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Jewel Freeman Graham
Yellow Springs News Precious Jewel Freeman Graham, retired professor of social work at Antioch College, died at her home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on Nov. 30. She had celebrated her 90th birthday in May with a large family gathering. Jewel was born the sixth of seven … |
Reception to honor Roosevelts
Antioch College is hosting a reception on Thursday, Dec. 3, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Herndon Gallery to honor College President Mark Roosevelt and Dorothy Roosevelt, who oversaw the construction of the Wellness Center. The Yellow Springs community is invited.
Roosevelt is leaving his job the end of December, and the family is moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he will be president of St. John’s College. He is the first president of the revived Antioch College and has been in that position for five years.
On Thursday, an optional campus tour will begin at 2:30 p.m. from the second floor of McGregor Hall. Roosevelt and College Board of Trustees Chair Francis Horowitz will make remarks at 5 p.m. during the reception.
Antioch College names new president
Thomas Manley, current president of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, has been named the new president of Antioch College. (Submitted photo by Matthew Miller)
Thomas Manley, the current president of the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, has been chosen the new president of Antioch College. Dr. Manley will be the second president at the revived Antioch, following Mark Roosevelt, who is leaving the job at the end of his five-year contract on Dec. 31.
Manley will start his new position in March, 2016. Current Antioch College Vice President for Finance and Operations Andi Adkins will serve as interim president between December and March.
“Reading the search description, I was impressed again and again with the boldness of what was being imagined,” Manley stated in a college press statement released Wednesday, Nov. 18. “Here was a vision for transformational education that was value-based and pragmatic, intellectually demanding and experientially grounded. How could I not raise my hand to join in its success?”
Manley brings to the job more than 35 years of experience in education. At Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, where he’s been president since 2003, he is credited with leading a turnaround for that college into “Portland’s most well-rounded, diverse and most established arts institution,” according to the press release. The turnaround also included a campus expansion and the cultivation of the largest gift to an arts organization in Oregon’s history.
Before coming to PNCA, Manley spent 22 years at the Claremont Colleges in southern California, mainly at Pitzer, a small liberal arts college with an emphasis on social justice and social responsibility. There, he was a member of the faculty and also held several administrative positions.
A specialist in Japan, he has a bachelors degree in East Asian history and education from Towson University, a masters in Asian studies and a doctorate in education from the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif.
More than 200 applicants applied for the job, according to the press release, and Manley was selected by a 21-member search committee composed of college trustees, staff, students and alumni. The committee was headed by Malte von Matthiessen of Yellow Springs.
“I am thrilled — but not surprised — that we were able to attract Dr. Tom Manley as our next president,” Von Matthiessen said in the press release. “He is compatible with Antioch College values and traditions and I am convinced he is the right person to lead Antioch into a new era.”
Manley was impressed with not only the college’s historic traditions and values, but its path since reopening in 2009. He described that path as “distinctive and brave.”
“American higher education — which has long been a beacon in the world — must seek its reinvention and I am among those who believe Antioch is doing just that. By embracing entrepreneurial opportunities and innovative strategies in its own redesign, the college is stepping forward to lead once again,” he said in the press release.
Manley is married to Susanne Hashim and they have a young daughter, Chedin. He also has a son, Dashiell; a stepdaughter, Karina; and a stepson, Johan.
A longer story on Manley will be in next week’s paper, along with an interview with Mark Roosevelt, the outgoing president of the college.
Dorothy L. Scott
(Photo by Axel Bahnsen)
Dorothy (“Dot”) Loveland Scott was born on Nov. 21, 1917, in Randolph, Vt., and raised in Burlington, Vt. Dorothy died peacefully on Nov. 4, 2015, after a short illness. She was just shy of her 98th birthday.
Dorothy came to Antioch College in 1935 where she met her future husband, Douglas Scott. She graduated in 1940 and they were married in 1941, just before Doug was drafted into the army. During the war they lived in Fort Knox, Ky., where they started their family.
In 1952 they moved back to Yellow Springs with their children, Sherraid, Margie, David and Andy. Dorothy began working at Antioch College in 1961 in the extramural (co-op) department, where she spent more than 20 years before retiring. In 1962–64, she returned to school and received a master’s degree in personal counseling from Miami University at Oxford, Ohio.
After retiring from Antioch College, Dorothy earned a certificate to teach English as a second language and embarked on a post-retirement career as a teacher of ESL in Fairborn and Yellow Springs.
Dorothy had a knack for taking interest in others and developed long-lasting friendships with many students she worked with through the years. She enjoyed visits from Antioch alums returning to Yellow Springs and served as an advocate and supporter for many of the Vietnamese and Cambodian families whom she met through ESL teaching.
Dorothy was an avid reader and tennis player. She began playing tennis at age 10 and enjoyed playing until she was 75 years old. In 1959, the Scotts bought a house on Allen Street that had a lot large enough to build a tennis court, which they did in 1961. The court was used by the entire community for weekend doubles with all ages and skill levels participating.
Dorothy was very active in the community, teaching tennis and swimming. She was also active in local and regional organizations and was a member of the Glen Helen Association, American Civil Liberties Union, Cooperative Education Association, Antioch Environmental Studies Center, the YS Community Children’s Center Board and the Outdoor Adventure Girls.
She and Doug liked to travel to visit their far flung children in Florida, Oregon, North Carolina, Minnesota, Hawaii and Japan. She also traveled with friends and family to Japan, China, Wales, Scotland and Italy. Dorothy’s last trip to Hawaii was in 2013 at age 95 when she went to Hanalei, Kauai. She and Doug had spent many winters there, staying at Mahamoku, the historic vacation house owned by the Grove Farm Museum. After Doug passed in 2008, Dorothy continued to live independently at the house on Allen Street until last May, when she moved into Friends Care Community.
In addition to her children, Dorothy leaves her “honorary daughter” Kim Rohmann; her sister, Marian; three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and many other relatives and longtime friends who loved her and will miss her.
There is no memorial service planned at this time. Donations to Antioch College or YS Library Association in her name would be appreciated.
Ohio students are staging a food revolution in their own cafeterias – WKSU News
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Ohio students are staging a food revolution in their own cafeterias
WKSU News He sources from the Antioch College Farm, built four years ago on the school's former golf course, and from nearby farmers and ranchers. “Keener Walnut Grove Farm grows all of our beef, and a neighbor of his grows most of our pork. I have a couple … |
Antioch housing project moves forward
The Antioch College Board of Trustees announced this week it will take the next step toward developing its vision for the Antioch College Village, an intergenerational housing project. Based heavily on the feedback of Yellow Springs residents and the college community, current plans call for the phased construction of 160 housing units open to the community for rent or purchase, likely at a mix of market-rate and affordable housing. The project requires a sizable upfront investment, but a feasibility study has suggested that it would provide the college with a consistent revenue stream in the future.
Antioch College Village units will further Antioch’s embrace of modern sustainability best practices. Houses will be connected units existing virtually off-the-grid with their own solar energy and water filtration systems. Units will be open to families and individuals representing all age groups. The Board will establish a task force with the intent of soliciting equity and development partners for this undertaking. The Board also intends to approach philanthropic entities that have expressed interest in projects of this kind to provide seed money.
Read more about the Campus Master Plan and Antioch College Village Charrette here.
A full story on upcoming developments will appear in the Oct. 29 issue of the Yellow Springs News.