reasons. First, the destruction of the railway behind the hijacked train was a slow process. Second, the raiders had stolen a regularly scheduled train on its route, and they needed to keep to the train's timetable. Even if they reached a siding ahead of time, they would have to wait until scheduled southbound trains passed them, before they could continue north. All the time, Fuller was gaining on them. The Texas train crew had been bluffed by Andrews into taking the station siding, thereby allowing The General to continue northward along the single-track mainline. As Andrews' party had cut the telegraph lines, all train crews, station masters, and railroad management to the north had no idea that The General had been captured by the enemy. Fuller, now in command of The Texas, picked up 11 Confederate troops at Calhoun. With The Texas chasing The Generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tender (coal car), the two trains steamed through Dalton, Ga. and Tunnel Hill, Ga. The raiders continued to sever the telegraph wires at points to prevent transmissions from going through to Chattanooga, but they were unable to burn bridges or dynamite Tunnel Hill. The wood they had hoped to burn on the tracks to destroy the pass was soaked by rain, although they did set one of the wooden boxcars on fire and leave it on a bridge in the hope that the blaze would spread to the structure. Finally, north of Ringgold, Ga. just a few miles from Chattanooga, with the locomotive out of fuel, Andrewsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; men abandoned The General and scattered. Andrews and all of his men, including Ross, were caught and imprisoned.

Marion Ross Photo Credit: Antiochiana

Ross and six others were executed outside Atlanta in June. Just days later, Congress approved a new military distinction, the Medal of Honor. In 1863, during a debriefing of the last six members of the raid (returned in a prisoner exchange), the Secretary of War awarded them the Medal of Honor citation on the spot. The rest would soon receive theirs, Ross and four others posthumously.

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A Tale of Two Writers By Matt Desjardins

THE EDITOR: BOB FOGARTY The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Virginia Quarterly. All are well-respected liter-

Bob Fogerty Photo Credit: Whitney Saleski

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ary magazines that annually compete for a prestigious PEN National Magazine Award. Add to that list The Antioch Review, which has been nominated for four of the last six awards. Edited on the second floor of Olive Kettering Library, it’s an Antioch institution brought to life since 1977 by Bob Fogarty. Fogarty has been a fixture at Antioch since he came to Yellow Springs from Brooklyn to teach history (he’s an expert in Utopian communities and has authored eight books). He’s now retired from teaching, but still dutifully comes to campus each day to read and edit. A lifelong lover of the written word, Fogarty fell into editing The Review with some Antioch colleagues and has not looked back. While The Review has evolved from being a political magazine to a literary magazine, in Fogarty’s words, “it has never been the type of publication you’d find in your dentist’s office.” It has, however, been the type of magazine that you could always track down. Over the years, including during the College’s closure, Fogarty

has never neglected to put out an issue. So how does this master editor do it? It starts with knowing the intricate ins and outs of the writing process. And while he loves to read, it’s much more than sitting in his armchair turning pages. Fogarty is able to experience submitted material and quickly realize if the author has “the ability to make you turn the page.” Does the writer use jargon? Do they avoid clichés and respect the intelligence of the reader? Call something “iconic” or use the term “going forward” and a writer will quickly find herself searching for a new vehicle for their piece. Instead, Fogarty is looking for the writer to surprise him through a clever turn of a phrase or sublime peripeteia. Fogarty says The Review receives over 3,000 essays and short stories each year, along with countless poetry submissions. He has a team of 10 volunteer readers—a group whose ages range from the late 20s to 70s. The only requirement is that they must take an active interest in reading. Fogarty alone reads 500 non-fiction sub-

missions annually. By the end of the process The Review publishes one-half of one percent of submitted works. Combined with 16 pages of poems screened by poetry editor Judith Hall and a column on continental poetry by Paris-based John Taylor, the quarterly issues come together. This summer, Fogarty put out the annual "all-fiction" issue, which is intended to be “light summer reading.” It’s all part of Fogarty’s plan to surprise readers and never be boring. Variety is the key with the tone set by whimsical covers done by David Battle. The fall issue explores the future of museums and their place in the evolving cultural landscape. As Antioch continues to evolve, Fogarty’s steady hand at the helm of The Antioch Review has been consistent, and considering its growing readership, as captivating as ever.

THE NOVELIST: MITCH GOTH Major in Literature at Antioch and you will be forced to read books and write about them. It’s not mandatory to write books yourself. Someone should tell this to Class of 2017 student Mitch Goth. Goth, 20, has authored over 10 novels and novellas at Antioch while self-publishing 17 works via sites like Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords. Growing up in Jamesville, Wis. Goth always knew he wanted to be a writer. When he was 14 he wrote his first novel-length story about a hostage situation and quickly found his niche. When it was time to go to college, he chose Antioch because he wanted a small school and the freedom to put pen to paper about topics that interested him. Goth is also an avid ghost hunter and the historic campus offers plenty of spaces for him to pursue his hobby (Goth recommends staying away from SontagFels if you don’t share his interest in the

paranormal). In high school he wrote a novel-length ghost hunter story, but now does not write much on the topic. Says Goth, “The real version of ghost hunting just isn’t as interesting as the Hollywood version, and I want what I write to be authentic.” But, Goth elaborates, “If you want to write, write. And, write what you want to write. If you want to be read, write what gets read.” Goth, has in his time at Antioch, taught himself to take an idea and tinker with it so that it’s accessible to a mainstream audience. Many of his books are written with a modern young adult (commonly known as YA) audience in mind. And he dares to be different, which means no more vampire stories. According to Goth, the market is saturated.

his online accounts. Says Goth, “You can’t just be a writer when it comes to online publishing; you have to be every step of the process.” Goth intends to keep writing and selfpublishing while he’s at Antioch. After graduation he hopes to eventually support himself as a professional writer, but recognizes that he may have to take on other jobs to pay the bills. It’s a good thing he spent his first co-op as a copywriter. In just two Antioch co-ops he has a working resume and over 180,000 words in the bank.

