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Reception to honor Roosevelts

Antioch College is hosting a reception on Thursday, Dec. 3, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Herndon Gallery to honor College President Mark Roosevelt and Dorothy Roosevelt, who oversaw the construction of the Wellness Center. The Yellow Springs community is invited.

Roosevelt is leaving his job the end of December, and the family is moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he will be president of St. John’s College. He is the first president of the revived Antioch College and has been in that position for five years.

On Thursday, an optional campus tour will begin at 2:30 p.m. from the second floor of McGregor Hall. Roosevelt and College Board of Trustees Chair Francis Horowitz will make remarks at 5 p.m. during the reception.

‘FOUND Magazine’ at Antioch College

Antioch College played host to Peter Rothbart, co-editor of FOUND Magazine, on Friday, March 8. Rothbart spoke in South Gym, sharing items published in the magazine which, true to its name, prints found items, most of which are submitted by readers. Letters, cards, photos, lists, notes, drawings, signs, memos and more, all misplaced or left behind by their original author or recipient, find their way into the pages of FOUND Magazine.

The contents of FOUND‘s print and web publications are often hilarious, because almost anything is funny without context. But aside from this, they’re like an object lesson in empathy: the first response, when finding a letter or to-do-list blowing by on the sidewalk, especially one that seems bizarre or unrelatable, is to try to demystify it, to put oneself in the author’s shoes. Rothbart, on occasion, further imagines the stories behind some of the magazine’s found content by writing songs based on select letters, notes, etc., borrowing from the original material and adding his own ideas about the events surrounding its composition.

An audio excerpt of Rothbart’s presentation, including an original song inspired by found material, is available below.

FOUND Magazine maintains an online archive at www.foundmagazine.com . Print copies of the magazine, which is published irregularly, are also available at the website.

Chicagoans on the Antioch Experience

Kelly Connolly ’03 presents video interviews about the Antioch College experience with alumni Sandy Macnab ’65, David Nekimken ’68, Jennifer Peters ’78, Mark Reynolds ’80, Nic Ruley ’02, and Robin Sheerer ’63.

Chicagoans on the Antioch Experience

College president Mark Roosevelt and Italian dinner 3/19, seeking chapter organizers, Springer doc 3/17

Mark Roosevelt Meet & Greet

The Antioch College Chicago Alumni Chapter
Presents a meet & greet with new college president Mark Roosevelt
And highlights from Kelly Connolly’s alumni video interviews

Saturday, March 19, 2-4:30 p.m.
Roosevelt Library
1101 W. Taylor St., Chicago
2nd Floor Meeting Room

Taylor Street exit on 90/94, UIC/Racine stops on Blue Line
Small parking lot in back, metered street parking

Dinner after at Tufano’s Restaurant, 5 p.m.
1043 W. Vernon Park Place
3 blocks north of the library

Please rsvp (yes only)
Specify whether you’re attending the meeting, dinner, or both.

Seeking New Chapter Organizers

Three of the four Chicago chapter organizers will step down this year and we are seeking new organizers to step up. The chapter will choose new organizers at a meeting on 5/14, details to be determined. If you’d like to nominate someone, including yourself, feel free to post to this list, or email current organizers:

Kelly Connolly
Jim Hobart
Ed M. Koziarski
Robin Sheerer

Brian Springer’s The Disappointment: Or, The Force of Credulity 3/17

Brian Springer, a friend of Antioch and Nonstop, cocreator of The Antioch Papers and partner of Antioch and Nonstop media arts professor Chris Hill, screens his documentary The Disappointment: Or, The Force of Credulity, about his search for buried treasure on his family’s Missouri farm, including 16th century Spanish gold, Civil War silver, and the diary of anarchist Kate Austin. Springer and Hill will both be there.

Thursday 3/17 at 6 p.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.

“Springer interweaves the stories surrounding these treasures with those of his family to spin a tale of spirit possession, Napalm, Indian massacres, early American opera, fanatical obsessions, 200 tons of dirt, and the way mothers try to protect their families from wounds that never heal.”

Engage in designing the future for Yellow Springs schools

Tonight at Antioch University Midwest, the Yellow Springs school district will launch “The Future of Education” lecture series aimed at stirring the community toward reinventing the village’s public school model. The series begins with a presentation by The Knowledgeworks Foundation, an innovator in 21st century learning models. Knowledgeworks will present cutting-edge learning models and novel and successful programs to recruit, retain, compensate and evaluate top-notch teachers. The group will also present radical models of school financing. The session is based on Knowledgeworks’ research, and will include time for questions and discussions.

The Future of Education series is a collaborative effort of the Yellow Springs school district and the Antioch College Morgan Fellows to stimulate the creation of the district’s 10-year strategic plan, known as the Class of 2020 Initiative. Other events in the series include:

Saturday, Feb. 12, 3–5 p.m. Herndon Gallery South Hall: Presentation by Antioch College alumna Deborah Meier and Shadia Alvarez. Meier is a MacArthur Genius Award winner who had written six books on progressive education during her 40-year teaching tenure. Alvarez is an assistant principal at the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science in the Bronx, where she plans to start a new high school in 2013.

Saturday, March 5, 3–5 p.m. Herndon Gallery: Presentation by Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt, former Massachussetts state representative and superintendent of Pittsburgh schools. He is partly responsible for the Pittsburgh Promise and the 1993 Education Reform Act.

Saturday, March 12, Herndon Gallery: Presentation by Adam Howard, associate professor of education at Colby College and author of Educating Elites: Class Privilege and Educational Advantage and Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling.