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Coretta Scott King

Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – April 11, 2010 – The public is invited to an event celebrating the life and work of Antioch College alumna Coretta Scott King on her birthday, April 27, at the College’s Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom. The Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds, an award-winning journalist, activist, author, spiritual leader and educator, will deliver a public address on King’s legacy at 7:00 p.m.

Presented jointly by the College and the African American Cross-Cultural Works, the event will also feature live music performances and readings from King’s speeches and interviews. A reception will follow the scheduled program.

One of the most celebrated champions of human and civil rights, Coretta Scott King, in partnership with her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ignited democracy movements worldwide. For more than forty years, she traveled extensively as a messenger of peace, justice and social action. Notably, in 1974, she formed and co-chaired the National Committee for Full Employment, formed the Coalition of Conscience (1983), and co-convened the Soviet-American Women’s Summit (1990). In 1969, she became the founding president, chair and chief executive officer of The King Center, the first institution built in memory of an African American leader. As a lifelong advocate for non-violence and coalition building, King’s legacy will continue to serve as an example for years to come.

King enrolled at Antioch College in 1945 as part of the college’s Interracial Education Scholarship program, which had recruited her sister, Edythe, two years earlier. Though she left the College in 1949, she remained connected to her alma mater, returning in 1965 when her husband delivered the commencement address, and again in 1967 to receive the baccalaureate degree that she should have received in 1951. She delivered the commencement address in 1982 and in 2004 accepted the Horace Mann Award from the Alumni Association for her determination to promote nonviolent social change. In 2005, she honored the College by allowing it to use her name on a Center for Cultural and Intellectual and Freedom. The Coretta Scott King Center opened on March 27, 2007.

Reynolds has more than 30 years of experience as a journalist/writer with some of the major media institutions in America, including Ebony, Essence, and The Chicago Tribune. She was also a founding editor at USA Today, where she served on the editorial board and wrote a column for more than 13 years. Today she is a religion columnist for the National Newspaper Publishers Association and is president of Women’s Christian Action Network (WCAN), a new multi-media TV channel that will be launched this year. Her television appearances include guest spots on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Politically Incorrect.

Her books include: Jesse Jackson: America’s David, an unauthorized biography; And Still We Rise: Interviews with 50 African-American Role Models; No I Won’t Shut-Up! 30 Years of Telling It Like It Is; Out of Hell & Living Well: Healing From the Inside Out. In August 2007, she released her fifth book, Doing Good in the Hood: The Life, Leadership & Legacy of Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Reynolds earned a bachelor’s in journalism at The Ohio State University, master’s in divinity at Howard University, and doctorate in ministry at the United Theological Seminary in Dayton. She received honorary doctorates in humane letters from both Shenandoah University and Ohio State. Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. ordained her an elder at the Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church in 1995. For more information contact Morgan Fellow, Anne Bohlen, at 937286-8455 or abohlen@antiochcollege.org.

About Antioch College
A private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College will offer a four-year, undergraduate residential experience to a new class of students beginning in the fall of 2011. 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 of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is now completely independent of Antioch University, the multi-campus system it created.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

 

 

 

 

 

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – April 5, 2010 – For the third consecutive year, The Antioch Review has been named a finalist for a National Magazine Award, the highest honor for magazines published in the United States.

Nominated in the Essays & Criticism category for William Giraldi’s “The Physics of Speed” (fall 2010), the Review competes with The American Scholar, The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Virginia Quarterly Review.

The American Society of Magazine Editors will present the awards, known as the Ellies, on Monday, May 9, in New York City. The Ellies are considered the Oscars or Pulitzer Prize of the magazine publishing world.

The Antioch Review, now in its 70th year of continuous publication, is the smallest magazine nominated for a prize this year. It received its first nomination in 2009 in the essay category and was nominated for fiction in 2010.