He is currently working on a thriller that is set in a large paintball arena in the California desert. The arena is the size of a city and enthusiasts are invited to test out their skills only to find out that they must shoot themselves out of the arena not with paintballs, but with real bullets. Part The Running Man and part Hunger Games, Goth promises that it will be exciting and true to his evolving style. Goth honed this style on his second co-op at Antioch when he persuaded the faculty to let him write full-time—an experience he credits to greatly improving the quality of his writing. While “self-employed” he wrote 20,000 words a week on average, with 183,000 words completed during the quarter. He had promised the co-op faculty 150,000. Instead he wrote three novels, self-publishing two. Self-publishing has also taught Goth a good deal about the publishing industry. He says he spends 20 percent of his time writing a book and 80 percent editing, formatting, marketing and managing

Mitch Goth Photo Credit: Whitney Saleski

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Rise Above:

A Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eye View of Campus North Hall with Solar Panels

McGregor Hall with the Olive Kettering Library and the Wellness Center

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The Wellness Center

THE ANTIOCHIAN: FALL 2015 Main Hall from above the Horseshoe

CLASS NOTES 1940S

miles north on Lake Michigan. They read The

architecture. He is a Fellow of Canadian and

Helen Hawthorne ’47 recently moved to a retire-

Yellow Springs News avidly! Antioch College is

American Societies of landscape architecture

ment community in Lake Barrington, Illinois.

their lodestar.

and recipient of many professional academic

Her e-mail address remains the same.

1960S

and community awards.

1950S

Rascha (Fay Labovitz) Hall ’60, ’62 and Davis

Lewis Hofmann ’62 was at Antioch for three

Stephen Jacobs ’51 is a happily retired profes-

Hall ’60 are spending their retirement travel-

years. Two tours in Vietnam and 14 years as

sor emeritus at the Optical Sciences Center at

ing. Last October they voyaged to China for 16

an Air Force pilot delayed his graduation. He

the University of Arizona. His reward was a full

days. In January, they took a 9-day cruise to the

finally got a BS in 1977 after attending seven

professorship, helping Aden Meinel build the

different colleges. Then he got his MBA and

Center. Along with Marian Scully, he ran the

DBA and taught decision-making, organiza-

Physics of Quantum Electronic schools and

tion theory and operations management at The

conference for 45 years inventing wavy diffrac-

College of New Jersey for 35 years. Retired, he

tion grating along the way. He still plays tennis

now spends warm months in Colorado with his

doubles six times weekly.

two Irish wolfhounds and the rest of the year in Pennsylvania.

Penny (Hartshorne) Jones ’52 has grown her puppet performances in the last five years from

Ted Goertzel ’64 has collaborated with his son,

5 to 98! In July, her company performed The

Ben Goertzel, to publish a book titled The End

Sorcerer’s Apprentice on a pier in the Hudson

of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on

River. When the music started, three year-old girls jumped up, ran in front of the stage and began to dance while the "puppet apprentice"

Springs for Volunteer Work Project and Reunion.

was trying to deal with "rising puppet water.”

Edward Ifft ’60 is much encouraged by An-

Someone explained that they thought it was a

tioch's remarkable comeback. He retired from

rock concert.

the State Department, but is working there

Constance Ruby Garrett ’54 recently attended the New York City Ballet at the Kennedy Center along with a freshman classmate, and former Tea Room co-waitress, Margaret Dean Vogel Freidman ’54.They have been enjoying each other's company for many years ever since they ran into each other at a flea market. Connie has noticed that class notes lately are missing news from the fifties and therefore urges those of you

part-time. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and teaches the new START treaty to new U.S. inspectors for the Department of Defense. Ed's wife of 44 years, Jeanne, died four years ago following a triple bypass. After a difficult period he married Kristin Koegel, a

Cultural History at Portland State University since 1968 and has no plans to retire. His memoir Getting There: An American Cultural Odyssey, opens with his arrival at Antioch in 1959 and proceeds to describe a series of adventures in academia, politics, journalism and popular culture that seek to infuse reason and social empathy with an appreciation of mystery and creative beauty.

mier of her full length play, Women without

de Montreal after an intellectually rewarding

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David Horowitz ’64 has taught United States

Robin Rice Lichtig ’64 will have the world pre-

Antiochian.

to a Quaker retirement community a couple of

free PDF copies on his website.

last year. Peter Jacobs ’61 has retired from the Université

from their Lincoln Park Village neighborhood

the Brink of Singularity. Antiochians can get

nutritionist in the Department of Agriculture,

who are still "alive and kicking" to write to The

Judy Spock ’59 and Mike Spock ’54 have moved

Mexican Riviera. June found us again in Yellow

and socially stimulating career of 45 years. He was recently inducted in the Royal Canadian

Walls, at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., November 7–December 12. It’s produced by Broads’ World Theatre. She would love to see fellow Antiochians there!

Society of Arts in recognition of his academic

John Redding ’66 is beckoned by warm weather

excellence and innovative practice of landscape

and a one-story house to leave the free state of

Maryland for Palm Harbor, Florida. Friends

Early Years: The Untold Story of Abu Dhabi on

of co-op jobs. His career has spanned ministry,

and acquaintances are welcome. Contact him

the National Geographic Channel in Arabic

business, sales, government and consulting. He

at jredding.in.fl@gmail.com.

this August. Filmed throughout the country,

has two sons, now in their thirties and both in

this 45-minute documentary contrasts five-star

medicine, which he never dabbled in, except as

luxury living with extreme poverty.

a user. He has published two novels.

Contact Allen at aspalt@att.net or Eric Miller

Terry Baum ’69, after sold out runs in San Fran-

Iona Whishaw ’71 has published her first novel,

’81 at emiller@antiochcollege.org if you would

cisco and Berkeley, took her solo play Hick: A

Dead in the Water, set in 1946 in interior Brit-

Allen Spalt ’66 is helping organize our 50th class reunion for September 8–11, 2016. Save the date.

like to get involved.

ish Columbia. She is in the second draft of her second book, a sequel, called One Dead Russian.

