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Campus Learning Hubs

Experiential Learning in Action!

Antioch has been developing centers of learning for community leadership which provide hands-on experience to enrich and amplify what students learn in the classroom, while making real-world change now.

Coretta Scott King Center: honoring the legacy of Antioch’s renowned alumna by hosting workshops, lecture series, and symposia to engage students and the community in dialogue and foster organizing and activism for racial and LGBTQ+ justice.

Antioch Micro-Farm: developing a high-yield / low-acreage model of farming to address food scarcity and provide a student learning laboratory. The innovative science has garnered attention and support and is currently producing over 30,000 pounds of nutritious food a year.

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The Wellness Center: a focal point for our students and the community and has received tremendous support for its amenities. It offers unique programming for people of all ages to come and promote their physical health through fitness, sport, and, most importantly, play!

Herndon Art Gallery: a regional arts destination with exhibitions and arts programs that are highly collaborative - often showcasing student work - interdisciplinary, and fully engaged with contemporary global issues.

From the President

Antioch College has been a leading force in higher education and thinking for nearly 175 years and has championed many innovative practices in response to the changing needs of our students. Antioch’s affordable, experiential, and communitybased learning model has never been more appropriate or necessary than in today’s turbulent times. The far right is attacking liberal education colleges throughout our nation. The attempts by politicians to silence the voices of educators in states across the country have reached a fever pitch. Smaller colleges struggle to find the best models to respond to this continued assault while delivering the highest quality educational experience possible. As it has done for nearly two centuries, Antioch takes on the challenge of this vital work, head on, with optimism that what we are doing is critical in securing our future.

Young people today are demanding a world where college doesn’t burden them with massive debt, where campus creates a sense of belonging, and where knowledge and skills are applicable to their lived experience. They want and need

a place where racial, climate, and economic justice are possible. Antioch excels at equipping students to understand complexity through interdisciplinary lenses and learning in action so they can think independently and get to new answers and real solutions. The world needs this, and Antioch is responding.

The community of Antioch College is a radically inclusive, welcoming, and caring educational environment.

Antioch’s students are among the most diverse of any liberal arts college: more than 50% are Black and Brown; 82% identify as LGBTQ; 16% identify as transgender; and more than 50% are first-generation college students, many of whom come from the surrounding areas in Ohio.

Over 75% of our students face serious economic challenges. For qualified students who want to attend, our mission has been, and will remain, to enable them to become Antioch students and graduate ready for their next steps toward meaningful work. Antioch changes not only individual lives but also families. Antioch students graduate with little or no debt,

allowing them to pursue fulfilling careers and community visions without unnecessary constraints.

We are responding to the changing needs of our students and the growing funding crisis of the American educational system by developing new and innovative approaches to support the college and our students beyond tuition alone. The College is currently piloting several strategies to create independent revenue streams that are both sustainable and core to the College’s mission and focus.

I am honored to be leading the fight to create transformative educational spaces that center on the well-being and goals of all students. With the participation of our entire community, Antioch continues providing true equity and access to higher education. We are actively listening to what our students and our world needs, taking steps to meet those needs, and win the victories humanity is craving.

Jane Fernandes President, Antioch College

President Jane Fernandes joins students from the class of 2022 in two Antiochian traditions with valuable contributions by the students of today: a walk around The Mound, near Red Square (top) and a class photo just before Commencement on the stairs of Antioch Hall (bottom).

From the Alumni Board

to the 1870’/80s, then to the early 20th century, onto the 1920’s, then to the late 1930’s, next the 1940’s, particularly 1944, the year I was born, onto the 1950’s and 60’s, as I entered in 1962 and graduated in 1967.

A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF ANTIOCH COLLEGE

President

Dr. Jane Fernandes

The Antiochian Through the Ages (or Plus Cą Change, Plus Cą Change)

Or is it Plus Cą Change; plus la meme chose.

When I was asked to write an article for this newly designed version of The Antiochian, it made me curious about what this magazine, which I assumed was always for Alumni only, was all about. When did it start? What was the content? What could it tell us about Antiochians of the past and the College we love?

My first step, of course, was to contact Scott Sanders, Antioch College Archivist and make time to visit Antiochiana, on the second floor of the Library. And ask questions. And go down the proverbial rabbit hole that took me back to Volume 1, Number 1, from April 1, 1869. I skipped

There are some themes: the Antiochian went through many iterations, from being a magazine for everyone on campus, but mainly students, to one, as it is now, primarily for alumni. It started out very big (11x14), became very small (5x7) then went back to being very big and is now a completely different size and shape to fit the world of online publications.

It always reflected the issues of the times. In the 1860’s through the 1880’s there were numerous references to the importance of educating women on the same basis as men. In the 1920’s it had a “rah rah” feel, reflecting the Roaring Twenties but by the 1930’s there was much talk about the effect that the Depression was having on co-op jobs. In the later part of that decade, there were full page ads from the World Peaceways organization, urging peace as the world was moving toward World War 2. The ads were very graphic as you will see.

The issues from the 1940’s were focused on the War, with numerous photos of Antiochians, both men and women, in uniform. There was even a report from an alum who had landed on D Day. The 1950’s

Editorial, Design, & Production

Tristan Neviska and Matt Shetler

Editorial Contributors

Anita Brown

Antonia Dosik ’67

Mary Evans ’20

Jane Fernandes

Colin Morris

Tristan Neviska

S. Quinn Ritzhaupt ’23

Scott Sanders

Joan Straumanis ’57

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The Antiochian Vol. 1, Issue 1

had articles about the House on Un-American Activities hearings in Dayton to investigate “subversive” activities in Yellow Springs and Dayton.

By this time, I was seeing familiar names and faces, both students and faculty. A photo of the Kettering Foundation Solar Energy Lab with a young Irwin Pomerantz ‘57 in a white coat looking at some kind of machine, the announcement that a new professor was joining the faculty in 1937, George Geiger, who was still teaching Philosophy at Antioch when I was a student 30 years later. And Rod O’Conner, who had run the dining halls from the 1930’s when there was still a Tea Room and who was also still there when I entered.

As I looked for themes what I found was a very Antiochian combination of continuity and change. At first, the magazine did not focus on alumni, but by April 1, 1870 the first Class Notes appeared called “The Old Students Column” (!) and by October of that year there were two pages of them. They all had a “chatty” feel, like “Wm. A. Bell ’60 [that’s 1860, folks] has been traveling in Europe this summer and writing able, racy, and characteristic letters for the Indianapolis Journal.” William Bull went on to be President of Antioch in the 1890’s

In the issue of June 1887, it was announced that this was Antioch’s “most prosperous

year since re-opening”. As you remember, Antioch almost shut down in 1861. That issue also had a big article about the clash between liberalism and conservatism and a call for women to be paid the same wage as men. As I said, plus la meme chose.

By 1905, the magazine was much smaller, 5x7, and Stephen F. Weston ’79 was president of the Alumni Association. Weston Hall, formerly the Horace Mann Building, was named for his family who sent generations of men and women to Antioch.

By this time, there was something called, Alumni Night, which took place the Tuesday before Commencement. This was the forerunner of Reunion, which for decades took place for two days before Commencement. In 1907, there was a call to raise money from Alumni to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first graduating class. The beginning of Alumni Giving.

And in case you are curious, the tuition in 1906 was $30/ year, Incidentals were $10/year and room and board was $2/ week. According to Google, that’s $3,297 for tuition in 2023 dollars. If only . . .

By the late 1920’s, the Antioch Alumni Bulletin, began to be published, specifically for alumni. The first issue talked about how innovative the Bulletin would be and that it would be focused on

“. . . improving solidarity and knowledge of the College”. By this time, Arthur Morgan had arrived and the transformation of Antioch into a liberal arts college with a fully integrated co-op program began.

And in the category of plus Cą change/meme chose, there are many articles about the “Autonomous Plan of Study” that was part of the College’s educational model. I asked Scott whether that was similar to the Self-Designed Major and he agreed it was. As I said . . .

Class Notes, called “From Many Ways” filled pages and pages and there was the beginning of Chapters. The Antioch College Alumni Association was formally organized with a Constitution and Bylaws. We still have such documents – the Constitution is the governing document for the Association and the Bylaws are the governing document for the Alumni Board.

And the familiar names kept coming. J.D. Dawson is the Associate Dean and the Fels Study of Children is founded. The Antioch Industrial Research Institutes are also developed to do research on scientific developments that can have a commercial application. Paul Treichler writes an article on the Theatre, and there are many photos of theater productions from that time.

From the Alumni Board

Antioch weathers the Depression, noting in one issue, that the effects of the Depression on Co-op are “negligible”.

By 1936, the publication is back to the familiar large format, there is an ongoing report on Community Government and a letter from the CM. And there are reports from a Conference called “Life’s Meaning” led by three outside scholars, one of whom is Charles Spurgeon Johnson, A.B, Ph.B, the then Director of the Institute of Race Relations at Swarthmore, to go on to be the first Black president of Fisk University.

And, as usual, there is much controversy on campus in the late 1930’s as World War II looms. Along with the very graphic full page ads from the Peaceways (see below) Institute, there is this photo, purported to be a “satire” mocking both sides in the Spanish Civil War.

The covers of the magazine in this decade were mostly photographs taken by Axel Bahnsen, who was a worldfamous photographer who lived in Yellow Springs.

I was particularly taken by a description of Comcil discussing drinking on campus in the March 1937 issue as follows:

“Discussed: Drinking on campus. Accomplished: A good deal of talking.” Ah, this feels familiar.

And then in 1941, things change again! The Antiochian becomes the Antioch Alumni Bulletin once again, and the President of the Alumni Association, Walter Kahoe, who went on to be Yellow Springs Village Manager in the 1970’s, announces that this is the “official publication of the Alumni Association of Antioch College.” The issues

from just before the War have extensive Class Notes (four pages of them), mostly about marriages and babies. In 1942, we have entered the War and the Quarter Plan is adopted originally designed to reduce the time to complete college, so that men could enlist, but it remained a fundamental part of Antioch for decades. Thirty Antiochians died in World War II.

Lots of Alumni Chapters by then in Massachusetts, New York, Dayton, Detroit, Buffalo, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. We still have some of those but have added (and subtracted) a few.

By the May 1951 issue, the Antioch logo appears on the cover. Alumni are elected to the Trustees in the 1950’s as well as to the Alumni Board, but Reunion still takes place just before Commencement. This

allows alumni to give a dinner for graduating seniors. Also in 1955, the Alumni Admission program is announced, which is very similar to the one we had more recently. Twelve Alumni are working with the Dean of Administration, William Boyd Alexander, to work on the “aims of Antioch Education.”

Looking at the February 1953 issue, the one that celebrates Antioch’s 100th birthday [sic], I see lots of familiar names among the faculty: Irwin Abrams, Walter Anderson, Paul Bixler, Clarence Leuba, Barry Hollister, Al Stewart, Morris Keeton, Nolan Miller. They were all still there when I entered in 1962. And it turns out Antioch was actually chartered in 1850.

