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 third-generation 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.

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 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.

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, 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

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 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 A fter 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.

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

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 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-

a blend of Performance and 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.

Cathy LaPalombara ’78 After almost forty years in higher ed, I retired in 2018. Looking 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.

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 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!

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.