About the Antioch Review
The Antioch Review, founded in 1941, is one of the oldest, continuously publishing literary magazines in America. The Review publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from emerging and established authors. Authors published in its pages are consistently included in Best American anthologies and Pushcart prizes. Robert S. Fogarty has served as its editor since 1977.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – March 28, 2011 – Following national searches, President Mark Roosevelt has appointed three scholars to tenure-track faculty positions at Antioch College. Appointments are effective Monday, July 18.

Antioch faculty will teach, serve as academic advisors, and provide departmental leadership as the College grows to accommodate a growing student body.

Roosevelt accepted the recommendations of search committees comprised of former and emeriti faculty as well as alumni and friends of the college who are subject-matter experts or serve as members of faculty at other liberal arts colleges.

Candidates were assessed on their subject-matter expertise; ability to teach their subjects; ability to interact with students, faculty colleagues and community members; ability to collaborate effectively; knowledge of and comfort with the three C's of classroom, co-op and community; and their interpersonal style and ability to engage in effective discussion.

The first three professors at the independent Antioch College are:

Chemistry

David C. Kammler, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington
A.B., Chemistry, Cum Laude, Harvard University
Dr. Kammler was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Antioch College from 2003-2008. When the College closed, he accepted a professorship at Wilberforce University, where he taught chemistry and biochemistry. His recent publications and presentations include an article in Ceramics Technical and a presentation at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. He has received several teaching awards, including the Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching from the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE). Kammler also consults regularly for private individuals and firms in the medical and biotechnology fields.

Cultural Anthropology

Kristen Adler, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Ph.D. Candidate, University of New Mexico
M.A., Anthropology, University of Denver
B.A., Anthropology; Certificate in Latin American Studies, Cum Laude, Colorado State University Adler completed her doctoral coursework at the University of New Mexico, where she has defended a dissertation titled “Making Modernity: Ideological Pluralism and Political Process in Zinacantán.” She has worked in indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico since 1998 and focuses on issues of globalization, neoliberalism and the politics of ethnicity. She has presented on her research and field work at the national conferences of the American Anthropological Association and the American Society of Ethnohistory. Adler is currently a teaching associate at the University of New Mexico and previously served as an assistant editor at the University of New Mexico Press. Since 2004, she’s taught anthropology at John Wood Community College and University of New Mexico.

Philosophy

Lewis Trelawny-Cassity, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy, Binghamton University
M.A., Philosophy, Binghamton University
M.A., Political Science, Boston College
B.A., Environmental Policy, Warren Wilson College
Trelawny-Cassity’s areas of philosophic interest are the history of philosophy, political philosophy, and environmental ethics. He was appointed a Bradley Fellow at Boston College and received university-wide awards for excellence in both teaching and research at Binghamton. Trelawny-Cassity’s dissertation research focused on Plato's last work, the Laws, and he has published peer-reviewed essays in Polis and The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter and written book reviews for The Bryn Mawr Classical Review and The Classical Bulletin. At Binghamton, he participated in on-campus and community efforts to protect local parks and to increase public awareness of the risks that unregulated drilling for natural gas poses to the environment and citizens of upstate New York.

About Antioch College
A private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College will offer a four-year, undergraduate residential experience to a new class of students beginning in the fall of 2011. 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 of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is now completely independent of Antioch University, the multi-campus system it founded.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – March 24, 2011 – The Johnstone Fund for New Music will present a concert performance of Igor Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale score and Kurt Vonnegut libretto in a contemporary music, theater, and dance presentation at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, in South Gym at Antioch College, One Morgan Place, Yellow Springs, OH 45387.

Based on a Russian folk tale, The Soldier’s Tale, also known as L'histoire du soldat, follows a deserting soldier who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for a book that predicts the future. The virtuosic score that Igor Stravinsky composed for The Soldier’s Tale in 1918 has been re-conceptualized many times. In 1993, novelist Kurt Vonnegut revamped the story to explore the life of Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier executed for desertion in World War II, and the first since the Civil War.

