We, the New York City Antioch College Community, resolve that the College must remain open and become autonomous from the University. We stand behind the Alumni Board, faculty, staff, students of Antioch College and the Yellow Springs community in their efforts to achieve these goals. We will give these efforts our full moral and financial support, using all the resources at our disposal as citizens of the global capital of media, finance, law and the arts.
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Antioch documentarians win Emmy, produce Revival video
From the Yellow Springs News • September, 13 2007 • By Diane Chiddister
When filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert attended the Emmy awards in Los Angeles last weekend, the last thing they expected was to win. They were thrilled just to be there, to have A Lion in the House, their documentary about children with cancer which was shown on PBS, nominated as one of three in the category for outstanding achievement in nonfiction film.
Also nominated were Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts, an HBO special series on New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, a film they greatly admired, and Jonestown, The Life and Death of the People’s Temple, by Stanley Nelson, another well-known documentary maker. “We went there totally expecting Spike Lee would win,” Reichert said in an interview Tuesday. “Our plan was to just go out, get dressed up, have some fun and not sweat it.”
But their plans fell through. Instead, A Lion in the House won an Emmy.
Last weekend’s Emmy event, which covered documentaries and other creative and technical categories, will be broadcast this Saturday at 8 p.m. on the E! cable channel. The Emmy awards for fiction productions will be broadcast on network television this Sunday. Lion shared the award with Lee’s film.
The first clue that their plan to just relax and not win anything was going awry occurred last Friday evening, according to Reichert, when at a party one of the judges took them aside and said she had only one piece of advice: be prepared.
“We thought, ‘oh my god, we’d better write a speech,” Reichert said.
And they did, then rehearsed in the car on the way to the ceremony.
When their names were called, Reichert spoke in her speech about the journey they took while making their film, in which they followed the families of five children with cancer. The children were patients at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, whose chief of oncology initiated the film process soon after Reichert’s daughter, Lela Reichert-Klein, recovered from cancer herself, a fact unknown by the oncologist when he chose the filmmakers.
“You always take a journey when you make a documentary,” she said. “Ours took us to witness the best of humanity.”
In his speech, Bognar thanked, among others, the parents who let the filmmakers spend six years filming as they struggled with the worst that life has to offer, a child with cancer. And they named and thanked the five children, of whom two lived and three died.
“This film is their legacy,” Reichert said. “It’s what lives on.”
Especially gratifying, according to Reichert, was sharing the award with a few of the children’s family members who traveled to Los Angeles, along with an entourage of co-workers and former students who helped on the film, including Los Angeles film editors Jaime Myers and Kevin Jones, former students in the Wright State University film production class taught by Reichert. Also attending the ceremony was the film’s associate producer, Karen Durgans, of Yellow Springs.
After the ceremony, everyone had a grand time at the Emmy gala, which included huge vases of white calla lillies, great food, and a band that played Motown hits.
“We just got up in our gowns and started to dance,” Reichert said. “We were the last to leave the party.”
Art Show Fund-raiser for Antioch College in NYC: Submissions from Antioch Community Wanted
November 3 – December 31, 2007
Casa Frela Gallery in Harlem, NYC
Opening night gala at 5:00pm
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – ALL WILL BE ACCEPTED
Submissions deadline is October 12, 2007
This is a major art show fundraiser and awareness-building event to support the continuance of Antioch College. The exhibition is open to submissions from all in the larger Antioch Community (students, faculty, alumni, staff, villagers, supporters, etc) and encourages the expression of the creative imagination of this Community as testimony to the vitality of the College. We invite you to join our effort to keep Antioch College open, maintain faculty tenure and re-establish independent governance for the College.
Complete details about the event, submission guidelines and application are available here: Casa Frela Gallery
Please spread the word, as this project is a great way to come together as a community to raise money and positive awareness in the media for Antioch College.
Brought to you by the Antioch NYC Alumni Chapter and Casa Frela Gallery
Thanks
Casselli
NYC Chapter
Killer Hand (1990) – John Wells Antioch College Student Film
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Student film by John Wells at Antioch College, 1990. Recorded on a VHS camcorder, and edited on a linear editing system in VHS. The face on the killer hand is a very famous person, but I wonder how many people can tell who it is. The location is the apartment where I lived at that time in Yellow Springs.
