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Date: 8/19/2009 to 9/19/2009
Christian Feuerstein ’94

John Fleischman ’71 is a former Record editor who is now the science writer for the American Society for Cell Biology and a magazine freelancer whose work appears in Discover, Muse, and Air & Space Smithsonian. He has written Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science and Black & White Airmen. In addition to writing for science publications, Fleischman was a senior editor at Yankee and Ohio magazines. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and a greyhound named Psyche.

Date: 8/19/2009 to 9/19/2009
Christian Feuerstein ’94

Judith Baskin, Knight Professor of Humanities, is Department Head and also directs the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Oregon. Professor Baskin is the President of the Association for Jewish Studies. A recipient of the Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University in 1976, she taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1976-88, and at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she was Chair of the Department of Judaic Studies from 1988-2000. Dr. Baskin is the author of Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002) and Pharaoh’s Counsellors: Job, Jethro and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (1983). Her edited volumes include Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, now in its second edition (1998), and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994).

Date: 8/18/2009 to 9/18/2009
OBERLIN — Few couples lived life so passionately as Shirley R. Johnson and her husband Douglas R. Johnson.

Their romance — and commitment to social ideals — lasted more than seven decades until Douglas Johnson died Friday at the age of 92.

Date: 8/17/2009
Dr. John McLain Rinehart, composer, concert pianist and professor, died
peacefully at age 72 surrounded by family and loved ones on Tuesday,
August 4th in Atlanta, GA. He will be remembered by family and those
close to him for his dry wit, huge smile and enormous appetite for
living life to its fullest, but most importantly to him he will be
forever remembered for his legacy as a truly gifted composer of modern
classical works ranging from the piano to symphony orchestra, and as a
gloriously talented and electric classical concert pianist.

Date: 8/13/2009 to 9/13/2009
Years ago I received a postcard from the Alumni office that showed an old DC highway with a traffic jam of model T’s.   The caption was, “The Antioch Road Show is coming to a town near you.”  For some reason it certainly got my attention and made me laugh. The other postcard that made me laugh at that time was two 1950s era co-eds struggling and lugging a trunk down Birch Hall – I guess that’s just another version of the Antioch Road Show!

Date: 8/13/2009 to 9/13/2009
The mood at the Greene County Probate Court in lovely Xenia, Ohio, was
friendly today as lawyers for the Antioch College Continuation
Corporation (ACCC) and Antioch University addressed a brief filed with
the Court by Antioch University.  Judge Robert A Hagler reviewed a plan
to transfer endowment funds worth approximately $20 million from the
University to the “Continuation Fund, inc.” a non-profit that will
support Antioch College under its new Board.