Ray Vogel ’66 has been living most happily in

She is also having fun in beautiful “downtown”

Paris, France since 1970. “My former restaurant

Canada. Visit her at www.ionawhishaw.com.

(Le Timbre) that I rent out has been in Le Guide Michelin for the past seven years. I also pur-

Joel Ellinwood ’72 recently accepted the posi-

chased an old stone home in the Haute Vienne

tion as Deputy County Counsel for Humboldt

four years ago. It dates from 1780 and I'm still

County, Calif., where he will be primarily respon-

renovating. Nick and Susan Muska ’65 will be

sible for land use and environmental issues. He

visiting soon. I was best man at their wedding

is now living in Eureka, Calif. on the beautiful

50 years ago.”

Love Story; The Romance of Lorena Hickok and

northern California coast. Friends contact him at jellinwood49@gmail.com.

Rosalie Moore ’68 returned to campus for com-

Eleanor Roosevelt, to the New York Fringe Festi-

mencement 2015. In her new career as an end-

val. She received rave reviews and packed houses

Andy Garrison ’74 had his award-winning doc-

of-life doula, she offers consulting and coaching

and would love to bring Hick to your town. Con-

umentary, Trash Dance, recently rebroadcast

to people who are exploring end-of-life options,

tact her at terry@terrybaum.com.

on PBS.

Megan Rosenfeld ’69 recently drove across the

Janet Goldner ’74 directed KAWRAL, an art-

country to deliver her car and her daughter Mar-

ists' residency for 25 professional Malian visual

tina Spencer to Portland, Ore. where Martina

artists, in Mpti, Mali in 2014. The theme of the

as well as those needing additional support in the last days before death of in the immediate aftermath of a death. E-mail her at rosaliehuntermoore@earthkink.net.

is starting at Lewis and Clark Law School. She

residency was Peace, Reconciliation, and Social

Jim Taft ’68 has been hosting Central Ameri-

reports that the northern part of Ohio is noth-

Cohesion. With their analysis and creativity,

can Caribbean students since retirement. For

ing like Yellow Springs.

the artists added their contribution to Mali's

six bright young woman, four of whom had no or dysfunctional fathers, he is now “Dad.” Rachelle (Haiti) worked a year as an administrative assistant to the Minister of Extreme Poverty. Alejandra (Colombia) is a secretary at a Bogota Radio Station. Stephanie (El Salvador) does international customer relations with a manufacturing company. Marcela (Nicaragua) dispatches for a medical waste facility in Managua. Jay Tuck ’68 just celebrated the broadcasting of his historical documentary feature film, The

Helen Welford ’69 has reconnected with old classmates and met several new ones during volunteer work projects at Antioch. The work

recovery, extending the influence of the artistic and cultural life of Mali through the creation of original works of art.

project gatherings are good fun and deeply sat-

Bradie Speller ’74 began travelling to West Af-

isfying, and she encourages others to come and

rica in 2007, establishing companies in the U.S.,

join the crew! Back at home in Michigan, Helen

Ivory Coast and Ethiopia to provide consulting

lives with her husband Robin Warner and their

services on the development of infrastructure

three cats in a house built inside a large barn.

projects through Pacific Private Partnerships.

1970S

His company CVT Consultancy has partnered

Don Gage ’70 has kept the spirit with a variety

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CLASS NOTES for investment in energy, infrastructure, hous-

40 summers ago was his first year at Antioch. He

Pat Fallon ’80 is a professor in the art depart-

ing, hotels, and technology. Bradie is still record-

graduated and went to NYU where he received

ment and academic core program at Ursuline

ing and performing music in his spare time.

his MFA. He made many friends from his years

College and has just completed an “Artist-in-

at Antioch, and many of them remain in his life

residence” exhibition April to July 2015 at Pen-

today—if you are reading this you know who you

insula Art Academy, in Peninsula, Ohio.

Stephen Arpadi ’75 was in Yellow Springs to celebrate the Class of 2015 and visit with the many alumni gathered to bear witness to the auspicious and deeply moving graduation. He

are. Going to Antioch is one of the best things he has done in his life!

lege students and other co-workers of Dr. Charles

and his wife Terry Marx live in New York City and

Charles Faulkner ’78 is still living in San Fran-

Keeling at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of

are frequently visited by their daughters Adina

cisco and his beloved family home in the Berk-

Oceanography to honor his life's work. Former

and Charlotte. He is a pediatric and adolescent

shires. He can be contacted at CS_faulkner@

Antioch co-ops in attendance were Bob Wheeler

HIV/AIDS specialist at Columbia University.

att.net.

’59, (Scripps ’57), Bill Elfring ’65 (Scripps ’62)

Peter Hobart-Nethercot ’76 and his wife Ellen

Jeffrey Rexford ’78 has been living in the San

Fiss ’76 celebrated the birth of their grandson,

Francisco Bay area doing residential construc-

Kieran, in May 2015. They were also surprised

tion and now interior design. He’s still riding mo-

to see themselves in a photo of “the Stoop” from

torcycles and raising his teenage son in the his-

1975–76 in the spring Antiochian. They remain

toric town of Benicia, Calif. He stays in contact

Barbara Solow ’80 spent years in print journal-

active in the Bay area chapter and hope that the

with Susan Steiny ’78, Russell Nahl ’78, Gerry

ism–most recently as the education reporter for

College has a banner year in 2016. They look

Schwartz ’77, Bruce Finn ’77, Suzie Miller ’77,

the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton,

forward to next year’s reunion!

Reed Kotler ’77 and a few others on Facebook.

Mass. She has a new job writing for the online

Antioch friends for life: “One day at a time!”

news site at Smith College. She's been covering

tries since graduation: publishing, advertising

1980S

stories about model teaching in the sciences,

and high-end residential real estate. She earned

Jeanne Badman ’80 has, with other alums, done

Ellen Celnik ’77 has worked in various indus-

an MSW from NYU in 1992 and has worked in

Doug Wilkening ’72 (Scripps ’69) and Mark (Scripps ’76). Keeling’s son, Ralph, would love to get in touch with Antiochians who were unable to attend.

