2017–2018 Guide To Yellow Springs

GUIDE TO YELLOW SPRINGS

Elder Stories 2017–2018 2018 A SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS

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THE GUIDE to YELLOW SPRINGS 2017–18

EMERGENCY SERVICES

Fire, police, ambulance ................................................. 911 Anonymous hotline ............................................... 767‑1604

MIAMI TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT Miami Township office ......................................... 767‑2460.......... 7

VILLAGE GOVERNMENT Village Mediation Program of Yellow Springs ............................. 7 John Gudgel ..................................................... 605‑8754 Village offices, general information .........767‑3402, ext. 0.......... 7 Bryan Center Reservations .............................. 767‑7209 Clerk of Council ................................................ 767‑9126 Clerk of Mayor’s Court..................................... 767‑3400 Economic development .................................... 767‑1702 Electric/Water Distribution ............................. 767‑8649 Gaunt Park Pool ................................................ 767‑9172 Parks and Recreation ........................................ 767‑7209 Police, non‑emergency ..................................... 767‑7206 Streets/Sidewalks/Sewer Collection .............. 767‑7205 Utility Billing ............................................ 767‑7202 x221 Village Manager ................................................ 767‑1279 Patti Bates Water/Wastewater Facility ............................... 767‑7208 Zoning/Code enforcement ............................... 767‑1702 Councils, boards, commissions and task forces ........................ 15

ARTS & RECREATION Art & Soul, Lisa Goldberg .................................... 767‑7285.......... 8 Bridge, Susan Freeman ........................................ 767‑0235.......... 8 Chamber Music in Yellow Springs Reservations ...................................................... 374‑8800.......... 8 Community Band ........................................................................... 8 James Johnston, Brian Mayer Community Chorus, James Johnston........................................... 8 Carol Cottom ..................................................... 767‑1458 Foundry Theater ............................................ 937‑319‑0200.......... 9 John Bryan Community Pottery .......................... 767‑9022.......... 9 Brad Husk; Krystal Luketic, studio director Little Art Theatre .................................................. 767‑7671.......... 9 Shakespeare Reading Group......................................................... 9 Deborah McGee ................................................ 823‑8073 Weavers’ Guild, Diana Nelson ............................. 767‑9487........ 11 World House Choir, Catherine Roma ........... 513‑560‑9082........ 11 Yellow Rockers, Ralph and Melanie Acton ......... 767‑8951........ 11 Yellow Springs Arts Council ................................ 679‑9722........ 11 Yellow Springs Chamber Orchestra ........................................... 11 James Johnston Yellow Springs Contra Dance ..................................................... 11 Ben Hemmendinger .................................. 646‑373‑2361 Yellow Springs Strings, Shirley Mullins .............. 767‑3361........ 11 Yellow Springs Theater Company .............................................. 11 Lorrie Sparrow‑Knapp

COMMUNICATIONS Antioch Review, Cynthia Dunlevy ....................... 769‑1365........ 57 Yellow Springs Commnity Access ....................... 767‑7803 ....... 57 WYSO Public Radio .............................................. 767‑6420........ 57 Yellow Springs News ............................................ 767‑7373........ 57

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AACW, Karen Patterson ....................................... 716‑0377........ 19 African‑American Genealogy Group........................................... 19 Robert L. Harris................................................ 767‑1949 Alcoholics Anonymous ......................................... 222‑2211........ 19 Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, Susan Jennings ........... 767‑2161........ 19 Better Health Co‑op, Merrill Anderson............... 879‑0402........ 19 Charlie Brown Patient & Caregiver Support Group ................. 19 Rubin Battino .................................................... 767‑1854 Corner Cone Farmers Market .................................................... 19 Louise Berrier ................................................... 605‑8765 Enhance Worldwide ..................................................................... 19 Ashley Lackovich‑Van Gorp ............................. 708‑0144 Feminist Health Fund .......................................... 767‑8949........ 19 Food Co‑op, Luan Heit.......................................... 767‑1823........ 19 Friends Care Community ..................................... 767‑7363........ 19 Great Books, Ken Huber ...................................... 767‑1160........ 20 Green Environmental Coalition ........................... 767‑2109........ 20 Grinnell Mill Foundation, Chris Mucher ............ 767‑1391........ 20 James A. McKee Association ...................................................... 20 Paul Abendroth ................................................. 767‑1648 Peggy Erskine................................................... 767‑7856 Karen McKee .................................................... 767‑8061 La Leche League .......................................................................... 20 Laura Ann Ellison .........................767‑1097 or 708‑6392 Sylvia Ann Ellison ............................................. 708‑6252 Masonic Lodge, Don Lewis .................................. 901‑6211........ 20 McKinney/YSHS PTO ................................................................ 21 Mills Lawn PTO, Lauren Mikesell .............................................. 21 Morgan Family Foundation, Lori M. Kuhn ........ 767‑9208........ 21 NAMI of Clark, Greene & Madison Counties ........................... 21 Narcotics Anonymous .......................................... 505‑0705........ 21 Neighborhood Gardens....................767‑2729 or 750‑6090........ 21

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS contÕ d.

Odd Fellows, Ruth Jordan ................878‑7871 or 607‑8115........ 21 Ranch Menagerie Animal Sanctuary .......................................... 26 Nick Ormes ....................................................... 231‑1046 Riding Centre, The ............................................... 767‑9087........ 26 Senior Center ........................................................ 767‑5751........ 26 Tecumseh Land Trust, Krista Magaw ................. 767‑9490........ 26 Tenant Cooperative, Paul Buterbaugh ................ 767‑2224........ 26 The 365 Project ............................................................................ 26 Threshold Singers of Yellow Springs Linda Chernick ................................................ 234‑SING........ 26 UNICEF, Joy Fishbain .......................................... 767‑7724........ 26 Wellness Center at Antioch College .................... 319‑0100........ 27 Winter Farmers Market ...................................... 767‑7560........ 27 Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce ..................................... 27 Karen Wintrow ................................................. 767‑2686 Yellow Springs Community Foundation .............. 767‑2655........ 27 Yellow Springs Farmers Market ................................................. 27 Michele Burns .................................................. 319‑6076 Yellow Springs Historical Society ............................................... 27 David Neuhardt ................................................ 767‑7106 Gillian Hill ......................................................... 767‑7432 Yellow Springs Home, Inc., Chris Hall ................ 767‑2790........ 29 Yellow Springs Repair Cafe ......................................................... 29 Kat Walter ......................................................... 475‑9207 Yellow Springs Resilience Network ............................................ 29 Yellow Springs Time Exchange .................................................. 29 Kat Walter ......................................................... 475‑9207 Yellow Springs Tree Committee ......767‑2981 or 767‑2162........ 29 YS PetNet .............................................................. 372‑2044........ 29

EDUCATION PRIVATE SCHOOL

Antioch School, The ............................................. 767‑7642........ 49 Yellow Springs Montessori School ............................................. 51 PRESCHOOL

Community Children’s Center ............................ 767‑7236........ 49 Community Children’s Center After School Care .............................................. 767‑7236........ 50 Friends Preschool Program ........................................................ 50 Kathy Harper ...................................... 767‑1303, ext. 113 PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Greene County Career Center ............................. 372‑6941........ 50 Greene County Educational Service Ctr ............ 767‑1303 ....... 50 Greene County Learning Center ................................................ 50 Jason Miller ........................................ 767‑1303, ext. 141 Yellow Springs Public Schools .................................................... 51 Mario Basora, superintendent ......................... 767‑7381 Mills Lawn Elementary .................................... 767‑7217 Matt Housh, principal Y.S. High School, McKinney School................ 767‑7224 Tim Krier, principal HIGHER EDUCATION

Antioch College..................................................... 767‑1286........ 49 Antioch University ................................................ 769‑1340........ 49 Antioch University Midwest ................................ 769‑1814........ 49

GLEN HELEN Glen Helen Ecology Institute ............................... 769‑1904........ 65 Outdoor Education Center & Raptor Center .... 767‑7648........ 65 Nature Shop ...................................................... 767‑1902........ 65 Trailside Museum and Visitor Center ............. 767‑7798........ 65 Glen Helen Association .................................... 769‑1904........ 65

LIBRARY Yellow Springs Community Library .................... 352‑4003........ 33 Yellow Springs Library Association ............................................ 33 Beatrix Karthaus‑Hunt

LOCAL INDUSTRY DMS ink, Christine Soward ................................. 222‑5056........ 56 ElectroShield, Inc. ................................................ 767‑1054........ 56 EnviroFlght, LLC .................................................. 767‑1988........ 56 Morris Bean & Company ..................................... 767‑7301........ 56 S&G Artisan Distillery, LLC ....................................................... 56 Vernay Laboratories ............................................. 767‑7261........ 56 Yellow Springs Brewery ....................................... 767‑0222........ 56 YSI/Xylem Brand ................................................. 767‑7241........ 56

SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY Bahá’í Faith, Roi and Linden Qualls .................... 767‑7079........ 43 Bethel Lutheran Church ............................................................. 43 Pastor Larry Bannick ....................................... 323‑2471 Central Chapel AME Church ............................... 767‑3061........ 43 Rev. Dwight E. Smith, pastor First Baptist Church .........................767‑7659 or 767‑7623........ 43 Pastor William F. Randolph Jr. First Presbyterian Church, office ........................ 767‑7751........ 43 Rev. Aaron Maurice Saari, pastor Grandmother Drum Healing Circle ........................................... 43 Grandmother Peggy ......................................... 767‑9331 Grandmother Abby ........................................... 767‑1170

YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY contÕ d Heart Rhythm Meditation Class & Circle .................................. 44 Denise Runyon & Tom Malcolm ..................... 623‑2047 Pleasant Grove Missionary Church .................... 767‑8011........ 44 Pastor Matt Ransom St. Paul Catholic Church ...................................... 767‑7450........ 44 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship .......372‑5613, 767‑1603........ 44 Yellow Springs Assembly of God Christian Center ................... 44 Pastor J. Ray Tyson .......................................... 767‑9133 Yellow Springs Dharma Center ........................... 767‑9919........ 45 Yellow Springs Friends Meeting (Quakers) ....... 232‑4250........ 45 Yellow Springs Havurah, Stephen Green ............ 767‑9293........ 45 Yellow Springs United Methodist Church .......... 767‑7560........ 45 Rev. Rick Jones

YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS Boy Scouts ............................................................. 206‑4604........ 34 Cub Scouts, Chris Wyatt ...................................... 767‑0112........ 34 Fair Play 4‑H Club........................................................................ 34 Kathleen Galarza ....... ....................... ...............838‑7411 Girl Scouts, Susan Hyde ....................................... 767‑7756........ 34 Perry League, Jimmy Chesire ............................. 767‑7300........ 34 Sea Dogs ....................................................................................... 35 Yellow Springs Youth Baseball .................................................. 35 Tim and Jennifer Sherwood ............................ 767‑8702 Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association ............................ 35 Yellow Springs Youth Soccer ...................................................... 35 Bill and Lynn Hardman .................................... 768‑4140 Bob Curley......................................................... 767‑7070 YS Kids Playhouse, Ara Beal ............................... 767‑7800........ 35

STORIES Fifty years in the same house ....................................................... 4 A soft‑spoken voice for equality .................................................. 12 A shared life and love of literature ............................................. 16 Life as a doer, teacher and friend ............................................... 22 Making people the priority ......................................................... 30 Always coming home to the village ............................................ 36 A bridger of words and worlds ................................................... 40 A habit of caring, and aging well ................................................ 46 Deep roots, and a historian’s eye................................................ 52 Showing up, making a difference ............................................... 58 Powering into her 90s .................................................................. 62 A life of the mind, and of music .................................................. 66

ELECTED OFFICIALS (as of 10/2017) U.S. SENATORS

U.S. HOUSE, 10th DISTRICT

Washington address: Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202‑224‑3121

Mike Turner (R) 2239 Rayburn Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: 202‑225‑6465 Fax: 202‑225‑6754 Web: turner.house.gov Dayton Office 120 West 3rd St., Suite 305 Dayton, Ohio 45402 Phone: 937‑225‑2843 Fax: 937‑225‑2752

Sherrod Brown (D) 713 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202‑224‑2315 Fax: 202‑228‑6321 Web: brown.senate.gov Columbus office: 200 N. High St., Room 614 Columbus, OH 43215 Phone: 614‑469‑2083 Fax: 614‑469‑2171 Toll Free 888‑896‑6446 Robert “Rob” Portman (R) 448 Russell Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202‑224‑3353 www.portman.senate.gov Columbus office: 37 West Broad St., Room 300 Columbus, OH 43215 Phone: 614‑469‑6774 Toll‑Free: 800‑205‑6446

STATE SENATE, 10th DISTRICT

Bob Hackett (R) Senate Building 1 Capitol Square, Ground Floor Columbus, Ohio 43215 Phone: 614‑466‑3780 Email: SD10@senate.state.oh.us Web: ohio senate.gov/widener STATE HOUSE, 73rd DISTRICT

Rick Perales (R) 77 S. High St., 13th Floor Columbus, Ohio 43215 Phone: 614‑644‑6020 Fax: 614‑719‑3970 Web: ohiohouse.gov/Rick‑Perales

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS T H E G U I D E T O Y E L L O W S P R I N G S was a team effort.

Contributors were Robert Hasek and Suzanne Szempruch in advertising; Suzanne Szempruch and Matt Minde in design; Matt Minde, who contributed overall design and cover art; Lauren Shows, who organized and edited submissions; Audrey Hackett, Diane Chiddister, Carol Simmons, Holly Hudson and Robin Suits, who interviewed the people featured here; Carol Simmons in proofing. We thank our advertisers for taking part in this effort, and we hope you enjoy this year’s Guide to Yellow Springs.

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YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS A‑C Service Company ...........................................32 Adoption Link, Inc...................................................7 Al Kahina Middle Eastern (Belly) Dance Studio.......................................29 Aleta’s Cafe ............................................................20 Antioch College .....................................Back Cover Antioch School, The..............................................20 Arbor‑Care of Yellow Springs...............................21 Asanda Imports .....................................................41 Atomic Fox.............................................................63 Back to Now ..........................................................43 Basho Screenprinting ...........................................26 Battino Counseling Services ................................16 Rubin Battino, M.S. Battle, Esther S., Ph.D., Inc. ................................16 Bauer Stoves and Fireplaces ................................58 Bentino’s Pizza ........................................................6 Black Pug Bike Repair ..........................................55 Blue Butterfly ........................................................44 Bradstreet & Associates, Inc. ..............................53 Brandeberry Winery ..............................................5 Bryce Hill Inc. .......................................................57 Chamber Music in Yellow Springs ........................4 Clifton Garden Cabin ............................................23 Clifton Opera House .............................................51 Coldwell Banker Heritage Realtors Craig Mesure .....................................................6 Bambi Williams, Sam Eckenrode, Minerva Bieri ..............................................33 Community Children’s Center.............................60 Community Solutions, Arthur Morgan Institute for ..........................44 Complete Building Service, LLC .........................57 Corner Cone ..........................................................19 Creative Explorations ...........................................22 Current Cuisine .....................................................18 Dark Star Bookstore .............................................14 Dunphy Real Estate, Inc. ......................................50 Jo Dunphy Sheila Dunphy‑Palotta Teresa Dunphy Earth Energy Medicine ..........................................8 Abigail Cobb, R.N. Earth Rose .............................................................60 EdenWorld ............................................................54 Kim Plinovich, L.M.T.

Edward Jones ........................................................45 Mike Reed Ehman’s Garage ....................................................25 Eldridge Roofing, Inc............................................18 Emporium Wines / Underdog Café ....................63 Enon Veterinary Hospital .....................................15 EnviroFlight, LLC .................................................53 Flying Mouse Farms.............................................29 Friends Care Community .....................................28 Funderburg, Pamela, L.M.T. ................................67 Gailz Tattooz ..........................................................41 Glen Garden Gifts & Flowers ..............................14 Gravity Spa .............................................................24 Green Environmental Coalition ...........................35 Green Generation Building Co. ...........................40 Greene County Career Center.............................42 Greene County Council on Aging .......................15 Greene County Public Health ................................7 Greenleaf Gardens ................................................20 Grinnell Mill Bed & Breakfast .............................32 Ha Ha Pizza ............................................................47 Hawthorne Place ...................................................70 Heart Rhythm Meditation ....................................62 Heart Signals .........................................................36 Hearthstone Inn & Suites ....................................13 Holser, J. Marc, D.D.S. ...........................................8 Homeworks ...........................................................54 House of AUM .......................................................23 House of Ravenwood ............................................48 Humanist Center Massage Therapy ...................58 Ruth A. Schroeder, L.M.T. Jackson Lytle & Lewis Funeral Homes ..............31 Jail House Suites ...................................................19 Jennifer’s Touch Fine Jewelry ..............................9 John Bryan Community Pottery .........................30 Kettering Health Network....................................10 Little Art Theatre ..................................................11 Little Fairy Garden ...............................................65 Lady Loom .............................................................29 McManus, Todd, O.C. & Assoc. ..........................39 Meadowlark Restaurant .......................................38 Miami Township Fire‑Rescue ............................68 Miami Valley Equine and Small Animal Acupressure .............................61 Miami Valley Pottery ............................................63 Mills Park Hotel ...................................................24 MinDesign .............................................................70

About a year ago here at the News we remarked on the number of villagers who are living vital and active lives well into their late 80s and 90s. Like many in our youth-obsessed American culture, we didn’t know much about our elders. So we embarked on a new series, “Elder Stories,” in an attempt to learn more.

And learn we did. We found that in shining a light on the history of these longtime villagers, we were also shining a light on the history of Yellow Springs, its changes and challenges.

From the stories of activists such as Paul Graham, Dr. Carl Hyde and Phyllis Jackson, we learned that even in Yellow Springs, progress in civil rights was hard-won. We also learned that many of these villagers were on the forefront of other areas of social change in the 60s and 70s, such as Dr. Jim Agna in his efforts to make birth control avail-

able to young college women, along with advocating for what was then the highly controversial new health care program called Medicare.

We heard stories that make clear the impact of Antioch College on Yellow Springs, as young people drawn to town as college students or young faculty — such as Joan Horn and Harold Wright — ended up staying, eventually becoming leaders who shaped local culture — with Horn the director of the Outdoor Education Center and Wright the creator of the first exchange program between Antioch and Japan.

Along with history, we heard stories of the sweetness of long-ago village life, such as the moonlight picnics

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Morgan House Bed & Breakfast .........................59 Nightingale Montessori School ...........................55 Nipper’s Corner.....................................................14 Ohio Silver Co. ......................................................59 Ohio Valley Surgical Hospital ..............................64 Orthodontic Specialists of Ohio ..........................37 James Tetz, D.M.D. Peifer Orchards & Farm Market.........................67 Pleasant Grove Missionary Church ....................33 Positive Perspectives, Inc. Counseling Centers ........................................55 Rails‑to‑Trails .........................................................33 Re/Max Victory ....................................................66 Chris & Rick Kristensen Shelly Blackman Reichley Insurance Agency....................................7 Rumpke Waste Removal and Recycling..............52 Sam & Eddie’s Open Books .................................19 Science Castle..........................................................6 Smoking Octopus, The .........................................70 Solid Gold Self Storage .........................................51 Southtown Heating, Cooling, Electrical & Plumbing ....................................34 Springfield Arts Council .......................................15 Springfield Museum of Art ..................................67 Springfield Symphony Orchestra ..........................8 Springfield Urology...............................................34 Eric Espinosa, M.D. Springs Healing Massage.....................................45 Keri Speck, L.M.T. Amy Spurr, L.M.T. St. Paul Catholic Church ......................................55 Star Pediatrics .......................................................39 Nancy Hesz, M.D. Thaddene Triplett, M.D. Stoney Creek Garden Center.................................5 Sunrise Cafe ...........................................................69 360° Private Training Studio................................13 Melissa Heston, cP.T. Tibet Bazaar...........................................................51 Tom’s Market ........................................................69 Town Drug.............................................................27 Twin Coach Apartments ......................................32 Unfinished Creations ............................................42 Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Yellow Springs .................................................49

Urban Gypsy ..........................................................37 Veterinary Associates Animals Hospital .............41 Victoria Green‑Plains Farm Bed & Breakfast ..............................................46 Village Artisans .....................................................47 Village Automotive................................................65 Village Cyclery ......................................................12 Village Mediation Program of Yellow Springs .................................................21 Village of Yellow Springs ......................................45 Wagner Subaru........................................................9 Wander & Wonder ................................................53 Wavelength Aveda Salon/Spa ..............................56 Wellness Center at Antioch College, The ...........17 Wheat Penny Oven & Bar ....................................38 Wildflower Boutique ............................................35 Wildflower Salon ...................................................42 Winds Café / Winds Wine Cellar ........................69 World House Choir ...............................................44 WYSO Public Radio ..............................................18 Yellow Springs Arts Council ................................48 Yellow Springs Brewery .......................................18 Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce........39, 43 Yellow Springs Chiropractic.................................26 Erika Grushon, D.C. Katherine Hulbert, D.C. Yellow Springs Community Foundation .............23 Yellow Springs Farmers Market..........................60 Yellow Springs Hardware .....................................27 Yellow Springs Home, Inc. ...................................62 Yellow Springs Library Assoc. .............................31 Yellow Springs News ............................................35 Yellow Springs Ob‑Gyn .........................................33 Keith Watson, M.D. Yellow Springs Pottery .........................................55 Yellow Springs Psychological Center..................46 Bob Barcus, Ph.D. Aïda Merhemic, M.S. Yellow Springs Senior Center ..............................44 Yellow Springs Tree Committee ..........................51 Yellow Springs United Methodist Church............5 Young’s Jersey Dairy ............................................48 YS Federal Credit Union ......................................61 YS Kids Playhouse ................................................22

sponsored by the Central Chapel AME Church, as recalled by Phyllis Jackson.

And there are stories of small-town trust and innocence, such as Sue and Carl Johnson’s reminiscences of drug store customers leaving money for newspapers outside the store each morning.

(But wait — isn’t that sweetness still a part of life in Yellow Springs?)

Often, we left our interviews inspired. At a time of life when many Americans shut down or disengage, these villagers remain engaged with each other and with the world. Yes, they live with the illness and loss that visits all who live long, and some slowing down is inevitable. But these villagers haven’t lost their passion for life, and whether it be writing poetry, caring for others or working out at the gym, they are still in the thick of it, doing what they love to do.

We hope you enjoy reading these Elder Stories as much as we’ve enjoyed writing them.

— Diane Chiddister, editor

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Carl Johnson was Yellow Springs’ local pharmacist for nearly 30 years. His wife, Sue, helped him run the pharmacy, Erbaugh and Johnson’s, where Town Drug now operates. The Johnsons raised two sons in Yellow Springs, and have lived in the same handsome brick home on Dayton Street since 1967.

PHOTO BY AUDREY HACKETT

Sunday, February 11, 2018

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CARL AND SUE JOHNSON:

Fifty years

in the same house

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By Audrey Hackett Fifty years ago this summer, Carl and Sue Johnson moved into a handsome brick home on Dayton Street with their school-aged sons, John and Jim. With a maple out front, a brick walk and four brick steps up to the front door — white, with a black knocker — that home is still the Johnson residence, striking for its neat and cheerful appearance. Carl, who turned 89 on July 31, and Sue, 87, say they enjoy living there as much as ever.

“Fifty years in the same house,” Sue said in a recent interview. “And it hasn’t changed much.”

The house is one of the oldest on the street, built in 1853, according to Sue. In 1967, when they moved in, the Village offices, including the police station, were located in the Old Union Schoolhouse next door. It was the perfect perch for people watching, Sue said.

“And we felt safe,” Carl said, with a grin.

The Johnsons had another perch for watching — and serving — villagers in their daily life. For almost 30 years, from 1967 until 1996, Carl Johnson was the town pharmacist, first in partnership with his brother, Bud Johnson, then in solo practice, ably helped by Sue. Located where Town Drug is now, Erbaugh and Johnson’s was a village fixture for decades; the original owner was the locally famous Doc Erbaugh, and both Bud and Carl Johnson kept the Erbaugh name on the business.

Carl loved working in downtown Yellow Springs. “It was always a joy to open up the store,” he said. Though he opened early, some people picked up their newspapers even earlier, leaving their money outside the shop.

The pharmacy counter was upfront in those days, located in the window facing Xenia Avenue. “I saw the world go by. I’d gaze out the window and see people. I knew everyone in town,” he said. In later years, Sue joined him at the store, working the cash register, which was also located up front.

“They were always side by side,” their son Jim Johnson, who moved back to Yellow Springs several years ago, recalled. “That’s the way they spent their days.”

Carl Johnson was born in 1928 in Miamisburg, the son of a Frigidaire factory worker. His family lived in town, and for several years, on a farm outside of town. After high school, he enrolled in pre-seminary studies at Baldwin Wallace University, intending to become a minister. But just one quarter shy of graduating, he got drafted into the Army. Stationed on

the 38th parallel, at the front lines of the Korean War, Carl served for eight months as an artillery medic. He was always on call, he remembered.

“I took care of all the guys,” he said.

“It was very rewarding and I loved it.”

While he was in Korea, Carl and his best friend, Bucky, corresponded.

Bucky often wrote about his girlfriend, and from his letters, Carl learned a lot about her. When Bucky told Carl they’d broken up, Carl, back home from service, decided he’d ask her for a date. The young woman accepted.

Her name was Sue. That first date was awkward, but ultimately successful, the couple recalled.

They went to the movies and out to eat at Howard Johnson’s in Dayton.

Carl was nervous, and put cream rather than salt on his sandwich, bluffing that he liked it that way.

“I was sure it was the only date I’d have with this lady,” he said, with a laugh.

Sue Johnson was born in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1929, one of the first babies delivered in the town’s hospital, then brand-new. Decades later, Sue made a point to have both of her children there.

She grew up in nearby Shandon, “a little crossroads” northwest of Cincinnati. Her father was a salesman and rarely at home; her mother ran the Shandon post office for 30 years.

When Sue turned 13, she took over for her mother on Saturdays.

“I got to know everybody that way,” Sue said.

After high school, she went to Miami University, where she studied home economics. When she and Carl met, she was teaching home ec at Miamisburg High School, Carl’s alma mater.

And during one summer, she worked at Mound Laboratories, the atomic energy plant in Miamisburg. Her job was to write checks.

The couple married in 1953, in Sue’s hometown. Carl by this time had decided not to pursue the ministry.

His experience in Korea had opened a new path, medicine. “I found something else I’d rather be,” he said. He opted against becoming a doctor, as he hoped to start a family sooner than medical training would allow. His older brother was a pharmacist, and Carl resolved to study pharmacy, too.

