Wendy Ewald ‘74 Focuses Her Lens on the World, Co-op Education

Date: 8/13/2009 to 9/13/2009
Wendy Ewald has collaborated with children and adults around the world, working in communities in Labrador, Appalachia, Colombia, India, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Holland, Mexico, Canada, North Carolina, and New York. She encourages her students to use cameras to create individual self-portraits and portraits of their communities and to articulate their dreams and hopes while working with her in visual and verbal collaboration.

2009 Work Project Shaping Up to be a Great Success

Date: 8/13/2009 to 9/12/2009
With the news of Independence still ringing in the ears of Antiochians
nationwide, it’s no surprise that there is eager interest in the 2009
Reunion and the pre-Reunion Work Project.  For a week before the
Reunion officially begins on October 4, Alumni from many generations
will descend on campus and engage in a variety of work projects to help
restore the campus and prepare for reunion.

Obituary: Egons “Tony” Tons ’53

Date: 8/5/2009 to 9/12/2009
Egons “Tony” Tons, 84, of Ann Arbor, Michigan,
passed away peacefully at his home on June 2, 2009. Tony was born on April 26,
1925 in Eleja, Latvia to Vilis and Irma (Gross)
Tons on their family farm Druvas. During his late teens, he and his family
survived a fearful year under Soviet occupation. So, in 1944, during the German
occupation of Latvia,
he left his family to work for the German Air Force. He would not return for 48
years and never saw his parents again. After the war ended, Tony lived for
several years in refugee camps in Germany
until he received a scholarship to attend Antioch
College in Yellow Springs, OH.
There he met and fell forever in love with Susanne Weilbauer from Ecuador
(originally from Germany), and after graduating from Antioch College with his
Bachelors degree in 1953, they were married in Susanne’s home city of Quito,
Ecuador.

New Antioch College Web Site Launched!

Date: 8/4/2009 to 9/1/2009
The Antioch College Continuation Corporation just launched a new Antioch College Web Site
The site at antiochcollege.org contains details on the emerging independent Antioch College and includes job postings and applications for positions to be filled in the first round of hiring for the College.

For Job Postings navigate to:
http://www.antiochcollege.org/employment

Interview with Don Clark ’53

Date: 7/30/2009
Donald H. Clark is a writer, teacher, consultant and clinical
psychologist who has specialized in group and individual work with gay
people since 1968. His writing includes fiction, textbooks, and
articles for both professional journals and popular magazines. He is
the author of the best-selling, seminal book, Loving Someone Gay, now
in its fourth edition, as well as Living Gay and As We Are.


Sean Beaudoin ’92 talks Cheese, Outtakes, and Pool Cues at Antioch College

Date: 7/23/2009 to 8/23/2009
Sean Beaudoin lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter. His first book, Going Nowhere Faster, was published by Little, Brown in 2006. His new book, Fade To Blue will be out August 1 from Little, Brown, and his next, You Killed Wesley Payne is due Fall, 2010. Sean’s articles and short stories have been appeared in numerous publications, including the Onion, Glimmer Train, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Orleans Review, Narrative Magazine, Barrelhouse, Instant City, Bayou, Another Chicago Magazine, Bat City Review, Redivider, Ballyhoo, and the crime/noir anthology, Danger City.