Smith's extensive women's history archives and much more. She’s also seeing her son off to college this fall!

supportive housing initiatives for the last 23 years. She has been the Director of Housing

Doug Kohn ’81 relocated to New York a year

and Program Services at the Actor’s Fund of

ago, and is now leading a congregation in Rock-

America for the past 17 years. Ellen married her

land County and living in Nyack with his fian-

partner of over 25 years in August 2013 and lives

cée, Susan Wertheim. He traveled to England,

in Manhattan with their cats and dogs.

France, St. Maarten and Canada last year. This year he intends to travel to Israel, Japan, Korea

Marc Mason ’77 is the Business Development

and Singapore.

Director at Rosemont Analytical. His final Antioch co-op job at YSI led to full time employment there after graduation. After 18 years at YSI Marc had the opportunity to expand his career, moving first to Boston to work for Mettler Toledo and then to Florida for a position with WTW. Will Badgett ‘78 is finding it hard to believe that

Mark Langan ’80 joined former Antioch Col-

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it again! In July she joined a “Gathering” way down east in Maine hosted by Tom Augliere ’81 and Emilie Wheat ’82, Mark Peterson ’78, Liz Granirer ’80, Jodi Solomon ’80, Susan Coleman ’80, Reva Greenstein ’84, and Anna Vanderlaan ’80. It was three wonderful days of family, friends and dogs, peace, love and Antiochians!

Dan Gediman ’82 is executive director of This, I Believe, Inc., producer of the popular radio series and podcast and co-editor of eight books of This, I Believe essays, including the New York Times bestseller, This, I Believe. His newest radio project is A More Perfect Union: How Do We Make America Better?, which he hopes will

debut Fall 2016 and provide Antioch students

Elissa Olin ’84 still keeps shops and is owner and

the late theater director, Reza Abdoh, which

with co-op opportunities.

founder of “Gteen in BKLYN,” an eco-friendly

premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New

home goods & gift shop inspired by Horace

York City.

Mary Patierno ’82 and Harriet Hirshorn ’81 just returned from Lagos, Nigeria where they filmed a summer camp for HIV positive teens. PATA (Positive Action for Treatment Access) and the amazing Rolake Odetoyinbo started the camp. Nothing without Us: The Women who will end AIDS, is due for release in early 2016. Bonnie Bazata ’83 is off to a new job in Tucson as the program manager for Pima County’s Ending Poverty Now initiative. She hopes to connect with Antiochians in Tucson.

Mann's dictum, “Be ashamed to die...” She is grateful to be an active part of her neighborhood and community and to help make it easier to live greener on this earth. Grateful too. She is a year out from the discovery and repair of one of two brain aneurysms. Life is good.

initiating, growing and running a STEAM elective at his school. This will be taking the form

portant,” recently published in the Chronicle of

in real reality in 3D space.

cation are becoming ever more routinized,” and for that reason “it’s not surprising that students

Maryland coast. Leah is now a personal fitness trainer, Vinyasa yoga instructor, and a wellness family on the beach.

cisco, will be spending the next part of his career

to use tools, build, model, explore and innovate

norms and assessments that define higher edu-

and Sienna, and their various pets moved to the

of teaching math, science and art in San Fran-

Now to Change Students’ Lives, but No Less Im-

tioch College and his concern that the, “forms,

Service. Her husband Rob, her daughters Romy

coach. When she’s not coaching, she’s with her

of a Maker-Lab—a space where kids can learn

piece focusing on his time as a student at An-

position as Park Ranger from the Maryland Park

Matthew Chapman ’85, after nearly two decades

Steve Herr ’83 had his commentary “It’s Harder

Higher Education. The column is a reflective

Leah Magnone McVicker ’87 retired from her

Mark Greenfield ’86 is the Artistic Director of the Faux-Real Theatre Company, where he is directing Lysistrata at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City this fall. Lynda White ’88 and Jeff Wood ’88 will be working on the show as a

Christopher Nesbitt ’88 continues to try to win victories for humanity in areas of food security, energy poverty and ecosystem repair in Belize. He can be found trolling around Facebook or at his website, www.mmrfbz.org. Elizabeth Hepola Roth ’88 married last November and has added “Roth” to her last name. She has also shifted careers. She is painting full time. She has a studio and also does organic gardening, thanks to Meg Hurley ’86—may her memory be a blessing. She taught me so much

are less engaged.”

in the Antioch garden.

Barbara Dole Acosta ’84 is enjoying being single

C. Lynn (formerly Cheryl) Carr ’89 earned a

again and has a rockin’ new job coordinating

Ph.D. in sociology in 2002 in gender and sexual

a Spanish-English dual language program in

identification. An associate professor and de-

Alexandria, Va. It is refreshing to move from

partment chair at Seton Hall University, in her

15 years in academia back into a school district

forthcoming book, A Year in White: Cultural

where applying research to practice is easier

Newcomers to Lukumi and Santeria, she turns

said than done.

her attention to religious identification.

Karen Ehrlichman ’84 received her D.Min. in Spiritual Direction this spring from Graduate Theological Foundation. Since then she has joined the faculty in the newly minted doctoral

mask maker and musician, respectively. Mark is an adjunct professor of theatre at Fordham University and is writing a screenplay. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Laura and son Jack Allen.

