Date: 8/24/2009 to 9/24/2009
During Reunion in Yellow Springs the first weekend in October, the Alumni Board will be meeting to finalize a slate for elections to fill board seats in 2010. We are eager to know of anyone you might suggest who would be interested in running for the board, as well as any supporting information you can provide.
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A call for Auction Donations
Date: 8/24/2009 to 9/1/2009
After much hard work by Antiochians and Antioch College supporters
world-wide, our beloved alma mater will be an independent institution
once again! With this news, people have been asking, “How can we
celebrate?” and also, “How can we fundraise for the future of Antioch
College?” We plan to do both by holding an auction at Reunion 2009:
“Out of The Twilight Zone!”
College Moves Closer to Achieving Independence
Date: 8/20/2009
By Diane Chiddister
from the Yellow Springs News
Antioch College moved one step closer to independence last week, when a Greene County court approved the transfer of the college endowment from the university to the college.
“We seem to be on track,” said Matthew Derr, chief transition officer for the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or ACCC, in an interview last week. “It’s all moving as fast as expected.”
The goal for closing the deal between Antioch University and the ACCC for an independent college is Aug. 31, and Derr said that he expects that goal to be met. The transfer of endowment funds was one of several steps that outside agencies needed to take for the transfer to occur, according to Derr.
If the deal is closed as planned on Aug. 31, the effort will be unprecedented, Derr said. “No group of alumni has ever brought back a national liberal arts college,” he said.
Read the full story on the YS News website
Alumna Debuts Documentary Film to a Full House
Date: 8/20/2009 to 9/20/2009
Emmy®-award winning Yellow Springs directors Julia Reichert ’70 and Steven Bognar debuted their latest documentary film, “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”, to a full house at the Schuster Performing Arts Center Wednesday, Aug. 19.
The film is about the Dec. 23, 2008, closing of the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio. In making the film, Reichert and Bognar spent hundreds of hours with the Moraine workers in the plant’s final weeks, days and hours. 1,600 former autoworkers and their family members were among the 2,200 attending the Dayton premiere. The film is produced by Home Box Office and is part of the HBO 09 Documentary Film Series. “The Last Truck” will air on HBO on September 7th, 2009, at 9 p.m.
In 2007, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert ‘70 won an Primetime Emmy® for their documentary “A Lion in the House,” which followed children fighting cancer for five years. Bognar has shown four films at Sundance, including “Personal Belongings” and “Picture Day.” Reichert ‘70 has twice been nominated for a Best Feature Documentary Oscar®, for “Union Maids” and “Seeing Red.”
Obituary: Dorothy Headley ’36
Date: 8/19/2009 to 9/19/2009
Dorothy Headley died at age 95 on July 28, 2009 after a short illness. She was born July 8, 1914 in Green Bay, Virginia. She attended Antioch College, Ohio, married Robert A. Muller, and lived in Detroit where she worked for the League of Women Voters, and as an interviewer for the Survey Research Center, Ann Arbor. After finishing an MSW at University of Michigan, she worked for McLean Hospital (psychiatric) in Belmont, MA.
Judith Baskin ’69 Ruminates on Her History at Antioch College
Date: 8/19/2009 to 9/19/2009
Christian Feuerstein ’94
Judith Baskin, Knight Professor of Humanities, is Department Head and also directs the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Oregon. Professor Baskin is the President of the Association for Jewish Studies. A recipient of the Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University in 1976, she taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1976-88, and at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she was Chair of the Department of Judaic Studies from 1988-2000. Dr. Baskin is the author of Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002) and Pharaoh’s Counsellors: Job, Jethro and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (1983). Her edited volumes include Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, now in its second edition (1998), and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994).