And that brings us to my era, the 1960’s. In January 1963, the publication reverts back to the name, The Antiochian and there are four pages of Class Notes. There is also an article bemoaning the “lost sense of community.”

Alumni are still raising money for the College and there is something called the Annual Fund Committee, made up of

12 men and one woman, the secretary. And there is a large Reunion Committee made up of 11 alums from all decades, not just Alumni Board members. We are actually working to get back to that format as organizing Reunion is practically a full time job for ten people. There are 9,300 alumni in the 1960’s compared to over 15,000 currently.

What to make of it all?

Certainly, change is the byword, re-invention also comes to mind. But so does continuity. One of the things that particularly struck me, thanks to a discussion with Scott Sanders, is that so many of the faculty taught at Antioch for decades, thereby connecting with students over long periods of time, as they become alumni. Similarly with the staff. JD Dawson was still Dean of Students when I arrived in 1962 – he had been there since 1927, having known generations of Antiochians. And other faculty, like Manmatha Nath Chaterjee who was a friend and confident of Mahatma Ghandi and taught at Antioch for 31 years and Henry Ferenghi, who while gone by my time, had revolutionized science teaching at Antioch. Both were still talked about and had a “presence” on campus. Actually, Scott falls into that category as well, having started at the College as an intern, in 1994, almost 30 years ago.

As I reflect on this journey back in time, I wonder if one

of the challenges we all face now, students, faculty, staff, and alumni, is that lack of continuity with a living and breathing past. Continuity can be a mitigating factor as we are buffeted by current realities. Looking back is not just nostalgia for a long-ago “fantasy” world, but a way of connecting and linking ourselves together across time and space.

Antonia Dosik ’67 President, Antioch College Alumni Board

Alumni Association

Board of Directors

Nate Bowles ‘76

Toni Dosik ‘67

Liz Flyntz ‘02

Shawn Gaynor ‘97

Jessie Herr ‘63

Tiffani Gorman ‘03

Jonathan Hammer ‘90

Marc Masurovsky ‘77

Catherine Jordan ‘72

Stephen Lipman ‘67

Karen Mulhauser ‘65

Jack Matthews ‘15

Stan Morse ‘65

Clinton Owner ‘02

Angel Nalubega ‘18

Marc Oliver ‘76

Joan Straumanis ‘57

Denwood Parish ‘69

Alan Siege ‘78

Soleil Sykes ‘18

From the Director of Alumni Relations

Two More “T”s

Antiochians & Friends:

As the Director of Alumni Relations, I have constantly heard the idiom “Time, Talent, and Treasure”, or, “The Three Ts”, to describe the ways in which an individual can support their alma mater. In my time at Antioch, I have witnessed the multiple forms of how Antiochians utilize these T words, from the generosity of an alumnus sharing their treasure, donating their time to help organize alumni chapter events, and utilizing their talents during a volunteer work project. There are so many examples in each category, and even more possibilities to help out! However, I wanted to discuss two important categories that frequently get left out that are just as important:

Ties. The fourth T involves your networks. We all have rich lives that do not exist solely within Antiochian circles. Sometimes these non-Antiochians (or perhaps we should say, folks who don’t know they’re Antiochians yet) can offer assistance to our community in ways we have not

yet thought of. I can offer this anecdote as an illustration of this concept:

In a previous alumni relations position, one of my yearly tasks was to work on a networking dinner for our alumni volunteers and our graduating senior class. Ahead of the dinner, we would publish lists of the alumni attending: where they lived,

In this way, we can think about fulfilling the needs of Antioch: you may not have the resources to fund new scholarships or personally have college-age children to send to Yellow Springs, but surely you know of individuals whose values align with our mission and vision who may have those sorts of resources.

what they did for a living, their undergraduate major. Invariably, there were always students who felt they shouldn’t go to the event because “none of the alumni are in the career field that I want to be in.” This is where Ties comes in: I had to remind them that networking is almost never about meeting the person who will offer you a job, it is more often about befriending others who know that person.

Testimony. The fifth T represents how you speak about Antioch College and how you spread the message of this place to the world. Imagine your network contains someone who could contribute something truly transformational to Antioch — how would you speak to them about the college? How does your remembrances of your undergraduate experience affect the way the outer world perceives Antioch College?

I want to reflect on one of the biggest ways that your testimony can change Antioch. It is a challenge of almost every higher education institution that I have interacted with to find a way to integrate alumni volunteers into a successful admissions program. Admissions is an incredibly tricky business filled with interpersonal

and political idiosyncrasies which can be tough to see from the outside looking in. I am frequently asked how alumni can support Admissions, from staffing college fairs to signing up high schoolers they know of for email from Antioch. However, when I ask alumni what brought them to Antioch, I almost never hear that they found this place through a mailer or at a college fair. More often than not, the answer is that an influential person in their lives was an Antiochian and the way they spoke about Antioch drew them here. That is the power of your testimony in a nutshell.

I want to wrap this note up with a quick sampling of some ways you can utilize the Five Ts to help Antioch. There are new opportunities popping up daily, though, so keep your eye out for emails!

Time: We are always seeking volunteers to help us make calls or write emails to thank our donors and reconnect our lost classmates!

Talent: Our volunteer work project is always looking for eager volunteers to help keep our

campus beautiful and functional for our students. Do you have a talent that could contribute to the effort?

Treasure: Million Dollar March Match is rapidly approaching. This is a time to really double your giving impact!

Ties: We are seeking connections to granting organizations and other foundations that could support our mission. Do you have people in your network who can help? Please let us know!

Testimony: We are launching a new alumni admissions program in March to help you spread your testimony about this place to new potential Antiochians! We will launch first to the chapters, so, if you haven’t connected with your local chapter recently, the time has never been better.

Thank you all for all you do for Antioch!

Tristan Neviska Director of Alumni & External Relations

Board of Trustees

Michael Casselli

Shelby Chestnut

Shalini Deo

Jane Fernandes

Truth Garrett

Shannon Isom

John Jacobs

Craig Johnson

Barbara Lawrence

Allison Leach

Pamela Martinez-Ibarra

Susan Mayer

Karen Mulhauser

Sharen Swartz Neuhardt

Ace Xavier Portis

Emily Seibel

Steven Thurston Oliver

Emeritus Trustees

Atis Folkmanis

David Goodman

Frances Horowitz

Joyce Idema

Jay Lorsch

Maureen Lynch

Lee Morgan

Malte vonMatthiessen

Barbara Winslow

Pro-Tem

Nancy Crow

Pavel Curtis

Allyn Hansson Feinberg

Terry Herndon

Prexy Nesbitt

Alumni Board Candidates

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Alumni Board Candidates

The following Antiochians have been nominated to serve on the Antioch College Alumni Board for a term starting in July 2023. To read the nominees’ full statements and to vote, visit https://forms.gle/GFfczZS7p5pbXgPA9

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Gary Bucciarelli ’02

I am happy to contribute to this committee and share what I have learned from working in private business, with government agencies, and in academia to increase the profile of Antioch College.

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Alex Cullison ’83

If I have something to offer Antioch with respect to my academic/ professional/personal experience that is of value to both the student and alumni body, then I would like to help.

Peter Labermeier ’78

Over the past few years, I have become increasingly excited about the college and its determination to thrive through the strong foundation that alumni have created and continue to maintain. After relocating to Los Angeles, I worked with the Alumni Chapter leaders to re-establish the outpost and encouraged other locals to help expand our activities: interviewing local alumni, hosting President Jane Fernandes and continuing to build the community.

As a Biomedical Engineer, I maintained my technical skills in computer science. I will use those skills to bring to the Board a focus on improving communication and outreach by cultivating closer relations with recent graduates and new graduates. We need a plan to continue our outreach internally while expanding our platform to influence new, potential

Antiochians. I look forward to working with the current board, a fine group of dedicated Antiochians, and I hope that you can help me get there.

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Clarence Maybee ’87

I know firsthand how an Antioch College education can change how one sees the world and their work within it. I work in higher education because when I attended Antioch I came to understand the transformative power of education. At Antioch, I was taught to value multiple perspectives and to strive to ensure that all ideas are given voice. Throughout my career in higher education, I have strived to imbue my work with the values I learned at Antioch. As an alum of Antioch College, I want to ensure the continuance of the amazing work going on at Antioch today. The world needs Antioch and the work it does to create leaders that stand up for human rights and actively strive to make a better

Alumni Board Candidates

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society. I am heartened by the way President Fernandes is working to invigorate interest in the college, and the way the College is reimagining of experiential educational opportunities that foster learning while contributing to society in positive ways. If elected, I will bring my rich experiences working in higher education and my dedication to student learning to my endeavors on the Alumni Board. As a member of the Board, I will work hard to support Antioch in achieving its crucial goals of empowering Antioch students to “own their education, learn experientially, and act for justice.”

Niaomi Nyyanna Catata ’18

I came to Antioch for many reasons in 2014 but most of all to become more of my true self, learn more deeply about the world, and to help build a new kind of college for the future. I’ve been a student, I’ve worked as a staff member, and I still live in YS.

Meredith Reid Sarkees ’72

Antioch gave me the opportunities to both explore career options and to expand my intellectual horizons. I would like to help Antioch provide such experiences for today’s students. I spent the majority of my career as a professor in liberal arts university.

Nicole Stanton ’92

I am a first-generation college student and a woman of color. I arrived on Antioch’s campus with no real idea of what I wanted to do, which could have been a recipe for alienation and disengagement. However, through the power of extraordinary mentorship, a curricular approach that encouraged students to explore a broad range of courses, as well as an environment that made new domains of knowledge accessible to those who didn’t arrive as an expert, I found my way to dance. I can genuinely say that it was my experience at Antioch that led directly to my work as an artist, an

educator, an organizer, and now, a leader.

I currently serve as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wesleyan University. I am also a Professor of Dance, African American Studies, and Environmental Studies. It would be my honor to work to support Antioch by sharing my skills and experiences. I am a passionate believer in liberal arts education, cooperative education and the distinct approach that Antioch takes. I am so excited to see the work President Jane Fernandes is doing to stabilize the college and make the experience accessible to more students. I believe that Antioch is what the world needs right now and I want to offer my hands to the struggle.

Sandra Verdugo ’08

I am a proud alumna of our school and its amazing history. I would like to play a part in developing the legacy of our school and inspiring its growth and development.

A New Academic Recipe

by Colin Morris

When Antioch instituted a selfdesigned degree program in 2018, it empowered students with vast academic freedom, building on the college’s reputation for independent inquiry. For four years, this flexible model has accommodated students’ exploration while showcasing their enterprise.

But data from student experiences in that time have shown there’s room for improvement.

Dr. Brian Norman, who joined Antioch as Vice President of Academic Affairs in July 2022, said in a recent interview that

there’s room for guidance even in a pathway designed to give students freedom and independence.

“Freedom without structure can be paralyzing,” he said. “Students come to Antioch not just for discovery but for mentorship along their path.”

This is why advising is a cornerstone of Antioch’s mission, and why it has a significant role to play in shaping the future of the college’s academic vision.