Matthew Derr ’89, former Antioch College Interim President, and Julian Sharp ’08, former Director of Volunteers, offer their heartfelt congratulations to the class of 2015! What an

program in Jewish Spirituality. She is also a

Michael Casselli ’87 was recently hired by his

accomplishment. Antiochians are welcome to

core faculty member in the Morei Drekh Jewish

alma mater in the tenure track position of As-

visit Matthew and Julian at their home in Ver-

spiritual direction training program.

sistant Professor of Sculpture and Installation.

mont. Matthew is starting his fourth year as

He also appeared in a documentary film about

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CLASS NOTES moved to the Memphis, Tenn. area. David is

tor of a rural clinic system in New Mexico. Her

working in IT security and risk at First Ten-

time at Antioch certainly influenced her desire

nessee Bank. Tina is taking time out to focus on

to enter the world of Wild West medicine. As a

nurturing their 9-year-old, artwork and inner

fledgling co-op student, she found herself petri-

work. If other Antiochians are living/working

fied at the thought of setting up a job and going

in the Memphis Metro area, Tina and David

to a new city where she knew no one. By the end

would love to hear from you.

of her time at Antioch, she had truly developed the third month itch.

begin a MDiv at Pacific School of Religion in

Doug Blanc ’91 now lives in Oakland, Calif. with

Berkeley in September.

his partner Jillian and their miniature poodle,

Malika Evans ’95 founded Buon Gusto, LLC in

Jolie. He teaches massage, qi gong and medita-

2009 (buongustomarket.com), which imports

tion. He is also an artist at American Steel Stu-

and distributes Sardinian products, including

dios and has shown his paintings at a number

pecorino cheese and olive oil. Fall 2014, she

of venues around the Bay Area. He continues to

moved her children to Sardinia, Italy to learn

build on his impressive collection of LEGOS, and

their father's culture. While there, assisted by

he hopes one day to have his own Alpaca farm.

co-op student, Leo Brandon ’17, she founded

Michael Glavin ’89 lives in Chicago and, having received his Marriage and Family Therapy License, works as a psychotherapist. He recently opened a counseling center, the “Center for Relational Transformation,” founded on the values of compassion, connection and creativity. Michael is happily married to the amazing Pegeen and

Colin Donohue ’92 changed careers in 2015 and

they have two little radicals, Ronan, 6 and De-

started a marketing consultancy for small and

Clan, 2.Visit him at www.michaelwglavin.com.

medium sized business, Root Deeper Market-

Jay Ruby ’89 directs and performs with The Carpetbag Brigade, an itinerant performance

Georgia, where Anna is from, to live for a while.

in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with their two cats.

stilts, butoh dance, contact improvisation and

rently in their 18th year of marriage and 27th

physical theater throughout the Americas. The

year of a friendship that began their first year

company is known for its stunning aesthetics,

at Antioch College. They’re raising two beauti-

open-air performance work, cross-cultural ex-

ful girls in Inglewood, Calif., while keeping up

changes, community residencies and high de-

with busy careers. Nina, an associate professor

gree of physical conditioning.

at UCLA and Charles Drew University, studies

Arts Council of San Bernardino County, Ca-

industry. Emily Elliot Casey ’96 continues to enjoy life

Douglass and Nina Harawa Fischer ’92 are cur-

gram Coordinator for Arts Connection, The

nization in the education and adventure travel

ing. He and his wife plan to go the Republic of

company practicing a unique mix of acrobatic

Danielle Giudici Wallis ’89 was appointed Pro-

AIO (aiosardinia.org). AIO is a non-profit orga-

Emily is very excited to open her first restaurant, which will be called Bourbon Springs, after the fishing camp her family shared with friends back home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Bourbon Springs will feature Southern cuisine, with a special emphasis on the Cajun and Creole cuisine of New Orleans.

behavioral health and HIV. Doug is the editor

Bianca (Beatrix) Pettis ’96 and her husband

of the website for The Ring Magazine and an

formed the sound art duo Beatrix*JAR in 2003.

occasional boxing broadcaster.

Together they have toured the country spreading the good word of DIY electronics with hands-on

lif. in January of 2015. She continues her stu-

Christopher "Moose" Drayson ’93 was mar-

dio practice between grant writing and raising

ried in 2008, and after nearly 20 years in social

kids. Her most recent work was “Happenings,”

services in the San Francisco area, he is now

an exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum in

the Director of Applications for a cat rescue

Riverside, Calif.

organization based in Oakland, Calif. He also

Alison Stankrauff ’96 continues to appreciate

1990S

continues to tell really bad puns!

and support the firm foundation that Antioch

David and Tina Powis-Dow ’90 and ’89 have

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April Dobroth ’94 has been on an adventurous path. She now finds herself as the medical direc-

circuit-bending workshops and performances featured mostly at museums, libraries and universities across the country.

College gave her. As archivist at Indiana University South Bend, she recently received a second

of Students at the University of Illinois. What

Mass., which recently sold out a run of Marisa

goes around comes around, “L’chaim”.

Smith’s Saving Kitty starring Jennifer Coolidge.

Ed Koziarski ’97 welcomed with his wife Junko their first child, Hatoru Kajino Koziarski, last December. From 2011 to 2014, Ed and Junko filmed the feature-length documentary UN-

year of funding, partnering with the local public library to digitize local African American, Latino

lecturer” by her students. She has accepted a

food on land contaminated by nuclear fallout

post-doctoral position as the Simons Research

from the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi

Fellow on International Law and Human Security

power plant.

at the School for International Studies at Simon

board member of Reel Girls, a media literacy

and gardening in the Bronx. She founded and coordinates an annual student art show that

organization in Seattle. Earning her MSWfrom the University of Washington in 2007, Adrienne

ism and migrant/refugee media. Rani Crowe ’01 created a short film, Texting:

in Seattle and Minneapolis.

circle rounds. It has been accepted as an official

San Francisco, despite it becoming more unaf-

table restaurant, The Indian Road Café.

fordable. Erik currently works as Development

taught middle school American History for 13

and is continuing research on Romani journal-

A Love Story, that’s been making the festival

Nicole and Jason own and operate the farm -to-

House, a shelter for homeless youth for five years,

intersections of journalism and human rights

through her work with homeless individuals

Erik Stankrauff ’98 continues to hold on in

life since graduating. He worked at Covenant

Fraser University. She continues to work on the

is actively engaged in economic justice work

displays more than 800 original pieces of work.

