Virginia Ruth Schulman ’60
Teaching a Year into the Pandemic
A plan to bring students back to campus this year meant creating remote and hybrid course options to accommodate a safe learning environment. Staff, faculty, and students adjusted accordingly to move forward.
Taking a Left Turn
As Al Denman said at the 2009 Nonstop Commencement, “There must be something in Yellow Springs water!” People come to Yellow Springs and the College and something just gets into them!
COMMENCEMENT WEEK from The Antiochian July 1880
Suppose they gave a Commencement and no one commenced. Antioch College did just that in 1880, having no graduates that year.
Juneteenth 2021
On June 18, 2021, Antioch College will observe Juneteenth as an official holiday. This is the second year that we have adopted Juneteenth as an official holiday, following a motion brought before College Council in June 2020 by current student and Board of Trustee member Chris Chavers ’21.
Dr. Wahji Kasten ’02 Selected as Bloomberg Fellow
Dr. Wahji Kasten ’02, has been announced as one of this year’s Bloomberg Fellows at the John’s Hopkins School of Public Health.
Matt Walker ’04: Increasing Visibility for Trans Rights
“Trans Rights Are Human Rights” by multimedia artist and musician Matt Walker ‘04 has been selected by the Arts and Culture Commission of Yellow Springs in their Call to Action for lamp pole banners which was launched towards the end of December 2020.
Steve Sprague, Former Staff
Sulochana “Sue” Gogate Sherman ’50
Student-led Newspaper ‘The Record’ Makes a Comeback!
Student-run newspaper ‘The Record’ has been reestablished by S. Quinn Ritzhaupt ’23 and Jacob Philip ’23 who aim to publish in June.
VPAA Announced for Next Academic Year
Reginald Pinder Sr. ’79
Jerome Kagan, Fels Research Institute
Preserving Landmark Art Building
Michael Perea ’24 and Lola Nelson-Betz ’22 have released the trailer for the Ant Farm Art Building Creative Preservation Initiative (AFAAB) documentary, Awake and Dreaming, on May 10, 2021 – a film they directed as part of their Co-op with AFAAB.
William C. Francis ’57
Walter Rybeck ’49
Charles R. Doering ’77
James A. Barnes, Former Staff
Thomas B. Light ’51
Summer Jobs Program Announced
Building on a century of applied education, Antioch College announces opportunity for students to live on campus while gaining valuable work experience this summer.
Peter Hochstein ’61
Bruce Bedford, Former Trustee
Michael Furdiga ’70
Five Grants for Alums in 2021
Robert H. “Bob” Devine ’67, Former President
Getting Here…and Getting There
Getting here: Duffy still felt that homing instinct of “Transient-Mode home” and made the trek to campus for Community Day and Camelot.
Reunion Announced for October 2021
Richard Robert Hughes ’53
Ryan Douglas ’98 Releases Self-Published Book
Ryan Douglas ’98 has published, From Seed to Success: How to Launch a Great Cannabis Cultivation Business in Record Time.
Angel Nalubega ’18 Accepted to Princeton Theological Seminary
Angel Nalubega ’18, who majored in History at Antioch with a focus in Race and Ethnicity Studies, has been accepted to the three-year Master of Divinity program (MDiv) at Princeton Theological Seminary on a full scholar (The Francis Grimke Scholarship) to begin in the Fall.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Dr. Ward R. Stoops ’52
Edmund “Ed” Ward ’70
Shane Creepingbear ’08 on Colonialism
Shane Creepingbear ’08 was interviewed by The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York in a new podcast episode that focuses on Colonialism: Knowledge and Erasure. In the interview, hosted by Ember Kelley, Creepinbear speaks about his research and findings from looking into the topic of colonialism and provides answers to how we can confront colonialism as a community, and how we can become informed about colonialism in the justice work that we do.
Dr. Leo Hughes Moir III ’62
2021 Legacy Celebration Honorees Announced
Community Meeting: Let’s Talk About Sex
On Tuesday, April 27, Antioch College held a virtual Community Meeting and were joined by guest speaker Megan Morine, YWCA’s Dayton Preventionist, who engaged us in a conversation about Sexual Violence Prevention, Gender Identity & Sexual Violence, and Consent & Boundaries.
Mary Jo Mueller ’73
John Stephen Draper ’71
Dawn Knickerbocker to be Commencement Speaker
Antioch College is pleased to announce Dawn Knickerbocker has been selected by the graduating class as the 2021 Commencement speaker.
Richard Hauck ’17 Accepted to Two Master’s Programs
After graduating with a self-designed major in Bachelor of Science: Ecology and the Human Environment with Spanish Language focus and earning magna cum laude, Richard Hauck ’17 has been accepted into two master’s programs at Arizona State University.
Film by Catalina Jordan Alvarez Screening for Ohio Shorts
Assistant Professor of Media Arts Catalina Jordan Alvarez’s short film Sound Spring Seq. #6: The School and the Home is streaming online as part of the 25th annual Wexner Center for the Arts Ohio Shorts film festival.
Accountability Does Not Equal Justice
Michael Barnett ’66 Awarded Dwight Nicholson Medal
Michael Barnett ’66, a Senior Physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been awarded the 2020 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach by the American Physical Society (APS Physics) for a lifetime of innovations in outreach bringing the discoveries and searches of particle physicists and cosmologists to multitudes of students and lay people around the world.
Presidential Search Prospectus Published
William A. Brower Jr. ’71
Gail Read Brown ’57
Peter Manso ’62
Earth Day Talk: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Looking Back and Looking Ahead, an Earth Day talk by Dr. Kim Landsbergen, will provide overview of legacy of Trump-era environmental policy.