Join your fellow Oregon Antioch Alumni on Sunday, August 19th from 5-8 p.m. for a BBQ Potluck and showing of the Antioch Adventure Part I (1967) and 2 (1991)!

BBQ will be held at the home of Bonnie Messinger, 4648 SW 39th Dr., off Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy. in Portland Accessible by Trimet Bus 54 and 56.

To attend, please RSVP to Kristi Ketchum, kristiketchum or 503-887-1413. Invitation to BBQ

Driving: west of Dosch, east of 45th–there’s a light at 39th Drive–you can only turn one way. .4 miles up SW 39th Drive on the right–plenty of parking on the street. 503-768-9065.

Dear Antiochian:

We are excited to hear about the many upcoming events during the International Support Antioch College Weekend August 17-19. What you are doing is very valuable in our efforts to save Antioch College. To help you prepare for your event, we have included a Basic Guide, or Talking Points, about the College Revival Fund, a pledge card, both of which may be copied for distribution, and a press release template. Many of us are recording our events through video and still photography as well.

This weekend is a celebration of all things Antioch College. It is important, not only to raise money for the College Revival fund, but to also garner media attention for our struggle, to show the Board of Trustees that there is a very active, involved Alumni Association worldwide - and, to have fun! So many of us have been giving countless hours in volunteer work and organizing.

In our effort to gain national attention, it is important that you please forward news about what your chapter is organizing to both the Chapters and Marketing sub-committees. Contact information is at the end of this communication.

As you are no doubt aware, the College Revival Fund was put in place at the historic 2007 Antioch College Reunion, to support the unanimous resolution of the Alumni Association to fight to keep the College open past its proposed closing of June 2008 (to see the full resolution, please visit Antiochians.org). We currently have over $625,000 in the College Revival fund and over $2,000,000 in expressions of intent. Let’s see how much more we can raise before the Board of Trustees meeting on August 25!

Thank you everyone for your time, effort, and passion for Antioch College. Let’s make this happen in a really big way and be ashamed to let it die!

In solidarity,

Kristen Pett ‘90

Alumni Board Member

Press Release Template CRF Pledge Card Revival Fund Talking Points

Dear Fellow Antioch College Supporters,

New Jersey alumni met on July 29 and decided upon the following statement and action plan, which we hope others will want to replicate:

The Antioch University Board of Trustees will be meeting on August 25 and its leaders still publicly insist they will not reverse their decision to suspend operations of the College in Yellow Springs.

Despite the Alumni Association’s success at raising $625,000 since June 28, we believe many more alumni are holding back on contributing to the College because of uncertainty about whether those donations will go to an institution that upholds the core principles of Antioch.

We believe the majority of alumni are outraged by the Board of Trustees’ failure to adhere to Antioch’s longstanding practice of community governance in reaching the decision to close the College or to be properly transparent about the financial accounting that informed that decision. In addition, we believe that the critical financial support of alumni will not be there in four years if Board of Trustees has suspended operation of Antioch College in the interim.

We resolve to encourage as many alumni as possible to pledge support to the College in the next three weeks on the condition, as stated in the pledge form available at antiochians.org/donate, that the Board of Trustees release control of Antioch to a new board specifically committed to the College in Yellow Springs and to an open and inclusive renewal process. In addition to pledging financial support, we believe it is important for alumni to pledge other forms
of assistance, such as recruiting new students, maintaining alumni connections, finding new co-op jobs, and the like We encourage alumni to include information about those support activities on the pledge.

We also resolve to try to increase donations over the next three weeks to the Antioch Faculty Legal Information Fund account at Yellow Springs Federal Credit Union, 217 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs, OH 45387. Current faculty members—who have played a key role in keeping Antioch alive this long—deserve our backing in their efforts to fight
the closure and protect tenure and academic freedom.

Alumni voices should be heard loud and clear before the next Board of Trustees meeting: The trustees should release Antioch and give control of the College to a board that truly values its legacy of self-governance, innovation, a liberal arts curriculum and social justice. We will not support any future educational institution in Yellow Springs that does less.

Sincerely,

The New Jersey Antioch Alumni chapter