So this Fall, the self-designed major program will evolve into a framework that illuminates

students’ academic pathways, increases coordination from advisors and faculty, and charts a sustainable course for the college as it faces headwinds from several directions.

Opportunity and Urgency for Change

Antioch College remains a small place of abundance and opportunity: Engaged alumni, committed faculty, and experienced leadership that includes a visionary new president. As ever, Antioch students are privileged to work alongside faculty in groundbreaking areas of study and apply their work in the real world.

But the real world is pushing back. The generation of incoming freshmen is averse to debt; burnout is pervasive in the workforce; there is public skepticism of liberal arts education and demand for workforce readiness. In short, society is posing pointed questions to colleges and universities.

Higher Ed is adapting to demographic change among incoming freshmen due to declining birthrates. And, while Antioch enjoys a remarkably diverse student population—79

percent of the class of 2026 are eligible for Pell grants, and 82 percent of the class of 2025 identify as LGBTQIA+—it remains incredibly small.

The college needs to increase revenue to survive and grow, and show the world it is open for the long term. Even with a strong culture of independent study, clear degree pathways are essential to recruitment

Of all these, the college’s key existential question is this:

How can Antioch frame its offerings in a way that puts students first while demonstrating the real-world relevance of their knowledge, all while forging a sustainable path for the college?

“This is a consequential moment for Antioch, as it is for all of higher education,” Dr. Norman said when he joined Antioch last summer. “I’ve been blown away by the Antioch community and their commitment to imagining a future and rolling up their sleeves to get it done. I am ready to roll up my sleeves, too, as we win some victories for humanity.”

Dr. Norman has spent the intervening months working with faculty, advisors, and college leadership to identify and hone five focus areas of Antioch’s greatest academic strengths from across the campus.

Interdisciplinary Focus Areas

Incoming freshmen will chart their course of study within one of five interdisciplinary focus areas:

Culture, Power, and Change Cultural Production and Creative Practice

Global Studies and Engagement

Social Innovation and Social Enterprise Sustainability and the Environment

These areas are grounded in the college’s values and traditions of learning, but geared toward the future that students will spend in action. Each area connects the specialties of Antioch’s faculty and resources with the careers where graduates are likely to apply them.

Culture, Power, and Change

This area engages with historical foundations and social functions of power in contemporary culture, and provides strong preparation for careers in many areas including advocacy, nonprofit leadership, education,

and law. Coursework focuses on how systems of power are built, reinforced, and operationalized through cultural practices and production.

Cultural Production and Creative Practice

This area is designed to help students develop a strong understanding of the processes and techniques of producing contemporary culture through research and practice. It prepares students to become cultural workers situated in the arts, media, performance, and the expanded field of sociallyengaged inquiry.

The program emphasizes the importance of understanding the theoretical and cultural context in which art is produced and how it is inextricably linked

with our lived experiences, histories, communities and locations.

In studio classes, students build skills and develop collaborative approaches to making within the visual arts, media, performance, and creative writing, while using experimental and interdisciplinary methods informed by philosophy, the social sciences and more.

Global Studies and Engagement

This focus area equips students with an understanding of transnational activities and processes across time and space, and the intellectual and practical skills necessary for reflexive cross-cultural engagement abroad. It prepares students for postgraduate studies and exploring careers in government, nonprofit organizations, education, globally oriented businesses, and other fields.

Social Enterprise and Social Innovation

The Social Enterprise and Social Innovation focus examines the diversity of economic activity taking place within and beyond the business world, while highlighting enterprises and innovations that promote democratic governance,

social equality, and ecological sustainability.

Students explore case studies and histories of social enterprises and worker cooperatives, gain practical skills in business planning and accounting, and envision how our politicaleconomic institutions, policies and technologies might be reconfigured to address emergent and longstanding social and environmental problems.

Students pursuing this focus will be prepared to enter careers in purpose-driven business, as well as graduate programs in fields such as political economy, nonprofit leadership, business history, and critical management studies.

Sustainability and the Environment

This focus area equips students to create and evaluate scientific evidence, environmental ethics and justice; to understand the causes and effects of social and ecological crises; to trace power disparities across social, economic, and environmental lines; to imagine better worlds and to nurture human and nonhuman biological processes and regeneration.

Students graduating with this focus have worked in environmental

science and reporting, land management, and other areas. Other students have entered graduate programs in Ecology, Environmental Science, and more.

A New Academic Recipe

Adapting to these challenges requires methodical and incremental change, with consideration for the wider college community as well as Antioch’s place, purpose, and perception in the world. Antioch has identified these criteria for a successful curriculum:

It must be distinct, in keeping with Antioch’s vision.

It must be understandable outside the context of campus.

It must be achievable for students on a normal graduation timeline.

It must reflect the strengths of all faculty.

It must be feasible to deliver using the college’s resources.

It must produce valuable outcomes for students and the world.

Students will still enjoy the freedom and challenge of selfdesigned majors without having to invent them from scratch, all while benefiting from support from advisors and faculty that is more coordinated than ever.

Advising is a distinct strength of Antioch’s unique academic culture that directly improves student retention, persistence, and outcomes. Every student benefits from at least three advisors who are deeply invested in their success: one academic advisor, one language advisor, and another for their off-campus Cooperative Education Program experience.

Join us at our next faculty panel!

Antioch Activate for Social Enterprise and Social Innovation

March 8 | 7 PM ET

The new academic vision recommits to this tradition with pre-professional pathways in education, law, medicine, social services, and applied sciences for students who wish to pursue advanced degrees after graduation.

The addition of these optional pathways to the five new interdisciplinary focus areas will multiply the impact of Antioch graduates as free thinking agents of progress as they enter the world and put liberal arts into action.

Join us for our fifth and final in a series of virtual panel discussions highlighting our incredible Antioch faculty and the interdisciplinary fields in which Antioch excels. In our fourth event, our new Vice President for Academic Affairs Brian Norman will moderate a panel of professors working and teaching within the fields of Social Enterprise and Social Innovation.

For more information, please visit alumni.antiochcollege.edu

inMemoriam Remembering Atis Folkmanis ’62 & Judy Siegel Folkmanis ’63

(1938-2022; 1941-2016)

By Joan Straumanis ’57

took off. She was so successful that Atis changed direction and became the business partner of “Furry Folk” as they called it.

Atis Folkmanis ‘62 and Judy Siegel Folkmanis ‘63 were brilliant puppet-makers. But Atis’s original plan was different--he intended to be a biochemist, and after Antioch enrolled in a PhD program at the U of California - Berkeley. To supplement Atis’s meager grad student stipend, Judy made puppets and sold them on the street. At first they were like cartoon characters, with “ping pong ball eyes” as she described them to me. But when she began to make them look like live animals, her little enterprise

They moved into a facility in Emeryville, California where the company, now called Folkmanis Puppets, lives on today staffed by their sons, Jason and Daniel. Their over 200 animal puppets were designed with such attention to species details that they offer, for example, both river and sea otters (yes, they’re different).

I had a particular connection with my friends Atis and Judy. (You’ll notice the similarity of our surnames.) Atis and my late husband, Eric Straumanis, had parallel histories: Both were born in Riga, Latvia in the same year,1938, and came to the US as WWII refugees. As children, both of them spent time in Displaced Persons camps in

Germany. Sponsored by a local church, Atis’s family moved to Yellow Springs where Atis attended Bryan High School and Antioch College. Both Atis and Eric were lapsed Lutherans who married Jewish women, Judy and me. (Very unusual. Anti-semitism was prevalent in Latvia and in Eric’s family; I don’t know about Atis’s.)

Judy died in early 2016, and Atis last September. Their spirits live on in their amazing puppets.

Judy with Joan’s grandchildren, taken in summer 2015 at the Folkmanis company headquarters.

Remembering Terry Herndon ’57 (1934-2022)

By Jane Fernandes, President of Antioch College

Rev. Lisa Mobayed officiated. There was a reading from Jack Kerouac, followed by his family’s prayers, hymns, speakers, and musical interludes. J.T. Herndon played the banjo, and Henry and Grace Herndon shared memories of their grandfather. Keith Herndon reflected on the lessons his father, Terry, taught him.

I attended a celebration of the life of Terry Ogden Herndon on September 24, 2022, at First Religious Society in Carlisle, Massachusetts. He was the husband for 66 years of Eva (Warmbrunn) Herndon. Antioch is indebted to Terry and Eva for their substantial financial support over the years culminating in the Herndon Art Gallery, where we will soon be privileged to witness Flourishing, an exhibit of photo and video work by five Black artists celebrating their stories and experiences.

It was a beautiful day in Carlisle, MA, when I arrived for the memorial; the sun was bright and warm, with a chill in the air. I walked upstairs to the worship area, which was already full when we arrived. Pianos, organs, and a banjo were played during the service, and many songs were sung.

Terry took his grandson Henry, a teenager, to buy a guitar for his birthday. Terry was willing to buy Henry whatever guitar he wanted, no matter the price. After trying out several, some expensive, Henry chose the lowest price one. Terry asked, “Of all these guitars in this store, you will pick that one?” Henry said. “Yes.” And Terry bought it for him. Henry still has that guitar at home. But he added, “Later, my grandfather bought me a baby grand piano.” We all laughed.

His son Keith explained how as a high school teenager, he wound up in a group drinking Southern Comfort. He took a sip, and it tasted so good going down that he took a few too many. When he realized he was drunk, he put a dime in an old telephone booth and called his father. His father understood right away. And all he said was, “Where are you?” And then he said, “I am coming.” He drove him home, no questions asked, and never said another word about it. And Keith added tearfully, “There were so many other lessons he taught me.”

Rev. Lisa’s eulogy pointed out that Terry Herndon believed more in mistakes and failures than successes. She explained how he was working on a car in his home garage, and he caused a fire to break out. Rev. Lisa

said Terry calmly put out the fire and was excited about how much he had learned from accidentally starting it. Later his mother bought him a used car to work on but left it parked outside for safety. While many people believe in the saying, “If it is not broken, don’t fix it,” Terry always said, “if it’s not broken, go ahead and fix it anyway.” He taught us that we learn so much more from our failures than our successes. He was a lifelong artist and automobile enthusiast.

The program included lots of biographical information about Terry. He graduated from Antioch College with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, where he also met Eva. His fulfilling career at MIT Lincoln Laboratory spanned nearly 50 years. He loved his profession, which branched to founding his own company, Path Scientific, based in Carlisle. He was the patented inventor of several technologies spanning microfabrication, retinal implants, and medical devices.

At the service, I met Antioch alums Tom and Martha Svatek, who graduated in the ’70s; Eva Herndon, Terry’s wife; and Anne Groves, another graduate. Anne and her husband, along with Terry and Eva, married one couple right after the other on the same day they graduated.

Terry Herndon was involved in so many endeavors and communities. Many showed up at the service singing the same praises of Terry’s work and life. We will all continue to hold him and Eva with all due respect and reverence.

Julia, Remembered (Julia

Reichert’90 – 1946-2022)

By Anita Brown, Office of the President

In 1991 I began my job as Julia Reichert’s personal assistant when she, Steve, and Lela moved to Yellow Springs. Working with Julia was interesting and consuming, fun and very human. We worked hard, but took moments to tend to her enormous basil plants, to enjoy her annual pepper dish with the perfect white wine, and to watch the neighborhood plays that Lela wrote and directed. I learned a lot from Julia as her employee but the absolute best part of our relationship was the lovely friendship that grew out of it.

Many knew Julia as the acclaimed documentary filmmaker who had a constant eye toward lives and work the world should know about, in the spirit of a true Antiochian. The side of Julia I knew best was the one like a big sister, sharing wisdom and recipes, affirming my mothering and other strengths, and forming beautiful relationships with my kids as they grew and, later, with my son-in-law and grandchildren.

Back in the day, every Christmas, long before Lela had children of her own, they came to our home and, each year, Julia and Steve would organize us into making a short film that we’d premier after our Christmas feast. There was a lot of silliness in making those films; they are some of our best Christmas memories.

Many years ago, “Orchard House” on the Lake Michigan shore, an old wonky happy rental place, became the perfect setting for friends and family to come and go over the course of a week in the late summer. The tradition grew into yearly or bi-yearly gatherings, with lazy beach days playing ballinaire, a game designed to do just that - keep the beach ball in the air. Later, with staggering scores, we became the Lake Michigan allstar ballinaire team with a lot of fanfare (think Rocky soundtrack) and team shirts provided by Julia and Steve.

At the lake, there were teams organized by Julia (“of course”, you say); the cocktail team made the drink of the day, to be enjoyed in the early evening on the “perch”, a deck on the edge of the property about 50 feet above the beach. There we made new friends, played games, told

stories, and shared a lot of laughter. The dinner team would prepare the evening meal, having brought recipes and key ingredients from home, adding fresh local components.

After watching the sun set from the beach, dinner was served on the screened porch of Orchard House, at one long table pieced together, and topped with vintage tablecloths and mismatched china. We sat for hours, everyone aglow from the sun and the candlelight, sharing more stories of our lives from our disparate places before ending the night on the beach with a fire and fireworks. Julia LOVED fireworks; they were as essential as all other rituals..

When I began working in the president’s office at Antioch, I experienced another strong connection with Julia. I have come to love the place as she did, moreso because of her commitment to Antioch and its influence on her life work.

My last moments with Julia were spent reading from one of our shared favorite books, Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, as Julia was deep inside “doing the work of dying” as one Hospice person said. I like to think she heard me, and that it gave her moments back on the Lake Michigan shore, a place she loved and one where she gave so many the gift of belonging.

Julia, 20, sitting astride her motorcycle in front of North Hall. Photo taken April 7, 1967.

I have been blessed in many ways at Antioch. I received an amazing Liberal Arts degree that has taken me places I never thought I would be. I have met some amazing Alumni and consider many of them my family.

I came back as staff and one of my responsibilities is to add the obituaries to the website. In a way it is a blessing and it is also sorrowful. I get to read about all the places these Alumni went and how their life was like. All the traveling and social justice activism is admirable; and the one connection to all these obituaries is they are Antioch College.

The day John’s obituary notice came through my email, I thought the world was playing a cruel joke and that it was a mistake.

I first met John during Reunion 2019 and I have leaned on him for guidance ever since.

I came across John Sims speaking at a commencement and had the

Remembering John Sims ’90 (1968-2022)

By Mary Evans ’20

honor to work with him during Reunion 2021 where he received the Walter Anderson Award. I told him about how I came to Antioch and why Antioch was the best thing to ever happen to me. Antioch College is not for everyone.

We both were arrested, we both came to Antioch and took the resources given to us and made something out of ourselves with it. We are both black, activists, and artists.

After Reunion 2021 we kept in contact through FB messenger and I received some of the best advice I could ever receive each time we spoke.

The occasional Hey How are you is what I often search for because it still doesn’t seem real.

I often go through articles where he spoke with such conviction against police brutality and racial conflicts.

My favorite article is “Dear Police: We can’t trust you until you change”.

John and I shared some of the same thoughts about this place. This place is for folks that want to do their own thing and know exactly what that thing is. John and I had a lot more in common than I thought.

Just because John is physically not here does not mean that he does not live on. His work is the most impeccable form of policy reform by an artist that I have ever seen. I am glad to have known him.

inMemoriam

We have learned of the passing of these alumni and friends since our last issue in October, 2020. Read more online: https://antiochcollege.edu/category/obituaries

