Jill Wolcott, ‘74, hosted. “It was an enchanted evening,” said Wolcott – with balmy breezes, the sound of the lake lapping the shore and northern lights above. “I was either right back on the stoop in Yellow Springs or I was in heaven.”

Kenny Peck, ‘75, spun sounds from the ’60s and ’70s. Amanda Calder, ‘07, caught everyone up on the latest doings in Yellow Springs. And the 25 or so alums in attendance, spanning five decades of graduating classes, from the Sixties through the Oughties, bonded over a viewing of The Antioch Adventure.

“Every time we alums get together, we seem to recreate some of the Antioch magic,” said Wolcott.

The impending launch of the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute was the impetus for the get-together – and cause for renewed excitement among the group about prospects for rekindling the spirit of Antioch College.

“We felt some need to celebrate the victory of the-college-formerly-known-as-Antioch in receiving its independence from the University,” said Peck. “Back in the early 70’s, someone scribbled ‘If dogs run free . . .’ all over the Yellow Springs campus, a sign of those times, but in hindsight it seems more now to be a metaphor of what Antioch was once and perhaps what the Non-Stop venture can still be.”

For photos of this event Click Here

You are invited to the next meeting of the Antioch College Alumni Chapter of Southeastern Michigan and Northern Ohio:

WHEN:                 Sunday, September 21, 2008, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Margo Lowenstein has graciously offered to host our meeting, with refreshments (!!!) at her home:

WHERE:               1121 Gott St,  Ann Arbor

I’ve grabbed and attached some sample text (no maps) directions from Mapquest using Margo’s home address and figured routes from the north (Flint) south (Toledo) and east (Detroit). I’ve saved them in the 1997-2003 version of MS Word, so hopefully everyone can open them as needed.

WHAT:

Join Antiochians all across the country for Antioch (oops) NONSTOP Rocks, September 20-21, 2008 — a weekend dedicated to community building, planning, discussing, updating and coming-together as we move into the next phase of our struggle to save our beloved College.

Learn about alumni chapter organizing from NYC to LaJolla CA.

View the DVD prepared by the CRF.

Learn about the CRF, NLIA in YSO, Pro Tem Board, Task Force, GLCA and all the latest developments.

Contribute your ideas for our own chapter building and fundraising activities. We’ve already lined up some musicians and poets and others who are willing to contribute their talents to assist in this campaign.

WHY:

This a critical time in our struggle to reclaim and to rebuild Antioch as the autonomous liberal arts undergraduate college that we all know and love. Then again, we seem to have been in that critical stage for well over a year now! But yes, we are all needed so we must work to come together and do what Antiochians do – MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

BACKGROUND:

This a critical time in our struggle to reclaim and to rebuild Antioch as the autonomous liberal arts undergraduate college that we all know and love. Then again, we seem to have been in that critical stage for well over a year now! But yes, we are all needed so we must work to come together and do what Antiochians do – MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Since the Antioch University Board of Trustees ultimately rejected the alternative plans proposed by the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (AC3) it has proceeded to close and shutter the Yellow Springs campus. Since then the Antioch College faculty, staff and students, with the support of the townspeople and friends of Yellow Springs, and the Alumni Association and its Board of Directors, has just this week launched the NonStop Liberal Arts Institute. (For more complete information about the Institute, please go to the website:  nonstopinstitute.org/). Just shortly before the 2008 Alumni Reunion, the Antioch University Board of Trustees formally unanimously decided to ask the Alumni Association and our Board to make an offer and a plan to take offer the College. A task force was quickly appointed, as follows:

“The task force consists of two representatives of the Antioch College Alumni Association (we selected Matthew Derr ‘89 and Lee Morgan ‘66), two representatives of the Antioch University Board of Trustees, and the President of the Great Lakes Colleges Association as the mediator.” (Source: antiochians.org/2008/08/08/preparation-for-a-new-fully-independent-antioch-college-aided-by-new-advisors/)