This performance was coordinated by nonprofit recital series Sunday at Central, features Columbus Symphony musicians, and is made possible by major funding from the Johnstone Fund for New Music. The ensemble features David Niwa, violin; Gary Wasserman, bass; Robert Jones, clarinet; Betsy Sturdevant, bassoon; Tom Battenberg, cornet; Rich Howenstein, trombone; Bill Lutz, percussion; and conductor Olev Viro. Collaborating with the musicians are area director and choreographer Rani Deighe Crowe, and Melissa Heston and their company of local dancers and actors.

Free parking is available behind the Olive Kettering Library, 260 E. South College Street.

About The Johnstone Fund for New Music
Columbus community leaders Jack and Zoe Johnstone founded the Johnstone Fund for New Music in 2008. It supports the continuing growth and vitality of new music and aims to position Central Ohio as a powerful incubator of this inventive art form. In addition to offering grants to commission the creation and performance of new works, the Fund inspires collaboration between composers and musicians. For more information, visit johnstonefund.org.

About Antioch College
A private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College will offer a four-year, undergraduate residential experience to a new class of students beginning in the fall of 2011. 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 of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is now completely independent of Antioch University, the multi-campus system it created.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

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Alexandra Kelley
The Johnstone Fund for New Music
alexandra477@me.com

The Yellow Springs Community Foundation (YSCF) has announced the names of ten Yellow Springs nonprofit organizations that will be recipients of grants to pay the direct labor costs of Antioch College students to work as interns under its Miller Fellowship Program during the 2011-2012 academic calendar.

The organizations are: Yellow Springs Arts Council, Yellow Springs Community Access TV, Glen Helen Ecology Institute, Home Inc., Yellow Springs Senior Citizens, Tecumseh Land Trust, Yellow Springs Tree Committee, WYSO, Yellow Springs Exempted Village School District, and YS Kids Playhouse.

Nick Boutis, Glen Helen Ecology Institute Director, said in his winning grant proposal: “In 1929, Glen Helen became part of the enlarged campus of Antioch College, and thus began an 80-plus year relationship of formalized work and academic opportunities in the Glen. … As efforts to resurrect Antioch College moved forward, Glen Helen Ecology Institute staff began to detail the co-operative work positions, course possibilities, and research opportunities that the Glen was suited to offer. “

The Miller Fellowship Program is funded by the Nolan J. and Richard D. Miller Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to support Antioch College students who engage in service for the benefit of the Yellow Springs community. The basic premise of the endowment is that it is meant to foster mutual respect between Antioch College and the Yellow Springs community.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – March 23, 2011 – State Senator Chris Widener (R-Springfield) and the Glen Helen Ecology Institute announced today that the state transportation budget, House Bill 114, will include a provision allowing for the creation of a Glen Helen Nature Preserve specialty license plate.

The state offers over 200 specialty license plates that include a picture designed by the organization and the name of the organization. Specialty plates are only authorized through legislation and can be bought when renewing or changing license plates. The Glen Helen plate costs $25, which includes a $15 donation to the Glen Helen Ecology Institute.

“The Glen is a special place in Greene County. People of all walks of life visit the preserve to learn about the natural history of our community, to experience the beauty of nature, or to exercise along the hiking trails,” Widener stated. “The specialty license plate will be a great promotional tool as well as provide additional donations to keep educational and conservational programs alive.”

The Glen Helen Ecology Institute initiated a license plate design contest last year. The new design, pending approval from the State Comptroller, will feature a design by the late-Ohio nature artist Charley Harper, who is well known for his wildlife artwork.

According to Executive Director Nick Boutis, “We are grateful for Senator Widener’s ongoing support of this legislation. Ohioans purchasing a Glen Helen license plate can feel good knowing that they are directly supporting our land conservation and environmental education efforts.”

Glen Helen is a 1,000-acre nature preserve of woods, waterways, prairies and fields laced with 25 miles of trails in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The grounds are open daily from dawn to dusk. The Glen Helen Ecology Institute is owned by Antioch College and exists to protect the Glen for present and future generations by engaging in land stewardship, education, community outreach and service and research.

Contact: Bradley Ingraham
Office: (614) 466-3780

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org