After graduating from Ohio Northern University’s pharmacy program, Carl got his first job in Middletown, Ohio. Then for five years, he and Sue ran a drugstore in Fairborn. Carl dispensed drugs, while Sue prepared, from her home kitchen, some of the food items sold at the store.

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“He’d call me up and say, ‘I need more tuna fish salad,’ and I’d drop everything and make tuna fish salad,” she said.

Then, for just a year, Carl worked with his brother in Yellow Springs at Erbaugh and Johnson’s, filling in while Doc Erbaugh was away from the business. When the year was up, the couple and their two young sons moved to Oxford, Ohio. Carl worked for a pharmacy there for about five years, but was displeased with the owner’s approach to customers.

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Fifty years in the same house

\ One day the owner “read me out in the back room for being nice to a customer,” Carl recalled. “I liked to talk to customers, and he thought I was wasting time.”

The experience was a turning point.

“I called my brother and said, ‘I’m ready to come work with you.’”

And so he did. The family lived in a little house on Polecat Road for a year, then purchased the Dayton Street home. In partnership with his brother, who also enjoyed giving customers personal attention, Carl found the working environment suited him well.

Growing up in the village, Jim Johnson often heard classmates and their families speak highly of his parents, which made him proud. Many people relied on his father’s help and advice, and everybody loved Carl’s trademark laugh, according to Jim. “It was big and real,” Jim said. “When he was delighted about something, you

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opened a new business in the spot, which continues today.

Sue and Carl began their retirement with a trip to Australia and New Zealand, and later expanded their worldwide travel, visiting China, Kenya, Russia, Italy and many more places.

From the earliest days of their marriage, they always took the time to go away together, even if only for a few days, Carl explained.

“All our married life, we never missed a vacation,” he said.

Their joy in being together defines the couple’s relationship, according to Jim. “In 60-plus years of marriage they’ve spent no more than 60 or 70 nights apart,” he said.

Asked about the secret of their long marriage, Carl said, “There’s a lot of hard give and take.” But something else, too. “It takes a lot of love,” he added.

“He’s a good guy,” Sue said, smiling broadly.

Though Carl has faced some health issues, now relying on a cane or walker to get around, the couple hopes to stay in their home as long as possible. Jim, who lives around the corner on North High Street, moved back to town several years ago, from Washington state, to help them do just that. Their other son, John, a dentist, lives not too far away, in a suburb of Columbus.

Others in the village help out, too.

“When they need help, Yellow Springs seems to have it. That’s one of the nice things about the village,” Jim said.

Handyman Scot Speakman has done little jobs for the Johnsons for at least a decade. It’s been a pleasure, he said this week.

“They light up the room when you speak to them. They have that old Yellow Springs way of cooperation and friendliness.” He paused, choosing his words carefully.

“People like them have made Yellow Springs what it is,” he said.

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Carl and Sue worked hard in the store, running it themselves after Bud Johnson retired in 1984. They often returned to the pharmacy for a couple of hours after dinner to catch up on paperwork, Sue recalled. She handled the business side, while Carl focused on writing scripts and helping customers, according to Jim. Beyond the pharmacy, Carl served on the Yellow Springs recreation committee, and belonged to the local Lions Club for 20 years. Sue was active in the local PTA. But it wasn’t all work, no play. From the start, the Johnson brothers paused every morning for a cup of coffee at local diner Dick and Tom’s, located next door where Sunrise Café is now.

“Wilbur Deaton came, the 10-cent store man came. Every day a lot of different people formed that coffee club,” Carl said.

Carl carried on the tradition after Bud’s retirement, and the coffee club continues to this day, meeting at Young’s. Carl is the only original member left in the all-male group that includes longtime villagers Ed Vernot and Tim and Jim Shattuck. Local physician Alex Roche was also a member, until his death in the spring of 2017.

Years ago, Sue was an avid bridge player, playing in two local bridge groups. She loves the game, she said, though her skills have gotten rusty in recent years.

The couple retired in 1996. Unable to find an independent buyer, they sold the pharmacy to Revco/CVS, but it stood vacant for a year until Fred Messina of Jamestown’s Town Drug

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|VILLAGE GOVERNMENT| Miami Township Miami Township offices, 225 Corry St., 767‑2460 E M A I L : trustees@miamitownship.net W E B : www.miamitownship.net C O N TA C T:

Miami Township, which includes Yellow Springs and Clifton, is governed by a three member Board of Trustees — currently Mark Crockett, Chris Mucher and Lamar Spracklen — and a Township Fiscal Officer, Margaret Silliman.

The Township is zoned, and the trustees oversee and appoint the five members of the Zoning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. The Township zoning code and map are available online.

The trustees also see to the maintenance of 14.35 miles of Township roads, all of which are hard surfaced, and the operation of three cemeteries: the Township cemetery in Clifton, the Glen Forest Cemetery and the private Grinnell Cemetery. The Town‑ ship also owns the historic Grinnell Mill, which is open to the public Sundays, from noon to 5 p.m. For information regarding the Grinnell Mill Bed and Breakfast, call 767‑0131.

The Board of Trustees meets the first and third Mondays of each month at 7 p.m., at the Township offices, located at 225 Corry St. in Yellow Springs. Township residents are invited to attend the meetings, which traditionally have an “open agenda” format.

Meeting minutes may be viewed by visiting miamitownship.net.

Village Mediation Program of Yellow Springs John Gudgel, 605‑8754 mediation@vil.yellowsprings.oh.us www.yso.org

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The Village Mediation Program of Yellow Springs provides peaceful and productive methods of addressing conflict in the Yellow Springs and Miami Township community.

Skilled volunteer mediators provide free me‑ diation sessions to assist community mem‑ bers with their disputes. Free facilitation and consultation services are available for nonprofit, community service and education organizations. VMP offers a variety of work‑ shops and training opportunities for local residents and organizations. New mediators are always welcomed.

Village of Yellow Springs Bryan Community Center, 100 Dayton St., 767‑3402; Parks and Recreation, 767‑7209, 767‑7205 W E B : www.yso.com C O N TA C T:

An engaged, active citizenry and a respon‑ sive government are traditions in Yellow Springs.

The Village of Yellow Springs is a political subdivision of the State of Ohio, governed by a home‑rule charter adopted in 1950. The Village operates under the Council‑Manager form of government, operating several departments including police, streets main‑ tenance, parks, water treatment and distribu‑ tion, sewer and storm water collection, water reclamation, refuse/recycling, and electrical service. Fire and EMS service are provided

by Miami Township. The Village offices are located in the Bryan Center, at 100 Dayton St. The Village Council is a nonpar tisan, five member governing elected body. The Council serves as the policy‑making body of the Village, with the Village Manager assist‑ ing Council with policy decisions through insightful analysis on policy alternatives, implementing policy decisions and carrying out other duties as described in the Charter.

Three of the five Council members are elect‑ ed every two years, in the November general election in odd‑numbered years. The two can‑ didates receiving the most votes are elected to four‑year terms, and the candidate with the third‑highest total receives a two‑year term. Village Council is presided over by the Council President, who is a Council member elected by Council members with each newly elected Council. The Village Council meets on the first and third Monday of each month. at 7 p.m., in the Bryan Center. Council pro‑ vides time at each meeting for public input, on both matters being discussed before Council and on matters not on the agenda, but of inter‑ est to the community. Meetings are televised live via cable TV on Channel 5.

The Planning Commission meets on the second Monday of each month, at 7 p.m. in the Bryan Center. The Planning Commis‑ sion is presided over by an elected chair and consists of five members who are appointed

by Village Council, including one Council representative. The commission provides time at each meeting for public input on matters being discussed before the commis‑ sion. These meetings are also televised on Channel 5.

The Board of Zoning Appeals, or BZA, meets as needed to hear variance and other zoning matters. BZA is presided over by an elected chair and consists of five members appointed by Council. BZA meetings are open to the public and are televised on Channel 5.

Council also has established citizen advi‑ sory committees and commissions who ad‑ vise Council on policy matters. Membership is appointed by Council, but meetings remain open to the public for input and comment.

These are the Librar y Commission, Hu‑ man Relations Commission, Environmental Commission, Energy Board, Public Ar t Commission and Community Access Panel.

The Village works with other local groups on specific projects. Village partners have included the Chamber of Commerce, Com‑ munity Resources, Home, Inc., Tecumseh Land Trust, Bicycle Enhancement and Safe Routes to School Committee, the Senior Cen‑ ter, Yellow Springs Arts Council and the Tree Committee. The Village operates a mediation program to help resolve disputes and foster peace in the community.

The Bryan Center is a multi‑use facility that provides space for Village government offices, Mayor’s Court, conference and meet‑ ing rooms, a youth center and a number of recreational and educational areas. The center is accessible to all citizens per the use policy. Facilities for tennis and basketball, as well as a pottery shop, toddler playground and the skate park are located at the rear of the Bryan Center property. Recreational activities in the village include numerous parks and the Bryan Center. Gaunt Park, located on West South College St., is the Vil‑ lage’s largest park and is home to the public swimming pool. The Village’s swim team, the Seadogs, competes regionally. The two

softball diamonds at Gaunt Park are used by men’s and women’s leagues and the Perry League, the local T‑ball program. The Yellow Springs Youth Baseball Program also plays at Gaunt Park every summer. Ellis Park on the north end of town is a passive recreation park and patrons enjoy strolling through the Lloyd Kennedy Arboretum and/or using the fish‑ ing pond. Ohio’s longest bike trail, the Little Miami Bike Trail, is adjacent to the Bryan Center parking lot. Residents and visitor use the trail for bicycling, walking, running, skat‑ ing, horseback riding and other nonmotor‑ ized recreation. The Village manages its sec‑ tion of trail in conjunction with the Greene County Parks & Trails department.

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|ARTS & RECREATION| Art & Soul, YS Art Fair Lisa Goldberg, 767‑7285 Lisa@YSArts.org www.ysarts.org/artSoul.html

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Art and Soul: A YS Art Fair, a YS Arts production, entered the art scene in Yellow springs in November of 2012. It is held on the third Saturday of November from 10 a.m.–‑5 p.m. at Mills Lawn Elementary School, 200 S. Walnut St. It is an intimate juried art fair with 30 artists from the region who gather in Yel‑ low Springs to exhibit and sell their fine arts and crafts for the day.

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“artists put their souls into the making of their work.” Artists will have plenty of pot‑ tery, jewelry, fiber, paintings, photography, wood, glass and mixed media work available for sale. At times, Yellow Springs Schools students have had work displayed or sold their work as exhibiting artists. During the first three years of Art & Soul, show promoters have donated over $2,300 to the Yellow Springs school system and Police Coat Fund. In addition, in 2014, they began to donate to the Lisa Goldberg/YS Arts Scholarship Fund held by the YS Commu‑ nity Foundation.

Bridge C O N TA C T:

Susan Freeman, 767‑0235

An informal duplicate bridge group meets Wednesdays, 6:30–10 p.m., in the great room of the Senior Center, 227 Xenia Ave.

Chamber Music in Yellow Springs 374‑8800 info@cmys.org www.cmys.org

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Chamber Music in Yellow Springs has been bringing professional ensembles from all over the world for over 30 years.

Founded in 1983, the organization’s mis‑ sion is to enrich the musical life of the community. Funded by generous donors, local advertisers and subscriptions, CMYS

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is also the recipient of an Ohio Arts Coun‑ cil sustainability grant. Each season the local booking committee selects chamber music ensembles and chooses a theme.

This year’s theme is “A Quartet of Quartets from a Trio of Continents,” featuring four quartets — two string quartets, a saxo‑ phone quartet and a guitar quartet — from Europe, North America and South America.

Plus of course the competition concert, fea‑ turing two finalist groups, which this year starts at a new time, 4 p.m. Stay tuned to find out who the finalists will be!

Per formances take place on Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs, located at 314 Xenia Ave. The 2017–18 season opens on Oct. 8 with the Calidore String Quartet, win‑ ner of the inaugural 2016 International M Prize‑ — the largest prize for chamber music in the world — as well as the 2013 CMYS Competition.

The second concert of this season, three weeks later on Oct. 29, features Project Fu‑ sion, a saxophone quartet. Formed at the Eastman School of Music in 2010, the group includes a local boy from Wilmington, Ohio. Their musical selections are eclectic and diverse, and they perform all of their concerts from memory.

Feb. 11, 2018, brings another string quar‑ tet, the Bennewitz, who are based in the Czech Republic. Their all‑Czech program will include the music of Smetana, Dvorak and Janacek.

The regular season closes on March 25 with the exciting Brazilian Guitar Quartet.

The group plays both six‑ and eight‑string guitars and will present a program of lush Brazilian music in honor of its 20th anni‑ versary.

The final concert of the season will start at 4 p.m. on April 29, 2018, to allow ever y‑ one to stay for the judges’ decisions — the 33rd Annual Competition for Emerging Professional Ensembles will pit two fan‑ tastic young finalist groups against each other.

CMYS subscription concer ts are re‑ corded by SoundSpace Yellow Springs for broadcast on “Live and Local” at WDPR‑FM (88.1) and WDPG‑FM (89.9), at 10 a.m., usually on the Saturday morning before the next concert, These broadcasts can also be heard anywhere in the world on streaming audio at www.discoverclassical.org. This season’s broadcast dates can be found on the Discover Classical website as well.

Concerts are preceded by a free pre‑

concer t talk by musicologist and WSU Professor Emeritus Charles Larkowski or another music expert. There is a post‑con‑ cert gourmet dinner and reception for the artists open to the public with a reservation and donation.

CMYS concer t season subscriptions are $100 for adults and $25 for students.

Individual tickets are $25 for adults and $7 for students. Tickets are available online at www.cmys.org or can be reserved by phone at 937‑374‑8000.

Community Band James Johnston, Brian Mayer delphi@ameritech.net; bmayer@ ysschools.org W E B : www.facebook.com/ys.communityband C O N TA C T: EMAIL:

The Community Band is open to all adult woodwind, brass and percussion players without audition — middle and high school students may join by invitation or recom‑ mendation. Music reading is necessar y.

The band plays six to seven concerts a year: two in fall, two in winter/spring and three outdoor summer concerts in June and July.

The repertoire includes standard marches, medleys of Broadway and Hollywood songs, big band and jazz sets and other works for concert band in a variety of styles. Rehears‑ als are held Monday evenings, 7:30–9 p.m., in the high school band room. Follow the band on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ ys.CommunityBand.

Community Chorus James Johnston, Music Director; Carol Cottom, 767‑1458 E M A I L : delphi@ameritech.net C O N TA C T:

Founded in 1972, the Yellow Springs Com‑ munity Chorus is open without audition to all who enjoy singing, can attend rehearsals reg‑ ularly and are able to learn and perform the music. The ability to read music is desirable, but not required. The chorus usually gives two or three performances a year, often with orchestra, and sings music from a variety of styles, periods and genres. Past repertoire has included Handel’s “Judas Maccabaeus,” “Carmina Burana” and the Mozart and Faure Requiems.

Rehearsals are on Sunday evenings, 7–9 p.m., in the YSHS band room. The chorus gratefully receives donations through the Yellow Springs Arts Council.

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|ARTS & RECREATION| Foundry Theater 937‑319‑0200 foundryboxoffice@antiochcollege.edu W E B : antiochcollege.edu/academics/areas‑ study/arts/foundry‑theater C O N TA C T: EMAIL:

The Foundry Theater at Antioch College reopened in September 2014 after its first ren‑ ovation since the 1980s. It includes a 200‑seat Mainstage Theater, the 50‑seat experimental black box theater, a sprung‑floor dance studio and additional workshop, office and studio spaces. Adjacent to the theater complex is the 400‑seat outdoor Amphitheater. The Foundry Theater hosts performances and events by Antioch College students, as well as by various community groups.

John Bryan Community Pottery Krystal Luketic, director, 767‑9022; Brad Husk, studio technician; 100 Dayton St. E M A I L : jbcp.ys@gmail.com W E B : www.communitypottery.com C O N TA C T:

John Bryan Community Pottery (JBCP) is a community studio that offers an extensive array of classes, workshops and studio rent‑ als. The pottery also features a gallery, exhib‑ iting and selling the work of its members and other contemporary ceramic artists.

For nearly 40 years, the nonprofit studio has been providing opportunities for learn‑ ing and working with clay to the Yellow Springs community and surrounding areas.

The studio is well‑equipped with a newly built wood kiln, a gas reduction kiln, raku kiln, electric kilns, 12 wheels, a slab roller, extruder and glaze room. Renters have 24‑ hour access to the studio.

Visitors are always welcome to stop in at the Penguin Building and take a tour. Gallery and open studio hours are Saturday and Sun‑ day, noon–4 p.m. A schedule and description of upcoming classes is available at www.com‑ munitypottery.com.

Little Art Theatre 767‑7671 littleart.director@gmail.com www.littleart.com

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The Little Art Theatre has provided film entertainment and enlightenment — and so much more — to Yellow Springs and the

surrounding Miami Valley for over 80 years.

A donor supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit facil‑ ity, it made the leap into the digital age with a $500,00 renovation completed in 2013, but remains ver y much a hometown, single‑ screen experience that cannot be replicated at the multiplexes.

The Little Art takes pride in its mix of independent and mainstream offerings, with commercial favorites not being prioritized over important low‑budget documentaries.

The diverse programming is very much a re‑ flection of the diverse local community. The Little Art is among the most recognizable and beloved landmarks in Yellow Springs, and the iconic houselights, the classic mar‑ quee and the one‑of‑a‑kind concession treats all represent an experience that is more per‑ sonal than in large for‑profit venues.

The Little Art is also known for its special programs, such as “Community Presents,” which encourages local filmmakers, organi‑ zations and community members to utilize the theater in numerous ways, including bringing documentaries that champion their cause. “Let’s Talk Movies” is a program featuring area educators discussing film‑ making and film analysis. And thanks to the renovation, the Little Art now offers “National Theatre Live” events, bringing the famous London theatre’s rebroadcasts, as well as the Bolshoi Ballet, to its screen. Also popular are the monthly “Retro Matinees” with classics like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Additionally, the Little Art hosts com‑ munity events, including an Oscar party and New Year’s Eve celebration, and col‑ laborates with other local nonprofits, such as the Tecumseh Land Trust, Green Envi‑ ronmental Coalition and WYSO, as well as others from the greater Miami Valley, such as the Dayton International Film Festival.

The theater is available for people to rent for their own special events as well. For more information or to become a Friend of the Little Art, email littleart.ys@att.net, call 767‑7671 or visit www.littleart.com.

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circle, and each person reads the next char‑ acter’s lines — at one round you might be Othello, and at the next, Iago. Occasionally we stop to discuss or debate. Meetings last one‑and‑a‑half hours, but once in a while, the magic of a play holds us for two hours. Sev‑ eral members have attended for many years, but we often have people dropping in just for the day. Sometimes we read well‑known plays like “Hamlet,” or we pick a less familiar play, like “Pericles.” Meetings are at Friends Care Community in the Assisted Living meeting room. New and former members are always welcome. For more information, contact Deb‑ orah McGee, or see the Community Calendar on Page 2 of the YS News.

Weavers’ Guild Diana Nelson, P.O. Box 825, 767‑9487 W E B : www.wgmv.org C O N TA C T:

The Weavers’ Guild of the Miami Valley, organized in 1949 to promote interest in handweaving and spinning, moved to Yellow Springs from Dayton in 1998.

The guild is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes handweaving, hand‑spinning and the textile ar ts. The guild offers education programs in fiber techniques and processes and encour‑ ages ar tistic awareness through topical lectures, discussions, exhibits, workshops and demonstrations.

World House Choir Catherine Roma, 513‑560‑9082 caroma129@gmail.com W E B : worldhousechoir.org; www.facebook.com/worldhousechoir C O N TA C T: EMAIL:

The World House Choir is a diverse, multi‑ cultural, mixed‑voice choir, whose repertoire is drawn from different traditions, including world music, spirituals, gospel, folk and peace and justice. The choir’s mission is to perform music that motivates and inspires communi‑ ties toward justice, diversity and equality in the pursuit of peace. New members are welcome.

For more information about rehearsal times, locations and performances, con‑ tact choir director Catherine Roma at 513‑560‑9082, or caroma129@gmail.com.

Yellow Rockers Ralph and Melanie Acton, 767‑8951

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Yellow Springs Yellow Rockers is a western square dance club that dances at the plus level. Club dances are held on the second Sun‑ day of each month, 7:30–10 p.m., in the Bryan Community Center. Square dancers who have completed the plus‑level dance lessons — both singles and couples — are welcome.

Yellow Springs Arts Council 111 Corry St.; mailing address: P.O. Box 459, 937‑679‑9722 E M A I L : ysartscouncil@gmail.com W E B : www.ysartscouncil.org C O N TA C T:

The Yellow Springs Arts Council sup‑

ports local arts infrastructure through pro‑ gram opportunities, publicity, education, advocacy and coordinated par tnerships across the community. Each year, the YSAC supports over 200 local creative workers.

The organization began in the 1950s as the Yellow Springs Arts Association. In 1972, it incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and adopted the full name, Yellow Springs Arts Council.

In 2008, the YSAC expanded its mis‑ sion to encompass all arts disciplines and launched the YSAC Community Galler y and Multi‑Arts Center. YSAC increased its arts advocacy role in 2012, which led to the Yellow Springs Village Council’s adoption of a Public Arts Policy in January of 2013. Re‑ gional publicity for YSAC supported events, in partnership with the YS Chamber of Com‑ merce, brings thousands of visitors to Yellow Springs annually for arts‑related events.

The Arts Council provides many opportu‑ nities for local artists to share and develop their work. Monthly exhibits in the gallery provide a diverse range of visual artists with a space to show and sell their work. Once a month, Arts Alive! showcases musicians, comedians, dancers, storytellers, poets and more in live performances in the Multi‑Arts Center or on the outdoor stage. In Septem‑ ber, the focus shifts to arts collectors with the Art House Hop. Art classes are offered periodically for children and adults in the Multi‑Arts Space, which is available to the community as a class, meeting and perfor‑ mance space. YSAC also participates in pub‑ lic art projects, such as the Mills Park Hotel Fence Art Gallery Project and the National Bronze Sculpture Trail.

YSAC is a member organization that relies on membership dues and dona‑ tions and the dedication of a mar velous group of volunteers. The organization is also supported through grant writing and fundraising projects. Artists, appreciators and supporters of all arts disciplines are welcomed and encouraged to participate in the organization.

Yellow Springs Chamber Orchestra James Johnston, delphi@ameritech.net

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The Chamber Orchestra welcomes all in‑ termediate and advanced string players and selected woodwind and brass players in con‑ sultation with the music director. Ability to read music is necessary. The ensemble gives two to three concerts a year, frequently with chorus, and performs standard repertoire from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Rehears‑ als are Tuesday evenings, 7:30–9 p.m., in First Presbyterian Church.

Yellow Springs Contra Dance Ben Hemmendinger, 646‑373‑2361 E M A I L : contra@benhem.com W E B : yscontra.wordpress.com C O N TA C T:

Folk dance to live music in Yellow Springs.

Contra dance is a blend of old and new cul‑ tural influences ranging from northern Eu‑ rope to Africa. It’s done to a walking step, so if you can walk, you can dance. A caller tells

the dancers each step in the pattern until it’s flowing smoothly. Each dance begins with a walk‑through, and there are beginner les‑ sons at the start of each dance. It’s energetic, the live music is exciting, and it is a generally joyous experience.

Dances are (usually) held once per month, Sunday at 2 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on U.S. 68. There is a suggested donation of $5. Please check our website for the most current details. All ages and experience levels are welcome, including first‑time dancers. No partner is required. Most dances are open‑band and open‑calling; musicians and callers of all ex‑ perience levels are welcome to join the band or call a dance.

Yellow Springs Strings C O N TA C T:

Shirley Mullins, 767‑3361

Yellow Springs Strings is a string orches‑ tra for adults that meets Tuesdays, 7–8:30 p.m., at the Yellow Springs Senior Center’s great room. Players of modest‑to‑advanced levels of proficiency are welcome. There are no fees for participation. The ensemble is conducted by Shirley Mullins.

Children and young adults join with the ensemble for special occasions, such as the Celebration Concert. Membership is fluid; college students home for vacation, children of orchestra members, etc., are welcome.

The Yellow Springs Strings is assisted by the Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association.

Yellow Springs Theater Company ystheatercompany@gmail.com facebook.com/ystcohio; www.ystheater.org

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With a belief that theater can enrich the soul, challenge the mind and expand the heart of the diverse community in which it serves, the Yellow Springs Theater Com‑ pany is committed to producing new and classic works of theater which fear‑ lessly examine and illuminate the human condition: past, present and future.

Starting its third season, YSTC is com‑ prised of local artists, actors, directors, musicians. Through performances of new and classic plays as well as the Yellow Springs 10 Minute Play festival, YSTC aims to present high quality and affordable the‑ atrical performances for local audiences that both entertain and resonate.

View our season and support our mis‑ sion by making a donation at www.ysthe‑ ater.org.

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A soft-spoken voice for equality

By Diane Chiddister A soft-spoken and gentle man, Paul Graham doesn’t seem like a troublemaker. Yet in Yellow Springs a half century ago, Graham in his unassuming way made considerable trouble for those who stood in the path of equal rights for all. Thanks to the efforts of Graham and other civil rights activists, Yellow Springs in the early 1960s became a community where there was no place for racial segregation.

“We admired his composure and determined efforts to end racial discrimination in Yellow Springs,” said Graham’s longtime friend Jim Agna.

A man who shies away from attention, Graham, now 87, reluctantly found himself in the spotlight when he agreed to be a test case for the Committee for Fair Practices, the local group of blacks and whites working for civil rights. The group sought a black man to ask for a haircut from white barber Lewis Gegner, who refused to serve blacks. While other local businesses that had previously had discriminatory practices had bowed to pressure from the committee, Gegner was the lone holdout.

“He contended he didn’t know how to cut the hair of blacks,” Graham said in a recent interview. “It was a sham.”

So one morning in December, 1961, Graham, at the time a chemist at Vernay Laboratories, walked into the shop and politely asked for a haircut, accompanied by a witness, Hardy Trolander. Gegner turned him down, and Graham left the shop. He tried again several times, with the same result. Shortly after, the group filed a complaint with the newly created Ohio Civil Rights Commission.

The case took several years, going through several appeals and three layers of court proceedings before ending up at the Ohio Supreme Court.

During this time, the Gegner shop was the site of weekly protests out front, similar to the weekly antiwar vigils on Xenia Avenue, Graham said. The struggle gained national attention, to the point that Graham appeared on “The Phil Donahue Show,” which was then filmed in Dayton.

“Yellow Springs was the focal point of the civil rights movement in Ohio at the time,” he said.

Graham’s efforts came at a cost.

Some in Yellow Springs refused to speak to him, and he and his wife, Jewel, began receiving threatening letters and phone calls. The worst, Graham said, were those that included veiled threats to their two young children.

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“It was very difficult, really,” Graham said. “It was more than I had bargained for.”

But he persisted. Several years later, in 1964, the effort culminated in a large downtown protest in front of Gegner’s shop organized by Antioch College student, who barricaded the street. Law enforcement officers from surrounding towns flooded the village, and about 100 were arrested.

After that, Gegner closed his shop and moved away, and the Civil Rights Commission dropped the case.

“It was a relief, really,” Graham said of the turn of events.

The Gegner incident was neither the first nor last time Graham stood up for racial equality. Growing up in segregated West Dayton, he and several high school friends wrote a letter to the editor of the Dayton paper protesting segregated practices at their school.

“I’ve been an activist since early on,” he said.

Graham’s parents, both raised in rural Kentucky, had moved to the Dayton area as part of the mass migration of blacks from the rural South to the industrial North. His father reached high school before dropping out and his mother dropped out before high school. Graham’s father ended up working as a janitor in Dayton.

While his parents had limited education, they encouraged their son in school, and the gift of a chemistry set in middle school captured Graham’s interest. He was steered toward Antioch College, which he knew nothing about, by his high school counselor, a friend of Antioch’s Jessie Treichler, who was working to bring more blacks to campus.

Entering Antioch in 1947, Graham was one of about six or seven blacks out of an enrollment of about 1,000.

The others included Coretta Scott, later Coretta Scott King, and her older sister, Edith King.

To Graham, being one of the few blacks on campus wasn’t as daunting as the class differences he saw.

“Many students were from the East Coast, from well-to-do families,” he said. “It was a transition.

But his experience at Antioch was a good one, although he was disappointed when his first co-ops kept him on campus in the college chemistry lab, rather than experiencing new places, a situation he suspected was linked to the reluctance of many companies at that time to hire professional blacks. But later he went on co-op to Chicago, where he worked under the well-known research chemist Percy Julian, who had been one

of the first blacks to get a Ph.D. in chemistry.

After Antioch, Graham planned to pursue a Ph.D., and began his studies at Indiana University in Bloomington.

But his life changed forever when, visiting his home in Dayton, he was asked to go on a blind date with his friend’s friend. Graham’s date, the first and last blind date in his life, was with Precious Jewel Freeman, who was in grad school in Cleveland at the time.

A year later, they married, although Graham continued his studies in Bloomington while Jewel worked as a social worker in Detroit. But their longdistance marriage quickly changed when Jewel became pregnant.

The couple moved to Yellow Springs, where Graham had been offered a job as assistant chemist at Vernay Laboratories. He’d worked on a co-op in college at Vernay, and was pleased to get what he believed was a temporary job.

“I expected to work there a year,” he said. “I stayed 38 years.”

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liberal, very forward-thinking” leader who staffed his company with employees diverse in gender, race and nationality. And Vernay was one of the few unionized companies in the area — even more unusual, Sergius Vernet had brought the union to the company himself, when he thought it would benefit his workers.

Graham rose in the company, moving from assistant chemist to chemist to vice president of research.

Vernay was unusual among small rubber companies in having its own laboratory and developing its own products, according to Jim Bailey, a longtime employee in the company’s research and development division.

And Graham was a critical piece of that process.

“He directed a lot of the experimentation that was a part of the strength of the company,” Bailey said.

Graham was known for his quiet decency and steadiness, according to Bailey, who also knew him as someone who gave thoughtful answers to difficult questions.

“He didn’t come out with a quick answer, but he always came out with a considered answer,” Bailey said.

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A soft-spoken voice for equality good place to raise Robert and Nathan, the Grahams’ sons. It was a small Midwestern town of unusual racial diversity, partly because many professional blacks who worked at Wright-Patterson moved to Yellow Springs when they couldn’t find housing elsewhere.

The diversity made for a vibrant social scene, according to Graham, and blacks and whites often socialized together. Some of those friendships, such as the long friendship between the Grahams, Trolanders and Agnas, began in the struggle for civil rights and grew over time.

The role of women was changing, too. If Jewel Graham was unusual among women of her time in choosing a professional path, Paul Graham was also unusual in being a husband who supported his wife’s career. After her sons were older, Graham, who had trained in social work, was invited to teach at the college, and later she created a social work major at Antioch, then presided over that department.

At age 50, Jewel Graham entered the University of Dayton Law School, believing she needed a greater understanding of the legal aspects of her profession in order to teach. She later went on to become the international president of the YWCA, and traveled all over the world.

Jewel Graham could not have led the full and interesting life she led without an encouraging partner, according to retired Antioch College Professor of Religion Al Denman, a good friend of Jewel’s.

“Jewel would not have been the person she was without Paul,” Denman said in an interview. “The two of them were very close, and he was so supportive.”

As well as having busy work lives, the Grahams contributed to the village in many ways. Together with several others, they co-founded the spiritual group that has evolved into the Yellow Springs Unitarian Fellowship.

Paul Graham has been involved in leadership roles in all aspects of village life, serving as president of the

Yellow Springs school board and on the boards of the Dayton Area Red Cross, the Yellow Springs Federal Credit Union, the Yellow Springs Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce, Chamber Music Yellow Springs, Antioch College Alumni, Center Stage, Glen Helen and the Glen Helen Ecology Institute, among others.

Paul and Jewel retired in 1994, after which they began spending three or four months a year in the Bay area of California, where both sons and their families now live. In December 2015, after 62 years of marriage, Jewel died.

Paul lives on now in the modern home they built 60 years ago on the corner of Corry Street and Hyde Road.

Paul Graham misses Jewel and his longtime friends, like the Trolanders, who also have died. But he maintains other good friendships, and he stays active. He’s a member of the Jim McKee Group, the advisory committee for the Wellness Center and the development committee for the Yellow Springs public schools. He works out several days a week at the Wellness Center, attends a Tai Chai class and a movement class for those with Parkinson’s disease.

While his level of activity might be considered high for most 87-year-olds, for Graham it feels like slowing down.

The Parkinson’s produces tremors and problems with balance, although the disease’s progression has been quite slow, a circumstance that his doctor attributes to his high level of physical activity.

Each winter, when Graham returns for several months in the San Francisco Bay area. Friends sometimes ask if he’s planning to move out to California full time now, to be closer to his children and grandchildren.

But while Graham loves the time with his family there, he is clear that he’ll always be coming back to Yellow Springs.

“This is home,” he said.

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|VOLUNTEER |CITIZEN GOVERNANCE| POSITIONS| The following is a list of volunteer Village Council boards, commissions and task forces that allow villagers to serve the community in specific areas. Not all groups meet regu‑ larly or are always active, and some are called into action on an as‑needed basis. Check the Yellow Springs News for monthly updates to meetings, times and availability of positions.

Arts and Culture Commission Meets every second Wednesday, 7 p.m., Council Chambers, Bryan Center Beaver Management Task Force No regularly scheduled meetings

Justice System Task Force Meets second Tuesday, 7 p.m., Council Chambers, Bryan Center Librar y Commission Meets first Tuesday of even months, 7 p.m., Yellow Springs Library, 415 Xenia Ave. Planning Commission Meets second Monday, 7 p.m., Council Chambers, Bryan Center Village Council Meets first and third Monday, 7 p.m., Council Chambers, Bryan Center

Board of Zoning Appeals Scheduled as needed by planning asst.

Board of Tax Appeals Scheduled as needed by administration member Community Access Panel Currently on hiatus Economic Sustainability Commission Meets first Wednesday, 7 p.m., Council Chambers, Bryan Center Energy Board Meets second Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Bryan Center Environmental Commission Meets third Thursday, 5:45 p.m., Council Chambers, Bryan Center Human Relations Commission Meets first Thursday, 7 p.m., Council Chambers, Bryan Center

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• Partners in Care (PIC) Program Designed to keep seniors (60+) in their own or family member’s home for as long as possible. Depending on need, in-home services are purchased from local agencies. Council staff works with the Yellow Springs Senior Center when assisting Yellow Springs seniors and families.

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By Carol Simmons Author and poet Arnold Adoff suggests that a more apt descriptor for the YS News’ elders series might be “survivors series.”

At 82, Adoff has faced — and survived — several health issues in recent years, including a hip replacement a year and a half ago. Even more significantly, he has survived the deaths of multiple friends and loved ones, including his wife and writing compatriot, Virginia Hamilton, who died of breast cancer in 2002.

Hamilton is ever-present as Adoff speaks about the course of his life.

She is the reason he moved to Yellow Springs in 1969.

“She grew up here, in a house down on Dayton Street,” he said at the outset of an interview in the Union Street home they built together when they decided to put down stakes amidst Hamilton’s extended family.

Her family connections were rich and offered inspiration and grounding for Hamilton’s award-winning writing that drew on African-American experiences and stories. Adoff said that Hamilton’s grandfather, who had been born enslaved, lived across the street from Hamilton’s childhood home. “Virginia could just go across the street to play with him.”

Adoff, on the other hand, grew up in the Bronx, the child of immigrants from the Russian-Polish border whose family had been decimated by the Holocaust.

Adoff noted that one might think he and Hamilton made an unlikely couple: she, an African-American woman from a small town in the Midwest; he, a white Jew from an urban East Coast metropolis. In the 1950s, no less.

But their commonalities went deeper. For one, Adoff said, they both had the experience of not being able to go very far back in their family trees to branches cut off and lost to horrific violence.

But the most bonding element was their shared dedication to writing, and their commitment to writing for children.

To become an author is what initially took Hamilton to New York City in the mid-1950s, where the couple met. It was a heady time, Adoff said. “You could roam the streets in Greenwich Village and you could go to clubs with little money.”

Adoff, a jazz aficionado, particularly revelled in the Village’s musical offerings. While not a musician himself, he became part of the jazz scene, eventually befriending and for a time managing the career of bassist and composer Charles Mingus.

Adoff recalled how Hamilton and he began to cross paths -— at the parties of mutual friends, at jazz clubs, even on the street. “Eventually, I wormed my way into getting her phone number,” he said. “I had just fallen for her like a ton of bricks.”

After their first official date, they were inseparable, Adoff said. “We began our life together. That was 1958.

We were married in 1960.”

As an interracial couple, “our marriage was illegal in 28 states,” he said.

“In a sense we were pioneers, but we didn’t see it that way. We were just living our lives.”

It was easy to do in New York’s Greenwich Village, populated at the time by artists who didn’t necessarily have much money, but were serious about their work. Adoff took a job teaching history in Harlem while pursuing a literary life with Hamilton.

Living in New York became less easy, however, once the couple had children, the timing of which coincided with the city becoming a more crowded and less accommodating place to be in general. “The streets of New York were so clogged with people, you couldn’t push your kid in a stroller on Broadway.”

The two writers were also beginning to see some career success. Hamilton published her first book, “Zeely,” in 1967, and Adoff published “I Am the Darker Brother,” a collection of poems

by African-American writers, in 1968.

Hamilton’s “The House of Dies Drear” also came out in 1968.

They might have gone anywhere.

They even considered becoming ex-patriots like writer Richard Wright.

But the family decided to move to Hamilton’s hometown, a decision that for Adoff involved more than simple relocation.

“I was an NJBFB, a nice Jewish boy from the Bronx,” Adoff said. “I was raised in a Jewish middle-class family — not in the way of practicing religion, but in cultural background.”

In his mind, life west of the Hudson River was “a few Ameri-Indian outposts and Chicago.”

Through Hamilton’s Yellow Springs connections, they secured local contractor Bill Hooper, who died in 2011, to build a house on two acres of property belonging to Hamilton’s mother.

“It’s been our headquarters and our joy to live here,” Adoff said. “It’s not always a joy to be part of Yellow Springs,” he added, “but a joy. ... This was our home base. We lived in a small town and we traveled all over the world.”

“That was our life — and we reared two kids.”

A girl and a boy — the elder, Leigh, is an operatic soprano based in Berlin, Germany, where she maintains a music studio. “She comes back to visit, but needs to be there.” And the younger, Jaime, teaches English at McKinney Middle School. Like his sister, he also studied music; and like his parents, has published several books for young people.

“My kids are far more talented than I am,” Adoff said.

“I can do one thing, which is write fine poetry,” he said. “And I can make a lot of noise politically, and I can grow wonderful tomatoes,” he added.

One political stance took the form of refusing an invitation to the White House during the elder Bush’s administration. Hamilton had a different take, however. “She said, ‘I’m going because it’s my house, too.’”

Locally, his political action has taken various forms.

“I was on the Planning Commission in the early ‘70s and Virginia was on the Human Relations Council, so we were able to get involved in the village.” He said he grew frustrated with the Planning Commission, however, as he felt it did more “rubber stamping” than planning. He also took issue with the fact that all the Commission mem-

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bers were white. He pointed out the lack of diversity to Village Council and asked that he be removed and the vacancy be filled with a person of color.

“To their credit, they did,” he said.

“Mostly there were always (writing) deadlines,” he said, which curtailed more active involvement in village life.

Letters to the editor, and more recently, online communications, particularly through Facebook, have been his primary form of rabble rousing.

The family also had living “outposts” in New York City and Miami, which Adoff said he let go of after Hamilton’s death.

“After Virginia died in ’02, I decided I would spend the rest of my life here.”

It’s been a good life, he said. “We wrote and published more than 60 books from that time to today, because I still write and edit and publish. ... I’m slowing down, but I’m still working and writing.” He also recently launched a new blog — poetandonewomanband. com.

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manuscripts become part of their collection. The 33rd annual Virginia Hamilton symposium at Kent State University, which includes the awarding of the Arnold Adoff poetry prize, took place this past spring. He has received the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English.

The prestigious Kirkus Review described his most recent publication, "Roots and Blues," as “a moving meditation.”

Having developed a signature “shaped speech” writing style in his children’s poetry, where the rhythm of the words is combined with their shape on the page, Adoff said he and Hamilton both strove for “the arrogance of excellence.” Among his inspirations was e.e. cummings; hers was Faulkner.

“I’m not a fan of self-expression. I’m a fan of excellence,” he said.

Both endeavored to bring faces and voices of color to the printed page.

“The struggle continues,” he said.

Less mobile these days — using a walker after a recent fall — Adoff said he keeps up with village conversations through his son, visitors and local websites.

The cost of living in the village is of particular concern. “It’s very disturbing to me that utility bills are so high that people can’t afford to live here,” he said. It’s troubling to see that some residents need such help that Chrissy Cruz’s $10 Club is necessary to keep their power on, and “you still have to raise money to get people winter coats.”

“It’s a town that has struggled with a long history of racism and racial difficulties,” he said. He questions why he, a writer without a steady source of income could get a mortgage loan for $50,000, but the AME church had to go out of town for similar financing.

At the same time, “the town is full of unique individuals and artists. They’re doing work on a national level.”

He said Yellow Springs also offered a good place for his children to grow up, not only to be among extended family, but for the wider community as well.

“Foundations were laid in this town.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, there is a wonderful sense of ethics, morality and empathy.”

Son Jaime said that his father may be irascible at times, but everyone who meets him loves him. And his father knows what he’s talking about. “He has a background in history, so when he rabble-rouses, it comes from the position of knowledge.”

What’s more, he has “amazing” resilience, Jaime said. “Nothing can knock him down.”

Staying in Yellow Springs was the right decision, Adoff said. “I couldn’t see myself growing old in New York City or Miami, as my parents did -- Miami is known as God’s waiting room.”

And New York would have been difficult to navigate alone, he added.

Besides his son, he also has a granddaughter here, as well as extended members of the Hamilton family.

“I married into this family and this way of life and these values.”

|COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS| AACW Karen Patterson, 937‑716‑0377 www.aacw.org

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AACW (African American Cross‑Cultural Works) is a grass‑roots community organi‑ zation operating under Ohio guidelines for nonprofit organizations. Its activities focus on celebrating cultural diversity and working with other organizations to develop under‑ standing of diversity in Yellow Springs, Wil‑ berforce, Springfield, Xenia and neighboring communities.

The group has held multiple events at vari‑ ous times of the year, including the annual Blues Fest, which has been successful, in part, because of the increasing collaborative efforts of many individuals and organizations in Yellow Springs and the surrounding area.

African-American Genealogy Group Robert L. Harris, 767‑1949 E M A I L : rharris25@woh.rr.com W E B : www.aaggmv.org C O N TA C T:

The African‑American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley is a nonprofit service and educational organization devoted to the promotion of African‑American genealogy and the study of black and family histories.

The organization’s main goals are to search for ancestors, their identification and their documentation. Activities include lec‑ tures, networking, workshops and field trips for genealogical purposes. The organization also encourages the writing of personal fam‑ ily histories and historical and genealogical societies. Membership is open to everyone.

Meetings are held monthly at various loca‑ tions throughout the Miami Valley and south‑ western Ohio.

The current officers of the AAGGMV: President, John Jordan; Vice‑President, Judith Casey; Treasurer, Sandra Ricker; Sec‑ retary, Rosalyn Givens.

Alcoholics Anonymous 222‑2211 centraloffice@aadaytononline.org www.aadaytononline.org

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Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who meet to attain and maintain sobriety. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.

There are no membership dues or fees.

Meetings are held in Yellow Springs on Sundays at 8 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church; Mondays at 8 p.m. at Bethel Lu‑ theran Church; Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at United Methodist Church and Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Rockford Chapel on the Antioch College campus.

Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions Susan Jennings, Box 243, Yellow Springs, 767‑2161; Agraria Address: 131 E. Dayton‑Yellow Springs Road E M A I L : info@communitysolution.org W E B : www.communitysolution.org C O N TA C T:

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ICS hosts conferences and educational events focused on the mission areas of Resilient Communities, Regenerative Land Use, Community Economics, Energy De‑ mocracy and Being the Change. In 2017, AMICS bought a 128‑acre farm on the out‑ skirts of Yellow Springs to develop Agraria: The Arthur Morgan Institute Center for Regenerative Agriculture. The Nature Conservancy is restoring the Jacoby Creek, which traverses the property, and AMICS is developing an agroforestry plan for the acreage, which has been conventionally farmed. The main goals are to conduct re‑ search and education about the importance of carbon sequestration in soils and healthy watersheds.

Better Health Co-op Merrill Anderson, P.O. Box 340577, Beavercreek, OH 45434, 937‑879‑0402

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The Better Health Cooperative, Inc., is a lay organization working to achieve physical and mental well‑being through emphasis on nutritional balance, physical exercise and spiritual awareness. The co‑op’s main pro‑ gram is hair analysis.

Membership is open to anyone inter‑ ested in working on maintaining and im‑ proving their health. Membership fee is $10 a year for individuals, $12 a year for families and can be sent to the co‑op’s post office box.

Charlie Brown Patient and Caregiver Support Group Rubin Battino, 767‑1854 rubin.battino@wright.edu

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The Charlie Brown Exceptional Patient and Caregiver Support Group meets the first and third Thursdays of ever y month, from 7–8:30 p.m., in the Senior Center great room. The group provides support for anyone who has (or has had) a life‑ challenging disease, and also for caregiv‑ ers. The ser vice is free. Meetings provide an opportunity for attendees to share in confidence what is going on in their lives.

Group members listen respectfully and at‑ tentively to each other’s stories. Meetings end with a healing meditation. There is a free lending librar y.

Corner Cone Farmers Market C O N TA C T:

Louise Berrier, 605‑8765

The Corner Cone Farmers Market is in its eighth season and welcomes small and large growers to sell their produce and homemade products. There are 13 spaces, and at times, participants will squeeze together to accom‑ modate an additional vendor. This market supports economic diversity and openness with as few rules as possible. The Corner Cone Farmers Market does not require rent or dues and is made possible by the generos‑ ity of Bob and Sue Swaney, owners of Corner Cone, located at the Corner of Dayton and Walnut streets.

The market is open 7–11 a.m. Saturdays.

Enhance Worldwide Ashley Lackovich‑Van Gorp, 937‑708‑0144 E M A I L : enhanceworldwide@gmail.com W E B : www.enhanceworldwide.org C O N TA C T:

Enhance Worldwide envisions com‑ munities where girls and women have the skills to lead meaningful, dignified lives and where each individual has agency, autonomy and aspirations. Working toward this vision, Enhance Worldwide helps girls, women and their communities discover strategies to navigate the challenges to their wellbeing in order to develop as indi‑ viduals in their own right. The organization currently ser ves 150 direct beneficiaries across three programs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Activities focus on minimalizing the risk of child marriage, forced labor, violence and traf ficking through family support, access to education and life skills development.

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For more than 30 years, The Feminst Health Fund, a Yellow Springs‑based non‑ profit, has raised funds to help women in Greene County pay for traditional and alter‑ native medical‑related expenses. For more information, to make a donation or to apply for a grant, please give us a call or visit our website, www.feministhealthfund.org.

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The Yellow Springs Food Co‑op is a local buying club. The group orders natural and organic food and other household products at affordable prices, with a minimum of work for its members. Members place orders online from a wide selection of products.

Delivery is every four weeks on Wednesday afternoon.

Friends Care Community 150/170 E. Herman St., 767‑7363 W E B : www.friendshealthcare.org C O N TA C T:

Friends Care Community has a single goal: the affirmation of life. Friends Care’s continuous care community has succeeded in meeting the needs of seniors who seek security and quality care, first with extended care, then with assisted living and indepen‑ dent living homes. Friends Care is located on a 22‑acre campus. Friends is owned and operated by the Friends Health Care Associa‑ tion and has been a nonprofit community for over 30 years.

Friends Care is a 66‑bed skilled and long‑ term nursing facility. In August of 2011, Friends completed construction on a new, 16 private room rehabilitation center, provid‑ ing a distinct unit for care of short‑term stay rehab and nursing services.

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Green Environmental Coalition P.O. Box 553, 767‑2109 gec@greenlink.org www.greenlink.org

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The Green Environmental Coalition (GEC) is a grass‑roots activist group found‑ ed in 1990. The coalition’s mission is to have a positive impact on local, state and regional environmental issues.

Currently GEC is involved in several proj‑ ects in the area, including: • Helping to reduce the negative impact of the Fairborn Cement Plant’s eastward quarry expansion on local residents; • Monitoring air quality of the area through the Regional Air Pollution Control Agency; • Providing environmental educational information at the YS Street Fair; • Educating the community on local sus‑ tainable energy; GEC helps support neighbors’ involve‑ ment in a range of local environmental issues, as well as becoming involved in

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state and federal environmental regulation efforts. Interested persons are welcome to attend regular business meetings on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. Call 937‑767‑2109 to find out the location for the meeting.

Grinnell Mill Foundation Chris Mucher, 767‑1391 www.grinnellmill.org

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The Grinnell Mill foundation is a nonprofit foundation comprised of Miami Township, Glen Helen and the Yellow Springs Historical Society. Its purpose is the preservation and promotion of the historical and educationally valuable Grinnell Mill located at 3536 Bryan Park Road. For more information, visit grin‑ nellmill.org.

James A. McKee Association Karen McKee, President, 767‑8061; Paul Abendroth, Vice‑President, 767‑1678; Peggy Erskine, Treasurer, 767‑7856 W E B : www.45387.org; www. facebook.com/James‑A‑McKee‑ Association‑284986248585882 C O N TA C T:

The James A. McKee Association, or JAMA, aka Jim’s Group, formerly known as the Yellow Springs Men’s Group, is a community‑based 501(c)(3) nonprofit civic organization that was organized in 1994 by the late James A. McKee, former police chief of Yellow Springs, who for more than three decades was affectionately known to many villagers as simply “Chief.” The goal of the association is to encourage volunteerism that helps build and strengthen the Yellow Springs community. Programs hosted by the organization include research, public information forums, and educational and charitable projects. Monthly “Community Conversations” about key elements of com‑ munity life are led by guest speakers, and are free and open to the public.

To promote the value of community partic‑ ipation and leadership, the association spon‑ sors the annual “Founders Award” in recog‑ nition of an individual, or group, nominated by villagers, for their significant volunteer contributions to the community. The James A. McKee Scholarship is awarded annu‑ ally, to deserving Yellow Springs high school graduates who have demonstrated notable

academic achievement and leadership skills while overcoming adverse disadvantages throughout their high school career. “Can‑ didates Night” provides the opportunity for community members to meet all of the can‑ didates who are running for local office, and to learn more about their qualifications and plans for supporting the interests of Yellow Springs’ residents.

Special projects sponsored by the asso‑ ciation include “The Cost‑Of‑Living Report,” “The Local Communications Network Study” and “The Community Information Project.”

The James A. McKee Association is a mem‑ ber of the Yellow Springs Nonprofit Network and the Yellow Springs Chamber of Com‑ merce. In collaboration with other local and nonprofit organizations, the James A. McKee Association helps support the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Oratory Contest, The Odd Fellows Fireworks Celebration and many of the activities sponsored by The 365 Project.

JAMA welcomes all Yellow Springs and Miami Township residents to join the asso‑ ciation and help enhance the quality of life throughout the community.

La Leche League Laura Ann Ellison, 767‑1097 or 708‑6392; Sylvia Ann Ellison, 708‑6252 E M A I L : ellisonla@mindspring.com; sylvia. ellison@wright.edu W E B : www.llli.org C O N TA C T:

Mothers who wish to breastfeed their babies will find encouragement and informa‑ tion from La Leche League International. La Leche League leaders are available by phone 24 hours a day. Leaders are available for private consultation, home visits and hospital visits.

La Leche League is a mother‑to‑mother breastfeeding suppor t group. La Leche League leaders are accredited through La Leche League International. Leaders stay informed of current medical research and best practice. Leaders encourage the sharing of personal experiences from mother‑to‑ mother.

Masonic Lodge Don Lewis, 937‑901‑6211 www.yellowsprings421.org

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The Yellow Springs Masonic Lodge was chartered in 1868. Its mission is to provide a fraternal brotherhood that supports the principles of brotherly love, relief and truth.

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All parents/guardians of students attend‑ ing the McKinney School or YSHS will be considered members of the PTO. There are no membership dues.

The PTO meets monthly; the regular meeting time will be announced at the begin‑ ning of the school year. Discussion, speakers and events are planned to strengthen the community and develop parent and educa‑ tional success. For additional information, email yshspto@gmail.com.

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The Mills Lawn Parent Teacher Organiza‑ tion (PTO) is a volunteer organization that strives to support students, families and teachers in the educational process by pro‑ viding educational enrichment programs and services, as well as social activities for the Mills Lawn Elementary School community.

The PTO sponsors fundraising events to pay for these activities, programs and services.

Morgan Family Foundation Lori M. Kuhn, executive director, 767‑9208 E M A I L : info@morganfamilyfdn.org W E B : www.morganfamilyfdn.org C O N TA C T:

The Morgan Family Foundation is a private family foundation based in Yellow Springs and funded in December 2003 by Lee and Vicki Morgan. The foundation be‑ lieves in: • building stronger, more inclusive com‑ munities; and • broadening horizons and inspiring ac‑ tion through the power of education and experiential learning.