These past few months have been marked by intense negotiations while we have observed the closing and shutting down of the College buildings, during which there has been a great deal of concern expressed about the “clearing and cleaning” of the buildings, the disposition of furnishings and the preparation of the buildings for the coming cold weather. Please read about some of our frustrations by taking a look at the comments of our Alumni Association President, Nancy Crow, at the following site: antiochians.org/2008/09/08/campus-facilities-update-from-nancy-crow-president-alumni-board-of-directors/

Meanwhile, the work continues to establish the structure of the team that will initially guide the resurrection of Antioch College:

“The Antioch College Alumni Board of Directors announced that it has named the first 5 members to the College Board of Trustees Pro Tem. This initial group includes Matthew Derr ‘89, Atis Folkmanis ‘62, Frances Degen Horowitz ‘54, Lee Morgan ‘66, and Barbara Slaner Winslow ‘68.” (Source:   antiochians.org/2008/08/20/first-5-members-named-to-antioch-college-board-of-trustees-pro-tem/)

There is again some light on the horizon and strong hope for reclaiming Antioch. The folks on the ground at the newly established administrative offices are fully committed to providing the support and structure for the process of rebuilding. (Please see the following site for a description of the offices and the work that is underway in Yellow Springs: antiochians.org/2008/04/10/nonstop-antioch-has-new-home-and-staff/)

“April 10, 2008– Antioch alumni working through the College Revival Fund, Inc. (CRF) announced today that they have opened new offices in Yellow Springs, Ohio for “Nonstop Antioch.” These offices are at 716 Xenia Avenue, right across the street from the Antioch College campus. The CRF is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt non-profit corporation founded by members of the Antioch College Alumni Association. Since last June, the CRF has raised over $19.5 million dollars for a continuing, independent Antioch College.

CRF Acting President Ellen Borgersen said today in a statement, “The Antioch University Board of Trustees has shown that they are unworthy to and unwilling to carry on the Antioch College educational mission. The attack on Antioch College is an attack on experiential liberal arts education, shared governance, tenured faculty, and unionized staff. It is up to the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and townspeople of Yellow Springs to carry on the historic mission of Antioch College, and Nonstop Antioch is the vehicle that will organize alumni support for that effort.”

There are pressing issues that need to be considered and the full support of all of the Antioch College Alumni is needed.

In addition to more complete reports about the structure being developed to assume control of the College and its ultimate reopening, we will be able to view a DVD about the NonStop Liberal Arts Institute, and discuss options and opportunities for our involvement. Not the least of these concerns is mounting a massive fundraising initiative, led by Risa Grimes and her staff now based at our 716 Xenia Avenue offices. I’ve attached a copy of the “College Revival Form” Pledge/Payment Form to begin that process. But we will also need everyone’s input for some ideas for fundraising activities. We’ve already lined up some musicians and poets and others who are willing to contribute their talents to assist in this campaign.

We need you to come out, join in and work with us in what we hope will be a major push over the top of the mountain leading to a renewed and revitalized autonomous Antioch College – something we haven’t had for three decades!

Can we count on you, please?!

If anyone has any questions, suggestions or concerns, please contact either one of us.

To assist with planning and refreshments, please RSVP to this email to either of your chapter co-chairs:

Tendaji W. Ganges at tganges
Terry Blackhawk at terry260.

We look forward to seeing you on September 21st at Margo’s house!

BE ASHAMED TO LET IT DIE!!!

Tendaji W. Ganges and Terry Blackhawk
Co-Chairs

This weekend Saturday, September 20th we are gathering at

The Spot
4437 N. Broadway
Chicago, IL

Starting at 9pm with open bar reception from 10pm-11pm.  Please bring a non-perishable food item for The Spot’s canned food drive and just mention “Antioch” to cut the line and waive the cover.

Please join us on The Spot’s patio show our solidarity with the national Nonstop Rocks weekend to support Nonstop Antioch and the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute.  We will catch up with each other and the state of the Nonstop Antioch movement.

