Date: 5/21/2009 to 5/29/2009
By Diane Chiddister
Reprinted with permission from the YS News
The Buddhist Studies Program of Antioch Education Abroad, or AEA, offers something unique to young people, organizers believe. The young participants not only study Buddhism but live it, immersed in an exotic world as residents of a monastery among monks and nuns.
Date: 5/20/2009 to 6/28/2009
by Micah Canal ’08
Ask any Antiochian who ever spent a winter term in Yellow Springs among the red brick and gray mortar of our “campus home”, sometimes it’s hard to conceive of a time when the sun will shine again. The cold winds blows. The snow falls. The ice grows like formed glass on the skeletal branches of deciduous giants, and the low, monotonous sky shows no mercy.
As late March melts into April and the ground thaws, mud cakes the bottoms of shoes and tracks through the halls of buildings. Antiochians defiantly try to persuade the thermometer higher by wearing T-shirts when the little red line indicates that the temperature has crept above 45 degrees. Perhaps they succeed. When the first pioneering tree buds or blades of green grass emerge to gambol in the face of frosts certain to come once again, we make note and cheer them on despite the plain futility of their attempt.
Date: 5/20/2009 to 5/28/2009
by Micah Canal ’08
Ask any Antiochian who ever spent a winter term in Yellow Springs among the red brick and gray mortar of our “campus home”, sometimes it’s hard to conceive of a time when the sun will shine again. The cold winds blows. The snow falls. The ice grows like formed glass on the skeletal branches of deciduous giants, and the low, monotonous sky shows no mercy.
As late March melts into April and the ground thaws, mud cakes the bottoms of shoes and tracks through the halls of buildings. Antiochians defiantly try to persuade the thermometer higher by wearing T-shirts when the little red line indicates that the temperature has crept above 45 degrees. Perhaps they succeed. When the first pioneering tree buds or blades of green grass emerge to gambol in the face of frosts certain to come once again, we make note and cheer them on despite the plain futility of their attempt.
Date: 5/18/2009
Patricia Jane Parsons Connell died October 3, 2007 in the company of
family at her home at the Highland Springs retirement center in Dallas,
Texas. Pat was born in Detroit, Michigan on May 2, 1931 and grew up
in nearby Royal Oak. Pat attended Michigan State University and
graduated from Antioch College.
Date: 5/18/2009
JOSEPH EDWARD CONNELL October 8, 1930
February 27, 2009. Joe was born and raised in Niagara
Falls where he attended LaSalle High School and captained
its football team. After marrying his wife Patty (the
former Patricia Jane Parsons of Royal Oak, Michigan) and
graduating from Antioch College, Joe served as a naval
officer in Washington D.C. He then began a career in
public accounting with Coopers and Lybrand, where he rose
to become a partner while working in Detroit, Minneapolis,
and Des Moines.
Date: 5/14/2009 to 6/14/2009
By Matthew Derr
In recent months, I have continued to receive e-mail messages from
alumni and friends around the country with attached news articles
regarding the dire state of American higher education. In reading these
messages I am invited to consider the question: under these
circumstances, does Antioch College have the possibility of again
becoming a thriving College? Combine this with world economic chaos,
pandemic illness and armed conflict in more than a dozen countries and
it might appear an inauspicious time to restore a liberal arts college,
even a highly regarded one with accomplished alumni.