Nine Antiochians attended the first meeting of the Downeast Maine Alumni Chapter on October 20 in Trenton. Co-hosts Marj and Art Dole ‘46 and Matt Baya ‘92 shared current information about progress of the Revival Fund, Negotiations between University Board of trustees and Alumni Board, and developments at the college.

Highlights:

• Group members had a variety of opinions about the possible closing of Antioch College.
• They appreciated the opportunity to get acquainted,  to exchange opinions, and to hear new information.
• Pledges to the Revival Fund may be made with or without qualifications
• Matt Baya will share lists of Antiochians in this area and information sources such as the  Antioch Record and DowneastMaine.
• Art Dole will try to improve communication with Antiochians in this area who do not have computers.
• The group  agreed to meet next the second week in January.

The submissions deadline for “Greetings from Antioch College - The Postcard Show” has been extended to OCTOBER 31st.

All are invited to submit work for the show!

“Greetings from Antioch College - The Postcard Show”
November 3 - December 31, 2007
Casa Frela Gallery in Harlem, NYC
Opening night gala at 5:00pm

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - ALL WILL BE ACCEPTED

***Submissions deadline is October 31, 2007***

This is a major art show fundraiser and awareness-building event to support the continuance of Antioch College. The exhibition is open to submissions from all in the larger Antioch Community (students, faculty, alumni, staff, villagers, supporters, etc) and encourages the expression of the creative imagination of this Community as testimony to the vitality of the College. We invite you to join our effort to keep Antioch College open, maintain faculty tenure and re-establish independent governance for the College.

Complete details about the event, submission guidelines and application are available here.

Please spread the word, as this project is a great way to come together as a community to raise money and positive awareness in the media for Antioch College.

Brought to you by the Antioch NYC Alumni Chapter and Casa Frela Gallery

There have been a couple meetings of VT alumni since our August meeting to check in about our preparations for our October 20th event. On 9/17 we also discussed what’s been happening with the College and alumni efforts, about our ideas and visions for what the college needs to become successful, and what the chapter can do to help, including fundraising and recruiting students.

October 20th Event!

We are are go-ahead with our event for Saturday, October 20th from 4-8 pm at Jill Wolcott’s house in Charlotte. Here is the information on the event, including directions:

SAVE ANTIOCH COLLEGE

Join your fellow Vermont & Upstate NY Antioch Alumni
To celebrate and support our alma mater

Saturday, October 20th, 4-8 pm

Share potluck supper by Lake Champlain
View The Antioch Adventure
Meet special Guest Aimee Maruyama ’96,
Director of Alumni Relations

Aimee will offer updates on negotiations between the University Board of Trustees and Alumni Board, what’s happening in Yellow Springs and at the College, and progress of Alumni efforts.

At the home of Jill Wolcott (’74)
158 McNeil Cove Road
Charlotte, Vermont

RSVP to: Jill at 802-425-2396 or jillwolcott or
Amanda Calder ’07 at 802-985-8926 or jazzypanda
To carpool contact Amanda

Bring tasty fingerfoods and your checkbook!

Take Route 7 to Charlotte, go west at traffic light onto Ferry Road. Take that road till it turns sharply left (about 2 miles). Stay straight on dirt road. Take first left at McNeil Cove Road. House is second on the right. Park at the tennis court.

There will be fundraising for the Revival Fund, and lots of good informal time to meet and talk with other alumni.

Very soon a postcard containing the above information will be sent out to all alumni in Vermont and nearby areas of New York courtesy of the Alumni and Development Office. Starting this week we will also be calling alums we have phone numbers for, with a focus on alums that don’t have email.

Amanda has been coordinating carpooling. So far we have people from several areas of the state confirmed as planning to attend and open to ridesharing, including an alum in Montpelier, and one alum in her 80s who is looking for someone to ride with from the Bennington area. As we’ve only communicated with a small number of alums so far, once we start calling people we expect the carpooling possibilities to increase quite a bit!