Courtney Bradshaw ’97 has had an amazing

miere adaptation of Alan Lightman’s Mr. G. Shayna Plaut ’00 was voted “most eye-opening

site, michianamemory.sjcol.org.

resides in New York City where she teaches art

George Brandt's Grounded and the world pre-

Japan, fighting to continue growing organic

Adrienne Wiley-Thomas ’97 served as founding

and has a daughter named Clementine. Nicole

New York Times critics staging of Saint Joan,

CANNY TERRAIN, about farmers in Fukushima,

and LGBTQ history into the Michiana Memory

Nicole Zernone ’96 is married to Jason Minter

This follows a winter presentation of Bedlam’s

Manager at Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC), which works to facilitate health cooperation between the United States and Cuba. He continues to be very involved in

selection of the 2015 College Town Film Festival. It has also been accepted to the Maryland International Film festival, the Toronto short film festival, the Sanford International Film festival. the Athens Film and Video Festival, the HA! Fest International Comedy short film festival, and others around the world.

anti-racism work, immigrant rights, LGBTQ

Michael Bare ’02 is Program Manager and Policy

issues, and international solidarity issues.

Analyst for Preemption Watch, a program for

est time doing it. He married, divorced and is

2000S

public health preemption legislation monitor-

currently in an amazing relationship with the

Laura Campagna ’00 is the Project Coordina-

love of his life. He had his first child, Angelina,

tor for a global reproductive health study in

on March 29, 2015.

the Department of Global Health and Popula-

years and is currently teaching global history. Last year he taught sociology and had the great-

Amy Killoran-Thomson ’97, after a decade as an academic librarian, went back to school to pursue a career in student affairs. Inspired in no small means by the trainwreck aspects of her late teens to early twenties, Amy studied College

tion at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public

ing, tracking and analysis. Michael has also recently published about LGBT health, diplomacy and international programs for Public Diplomacy Magazine. Michael lives in San Francisco.

Health. Prior to joining the team she taught

Greg Day ’03, since graduating Antioch, has

topics in critical race studies and gender and

received a law degree from the University of

sexuality in the Global Studies Department at

North Carolina and a Ph.D from the University

Prescott College.

of Mississippi. He practiced law at a corporate

Student Services Administration at Oregon State

Nicholas Peterson ’00 is the Director of Mar-

University. Amy is now serving as Assistant Dean

keting at Central Square Theater in Cambridge,

law firm before entering academia. Greg is currently an assistant professor at the Oklahoma

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CLASS NOTES State University Spears School of Business, where he primarily researches the economics of, and market for, business human rights.

Jami Thanos ’04 has lived in Portland, Ore. since 2004 (with the exception of a three year

Adam Farrell-Wortman ’03 started a new job

love affair with New Orleans). When she isn't

in November as a gardener at the University

working in the jail helping mentally ill folks

of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also serving as

transition back into the community, she can be

committee chair for the Ragle Heights Organic

found wondering around the forest, dipping her

Community Gardens. His wife, Laura, just re-

toes in a river, backyard gardening, or cooking

ceived a Dissertation Completion Fellowship at

delicious food. She is also raising a left-leaning

the University in theater studies. Their daugh-

skateboarder, Shiloh, now 12-years-old.

ter Eleanor is a happy and healthy 4-year-old.

Amanda Rodriguez ’04 is continuing her An-

affordable and sustainable housing, where she loves hosting Antioch co-op students. She sings

Alena Schaim ’03 makes New Mexico her home,

tioch family tradition through her youngest

and is the Executive Director and instructor at

sister Angelina ’18, who became the third Ro-

IMPACT, where she teaches skills for violence

driguez woman after Amanda and Allison ’03

prevention. She teaches everything from anti-

to attend Antioch College. After a long struggle

bias work to empowerment-based self-defense

in Amanda’s state of North Carolina for mar-

Tina Mahle ’07 has been a trainer and facilita-

classes and has had the pleasure of hosting a

riage equality, she got engaged this May to her

tor since she graduated in 2007. Recently work-

co-op student. This August, Alena married Jess

sweetheart.

ing for Alameda County Social Services, she is

Clark, who also works in the field and really wishes he had attended Antioch. They have two adorable pit bulls.

Andromeda “Addie” (Evans) Schnirel ’04 lives in Berkeley with her husband Adam Schnirel and two cats, Epsilon and Delta. She is the Director

with a 12-piece horn funk band and lives in Rod Serling's old house with her amazing partner Penny. Come visit!

grateful to incorporate the critical thinking she gained at Antioch into the services and support provided to communities in need. Sadly, she recently divorced her partner of 8 years. She

Raina Daniels ’04 adores the PNW! After years

of the San Francisco Math Circle, a non-profit

coordinating a teen-to-teen crisis hotline, she

organization that brings novel and intriguing

is currently working with homeless youth to

math problems to students in an after school

develop an “app” for Oregon’s statewide 211.

setting. Addie loves “real food,” ballet and writ-

Jeanne Kay ’10 is moving to Durham, North

Thanks to support from Antiochian friends

ing for blogs.

Carolina with her husband, Lawrence, and their

and the DOMA repeal, Raina wed and greencarded a wonderful techie, German-British Perry “Reedie” Eising. They spend summer weekends camping with their new mutt and plan to eat dim sum.

Kelly Lee ’06 left Antioch but Antioch never left her. She’s mistakenly identified as a femithoughts and words spoken that support the learned behaviors of the genders. True to her Antioch nature she has found a love of research

Springs in October 2011 to welcome the first

and reading. Her current career path is in the

class of the renewed Antioch College to campus.

IT world because of her interest in connections.

the College grew and gained stability. She currently teaches To-Shin-Do martial arts classes for the students and looks forward to graduat-

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is missing her Antioch family and would love to hear from you!

pit bull Ginger, to start her LLM at Duke University School of Law.

nist because she challenges the many ingrained

Johanna Kohout ’04 moved back to Yellow

She worked in Residence Life for three years as

ing Antioch black belts very soon.