If you haven’t been involved with the Chicago Chapter, this is the perfect start! Join us for a fun, social evening among friends and get the latest lowdown from the front lines.

How can you help?  Spread the word!  Then?  Attend!    Below is the link to the The Nonstop at The Spot Facebook event page, and attached is the invitation.

Hope to see you there!

Beth Richards ‘04
Outreach/ Recruitment Coordinator
Chicago Area Alumni Chapter

Sept 20th Facebook Event Page
www.new.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=40032253520

Chicago Antiochians Facebook Group
www.new.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=38213289792

For more information contact Tim Eubanks at teubanks

WHAT: NYC Antioch College Community Chapter Meeting
WHEN: Mon 9-15-08 at 7pm SHARP
WHERE: 249 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn 11211

Directions (Map here > tinyurl.com/6z9q6w)

From Manhattan, take the L Train to Graham Avenue. Walk one block West on

Metropolitan Avenue (back towards the city) to Manhattan Avenue. Turn left (south) on

Manhattan Avenue and walk 3 blocks. We are on the corner of Powers St. Use the door

under the stairs. The building says ‘Neighborhood Women House’ on the outside.

Agenda priority:

• Eric Miller - CRF Development Officer - CRF update, goals & comments
• 9-19 fundraising event - wine tasting - invite your network!
• Chapter building
• NYC chapter business/functionality/process
• other agenda items as called by members

Full details here:

newyorkcity.chapters.antiochians.org/2008/09/chapter-meeting-9-15-08/

We’ll show the DVD, give updates from reunion and the latest in negotiations, and make plans for a showcase/benefit for Nonstop.

For more information contact Terry Blackhawk at terry

When: Sunday, September 14, 5-8pm

Where: Center for Inquiry, West, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

Please RSVP: To volunteer for this event, or for more information, please contact Stephanie Knol, ‘01 at sturniphorse or 562-846-9799. We need 15-25 people to make it fun and fruitful!! Hope to see you there!!

Join with us in a nationwide effort the third weekend in September to bring attention and funding to the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute, the formal name for the heroic efforts to retain the heart and soul of Antioch College while we continue to wrest it from Antioch University.

We continue to sit in limbo awaiting news of the outcome of the conversations between the Alumni Association and the University Trustees. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we have planned two Limbo Parties for Saturday, September 20th. You’ll have a chance to learn more about Nonstop, a dynamic vehicle for keeping the spirit and essence of the college we attended in good working order while we wait for the outcome.

Come limbo with us on Saturday, September 20th in San Francisco or Oakland, or both!

Ÿ         San Francisco, at the home of Barrie and Peter Grenell ‘61, ‘65

7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

4340 – 25th Street (between Diamond and Douglass), SF 94114

RSVP to 415-826-5391 or sercle and let us know what you’ll be bringing

Ÿ         Oakland, at the home of Jeff Mackler ‘63

2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

33 Mandana Circle, Oakland 94610

RSVP to 510-268-9429 or jmackler and let us know what you’ll be bringing

We’re hopeful that the Lucky Band will play at both events, including “Sitting here in limbo….” with our own special words. Calling all limbo-ers!

Please bring some food or beverage to share and plan to make a donation for Nonstop.

For more information about Nonstop, visit nonstopinstitute.org.

AND remember to come to our monthly meet-ups, held both weekdays and weekends . Our locations are both convenient to BART and other transportation. Come visit with other Antioch College alumni.

Meet-up locations:

Ÿ         East Bay:    Second Sundays (next meeting: September 14th)

Au Coquelet Café (2000 University Avenue, at Milvia)

9 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Ÿ         San Francisco         Third Thursdays (next meeting: September 18th)

Schroeder’s Restaurant (free happy hour food)

240 Front Street (between California and Sacramento, near Embarcadero Center)

5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

We look forward to seeing you!