The foundation awards grants to public

charitable organizations that primarily serve Yellow Springs and St. Cloud, Minn., and their immediate vicinity. In addition, other communities and organizations that are supported by board and family mem‑ bers may receive grants from time to time.

With all competitive grant dollars commit‑ ted to multi‑year grants through 2018, the Foundation will not be accepting new grant requests until 2019.

NAMI of Clark, Greene & Madison Counties NAMI Clark, Greene and Madison Coun‑ ties (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is a nonprofit, grassroots organization of‑ fering support, education and advocacy for persons living with mental illness and their families, friends and caregivers. Learn more at www.namicgm.org. We are a local branch of our national NAMI affiliate. We fight against the stigma often associated with mental illness through community outreach and educational programs. We advocate for beneficial change in the current mental health system, both locally and throughout the state of Ohio.

NAMI Connection Recover y Suppor t Group is a free and ongoing recovery sup‑ port group for adults with mental illness.

Participants can safely and confidentially talk about their mental illness, learn new coping skills and find hope for a realistic fu‑ ture. Meetings are held weekly on Wednes‑ days, 6:30–8 p.m., at the John Bryan Center, rooms A and B, located at 100 Dayton St. in Yellow Springs.

NAMI Family Support Group is a free and ongoing support group for family and friends of individuals who live with mental illness. Par ticipants share their experi‑ ences and offer mutual encouragement.

Meetings are held the second Thursday of each months, from 7–8:30 p.m., at the John Br yan Center, rooms A and B. Con‑ tact Kathr yn Hitchcock, 937‑322‑5600 or 937‑873‑2220.

For more information about NAMI or to find out about special events, educational programs, support groups, and how to help with its mission, contact the organization as listed above. In case of any medical emer‑ gency, dial 911.

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Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship for achieving recovery from addiction. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using drugs. The program has found that one addict helping another works to achieve that, when all else fails. An open meeting is held in the basement of the Yel‑ low Springs Methodist Church on Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m.

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Neighborhood gardening is based on a simple idea: to have places within walking distance of one’s home where neighbors can garden together — and have fun! Pres‑ ently, six neighborhood gardens are open (a seventh is planned): Friends Care, our oldest garden; Fair Acres Park, our most neighborly garden; Corry Street, our larg‑ est and most sociable garden; Bill Duncan Park, our most celebritous garden; Frog‑ town Reser ve on Glass Farm, our most tried garden; and President Street, our newest garden.

This year, more than 70 villagers have garden plots. Most present gardeners do not have land, or do not have suitable sites for

home gardens because of shade. Fees and deposits are not required in order to promote central values of inclusiveness, equality and affordability. Because of such values, the neighborhood gardens collectively is one of the most demographically and socio‑eco‑ nomically rich and diverse of all the village’s institutions!

We offer safe places to garden, explore, fail, succeed, develop, experiment, show off, see how others garden, learn from others and have fun. Don’t you wish every place was like this? Come join us! Our steering committee is comprised of elected represen‑ tatives from each neighborhood garden, and as need arises, experienced garden mentors and landowner representatives. For more information or to sign up for a plot or two, contact Thor and Friends at 767‑2729 or 750‑6090, douglasleebailey@earthlink.net.

We guarantee access, not success; that’s up to you! We wish you well.

Odd Fellows Ruth Jordan, 937‑878‑7871 (home), 937‑607‑8115 (cell) E M A I L : ysoddfellows@gmail.com C O N TA C T:

The Yellow Springs Lodge of the Inde‑ pendent Order of Odd Fellows dates back to 1855. Odd Fellows follow the precept to “visit the sick, bury the dead and educate the orphan.”

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The Village Mediation Program of Yellow Springs is dedicated to providing peaceful and productive methods for addressing conflict to Village and Township residents for free.

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The Village Mediation Program assists organizations by providing Facilitators for meetings, Consultation on options for addressing a dispute or Training in conflict resolution skills.

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Villager Joan Horn has lived in Yellow Springs for more than 60 years, contributing to the community as a volunteer, teacher, civic-minded citizen and friend. Her Spillan Road home, filled with books and art, is always open to friends from Yellow Springs and around the world.

PHOTO BY AUDREY HACKETT

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By Audrey Hackett Joan Horn is a doer. Nine years ago, she wrote a biography of musician Walter Anderson simply because no one else was available to do so.

A local writer working on the project had passed away, and Horn, a longtime friend and former student of Anderson’s, sought to carry the project forward by engaging another writer.

After contacting “13 or 14 professional writers” about the biography, she realized the book might only come to be if she did it.

So she did it.

“I have Little Red Hen syndrome,” Horn said, laughingly referring to the children’s book featuring an industrious barnyard fowl. “I think, ‘I’ll do it myself.’”

That quality defines Horn, according to villager Mary Stukenberg, a good friend.

“She sees a need and she doesn’t leave it there,” Stukenberg said.

Horn has lived in Yellow Springs for over 60 years, first coming to the village as a student at Antioch College in the early 1950s. Her contributions to the community are legion. Now 83 and long retired from two careers, as an elementary school teacher at Mills Lawn School and director of the Outdoor Education Center at Glen Helen, she volunteers twice a week at the assisted living unit at Friends Care and drives for the Yellow Springs Senior Center.

Those are just two of a slew of volunteer positions she’s held over the years, including organizing progressive dinners for Home, Inc. and Friends Care; arranging visits to Yellow Springs by people from all over the world through Experiment in International Living, an exchange program; and bringing music to the Dayton schools through the Dayton Philharmonic’s music outreach program. She’s held seats on various local boards and even

served on Village Council.

“What would we do without Joan Horn?” asked Karen Wolford, the local senior center’s executive director.

As a volunteer driver, Horn is faithful, reliable and “has a very caring spirit,” Wolford said. Horn’s been driving for the senior center so long — at least 15 years — that no one quite remembers when she started.

Horn attributes her lifelong zeal for serving others to two factors: a Quaker-influenced childhood, and her formative years at Antioch.

“I’ve forever been thinking about helping other people. It’s a natural thing for me,” she said in an interview in the sunny living room of her Yellow Springs home.

Born in 1933 and raised in Philadelphia, Penn., Horn was one of three children of parents who were not themselves Quakers. Thanks to the generosity of Horn’s paternal grandmother, however, Horn received a Quaker education, at the venerable Germantown Friends School. “I was imbued with Quaker ideas for 12 years,” Horn recalled. Chief among these ideas was the conviction that “service is the rent you pay for living,” she said.

While other Germantown graduates headed to East Coast colleges, Horn chose Antioch. “I didn’t want to follow the herd,” she said. And it didn’t hurt that the Antioch recruiter was “the most handsome guy I ever saw,” Horn recalled, with an embarrassed laugh.

“I was boy-crazy then,” she confided.

Antioch was a good fit for a doer. A co-op with a nursery school in Connecticut sparked Horn’s desire to teach, though she also had an interest in the medical field — but was disinclined to be a nurse, the template for women at the time. In her first weeks at Antioch, she met the man who would become her husband, Dick Horn. They got married prior to her senior year; she graduated in 1956

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with a degree in elementary education.

The young couple decided to stay in Yellow Springs. Dick was a graphic designer, eventually forming his own company in Dayton. The Horns had three children, Debbie, Steve and Timothy, all raised in the village. By 1969, in her late 30s, Joan was ready to put her elementary education training to professional use.

She taught at Mills Lawn Elementary for 10 years. There she met fellow teacher and villager Betty Felder, who became a close friend. The two joined with a third teacher to team teach, a concept new to the school at the time.

“We did lots of fun things,” Felder recalled, including taking the secondgraders to sleep out in the Glen for a unit on Native Americans.

And they saw each other socially.

Felder remembered one time when five couples, including the Felders and the Horns, drove in two trailers to Indiana, just to dine at a fancy restaurant called Shambarger’s. After dinner, they stayed the night, “girls in one trailer, boys in another,” Felder chuckled, then drove back to Yellow Springs the next morning.

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Horn took a sabbatical from Mills Lawn to attend Ohio State University, where she earned her master’s degree in environmental education. That inaugurated the second phase of her career: directing the Outdoor Education Center, or OEC, which for 60 years has trained college-aged naturalists and offered educational programs for younger students. Horn ran the OEC for nearly two decades, from 1979 to | CONTINUES ON PAGE 24 |

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1997. Betty Ross, a later-in-life naturalist intern who became the director of the Raptor Center, trained at the OEC under Horn, then became a colleague and friend.

“Joan’s a very welcoming person,” Ross said. “She took all those students under her wing and made them feel so comfortable.”

Ross was impressed by Horn’s blend of openness and traditionalism. “She’s open to new ideas ... but still stuck by the traditions of the OEC,” Ross said.

That loyalty to tradition continues to this day, with Horn hosting the final OEC staff training dinner at her house.

And Horn still makes the cloth napkins, complete with sewed-on initials, that naturalist interns use at the OEC to avoid the waste of paper napkins, according to Ross.

“Those little things — if she didn’t do them, who else is going to?” Ross said.

It was during Horn’s years at the OEC that she began enduring one of her life’s great losses — her hearing. “I was so embarrassed,” Horn recalled.

“I hated for anybody to think that the OEC director was an old fogey.”

Though reluctant to admit to the problem, she eventually got hearing aids. In recent years, she’s experienced another major decline in her hearing.

It’s been a blow, she said.

“They don’t tell you that when you lose your hearing, you also lose your directionality,” she said.

But for Horn, the worst part about hearing loss has been a loss of full enjoyment in music. Instruments now sound “tinny,” she said, diminishing the fun of attending the Dayton Philharmonic and the Springfield Symphony, which she’s done for de-

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cades. Several years ago, she stopped singing in the Yellow Springs Community Chorus — having sung in choruses since high school — because she could no longer hear the pitch of the person beside her.

She’s learned to be philosophical about the loss, turning to reading, another great love, in place of music.

“I’ve gotten my great fill of music,” she said.

Horn’s parents were both musical. Her mother was a professionally trained soprano, though her singing career ended after the children came along. Horn only ever remembers hearing her mother singing in church.

Horn’s father, a surgeon, took flute lessons from the first flutist in the Philadelphia Orchestra of the day.

As an Antioch student, Horn formed a lasting bond with Walter Anderson, known to his friends as Andy, a musical prodigy and the first AfricanAmerican head of a department at a majority-white college. “He was very welcoming, effusive and warm. ... We just clicked,” she said. Horn sang in the Antioch chorus, which Anderson led, took organ lessons from him and served as his assistant during her senior year co-op.

Following Horn’s graduation, she and Anderson stayed in touch, and after he moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the National Endowment for the Arts, she regularly visited him there. And she interviewed him during the final months of his life for the book project that became “Playing on All the Keys: The Life of Walter F. Anderson,” published in 2008.

“Andy’s just been a force in my life,” Horn said.

Friends and family are deeply important to her, even more so as the years go by, she said. Though her children and grandchildren are farflung — living in Canada, Texas and California — she’s been lucky to have her brother, David Hergesheimer, and his wife, Keiko, just around the corner.

(Hergesheimer, 15 years younger than she, also attended Antioch and is well known as a local potter. Horn’s sister, Chrissy Spagna, lives in Philadelphia.)

Horn and her husband divorced after 35 years of marriage, but still stay in touch. And she’s found joy in being single.

“I’m utterly happy as a single person,” she said.

Single, but not often alone. Hanging in her kitchen is a banner she made years ago: “Horn’s Hostel.” Her Spillan Road home is always open to friends and colleagues from Yellow Springs and around the world, and she’s an enthusiastic and accomplished cook.

For many years, she’s kept track of what she’s served to friends, and how the meals went over. She hates repeating a meal. One year she resolved to cook all the recipes in a cookbook called “The Streamliner Diner,” from a Bainbridge Island restaurant, and finished just under the wire by inviting her brother and sister-in-law over every day for a week.

“By golly, I finished the cookbook,” she said.

Over the years, she’s kept in touch with Antioch alumni and maintained ties to the college. She led several trips to Brazil for Antioch’s education abroad program. The first trip was an experiment, which she successfully co-led with a tattoo-covered Catholic priest named Father Pete. The country became the home of her heart; she’s made a total of nine trips there, learning Portuguese and making friends.

When Antioch closed in 2008, she was “desperately concerned.” She served on the board of Nonstop Antioch to help keep the spirit and intellectual culture of Antioch alive. And she was willing to step into the fray in 2009, petitioning the attorney general to seek accountability for flooding at the closed college, which she and others believed could threaten Antioch’s future viability.

She’s kept a keen eye on the reopened college’s progress, and is especially pleased to see the flourishing of “co-op jobs all over the world.”

In the 1960s, Horn worked for several years as former Antioch President Arthur Morgan’s office manager. “That was an experience. People came from all over the world to meet him, to shake his hand,” she recalled. Though quite elderly by that time, Morgan maintained an active, useful and deeply engaged life.

Horn’s own life seems cut from a similar pattern.

“Joan’s a good and loyal friend to everyone,” said Betty Ross, who’s known her for 30 years. “People know they can count on her.”

Horn calls herself shy. “Basically I’m a shy person who hates to go to cocktail parties. I prefer to go in depth with one or two people.”

As a Friend’s Care volunteer, she often reads snippets from a news digest called “The Week” to stimulate conversation and reflection. She’s delighted when an item sparks personal sharing, leading residents and Horn to learn something new about each other.

“When I leave, they say, ‘We are so glad you came,’ and they say it with sincerity,” Horn reflected. “And that’s how I feel, too.”

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to charitable organizations. Recent activities include sponsorship of the Fourth of July parade and Fourth of July fireworks at Gaunt Park, road cleanup, park maintenance, Street Fair participation, Art Stroll and various fun activities.

IOOF Lodge #279 meetings are held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month in the Lodge Hall, located at 261 Xenia Ave., beginning with a social hour at 6:15 p.m. Men and women over the age of 16 are welcome to join.

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For nearly 10 years now, the ranch has become home to many mixed breed sheep and goats and other small, misfit farm animals that would have been euthanized or sent to slaughter. We do find forever homes for some; the rest live out their lives in a quiet, natural environment. To date, we have adopted out over 50 sheep and goats.

The ranch is not open to the public, except by appointment or invitation. All volunteers must be 18 or older. We would like to thank everyone so very much for past and future support.

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The Riding Centre was established in 1960 by Louise Soelberg as an educational, nonprofit project dedicated to the teaching of horsemanship, the care and management of horses and the training of young teachers.

Located on a portion of Glen Helen, Riding Centre facilities include a large outdoor ring, a lighted indoor ring, a cross‑country hunt course, several trails and two stables, which house the school’s horses, boarders and the Therapeutic Riding Program.

The Therapeutic Riding Program, started in 1974, ser ves adults and children with developmental disabilities. Carolyn Bailey is the riding teacher for the program.

The Riding Centre also features summer riding day camps, in which children attend a four‑hour‑daily schedule for one week, learn‑ ing about the care of horses and the skills of riding.

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The Yellow Springs Senior Center is dedicated to enhancing the dignity and quality of life for seniors in Yellow Springs and Miami Township and has been a mainstay of the community since 1959.

The Senior Center is located in the heart of Yellow Springs on Xenia Avenue. The Senior Center provides assistance in the following areas: • Support Ser vices — assists seniors with navigation of available benefits, as‑ sists in finding solutions for seniors to remain in their homes, assists caregivers and provides linkages to ser vices through the Greene County Council on Aging and other Greene County ser vices.

• Transportation — assists seniors with transpor tation to and from medical ap‑ pointments, personal care appointments or tasks and Senior Center activities and programs.

• Homemaking Ser vices — assists seniors with homemaking tasks such as cleaning, laundr y, food preparation and errands.

• Activities — provides activities at the Senior Center and other locations to assist seniors and others with enjoyable socializa‑ tion, physical exercise and learning new skills.

Membership in the Senior Center is open to ever yone. Family members are en‑ couraged to join and become aware of the resources available. A bi‑monthly newslet‑ ter is produced that provides information on all the activities and programs available at the Senior Center. The Senior Center is open Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m.

Tecumseh Land Trust Krista Magaw, P.O. Box 417, 767‑9490 E M A I L : krista@tecumsehlandtrust.org W E B : www.tecumsehlandtrust.org; www. facebook.com/TecumsehLandTrust/ C O N TA C T:

Tecumseh Land Trust protects local farmland, water and natural areas forever.

Donations to this local nonprofit make it possible for volunteers and staff to reach out to and assist private landowners who wish to preser ve their special farms or natural properties. Grant monies and tax benefits are sometimes available to such landowners. The land trust has preserved 150 properties, encompassing over 26,000 acres and 42 stream miles. Glen Helen, enjoyed by many visitors every year, is the best‑known property protected by the land trust. Land owners and land lovers alike are encouraged to contact the land trust to learn more about the land trust’s work, upcoming walks, local food events and vol‑ unteer opportunities.

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The Tenant Cooperative of Yellow Springs and Miami Township offers free consulta‑ tion on matters of tenant/landlord disputes.

Typical problems relate to security deposit return, maintenance, eviction and discrimi‑ nation in rental offerings.

The 365 Project John Gudgel jwgudge@sbcglobal.net the365projectys.org

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The 365 Project is a local volunteer organi‑ zation that serves as a catalyst organization that challenges and supports the people of Yellow Springs and Miami Township to engage critically and respectfully in dia‑ logue and action that promotes and sustains diverse African‑American heritage and culture and educational equity, 365 days a year. The 365 Project meets monthly and has sponsored the annual Elaine Comegys Film Fest, community conversations and myriad other activities. For more information, con‑ tact John Gudgel at jwgudge@sbcglobal.net or P.O. Box 165, Yellow Springs.

Threshold Singers of Yellow Springs Linda Chernick, 937‑234‑SING (7464) W E B : thresholdchoir.org/yellowsprings C O N TA C T:

Through bedside song, the Threshold Singers of Yellow Springs bring compassion and comfort to those standing at the thresh‑ old between living and dying.

When invited, a small group of our mem‑ bers (usually, two or three) comes to sing quietly at bedside for a comfortable length of time (perhaps 20–30 minutes) in hospi‑ tals, nursing homes and private homes. We are sensitive to the physical and emotional needs of the individual and family, always respecting the desire for privacy and family time. Our singing is meant to soothe, nur‑ ture and inspire. Family, friends and caregiv‑ ers are welcome to listen or to quietly join in.

There is no charge for our service.

The Threshold Singers of Yellow Springs is open to all women who feel called to this service. Musical training is not necessary — only a desire to sing from your heart, blending your voice with other singers as we learn the beautiful Threshold Choir repertoire. Since this is not a performance choir, we work on learning to sing quietly together, listening to one another and blend‑ ing our voices. Singing at bedside comes in time, when the new singer is ready.

We rehearse on three Sunday afternoons a month. On the fourth Sunday afternoon, we sing at Friends Care, our local assisted living/nursing home.

To schedule a visit, or for information about joining, call 937‑234‑SING.

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Joy Fishbain, 767‑7724

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The Yellow Springs community has given generous support to UNICEF. Many residents make an ef for t to purchase UNICEF cards and children collect dona‑ tions during Halloween “Trick or Treat for UNICEF.” To shop for cards online, visit www. unicefusa.org/shop or call 1‑800‑553‑1200 to place your order. Holiday cards may also be purchased from Hallmark Gold Crown Stores, Pier One Imports, Barnes & Noble or by contacting Joy Fishbain, who has a nice selection of boxed cards from recent years at discounted rates.

Wellness Center at Antioch College 937‑319‑0100 E M A I L : wellness@antiochcollege.org W E B : wellnesscenter.antiochcollege.edu C O N TA C T:

The recently renovated facility is a place to focus on fitness and health. Spacious and filled with natural light, the Wellness Center preserves historic architectural ele‑ ments dating back to its days as the college gym, while incorporating contemporar y features. It embraces Antioch’s vision of sustainability by meeting LEED Gold stan‑ dards.

The Wellness Center offers: • A six-lane, regulation-length indoor swimming pool made cleaner and greener with UV filtration system; • A large therapeutic whirlpool; • A fully equipped fitness room with stateof‑the‑art cardio equipment, strength machines, weight lifting equipment, and a walking track; • Indoor courts for basketball, racquetball, volleyball, badminton and pickleball; • Studio spaces for group fitness classes; • Outdoor tennis courts; • A healthy grab-and-go snack bar.

A variety of programs are offered, taught by experienced and certified instructors.

Programs include: group fitness classes, intramural basketball and volleyball, swim‑ ming and tennis lessons for all ages, personal training and bodywork.

Memberships and day passes are available online or at the front desk.

The South Gym is a multi‑use space for special events, lectures, conferences, re‑ treats and performances.

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Located in the Yellow Springs Senior Center at 227 Xenia Ave., the winter market is open every Saturday morning, January– March, 9 a.m.–noon. The market features hoop‑house produce, baked goods, jellies, honey, eggs, pork, cheese, maple syrup, gra‑ nola and more items from many of the same vendors who attend the summer markets.

Some Saturdays feature local musicians.

Follow the market on Facebook at “Yellow Springs Winter Farmers Market.”

Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce Karen Wintrow, Executive Director, 101 Dayton St., 767‑2686 E M A I L : info@yellowspringsohio.org W E B : www.yellowspringsohio.org C O N TA C T:

The Yellow Springs Chamber of Com‑ merce is a nonprofit organization whose mis‑ sion is to encourage a business environment that drives the prosperity of its members while enhancing Yellow Springs’ quality of life. The YS Chamber supports more than 300 members.

The YS Chamber hosts member events on the third Thursday of every month. Chamber Chats are informal member gatherings to discuss areas of interest for members. Lunch and Learn events bring guest speakers with a focus on issues of concern for members.

Meetings are held either at 9 a.m. or noon in the Bryan Center, rooms A and B. Business After Hours are networking events held at member locations as an opportunity for them to highlight their business and are held from 5:30‑7:30 p.m., also on the third Thursday.

With offices centrally located in the Yellow Springs Train Station on the Little Miami Bike Trail, visitors and residents can stop in the office for information and brochures. YS Chamber employees typically staff the office from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. weekdays and noon–5 p.m. on the weekends.

Twice a year — on the second Saturday in June and October — the YS Chamber sponsors the Yellow Springs Street Fair, an all‑day craft, food, music and beer festival to showcase the community. The YS Chamber partners on several other major events in‑ cluding YS Pride, SpringsFest, Cyclops Fest, YS Open Studios and Holiday in the Springs plus numerous smaller events throughout the year.

Springs Community Foundation in philan‑ thropic giving plans.

Yellow Springs Farmers Market C O N TA C T:

Michele Burns, 319‑6076

For over 30 years, the Yellow Springs Farmers Market has provided locally grown produce, meats, eggs and much more, all from area farmers and businesses. Conve‑ niently located behind the Trail Tavern in the Kings Yard parking lot, the market is open every Saturday, except the second Saturdays in June and October, when the market moves to Sunday. Hours: April, from 8 a.m.–noon; May–October, from 7 a.m.–noon; second Saturday in October–November, from 8 a.m.–noon. “Like” us on Facebook for weekly offerings.

Yellow Springs Historical Society David Neuhardt, President, 767‑7106; Gillian Hill, 767‑7432, P.O. Box 501, Yellow Springs W E B : www.yshistory.org; blog.yshistory.org; “Yellow Springs Historical Society” on Facebook C O N TA C T:

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The Yellow Springs Community Founda‑ tion is a tax‑exempt, public charitable founda‑ tion established in 1974 to benefit the citizens and community of Yellow Springs and Miami Township.

The Yellow Springs Community Foun‑ dation, or YSCF, is focused on two key activities for the community: manage gifts and direct grants and scholarships for Yel‑ low Springs and Miami Township. In 2016, the YSCF managed $12 million in endow‑ ments and funds, received $450,000 in gifts and made distributions and grants of $400,000 to the community, with 80 percent of expenses staying local. Focus areas of giving are education, seniors, environment and the arts, supporting many of the local nonprofit organizations through endow‑ ments, agency funds, grants and awards.

Applications for grants can be made online at www.yscf.org.

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stories of Yellow Springs’ history. The society looks for fresh ways of making the history of Yellow Springs, Miami Township and the region real and exciting to local residents and visitors.

The society plans four or more programs a year at which a different story is told. In ad‑ dition, the society seeks to make these sto‑ ries accessible to a wider audience through other means. These other efforts have in‑ cluded photo and other exhibits at the Street Fair and other public events; publications, including the popular reprint of Harold Igo’s local ghost stories from the Yellow Springs News and a biography of William Mills by Jane Baker; cooperation with local history programs in schools; stories and announce‑ ments on the website and Facebook; com‑ munity events and celebrations; support of oral and video history projects; advocacy for the preservation, and for collecting the sto‑ ries, of historic structures and maintenance of the Antioch Bookplate archives.

Future projects include tours with supple‑ mental brochures, a formal inventor y of a growing collection of artifacts, in‑depth research on the historical houses of Yellow Springs and the long‑term vision of a museum and research center. The Historical Society is a co‑sponsor of the Grinnell Mill Foundation, which promotes the preservation of the mill.

The historic Grinnell Mill Museum is open to the public year‑round on Sundays.

Membership fees are modest, and the group’s public programs are free and open to the public.

Yellow Springs Home, Inc. Chris Hall, program manager, P.O. Box 503, 767‑2790 E M A I L : info@yshome.org W E B : www.yshome.org; www.facebook.com/ yellowspringshomeinc C O N TA C T:

Yellow Springs Home, Inc. (Home, Inc.) is a nonprofit community development corporation whose mission is to strengthen community and diversity in Yellow Springs and Miami Township by providing per‑ manently affordable, sustainable housing through its Community Land Trust. Home, Inc. accomplishes its mission through four major areas: • Working with households to prepare for homeownership through the Home Buyer Coaching program, which is centered around individualized one‑on‑one financial coaching; • Building and rehabbing homes and rent‑ als affordable to low‑ and moderate‑income families; • Supporting homeowners in the program through stewardship activities; • Advocating for sustainable development.

Home, Inc. has built or rehabbed 22 hous‑ ing units and counting and has not had a single foreclosure since founding.

Home, Inc. is organized as a membership‑ based Community Land Trust (CLT) with a board of directors that is at least one‑third low‑income and includes homeowner repre‑ sentation. The CLT model encourages the permanent affordability of each home built.

Funding from local donors, foundations, and

county and state government helps to sup‑ port its housing development efforts.

Contact Home, Inc. for more information on homes for sale, rentals and the Home Buyer Coaching program. Home, Inc. also welcomes community volunteers.