Emily Seibel ’06 serves as Executive Director of Yellow Springs Home, Inc., a community land trust dedicated to strengthening community and diversity through permanently

Submit Your Class Note Class Notes should be written in the third person and be no longer than 75 words. Submit your note online at alumni.antiochcollege.org.

IN MEMORIAM Roger Millard Husbands 1924–2015

medical institutions navigate the pitfalls of language and culture.

Roger Millard Husbands died in his home in Yellow Springs on May 22, due to complications following lung and pancreatic cancer. He was 74.

At this time he was increasingly engaged with the Bay Area chapter of the Antioch Alumni Association. He was highly involved in the reopening of the College, repeatedly returning to Yellow Springs, bringing his management skills—and his floor-laying skills as a leader of the Volunteer Work Project.

Roger was born on August 7, 1940 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Munroe and Martha Husbands, and grew up in Needham, Mass. He attended Antioch College from 1958-1964, studying mathematics. During college, he married Harriet Odinov, also a student at Antioch. Roger and Harriet moved to Seattle with their infant daughter, where he pursued a career as an actuary. By the early 1970s, Roger had left that position to follow his dreams. Over the next decade, he grew his hair long, divorced, worked in a health food co-op, managed a band and a punk rock club. He raised his kids at the same time during those crazy years. When it became evident that the music business was not his future, he moved back to Boston, Mass., to support his parents in his father’s last years. He spent the next several years building a career as an executive recruiter, and eventually hung

his shingle as Roger Husbands & Company. Over the years his role evolved from recruiter to career advisor and life coach. He continued working with clients in this capacity until the last months of his life. Around the turn of the century, Roger began to actively explore the concept of community. He traveled the country, videotaping organizations and organizers, ultimately moving to Middletown, Calif., where he joined the Harbin community (and got back to his hippie/new age roots). During his time there, he founded Cultural Imperative, dedicated to helping

During his time as an entrepreneur in the Bay Area, Roger had connected with Impact Hub, a community-focused organization that connects and supports entrepreneurs. Roger saw synergies between Antioch/Yellow Springs and Impact Hub, and worked to establish a Hub in Yellow Springs. This triggered his move to Yellow Springs in 2013, making it his final home.

Barbara Louis Hardman 1927–2015 Barbara Louise (Hicks) Hardman, beloved mother and grandmother and dear friend, passed away on July 10. Barbara was born on December 19, 1927, in Portland, Maine, the third of four chil-

Karen L. Adams (staff)

Elizabeth Carpenter ’49

Janet S. Doepel ’46

Arnold L. Green ’54

Gladys E. Addison ’76

Mary L. Cassell ’44

Charles L. Dreillinger ’67

Susan Greene ’77

Nina Janice Arnhols ’74

Marcia S. Claus ’52

John A Dunaway ’44

Evelyn Goodrich Griffin ’42

Frances P. Aulston ’89

Beatrice Chambers ’41

Ina Feidelseit ’77

Patricia Hill Gordon ’64

Katharine Ann Birge ’49

Julia Cocks ’48

Ruth G. Costello Friley

Ray Harphant

William A. Bossert ’46

JoAnne Curry

Bonnie McCrory Fuller ’70

Emmet Hayes ’56

Rosa Bromberg ’48

Donna DeNeeve ’42

Alan P. Gartner ’56

Dawn Coghlan Hediger ’46

Rose Bisdorf Brune ’49

Manuela Dobos ’59

Dr. George L. Gilbert ’58

Joseph Herring ’78

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IN MEMORIAM (Hardman continued from pg. 57)

at several area hospitals while raising her family. She then became the nurse (“Nurse Barb”) for the Antioch College Infirmary in 1977. It was here that she truly found her niche as a caretaker, treating the students as if they were her own kids; baking chocolate chip cookies and making chicken-noodle soup for the ailing or homesick, sometimes even delivering them on roller skates! She retired in 1996, after speaking at the commencement by request of the students. dren for Charles and Dorothy (Doe) Hicks. With a scholarship from New England Deaconess Hospital and Nursing School in Boston, Mass., she earned her degree as a registered nurse. In 1952 she married Harvard medical student Robert P. Hardman. This union produced five children in six years while relocating frequently for Bob’s post-graduate training: David and Lynda were born in Boston, Mass.; Dan was born in Cleveland; Jim in Norfolk, Va., and finally Bill in Denver, Colo. The young Hardman family finally settled in Yellow Springs in 1962. Barbara quickly became very involved in school and community activities. Barb worked

“When I joined Antioch at the beginning of this year as the first nurse the College has seen in over a decade, I quickly learned that the shoes I had stepped into had been filled by incredible women in times past. I heard murmurings of Nurse Barb among friends and acquaintances who grew up in Yellow Springs, and learned of her predecessor, Lady Alice, when I decided to visit Antiochiana to learn more about the history of health services at Antioch. I had emailed Scott Sanders asking for anything he could dig up on the history of the role of nurses and health services in general on campus. When I arrived at Antiochiana he presented me with a folder

of historical documents: a deceptively humble-looking treasure trove. Prominent among those documents were several that had been typed by Nurse Barb herself upon her departure from Antioch in 1996. It was beyond apparent that she was passionate about the health and care of Antioch students. She had made a huge effort to document the history of health services, the procedures of health services, and the ins and outs of the health needs of this unique student population. It is hard to describe how finding these pages written by Nurse Barb touched me in my new role here; to have a mentor that I had never met but that I could completely relate to, someone who understood the specific health needs of the students of Antioch and who worked tirelessly to fulfill as much of those needs as she could. It gives me hope that, if there once was an individual of her caliber representing the nursing profession at Antioch, then there is a place for health services here once more in a way that is innovative, Antiochian, and most importantly, compassionate.” Sincerely, Elise Miller, RN Antioch College Nurse

