Dear Fellow VT Alumni and Friends,
We have two events coming up, including our first-ever VT Alumni Chapter event in Montpelier! The dates are January 26th (Charlotte) and February 9th or 10th (Montpelier). See below for more details.
As some of you may have read in a recent alumni news email, the executive committee of the new non-profit group, the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (ACCC–or AC3 as it’s come to be known), visited campus December 17th and is visiting campus again January 26th and 27th.
Audio recordings of their December meetings are available online, and either audio or video recordings of an on-campus Community Meeting with the ACCC on the 26th or 27th will also be made available online. (see http://listen.antiochians.org/)
Listening to/watching the meetings is a great way for us to really get an understanding and feel for what’s going on and what’s being discussed. Other chapters have had successful events communally listening to or watching some of the important meetings that have taken place in the past several months.
This is what we have planned:
Saturday, January 26th 2:30-5:00pm
Casual snacks and watching (or hearing) a podcast of ACCC meeting on campus
or watching The Antioch Adventure
At the house of Jill Wolcott ‘76 in Charlotte.
Please RSVP to Jill at 802-425-2396 or jillwolcott or
Amanda Calder ’07 at 802-985-8926 or jazzypanda
February 9th or 10th (Saturday or Sunday)
Casual snacks and watching (or hearing) of podcast of the ACCC meeting
In Montpelier at a location to-be-determined (the house of an alum?)
Jami and Chris Robertson (both ‘85) are heading up the organizing of this event.
Please RSVP to them at 802-223-0564 or robertsj.
As I said, this will be the first VT Alumni Chapter event in Montpelier! If you are one of those alums for whom a visit to Montpelier is much more doable than Burlington, we urge you to see if you can make it to the Montpelier event!
Also, Amanda is organizing a carpool of people from Burlington to go to Montpelier, so if you live near Burlington and are unavailable the 26th, consider coming in February!
If you live in or near Montpelier and would be up for hosting the event at your house, please email or call Jami. All it takes is an area big enough to host some people, and a computer with speakers. If you want to host it at your house but don’t have a suitable computer set up, we also might be able to coordinate borrowing someone’s laptop to use. Likewise, if you have a laptop that you’d be willing to bring, let us know!
Our goal is to have an event every month. Please share your ideas! Each of the above events, in addition to being a time for discussion about the state of the College, etc., will also be a chance to talk about and plan future Chapter activities.
Future Event that is in the works for a Wednesday or Thursday in the first part of May:
A visit from Richard Coutu, editor of the book, Courses in Courage: Antioch College and the Social Sciences, and a founding faculty member of the Antioch University Leadership and Change PhD program.
Don’t forget to RSVP, and we look forward to seeing you soon.
For a strong, vibrant, non-stop Antioch!
Amanda Calder ‘07 and Jill Wolcott ‘76
P.S. See www.antiochians.org or http://recordonline.org/ for more on the ACCC. Exciting developments are unfolding.
P.P.S. Below are directions to Jill’s house in Charlotte. More specific information for the Montpelier event will be coming out as we get closer.
Take Route 7 to Charlotte (which is about 10 miles south of Burlington), 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 the first left at McNeil Cove Road. House is the second on the right. Park by the tennis court.