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Yellow Springs Repair Cafe Kat Walter, 937‑475‑9207 E M A I L : kat@volksmail.com W E B : www.facebook.com/pg/YSRepaircafe C O N TA C T:

The Yellow Springs Repair Cafe, connected to repaircafe.org, brings villagers together as volunteers fix and teach neighbors how to fix broken goods people wish to reuse. This free, quarterly event not only builds a stron‑ ger community and teaches neighbors how to repair their own goods, but also keeps more trash out of the waste stream.

Yellow Springs Resilience Network ysresilience@gmail.com www.facebook.com/ysresiliencenetwork

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The Yellow Springs Resilience Network is a collaborative network of individuals and organizations in the village who aim to elimi‑ nate greenhouse gas emissions and create long‑term resilience — not only to the effects of climate change, but also as an ecological community in the village. The network is committed to developing a highly inclusive and equitable local economy, increasing lo‑ cal renewable energy production, greatly increasing and distributing the amount of locally produced food, cutting transportation emissions, supporting the development of highly energy‑efficient housing and build‑ ings and eliminating waste entirely. All are welcome to participate. And necessary.

and removal; • To promote the improvement of private property through the wise selection and use of trees.

The Tree Committee grew out of two com‑ munity tree‑planting projects: a 1976 planting of trees on the Mills Lawn school grounds to honor Yellow Springs News editor Kieth Howard, and a continuing beautification pro‑ gram of tree plantings throughout the village.

The committee offers a tribute and memo‑ rial tree‑planting program to honor a life, a service or a significant event. New members and volunteers are always welcome to join the Tree Committee.

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YS PetNet P.O. Box 21, Yellow Springs, 937‑372‑2044 W E B : www.facebook.com/YSPetNet C O N TA C T:

PetNet of Yellow Springs is a collective of area animal lovers committed to standing between lost pets and the pound. We seek to provide excellent short‑term foster care while we work with local authorities, animal shelters and the community to return each rescue home. PetNet collaborates with area resources to rehome unclaimed, or stray, animals when appropriate.

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JOHN BRYAN COMMUNITY POTTERY A community studio offering classes, workshops, & studio rentals.

For over 40 years, this non-profit studio has been providing opportunities for learning and working with clay to the Yellow Springs community and surrounding areas.

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Since moving to Yellow Springs in 1994, Andrée Bognár has spent countless volunteer hours helping others, especially older villagers.

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By Robin Suits Stay involved in things that interest you. Learn a new skill. Try to get out every day. Keep a positive outlook.

Ask for help from others when you need it, and offer help when you can.

Accept people the way they are. Celebrate with friends. Spend time with children.

That’s the advice Andrée Bognár, 87, might give those who want to live well into old age. The advice comes not only from her more than 30 years as a social worker involved with organizations that assist older people, but also from personal experience doing all those things herself.

During her long career as a social worker, Bognár worked to expand services for older people in Greene County. In 1975, she was hired as the first director of the Today Center for Adults in Xenia, one of the first senior adult day care centers in Ohio. Later, she was involved in the creation of the Greene County Council on Aging, an organization that enhances cooperation between agencies serving older people, and was the first person hired as a home assistance program coordinator working out of an office at the Yellow Springs Senior Center.

“The Greene County Council on Aging was established in 1978 to make connections between agencies and to share information about services for older people,” she said in an interview. “Greene County has a very good system of services for older people, including home health care, homedelivered meals and transportation services. But at that time, there was no funding. After a levy was passed in 1999, the Council became the powerful agency it is today.”

When Bognár moved to Yellow Springs in 1994, she already had friends here and was familiar with both the Yellow Springs Senior Center and Friends Care Community through her work. One of her close friends, Mary Ann Bebko, encouraged her to join the Senior Center, and she’s been very active there ever since.

Around that time, Friends Care Community was working to raise money for a new part-time position for a home assistance program coordinator working out of an office in the Senior Center. When funding was secured for the position in 1998, Bognár was hired because of her extensive experience in the field and knowledge of the community. The position was an ideal fit, she said.

Although she retired from paid work

in 2004, Bognár continues to volunteer at the Yellow Springs Senior Center and Friends Care Community. And she takes advantage of services offered by the Senior Center as well.

“I’m taking Spanish lessons now,” she said.

Since moving to Yellow Springs in 1994 to be closer to her son, Steve Bognár, and her many friends here, her appreciation for the village has grown.

“I love Yellow Springs. It’s such a nice community, with so much to do,” she said. According to many who have known her, Bognár’s love for the people of Yellow Springs is widely reciprocated.

“I just love Andrée,” said Lin Wood, office manager and development assistant at the Yellow Springs Senior Center, who has worked with Bognár for many years. “I have always been in awe of the scope of Andrée’s genuine loving care for her fellow humans on this planet. The list of what she has quietly and selflessly done for others could fill a book. Many people think of her as Yellow Springs’ own Mother Teresa,” she said with a laugh.

In recent years, one of Bognár’s favorite activities is dropping by to see Steve and his partner, Julia Reichert.

She takes great pleasure in spending time with Julia’s two grandchildren, whom she calls her great-grandchildren, as well as her younger son John’s child in Dayton.

“I am so pleased to have small children in my life,” she said.

Being retired hasn’t diminished Bognár’s involvement in the Yellow Springs community. She regularly celebrates birthdays and special events with a group of friends who gather for potluck dinners. She has served on the board of Sowelo, a nonprofit, community-based network of practitioners who assist villagers with end-of-life issues, and has been a regular peace demonstrator on weekends in the village. A member of St. Paul Catholic Church, Bognár follows current political events closely and especially likes the commentary of Robert Reich, who was labor secretary during the Clinton administration. During the 2016 presidential campaign, she volunteered at the Hillary Clinton campaign headquarters.

She is particularly concerned about the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as she said she knows first hand how devastating that would be for those who depend on Medicaid. “Every week I send a post-

card to Sen. Rob Portman, and I call Rick Perales, our representative in the Ohio House, about related issues,” she said.

Bognár’s lifetime dedication to helping others most likely began with a childhood torn apart by World War II, according to her son Steve. Born in Belgium, she was the fifth of six children. Her family fled her hometown of Leuven on bicycles at the start of the war. Four years later, their house was destroyed in a bombing raid. Her father died not long after that, leaving her mother to care for four children

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After earning a degree in social work, Bognár worked for the Red Cross in Europe, helping refugees escaping the Hungarian uprising against Soviet domination in 1956. There she met her former husband, Bela, who had fled Hungary after the revolt failed. They moved to New York City in 1961, and then went on to Wisconsin, where Bela earned master’s and doctorate degrees in social work and gerontology and she worked with new | CONTINUES ON PAGE 32 |

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immigrants.

“At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, we lived in international student housing, and the boys loved it,” she recalled. “They played with children from all over the world. It was a very rich experience for them.”

In 1974, the Bognár family moved to the Beavercreek area when Bela took a job on the social work faculty at Wright State University. The following year, Andrée returned to full-time work as a social worker.

Thirty years later when she retired from her job as home assistance program coordinator at the Yellow Springs Senior Center, Amy Crawford was hired to replace her. The two had known each other both professionally and personally since 1991.

“Andrée came into my life when I was only 25, about five years after my mother died,” Crawford said. “She helped me like a mother. I was sometimes reluctant to ask her for help, but she would say straight up, ‘Just ask me.

If I can’t help, I’ll tell you so.’ Now I do that myself when people are afraid to ask for help. Andrée taught me that.”

Crawford said Bognár convinced her to move to Yellow Springs in 1997 when the two were working together at the Area Agency on Aging. “When I would come into the office in the morning, I would find the Yellow Springs News on my desk, open to the classifieds with ads for places to live.

She even helped us move here.”

Eighteen years ago when Crawford was pregnant with her youngest son,

Bognár was quick to offer to help out, she said.

“When it was time for me to go to the hospital, it was 4 a.m.,” she said.

“I called her, and she came right over.

She took care of our two boys, and then later, she brought them to the hospital to visit us and the new baby.”

Although Bognár retired from paid work in 2004, she hasn’t stopped offering a helping hand or a bit of advice when it’s called for. “It’s the path of being with people that was so interesting, and the path of learning,” she said in an interview published in the Yellow Springs News at the time.

“What’s most important is listening and learning. I think that part goes on forever.”

Through it all, Bognár downplays what she gave to others, instead emphasizing what she has received.

“My priority is people, not money or material things,” she said. “I get so much out of doing something for someone else. Not just doing what I think is best, but helping them make choices for themselves by clarifying the issues and informing them about the choices. I always try to accept people the way they are,” she said.

Age has caught up with her, Bognár said.

I have become much slower. I can no longer ride a bike, and I’ve given up gardening. I’ve learned that I need to ask for help sometimes,” she said.

“It bugs me when people won’t ask.

You need to be humble enough to ask.

And if you do, you will find that people want to help. By accepting help from someone, you are giving them a gift.”

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There’s always something new at the library: A makerspace at the Xenia Library, a browsing collection of recently released DVDs, more bestselling books, a new app for e‑books and e‑audio, Wi‑Fi hotspots and more programs for adults.

But there’s also a lot of the same old, same old in the library. That’s because the community still loves and uses traditional ser vices, tried and true. Primar y among these is a physical place to visit, to run into friends, to hold a meeting, attend a story time, discuss a book. Friendly, helpful staff and individualized service are other valu‑ able traditions that endure.

Another “same old” is physical stuf f: In this age of Netflix, the Yellow Springs Librar y still houses almost 60,000 items including books, movies, audiobooks, mu‑ sic, magazines and newspapers. Millions more can be borrowed from other librar‑ ies, including six other public libraries right here in Greene County. Of course there are also plenty of free, downloadable e‑books, audiobooks, music and videos for your phone or tablet.

Computers for the public and a high‑ speed Internet connection still make the library the place to go when there’s slow or no Internet at home. Wireless for your own device lets you connect to the Internet and use all the library’s online services. One‑ on‑one instruction for computer novices ensures that no one is left behind.

Story times for babies, toddlers and pre‑ schoolers remain a fun way to make sure your child gets an early start in reading. Pre‑ schoolers can sign up for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and receive a free book in the mail each month until they’re ready for kindergarten. Special activities for older kids and teens — including a Teen Advisory Group — keep them busy, connected and reading.

Libraries have had summer reading pro‑ grams forever, but they are still a great way to keep people of all ages reading over the summer, and to educate and entertain them with great programs and prizes.

If you have questions, an actual human

being is always at the library to help find an answer, whether in person, by phone or online. The library’s subscriptions to pre‑ mium databases often make getting answers easier than Googling on your own.

If you become homebound and can’t make it to the library, the library’s Outreach Department will bring books and other ma‑ terials to you.

All these services, both new and tradi‑ tional, are still available to you for free, paid for by your tax dollars. When our commu‑ nity joins together to fund a public library, the payoff for each of us is much greater than the cost of our individual contribu‑ tions. More use means more value. Don’t miss out!

The Yellow Springs Community Library is located at 415 Xenia Ave. Hours of operation are: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays (September through May), 1 to 5 p.m.

Yellow Springs Library Association Beatrix Karthaus‑Hunt, president beakarthaus@msn.com W E B : www.facebook.com/ YellowSpringsLibraryAssociation C O N TA C T: EMAIL:

Membership in the Yellow Springs Li‑ brary Association, or YSLA, is open to any‑ one interested in serving the community and willing to pay the small annual mem‑ bership fee of $5. YSLA assists the Yellow Springs Community Library in many ways, providing funds for many of the extras that make the library so useful and appealing.

The YSLA: • Publishes a newsletter, ExLibris, four times per year; • Holds a biannual YSLA Tea; • Provides refreshments and prizes for library programs; • Funds specific projects such as repairs to the roof, new bike racks, updated media shelving and meeting room lighting improve‑ ment, and the Dolly Parton Fund; • Supplies supplemental activities for the summer reading program; • Gives a book to local newborns; • Augments the librar y’s collection of DVDs, CDs, toys and books; • Helps the library with the purchase of equipment and furnishings; • Maintains and expands the Corky Shiff Circulation Art Collection;

Yellow Springs • Raises funds through such activities as the Founders’ Day celebration and used‑book sales; • Supports library outreach with book donations; • Works on library landscaping, including removal of invasive honeysuckle and main‑ taining garden plots.

The YSLA has a long history of volunteer achievement. The doors of the first library in Yellow Springs opened in 1899 through the efforts of a group that, in 1901, incorporated as the YSLA. The group was responsible for maintaining every aspect of the library until 1926, when the library became part of the Greene County library system.

In 1980, the association produced “This Town Is Our Town,” a slide and tape history of Yellow Springs, and in 1978 it founded the Corky Schiff Circulating Art Collection and established a local authors shelf. The asso‑ ciation commissioned Jon Barlow Hudson to create “Tree of Knowledge,” an outdoor sculpture that was dedicated in 1993.

All are invited to find the YSLA on its Facebook page, facebook.com/Yellow‑ SpringsLibraryAssociation. Annual member‑ ship dues are $5 per household, with the opportunity for lifetime membership for $100. YSLA borchures with membership ap‑ plication forms are available at the entrances to the library.

The YSLA is now a “Friends of the Library” organization. The governance of the library and its day‑to‑day operation are the responsi‑ bility of the Greene County system.

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Local Boy Scout Troop 78 has been char‑ tered as a troop for over 75 years in Yellow Springs and meets regularly at First Presby‑ terian Church.

Although we enjoy camping, cycling, hiking the Glen and geocaching, the focus of our scouting program is community ser‑ vice, inclusiveness, volunteerism and living the scout law as a group and as individuals.

Our Scouts learn new skills, practice team‑ work, build leadership capacity and grow as young men as well as achieving success as Scouts.

The troop parks cars with the local PTO for the Street Fair and sells popcorn in September and wreaths in November, all to minimize activity costs to Scouts and their families.

Cub Scouts C O N TA C T:

Chris Wyatt, 767‑0112

Cub Scouts is a volunteer program for boys who are in the first through fifth grades (ages 6–11). It is a home‑centered program with activities that involve the whole family.

The Cub Scouts in Yellow Springs are represented by Pack 578, sponsored by First Presbyterian Church. Pack 578 is grouped into dens of Webelos, Wolf, Bear and Tiger Cubs. Boys in the first grade

may participate in the Tiger Cub program.

Den meetings are held twice a month, with a pack meeting once a month at the Presby‑ terian church.

The Cub Scout program helps boys grow through character development, craft skills, citizenship training and activities that involve skits and games and physical fitness skills.

Pack events include a Pinewood Derby and other races, an overnight camp, Cub Scouts Days at Camp Birch and a family picnic.

Currently, individual den leaders run the dens in Yellow Springs. Volunteers are always welcome and needed.

Fair Play 4-H Club Kathleen Galarza, 937‑838‑7411 galarzaohio@earthlink.net

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The Fair Play 4‑H Club includes boys and girls ages 5–18, and helps them grow into productive, contributing members of society.

Fair Play 4‑H Club offers fun, active oppor‑ tunities for personal learning and growth through club meetings, projects, hands‑on learning, leadership opportunities, fairs and activities. Participants are encouraged to explore their own unique interests and share their knowledge with others in the club.

Girl Scouts Susan Hyde, 767‑7756; Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, 800‑233‑4845 E M A I L : susanhyde@aol.com C O N TA C T:

The Girl Scouts of the USA strive to de‑

velop self‑esteem, a strong personal value system, skill in interpersonal relationships and the ability and desire to contribute mean‑ ingfully to society.

Locally, girls 5 to 17 can participate in a variety of activities such as camping, earn‑ ing badges, community service and product sales. Troop camping, resident and day camps are available for all ages.

Leaders for troops are needed every year; leaders do not need to be a parent of an active scout. Volunteers are welcome.

Perry League Jimmy Chesire, 767‑7300, 937‑708‑9243 E M A I L : jimmy.chesire@wright.edu C O N TA C T:

Perry League, Yellow Springs’s unique, hilarious and wonderful T‑ball program, is a noncompetitive beginner’s baseball program for girls and boys ages 2 to 9. Two‑ and 3‑year‑olds are welcome if accompanied on the diamond by an adult.

There is no fee, no registration. Children can begin to play on any of the 10 Friday nights, and there is no requirement to play every week.

Organizers try to keep it simple, try to make it fun and are serious about keeping it noncompetitive. There are no outs, no runs, no scores and no one ever strikes out: you get a 1,000 strikes in T‑ball. Every child gets a chance to field and to bat a couple of times each evening.

Organizers try to be as tender, patient and loving as possible. The program is open to all

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The Yellow Springs Sea Dogs is a competi‑ tive summer swim team for youth ages 5–18.

The season runs from the beginning of June until the end of July. There are eight dual meets and a championship meet during June and July. The Sea Dogs swim team teaches the essentials of all four competitive strokes in an atmosphere of camaraderie and fun.

Practices are held Monday–Thursday. For more information, go to ysacseadogs.swim‑ topia.com.

Yellow Springs Youth Baseball Tim and Jennifer Sherwood, 767‑8702

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The Yellow Springs Youth Baseball Pro‑ gram has two divisions: the Minor League for children aged 6 to 9 or 10; and the Major League for children ages 10 or 11 to 14.

This is recreational baseball with a focus on fundamentals, spor tsmanship, teamwork and fun. The season runs from after Memo‑ rial Day through July and is a volunteer organization. A volunteer coordinator is needed for each of the leagues. Parents and other adults are needed to volunteer to coach teams and referee games. Volunteers are also needed to prep the fields before games (except mowing.) High school com‑ munity service credits are available for this function.

The Minor League plays coach‑pitch with some modification of standard baseball rules to promote learning and the basics of baseball. The Major League plays by stan‑ dard baseball rules with only a few changes to promote learning advanced concepts of the game. All games are played at Gaunt Park, with the Minor League playing on the diamond nearest the forest tree line, and the Major League playing on the large diamond closest to the pool area. All teams usually play two games per week with the games during evening hours and on the weekends.

There is a registration fee to help cover team uniform and league supply expenses. Schol‑ arships are available.

Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association EMAIL:

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The Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra As‑ sociation, or YSYOA, was formed in 1964 as an organization interested in promoting and supporting music education and activities for the youth of Yellow Springs. This is accom‑ plished through loan and repair of instru‑ ments, scholarships and concerts.

YSYOA offers a two‑week summer music camp for students who have played an instru‑ ment for at least a year. The camp includes group and individual instruction, and ends with a grand finale concert for the public. In recent years, the YSYOA has expanded to in‑ clude intergenerational playing groups such as the Yellow Springs Strings, which meets on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in the Yellow Springs Senior Center great room.

Email dfarmer2663@yahoo.com for more information.

Yellow Springs Youth Soccer Bob Curley, 767‑7070; Bill and Lynn Hardman, 937‑768‑4140 E M A I L : hardmansoccer@sbcglobal.net W E B : www.facebook.com/ YellowSpringsSoccerInc C O N TA C T:

The mission of Yellow Springs Soccer, Inc., or YSSI, is to encourage and assist in the development and growth of community leagues, associations, organizations, pro‑ grams and teams, so that soccer is made available to more people at all levels of competition. Since its inception 51 years ago, the recreational soccer program has offered accessible soccer ever y fall and spring to the children of Yellow Springs and nearby communities. The program continues to be run entirely by volunteers and is funded by donations — no registra‑ tion fees are charged for inclusion on a recreational soccer team.

There are currently four age levels of recreational youth soccer that form groups or teams after an annual registration clinic in late summer: • Copper Cup — pre-K to kindergarten • Bronze Cup — first to third grade (or similar age) • Silver Cup — fourth to fifth grade • Gold Cup — sixth to eighth grade

Traveling teams also form as interest war‑ rants. Please contact YSSI for more informa‑ tion. YSSI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organiza‑ tion, benefits from monetary donations and an annual soccer camp each June. If you’d like to contribute, please make checks out to YSSI and mail to: YSSI, P.O. Box 813, Yellow Springs.

YSKP— Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse Ara Beal, 767‑7800 E M A I L : admin@yskp.org W E B : www.yskp.org C O N TA C T:

The YS Kids Playhouse is a creative per‑ formance experience by and for youth. YSKP holds introductory and advanced acting and technical theater arts immersion experi‑ ences for youth ages 7–18 throughout the year. Each summer the company produces a newly commissioned musical for youth. By presenting exclusively original work, YSKP offers professional quality and innovative en‑ tertainment for all ages. It promotes creative interaction between area youth, professional artists and a variety of art forms.

Participation in productions is open to all.

Participation fees are offset by scholarships as needed. Through YSKP, area youth have the opportunity to engage in a structured learning experience within a broad range of theater skills.

Founded in 1995 by John Fleming, and cur‑

rently under the direction of Ara Beal, YSKP is the recipient of numerous grant awards, in‑ cluding the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council and the YS Community Foundation. As a nonprofit community the‑ ater arts education program, it also receives individual, business and corporate support.

For more information, visit www.yskp.org, www.facebook.com/theyskp or email admin @yskp.org.

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Jim and Betty Felder came to Yellow Springs when Jim was a young Air Force officer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Betty a teacher in the Mad River Township schools. They raised their two sons, Greg and Kevin, in the Omar Circle home where they still live.

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By Holly Hudson Betty and Jim Felder, both in their 80s, sit on the sofa in their Omar Circle home and finish each other’s sentences with the fluidity that comes from years of practice. They have been recounting their time in Yellow Springs, how they met and when they came here, by each telling their stories, which circle back, intertwine and pick up where the other left off.

Betty tells about how and where she and Jim met: on her front door step.

She was born in Toledo, but came to Dayton when her father got a job as director of the Linden Community Center and she ended up going to the University of Dayton. During college, she would often come to Yellow Springs to attend Shakespeare performances on the lawn at Antioch and have a burger at Com’s. Even then she always thought, “If I am going to have to live in Ohio, I want to live in Yellow Springs.”

When they met, she was attending UD and Jim was a 2nd lieutenant in the Air Force. The military housing complex Page Manor had just been built for the new influx of personnel at the time, and Betty’s father had been tasked with helping the young lieutenants find housing. A friend of Jim’s was staying with Betty and her family. Jim came to visit him and Betty opened the door with her hair in rollers and him in peg pants. Betty laughed, “Let’s just say, we were not impressed!”

Not long after their less-than-stellar first meeting, a dance came up and the houseguest, Bob, was going with Betty’s friend. She didn’t have a date and her mother suggested she ask Jim to go with her. He said yes and this time when he came to the door, he looked quite different: all spiffed up and ready for the dance. According to Betty, “the rest was history,” and they were married two years later in 1955.

Jim recalls growing up in Orangeburg, S.C., and says he was very lucky because were it not for the two black colleges in his town, he might not ever have made it to college. Born the 11th of 13 children, only six of whom made it to maturity, he graduated from high school at 16, at the end of the 11th grade, which was when the school finished at that point. It was right after his departure that they installed a 12th-grade requirement. Jim believes he was lucky to get out of school at 16, go directly on to college and graduate when he was 20 years old.

One of his friends in high school went on to become the first black Justice of

the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

When he graduated from Claflin College in Orangeburg in 1951, the Korean War was at its height, and like many young men his age, he enrolled in the Air Force. Having graduated with a B.S. in biology and a minor in chemistry, he was put to work as a bypass specialist and sent to a laboratory in a hospital after basic training.

He was shipped to Sampson Air Force Base in upstate New York where he met other college graduates. Together they planned a road trip to San Antonio, Texas, where they would receive laboratory officer training, affording them opportunities other than frontline combat.

Soon enough, his orders came through and he was sent to WrightPatterson Air Force Base to work as a laboratory officer. He also worked a second job as a “lab tech” at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Dayton. His goal was to go to medical school and once he was settled at Wright-Patt, he applied to OSU. When they found out he was from South Carolina, he was advised to get out of the Air Force, work for a year in Ohio and establish residency, and then reapply.

Meanwhile, Betty was hired to teach in the Mad River Township schools, which were overcrowded at the time and desperately in need of teachers.

A friend of hers also worked there and told her about the job. Her friend was black, but very light skinned and could pass for white, which is why they suspected she got the job without a problem. When Betty applied, she had to go before the school board for approval even though that was not customary and her friend had not been put through the same paces.

Nevertheless, she was hired and spent many years working there. Betty recalls how they would see each other at staff meetings and only say a brief hello, even though they were the best of friends. They both just wanted to keep a low profile.

Eventually, Betty and Jim were transferred to the base in Rome, N.Y., for about a year and when they returned, Jim left the service and worked at Wright-Patt for a year doing research before reapplying to medical school at OSU. He still did not get in. Frustrated at that point, and recognizing his chances of getting into the program were slim when there was only one black student admitted that year in a class of 100, he decided instead to go to graduate school, studying microbiology at OSU. When he finished grad school, Jim took a job at St. Elizabeth Hospital again and worked a second night job at the Post Office in down-

town Dayton, so that the couple could afford to send money home to his mother in South Carolina.

With time and perseverance, he landed an even better job at Middletown Hospital near Cincinnati. He was called in for an interview after sending in a letter and résumé and once there, the administrator said, “Jim, you’re the microbiologist we need! You go up and see the president and if he doesn’t give you everything you ask for you come back and see me.”

Jim did indeed go see the president and spent the next 31 years working at Middletown. He drove 41 miles each way to work and never missed a day.

He was eventually able to complete his master’s in microbiology by transferring credits from OSU to Wright State.

When not working, Jim busied himself with helping Joe Robinson coach the first village soccer team for kids, and appeared in many plays at Center Stage, such as “Guys and Dolls,” “Pirates of Penzance” and “My Fair Lady,” to name a few. According to Jim, his long commute was a boon to his amateur acting career: he put his lines or lyrics he had to learn on tape | CONTINUES ON PAGE 39 |

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and would play them back to himself as he drove to and from work. He also sang with the Middletown Hospital Follies, which was a production put on by the hospital once a year, complete with costumes shipped in from New York. Jerri Hart, a radio host in Cincinnati, heard him sing in one of the Follies and invited him to come and be the “live crooner” on her show on WPFB every week.

By this time, Betty and Jim had bought a plot from Omar Robinson on Omar Circle and begun building what was to be their family home in Yellow Springs. They moved in on Jan. 20, 1962, with their eldest son, Greg, already born. Kevin followed along in 1962. They have fond memories of raising their kids on Omar Circle as it was like one big family on the cul de sac. Betty said she never had to worry about “keeping up with the Joneses” because if one of her kids said they wanted something another kid had or was doing, Betty would just call up that parent and together they would put the kibosh on any such pining.

It was also a great neighborhood for working parents because there was always somebody home at someone’s house where a kid could go after school if their parents weren’t home or were working.

When Betty tired of commuting to

Dayton for work she took a position at what was then Goes Playschool, which worked well for her because she could take Kevin with her to work.