We want as many alums as can make it to come! It should be fun and informative, and it will really make a difference going into the October 25th-28th Board of Trustees Meeting and “Antioch Homecoming”/ “Reunion 2.0” weekend. In addition to the amount of pledges and cash raised, one of the key factors of being successful at convincing and pressuring the Board to accept the Alumni Board’s plan to keep the college open, is the number of alumni chapters and how active they are. Your participation is a vote for Antioch’s future. …As well as an opportunity to have a good time and meet or re-meet some great people.

In Other News…

Fundraising
We have set an initial goal to raise $20,000 in cash and pledges, hopefully before the Board Meeting at the end of October. So far we have raised $11,210.

Recruiting
We discussed the need to recruit more potential students (if the College remains open), and ideas of things we we could do here to help. Some ideas included meeting with high school counselors and visiting high schools on behalf of the Admissions Department to talk with potential students.

Some Brief Thoughts About the College
One of the most necessary things, we agreed, in order for people to feel confident about donating money and supporting efforts to save the College, is understanding what was wrong before, and how it will be fixed. Some of our thoughts on this include the following “Three-Pronged” assessment:

1. Morale. The alumni effort is changing both the feeling and actuality of lack of support for the college.

2. Money is part of the growing support for the College, and is a big part of what was wrong before. Something that’s helpful is having clear aims, such as $50 million to keep it open and $100 million for the endowment.

3. Antioch needs to step out and be a leader again, with something noteworthy and unique. We think there is a big opportunity for alumni to help shape this and make it happen. It would include building on past instances of such leadership which include things like Co-op, Antioch Education Abroad, Community Governance, and the SOPP. One area we think this could happen with is sustainability/environmental studies, but there are lots of areas in which Antioch has strength.

The Chicago Chapter of the Antioch College Alumni Invites You to a Benefit

for

The Antioch College Alumni Revival Fund

Arranged by Steve Andrews ‘63

Reception and Performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Princess Ida” (featuring the 30 Piece Savoyaires Orchestra)

Sunday, October 21, 2007
Reception, 2:00 PM
Performance, 3:00 PM

Chute School Auditorium
1400 Oakton Street, Evanston IL
(between Asbury (Western) and Dodge (California) )

Donation: $35/seat

RSVP to:

Steve Andrews

Phone: 773-456-2287

Email: atmsteve

For further info on the production and company: http://www.savoyaires.org/

CTA: Redline to Howard Terminal; #97 bus to Oakton & Dodge; walk 3 blocks
east to 1400 Oakton. (Bus leaves Howard every half hour - 1:30 PM, 2:00
PM, etc.) Driving: North on Lake Shore Drive to Hollywood; North on Ridge;
West at Oakton - 1 block to 1400 Oakton (south side of the street.)
Parking: Large free lot adjacent to the school.

When: October 21, 3pm
Where: Throop Unitarian Universalist Church, Social Hall, 300 S. Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101

We are doing potluck snacks, so if possible, please bring one of the
following, depending on the first letter of your last name**:

A - I Salty or sweet snacks - chips, crackers, cakes, cookies, etc
J - R Drinks and cups - water, juice, iced tea, soda
S - Z Fruit or Veggies with dip
**or bring plates and napkins, which are also needed!

We are holding this meeting to keep updated on the Revival effort, to
build our new chapter, and to do some participatory planning on
strengthening our region’s fundraising, recruitment, outreach, media, and
support for faculty and students . Hope to see you there!

Please RSVP to Stephanie Knol at sturniphorse or call 562-846-9799

For more information about the effort to keep Antioch College up and running, go to antiochians.org

Please join us for a meeting of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Antioch College Alumni Association.
Throop Unitarian Universalist Church
300 S. Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA 9110
3:00 pm
Come hear updates on the revival of Antioch College and help to plan our next steps for saving Antioch College.

Please help out by bringing the following:
If your last name begins in:
A-I: salty or sweet snacks (chips, crackers, cookies etc)
J-R: Drinks & cups (water, juice, soda, iced tea, etc)
S-Z: Fruit or vegi trays, plates, napkins

Please email me or the LA mailing list to let us know what you plan to bring so we don’t end up with 10 vegi trays or 10 dozen brownies!
Thanks!