Keith Sanborn ’45

Rebecca G. Nussdorfer ’45

Shirley Bloch Bieri ’46

Richard S. Gardiner ’46

Sanford “Sandy” Day Griffith ’46

Joseph “Joe” Ehrman III ‘46

Dr. Jay G. Blumler ’47

Joseph “Joe” L. Marcum ’47

Ellen Berman ’47

Eleanor J. Hochhauser ’47

Barbara (Penny) O’Brien ’48

Hildred Anderson Storey Geertz ’48

David Paul Michener ’48

Isabel S. Rubel ’48

Barbara Louise Sorensen ’48

Salvatore Raymond Gambino ’48

Martha J. Fulton ’48

Walter Rybeck ’49

Josephine Broude ’49

Barbara Ann (Bee) Bonow ’49

Betty F. Heuslein ’49

Connie Andruss ’49

Betty F. Heuslein ’49

Edward Dennis “Denny” E. Conroy ’50

Marshall A. Kent ’50

Mary Catherine Towbin ’50

Richard M. Lundy ’50

Sulochana “Sue” Gogate Sherman ’50

John C. Cobb ’50

Anthony T. Grana ’50

Leora “Lee” Robbins ’50

Carlton Edward Wheeler ‘50

Frank B. Slezak ’51

Jean Pappas ’51

Thomas B. Light ’51

Jean Marsh Adams ’51

Albert E. Paschkis ’51

Richard A. Siegal ’51

Constance Dowling Bimber ’51

Alan M. Beasley ‘51

Daniel Lednicer ’52

Dr. Ward R. Stoops ’52

Naomi Shakow Connelly ’52

Sally P. McGuire ’52

William H. Cottrell ’52

Eugenia Patterson Brown ’52

William Campbell White ’52

George Lionel Mizner ’52

Robert Louis Wilson ’52

Ursula Bellugi ’52

Dr. Lila Ruth Gleitman ’52

Josephine M. Schuman ’53

Richard Robert Hughes ’53

The Rev. Theodore “Ted” P. Fritsch ’53

Kenneth L. Webb ’53

Donald D. Glower ’53

Howard Schuman ’53

Valentine Patrick Coleman ’53

Shirley Clark Guenther ’53

Audrey L. Ritter ’54

Dr. Frances Degen Horowitz ’54

Phyllis A. Stevens ’54

Roberta “Bobbie” Borman ’54

William A. Bartsch ’54

Dr. Kenneth Leon Ball ’54

Jean Jordanek ’54

Quandra Prettyman ’54

Laurence Iwao Yamagata ’55

Ruth Hameyer King ’55

William “Bill” Gamson ’55

Newton Harrison ’55

Thomas H. Groves ’55

Rev. Richard Kellaway ’56

Frieda Louise Evans ’56

Audrey M. Cherin ’56

Elin R. Modjesta ’56

Alma M. Kuby ’56

Iris “Nina” Merrick Holzman Lamb ’56

Sandra Stone Bailey ’56

Gail Read Brown ’57

Gretchen Work Thomas ’57

Mark I. Harrison ’57

William C. Francis ’57

Gordon “Gordie” Fellman ’57

Terry Herndon ’57

Jennifer McCoy ’57

Clarence Cooke “Keni” Kent ’57

Dorothy Perkins Montague ’57

Anita Thacher ’58

Gerald Feil ’58

Ruth Switzer Pearl ’58

David I. Goldblatt ’58

Evan Gerald Birks ’58

Carol Emmer ’58

Sonya Rose ’58

Richard “Dick” N. Schwab ’58

Dorette Jackson ’59

George Von Scheven ’59

Seth Young ’59

John Korty ’59

George Henry Geer ’59

Gardner M. Brown ’59

Stephen L. Wasby ’59

Karen Burrill Spivack ’60

Patricia Quinn Stuart ’60

Thomas H. Osborne ’60

Virginia Ruth Schulman ’60

Dr. Della Laura ’60

Richard Scott Webster ’60

Roland Hutter ’60

Lyn H Lofland ’60

Nicholas L. Petruzzella ’60

Joseph G. Strauch Jr. ’60

David R. Solo ’60

Peter Hochstein ’61

Suzanne Rudolf ’61

Margaret “Peggy” Alexy Rose ’61

Susan Snyder ’61

Pippa Frances Catherine Feddersen

Jenkins ’61

Mary Ann Brewin ’61

Patrick Conner ’61

Maurice “Moe” Chester Seager ’61

Carolyn A. Stahl Olsen ’61

Dr. Leo Hughes Moir III ’62

Edmund “Pat” Hamilton Kelly ’62

Peter Manso ’62

Atis Folkmanis ’62

Sandra Norris Palmore ’62

David C. Johnson ’62

Dr. Michael “Maruti” Projansky ‘62

Louise Friedal Billotte ’63

Portia Ann Brown ’63

Wayne L. Snively ’63

Julie M. Schrepper ’63

Greg Allen Bell ’64

Leora Rundstrom-Isbell ’64

Judy Brandes Collier ’64

David M. Brandes ’64

Hugh F. Maurer ’65

Peter N. Miller ’65

Nikki Alynn Bibbo ’65

Len “Tuck” Spaulding ’65

Constance Callanan Bacher ’65

Sally Bates Shankman ’65

Thomas R Stein ’66

Susan Hartwell Farrow ’66

Rob Stein ’66

James Franklin “Jeff” Inslee ‘66

James “Jim” R. Joiner Jr. ’66

Toby Snitkin Bradley ’66

Stephen Crevoshay ’67

Charles Landau ’67

Nan Rudolph Bucknam ’67

Harry Hempy, III ’67

Nicolas John Kaufman ’67

Michael Griggs’ 68

Robert P. Shine ’68

Barbara Jean Washington Ford ’69

Ormond H. Smythe ’69

Nickolas Muzyczka ’69

James P. “Jim” Mayer ’69

Barbara Steager Malone ’69

Howard Windsor McCay, III ’69

Edmund “Ed” Ward ’70

Michael Furdiga ’70

Julia Reichert ’70

David Stepp Easton ’70

Kim McQuaid ’70

Howard L. Wu ’70

Laura Evangeline Lundy ’70

James J. Wasserman ’71

John Stephen Draper ’71

William A. Brower Jr. ’71

Dr. O’Dell Moreno Owens ’71

Darla Newman ’71

Steve Maurice Christiansen ’71

Scott H. Sheppard ’71

John H. Gemmill ’72

Helene B. Tamarin ’73

Mary Jo Mueller ’73

William “Bill” R. Beachy ’73

Anne C. Heller ’73

Bryce Morrice, M.D. ’73

Elaine Joyce Jones ’73

Betty Mae Thomas Smith ’73

Deborah Ekleen Ellison Farris ’73

Stephen Michael Dembski ’73

Anne Mullinax-Jones ’74

Peter Prindle ’74

William Solomon ’74

Quentin Persifor Smith ‘74

Eric S. Jacobson ’74

Ronald L. McDermott ’74

John Chaney ’75

Philip J. Nannen ’75

Stephen J. Sendzik ’75

Tobias Yarmolinsky ’75

Dorothy Kessler Kinzey ’76

Emily Schuder Chasse ’76

Mandy Bynum ’76

Moira Margret Arbuckle Quacchia ’76

Marilyn A. Hill ’76

Charles R. Doering ’77

David Charles Yolleck ’77

Marilyn E. Thomas ’77

Elizabeth “Boo” Andrews ’77

Howard Jennings ’77

Mark W. Brandhorst ’78

Drucilla Cornell ’78

Reginald Pinder Sr. ’79

Scott O. Myers ’79

Evelyn Gray ’80

Jerry Dice ’80

Paul Joseph Klens ’80

Sara Borie-Wilson ’80

Stanley M. Kochanek ’80

Clifford Feldman ’83

Anna Maria Buenaventura ’84

Lorenzo L. Carter ’85

Carol Elizabeth Pratt ’85

Illana Abramson ’85

Nancy “Yasha” Isabel Sitz ’87

Robin Saunders ’88

Stephen Albert Naughton ’88

John Sims ’90

Laura L. Lewis ’95

Hamlet Mateo ’96

Jeremy “Jake” Betts Harrison ’00

Forrest Gray ’00

Nicholas Wilkinson ’02

Angela Rose Matthews-Napper ‘05

Barbara Granger Jaffe, Former Faculty

Bruce Bedford, Former Trustee

Doris E. Ward Prater, friend to the College

Dr. Brian Kot

Dr. Melvin L. Kohn, Friend of the College

Dr. Richard G. Yalman, Former Faculty

Duke Conrad, Former Faculty

Ebere Onwudiwe, Former Faculty

Edgar S. Cahn, former Dean

Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, former lecturer

Else Schlenker, former administrator

Errol Medicine, Friend of the College

Grace “Bambi” Williams

J. Budd Steinhilber, Friend of the College

James A. Barnes, Former Staff

Jerome Kagan, Fels Research Institute

Joseph Daniel “Dan” Carrigan, Former Staff

Kenneth “Ken” David Feigenbaum, Professor of Psychology

Margot Kernan, Former Faculty

Mario A. Polizzotti, Friend of the College

Martha T. Horner, friend of the College

Mildred L. McConville, friend of the College

Paul A. Atkins, Friend of the College

Robert H. “Bob” Devine ’67, Former President

Ronald A. Kurtz, friend to the College

Sheila McCarthy, former faculty

Steve Sprague, Former Staff

Thelma Ross, Former Staff

Thomas Richard Kershner, Former Trustee

William “Bill” C. Scott, Friend of the College

Yvonne L. Davenport, Former Staff

Living History at Antioch

and Camelot

by S. Quinn Ritzhaupt ’23

Photos by Zoe Ritzhaupt ’20

Since you’re reading The Antiochian, I’m sure you’re well aware that Antioch is a school of many unorthodox traditions. I’m a fourth year student here, and my interests lie primarily in history. If you’re me, there are some things you read about in the college’s archive, Antiochiana, that’ll never leave your mind. Things previous Antiochians did that you would like to do now, like newspapers and bike races. I’m getting a bit ahead of myself.

Let’s start at the beginning. When I started my Antioch journey in fall 2019, I had the benefit of a built-in guide at the school –an older sibling in their fourth year. My sibling Zoë, much like me, had a vested interest in the continuation of Antioch traditions, and did some work for the student-run newspaper on the side. I had some experience in journalism, but mostly I just enjoyed writing. I had looked forward to contributing to The Record, perhaps by ways of something fun like horoscopes,

but by the time I got to Antioch, there was no Record to write for. Sent to its early grave by a few misfortunes, The Record laid untouched. Sad but swamped with first-year responsibilities, The Record went to the back of my mind and I plodded on, newspaperless.

I got a job at the Yellow Springs News during my first quarter instead and published an article, but I had hoped to work on campus instead. I applied for circulation desk at the Olive

or, how I helped bring back The Record

Kettering Library instead, and I managed to snag the position. Well, sort of. Then-librarydirector, Kevin Mulhall, sent me upstairs to Antiochiana, where I could be Scott Sanders’ problem. The good news was Scott didn’t see me as much of a problem, and extended many kindnesses and very intriguing history stories to me instead. It was at this time that my major pivoted from creative writing to archives.

It’d be unfair of me to bore you with every detail of my Antioch career from Winter 2020 to Winter 2021 when The Record became a twinkle in our eyes, but I will set the scene for the first day my dear friend Loretta Philip ‘24 and I settled upon our involvement in the paper:

Antiochiana. Maybe February. I’m leafing through a massive bound copy of The Record from a few decades ago, either for my own personal enjoyment or seeking an article on Scott’s behalf. Loretta’s looking through a separate issue, and there was this unspoken sense of loss.

of Antioch’s growing pains. The Record’s untimely demise left such a hole in the Antioch College community. Loretta and I commiserated and shared the far-away wish that someone would be The Record again.

I don’t recall who said it first, or if some Dickens-esque Ghost of Antioch Past appeared and made Loretta and I think it at the same time, but we made a realization: we could be The Record.

We thought it through for maybe five minutes. Loretta had attended a graphic design school in lieu of normal high school before starting at Antioch, and I had put out at least one successful article for a newspaper. It wasn’t much, but it was just enough experience that we had some type of (maybe misplaced) confidence in our ability to be a two-man newspaper team. With new resolve, Loretta and I decided we were going to put out the first new Record in three years.

struggled to figure out how to get content when there were only the two of us, with me being the only writer. The solution to these problems and many more came by ways of the Record Advisory Board (RAB). RAB has existed alongside The Record for quite some time, offering guidance to wayward editors such as ourselves. It became clear we’d get nowhere without their help, and so Loretta and I began crafting our own advisory board.

Two constants on this era’s RAB are none other than Scott Sanders, archivist and all-around cool guy that has bore witness to The Record in many iterations; and Chris Welter, Antioch class of 2020, WYSO reporter and on-call for the many, many crises Loretta and I have had while working the paper. Both of them have contributed more to The Record’s success than I can even put into words, and we are beyond appreciative of their continued support.

There were years and years of history in these volumes. Big news stories, small op-eds, doodles and comics, advertisements. People’s best days and worst days, all

It’d be dishonest to say everything went swimmingly. We struggled to convince facilities to let us have a key to the longuntouched Record office. We found multiple unpaid bills to the Yellow Springs News for printing costs from years ago. We

The rest of RAB drifts in and out every few quarters, students and staff who are invested in the paper, donating any time they can to us. We meet every Friday in the Mul-hall at the Olive Kettering Library, discussing the trials and tribulations of the paper, the highs and lows and

successes and struggles. RAB doesn’t exercise prior editorial restraint, but they do offer us advice when we need it, and try to steer us in the right direction.

With our newly formulated advisory board, we began shaking up some typical Record things. We did away with only allowing people to write of The Record after taking a class – instead, hoping to make journalism accessible for all, we shifted to a freelance model. Students that contribute stories, columns, art, poetry, and photography are compensated fairly for their work. Another change was the layout, brilliantly handled by Loretta quarter after quarter.

The first Record we put together was in spring 2021. We stayed up all night in our McGregor office, me editing works that had been submitted and Loretta painstakingly putting them all into an InDesign document. It was the wee hours of the morning by the time we sent it over to the Yellow Springs News to be published, finally able to let out a breath. We were exhausted, stressed, afraid of what the final product would look like, and wondering how people would respond.

Two days later, we picked up 250 paper copies of The Record: Volume 69, Issue 1. I think I cried a little bit on the way back to campus, beyond proud of us and the work we had done. We triumphantly went to the OKL first, The Record’s second home, putting the first copy on the front desk. This was the birth of The Record.

Since then, we’ve released six more issues of The Record. I’d like to say it’s become easier, but each issue comes with its own set of, well, issues. I think I can say we’re more confident, at least. Both in ourselves and our paper, and the confirmation that the Antioch community needed this type of outlet for information.

If you’d like to read The Record, you can go to https:// recordonline.org/.

I also mentioned bike races at the beginning of this article, if you recall, and bike races might be a bit more interesting than newspapers, depending on who you ask. This bike race in particular is a bit divisive, but most Antiochians remember the Camelot Gran Prix. Don’t you? Camelot is another one of those traditions that I had heard about and longed to see. Sure, it’s not a publication serving the information needs of the community, but I had read many an account of Camelot, and I was intrigued. I am not inclined to athletics (is anyone who attends/ attended Antioch?), but Camelot seemed less like athleticism and more like a Herculean labor, an impossible task – and yet, people had won it before.

It was also spring 2021 when a peer of mine, Delaney

Schlesinger-Devlin ‘22, and I decided it’d been far too long since the last Camelot. Camelot largely died out when Antioch reopened, mostly because it had a rather lurid history that is best left out of the Antiochian. A few attempts at revival were scattered about from 2012 to 2020, with the new and very vital stipulation that all things thrown must be compostable and vegan. This rule seemed valid, given what Delaney and I knew of Camelots long passed, but everything else was simple enough. I don’t really remember us asking anyone for permission to put on a Camelot – I think it was one of those “better to ask for forgiveness”type things. We sent out a signup sheet to see if people would even want to participate in a 100-lap bike race with compost being thrown at them.

Turns out, people did.

We planned Camelot for May 8th, 2021. There were a multitude trashed bikes laying around Sontag-Fels, so we picked a few decent-ish ones for riders to choose from. The day before Camelot, Delaney

and I, armed with a few five gallon buckets from the kitchens, marched our way to the farm to create Camelot juice. We made five buckets: about one part compost to four parts water, and we let them sit outside on the Horseshoe overnight.

Six brave riders arrived on the Horseshoe that fateful day, facing the unknown. It was sheer chaos for about two hours.

as they circled around and around the small course we had designated on the Horseshoe. It was brutal, but four people made it 100 laps. The winner, Bella Wolk ‘23, received a tiny pendant of Barack Obama as the Virgin Mary for prize, taken from the free store maybe a day before the race.

One of the riders (who happened to be previously mentioned coeditor Loretta) dropped out after a mere eight laps. I was running commentary for this first year, a little intimidated of what Delaney and I had wrought. Flour and compost were flying, and a loose pineapple top had made its way across the course multiple times. The five buckets of juice ran out far too quickly, and people resorted to throwing rocks, sticks, leaves, and nowempty buckets at the riders

Camelot was a success. Feeling rather pleased with ourselves, Delaney and I already began plotting for a 2022 Camelot. We settled on a date of May 7th, 2022 for the second reborn Camelot. Our participant number more than doubled, from six to thirteen, as did our buckets of Camelot juice. 2022 saw throwers becoming more devious in their projectiles, with biodegradable balloons full of vegetable oil, raw potatoes retrieved from a dumpster, and vegan glue all becoming fair game. Perhaps foolishly, given my witnessing of last year’s race, I participated in the 2022 Camelot.