From there she was hired by Yellow Springs Schools and spent 18 years working at Mills Lawn as a first- and second-grade teacher, then ultimately as assistant principal for two years.

When she was finally forced to retire due to budget cutbacks, she learned how to do infant massage and volunteered at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital teaching new mothers how to massage their infant babies.

Betty and Jim were involved in the growing civil rights movement of the 1960s and spent many Saturday afternoons picketing Gegner’s barbershop along with many other villagers and Antioch students. Most of the time, it was peaceful, but Jim remembers one incident that became violent. A group of Antioch students were blocking U.S. 68 and Jim and some other community members, along with Maurice Pemberton, Michael Lewis from Antioch, and Jim Lawson, the mayor at the time, were asked to act as monitors of the situation. Police were brought in from out of town and started harassing the students with batons, bloodying a few.

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Poet, poetry translator and retired Antioch College professor of Japanese language and literature, Harold Wright has lived in Yellow Springs since 1973. He’s made many dozens of trips to Japan over the years. Here, he’s pictured with his wife, Jonatha, on the porch of their North Winter Street home.

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By Audrey Hackett It’s been a dozen years since Harold Wright’s last trip to Japan, the longest time he’s been away from the country he fell in love with as a young man.

But this fall, he and his wife, Jonatha, will be flying to Tokyo as the honored guests of Emperor Meiji — or at least his earthly representative, the high priest of a Shinto temple built almost 100 years ago to house the deceased emperor’s spirit.

“They told me if I was too old [to make the trip], they would send the priest over to talk to me,” Wright, who turned 86 in June, said with a chuckle.

A poet, renowned translator and retired Antioch College professor of Japanese language and literature, Wright is a native of Dayton and has lived in Yellow Springs since 1973.

His story begins in Ohio, but reaches across the globe to Japan. His life’s work has been the translation of Japanese poetry, and Wright himself is adept at bridging disparate worlds.

Wright was born in inner-city Dayton, but grew up in the then-rural suburb of Northridge. His parents had moved up from Appalachian Ohio; his father was a third-generation coal miner who took a job in a furniture factory and learned the carpentry trade. His childhood home, built by his father, was a magnet for relatives from Appalachia, Wright recalled.

“Somebody was always sleeping on the back porch or the floor,” he said.

Uncles and cousins who worked the night shift filled the family beds during the day, a practice known as “hot beds.”

The house had no indoor plumbing, and “you could go rabbit hunting out the back door,” Wright said, rounding out the picture of his rural upbringing.

In school, Wright was a “terrible student,” though he scored high on a school-administered IQ test. He was dyslexic before the condition was understood or diagnosed. Yet he loved language, memorizing many of the old ballads he heard from Appalachian kin. Some ran to hundreds of verses.

He would sing them to himself on his bicycle, or to the squirrels in walks through the woods.

“I couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, but I didn’t care,” Wright said.

And he was drawn to poetry. It was short, and he could decipher short lines more readily than pages of prose.

Plus, the language and rhythms of poems appealed to him.

He graduated from high school in 1949, then spent one year as a preengineering major at Bowling Green State University. He dropped out

just as the Korean War was heating up, and to avoid being drafted into the Army, joined the Navy, hoping it would be a route to travel and adventure. It was.

“Hemingway and all those people went off to war, and came back with books to write,” he said.

He was sent to Japan for three years as a Seabee, a member of the U.S. Navy’s construction force. From his first moment on Japanese soil, in 1952, he had the uncanny feeling he’d been there before.

“It was a déjà vu experience,” he said.

Within nine months, he’d learned enough Japanese to travel the country by himself. One day, hiking in the mountains, a thought occurred to him: “I wonder what kind of poetry the Japanese write?” He inquired at a bookstore back in town, and was handed a dusty volume containing some of the oldest poems in Japan, from the eighth century.

“I still have it,” Wright said.

In a sense, that book set the course of the rest of his life. The poems were written in the tanka form, which, distinct from the newer haiku form, mingles images of the natural world with human feeling. Wright took to tanka immediately.

“My tanka teachers said, ‘You can write about love,’” Wright recalled.

He did, composing tanka in English in praise of a young Japanese woman who had caught his eye. Over 60 years later, sitting in his Yellow Springs living room, Wright paused and recited one of the poems, about a breeze sweetened by virtue of having passed through the young woman’s hair. Time seemed to stop, then start again.

Wright was smitten, and not just by poetry or Japanese sweethearts. He decided he wanted to live in Japan forever. And so, after discharge, he found his way back to Japan and married his first wife, a Japanese woman.

They had one child, Rose, who now lives in Yellow Springs.

Lacking a student visa to study in Japan, Wright enrolled at the University of Hawaii, staying five years. Continuing his studies in Japanese language and literature, he spent two years at Columbia University on a Ford Foundation grant, and another three years in Tokyo on a Fulbright.

“Then the grants ran out and I had to go to work,” Wright said.

Ohio State University hired him “sight unseen” to design a Japanese major. He taught there for seven years, from 1965 to 1972, becoming deeply involved in student protests. Through those protests, he encountered his

first Antioch students.

“Those kids were amazing organizers,” he recalled.

Tired of academic life, and tempted to either get back in touch with his Appalachian roots or return to Japan, he left Ohio State. He didn’t miss teaching, though a small voice inside said, “If a place like Antioch ever wanted me, sure, I’d reconsider.”

A place like Antioch did want him.

Wright got a call from Frank Wong, then-chair of the history department, inviting him to teach a cultural history course. The invitation came just before the Antioch strike in the spring of 1973. Despite the turmoil, Wright was game. And so were his students, voting to continue the class off campus at one student’s apartment.

Wright taught two more courses, including one in Japanese poetry.

But the college couldn’t hire him on a more permanent basis, having laid off a quarter of its faculty because of the strike. So Wright found his own money, a grant from the Japan Foundation, which he used to start the college’s Japanese program. When the grant money ran out after three years, Antioch offered him half-time | CONTINUES ON PAGE 42 |

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pay, plus an apartment. Wright didn’t hesitate.

“I loved the place. By that time, [teaching at Antioch] was the only thing I wanted to do,” he said.

What he valued most was the freedom. “I designed my own program. I had the freedom to do what I thought was best for the students,” he said.

“Harold embodied the Antioch spirit,” said Beth Bridgeman, a current instructor of cooperative education at the college and the founder of Ohayo

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A bridger of words and worlds Ohio, a local celebration of Japanese culture. “He loved his students, and he trusted them.”

Wright was a decisive influence in the life of Antiochian Everett Brown, a well-known photographer who has lived and worked in Japan for many years.

“Harold shared his deeply profound love and understanding of Japan and it is this spirit that was instilled in me as a student 35 years ago,” Brown wrote in a recent email.

As a student in Wright’s Japanese art history class, Brown asked if he could submit a selection of his ink drawings, inspired by Japanese techniques, in lieu of a term paper. Wright agreed.

“Thanks to that, my understanding of Japanese aesthetics went beyond the cerebral, and that has made me the artist I am today, I believe,” Brown wrote in the email.

Brown is one of dozens of Antioch students who went on to practice Japanese arts, and live and work in Japan, according to Bridgeman. Organizing Ohayo Ohio for the first time last year, she reached out to numerous alumni with ties to Japan.

“They all got their start with Harold,” she said.

In 1984, after Antioch turned down his request to take a group of students to Japan, Wright and his students found another way. The students secured co-op jobs in Japan, while he got a grant to translate more of Emperor Meiji’s poems. Students and teacher met regularly as a group. From that spunky start grew Antioch’s formal exchange program with Kyoto Seiko University, which lasted for 14 years.

An NEA grant followed in 1986, and then a happy turn in Wright’s personal life. He met his current wife, Jonatha, at Antioch Writer’s Workshop in 1990.

The couple married in 1991, and immediately discovered a shared interest in storytelling, the product of their common “country” roots. Jonatha joined Harold in making yearly visits to Kyoto as part of the Antioch program, and took delight in using storytelling as a vehicle for language learning and cultural exchange.

“We told stories together. It was a

wonderful way to learn,” she said.

Wright retired from Antioch in 2005, after more than 30 years at the college. Since 1997, he and Jonatha have lived in the house she designed at the end of a little leafy lane on North Winter Street. Wright’s daughter Rose lives in town. His second daughter, Rina, whose mother is villager Iko Wright, now resides in Utah. Near and far, there are friends, former students, grandchildren.

And always at hand, there are poems. Wright has published half a dozen books of Japanese poetry translations. He also publishes occasional poems as part of his tanka column in this newspaper. He writes his own English poems in Japanese forms, as well as family stories for his children and grandchildren. Last winter, he picked up a project he began in the 1960s and has worked on intermittently, a translation of 311 of Emperor Meiji’s poems. He was first asked to translate some of the poems in connection with the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and has long planned a more comprehensive volume.

“I had this project on my conscience,” he explained.

Now there is renewed interest from the current high priest of Meiji’s shrine, prompting Wright’s upcoming visit to Tokyo.

In another instance of life coming full circle, Ohio State University recently contacted Wright about establishing an archive of his scholarly papers — in part to document his founding of the university’s Japanese studies department, which has become one of the leading programs in the field.

In an article published in 1999 about his translation of Emperor Meiji’s “clock” poem, Wright meditated on the many ways to experience and understand time. The article concludes, “If we can know that the stones of our earth and the orbiting moon will be here long after our lives, we might want to look more at the infinity of night sky.”

Wright, from his spot on the globe in Yellow Springs, often does.

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|SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY| Bahá’í Faith Roi and Linden Qualls, 767‑7079 ysbahai@gmail.com www.ohiobahai.org

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In the words of Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í faith, “The earth is but one coun‑ try, and mankind its citizens.”

Bahá’u’lláh taught that there is one God who progressively reveals his will to human‑ ity. Each of the great religions initiated by one of God’s divine messengers — Moses, Zoroaster, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Muham‑ mad — represents a successive stage in the spiritual development of humankind. All religions are seen as one in spirit because, essentially, they share a common aim and origin.

Bahá’ís regard Bahá’u’lláh as the most re‑ cent of these messengers, whose teachings address the ethical and spiritual challenges of the modern world. For more than a cen‑ tury, Bahá’í communities around the globe have worked to dissolve prejudices based on nationality, race, religion and gender. They have collaborated with other like‑minded organizations to promote social justice, world peace and love for all humankind.

Bahá’ís living in Yellow Springs meet regularly for worship. Their holy day celebra‑ tions, devotional services, children’s classes and study circles are all open to the public.

The Bahá’í Center in Yellow Springs is located at 502 Dayton St.

Bethel Lutheran Church Pastor Larry Bannick, 2731 W. Jasckson Road, 323‑2471

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Bethel Lutheran Church was founded in 1844 by Ezra Keller, who was also a co‑ founder of Wittenberg University. This ELCA church has developed from its traditional country heritage to serve a diverse congre‑ gation. It is a small, family‑oriented church in which every member or visitor is valued.

The Rev. Larry Bannick became the pastor in January 2006. Sunday School for children and adults is held at 9:30 a.m. and church services are held at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays.

The Kay Glaesner Community Center was completed by church and community members in 2006 and is available to rent for receptions and other events. The center has full kitchen facilities and accommodates up to 90 people. For rental information, contact Lois Pelekoudas at 937‑284‑0287..

Central Chapel AME Church Rev. Dwight E. Smith, M. Div, MBA, pastor; 411 S. High St.; church office, 767‑3061 E M A I L : TheChapelOne@aol.com C O N TA C T:

Central Chapel African Methodist Episco‑ pal Church was established in 1866 in the Old Central School House on State Route 370. The church relocated to the corner of High and Davis streets in 1896. Members now worship in the second sanctuary built at that location. In order to better serve the congregation and community, an addition, the Education and Family Life Center, was built in 1998.

The church has and will continue to ad‑ dress the spiritual, civil rights, physical and

educational needs of all persons in Yellow Springs and beyond. The AME motto is “God our Father, Christ our Redeemer, The Holy Spirit our Comforter, Humankind our Family.”

Church Sunday School is held at 9:30 a.m. and Sunday Morning Worship begins at 11 a.m.

First Baptist Church William E. Randolph Jr., pastor, 600 Dayton St.; church office, 767‑7659 or 767‑7623

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First Baptist Church was originally called Zion Baptist Church when it was founded in May 1863. According to its records, it was formed to meet the needs of freed slaves.

In 1876 members were able to purchase the First Baptist Church located on Xenia Avenue. After 134 years at the Xenia Avenue site, members held a final service on Aug. 17, 1997, and departed to the new location on 600 Dayton St. On March 25, 2006, the church, by God’s grace, achieved the ex‑ traordinar y by celebrating the mortgage burning for the new building. Besides many groups and events ser ving its members, the church is noted for annual community events, the most noteworthy of which is the annual Calendar Tea, which has taken place for 55 years.

The church also has an AWANA Program held each Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m.

AWANA is a Bible‑based club for youth, kin‑ dergarten through seventh grades. AWANA combines fun, physical activity, Bible memo‑ rization and the basis of a relationship with God. In 2012, Pastor William E. Randolph Jr. was selected by the church body to serve as its pastor. Pastor Randolph delivered his first sermon on Oct. 7, 2012, and was officially installed on Nov. 11.

Sunday worship service is held at 10:45 a.m. and Sunday school for adults and chil‑ dren meets at 9:15 a.m. Bible study is held each Wednesday at noon, with prayer and Bible study also held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday evenings.

The church prescribes for itself a core belief in the love of all mankind generated by the love of God, and is a caring community of Christians who desire to be in the commu‑ nity, seeking to transform the community for the glory of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

munity groups as a part of its ministry, in‑ cluding Alcoholics Anonymous, Boy Scouts, Monday Morning Artists, Chamber Music, Montessori School, support groups, social justice and peacemaking and dance and movement classes.

The church offers diverse styles of wor‑ ship on Sundays at 10:30 a.m., Sunday school for children and youth and both adult and children’s choirs.

The church is an inclusive community of God’s people continuing Christ’s ministry of justice, mercy and love in the world.

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The Grandmother Drum Healing Circle holds monthly gatherings on the Saturday nearest the full moon, from 7 to 9 p.m., at Rockford Chapel on the Antioch College campus.

The group draws from indigenous spiri‑ tual practices that recognize and honor the wisdom of female elders, the healing power of the drum and the importance of our con‑ nection to the earth. The group aims to build community and support one another.

Each gathering begins with a silent meditation, followed by a fire ceremony and drumming. Colored cloths represent the four directions, and these colors swirl together to form pastels that flow out in all directions

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First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs Rev. Aaron Maurice Saari, pastor, 314 Xenia Ave. Office hours: 9 a.m.–noon, Monday–Friday. Pastor’s hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Church office, 767‑7751 E M A I L : firpys@gmail.com W E B : www.facebook.com/FPCYS C O N TA C T:

First Presbyterian Church was organized in Yellow Springs in 1855. Its presence in the community has been a very visible one, and the addition built in 1958 was dedicated for ministry oriented toward the community.

A strong musical emphasis has brought excellence and diversity to its own musical program, as well as making the church a center for community music programs. It also offers space for meetings by many com‑

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Heart Rhythm Meditation Denise Runyon and Tom Malcolm, 937‑623‑2047 E M A I L : darun@sbcglobal.net W E B : friendsoftheheartcenter.com C O N TA C T:

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our belief that we can think our way through our problems. Our thinking is very helpful, but limited. Our hearts are so much more than we know.

Heart Rhythm Meditation offers the tools needed to experience a Change of Heart.

Our goal is heart consciousness in which we reach an integration of self that includes the body, mind, heart, and soul. In doing so we see ourselves, each other and the world dif‑ ferently and creatively.

The HRM method of using the breath and heart beat in rhythm together is based on long standing mystical teachings and supported by scientific research. It is an ap‑ plied, engaged kind of meditation that yields improved health, relationships, purpose and spiritual life. We learn to access the wisdom, insight, power, emotion, energy and har‑ mony that we seek to live fully and wholly.

Heart Rhythm Meditation is universal. All hearts are welcome.

Denise Runyon and Tom Malcolm lead a guided Heart Rhythm Meditation weekly on Tuesdays, 7–8 pm, at the Friends of the Heart Center, located at 794 Dayton St. in Yellow Springs.

Newcomers are encouraged to come to a monthly Introduction to Heart Rhythm Meditation session on the first Tuesday of the month, 6–7 p.m. Individual instruction is also available by request. Seminars and workshops are announced on our website and in the YS News.

Denise and Tom, in addition to having es‑ tablished careers in the medical and helping professions, are graduates of the Institute for Applied Meditation, iamheart.org.

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Pleasant Grove Missionary Church Paster Matt Ransom, 491 W. Hyde Road; church office, 767‑8011 E M A I L : pleasantgrovemc@gmail.com W E B : www.pleasantgroveMC.org; www. facebook.com/pleasantgrovemc C O N TA C T:

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The Missionary Church is an Evangelical denomination, committed to church planting and world missions. The Pleasant Grove Mis‑ sionary Church has been a part of this com‑ munity since 1945. A warm welcome awaits visitors by the people of this country church.

Adult Bible Fellowship, Elective Class and Sunday School classes for children are held on Sundays at 9:30 a.m.; worship service for adults and children’s church are held at 10:30 a.m. Sundays; a nursery is available for all Sunday morning services. Sunday evening service is held at 6 and includes worship, training, music, ministry opportunities, choir practice and kid’s Bible quizzing. Adult Bible Fellowship is held Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m., and small groups meet on Fridays at 6:30 p.m.

St. Paul Catholic Church 308 Phillips St., 767‑7450, fax 767‑7465 E M A I L : office@stpaulchurchyso.org W E B : www.stpaulchurchyso.org C O N TA C T:

The cornerstone of the first St. Paul Catho‑ lic Church was laid in 1856 on a lot at the cor‑ ner of West North College and High streets.

In 1908, the current church at the corner of

Phillips and Elm streets was dedicated in a building that once housed the First Christian Church.

St. Paul has 300 registered family units on its roster. It offers the Parish School of Reli‑ gion for Pre‑K through 12th‑grade students, Youth Ministry and Adult Faith Formation throughout the school year.

The parish praises God in word, song and Eucharist in its masses on Sundays at 11:15 a.m.

The parish has an outreach to various groups and people in the area. It rejoices in the richness of the Roman Catholic tradition and in the diversity of a worshipping commu‑ nity drawn from the variety of Yellow Springs and its environs.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Yellow Springs 372‑5613, 767‑1603 www.uuf‑ys.org, www.uua.org

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Unitarian Universalists value a free search for truth, the importance of reason and the right of conscience, drawing inspiration from science, history and all world religions.

Unitarian Universalists believe that spiritual wisdom is ever‑changing, and seek to act as a moral force in the world, putting faith into action through social justice work in the community and the wider world.

Unitarian Universalists are united by seven principles: • The inherent worth and dignity of every person.

• Justice, equity and compassion in hu‑ man relations.

• Acceptance of one another and encour‑ agement for spiritual growth.

• A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.

• The right of conscience and the demo‑ cratic process.

• Peace, liberty and justice for all.

• Respect for the interdependent web of life.

Individuals of all races, ethnic origins, religious philosophies, lifestyles, abilities and gender orientations are welcome at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Yellow Springs.

The fellowship is located two miles south of Yellow Springs at 2884 U.S. 68 in Goes Sta‑ tion. Services are held at 10:30 a.m. on Sun‑ days year‑round, with religious education for children and youth and child care for babies and toddlers. The building is wheelchair ac‑ cessible.

All are invited to explore the UUFYS website, visit the fellowship and discover the inclusive community of Unitarian Universal‑ ism.

Yellow Springs Christian Center Pastor J. Ray Tyson, 324 E. Dayton‑Yellow Springs Road, 767‑9133 E M A I L : yscc@ag.org C O N TA C T:

The assembly is a small family church where the special unique quality of each indi‑ vidual is cherished and nurtured. The body of believers is warm and supportive with strong belief in the Bible as God’s manual for everyday living. Worship is informal and

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The Yellow Springs Assembly of God Christian Center began in 1975 as an inde‑ pendent fellowship, and in 1977 associated with the Assemblies of God Fellowship.

Yellow Springs Dharma Center 502 Livermore St., 767‑9919 info@ysdharma.org www.ysdharma.org

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The Yellow Springs Dharma Center is a Buddhist meditation center supporting practice in the traditions of Vipassana, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism. The center seeks to create an environment that supports the development of calm, compassion and gen‑ erosity; to encourage an awareness of one’s own thoughts; and to consider how one’s words and actions impact the world. To this end, the center sponsors many activities at the big brown house on Livermore Street.

Daily silent meditation is offered at 7 a.m. ever y Monday through Friday, and at 7 p.m. every evening except Saturday.

Zen meditation is of fered on Saturday, 7:30–9:30 a.m., and Vipassana meditation is offered on Sunday, 8–9:30 a.m. Vajrayana practice is held twice each month and is scheduled according to the Tibetan lunar calendar, so the Dharma Center’s website calendar should be consulted for practice dates.

Those new to meditation and wanting to familiarize themselves with a begin‑ ning practice are invited to attend a brief orientation session held on the second and fourth Mondays of ever y month at 7:45 p.m. Additionally, six‑week Basic Medita‑ tion Courses are offered throughout the year by senior practitioners at the Dharma Center. Half‑day retreats at the center and residential retreats of up to one week duration are held at various times during the year as well. Several Book Discussion Groups are held each year on Thursday evenings. Schedules, titles and leader information are posted on our website.

A lending librar y is available for commu‑ nity use, with the contents posted on our website. Visiting teachers from the three traditions frequently hold teachings and practice retreats. Visit www.ysdharma.org for additional information, changes and updates to the schedule, and follow the center on Facebook.

Yellow Springs Friends Meeting (Quakers) Rockford Chapel, 515 President St., on the Antioch College campus; Carol Simmons, clerk, 937‑232‑4250 W E B : www.quakercloud.org/cloud/yellow‑ springs‑friends‑meeting C O N TA C T:

Members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) meet each Sunday at Rockford Chapel on the Antioch College campus. Meetings for worship are held in silence at 8:30 and 11:15 a.m., with individuals delivering spoken ministr y when led by the Spirit. Quakers recognize a measure of divine presence in ever y person, and their worship times, called meetings, are intended to deepen unity with the divine.

Religious education is offered for children

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and adults Sundays from 10 to 10:50 a.m., September through May. An additional meeting for worship is held at Rockford Chapel each Wednesday from 7 to 8 a.m.

The meeting sponsors a peace witness every Saturday at noon on the corner of Limestone Street and Xenia Avenue.

Yellow Springs Friends have been active in peace and social concerns at local, na‑ tional and international levels. In the 1970s, this body initiated formation of an extended‑ care facility in Yellow Springs now known as Friends Care Community; assisted living and independent living accommodations have been added.

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The Yellow Springs Havurah provides Jewish spiritual, religious, cultural, social and educational experiences. The Havurah holds Shabbat services the first and third Saturday of each month, at 10 a.m., at Rock‑ ford Chapel on the Antioch College campus.

A schedule of Havurah activities is posted at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yellow‑ springshavurah/.

Yellow Springs United Methodist Church Rev. Rick Jones; Linda Shook, 202 S. Winter St., 767‑7560 (church) E M A I L : pastor‑ysumc@yellowsprings.com W E B : www.yellowspringsumc.com C O N TA C T:

The Yellow Springs United Methodist Church is a warm, friendly, community‑ oriented congregation. The membership is diverse and consists of professional, work‑ ing class, and farm people, theologically representing the entire spectrum of faith understandings, from conservative to pro‑ gressive. The congregation is also racially and ethnically diverse. The force that holds the group together is love: the love of Christ and a love for humankind.

The United Methodist Church has been a presence in the village since 1837. Its current building was completed in 1846, dedicated in 1850, and has experienced a number of additions and improvements over the years. Today, the church serves the com‑ munity by providing space for local support groups and organizations, the community Emergency Food Pantry and Home, Inc., a nonprofit housing corporation.

Sunday worship is held at 10:30 a.m. year‑ round. Church school begins at 9:30 a.m., September through May. Bible studies and other programs sponsored by the church are always open to the community. The Yel‑ low Springs United Methodist Church is a faith‑based community where everyone is welcome.

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By Diane Chiddister When Carl Hyde was a 12-year-old boy growing up in New York City, he liked to ride subways by himself to the end of the line. He’d buy a token — it cost a nickel in 1940 — then stand at the front of the train, looking out the window to the city beyond.

“I wanted to see how far a nickel could go,” Hyde said recently. “I covered all of Manhattan and the Bronx.”

That curiosity and engagement with the world has served Hyde well.

Now almost 90 and retired after a long career as a physician, he lives at Friends Care Assisted Living Center.

Hyde occupies a single room with a bed, two desks, two computers, family photos and many hardcover books.

While his living space is much smaller than it’s been in the past, Hyde’s life remains large in the ways that count, including his interests, his causes and his compassion for others.

Though he retired more than 15 years ago, the habit of caring for people remains, according to an Assisted Living staff member.

“He pushes residents in wheelchairs to the dining room and visits people in the nursing home, kind of like he’s still doing rounds,” said Linda Malone, a nurse’s aide at the center. “He even worries about staff members, wants to help if we’re sick. He’s awesome.”

As well as caring for individuals, Hyde has a passion for social justice. On one of his computers he types letters to Ohio’s death row inmates — there are 60 to 70 in all, and he corresponds with about seven. He began his deathpenalty activism in 1999 when the state, after a hiatus, reactivated capital punishment. Hyde was distressed, as the practice goes against everything he believes as a Quaker pacifist.

“I had a ‘leading’ that I should be there, that I should go where the execution takes place and protest,” he said. “I simply believe that killing people is wrong.”

So Hyde rounded up a few likeminded people, and the small group stood outside the building at the Lucasville prison where the execution was held, holding signs saying that it’s wrong to kill people to show that killing people is wrong. And he’s gone back about 20 times since.

While Hyde continues his social justice activities, his life also includes many small pleasures. When he’s not out and about, he enjoys watching goldfinches at the bird feeders outside his window, and listening to classical music. In good weather he rides his bike almost daily.

He attends Springfield Symphony and Chamber Music Yellow Springs concerts

along with Quaker meeting on Sundays, serving as a Quaker pastoral visitor to anyone at Friends Care who wants one.

He visits with his daughter, Sarah, who lives in town, and his son and daughterin-law, David and Susan. Because he still drives, he can go out to dinner with friends.

While he’s in generally good health, Hyde sometimes feels his age. His legs don’t work as well as they once did, and sometimes he forgets things, especially names.

Hardest of all is the absence of Lorena, his wife of 64 years, with whom he intended to move to Assisted Living.

But Lorena died in April, 2015 before they could make the move.

“I miss Lorena,” he said. “I always will.”

