Category: Press

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Antioch College – Alumni eNews – June 25, 2009

Issue 1//Summer 2009

ACCC optimistic for college

Recent weeks have been like “the last leg of a relay race” that organizers hope will result in the creation of an independent Antioch College, leaders of the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or ACCC, said last week.

“My feeling is that we will be successful and that there will be an Antioch College with people on the campus again, doing the things the college should be doing,” Matt Derr, the ACCC’s chief transition officer, stated to the Antioch College Alumni Board, which met in Yellow Springs last weekend. Continued…

Antioch College Alumni Board announces 2009 election results

Eleven Antioch College Alumni Association board members were elected by Antioch alumni constituents via electronic ballots and paper ballots during the 2009 election. In addition, one person was appointed to a vacant board seat following the election. Fifteen Antiochians stood for election on the 2009 ballot. Continued…

Antioch Reunion News and Draft Schedule

Work Project Sept. 28 – Oct. 1: Helping to get the campus ready for Reunion 2009

Reunion 2009: Oct. 2 – 4, 2009

Out of the Twilight Zone: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Twilight Zone, as well as a full celebration of the future of Antioch College! (Pending announcement from the Taskforce.) Continued…

Antioch Review wins National Magazine Award

by Christian Feuerstein ’94

The Antioch Review has announced that it has been named a finalist in the essay category for the 44th Annual National Magazine Award. This is the first time the Review has been a finalist for this award. The winning essay is Vickie’s Pour House: A Soldier’s Peace by Maureen McCoy. For more information, visit the National Magazine Award website.

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Ask not what Antioch can do for you.

.But what you can do for Antioch. A call for volunteers!

Every day we get closer to the independence of Antioch College. It’s been a long and sometimes tedious process, but with the light at the end of the tunnel getting brighter all the time it’s important that we take stock, count our numbers, and figure out how we can all work together to ensure a sustainable future for our beloved College. Continued…

Dispatch from our past: The Reorganization Program for Antioch College

This dispatch comes from an informational packet that explains some of the reorganization of Antioch College in the early Morgan years. Thanks to Scott Sanders of Antiochiana.

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The Reorganization Program for Antioch College

Antioch College, located at Yellow Springs, Ohio, near Springfield and Dayton, was opened in 1852, being the first college in the United States to admit men and women on equal terms Horace Mann was President from the opening of the college until his death. The buildings furnish about 2 acres of floor space, are substantially built and with moderate repairs and equipment will reasonably meet the needs of 500 students. Continued…

Obituary: Mary Leuba ’50

Mary Leuba ’50

Former Yellow Springs resident Mary B. Leuba of Raleigh, North Carolina, died on March 24, 2007, from injuries sustained in a fall. She was 80 and was a 1950 graduate of Antioch College.

Mary was raised on a farm, near Weiser, Idaho, and was valedictorian of her high school graduating class. She earned a bachelors degree from Antioch College in 1950 and a masters of social work from the University of California at Berkeley in 1960. She first worked as a social worker with the juvenile court, and her work with disadvantaged youth led to her becoming a founding official of Partners of Wake County, where she was the senior counselor until her retirement in 1991.

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An Interview with Ted Bunch ’83

Antioch alumnus Ted Bunch ’83 is a national leader with A CALL TO MEN which works to end violence against women by facilitating a national movement of men who see that as their mission. All across the country anti-violence organizations benefit from Ted’s ideas and his passion.

Continued… Farewell to Chelsea Martens ’08

On Tuesday, June 16, the staff of the College Revival Fund gathered at the newly re-opened Corner Cone in downtown Yellow Springs to bid a fond farewell to Chelsea Martens ’08. Chelsea has served as Community Manager for most of two years and has been a beacon of stability, integrity, and hope for Antiochians everywhere as we walk together this hard road toward independence. Continued…

Obituary: David Landes ’65

Family and friends of David Landes will host a potluck celebration in his memory at the Glen Helen Building, Saturday, July 11, from 3 to 8 p.m. There will be music, stories, good food and good friends. All are welcome. Continued…

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Make your pledge or gift to the Fund for an Independent Antioch College Now.

