some folks have deep roots

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Friday, April 18, 2008 12:26:03 PM
Message From: mwdole
Subject: History
To: Steven Duffy

Duffy, I loved your history blogs about Antioch in the twenties. My parents, Margaret and Harvey Welsh attended the college in that era. I think they read in the Readers Digest about the new coop plan that Arthur Morgan had started, At any rate they transferred to the college from Grinnell and the University of Minnesota respectively. My father graduated about 1923 and my mother in 1927. (I attended her graduation.) I have a picture of my father in front of the equipment for Antioch‚s first radio station. My mother had a coop job in Dayton, demonstrating stoves. She later had a part time secretarial job with Senator S.D. Fess (former president of Antioch) whose home was on Xenia Avenue. My folks had a great anecdote about Yellow Springs water. It seems that one of the professors was accustomed to taking his morning shower in the gym. When the village announced that they were temporarily cutting off the town water for maintenance and warned people not to turn the water on until further notice, this professor said he was dammed if he was going to give up his shower. So he went to the gym, turned on the water and soaped up. Suddenly the water slowed and gushed out this horrible yellow slush mixture all over him.

Marj Dole Œ46