But he’s generally satisfied with his life in Assisted Living, and living in a single room doesn’t phase him.

“I have enough space here,” he said. “It’s not too much.”

It’s been more than 70 years since Hyde first came to Yellow Springs in 1944. He lived then in a single room too, as a freshman at Antioch College.

Raised in New Jersey and New York City by socialist parents, he first heard about Antioch while a student at the Bronx High School of Science, and he was attracted to the college’s co-op program. But because he skipped a few grades growing up, Hyde was 16 when he entered college.

“I don’t recommend that anyone start college when they’re 16 years old,” he said.

Hyde especially felt young during his first co-op, living on his own and working in a hospital pharmacy in Chicago. However, Co-op Dean J.D. Dawson soon took Hyde under his wing and encouraged him to work on campus in the chemistry lab for his second co-op.

“That gave me time to grow up,” Hyde said.

In the late 1950s when he was a student, there were no AfricanAmerican students at Antioch, so he joined the Race Relations Committee in an attempt to attract black students.

Through the efforts of presidential assistant Jessie Treichler, the college brought to campus Edith Scott, the older sister of Coretta Scott, who would also attend Antioch and later marry Martin Luther King Jr. Hyde also honed his social justice activism when, in a later co-op, he was “fetch-andcarry boy” for civil rights icon Bayard Rustin in New York City.

After Antioch, Hyde attended medical school at Case Western in Cleveland, and it was there that he had a strong feeling that he should

marry the young woman he’d dated a few times at Antioch, even though he didn’t know her well.

The feeling was what Quakers call a “leading,” and they sometimes say they’ve heard the voice of God. While Hyde doesn’t know for sure if God speaks to him, it seemed so at the time.

“I asked God what to do if Lorena said no, and God said, ‘She won’t,’” Hyde said.

And she didn’t. Hyde sought out Lorena, who was traveling in California, proposed, and the two later married.

After Cleveland, the couple, who by now had a child, moved to Detroit, where Hyde did his internship, and a second child was born. While there, they heard that there was a young doctor, Harry Berley, in Yellow Springs, who was looking for a partner.

“We looked at each other and said, ‘Where do we want to raise our children? Cleveland, Detroit or Yellow Springs?” Hyde said.

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Thus began a long career in the village. He and Berley had very different personalities, but it was “an ideal partnership,” Hyde said. First, though, he had to talk Berley into making appointments with his patients, rather than just taking whoever walked in the door, as was Berley’s custom.

Life in the village was very different 60 years ago, according to Hyde. For one thing, the divisiveness in town felt more acute. It was the era of Communist witch hunts, and in the village there was far more tension between those who supported the college and those who considered it a hotbed of radicals, Hyde said.

So he was pleasantly reminded of the difference in 2008, when the college shut down and it seemed everyone in town wanted it to open again.

“I really felt the contrast” between the two eras, he said.

Hyde also remembered his robust practice as a pediatrician in the ’50s and ’60s, because there were so many more children growing up here back then. Gradually, he said, his practice focused more on geriatrics, as the local population aged.

While he and Berley comprised Community Physicians, and were later joined by Paul Van Ausdal and then David Hyde, Carl’s son, there were also about 11 or 12 physicians at the Wright State University clinic when Yellow Springs had a larger population in the ‘60s and ‘70s. But it became clear during the 1978 blizzard that only four doctors actually lived in the village. For several days no one could drive on the roads, so the emergency squad came to pick up the local doctors at their homes, then brought them to the clinic to see patients.

Hyde’s interest in social justice never wavered, and he made it a point to serve African-American villagers in the same way he served white families. A friend and fellow Quaker, Jane Brown,

said that when she attended a program on local history, African Americans who grew up in Yellow Springs remembered Dr. Hyde as the doctor who, in the ’50s and ’60s, would always come to their homes when they were sick.

Hyde confirmed this report, although he’s not sure he was unusual in treating all patients equally.

“I was conscious of making no distinction between people,” he said.

In fact, Hyde made house calls throughout his career, and at the end made them most often to housebound seniors. He only stopped going to people’s homes when he retired in 2001.

Hyde was 74 when he decided it was time to stop working. The signal came when he knew exactly the medications he wanted to prescribe for patients, but couldn’t remember the drugs’ names.

“I decided then it was time to retire,” he said.

But caregiving continued. For several years before Lorena’s death, Hyde took care of his increasingly ill wife, and caregiving for other family members continues. Many villagers still call him “Dr. Hyde,” and he often gets asked for medical advice.

“If it’s something obvious, I might give advice,” he said. “Otherwise I’ll say, you should see a doctor.”

And though it’s been 15 years since he left his practice, Hyde still misses his chosen profession.

“I miss the relationships with patients,” he said.

But while aging has brought huge losses, such as the loss of the love of his life, Hyde has fashioned a meaningful old age for himself. He’s most often in good spirits, he said.

To Jane Brown, Hyde is a “model of aging.”

“He stays active, and what was important to him when younger remains important,” she said. “He continues to be available to anyone who needs him, in all walks of life.”

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|EDUCATION| Antioch College 767‑1286 info@antiochcollege.org www.antiochcollege.edu

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Antioch College is an innovative and pro‑ gressive institution and community, dedicat‑ ed to pursuing new and better ways of living and learning in our world.

Founded in 1850 with the eminent scholar Horace Mann as its first president, Antioch is centered on the pillars of campus and experien‑ tial education, co‑op and community. At Antioch, education and opportunities for growth are not confined to the classroom, but take place throughout the campus community, and in the world at‑large. The Antioch experience encour‑ ages students to explore broad perspectives on critical issues, and innovative approaches to learning and living differently in the world.

Antioch’s hallmark cooperative program — “co‑op” — expands education through work and experiential learning. Students alternate academic terms on campus with terms on full‑time work, where they learn to navigate complex environments, negotiate for them‑ selves, and experiment with solution‑oriented approaches. In applying themselves to real‑ world situations, they explore their interests and develop practical skills.

Community is the guiding principle of campus life. Antioch was among the first col‑ leges to incorporate community governance, through which students, faculty and staff participate jointly in institutional decision‑ making. The process of community building at Antioch promotes the creation of “deep democracy,” encouraging individuals to work together in developing greater group cohe‑ sion and resilience.

The words of Loren Pope, former education editor of The New York Times and author of “Colleges That Change Lives,” speak to An‑ tioch’s unique capability: “Antioch is in a class by itself. There is no college or university in the country that makes a more profound difference in a young person’s life, or that creates more effective adults. None of the Ivies, big or small, can match Antioch’s ability to produce outstanding thinkers and doers.”

One‑hundred‑sixty‑seven years after its founding, Antioch College continues to in‑ novate in higher education, and continues to attract students seeking the tools to innovate in their communities and careers.

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The oldest democratic school in the United States, the Antioch School was founded in 1921

by Arthur Morgan, the president of Antioch College. In 1951 the School moved to its cur‑ rent idyllic setting, nestled in beautiful green space neighboring the Glen Helen nature preserve. Under the direction of architect Eero Saarinen, the building was designed to connect the indoors with the outdoors. It was renovated in 2007 to be more energy‑efficient and envi‑ ronmentally friendly.

The Antioch School is a place where child‑ hood is revered and children are encouraged to pursue their innate curiosity wherever their abilities take them. An Antioch School education is based upon the ideals of respect, trust, challenge and choice. A wide variety of educational opportunities are provided, which

encourage a child to become involved in her own unique way while matching her needs and abilities to resources for learning and growth.

The children are grouped in the Nursery, 3 to Kindergarten ready; Kindergarten, 5 to Younger Group ready; Younger Group, 6 to Older Group ready; and Older Group, 9 to 12 years of age. The Nursery and Kindergarten offer half or full‑day programs.

Antioch School provides an art and science program with a full‑time faculty member.

Formal music instruction, artists‑in‑residence through the School’s Emily Bailey Fund, field trips and aftercare are established school pro‑ grams. The development of reading, writing and mathematical abilities is emphasized. Social and self‑discipline skills and the interaction of chil‑ dren as a means for self‑definition and growth are deeply valued. Individualized instruction works two ways at the School: teacher‑to‑child and child‑to‑child. The children’s academic and creative growth and learning are ungraded.

Standardized testing is restricted to the Older Group children who are preparing to leave the School. Unless the children request homework, it is not a part of the daily life of the School.

There are opportunities for the children to participate in a variety of activities, such as unicycling, dramatics, music and art, including pottery, painting, sculpture and stained glass.

An emphasis is placed on physical activity with children playing together on the School’s expansive grounds, swimming and skating field trips. The children attend school day per‑ formances at the Victoria Theatre, Schuster Center and Kuss Auditorium.

Directing the School’s operations is a board of directors consisting of parents and faculty members and a community member.

The daily life of the School is facilitated by the school manager, Nathan Summers. Fam‑ ily involvement is vital to the School’s learn‑ ing environment.

Because the Antioch School is small, group size and enrollment numbers are limited. Tuition is comparatively low among area private schools. Applications are ac‑ cepted throughout the year and financial aid is available for qualifying families.

Visitors are always welcome!

Antioch University Administrative offices, 769‑1340 www.antioch.edu

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Antioch University is a multi‑campus uni‑ versity established in 1852 in Yellow Springs.

AU serves adult students in Yellow Springs, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Keene, N.H., online and around the world.

Antioch University has a rich history filled with the ideals of social, economic and envi‑ ronmental justice. The university challenges students to unite their passion with purpose and go forth with these ideals to accomplish their goals and make the world a better place.

For more information, call 937‑769‑1340 or visit www.antioch.edu.

Antioch University Midwest Admissions, 769‑1814 admissions.aum@antioch.edu www.antioch.edu/midwest

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Antioch University Midwest’s mission is to provide learner‑centered education to empower students with the knowledge and skills to lead meaningful lives and to advance

social, economic, and environmental justice.

Students not only demonstrate the core competencies that are required for career success, but instigate change and have a positive impact on the world. Antioch Uni‑ versity Midwest students discover how to unite their passion with purpose.

Antioch University Midwest of fers a wide range of options for working adults to enhance their skill sets. Programs are de‑ signed with today’s business needs in mind and emphasize critical thinking, cultural di‑ versity, and an international perspective, as well as provide opportunities for collabora‑ tive learning, and promote the integration of life and work experience with academic knowledge. A key element that leads to the success of AUM students is its distinguished faculty members, who are as diverse as the student body and include esteemed profes‑ sionals, acclaimed authors and Fulbright Scholars committed to helping adult learn‑ ers achieve their career goals.

Antioch University Midwest also sup‑ ports opportunities for community service and partnership, from its 200‑seat audito‑ rium to its classroom facilities, which are available to host events.

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The philosophy of the Children’s Center is based on the belief that children learn through play experiences. The teachers prepare hands‑on learning activities to chal‑ lenge and encourage children at each devel‑ opmental level. A variety of open‑ended ma‑ terials, activities and social experiences are provided in an environment of comfort and security. Children choose activities, interact with each other, try new roles, experiment with their own ideas, build on their experi‑ ences and solve problems. Individualized at‑ tention is promoted by small groupings and a low child‑to‑teacher ratio.

Parent and community par ticipation enhance program offerings. Staff and en‑ rollment policies encourage diversity of racial, religious, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

The Children’s Center operates Monday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a late program until 6 p.m. Full‑ and half‑day programs are designed to meet the needs of three age groups: 18 months through 36 months, 3 years through kindergarten and kindergarten through 12 years of age.

The Community Children’s Center is gov‑ erned by an elected board of trustees. The Children’s Center is funded through private tu‑ ition, United Way allocations, and support from the community. Title XX is accepted. The cen‑

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|EDUCATION| ter staff welcomes inquiries and observation visits. For more information on enrollment, call 767‑7236 or email at info@ysccc.org.

Community Children’s Center After School Care 767‑7236 info@ysccc.org www.ysccc.org

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Children’s Center After School Program, located at Mills Lawn School and admin‑ istered by the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center, is a recreational program offering after‑school care for students ages 5 to 12. The program is designed to provide a safe, stimulating and enriching environ‑ ment that is child‑centered. Children may choose activities according to their own interests, including inside and outside play, organized games, sports, arts and crafts and homework support. In addition, a daily snack is provided.

The program accepts Title XX tuition as‑ sistance. For registration materials or more information, leave a message at 767‑7236.

Friends Preschool Program Kathy Harper, early childhod director, 767‑1303, ext. 113 E M A I L : kharper@greeneesc.org C O N TA C T:

Friends Preschool program is a public school program operated by the Greene

County Educational Service Center. Located at Friends Care Community, the program provides rich educational experiences to children with delays in development. A few slots are also available for tuition students from the community. Therapy services are available as needed.

The program is dedicated to helping se‑ niors and children learn together through the development of intergenerational programs.

The program includes a strong educational component with structured teaching, as well as a health, nutrition and social service com‑ ponent. Class sizes are small. All staff have bachelor’s or master’s degrees in education.

The program follows a comprehensive cur‑ riculum that aligns with Ohio’s Early Learn‑ ing Content Standards. Bus transportation is available. The program is free to children with disabilities. There is a nominal tuition charge for private‑pay children. Friends Preschool serves children ages 3–5 from both Yellow Springs and Cedar Cliff school districts.

Greene County Career Center 2960 W. Enon Road, 372‑6941 rbolender@greeneccc.com www.greeneccc.com

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Greene County Career Center has served as the region’s premier provider of career‑ technical education for high school and adult students since 1967. The center serves as a hub for high school juniors and seniors who seek career and college preparation in

a hands‑on environment. Approximately 60 percent of those completing a career‑technical program at GCCC go on to a two‑ or four‑year college or university, a career or trade school or an accredited apprenticeship program.

In addition to programs offered on the main campus, the career center also provides instruction at all seven school districts in Greene County in addition to the new Equine Science and Veterinary Science programs offered at the Agricultural Research Center.

At Yellow Springs High School, engineering classes are provided by Greene County Ca‑ reer Center.

The school also is the home of one of the premier adult programs in Ohio, the Peace Officer Basic Training class. Each year, dozens of new police officers earn their certi‑ fication thanks to this program. Additionally, Greene County Career Center also provides refresher courses for current law enforce‑ ment professionals and runs an academy for upcoming corrections officers.

Beginning in 2014, a partnership through Clark State allows adults to take HVAC and Welding classes at the GCCC campus on West Enon Road.

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The Greene County Educational Ser vice Center (GCESC) is located in the Arthur

Morgan Building next to Yellow Springs High School and has been at this site for the past 25 years. The GCESC provides a variety of educational services to Greene County school districts and other regional agen‑ cies. The GCESC employs over 170 workers in the areas of education and therapy and is one of the largest employers in Yellow Springs.

The mission of the GCESC is to promote widespread success for our students by pro‑ viding essential, effective, specialized and innovative services that foster collaborative, valued partnerships amongst all stakeholders.

The Greene County Educational Service Center provides high quality special educa‑ tion and instructional services to the dis‑ tricts. The services provided to each district vary depending on the size of the district and the special needs that each district has. The ESC contracts with each district on a yearly basis. By coordinating services for the districts, the GCESC is able to help them reduce duplication of personnel and programs, therefore, reducing costs for the schools. The Center is considered to be a premier provider of therapy services for students — including Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Adapted Physical Education. The GCESC also provides school‑based mental health therapists to all of the county’s school dis‑ tricts. Further, the mental health staff has been working in specific districts on the PAX Good Behavior Game — a positive, disruption‑reducing classroom management program that increases engaged learning and is considered to be a best practice by the

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The Greene County Learning Center, or GCLC, is a public “separate facility” school program for students in grades K–12 that serves students from all school districts in Greene County. The caring staff at GCLC work as a team to meet the academic and emotional needs of the youth that they serve.

The major objectives of the program are to help the individual gain self‑awareness skills, learn new coping skills, increase the ability to make appropriate choices and improve social‑interpersonal interaction with peers and adults. An additional objective is to help the students achieve academically to the best of their abilities. The ultimate goal is to help each student to successfully return to the home school environment and to function more fully in the world around them.

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Yellow Springs Montessori School is a parent cooperative preschool for children ages 3–5 years. Its mission is to foster the intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual growth of preschool‑aged children while using the Montessori method to encourage the moral development of each child. YSMS has a traditional preschool design. Class is held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 9 a.m. to noon, and the same children attend every day, creating a sense of consis‑ tency and community.

Student instruction is based on the per‑ sonal needs and interests of each child, with the teacher serving as a guide. Children are given the opportunity to absorb math, lan‑ guage, science, geography, history, sensory training, practical life and the arts through exploration of their environment. They learn about the value of human diversity and a desire to serve humanity.

Parents are viewed as active partners who aid in the operation of the school. The school year is September–May and approximately follows the Yellow Springs School District calendar. The classroom is located in the First Presbyterian Church, 314 Xenia Ave. For more information, email ysms.kids@ gmail.com

Students in Yellow Springs have the op‑ portunity to pursue an education in three Blue Ribbon National Schools of Excellence: Mills Lawn Elementary School, McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School. The district is a member of the Ohio Innovative Learning Network, a selective group (two percent of districts statewide) of schools doing innovative work in public education.

YS schools are dedicated to helping stu‑ dents become the global change leaders of the future. Through the implementation of the 2020 Strategic Plan, the schools give students the tools necessary to make a posi‑ tive impact on the world and achieve their personal goals and dreams. The schools have a longstanding reputation for encour‑ aging critical thinking, individual creativity, respect and appreciation for diversity and authentic learning in science, the fine arts and the humanities. The public schools are a vital and integral part of the Yellow Springs community and provide an education based on the belief that small schools can provide big opportunities. More recently, the schools have been noted for an instructional shift to Project‑Based Learning, using inquiry and student voice/choice to guide learning.

Yellow Springs High School, a recipient of the Silver Award on the U.S. News and World Report Best High Schools List, pro‑ vides a comprehensive and varied curricu‑ lum for ninth‑ through 12th‑grade students.

Advanced Placement courses, college prep courses, vocational courses through the Greene County Career Center, Post Second‑ ary Options Education and a variety of elec‑ tives are offered in many subject areas.

Numerous co‑curricular oppor tunities are available to students: athletics, includ‑ ing a dozen varsity sports; band/orchestra; a theater program; academic clubs; the School Forest Club, Poetry/Spanish Night, Charlotte Drake Youth Philanthropy Group, S.P.I.D.E.E., and other activities.

All students are required to perform 45 hours of community service and a senior project as graduation requirements.

Students in grades seven and eight attend McKinney Middle School, which is under the same roof as the high school, but McKinney School students have their own band and or‑ chestra programs and participate in seasonal interscholastic sports activities. Emphasis is placed on assessing and accommodating the uniqueness of the early adolescent child in a middle school environment. Considerable effort is made to incorporate interdisciplinary studies through thematic units. McKinney students are afforded a variety of co‑curricular opportunities including: athletics, Power of the Pen, Student Council and other activities.

Mills Lawn School focuses on excellence and quality in its mission to educate students in grades kindergarten through sixth. The school offers a safe and engaging environ‑ ment that promotes inquiry and problem‑ solving. Mills Lawn School encourages stu‑

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Mario Basora, superintendent, 767‑7381; Matt Housh, Mills Lawn principal, 767‑7217; Tim Krier, McKinney School/Yellow Springs High School principal, 767‑7224 W E B : www.ysschools.org C O N TA C T:

dents to “own” their learning and take pride in their work, as well as their school. The school ensures that students develop strong reading and math skills by focusing on the individual and using data to drive instruction.

Mills Lawn School pursues an integrated academic approach that helps students see the connections between subject areas. The school’s focus on arts education and problem‑ based learning allows students to learn by do‑ ing, thinking and creating. Classes regularly leave the building to explore nature or visit important places that inspire their learning.

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The Greene County Educational Service Center also provides educational programs for students with emotional and/or behav‑ ioral issues at the Greene County Learning Center in Yellow Springs and an Outdoor Education Program for students in grades 6 to 8 as well as an alternative high school for students in grades 9 to 12 both of which are located in Bellbrook. At the Bellbrook site are also the Intensive Needs Classrooms for students with severe communication disor‑ ders and behavioral issues.

To find out more about the GCESC and updates on what is being offered, visit the website at www.greeneESC.org.

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By Diane Chiddister You’d be hard pressed to find someone with deeper Yellow Springs roots than Phylllis Lawson Jackson, the fifth generation of the Lawson family to live in the village. And while she was born into that depth of connection, she has lived her 92 years in a way that deepens those roots even further. Jackson has lived in only three houses in her life, all within a few blocks of each other, beginning with the High Street home where she was born, then the Lincoln Court house she shared with her husband, and finally the Stafford Street house where she raised her family, and lives still.

“I never did move far away from my home,” she said with a smile in a recent interview.

Perhaps not surprisingly given her local connection, Jackson is known as the town’s unofficial historian, especially of its black families. While she no longer spends long days chasing down facts in the Greene County Library, she was once so absorbed in her library research that she never noticed how hard the chairs were, although she did notice this on a recent visit.

“From my perspective, she’s the go-to person related to AfricanAmerican history in Yellow Springs,” said Antioch College history professor Kevin McGruder, who is working with Jackson on several projects. “She’s a wealth of information.”

Jackson has slowed down some in recent years, although her mind is still sharp. Because she doesn’t enjoy working on a computer, she doesn’t do as much research as she once did, when she frequented the Greene County library. But Jackson has a few more stories to tell and she hopes to tell them, in the projects she’s working on with McGruder.

Specifically, she hopes to write

about two memorable men from her childhood in Depression-era Yellow Springs. One was Jefferson Williams, an ex-slave from Virginia, who lived on Corry Street near the post office, then located in what is now Williams Eatery. While the post office said it didn’t employ blacks at the time, Williams clearly worked there in his job hauling mail in a cart from the trains running through town to the post office.

“He was old when I knew him,” she said.

The second focus of Jackson’s attention will be JT Hornady, the town’s justice of the peace in the 1930s. He was known for wearing a bearskin coat in winter, and for sleeping in his office when he and his wife weren’t getting along. As a young girl growing up, Jackson was impressed that one of the town’s top officials was African American.

“He was interesting to me because he’d run for justice of the peace and been elected,” Jackson said.

Jackson’s interest in history was sparked by the stories of local African Americans who overcame obstacles — and there were always obstacles — to achieve success.

“They had lives and stories that might make an impact on people today,” she said.

What especially interested Jackson in local history was the richness of African-American lives in Yellow Springs. The village was unusual in its relatively large percentage of blacks, with many having come to town after emancipation. What drew former slaves to Yellow Springs was likely the opportunities of Antioch College and Wilberforce College, which was originally intended as a school for the black children of slaveowners, according to Jackson.

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Especially unusual in the early and mid-1900s was the extent of community leadership entrusted to blacks in Yellow Springs. For instance, Jackson’s great-great grandfather James was the village constable before she was born, and her brother, James, was mayor of the village in the 1960s. Blacks also led the police department, the fire department and the school board in those years.

“You’d think this was a black town,” Jackson said, regarding the extent of black leadership.

Looking around today, Jackson is disappointed at what’s different about Yellow Springs. Mainly, she sees far fewer blacks living here, and far fewer in positions of leadership.

“I think Yellow Springs has changed drastically in the last 30 years,” she said.

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“I don’t think we have people doing things together the way we once did,” she said.

Jackson herself was known in the village for crossing racial divides, according to John Gudgel, who grew up in the village and has worked here all his life.

“She’s able to navigate across cultural and racial lines in Yellow Springs,” he said. “People always respected her ability to get along with people. She sees no racial barriers and I admire that.”

Jackson’s ability to get along with others began in her childhood, which was a world far more trusting and

innocent than that of today. When her brothers didn’t come home for a couple of days, Jackson remembers, her parents wouldn’t worry — the boys were likely camping in the Glen.

The Glen was also the favorite spot for Jackson and her grade-school friends to roam on Sundays, a popular spot for all local children.

“Walking was our biggest recreation,” she said.

Churches also sponsored many of the town’s social events, such as the “moonlight picnics” that began in the afternoon on the lawn of the Central Chapel AME church and went on into the night, with the church’s best cooks selling their wares. Also popular were church-sponsored “lawn fetes” such as that sponsored by the Catholic

Church on the Mills Lawn grounds and open to the whole community.

And by the time she was 6, Jackson was riding the streetcar to Springfield alone, then changing to a bus to go visit her grandparents.

But Yellow Springs was also a part of the larger world, and racial discrimination was real in the village.

While the public school on Dayton Street was integrated, the outhouses out back were not, at least not for the girls. And while both blacks and whites took part in events open to the public, anything private — such as birthday parties of her school classmates — were strictly segregated. Black girls weren’t allowed in the white Girl Scout group, so they formed their own group.

But Jackson doesn’t remember tension between the races. Rather, the separate worlds were just how things were at the time.

“We got along well,” she said of blacks and whites in the village.

Along with racial segregation, it was a time with limited opportunities for women. When Jackson was in high school, her writing caught the eye of her English teacher, who took her to meet a history professor at Antioch College. While the professor encour-

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aged her to attend college, Jackson knew that this was not a realistic option in her family. Her father spent much of his life working as a janitor at Antioch College, then delivering ice, and her mother worked at Antioch as a housekeeper.

“We didn’t have enough money to even think about it,” she said.

So after graduating from John Bryan High School, Jackson went to work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a clerk typist. But while she couldn’t attend college, work held its own compensations. For instance, a co-worker who came from Mansfield, Ohio, had a brother named Ted Jackson, a quiet man who loved singing and dancing. When Phyllis visited her friend’s home in Mansfield, she and Ted met.

“We just hit it off,” Jackson said.

And they continued to hit it off for more than 60 years, as both Ted and Phyllis worked at the base and the couple raised their two children.

Kevin now lives in Dayton, and Kimberly lives in Oak Park, Ill. The family was busy, with work and school and a close relationship with their church, Central Chapel AME. Through the years Jackson’s interest in researching local history grew, and she began her daylong visits to the Greene County library.

“I get excited when I discover new things,” she said.

She also clipped articles out of newspapers, and still has a fivedrawer file cabinet stuffed with items that caught her eye. She laughs as she says that when she’s no longer around to guard the file cabinet, her kids will toss it away.

“I tell people that when I die, if they want something from that file, they’d better come get it,” she said.

Since Ted died in 2013, Phyllis has lived alone. While her circle of friends has diminished from deaths, she maintains her good spirits. For

instance, she finds some pleasures in living alone.

“I have my own remote and don’t have to share,” she said. “I can still drive and go wherever I want.”

Asked of what in her life she’s most proud, Jackson listed her children and grandchildren, and having had a long and successful marriage. And to what does she owe the success of her marriage?

“We both learned to shut up and listen, to try to work through things together,” she said.

Overall, Jackson is in good health, and she’s grateful for that. Yes, there are losses involved in aging, but Jackson keeps a positive attitude. Don’t sweat it, she said about aging — yes, things have changed, but do the best you can do.

