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Date: 6/4/2009 to 6/25/2009
Lee Montgomery is the author of The
Things Between Us, A Memoir (Free Press, August 2006), Whose World Is
This? Stories (University of Iowa Press, September 2007), and Searching
for Emily: Illustrated (Nothing Moments Press, October 2007). The
Things Between Us received the 2007 Oregon Book Award in creative
nonfiction and Whose World Is This? the 2007 John Simmons Iowa Short
Fiction Award. Kirkus Reviews called The Things Between Us “damn near
perfect.”

Date: 5/29/2009 to 6/5/2009
The College Revival Staff has been working the phones over the last two weeks calling alumni who donated or pledged to support an Independent Antioch College back in 2007, and asking them to reaffirm their support. So far the alumni have really come through, pledging over $180,000 in the past two weeks.  According to CRF Executive Director Risa Grimes, “The success of the phone campaign and the commitment of alumni was a real shot in the arm for the fundraising staff who have been working overtime to raise funds for the Fund for an Independent Antioch College since the Letter of Intent was signed in January.”

Date: 5/27/2009 to 6/27/2009
by Christian Feuerstein ’94

Martha Tod Dudman ’74 was born in St. Louis, Missouri; grew up in Washington, DC; and went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She moved to Maine in 1975, first to Little Cranberry Island, and then to Northeast Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, where she raised her son and daughter and where she still lives, today. 

Dudman served as president and general manager of a group of radio stations in Ellsworth and Bangor for 10 years, and then as a professional fundraising consultant for Maine non-profits. She was President of the Maine Association of Broadcasters and President of the Bangor Rotary, and is a Paul Harris Fellow. She is currently Vice Chair of the Northeast Harbor Library and a director of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. She recently received the Deborah Morton Award at the University of New EnglandShe is the author of four books: Dawn (Puckerbrush Press, 1989), Augusta, Gone (Simon & Schuster, 2001), Expecting to Fly (Simon & Schuster, 2004) and Black Olives (Simon & Schuster, 2008). Kirkus Reviews said of Black Olives: “A story delivered with clarity, elegance and the oomph of lived experience.”

Augusta, Gone was winner of the 2002 Books for a Better Life Award and was released as a Lifetime television film in 2006.

Date: 5/27/2009 to 6/27/2009
Martha Tod Dudman ’74 was born in St. Louis, Missouri; grew up in
Washington, DC; and went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
She moved to Maine in 1975, first to Little Cranberry Island, and then
to Northeast Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, where she raised her son
and daughter and where she still lives, today.