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New website at WWW.ANTIOCHIANS.ORG

New www.Antiochians.Org WebsiteWe have begun deploying a brand new website at

http://www.antiochians.org/

Please go there and check it out. The old site at http://antiochians.org/ (note the lack of www in the address) will no longer be updated with any new information and is being kept up for archival purposes. Once relevant content has all been moved over this will be shut down.

Note – At this time the following other areas of the ‘old’ website are still active and in use:

and of course there’s all sorts of great stuff happening over at The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute http://nonstopinstitute.org/

See you on the new site.

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI BOARD RAISES $80,200 FOR NONSTOP LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTE

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

For Immediate Release

CONTACT:
Press

Yellow Springs, OH, October 25, 2008-Today, the Antioch College Alumni Board unanimously resolved to raise $255,000 by April 1, 2009 to fund the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute for the full academic year.

“We have pledged as a Board to raise an additional $255,000 needed to fund the full Nonstop program through June 30, 2009, because we know that the quality and creativity of the work being done here is important not only to the future of Antioch College, but also to the future of progressive liberal arts education in this country,” said Ellen Borgersen, Vice President of the Alumni Board.  “Members of our Board have collectively spent hundreds of hours with Nonstop faculty, students and staff, and we want all of the alums who have not been able to be here in Yellow Springs to know that the education being offered is academically rigorous and infused with Antioch’s core values: the commitment to experiential learning, to community as a laboratory of democracy, and to winning victories for humanity.”

To kick off the fundraising initiative, this weekend the Antioch College Alumni Board raised $80,200 for the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute from its own members in both cash and pledges.  That puts the Board over 60% of the way toward meeting its initial goal of raising of $135,000 by December 1, which will allow the Board to commit to funding Nonstop through June 30.   Borgersen said, “We all dug really deep because we wanted to demonstrate our enthusiastic support for the incredible work that the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute faculty and staff have already done, and their exciting plans for the Spring semester.”

“What we have seen this weekend is awe inspiring,” she continued.  “The Nonstop events have been incredibly rich, and to see current faculty and students interact with alums is to see that the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute really is the living heart and soul of Antioch College.

“It is critically important to keep the faculty engaged in teaching the Antioch College students of the near future as we await word from the task force that is working to separate Antioch College from Antioch University,” Borgersen concluded.  “I urge all alums who care about the future of Antioch College to give now, and to give generously, to support the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute.”
Since the University Board of Trustees announced the suspension of operations in June 2007, alumni across the country have rallied to the defense of their 156 year old alma mater. Alumni chapters have grown worldwide. The Alumni Board is continuing with its fundraising and planning efforts. For additional information on the Antioch College Alumni Association and the College Revival Fund, visit the Antioch College Alumni Association web site.

One to go

By now you’ve probably all heard about our visit from the winds of hurricane Ike.  They blew through Ohio on Sunday the 14th of September with gusts over 78 miles per hour uprooting tree’s, making missiles out of black walnuts, peeling back the roof of my 150 year old garage, and knocking out power to almost 2million Ohio residents.  Since that time we have ambled back in to the office from our dark homes to the office where power was restored on Wednesday 9/17.  Gradually, one by one, reporting a return to modern living.  Risa and Cheri were first, then Pam, then me, yesterday was Duffy’s day, and then there is Fred.  Day 10 and still no power for Fred. You wouldn’t know it to see him, Fred, ever patient, making coffee on his grill before coming in for a day of work with us.  Seven down one to go.