“There are things I can’t do, but I make adjustments,” she said. “I’m happy.”

While Yellow Springs has changed considerably since her childhood, Jackson can’t imagine living anywhere else.

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Yellow Springs Brewery has set itself apart in the growing craft beer market by brewing well‑balanced beers that are unique takes on traditional styles, winning a silver medal at the prestigious Great American Beer Festival in its first year of operation. It has produced a wide variety of beers, including pale ales, stouts, saisons, IPAs, brown ales, barrel‑aged beers, wheat beers, cream ales, milds and more.

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In 1940, times were turbulent. Faced with a world in turmoil and fascism on the march, a small group of Antioch College faculty met to discuss the found‑ ing of a review. In 1941, they launched the Antioch Review, a quarterly publica‑ tion. The Review’s first editorial began with: “It takes, perhaps, uncommon brash‑ ness to plunge into the intellectual struggle at a time which Max Lerner has so aptly de‑ scribed as that of ‘the breaking of nations.’

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Seventy‑five years later, the Antioch Re‑ view remains a publication of critical and creative thought that prints award‑winning fiction, essays, and poetry from prominent and promising authors and poets. The Review, published by Antioch College and headquartered on the Antioch campus, is identified variously as a literary journal, a scholarly quarterly, and a little magazine and has attracted an international reader‑ ship who have an active interest in culture: the arts, politics, and current affairs.

Regardless of formal reputation, creative authors, poets, and thinkers have found a friendly reception in the Review. Its authors are consistently included in Best American and Pushcart Prize anthologies. The Review was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in 2009 (Essays), 2010 (Fiction), 2011 (Essays & Criticism), and 2015 (Fic‑ tion).

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It is the area’s primary source for NPR programming, including “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered.” Entertainment favorites include “Fresh Air,” “This Ameri‑ can Life” and “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me.” WYSO features news programming from the BBC World Service for its overnight schedule.

WYSO produces local news reports and features, the weekly magazine “WYSO Weekend” and many locally hosted music programs.

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By Diane Chiddister Jim Agna is a low-key and modest guy, so he probably won’t tell you that at many points in his career as a physcian, he’s been at the forefront of social change.

But his story indicates this is true.

Agna’s presence on progressive front lines includes his work serving Antioch College students in the 1960s, when he was one of several doctors who provided the newly developed birth control pills to female students who requested them.

“Antioch College was one of the earliest colleges to offer reproductive health services,” he said in an interview earlier this year.

The decision attracted national media attention, and Agna remembers fielding calls from the Wall Street Journal.

Those were also the years of growing drug use among young people, and again, the doctors serving Antioch College students were ahead of their time. Hallucinogenic drugs were popular on campus, especially after psychedelic gurus (and Harvard researchers) Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) spoke on campus, according to Agna.

But Antioch students didn’t always have the ecstatic LSD experiences that Leary and Alpert described, so college physicians, including Agna, came up with a system to help those on a bad trip. The point wasn’t to punish the young people but rather to keep them safe, Agna said, so doctors at the Yellow Springs Clinic, where he worked, reserved a special room at the clinic for those having bad psychedelic experiences, until the acid or mushrooms wore off.

It was important that the room was on the first floor, Agna said.

“We needed to have it on street level so no one jumped out the window,” he said.

Agna also became, in the early 1960s, the public face in southwestern Ohio for physicians who supported Medicare, which at the time was the newly proposed single-payer health program for elders. Medicare received little support from doctors, Agna said, comparing the Medicare controversy to the current controversy over Obamacare. Since Medicare seemed to benefit patients, Agna never could understand physicians’ opposition, and he found himself defending Medicare at a Cincinnati public debate with the head of the Medical Society.

“He said what I was saying reminded him of Krushchev,” Agna said, still shaking his head in wonderment 50

years later For Agna’s longtime friends David and Esther Battle, his stance on controversial issues provided a “moral compass” for those who knew him.

“His idealism is admirable and infectious,” the Battles wrote in an email.

“He is informed, speaks out and takes action on national politics, civil rights, the need for a universal health system in the U.S., and other important issues. ... He expresses his opinions firmly but not aggressively. His presence in Yellow Springs is a significant reason that we feel proud to be members of this community.”

The ’60s were just one component of the full and rich life that Agna has lived, much of it in Yellow Springs.

When he first came to work at the Yellow Springs Clinic in 1959, Agna and his wife, Mary, who was also a physician, had five children. The family purchased the imposing red brick mansion on Xenia Avenue formerly owned by U.S Sen. Simeon Fess (and later by Vie Design Studio). But right before the Agnas moved to the village, the building had been used as a funeral home.

“Word got around that the new doctors bought the funeral home,” he said. “That made a big splash in town.”

Initially, Mary Agna stayed home raising the couple’s five children, but she soon began her own career in public health, serving as the Clark County Health Commissioner, and later Greene County Health Commissioner. A female physician was unusual for the time, and the Agna children remember a lively household with two engaged, intelligent parents who held similar values and concerns.

“My parents were very thoughtful and progressive, and it’s hard to think of stories that are just about my dad.

They were inseparable, classic “finishers of each others’ sentences” types,” their daughter, Gwen Agna, recently wrote via email. “They shared careers, politics, passions (single-payer health care and civil rights in particular).

Growing up in the house on Xenia Avenue meant dinner together every night, by candlelight because there were no electric lights in the dining room, and serious conversations about the state of the nation and the world, with my mom at one end of the table and my dad at the other.”

In Yellow Springs, the Agnas lived their progressive values in a variety of ways. The couple opened their home to Sam Taylor, an African-American high school student from Farmville, Va., when that town closed its schools rather than integrate. Sam lived with

the Agnas for two years, becoming a beloved member of the family, although his presence sometimes brought challenges from the extended family.

“Sam’s presence as a full member of the family was so important to our whole family,” Gwen Agna wrote. “So it was particularly confusing and hurtful when my grandmother (my dad’s mom) wouldn’t host Thanksgiving at their home as had been the tradition because she didn’t want the neighbors to see Sam walk into her house.

I could see the sadness in my dad’s eyes in explaining this to us, but there was never a question that Sam would be with us for the holiday.”

Agna links his progressive values to having been a child in Troy, Ohio, during the Depression, witnessing his parents having to move in with his grandparents, a situation that made him keenly aware of income inequality. He also learned early about racial discrimination, as parts of Troy were segregated, and his good friend and high school tennis partner was an African American who educated Agna on “the subtleties of discrimination.”

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at age 16, Agna went to Purdue University, initially to study engineering.

But World War II was still raging and the Navy, looking for doctors, offered to pay for medical school. So Agna decided to pursue pre-medicine instead, and he found his life’s calling.

And in medical school at the University of Cincinnati, he also found his life partner. Mary was one of about five female students out of a class of about 80, Agna said, and she worked her whole life to correct the gender imbalance in medical schools. She served on the admissions committee of Wright State until almost the end of her life, and was proud of having helped to achieve the goal of creating a medical school in which half of the students were female.

After graduating from medical school, Jim went to Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) to work with infectious diseases. Mary followed a year later after she graduated, working in an infant and maternal welfare clinic.

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These refugees have sought security from insurgents who control a good portion of the country. The streets are crowded with vendors and beggers and many of the former fine residential areas are crowded with bamboo shacks of every description. The ample quantities of refuse about the streets together with a fair number of open sewers necessitates an olfactory adjustment for new arrivals ...”

While the country was devastated in many ways, its Buddhist culture, with Buddhism’s “gentle, present-oriented” philosophy, made a lasting impact on Agna, he said in an earlier interview with the News.

After several years in Burma, the Agnas returned to Cincinnati to join the medical school faculty. And in the late 1950s, the family, now with several children, moved to Haiti, where Jim served for two years as medical director of the Hospital Albert Schweitzer.

The Agnas’ choices during this decade raised eyebrows among family members, Jim Agna said.

“We took on some challenges,” he said. “We did a lot of things that made our parents think we were out of our minds.”

Next came the move to Yellow Springs, and Jim’s work at the Yellow

Springs Clinic. He and Mary were attracted by the clinic’s equitable philosophy in which all physicians, whether pediatricians, general practitioners or surgeons, were paid the same salary. It was a robust practice, and at the time Yellow Springs had about 12 doctors in all, including Harry Berley and Carl Hyde from Community Physicians. Patients came from all over Greene County and Springfield as well as Yellow Springs, Agna said.

But after a decade of Agna working in family practice, the University of Cincinnati came calling, offering both Agnas faculty positions at the medical school, so the family moved back to Cincinnati.

But after 10 years in Cincinnati the couple grew weary of suburban life, and when Wright State University opened its doors and they were offered jobs at the new medical school, they said yes. Especially appealing, according to Jim, was the opportunity to move back to Yellow Springs, which the couple had missed. They bought the house on Orton Road where they lived for the next several decades.

“It was the best of both worlds,” Agna said of living in the village and at the same time having jobs as medical school faculty.

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postgraduate medicine and continuing education before he retired in 1988. But the leisurely life didn’t take, and when Hospice of Dayton vicepresident Carol Dixon, who also lived in Yellow Springs, asked him to join the hospice staff, he agreed.

“She thought I was drinking too much coffee at the Emporium,” he said of Dixon.

As with other periods in his life, Agna found himself at the edge of social change, although this change was less dramatic than that of the ’60s. But the hospice movement was new in this country, and many friends and relatives couldn’t understand why he’d choose to work in a place so “depressing.”

But Agna didn’t find it depressing.

Rather, he found the atmosphere of patient-focused, palliative care to be life-affirming. And the hospice philosophy of helping people live fully to their last days helped Agna himself to find more joy and equanimity in his life, he said in the earlier News article.

Both Mary and Jim Agna retired in the mid-1990s. While Mary continued her public health work as a member of Gov. Richard Celeste’s State Board of Health, Jim took life a bit easier.

But he remained active in the community, reading to kids at Mills Lawn

School and driving seniors to medical appointments, among many other activities.

But Agna is slowing down. Mary died in January 2015, and after 65 years of a close, happy marriage, it’s been a challenge.

“It’s a hard adjustment,” he said. “I take it one day at a time.”

His Meadow Lane home — he and Mary sold the Orton Road home to their daughter, Molly, and her husband when they moved back to town — is filled with remembrances of his long, active life. There’s original artwork from Burma and Haiti, along with photos of the couple’s five children, nine grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Agna enjoys talking about his children and their varied and interesting lives: Gwen is a school principal in Northampton, Mass.; Tom a comedy writer who now lives in Thailand; Bridget a translator of Slavic languages in New York City; Molly an employee of Town Drug in Yellow Springs; and Jake, a tennis pro in Burlington, Vt. He remains an avid reader and thinker, daily reading the New York Times while keeping up regularly with the New Yorker and the Nation.

His love of reading is also evident in the books piled on tables throughout

the house.

As a kid, Agna felt special because his birthday, Feb. 12, was a national holiday and everyone got to stay home from school — it’s also Lincoln’s birthday. On his birthday this year, as every other day, he went downtown to pick up his Times from the Emporium, got some coffee, said hello to the people he saw and did some shopping at Tom’s Market and Current Cuisine.

Agna cites the Woody Allen quote that, “80 percent of success is just showing up.” He’s happy to say that he’s still showing up.

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Ford was born in 1927 in her family home on West South College Street, which used to stand exactly where the Antioch Library does today. At that time, the street extended all the way to the Antioch Foundry, close to Corry Street. Eventually the college bought her grandmother’s three properties from her around 1953 and tore them down to build the library and what was originally known as Curl’s Gym. Ford hails from the Cordell family and had two brothers, the late Russell and Carl Cordell and one sister, Clara Jane Berry.

After she graduated from John Bryan High School in 1945, Ford went straight to work at Wright-Patterson Air Force base, first as a clerk stenographer, than as a clerk typist. She was recruited for the job while still in high school, as they sent people into the schools to administer tests to students. Ford went on to work at the base for 14 years before having to quit in the late 1950s to take care of her ailing mother. By that time, she had married Paul Ford, who was from a farm outside of Xenia, and she had two children of her own. Her husband was the first person of color to attend Xenia Central High School.

Even though she went on to have two more children, being a stay-athome mother was not for her. In the 1960s, she took a part-time job at Antioch working for Sam Baskin who was also her neighbor. She said that came with its challenges, as he had no problem asking her to do work at home. She eventually moved on and began working full-time as Jewel Graham’s secretary in the social work department. She joked with her neighbor Sam that she “wouldn’t work with him again if he paid her $1 million.”

After 10 years at Antioch, she took a job with the Greene County Metropolitan Housing Authority as a property manager, soon being promoted to Assistant Director, working under Donna Denman’s supervision. She worked

with the housing authority for 16 years before retiring in 1989. She has always enjoyed property work and up until very recently, was still regularly doing the books, collecting rent, and dealing with various problems as they arose.

Ford grew up in the Central AME Church of Yellow Springs, attending Sunday school as a child, and she has continued to be part of the church her whole adult life. Now she serves on the Trustee Board. When asked if the Church has changed much over the years, Ford reflected and said, “It really hasn’t changed. We’ve had different ministers over the years, but the philosophy of the church has remained the same.” And, of course, she has so many long-standing relationships with people who are part of the church that it remains an important fixture in her life today.

When asked what changes she’s seen over the years in the village she has always lived in, Ford said, “Yellow Springs was a place where you never felt afraid. We didn’t lock our doors or cars.” According to her, she was a grown woman before she had ever heard of drugs. “Things were safe here for years and no one bothered anyone else.” Her biggest lament, however, is “there are not many minorities here anymore,” and she believes it’s mostly due to the cost of property and taxes.

“A lot of the older [black] families in Yellow Springs have died off, and the younger ones can’t afford to live here now.” Ford became widowed 10 years ago and maintains that she was never afraid to live alone in town.

However, only recently she moved in with her daughter Lisa, and granddaughter Hailey, into a new home in Beavercreek. Ford would have preferred to stay in town, but it was difficult to find a property with enough space for all of them and that didn’t have any stairs, at the price of their original home in town. Ford insists she’s fine on her own but relents that her kids didn’t want her to be on her own anymore.

While she maintains that the village was never a utopia, as some have liked to call it, she and her family always felt welcome here and knew it was a far more welcoming place than other areas outside of town. She has four children: Paul, the oldest, is 65, followed by Teresa in San Antonio, Mark in Colorado, and Lisa, the youngest, who is local. She has five grandchildren and one great-grandchild who is 15 months old.

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sion that she has been a life-long smoker. While she has cut down over the years, she still smokes a few cigarettes a day. She says her doctor is always after her to quit but she figures, at the age of 90, “why quit now?” She has never been much of a drinker but enjoys the Mudslides, a mixture of chocolate and alcohol that her son makes for her when they visit with each other. But despite these indulgences, Ford remains committed to her twice a week exercise regime and using her stationary bike at home.

Lynn Hardman, her fitness instructor and friend, has known Ford since growing up in the same neighborhood as a child and playing with the younger Ford kids. Lynn spoke about Ford recently: “Betty is a force. If I had to summarize what her character is I’d say she is a woman who stands up for what is just, speaks up for what she believes in, and doesn’t just talk the talk but shows up and serves.”

Lynn thoroughly enjoys having her in class and said that Ford “does pretty much everything everyone else does and she’s 30 years their senior.” She added, “and when Betty walks into

Powering into her 90s the room she looks sharp — even if she’s wearing shorts and a T-shirt, she’s always well groomed and everything matches.”

Not shy about embracing technology, Ford travels with her trusty iPhone, just in case of emergencies, and regularly uses the computer and email at home. Her guilty secret is that she loves online shopping and according to her, can often be found clicking through Macy’s website and having things mailed to her. She keeps up regular dates and outings with old friends and relatives and talks to her daughter in San Antonio on the phone every day.

Some of her fondest memories growing up in Yellow Springs involved hanging out at what used to be the Glen Pavilion, where there was a skating rink that her father used to manage. It was located on Route 68, heading into town from the north, on the left hand side across from the Bryan Center. There was a hardwood floor on the inside that was used for skating and the outside of the building was a large screened-in porch that encircled it.

They would also have dances at the Pavilion. Another place she and her friends would hang out for “good, clean fun,” according to Ford, was

the Antioch Coffee shop, located where the cafeteria later was. They had a nickelodeon and were open at night, serving burgers, cokes and hotdogs. She and her friends would often stop there after going to the movies for a bite to eat and a bit of dancing.

Ford’s father also managed the all-black softball team that was sponsored by PWI’s, the precursor to Luttrell’s Grocery Store, which later of course became Weaver’s, then Tom’s Market. They played against the Whitehall Farm team, which was the all-white team. She recalls that they all did a lot more together as families back then, compared to today, whether it was a softball game, a night out at the skating rink, or a moonlit church picnic.

When asked what is the hardest and best thing about being 90, Ford thought for a moment and replied, “Well, all the aches and pains you have!” But, she added, “I am truly blessed to have lived this long. To be able to get around and be in my right mind, is truly a blessing and I’ve outlived everyone in my immediate family. My grandmothers lived into their 90s, so I plan to be taking after them!”

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Along with private donations, the individual members of the Glen Helen Association strive to keep Glen Helen available as a re‑ source for the community.

The scenic 1,000‑acre preser ve is rich in natural formations and fixtures, acces‑ sible from a 20‑mile trail system. Even on a short walk, visitors can witness spectacular blooming wildflowers, majestic 400‑year‑old trees, imposing limestone cliff overhangs, beautiful waterfalls and the amazing yellow spring for which the town is named. These trails are open year‑round during daylight hours.

Glen Helen’s quarterly program calendar — including guided hikes, invasive species removal, after‑school programs, public lectures and public workshops — can be accessed at www.glenhelen.org.

The Ecology Institute depends on the support of individuals through the Glen Hel‑ en Association to maintain the preserve and its exciting and varied programs to the gen‑ eral public. The Glen Helen Association is a membership‑based organization founded in 1960 to support Antioch College and its ef‑ forts to protect the Glen. Association mem‑ bers are essential to the continued functions of Glen Helen, as the nature preserve is a privately funded organization that does not receive funding from Greene County or the state of Ohio. Glen Helen Association members are entitled to complimentar y parking at our Corry Street entrance, dis‑ counts at the Glen Helen Nature Shop and discounted admission to many of the events in the preserve. Individual membership in the Association begins at $40. To support the Glen, visit www.glenhelen.org or send donations to: Glen Helen Association, 405 Corry St., Yellow Springs.

Glen Helen programs and activities in‑ clude the following: Outdoor Education Center — For over

50 years, the center has shaped the lives of the fifth‑ and sixth‑graders who visit it.

The Outdoor Education Center is also the site of Glen Helen’s EcoCamps — summer day and overnight camps in which children and teenagers are immersed in nature. It is located at 1075 SR 343. Grounds are closed to the public when school is in session; call 937‑767‑7648.

Raptor Center — This nationally recog‑ nized facility rehabilitates injured hawks, owls and other birds of prey, providing birds a second chance at life in the wild. Resident birds, used for educational programs, can be viewed on site. Open during daylight hours; limited parking for bird viewing is available at 1075 SR 343; call 937‑767‑7648.

Trailside Museum — Ser ving as the preser ve’s Welcome Center, the Trailside Museum is the hub for regularly scheduled programs and hikes at Glen Helen. Stop in for a map, gear or information before venturing out onto the trails. Open week‑ ends 10 a.m.–5 p.m., 505 Corr y St.; call 937‑767‑7798.

Nature Shop — Operated by the Glen Helen Association, the Nature Shop features a wide variety of field guides and other nature books, crafts, T‑shirts, bird feeders and greeting cards. Hours: Monday–Friday from 9:30a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday–Sun‑ day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Vernet Ecological Center, 405 Corry St.; call 937‑769‑1902.

Extension Programs — Glen Helen can bring a host of programs to your site, and our naturalists also offer guided hikes for private groups; call 937‑767‑7648.

Rent the Glen — The Vernet Ecological Center, Birch Manor, the Outdoor Educa‑ tion Center complex and select outdoor settings within Glen Helen are available for rental for special events like weddings, retreats, conferences, meetings and memo‑ rials. Call 936‑769‑1902, ext. 3.

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By Holly Hudson Ray Lewkowicz has traveled a long way from his roots growing up in the Bronx as the son of a Polish immigrant who originally came to North Adams, Mass., in 1912. His father went to work as a weaver with the Berkshire Woolen Company and eventually was able to bring his family over from Poland to join him. Lewkowicz was born in Pittsfield, MA, in 1930 and when he was 5 years old, the family moved to New York. It was only then that he began to learn English, having spoken Polish the first years of his life.

Sitting at his kitchen table with his wife, Nancy, in their book-lined home on a recent afternoon, Lewkowicz recounted the path that led them to calling Yellow Springs home for the past 50-odd years.

He and Nancy met while they were both graduate students at the University of Michigan. Subsequently, while at his first teaching job at the University of Illinois, Lewkowicz was lured to join the newly formed academic staff at Wright State University, which was in its early days, by Bob Dixon, also of Yellow Springs. Their first daughter, Anne, had just been born when they picked up stakes and moved to southwestern Ohio so Lewkowicz could begin teaching at Wright State where he remained as a professor of mathematics until his retirement in 1988.

Retirement for Lewkowicz did not mean a chance to play 18 holes of golf weekly or winter trips to Florida.

He had inherited an old violin from his father that was in disrepair and started looking around for information on how he could fix it himself. He came upon the Catgut Acoustical Society, which had been started by Carleen Hutchins, a former high school teacher, violinmaker, and researcher. And whom, Lewkowicz noted, was in possession of quite a sense of humor, as was evident in her name choice for the group.

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fascinated with her pioneering work in developing a scientific method for making violins. She invented “freeplate tuning” and is also known for her creation of a family of eight proportionally sized violins now known as the violin octet and for her research into the acoustics of violins.

“I became interested in it because of the scientific aspect of it and from there, I started making my own,” Lewkowicz said in a recent interview.

He was able to meet Hutchins when she was invited to lecture at Wright State by the late Pat Olds, a professor of English and fellow Yellow Springer.

Following Hutchings methods, Lewkowicz went on to learn how to make string instruments and made his first cello for Nancy and later, one for his daughter, Anne. He then took the methods he learned and applied them to repairing violins, creating his own cottage business and calling himself “The Violin Doctor.” He used to repair 20 to 30 violins a year. While he doesn’t make instruments today, he does do repairs whenever they come in as he says, “violins will always be infinitely repairable.” When Lewkowicz began working on violins, he did not play the instrument himself, but took it up once he began learning the repair methods. He has played the flute since he was a young man. According to Nancy, she took up cello rather “late in life” at the age of 35 and says she was quite a sight as a “small pregnant woman, carrying a huge cello.”

Still today, the couple enjoy playing Baroque music twice monthly with the Hatfield sisters.

Nancy, born in 1929 and a native of Baltimore, is a linguist, having received her master's and doctorate from Georgetown University, with a specialty in Arabic, something which she said was not considered that useful in the 1960s when she graduated.

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for a woman at that time. She had a bit of wanderlust, having been born into an English family who liked to travel. She got a job teaching English to foreigners in Egypt for a time, and also knows French, German and Indonesian. She went on to teach at Wright State and Wilberforce University and then also started a home-based business as a tutor for dyslexic students.

She developed a system, as well as a computer program, that helps people with dyslexia identify words, and still works with clients from time to time through her website www.thewordworkshop.com.

Nancy also works as a volunteer at the Yellow Springs Public Library repairing damaged books and plays a lot of Scrabble, both of which she really enjoys.

These days, Ray considers himself a seasonal hobbyist. In addition to the occasional violin repair, he also paints oil portraits, does woodworking, and sometimes puts together little things like harpsichords from kits. He also belongs to the Dayton Society of Artists and served as president for two years. Both of their daughters, Anne and Amy, live and work in Cincinnati and are, respectively, a computer consultant and post-doctorate student of musicology of the Catholic Church.

Nancy said she and Ray are especially grateful for the musical opportunities their daughters experienced

growing up in Yellow Springs. She feels that was a tremendous benefit to their development.

“One of the girls even went to an all-state event as a cellist, then to a summer Chautauqua-like program in Michigan,” she said.

When asked if she has noticed any major changes in the town over the years they’ve lived here, Nancy said Yellow Springs has become somewhat less diverse over the years, in terms of racial composition, which she feels is “regrettable.”

The Lewkowicz’s book-filled home is testament to their love of literature and interest in pursuing a “life of the mind.” Ray remembers one of his favorite and most weighty influences growing up in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan was regularly visiting the Webster Branch of the New York Public Library on 78th Street and York Avenue as a boy. He cites the book “Great Men of Science,” a collection of biographies of scientists going all the way back to the Greeks, as having had a big influence on his life and thinking. Nancy, in turn, said her favorite book remains “The Tyranny of Words,” by Stuart Chase, which helped stoke her interest in linguistics.

Both Ray and Nancy are grateful for the ease and congeniality that living in Yellow Springs has offered them all these years, and it never occurred to them once to move back to his native New York or Nancy’s native Baltimore.

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One-, two-, three-bedroom

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ART STROLL Fri., Oct. 20, 6–9 p.m. (downtown)

with 1½ baths on W. North College and W. Center College streets. Laundry facilities on site.

YS OPEN STUDIOS Sat. and Sun., Oct. 21 and 22, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (various village locations)

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CHAMBER MUSIC IN YELLOW SPRINGS: THE CALIDONE QUARTET Sun., Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m. (First Presbyterian Church)

CHAMBER MUSIC IN YELLOW SPRINGS: PROJECT FUSION SAXOPHONE QUARTET Sun., Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m. (First Presbyterian Church) NOV

ART AND SOUL: AN ART FAIR Sat., Nov. 19, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (Mills Lawn) YS ARTS COUNCIL HOLIDAY ART JUMBLE Nov. 18–Dec. 31, during regular gallery hours (YSAC Community Gallery) LEGENDARY LIGHTS OF CLIFTON Nov. 24–Dec. 31 (Clifton, OH)

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SCHOOL FOREST FESTIVAL Sat. and Sun., Dec. 3–4, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. (Bryan Park Road) SANTA PANCAKE BREAKFAST Sat., Dec. 3, 9–11:30 a.m. (United Methodist Church) HOLIDAY FEST Dec. 9 (downtown; details TBA)

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PEACE WALK Mon., Jan. 15, 10:30 a.m. (downtown)

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CHAMBER MUSIC IN YELLOW SPRINGS: BENNEWITZ STRING QUARTET Sun., Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m. (First Presbyterian Church)

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CHAMBER MUSIC IN YELLOW SPRINGS: BRAZILIAN GUITAR QUARTET Sun., Mar. 25, 7:30 p.m. (First Presbyterian Church)

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