Its Time to Celebrate! Alumni Secure Agreement for College

Antioch University and Antioch College Continuation Corporation Reach Accord – Historic Agreement –

Ann Arbor, MI–With support from the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), the boards of Antioch University and the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (ACCC) each unanimously voted in favor of a set of definitive agreements for the creation of an independent college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, including the transfer of the campus and endowment. Once all conditions are met, the transfer will occur in late summer.

In June 2007, the Board of Trustees for Antioch University declared financial exigency at Antioch College and suspended operations one year later with the plan to reopen the College in the future with alumni support. For the past year the GLCA’s president, Richard Detweiler, assisted a Taskforce composed of alumni representatives and trustees as it negotiated the details accepted by both boards in this agreement. Detweiler said “An enormous amount of work, done in a spirit of shared commitment and good will, was exhibited by all of the members of the Taskforce. The path to this outcome was long and complicated, and while there were discouraging moments, they never gave up.”

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Obituary Edith Elinor King ’37

Date: 7/9/2009

Edith Elinor King died on June 29. She was 95.

Edith was born in Charleston, S.C., daughter of Harold Davis King and Edith Etta Thompson King. She grew up in Baltimore. Her father was commissioner of lighthouses for the United States.

Edith came to Yellow Springs in 1932 to attend Antioch College, where she earned her degree in psychology in 1937. While an Antioch student, Edith christened the lighthouse ship Nantucket. Her photo adorned the bulkhead. Fifty years later, the Nantucket Historical Society invited her back to rechristen the ship.

Nora S. Newcombe ’72, An Expert in Cognitive Development

Date: 7/9/2009 to 8/6/2009

by Christian Feuerstein ’94

Nora S. Newcombe, Ph.D. , is a Professor of Psychology at Temple University and PI of the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC), headquartered at Temple and also involving Northwestern, the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania as primary partners. A nationally recognized expert on cognitive development, Dr. Newcombe’s research has focused on spatial development and the development of episodic and autobiographical memory. Her work has been federally funded by NICHD and the National Science Foundation over 20 years.  She is the author of numerous scholarly chapters and articles on aspects of cognitive development, and the author or editor of three books, including Making Space: The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning (with Janellen Huttenlocher) published by the MIT Press in 2000. Recent honors include the George Miller Award and the G. Stanley Hall Awards from APA, the Award for Distinguished Service to Psychological Science, also from APA, and the Women in Cognitive Science Mentor Award. She has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the Society of Experimental Psychologists.

Antioch Reunion 2009 News

Date: 7/9/2009
Michael Heffernan ‘96

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

Ever since the great news about the future of Antioch College came out last week, my in-box has near exploded with questions regarding Reunion 2009. Glad to see such a high level of interest! Let’s see if we can’t answer some of the more frequently-asked questions below:

Chapter News:

Date: 7/9/2009 to 7/23/2009
On Saturday, June 27, members of the Southeast Michigan Antioch Chapter responded to an invitation from the Detroit Chapter of the Spellman College Alumnae Association to represent Antioch  at “Song for Coretta,” a play by Detroiter and Spellman Professor Author Pearl Cleage in honor of our beloved alumna Coretta Scott King.  Alumni Board members Tendaji Ganges and Terry Blackhawk were joined by former Antioch Professor of Literature Yates Hafner and his wife Gail and introduced before the performance at the Charles Wright Museum of African American History.

ACCC Gives Thanks to the Village

Date: 7/9/2009 to 7/23/2009

Reprinted with permission from the Yellow Springs News

On July 1 the Antioch College Continuation Corporation Board Pro Tempore approved a resolution of appreciation to the village, including the intention to create a “Yellow Springs Day” each year, at which time students, faculty and staff would contribute volunteer labor to the village. According to the resolution, the work would take place each September on a mutually agreed upon day.

ACCC Chief Transition Officer Matthew Derr presented the resolution to Village Council at Council’s meeting Monday, July 6.