We welcome your comments and submissions to this newsletter.

Aimee Lunde Maruyama ’96 Director of Alumni Relations and Development amaruyama@revivalfund.org

Steven Duffy ’77 Assistant Director of Alumni Relations sduffy@revivalfund.org

Micah Canal ’08 Internet Director mcanal@revivalfund.org

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Antioch Campus Listed on the 2009 List of Ohio’s Most Endangered Historic Sites

Released by The Ohio Preservation Alliance — read the press release here.

Springfield, Ohio (June 1, 2009) – Preservation Ohio has announced the 2009 List of Ohio’s Most Endangered Historic Sites. This important list highlights important pieces of Ohio history that face an uncertain future, and which deserve the attention of all Ohioans as remnants of the past that merit preservation.

Each year, Ohio’s statewide preservation organization searches for houses, commercial buildings, governmental structures, bridges, historic roadways, landscapes, downtowns, neighborhoods and other important pieces of Ohio history that face a potentially risky future. The list serves to highlight those properties which are both historically significant and endangered — whether it be by threats of demolition, long-term disinvestment or neglect, insensitive governmental action, uncertainty or indifference.

Nominations for this important list have come from individuals, preservation organizations, downtown and neighborhood revitalization organizations, historical societies, historic road associations, local governments and other entities. In each case, the property is reviewed for both its value to local, regional, state or federal history, and the nature of the threat involved. Special attention is paid to those sites facing a threat which typifies one facing many of Ohio’s historic resources. Properties remain on the list each year until such time as the threat is lessened.

Designation is similar to that given for the country’s most endangered historic sites by the National Trust for Historic Preservation — the primary benefit of the list being public attention and focus. The list has received substantial media attention, including coverage in all of Ohio’s major newspapers, as well as in magazines, lifestyle publications and local media.

Information about the Ohio’s Most Endangered Historic Sites program can be found on our website, located at: www.preservationohio.org. Beginning on June 2, a link to each listed property will be activated each day, with photos, videos and more to be included.

Antioch’s listing:

    Antioch College Historic District (Various stages beginning in 1854) – Yellow Springs, Greene County – A landmark of national educational history, the original campus has been closed for over a year with concerns over the future of its historic buildings, and awaits hopeful re-opening. This is the first year for Antioch College on the list.

View the entire list here.

Nonstop’s Big Adventure

By Diane Chiddister, Yellow Springs News — read the original editorial here.

It’s hard to overstate the ways that the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute has enriched this community. After Nonstop launched in September, Yellow Springs hummed all year long.

Has any small town experienced the sort of rich intellectual and cultural life that Yellow Springs enjoyed, thanks to Nonstop’s classes, workshops and Nonstop Presents? Every week brought new lectures, films or conversations on complex, contemporary issues, ranging from urban youth to peak oil, Hiroshima to feminist theory. Poets read poems, dancers danced, singers sang and many of us danced and sang right along.

Some of us stretched ourselves taking classes, whether studying photography or French or finally getting around to learning the history of jazz or the roots of the Middle East crisis. Along with encountering new information, we encountered each other in new ways.

Nonstop brought to town splendid young people, who serenaded us downtown with their drums and guitars, made unique fashion statements and taught us all the meaning of community when Hurricane Ike swept through. And especially, Nonstop allowed our friends and neighbors, the former Antioch College faculty and staff, to stay in their homes and community.

Nonstop gave many of us courage. As villagers despaired at the closing of Antioch College, Nonstop showed that a few people with outsized dreams, talents and caring can pull off almost anything, including creating a college from scratch.

It will be wonderful if alumni leaders succeed in their efforts to revive Antioch College. But it will be a huge mistake if those leaders don’t include the Nonstop community as valued partners in the revival. More than anything this year, Nonstop kept alive the unique values, gumption and spirit of Antioch College. That story is what sets this college apart.

Villagers have an opportunity to celebrate Nonstop at its commencement this Saturday. Thank you, Nonstop, for including this little town in your big adventure.