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Can Antioch College Return From the Dead Again? – New York Times
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Can Antioch College Return From the Dead Again?
New York Times The new president of Antioch College, Mark Roosevelt (far right) with his new faculty — all six of them — and some staff members. By BILL DONAHUE The long corridors of Antioch Hall are dark. The fluorescent lights, perhaps 50 years old and never … Back to the books at Antioch College Antioch College in Ohio set to reopen |
‘Whoo Cooks For You’ for the birds
You might call it avian welfare, Social Security for the birds, funding the feathered, even banking for the beaked. Like many people, the disabled birds at the Glen Helen Raptor Center are out of a job and need support. Some are grounded temporarily, while others are permanent wards of the Glen. And while the birds do put in several hours a week, with the help of Raptor Center Director Bet Ross, educating visitors and students across the region about the beauty and importance of raptors in the natural world, the income doesn’t cover what it costs to operate their home.
If raptors can eat near the top of the food chain, surely those who support them have some right to do the same. The five celebrated chefs designing the Glen’s second annual Whoo Cooks for You? will have diners eating from the canopy this year to raise money for the Raptor Center. The event, featuring a six-course meal for locovores and old timey music from the Corn Drinkers, takes place on Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Outdoor Education Center. Tickets for $150 are still available but are limited.
While this weekend’s omnivorous guests are nibbling on the region’s finest cuisine, the birds will be enjoying their daily dose of frozen mice and voles. The price of a ticket will take care of one of the Raptor Center’s 30 resident birds for a day, or several of its 150–200 yearly itinerants, who need food, shelter, sometimes medical attention and a safe place to regain their ability to fly and perhaps survive in the wild.
The world may be a cruel place for humans, but it’s even crueller for raptors, only 20 percent of which survive their first year of life, according to Ross. For the past 40 years the Raptor Center has helped to boost that percentage by taking in hundreds of sick and wounded birds each year, rehabilitating them, and releasing about half back into the wild. Ross has led the operation for most of the last 25 years, and this past year brought new birds with new stories.
This year the Raptor Center saw a clutch of full-grown kestrels who had failed to fledge and were starving. Ross was able to save two of the four. In the spring she saw a red-shouldered hawk that had suffered head trauma in a hail storm. It was a full week before he could be released. And in January someone brought a whole box of puffy white baby owls that had fallen out of their nest. The saddest story this year was the young eagle from Eastwood Lake that flew into a power line and crashed to the ground. The large raptor suffered a broken leg and breastbone and did not survive. But Ross focuses on the bright side of that story, as she is apt to do, which resulted in DP&L’s decision to secure all the poles and power lines around the lake for the birds.
While the rehabbed birds are mostly caged in the woods away from people, the resident birds serve an educational purpose, allowing visitors to observe them up close next to informational signs about their habitat and behavior. This year’s Whoo Cook’s for You?, named after the call of the barred owl, will help build new caging to replace all of the center’s signage. The vision, according to Glen project manager Ann Simonson, is to eventually communicate the information through a smart phone application with the sound of the bird calls and links to other Web sites and other nature centers in the region.
It is one of the Glen’s goals to become more tech-savvy to increasing outreach on a tighter budget. Technology is the way to reach the younger generations, who already connect to the world through digital media every day. Simonson hopes that the digital tools will help kids dig into their interest in the Glen, and link to related sites on the Internet as well as each other to deepen their knowledge and awareness of the natural world.
“Kids want that kind of interaction, and if their experience at the Raptor Center is good, people will donate and pass on the connection to their kids and their friends,” Simonson said.
Sunday’s experience should be a memorable, and flavorful one. The meal will start with appetizers prepared by the Winds Café chefs Mary Kay Smith and Kim Korkan, a plated first course of Peruvian fish tapas by Sidebar chef Margo Blondet, and a dessert of Grand Marnier sabayon from Doug McGregor of Seasons Bistro. The Meadowlark’s Elizabeth Wiley is preparing the main course of succulent braised turkey thighs with succotash and spicy tomato salsa. Vegetarian options are available upon request. Additional courses will be prepared by Carrie Walters of Dorothy Lane Market. The event is made possible by these chefs, the Ruth B. & Thomas Mackey Charitable Trust at Schwab Charitable Fund, and Orion Organics.
The event will begin with a special tour of the Raptor Center and presentation by the center’s staff, followed by the Corn Drinkers and a drawing for a chance to win a gift certificate to each of the restaurants. To R.S.V.P., call 937-903-1762 ext. 101 or e-mail asimonson {at} glenhelen(.)org .
Oscar-winning actor Cliff Robertson dies at 88
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Oscar-winning actor Cliff Robertson dies at 88
The State After the war, he attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and worked briefly as a reporter for a daily newspaper in Springfield, Ohio. With thoughts of becoming a playwright, he moved to New York City, where he was advised that the best way … |
Antioch College adds to alumni relations team
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – September 10, 2011 – Manicka Thomas, a former Dayton public school site coordinator, joins Antioch College as an alumni relations officer for events and communications. Thomas’ appointment is effective Monday, September 12.
Working with Alumni Relations Director Stacey Wirrig, Thomas will provide support to the planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive alumni relations program with the goal of building alumni participation, affinity, and support.
Thomas was most recently a neighborhood site coordinator at the Fairview Pk-8 School in Dayton. There she served on the principal’s executive team and managed the contributions of community partners bringing programs and activities to the school. She was also the liaison between school staff, external organizations, and the community in the school’s service area.
A licensed social worker, Thomas has been a case worker at Miami Valley Child Development Centers, a resident advisor at the Dayton Job Corp Center, and a child welfare caseworker with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Thomas has a bachelor's of social work from Freed-Hardeman University and a master's in social work from The Ohio State University.
About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org
Scott Frasure is Antioch College’s new vice president for finance
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – September 9, 2011 – Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt has hired Scott Frasure as the College’s new vice president for finance/chief financial officer. Frasure has more than twenty years of experience in helping organizations achieve strategic, operational and financial growth. His appointment is effective September 26.
Frasure will assume financial duties from Tom Brookey, who will continue as Antioch College’s chief operations officer. Brookey will oversee the crucial work of renovating the campus and will continue to manage key administrative functions such as human resources and information technology.
Reporting to the president, Frasure will have primary day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all financial-related activities of the College. This will include direct responsibility for accounting, finance, forecasting, strategic planning, job costing, deal analysis and negotiations, investor relationships, partnership compliance, private and institutional financing, risk management, capital planning, and investments.
“Scott’s appointment represents a necessary transition in the administration as we welcome our first class and move into the next critical phase of our re-emergence,” Roosevelt said. “I look forward to working with Scott and Tom to devise ways to maximize all of the resources we have to meet the needs of our students and campus community.”
Frasure brings extensive experience in helping organizations implement strategic initiatives to drive revenues and profitability, improve operating efficiencies, optimize organizational structure, manage risk, and implement financial controls and processes. Since 2008, Frasure has been a manager at Clark Schaefer Hackett & Company, a leading regional accounting and consulting firm that also serves as Antioch College’s independent auditor.
Prior to Clark Schaefer Hackett, Frasure was a principal at Frasure Creek Advisors, where he developed Sarbanes-Oxley compliance programs and strategic growth initiatives for entrepreneurial and Fortune 1,000 firms; was an associate at the Oliver Wyman Group, a leading global strategy consulting firm; held key finance and operational roles at Fortune Brands, a Fortune 500 consumer products company; and was an auditor at KPMG.
A certified public accountant, Frasure has an MBA (with honors) from the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a BS in accounting from Miami University.
About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org