Mildred Elizabeth Hammond ’47

Walter V. Kron ’51

Lewis R. Marcuson ’51

Maria Pares

Milton Holmes Jr. ’70

Dr. Laurence H. Lang ’51

Pearl B. Mayer ’46

Orus Patterson ’73

William Houston (faculty)

Dr. William Lasersohn ’56

Dorian G. McBride ’73

Rodli J. Pederson ’64

Lorena Hyde ’49

Kenneth W. Laub ’51

Louis R. Michea ’64

Shirley H. Miller Polk ’73

Leonard Jordan ’80

William W. Lawrence ’54

Mary Caroline Waite Nitschke ’57

Patrick G. Power ’95

Lynn Usdane Millard Joseph ’70

Sondra Lynn ’82

David W. Nolf ’69

Beverly Ann Price

Donna Kaiser ’50

Ralph E. Luker (faculty)

Dr. Daniel R. Norton ’44

Fred David Sack ’69

Wendy L. Klodt ’69

James R. Mansfield ’51

Marjorie P. Osborn ’46

Mildred Schell ’47

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Alexander Rich 1924–2015 Alexander Rich, a famed co-op employer and MIT biophysicist best known for his work on the structural biology of RNA and DNA, died April 27 in Boston. He was 90. A pre-eminent researcher in structural

of Science, the highest scientific honor bestowed by the U.S. government. James Watson and Francis Crick first described the right-handed, double helical structure of DNA in 1953. In 1979, Rich led a team of MIT researchers who startled the world of structural biology with the announcement that they had found a “left-handed” form of DNA. The new form, coiled in the shape of a left-handed screw, was called Z-DNA because of its zigzag backbone, but its significance remained a mystery for many years.

Mildred Hammond ’47 1925–2015

molecular biology—a field that seeks to understand the molecular architecture of living organisms—Rich made major contributions to understanding the relationships between the structures and functions of RNA and DNA molecules. In 1995, Rich received the National Medal

Mildred Hammond passed away on May 26 in Alhambra, Calif. Hammond was born in Springfield, Ohio on December 29, 1925 to Thomas A. Keller of Springfield and Dora B. Whitted of Durham, N.C. She graduated second in her class from Springfield High School in 1942 and was recruited by as part of the diversity enrichment program at Antioch College that encouraged African American students to apply.

Anderson, who remained a lifelong friend of the family. The Maid of Honor at their wedding was Coretta Scott, who later became Coretta Scott King. Coretta along with her sister, Edythe Scott, remained lifelong friends of the family. After living in Columbus and Springfield, Ohio and Fort Knox, Ky., as well as several east coast communities, in the summer of 1958, Mildred and Bert moved to California to pursue better job opportunities and a more progressive social environment. Mildred worked as a substitute elementary school teacher for the Claremont School District and was active in her church, Claremont Presbyterian, later becoming a deacon. She and her husband actively participated in the civil rights movement and maintained an interest in issues of social justice throughout their lives. Together, they entertained political leaders and artists from around the world.

Mildred was introduced to Bert, her husband of 50 years by Antioch’s Walter F.

Jon F. Seirup ’81

Kathleen Troy Todd ’48

Janet Cook Wohl ’50

William G. Shannon ’48

Rodney L. Tulonen ’77

Wilma Wolfenstein ’42

Dr. David L. Singer ’51

Dr. John H. Waite ’45

Dr. Cyril Worby ’52

Kendall D. Smith ’77

Mary Kathryn Warther ’49

Richard J. Vaughn ’70

Dr. Robin M. Smith ’68

Russell Moreland Weaver Jr. ’49

Ulrich J. Smith ’98

Leslie Bingham Willams ’56

*Lack of year denotes alumni

Ronald D. Staub

John L. Wright ’59

status without completion of an

William G. Steel ’46

Margaret Brooks Wright ’44

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POSTSCRIPT

History of a Logo The A, or Circle Square Triangle as it was originally known, was created in 1950 by local designers Read Viemeister and Budd Steinhilber. Commissioned by the Board of Trustees to create a new modern logo for the College, they superimposed the shapes over a famous drawing by Da Vinci from 1490 called “Vitruvian Man,” an illustration of the human body inscribed in a circle and a square derived from a passage about geometry and human proportions in the Roman architect Vitruvius’ writings. When it was presented to the Board, they loved everything about it except for the nude figure that appears in the Da Vinci original. Rather than alter anything by Leonardo, the designers erased the human figure, which left the three geometric shapes. While it is symbolic of nothing in particular except for “Antioch,” it does follow the three core “R’s” of good graphic design: read, recognize, remember.

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NOTES FROM CO-OP: FRENCH LANGUAGE IMMERSION TRINICA SAMPSON ’16 For the first three months of her sixmonth language immersion co-op, Trinica Sampson worked with the World Social Forum (WSF) in Montreal, Quebec helping with preparations for the WSF’s Global Forum, slated for August 2016 in Montreal. The Forum will bring together activist individuals and organizations from around the world to discuss alternatives to neo-liberalism, and ways to build a better world for future generations. Sampson was part of the Mobilization Team, responsible for identifying organizations and individuals to help spread the word about the Global Forum, while growing a diverse and inclusive network. Prepared by Antioch’s intensive language program, she used her fluency in French to operate as a translator for WSF, rendering dictated emails from French to English and translating charters, newsletters and letters to be sent to North American anglophone universities and organizations in Montreal.

“Translating these documents was a great way for me to increase my administrative vocabulary in French, and it also lent me a better understanding of the Forum as an event and a process. This has been equally helpful during the Facilitation Collective meetings, which take place entirely in French. These are a great test of my comprehension skills, and while I need to practice much more to be able to keep up with rapid-fire, passionate conversations in French, with each meeting I attend, my understanding of both spoken French and the WSF process grows,” wrote Sampson in a blog post on the WSF website. From October to December, Sampson’s immersion co-op will bring her to the 3rd arrondissement in Paris, where she will work with an art organization. She will also be working on her fourth year capstone project around indigenous literature, and she plans to continue to translate for WSF.