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ANTIOCH COLLEGE REUNION 2010 TOXICITY REPORT – By Dan C. Shoemaker, Ph.D.

ANTIOCH COLLEGE REUNION 2010 TOXICITY REPORT

Antioch College’s 2010 Alumni Reunion celebrated the college’s past, but not its recent past. The 50th Anniversary year for the class of 1960, Reunion was organized to celebrate the participation of Antiochians in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and the institution’s long-standing commitments to equality and social justice. The Morgan Fellows organized a presentation on the historic Gegner Barbershop incident, and the Alumni Board inaugurated the Walter Anderson Award, to honor the outstanding achievements of Antiochians of color. Among the recipients of various other awards were longtime Antioch faculty Steve Schwerner and Al Denman. There is no doubt that the College’s legacy on matters of social justice is a proud one, worthy of celebration (although one must note that the frame around the events was not big enough to include subsequent efforts to promote social justice by Antiochians of a more recent vintage). And yet, as inspiring as the Reunion events were, I could not shake the feeling that I was at a Magic Show, in which the direction of my attention to Social Justice victories of the past served as a distraction from outstanding Social Justice deficits of the present and immediate future. There was very little open discussion of the fact that Antioch College is presently an institution without accreditation, a registrar, admissions staff, co-op staff, recognized student body, recognized tenured faculty, or existing structure for shared governance, despite the fact that the College is slated to reopen in fourteen months.

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Antioch alumni beautify campus

Antioch alumni beautify campus

Antioch alumni beautify campus

This week 65 Antioch College alumni and supporters flocked to campus for the annual pre-reunion work project. Amidst sounds of jackhammers, drills, saws and grass cutters, the dedicated crew planted flowers, restored benches, painted walls, repaired stairs and pruned trees.

“We all came this week because Antioch gave so much to us,” said work project organizer Penny Storm, class of ’65.

“Some of us are more able to do things physically than put money in the pot, though we need money in the pot,” said Mac Palmer of Missoula, Montana, who first proposed the annual work project in 1985. The idea is based upon work he did as an incoming Antioch freshman in 1955, when students helped build the Glen Helen Cedar Center at orientation.

Read more at http://ysnews.com/news/2010/06/antioch-alumni-beautify-campus

Call for Volunteers — Virtual Reunion — Help!

Begin forwarded message:

From: “Andrew \”Ozz\” Oswald” <ozz@ozyrobotics.com>

Date: June 12, 2010 6:59:54 PM EDT

Subject: Call for Volunteers — Virtual Reunion — Help!

Hello All,

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A group of alumni are putting together a virtual reunion website, where we hope to post a variety of community generated media during the reunion event.

The website will be at:

virtual.antiochcollege.org

To get an idea of what we are planning, check out the concept document at:

http://virtual.antiochcollege.org/plan/uploads/Main/concept_paper.pdf

And all planning and ideas are on a “wiki” at:

virtual.antiochcollege.org/plan

Consider it a working document — any ideas, and notes I get, are being put there for teams of people to stay in sync.  I’m trying to keep the planning for the project moderated, yet as transparent as is reasonable.

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We’re in up to our necks, and we need your help!

We need volunteers.  Rolling this out is a ton of work.  We need help with getting the web back-end in shape, organizing people, coming up with and implementing ideas, putting media on the web, setting up equipment, testing, figuring out what else we need to do, collecting media from people etc.

There is a rolling list of some of the stuff we need/will need at:

http://virtual.antiochcollege.org/plan/index.php/Main/ThingsToDo

Please sign up to help at:

volunteer@virtual.antiochcollege.org

and let us know when/if you will be at reunion, or the work project, your year (if applicable) and what sorts of things you are interested in helping with.

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We also need you to contribute your media!  If you will be at reunion please let us know if you will be:

1. Taking pictures

2. Writing

3. Recording audio

4. Shooting video

And if you will be doing it “casually”, or are in a more “journalist” mode.  If we have enough people, and they are up for it, then we may ask people to cover specific happenings.

We may have equipment to borrow.

Sign up at:

contrib@virtual.antiochcollege.org

So that we can get an idea of head count, and what kind of media you will produce.  🙂

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Thanks,

Andrew “Ozz” Oswald ’92

Community Meeting at Reunion

There will be a community meeting at reunion, planned for Friday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m. Tentative location is the steps of Antioch Hall, location subject to change.

Former community manager Deborah “Amina” Warfield has volunteered to co-moderate the meeting.

Some preliminary agenda items for the meeting:

How can the rebuilding Antioch College continue and improve upon its legacy of racial and social justice?
How can the college and the board pro tem improve the transparency of their communications?
How can the college maintain its legacy of community governance and meaningful participation in decision making?
How can the college develop more substantive volunteer opportunities?
What are the college’s responsibilities to the students, faculty and staff of the college when it was closed, and of the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute?
Introduction of the Antioch Community Student Union.

Some of the people who have volunteered to organize the meeting are:

Lincoln Alpern ’11, Antioch Community Student Union
Matthew H. Baya ’92, Community Manager 92-93
Michael Casselli ‘87
Art Dole ‘46, co-organizer Downeast Maine Chapter
Jonny Estes, Antioch Community Student Union
John Hempfling, Antioch Community Student Union
Chad Johnston ‘01, Alumni Board member elect
Ed M. Koziarski ‘97, Chicago chapter co-organizer
Foster Neill ‘07
Susan Opotow ‘65, Alumni Board member
David Renz ‘92
Travis Sanford ’94, Alumni Board member
Don Wallis ‘60, Alumni Board member
Deborah “Amina” Warfield ’92, Community Manager 92-93
J.D. Wood ‘88, New York Chapter co-chair

If you’d like to get involved or discuss the agenda for the meeting, please feel free to post to the ACAN list, acan or email Ed M. Koziarski. To post to ACAN, you need to subscribe