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The Word of the Week is “Progress.”
Alumni Update, Friday, September 14, 2007
RAISING DOUGH: Our Revival fund has reached a total of $12 million in cash and pledges, an amount equal to the entire endowment of Bennington College. Donors have earmarked the money to be used only for the continuation of Antioch as a residential undergraduate College with a tenured faculty that is moving toward a system of self-governance.
DEVELOPING THE PLAN: In about a week, Dixie Maurer-Clemons will widely circulate for comments and ideas a draft of the Antioch College Revitalization Business Plan. Alumni Board Treasurer Rick Daily, who is coordinating the development of the plan, stresses that “we want as many people as possible to see the draft and give input.” Meanwhile, the Alumni Board is exploring the possibility of hiring a well-respected financial planner to help craft the final version.
SHARING THE PLAN: University Board of Trustees President Art Zucker will travel to Denver in early October to meet with Alumni Board President Nancy Crow and other Alumni Board members and Trustees. They’ll discuss progress being made in the development of the Revitalization Plan. A formal presentation of the completed plan to the entire Board of Trustees is scheduled to take place in Yellow Springs the last weekend in October.
MOVING DEVELOPMENT: The Antioch College Development staff is not only being expanded, it is being given its own home – Weston Hall. Alums Ellen Borgerson and Matt Derr have been on campus these past two weeks working with Risa Grimes and the rest of the development staff.
TEACHING FROM LIFE: In the best tradition of Antioch College, faculty and students are using the current crisis as a learning tool. This weekend, September 14-16, faculty, alumni, staff and students will discuss, teach and learn about the organizing, planning, financing and research techniques that are being employed to address the current situation and to save Antioch.
University Officials Share Financial Data with College Alumni Board
from the Alumni Association Board of Directors, Friday, September 7, 2007
Alumni Board Treasurer Rick Daily reports that he has now received from University officials information the Alumni Board needs to develop a proposal for the continuation of Antioch as an undergraduate, residential, liberal arts college with a tenured faculty. The proposal will be presented to University Trustees for consideration at their October meeting.
Experts in many fields relating to higher education and its financing are expected to help the Alumni Board develop its proposal. Rick is convinced their participation will not be hindered by the terms of a confidentiality agreement University officials insisted upon as a pre-condition for their sharing information.
During his visit to Yellow Springs today, Rick and University officials re-affirmed an agreement to maintain and expand the Development Office so that funds can be raised and earmarked for Antioch College. Fundraising strategy will be under the direction of the Alumni Board. Lynda Sirk, a University employee, will act as office administrator and University liaison.
At least until the October Trustee meeting, University officials will proceed along two parallel tracks. They will continue to take steps to cease Antioch College operations at the end of the 07-08 academic year. At the same time, they will cooperate with Alumni Board efforts to fundraise and develop a continuation proposal.
Along with Rick, Alumni Board member Ellen Borgerson took part in the meetings with University officials, as did alums Jason Fregeau and Laura Fathauer. The University officials were: Chancellor Toni Murdoch, Chief Financial Officer Tom Faecke, Chief Operations Officer/Chief Academic Officer Andrzej Bloch; and Special Assistant to the COO for Institutional Advancement and Public Relations Lynda Sirk.
After the meetings with University officials, Rick and the other alums gave updates at a meeting of Yellow Springs residents and Antioch faculty, staff and students. Lynda Sirk and Andrzej Bloch also attended the session.
“It is clear to us that we are all in the soup together,” Rick said, referring to the intermeshed finances of the College and the University. “We need to craft a way out that preserves the University as well as Antioch College as world-class institutions. We should now be able to get beyond the ‘Us’and ‘Them’ character of our dialog.”
Before coming to Yellow Springs, Rick Daily and former Antioch College President Steve Lawry met with long-time Antioch donors Kay and Leo Drey and members of their family to thank them for their extraordinary support in the last few years, which kept the College alive. Rick reported that he was deeply moved by the Dreys, the depth of their commitment to each other and to their family, as well as their pivotal support to the College in a time of crisis. The Dreys welcomed further discussions about supporting fundraising efforts for the continuation of Antioch College.