Issue 13 – Spring 2009 – Save Antioch College

Antioch Buddhist program is 30

By Diane Chiddister
Reprinted with permission from the YS News

The Buddhist Studies Program of Antioch Education Abroad, or AEA, offers something unique to young people, organizers believe. The young participants not only study Buddhism but live it, immersed in an exotic world as residents of a monastery
among monks and nuns.

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Antioch in Spring

by Micah Canal ‘08

Ask any Antiochian who ever spent a winter term in Yellow Springs among the red brick and gray mortar of our ”campus home”, sometimes it’s hard to conceive of a time when the sun will shine again. The cold winds blows. The snow falls. The ice grows like formed glass on the skeletal branches of deciduous giants, and the low, monotonous sky shows no mercy.

As late
March melts into April and the ground thaws, mud cakes the bottoms of shoes and tracks through the halls of buildings. Antiochians defiantly try to persuade the thermometer higher by wearing T-shirts when the little red line indicates that the temperature has crept above 45 degrees. Perhaps they succeed. When the first pioneering tree buds or blades of green grass emerge to gambol in the face of frosts certain to come once again, we make note and cheer them on despite the
plain futility of their
attempt.
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Laurence Glasco, ‘62, Talks History, Future of Antioch College

By Christian Feuerstein ‘94

Laurence Glasco ‘62 is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Pittsburgh. He has authored several books about the history of African-Americans in Pennsylvania-Legacy in Bricks and Mortar: Historic Sites of Black Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1995); and
The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004), which he edited. He is currently working on two other books; one is about the late K. Leroy Irvis, the first African-American to serve as a speaker of the House in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction, and one about August Wilson’s Pittsburgh.
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Obituary: Joseph Connell

JOSEPH EDWARD CONNELL October 8, 1930 February 27, 2009. Joe was born and raised in Niagara Falls where he attended LaSalle High School and captained its football team. After marrying his wife Patty (the former Patricia Jane Parsons of Royal Oak, Michigan) and graduating from Antioch College, Joe
served as a naval officer in Washington D.C. He then began a career in public accounting with Coopers and Lybrand, where he rose to become a partner while working in Detroit, Minneapolis, and Des Moines.

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Obituary: Patricia Connell

Patricia Jane Parsons Connell died October 3, 2007 in the company of family at her home at the Highland Springs retirement center in Dallas, Texas. Pat was born in Detroit, Michigan on May 2, 1931 and grew up in nearby Royal Oak. Pat attended Michigan State University and graduated from Antioch College.
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Remember to Vote!

Antiochians from all generations have been making their voices heard over the past few weeks by participating in the Antioch College Alumni Association Board of Directors annual election. If you haven’t voted yet you have just over a week before the polls close. In this election there are 11 seats on the 29 member board up for choice with fifteen candidates in the field.
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