Hannah Carbonneau (formerly Hannah McLaughlin)

HELP SAVE ANTIOCH COLLEGE

You are cordially invited to a pot luck lunch
(We will supply beverages.)

Saturday, October 20, 12:30-2:30
Marj and Art Dole’s home in Trenton. Co hosted by Matt Baya

Agenda

• Progress of the Revival Fund
• Latest news about negotiations between University Board of Trustees and Alumni Board
• What’s happening in Yellow Springs and at the College
• Actions of Alumni chapters around the country
• Should we form a Downeast Chapter? Actions?

Directions
From MDI  take Bar Harbor Road (Route 3 NORTH); go about 2 miles from Trenton bridge. Turn right at Riverfield Rd, Bar Harbor Biotechnology. Go through parking lot to private driveway; we are first house on right.
From ELLSWORTH take Bar Harbor Road (Route 3) ; go  about 7 miles from the intersection with Route 1; turn left at Riverfield Rd, Bar Harbor Biotechnology. Go through parking lot to private driveway; we are first house on right.

RSVP by October 13th if possible (207)667-9237 aadole

Hello NYC Antioch Community-

We’ve scheduled our next chapter meeting for this Friday night at
Judson Church.

Friday 10/12 at 7:00pm
– PLEASE BE PROMPT — it will be difficult to let anyone in past 7:30
Judson Memorial Church — downstairs meeting room
*** 239 Thompson Street ***
(btwn Washington Sq S and West 3rd)
Near Washington Square Park — http://www.judson.org/
** ELEVATOR ON PREMISES
** FOOD IS ALLOWED, SO BRING POTLUCK ITEMS, DRINKS ND UTENSILS IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED - NO STOVE VAILABLE

TRAINS:
A,C,E and B,D,F,V to W4
R,W to 8th St/NYU
6 to Astor Place

Proposed agenda

1. open call for agenda topics — we will list and prioritize topics which willbe discussed later in the evening
2. update on Postcard Show fundraiser — if anyone attending is contributing to the show, you can bring your pieces to the meeting and we will deliver them to the gallery
3. update on Denver AB/BOT meeting
4. review of Business Plan (alleged to be available this week)
5. open agenda topics discussions

Day of Event contact numbers:
Jeff Wood 917-589-3021
Lynda White 917-864-2951

Arranged by Steve Andrews ‘63

Reception and Performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Princess Ida” (featuring the 30 Piece Savoyaires Orchestra)

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Reception, 2:00 PM

Performance, 3:00 PM

Chute School Auditorium

1400 Oakton Street, Evanston IL

(between Asbury (Western) and Dodge (California) )

Donation: $35/seat

RSVP to:

Steve Andrews - 773-456-2287 - atmsteve

Or mail check made out to Antioch College Revival Fund to

Steve Andrews, 2445 W. Coyle Ave. Chicago 60645

For further info on the production and company, www.savoyaires.org

CTA: Redline to Howard Terminal; #97 bus to Oakton & Dodge; walk 3 blocks east to 1400 Oakton. (Bus leaves Howard every half hour - 1:30 PM, 2:00 PM, etc.) Driving: North on Lake Shore Drive to Hollywood; North on Ridge; West at Oakton - 1 block  to 1400 Oakton (south side of the street.)

Parking: Large free lot adjacent to the school.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass!

Come join fellow alums at The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival: http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/ this coming Sunday October 7th.

Legendary guitarist Jorma Kaukonen- founding father of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna; will give us a shout out from the stage to call attention to Antioch’s plight. He also plans to come by to chat with us before the show.

If you want to join us- you’ll need to plan on arriving early for good seating. The gates open at 10AM at Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. See the website for a map of the show grounds.  The show is free runs all weekend and has an amazing lineup.

If you’d like to get in line with us in the morning please RSVP to antiochians.sfba by the evening of 10.06 so we can arrange to rendezvous with you before-hand.  If you come on your own, keep an eye out for the SAVE ANTIOCH COLLEGE signs and listen for the cheering when Jorma talks about the college he loves.

Hope to see you all there.