It’s difficult to describe what it feels like to ride in Camelot if you’ve never done it before. As mentioned previously, I am not particularly athletically inclined.

“We sent out a sign-up sheet to see if people would even want to participate in a 100-lap bike race with compost being thrown at them.

Turns out, people did.”

A hundred lap bike race was a death sentence as-is, but coupled with the sheer amount of slop thrown on me was a recipe for disaster. My teammate, David Klasovsky, and I quit after 58 laps. I felt fine about our fourth place standing.

I left the track relatively unharmed, though I think I might have dry heaved for an hour following Camelot. Others were not so fortunate. Lola Betz, class of 2022, fell so hard on a curve covered in oil that she chipped a tooth, a permanent memory of Camelot. Despite more riders, the race ended in a mere hour and fifteen minutes, with first year E. Fried and

Delaney themself taking home first place.

Camelot, to me, is such a quintessentially Antiochian tradition. It’s truly an “only here” kind of thing, and I feel particularly honored to have contributed to its resurgence on campus. I graduate in June of this year, meaning I’m going to be present for my third Camelot in May 2023, and I truly look forward to it every day.

I’ve been at Antioch for four years now. When I look back on my experiences here, two things stand out the most: my involvement in The Record, and my involvement in Camelot.

I’m grateful to attend a college so willing to allow its students to take control of things like newspapers and bike races, letting me become a piece of living history at Antioch.

S. Quinn Ritzhaupt is a fourthyear student, majoring in Archival Preservations at Antioch College. A history lover since childhood, she has found her place in the College’s archive, Antiochiana, and currently works at the Olive Kettering Library and as the editor of The Record. Outside of classes, she is the co-coordinator of Chess Club at Antioch, and can often be found boring her friends with stories of Antioch’s past.

Seeking Nominees for Reunion 2023 Alumni Awards!

We are seeking nominees for the following awards presented at Reunion Weekend!

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Horace Mann Award

The Horace Mann Award recognizes contributions by alumni of Antioch College who have “won some victory for humanity,” following Horace Mann’s advice to the graduating class of 1859. Recipients are persons, or groups of persons, whose personal or professional activities have had a profound effect on the present or future human condition. Mann was the first president of Antioch College.

Arthur Morgan Award

The Arthur Morgan Award recognizes contributions by alumni or friends of the College which exemplify the concept of “community” advocated by Arthur Morgan. The nominees for this award should be persons, or groups of persons, who have contributed to their community—either local, national or world—in a manner which brings members of the community together in order to work toward common goals. Morgan served as President of Antioch College for 16 years.

Rebecca Rice Award

The Rebecca Rice Award recognizes alumni of Antioch College who by their actions, achievements, and leadership have distinguished themselves and their alma mater. The recipients of this award are persons who have excelled in their vocation or field of study. The award is named for the first female trustee—and longtime faculty member—of Antioch College.

J.D. Dawson Award

The J.D. Dawson Award recognizes significant contributions to Antioch College by alumni or friends of Antioch. The recipients of this award are persons who have contributed in a significant way to Antioch College or a program of Antioch College. Perhaps best-known for his involvement with the Co-op department, J.D. Dawson’s entire career was dedicated to Antioch College.

Walter F. Anderson Award

The Walter F. Anderson Award recognizes contributions by alumni and friends who have advanced Antioch College’s ideals by breaking down racial and ethnic barriers. The award is named for Antioch’s longtime music department chair, the first African-American department head at a historically non-black institution of higher education. Recipients have shown fortitude and effectiveness in promoting diversity within the Antioch community and beyond.

Class Notes

1950

Niela Miller ’57 For fifteen years, I have inhabited a virtual, well-developed 3D world on my computer screen.

I would like to invite alumni to discover interest groups, performances,conferences, friends from around the world… all for free… as virtuality becomes a part of our regular life experience. I combine arts processes, psychology and education in the many programs I do there.

If you decide to explore, go to www.secondlife.com and, once you join, please contact me as Marly Milena and let me know your Avatar name. I’d be happy to show you around and connect you with a mentor/guide if you need one.

1960

Linda Myers (White) ’61

In 1957 I bought a Mexican blanket in Guanajuato, Mex, on an Antioch program.

This week it is being returned to a Textile Museum in Mexico along with other textiles they wanted.

Robert Burchess ’64 Now, still an old April Fool, sixty years later, since good old Antioch back in the sixties. After grad, moved San Francisco. Returned NY. Theater, Shakespeare, repertory. Moved west to Oregon, master’s, counseling psych. Then back to NY, advertising, publishing, magazines. Moved Cambridge, corporate training, computer mags. Back to NY, Art Students League. After 9-11, moved VT. Still here. Take a look at this link if you feel like. https://normanwilliams.org/ mezzanine-gallery-exhibitmain-page/mezzanine-galleryexhibit-faces-and-figures/

Robin Rice ’64 Next Stage Press recently published “When Silence Is Not Golden,” three of my activist one-act plays. This March, Next Stage publishes two full-length plays. “Searching for a New Sunrise” looks at how some second- and thirdgeneration descendants of

Holocaust victims have been affected by that dark episode. “The Breast Monologues” was developed from interviews with many women about feelings, experiences and adventures with their breasts. In all - laughs sparkle through seriousness; truth underpins magic. Order from: https://next-stage-press. myshopify.com/collections/all/ robin-rice

Earl De Berge ’64 “Last year, I published two volumes of my poetry and an adventure memoir of an exciting three month coop job experience that Mark Winheld ’64 and I had in the wilderness of Mexico’s Baja California. All three publications can be seen at my author website: www.earldeberge.com. I have been invited to submit more of my writing during 2023. My wife and I (Suzanne Sonderegger ’65) are retired and living in Prescott AZ. Suzanne is the recipient of the 2012 Arthur Morgan Award for her nutrition program, Seeds for a Future, in Guatemala. The program is in its second decade of service to women in rural Guatemala.”

Linda Donnelly ’66 Can’t believe I turn 80 this year! I retired 2004 from a career in Columbus, OH and moved to Spring Green, WI to an architecturally significant home I call a Frank Lloyd Wright knock-off. Summer 2022 I took AMTRAK to East Coast and visited two Antioch friends, Karen (Jorgensen) Sheaffer ’65 Shelbourne Falls MA and Sarah (Robbins) Glick ’66 Gloucester MA and Mamaroneck NY. I almost got to visit Shirley (Tabata) Ponomareff ’64 in DC but my knees gave out from so much walking/sight-seeing. I still do a lot of piano and now recorder.

same piano teacher. I am an avid reader. I may try gardening again. Life is good...

Meg Umans ’67 Meg is peacefully retired from owning/operating a small independent book store and a private psychotherapy practice in Phoenix, Arizona. She’s a homebody now because of Covid, age and preference. Looking forward to seeing which old friends are still around, and which new ones are out there.

Charles Rosenberg ’68 Chuck and Sally Anne have moved to Westwood, near UCLA. Chuck still practices law on a low-key level and is still writing novels. The last two (both alt-histories), The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington and The Day Lincoln Lost, were finalists for the Sidewise Award for best alt-history novel of, respectively, 2020 and 2021. Sally Anne’s recent book of poetry, The Amateur Poet, Poems for Family and Friends, is up on Amazon.

Toledo artist Neil Frankenhauser and is featured this month on (2) “What, Why, How: Studies in Creativity,” a blog hosted by Linda Sienkiewicz. In January, I was featured on another blog (3) griffinpoetry.com. The links are below.

https://alicegreene.com/ publications/maumee-maumee/ https://lindaksienkiewicz.com/ category/series-on-creativity/ https://griffinpoetry.com/ 2023/01/20/never-come-down/

Evelyn LaMers ’69 and David Hergesheimer ‘72, both potters, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yellow Springs Pottery in 2023. The coop’s success story is featured in the February 2023 issue of “Ceramics Monthly” magazine.

1970

Occasionally I play Sundays for the Free Congregation of Sauk County. I regularly play piano duets with Nancy Fisher ’69 who I met because we have the

Terry Bohnhorst Blackhawk ’68 1) Maumee, Maumee, my ninth poetry collection, a chapbook, was published by Alice Greene & Co. of Ann Arbor in October 2022. The book memorializes my late life love,

Jonathan Zimmerman ’70 After 40 years of standing on movie sets, Mathea and I are happily retired in Southern California. My caregiving duties prevent me from attending the Antioch Work parties now, but I still keep in touch with some of my Antioch friends.

Pat Edwards ’70 When I graduated 53 years ago, I went off to north central Ohio to teach kids. Now I’ve been retired 10 years and, looking back, I’ve

Class Notes

remained proud to be able to say I grew up at Antioch College. Living here in my pondhouse on 7 acres of wildlife habitat we creat4ed out of a junkyard and a potato field. I’m grateful for what I’ve learned. I am still a human.

David A Greenberg ’71 Our (wife: Susan E. Hodge ’68) 6th grandchild was born -- a boy (at last!). Susan is happily retired from Ohio State Medical Center (Dept of Pediatrics). I am still working there (teaching, mostly) but given the state of basic scientific research in the medical world, perhaps not for long. I had my first photographic exhibition; satisfying but frustrating. Our three offspring have been fruitful and, given their penchant for math, multiplying.

Jeff Lerner ’72 retired as CEO of ECRI Institute in December 2017. Retirement allowed travel with Nora Newcombe ’72, on the psychology faculty at Temple University. They spent winter 2018 in Australia, New Zealand, and Greece, and continued until Fall 2019 when Jeff visited India (alone) and they met in Tenerife.

Recently, they are back on the road, visiting Zurich, Riga and Dublin. They also spend time in Chicago with their daughter and her family.

Hugh Stelson ’74 After 40 years on Oregon Coast doing family medicine, have relocated to Sedona, Az. My vote is more important here. Nice place to try to live out your golden years. Paul Hollister ’74 Retired, living in New Hampshire, trying to stay happy and healthy.

Margaret A. (Meg) Cooper ’74 Meg recently retired from the University of West Georgia. After teaching children with disabilities, she earned a Ph.D. in Special Education and went on to train special educators and other service providers at several universities, ending up at UWG. She also presented at conferences and consulted with programs at many locations throughout the United States. She credits Antioch, especially the co-op program, with good preparation and opening up many opportunities for her.

Barbara Esbin ’75 It has been sometime since I submitted a class note. Although many of my colleagues who are of my “vintage” are retiring, I have continued pursuing new work opportunities. Accordingly, I returned to federal service in 2017 as a Deputy Chief in the Federal Communications Commission’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. My job was to oversee the Bureau’s governmental affairs portfolio, which entailed oversight of the work of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs – IGA - and the Office of Native Affairs and Policy –ONAP – regarding, respectively, state and local and Tribal government relations with respect to FCC policies and programs. Working with Tribal leaders and entities was a great learning experience that took me to several Indian reservations

John (JB) Russell ’75 is a retired Woodworker, living in Denver

and communities and taught me much about our country’s legacy with respect to Native Americans. But all good things come to end at some point, and I am moving over to the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau to work on competition-related and other wireless communications matters. Always looking for that next great coop experience...

Jonathan Present ’76

Following 45 years in the Tech Industry, including two years at the Stanford Graduate School of Engineering, I am currently living in San Francisco, working for a New Zealand based company that creates Anti Terrorism, Anti money laundering Software.

Ira C Hock ’76 I worked for the NJ State Department of Human Services for 40 years, and retired in 2018. For ten years I investigated child abuse, and incidents in institutions and community. The other 30 I was with the NJ Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Since then I spent time painting the inside of the house, cooking, playing basketball, refinishing furniture, and receiving any immunizations available. I’ve been married 37 years with three kids.

Michael Morad-McCoy (McCoy) ’77 In late July,

Michael & family returned “home” to Washington, DC. Michael’s relocated psychotherapy practice (www.mmcpsychotherapy.com) is, again, almost full while Lisa continues with the University of New Mexico, working remotely. Older son, Aaron, is preparing for college, while younger child, Jett, is in their first year of high school at DC’s School Without Walls. Antiochian friends can email Michael at: mmckaibab@gmail.com.

David Garten ’77 (nongraduate) divides his time between Vermont, New York, and Havana where he married the love of his life, Mayte Bosch, in 2019. His photography exhibition, “Music Under the Skin” was displayed at the Cuban Art Factory in 2018. Since 2011 he has been the inhouse photographer for Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Two ALJO CD’s featuring his cover photos won Grammys for Best Latin Jazz Album.

Alan Siege ’78 I graduated Antioch “majoring” in Poli Sci. and “minoring” in theatre. My lasted project - The Pitch Show-

Business, where I give aspiring entrepreneurs a chance to “pitch” their business idea to an audience in a Comedy Clubbrings both these passions to life. The entrepreneurs are “Chasing Giants” as they seek to startle the world with new ways to solve problems that the “big boys” “won’t do.”

Wade Matthews ’78 Busy doing what he loves: making music, writing and teaching improvisation workshops. Latest book, ·El Instrumento. Evolución, gestos y reflexiones·, among Scherzo magazine’s best of 2022. In May, he’ll present it in Bogotá, Buenos Aires and Córdoba. Two concerts in Valencia last week, plus musicians and performance artists came from five countries for his improvisation workshop there. This week, concerts, another workshop, and a book presentation at Madrid’s Royal Conservatory. Feeling happy and fulfilled.

a blend of Performance and

After almost forty years in higher ed, I retired in 2018. Looking

Cathy LaPalombara ’78

Class Notes

back, I was fortunate to work in a small liberal arts college (Antioch), a medium-size public university (Ohio University), and a very large community college (Prince George’s Community College) in Maryland. When Antioch closed in 2008 I was distraught and worried about how to orchestrate a mid-career move, but kicked it in gear and discovered some wonderful opportunities, learned lots of new things, and met some fabulous people! On retirement I returned to Athens and Windy Hills Farm where I hike, commune with nature, and enjoy all things equine. Additionally, I do grant work and write content for historical signage at Strouds Run State Park. And, if you remember my daughter - Paia finished up at the University of Pennsylvania and did her law degree at the Ohio State University. She’s the compliance director for athletics at OSU and has a wonderful daughter and another baby on the way!

1980

Jeanne Badman ’80 is finally admitting to being retired and is

busy taking care of an old house in St. Paul, MN. Always knew I was good at puttering. Found time to visit with friends Susan Bradburn Coleman, ’80, and Dennis Abrams. So glad to be in touch with lots of alumni over so many years.

Associate Professor and Director for International Programs at Czech Uni of Life Sciences, after 5 years at UMass Amherst and Utah State before that. I teach and do research in landscape planning. Happily married with a 6-year-old daughter! Come visit!

Janet ’80 & Michael ’78 Johnston Live in Massachusetts. Worked in tv-news forever. Now retired. Have 2 adult children living with us while they finish college and get started with jobs. We will be RV-ing starting this Spring. Our base will be in Rhode Island by the ocean. We would love to see friends.

Peter Kumble ’80 Greetings. Life is good here, as I am celebrating nearly 11 years of living in Prague, Czech Republic. I was hired as

John Giarelli ’80 After graduation in the Spring of 1980, I followed our wandering band of “Antioch Record” aspiring journalists, Laura (Camozzi) Berry ’82, Scott Tremeil ’81, and Rebecca Guinn ’80 to Washington, DC. Rebecca and I were living in a communal hippie house in Adams Morgan when I met the love of my life, Ted. Within a year, I was following Ted to San Francisco, where he wanted to be at the heart of the Gay Liberation scene. Harvey Milk had just been assassinated, but that only made the LGBTQ Community more politicized and united. Then came AIDS. We left SF in 1985 for a sunnier, hopefully healthier, but more politically and racially regressive Louisiana, where I started Grad School in the English Dept. at LSU. On Valentine’s Day of 1989, Ted succumbed to AIDS,

and the rest of our circle of friends followed suit, eventually including my best friend and Antioch legend, Eric Gupton ’84. I was the lone survivor and was irretrievably lost. I moved to New York City and spent the first half of the 1990s clubbing, drugging, and self-invalidating. In 1996, I relocated to Los Angeles, where the abuse continued, but this time alongside a nearly 20 year successful community college teaching career in the English Dept. at LA City College. In 2015, I retired both my teaching hat and drug addict paraphernalia, and moved to a tiny, remote mountain town halfway between LA and Joshua Tree, where I live a grand old life as a fairly content Gay Boomer. During the Pandemia, I wrote and published my memoir, “A Gay Boomer Story,” which is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle eBook. There’s a neat chapter on Antioch and Yellow Springs in the 1970s. Peace, Love, and Protest my fellow Antioch hippies.

Barbara Dole Acosta ’84 was busy this year organizing the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge in Trenton, ME, with the goal of rebuilding habitat and educating residents about pollinators. She continues to serve as chair of the Peace and Social Action

Ministry at the Ellsworth Unitarian Universalist Church. In her spare time, she hikes in Acadia National Park, paddles her kayak, runs a short-term rental, and manages her organic garden. In June of last year she became a grandmother for the first time.

possibility of recreating such a program today. Also, Peter says, while not discussed in the story, there was a direct line between his experience in the Sidetrack program and his years at Antioch. The article is available at https://ishort.ink/hUpS

Matt Chapman ’85 Without going into a full blown organ recital, I’ll share that a flurry of major surgeries during the COVID 19 lockdown have resulted in my limited mobility and early retirement. I continue to live in the SF Bay Area.

Peter Thompson ’84 Peter Thomson’s article “The radical, forgotten experiment in educational integration that changed my life” filled half of the Boston Globe’s Sunday Ideas section in mid-January. The article told the story of Peter’s 7th grade year in a short-lived fully-integrated urban-suburban, experiential education-based two-way student swap between public schools in Boston and Lincoln, Massachusetts (together with Dan Spock ’83), and it prompted a wide-ranging discussion in the Boston area and beyond about the value of school integration in a time of increasing social divides, and the

April Maybee (Miller) ’86 is completing a masters of fine art at Purdue University this spring. April’s artwork is being displayed in an exhibition called, “Slow Burn,” between February 1324, 2023 at the Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries at Purdue. Her work explores identity through the lens of being an American biracial woman of Norwegian and African descent.

Clarence Maybee ’87 became the founding director of the Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue, which brings together researchers and stakeholders to explore the role of information literacy in addressing information challenges, such as misinformation and fake news.

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Ariel Leonard ’87, is living in Flagstaff, Arizona as is her brother Corwin Leonard ’94. Nestled in the ponderosa pines below the San Francisco peaks and close to the Grand Canyon, Verde River, Sonoran Desert, and Sedona; she tries to get outside hiking, kayaking, and skiing whenever she can. She loves her work with the US Forest Service, supporting ecosystem restoration and advancing adaptive management through planning and partnership engagement.

1990

Daniel Isenstein ’90 spent the COVID-19 lockdown authoring his first book, Tales from the Kentucky Hemp Highway, published by the History Press/Arcadia Publishing. The book examines some of the historical narratives intertwined with Kentucky’s hemp industry. Hemp was an essential crop for pioneers on the frontier and over time developed into Kentucky’s leading cash crop until the early 1900s. The book is a companion to the self-directed historical tour Mr. Isenstein developed in 2016

based around the 12 roadside historical markers in Kentucky that reference the state’s hemp industry, The Kentucky Hemp Highway.

Nathaniel Clark ’97 achieved an expensive M.A. Degree from The New School, doubled down, and got another expensive M.F.A. Degree from Drexel University. He’s now a full-time Professor of Radio/Television/ Film, teaching, which he loves. So it all paid off, kids! Except for the loans, which they’ll get back out of his cold dead hands. Nathaniel’s still wearing a pair of socks he stole from Ed Koziarski, his first roommate. Which Ed will get back off his cold dead feet.

Dana Felty Bynum ’98 In December, 2022, Rachel Borgatti ’00 and I took our families camping together on Jekyll Island, one of Georgia’s beautiful state-owned barrier islands. Wonderful biking, boating, sightseeing, so many junky snacks, occasionally misplacing a kid here and there, and some cozy campfire time. It was awesome. Like 20 years

hadn’t passed since we were having great fun living in DC and Baltimore. Of course, we talked about all our mutual Antioch family. Love to you all.

2000

Emily ‘star’ Sepik ’02, after almost completely avoiding the science building for 5 years, graduated in December from Western Carolina University’s accelerated nursing program with her BSN. She passed her boards and begins work at a surgical-trauma ICU in Asheville, NC, in February.

Liz Flyntz ‘02 is living in Baltimore with her wife Emily Riehl and her cat Smush. In Fall of 2022, she was Visiting Artist at Antioch, teaching two courses in Media Arts: “Design for Interactivity” and “The

Ant Farm Art Building and the History of Media Art Innovation at Antioch”, and organizing a field trip to the Front Triennial, an art fair taking place in Cleveland and Akron. She recently did some traveling around Europe and stayed with Antiochian Nicole Emmenegger ’97 in Amsterdam. They visited the Beeld & Geluid (Sound & Vision) archive in Hilversum, where Nicole was Product Manager for Research and Heritage.

Liz is currently working on a research project investigating the intersections of the Antioch network, radical architecture, and the integration of media technology and pedagogy. She continues to be interested in stories and materials related to the Ant Farm Antioch Art Building aka the Art Barn or the Old Art Building.

Jill Summerville ’06 Dr. Jill Summerville earned her PhD in Theatre History, Dramatic Literature, and Theatre Criticism in 2014. She is currently working as a freelance writer. She coedited and wrote introductory essays for At the Intersection of Disability and Drama: A Critical Anthology of New Plays (McFarland Publishing 2021).

Suggest creative collaborations or victories for humanity to her at http://jillellensummerville.com.