Barrie, Kelly, John, Ben, Sandina, Anne

WHEN: Friday, September 19th, 2008
7:00 – 9:30 pm
LOCATION: Bob Rock Studio
873 Broadway, Suite #302
NY, NY 10003
(west side of the street just above East 18th Street)
Buzzer # 0013
COST: $150.00 per person

An invitation to all alumni, friends and future friends of Antioch College:

Please join us for an evening of wine tasting to benefit the College Revival Fund during the “Nonstop Rocks” national fundraising weekend. Antioch College alum David Ramm will be leading the tasting in a beautiful and spacious photography studio, located in a fully accessible building near Union Square.

We will taste eight wines from around the world, many of them from organically or biodynamically farmed vineyards, all of them from people unwilling to bow to the wine world’s prevailing wisdom. Released into a market that demands sameness and quietly forgives manipulation, these handcrafted wines offer brilliant specificity, distilling the place, time, people, and traditions that produced them into approachable, compelling wines for everyday meals and special occasions.

Experienced wine tasters will discover little-heralded and often underpriced wineries and wine regions, while people with limited formal tasting experience will be given an unusual but well-grounded starting point for a lifetime’s exploration.

ABOUT DAVID RAMM: Having first tasted wine in Yellow Springs at the home of music professor John Ronsheim, David went on to take Ronsheim’s Art, Wine, and the Five Senses course and from there set to working in the wine business in New York, Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina. He has taught dozens of wine appreciation classes for businesses and private groups and as an instructor in Duke University’s continuing education division. He is currently the editor-in-chief of AMS Press, a small, scrappy scholarly publishing company based in Brooklyn.

For anyone who had the privilege of being in one of John Ronsheim’s classes, you know the lasting impression he left on all of our lives. We will raise our glasses in his honor this evening.

In order to maintain the integrity of the experience we are limiting the tasting to 25 people.

RSVP required by Monday, September 15th, 2008

RSVP to antioch.nyc or to 917-864-2951 with complete address, email and phone contact information to reserve your space.
We cannot guarantee your RSVP without this information.
Payment can be made by check, credit card or cash.
We will follow-up with payment instructions and confirmation once you have RSVP’d
As this is a fundraising event, no refunds will be given unless the event itself is cancelled.

For more information on the College Revival Fund: www.antiochians.org

If you have questions about this event, please contact Lynda White at 917-864-2951

On September 12th from 7-10pm, the Cincinnati Antioch College Alumni Chapter will be holding a fundraiser to raise money for the [Antioch] College Revival Fund a 501(c)(3) and the Non Stop Liberal Arts Institute of Yellow Springs, OH. The event will be held at Know Theatre of Cincinnati, 1120 Jackson Street in Over-the-Rhine.

There will be several exciting presentations at the fundraiser. Antioch College’s Archivist Scott Sanders will be showing his famous presentation of 150 years of Antioch College in 60 minutes or less. Also being shown are the Antioch Adventure I & II student films from the ‘60s and the ‘80s.

Other features of the evening include a raffle and silent auction where participants could win Antioch College memorabilia, photographs, and tickets to Know Theatre of Cincinnati’s coming productions.

The event will be in Know Theatre’s “Jackson Underground” bar area and will include a full bar and complimentary wine and snacks.

In June of 2007, the Board of Trustees of Antioch University voted to suspend operations of Antioch College due to a large deficit and dropping enrollment. Since then, the Antioch College Alumni have been rallying to raise money to save the school. Currently the college is dark, but actions are being taken to negotiate with the University and the beginnings of an independent Board of Trustees for the college are in the works.

The Non Stop Liberal Arts Institute is the movement that is keeping Antioch’s faculty, students, and institutional memory alive. Antioch College’s former Faculty are currently holding classes in coffee shops and homes around Yellow Springs. Classes started on September 2nd, 2008. They are currently being supported by the College Revival Fund.

The future of Antioch College is in the hands of it’s Alumni and supporters. Major funds are needed to re-open and continue to support this ground breaking and infamous college that has changed so many lives.

For more information please contact Alexandra Kesman at alexandrakesman or by calling 513-680-3345.