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Antioch College Board Pro Tempore Special Meeting and Reception 1/16/10

Meet the Antioch College Board Pro Tempore and see them lay the groundwork for the reopened college at a special meeting and reception on Saturday, January 16 at the O’Hare Hilton, at airport terminal 2.

The Board meets in open session from 8:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m. in Room 2049
The Board goes into closed session at 2:30 until adjournment at 5:30 p.m.
Then at 7 p.m. the Board hosts dinner and reception for alumni in the Dublin/London Room on the mezzanine level.

Open session agenda items include:
9:00 A New Design for Liberal Education
10:00 Accreditation & Enrollment
10:45 Board Committees & Organization
11:45 Fundraising: Annual Fund, Annual Campaign, Planned Giving
1:00 Finance & Operations: Financial Dashboard, Buildings & Grounds Improvement Update
2:00 Report from the Continuation Fund

All times are subject to change. I’ll post updates as I get them.

Meeting agenda

If you plan to come please rsvp by email or Facebook
Please indicate if you plan to attend the meeting, the reception, or both.
If you have any questions email antiochrsvp or call me at 773.910.1444.

Public transit or carpooling are highly encouraged. Feel free to email this list to arrange carpooling.

Here’s a map
It’s steps away from the O’Hare Blue Line stop. Hotel parking is $45, with airport lots starting at $4 for up to 3 hours.

See parking rates

Alumni Contributions

Date: 1/7/2010 to 2/7/2010

–Rod Gorney, MD, Ph.D

Saving Antioch’s Life as She Saved Ours

 


    Every
baby has to love its mother because she literally saves the infant’s life over
and over every day.

    But
not every grown person must love her or his alma mater.  I’m convinced that
Antiochians love their alma mater in greater proportions than former students of
other colleges because Antioch saved not only our lives over and over — and
continues to do so — but our hopes. 

    Just
as one example, let me offer a few bits of my story:

Before the draft grabbed me during WW
II, I had only six months at Antioch (Fall 1942, Spring 1943).  Accepted to the Army Specialized
Training Program, I had insufficient premedical credit hours to qualify for
admission to a medical school.  So
I was assigned to a Japanese language program.  An hour before my first Japanese class, one medical school discovered
that, though I actually left campus after only six months, I had one and a
quarter years of credit hours on my
transcript, so they sent me an acceptance telegram!

Teishan Latner, ’00, is a Quotable Rebel (and Antiochian)

Date: 1/5/2010 to 2/5/2010
–Christian Feuerstein ‘94   

On his current projects: Right now I’m working on the second edition of a book I edited called The Quotable Rebel: Political Quotations for Dangerous Times
(Common Courage Press, 2005). It’s a reference collection of 3,000
quotations from social change movements world-wide and throughout
history. The book is organized into 150 sub-topics and covers a very
wide variety of subjects and people, from well known figures like
Malcolm X and Gandhi to locally-based grassroots activists and artists.
I donate the royalties to support progressive social causes, most
recently via the Bread and Roses Community Fund. I’m a Ph.D. student in
History at the University of California, Irvine, so I’ve spent the
summer doing research on the relationship between the American Left and
Cuba. I’m also a Humanities Facilitator for Scribe Video Center’s
Precious Places Community History Project, a documentary video program
that works with Philadelphia community organizations to create digital
histories of their neighborhoods.