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Date: 8/24/2009 to 9/24/2009
During Reunion in Yellow Springs the first weekend in October, the Alumni Board will be meeting to finalize a slate for elections to fill board seats in 2010.  We are eager to know of anyone you might suggest who would be interested in running for the board, as well as any supporting information you can provide.

Date: 8/20/2009 to 9/20/2009
Emmy®-award winning Yellow Springs directors Julia Reichert ’70 and Steven Bognar debuted their latest documentary film, “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”, to a full house at the Schuster Performing Arts Center Wednesday, Aug. 19.

The film is about the Dec. 23, 2008, closing of the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio. In making the film, Reichert and Bognar spent hundreds of hours with the Moraine workers in the plant’s final weeks, days and hours.  1,600 former autoworkers and their family members were among the 2,200 attending the Dayton premiere. The film is produced by Home Box Office and is part of the HBO 09 Documentary Film Series. “The Last Truck” will air on HBO on September 7th, 2009, at 9 p.m. 

In 2007, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert ‘70 won an Primetime Emmy® for their documentary “A Lion in the House,” which followed children fighting cancer for five years. Bognar has shown four films at Sundance, including “Personal Belongings” and “Picture Day.” Reichert ‘70 has twice been nominated for a Best Feature Documentary Oscar®, for “Union Maids” and “Seeing Red.”

Date: 8/19/2009 to 9/19/2009
Dorothy Headley died at age 95 on July 28, 2009 after a short illness. She was born July 8, 1914 in Green Bay, Virginia. She attended Antioch College, Ohio, married Robert A. Muller, and lived in Detroit where she worked for the League of Women Voters, and as an interviewer for the Survey Research Center, Ann Arbor. After finishing an MSW at University of Michigan, she worked for McLean Hospital (psychiatric) in Belmont, MA.

Date: 8/19/2009 to 9/19/2009
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).