2010

Yoyo Lee ’16 Hello, it is I, Yoyo, in my 2nd year of veterinary school! Honestly, it’s like a giant tsunami is trying to crush me, and my professors say I can outrun it with proper leg work. (Ha-haha.) BUT I’m learning a lot! Also THANK YOU KAMMLER!! Biochemistry at Antioch was hard, but it made my metabolic class a breeze! Hindsight 20-20! Don’t doubt what you’re being taught! It always comes back for ya.

his family tree we discovered Coretta and his grandmother were second cousins. Small world!

Maya Canaztuj ’17 recently started a position with YSI, a Xylem Brand. As a Technical Support Specialist, Maya is assisting fellow scientists, who are out in the field, with troubleshooting their equipment. This is a big change from Maya’s last position but it is one that they are stepping into excitedly. Although they are not at the YS site often, it’s funny for them to think about being back where it all started.

Austin Miller ’17 I’ve been living in Fort Wayne, IN since leaving Antioch. I am about to start my 7th year as a full-time beekeeper. Not what I studied for at Antioch but it’s the best paying job here in Northwest Ohio! I recently took my boyfriend of five years to see campus and particularly the Coretta Scott King Center. Working on

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Arthur Brown: Love and Politics or: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

From the daily Xenia Gazette, May 27th, 1902:

SENATOR ARTHUR BROWN AND HIS YOUNG WIFE Were Royally Entertained at Yellow Springs—Now Another Mrs. Brown Wants to Know About It.

A little episode which has been the occasion of a good deal of talk and comment at Yellow Springs has just come to light, in which Senator Arthur Brown, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is a central figure, and some of his friends who entertained him in a royal manner at Yellow Springs, would like to have him explain some matters connected with his recent visit there.

Mr. Brown is a graduate of Antioch and after finishing his school work went to Michigan to practice law. He finally drifted to Utah where he became prominent in public life and was elected as United States Senator from that State.

A few weeks ago he paid a visit to his old college and met a number of his old friends, and was handsomely entertained by the faculty of the college and others being introduced by President Bell to his class and shown every consideration. He was accompanied by a young woman whom he introduced as his wife and they spent several days at Yellow Springs.

A week or two ago Prof. Bell received a letter from a lady at Salt Lake City in which she stated that she had seen in the newspaper that Senator Arthur Brown and his wife had been entertained at Antioch. She said that as she had never been away from Salt Lake City while her husband had been absent, she would like to have a little light on the subject as she herself is Mrs. Arthur Brown, wife of Senator Brown.

There seems to have been a bad mixup somewhere in Senator Brown’s wives, and since the story has leaked out there is a good deal of fun being had over the matter by those conversant with the circumstances.

Arthur Brown was born in Schoolcraft in Kalamazoo County, Michigan in 1843. He moved to Yellow Springs with his family when he was 13 years old so that his sisters Marcia, Oella and Olympia could attend Antioch College, then one of the few schools open to both men and women. Arthur also attended Antioch, graduating in 1862. He went back home

The Xenia Gazette of 27 May 1902 pokes fun at the College and the reception given to the other Mrs. Brown.

and to study law, earned a Master’s Degree at University of Michigan in 1864, and was admitted to the Michigan bar that same year. He married a woman sources name only as “Mrs. LC Brown ‘’ and they had a daughter named Alice. By the mid 1870s he had built a highly reputable law practice in Kalamazoo, and yet...his reputation was in shambles. It seems he had become enamored of one Isabel Cameron, daughter of a Michigan state senator. When the affair became public (as they so often do), he found he needed a change of venue. He separated from his wife, and “Mrs. LC “reportedly tried to shoot Cameron when she caught her in Brown’s office one evening. He moved to Salt Lake City in the Utah Territory in 1879 for a more healthful climate, where he again built a successful law practice. There he married Isabel Cameron and they had a son named Max.

When Utah became a state in 1896, Brown ran as a Republican for its first ever seats in the US Senate along with Silver Republican candidate Frank J. Cannon, and was elected by the state legislature. In a book Cannon co-authored in 1911 bizarrely titled UNDER THE PROPHET IN UTAH: The

National Menace of a Political Priestcraft, he recalled that “also, a Republican assistance was given [to Alfred W McCune] by my former colleague, Arthur Brown, who specialized as an opponent to my candidacy.” In order that both seats from one state do not come open in the same election, Senate terms are staggered into “classes” of two, four and six year terms for newly admitted states, something we’ve not had to think about since the 1950s. Brown drew the “short term,” serving only until 1897, when he was not renominated. In 1892 Arthur met Anne Bradley.

Anne Maddison Bradley was born in Kansas City, MO, in 1873. Her family moved to Salt Lake City in 1890. There she got a job at the municipal water

works. In 1893 she married an employee of the Rio Grande Western Railroad (can you tell I’m from Ohio?) named Clarence Bradley She quit her job and had two children. A woman of many interests, she was active in several organizations including the Salt Lake City Woman’s Club, the Utah Woman’s Press Club, the Poets’ Roundtable, and edited the Utah State Federation of Women’s Clubs’ publication. In 1900 she was secretary of the Fifth Ward Republican Committee and in 1902 for the

Antioch College Sophomore Class, 1860. Photo taken on the front steps of Main Building. Arthur Brown, second row, second from left.

state Republican party. That was how she got to know Arthur Brown. The two developed a friendship that by 1900 had become a torrid romance which likely produced a child since she named him Arthur Brown Bradley. Anne and Clarence Bradley had already estranged in 1898. He left town to work on the Nevada, California & Oregon Railroad in 1900, where his life would take an exceedingly strange turn all its own.

In 1902 Bradley traveled extensively with Arthur Brown as Mrs. Brown, a ruse that amused many but fooled few, that is, with the exception of Antioch College, where they were received in a way befitting a distinguished alumnus (such as a Senator) returning to his alma mater. Counted among the titillated was The Xenia Gazette, as the preceding article suggests. Interestingly, no answer or defense can be found in The Yellow Springs News; maybe the local press did not wish to embarrass anyone further or was itself too embarrassed by the visit of Senator Brown and his mistress, and preferred to forget the whole thing.

And maybe Isabel Brown hadn’t just chanced on the story in the papers as claimed in The Gazette. She had already hired

a private detective to follow her husband and the other “Mrs. Brown.” She also had over 300 letters in her possession written by Anne to Arthur, which she threatened to make public unless he ended the affair. She denied him a much asked for divorce on the grounds that she expected to be received at court during an upcoming visit to England, an honor not open to divorced women, and besides, “she [objected] seriously to being divorced at all,” filing charges of adultery against her husband and Anne Bradley in September 1902.

In April 1903 the three met up in a dramatic confrontation in a Pocatello, Idaho, hotel where Arthur Brown had a ranch. Isabel attacked Mrs. Bradley on the spot and might have killed her had no one intervened. The eyewitness and intervener, Brown’s attorney Soren X. Christensen, described the incident in a deposition:

...Mrs. Bradley came up the stairs with...a grip in her hand... when Mrs. Brown said to her “How do you do, Mrs. Bradley? I have wanted to talk to you!” Mrs. Brown walked up towards her and grabbed her by the throat and threw her down, and intended to kill her, I took it...I separated them, they got up, and

commenced talking in a very low tone of voice again, when Mrs. Brown grabbed her again.

I separated them, and Mrs. Brown says “Let me alone, I will kill her,” and I says, “Not when I am here.” Then Mrs. Bradley calls out and says, “Arthur, they are killing your Dolly—open the door.” There was no response from the Senator’s room. Finally Mrs. Brown rapped on the door and said “Arthur, open the door or I will mash it in.”

Brown relented and let the two women into his room, asking Christensen in as well so as not to be alone with both his “wives.” Christensen further reported that the “general conversation pertaining to their conduct” went on til 7:30 the next morning, and that amid the accusations and insults, Arthur denied being the father of Max Brown while admitting to fathering Arthur Brown Bradley. Nuts. In case the two women encountered each other again, Arthur provided Anne Bradley with a revolver for protection following the episode.

On the eve of their adultery trial, Bradley demanded that Brown acknowledge their son. She threatened to plead guilty, which would surely damage any future designs he had for returning to public

life. In what we surely by now have determined to be his characteristic fashion, Brown refused, pleading not guilty and once again reversing himself on the fatherhood of Anne’s son Arthur. He was tried and acquitted while Anne Bradley was never sentenced. Arthur resented Anne’s admission of guilt, and while it marked the beginning of the end of their tumultuous romance, that resentment did not preclude another child of hers that could reasonably be attributed to him, Martin MB Bradley, born in November.

In 1905 Isabel Brown died of cancer, and though finally free to marry Anne Bradley, the widower Arthur Brown still would not commit. Bradley herself divorced so that they could be married, and his recalcitrance drove her to desperation as she was now without support for herself and her four children, two of whom were probably his anyway. As if that wasn’t enough to put her over the edge, Arthur’s rewritten will surely did:

I do not devise or bequeath anything to the children of Mrs. Anna M. Bradley — I explicitly refuse to give anything to Arthur Brown Bradley, sometimes known as Arthur Brown, Jr., or

to the other son of Anna M. Bradley named by her Martin Montgomery Brown, and I refuse to pay or give anything to any child of said Anna M. Bradley. I do not think that either or any child born of said Anna M. Bradley is my child — but whether such child or children is or are mine or not, I expressly provide neither or any of them

shall receive anything from my estate, and I will and direct that no child born of Anna Madison Bradley shall receive anything from my estate…I have never married said Anna M. Bradley, and never intend to. If she should pretend that any relation ever existed between us to justify any such inference, I direct my executors to contest any claim

The Washington Post reporting on the shooting of Arthur Brown, December 9th 1906.

of any kind (so) that she receive nothing from my estate.

His calculated disowning of Anne Bradley’s children would be the last of Arthur Brown’s assorted miscalculations. In December 1906 she tracked the former Senator down at the Raleigh Hotel in Washington DC to confront him once and for all to live up to his long held promise to marry her and make her child (or children) legitimate in the eyes of the law. Finding his room unoccupied, Bradley discovered letters between Brown and a prominent actress that revealed his intention to marry her instead (Whatta guy). When she finally saw him, she gave him a chance to make good on his pledge, but apparently not much of one. Though she later remembered none of it, Anne Bradley drew the pistol Arthur had given her years before and shot him in the stomach. Though he was rushed to the hospital, the bullet was lodged too deeply near his pelvic bone to be removed, and Arthur Brown died from his wound ten days later. Anne Bradley was tried for his murder but acquitted by reason of temporary insanity, and the aforementioned excerpt from his will provided the key testimony.

The Brown family was understandably scandalized by Arthur’s indiscretions. His far more famous sister Olympia, the first ordained woman minister in American history and an important suffragist, wrote him out of her autobiography Acquaintances Old and New Among Reformers, and his name does not appear in his sister Marcia’s obituary in the 12 Mar 1909 Yellow Springs News. Subsequent generations of Browns would hardly mention his name after his death.

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Springfield Daily News reporting on the death of Senator Arthur Brown, December 13th, 1906.