From barbara at wordcourt.com Thu Apr 3 22:33:03 2008 From: barbara at wordcourt.com (Barbara Wallraff) Date: Thu Apr 3 22:33:43 2008 Subject: [Acbostonalums] Fwd: Reminder! References: <65F45D50-F0A5-4C34-9EF6-05DF56874FE5@mac.com> Message-ID: <0B8D0CD1-956C-47F4-BCBD-FE96845FCDC2@wordcourt.com> Do you have your tickets for ... ? The Antioch College Alumni Group of Boston invites you to join us for the U.S. Premiere of ELECTIONS & ERECTIONS: A Chronicle of Fear and Fun, by Pieter-Dirk Uys Sunday, April 13, at 2 pm Zero Arrow Theatre, Cambridge, Mass. The corner of Arrow Street and Massachusetts Avenue, in Harvard Square Private reception to follow Have you seen the reviews? It's a great sbow. Pieter-Dirk Uys's Foreign AIDS had a phenomenally successful run during the A.R.T.?s 2005 South African Festival. Now Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Mrs. Evita Bezuidenhout (?the most famous white woman in South Africa?) and of course their alter ego, Pieter-Dirk Uys, are returning to Cambridge. Join us for Uys's latest, most outrageous attack on political outrage, which underlines the ?mock? in democracy and exposes the ?con? in reconciliation. Tickets are $30 (a special group rate! includes fees) To order tickets, follow the "Add to Cart" PayPal link on this page: http://prosperodesign.com/antioch/ You're welcome to order tickets for family and friends at the group rate The deadline for ordering is Monday, April 7. If you are unable to use PayPal but want to attend, please e-mail Nick Peterson (npeterson@prosperodesign.com) about how to pay by check. The deadline for ordering with a check is tomorrow, April 4. ?Fighting fear and political madness with humor has been my way of life since the 1970s. I always said that the previous government wrote my material for me. That?s why I didn?t pay taxes; I paid royalties.? ? Pieter-Dirk Uys -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://w3.antioch.edu/pipermail/acbostonalums/attachments/20080403/9cf1c5f7/attachment.html From Jnich851 at aol.com Mon Apr 7 08:26:17 2008 From: Jnich851 at aol.com (Jnich851@aol.com) Date: Mon Apr 7 08:26:24 2008 Subject: [Acbostonalums] Fwd: Sending Emails to Board of Trustees Message-ID: See below an urgent message from Mike Brower: Dear Boston Alumni Chapter members, Last Monday evening our Alumni Board held a Conference Call meeting and discussed the breakdown in negotiations between the Antioch University Board of Trustees and the Board of the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (ACCC) -- the group of 9 well to do Alumni who had taken over negotiations with the Trustees for the future of Antioch College. And we, the Alumni Board, discussed that the ACCC had been allowed to negotiate ONLY with a small group representing the Trustees, which initially included only ONE Trustee (Chairman Art Zucker), only ONE Antioch College Grad (the same Zucker '55) plus Chancellor Toni Murdoch, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer Tom Faecke, plus two lawyers. And we discussed that the ACCC had been requesting for many weeks an opportunity to meet directly with the Trustees, but were always refused. So then we, the Alumni Board, voted unanimously to send a message to the Trustees with a strong request that they meet face-to-face with the ACCC. As soon as possible. That message was sent to all Trustees on Tuesday by our Chair, Nancy Crow. On Friday I learned that the Trustees have scheduled a meeting by Conference Call tomorrow evening, Monday, April 7. Then yesterday, one of the Trustees, Paula Treichler, who is one of our strongest allies among the Trustees, sent out an urgent appeal requesting help, to some of her friends, one of whom forwarded it to me. So this morning I wrote an impassioned plea to the full Board, urging them to agree quickly to hold a meeting with the ACCC. I am forwarding to you below Paula's message, and I urge you to also write the Trustees, in your own words. To have an impact you MUST send out your message quickly, today Saturday or tomorrow, or at the latest Monday morning. Sorry to be so late in getting this to you. Please do not copy and paste or refer to Paula's email. Just write your own version to the Trustees. Their emails are at the end of Paula's message. Below that is also a plea to sign a petition from the Yellow Springs community and Alumni. And that is followed by a detailed article, quite accurate I think, by Diane Chiddister in the April 3 Yellow Springs news. Go to antioch-college.edu for some recent PR releases from the University claiming they are still eager to negotiate, and to antiochians.org for recent news from the Alumni. -- Mike Brower 1) Message from Paula Treichler: "Dear All--As you may know, the Antioch University Board of Trustees (on which I serve) and the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (the independent group made up of 9 seasoned and experienced alumni including Lee Morgan) have broken off discussion of the ACCC's proposal to buy the College from the University and operate it independently. This is heartbreaking. Moreover, I believe it is not what a majority of the Board of Trustees want. Why it happened is much too complicated for an email. What is now happening is that alumni, the Antioch Alumni Association Board, Yellow Springs residents, and others are issuing calls and circulating petitions to mandate a face-to-face meeting between the Board of Trustees and the ACCC in an effort to reach a more satisfactory resolution. Many of us requested such a meeting at various points over the last several months. The request was denied on the grounds that formal negotiations were underway, which would be undermined by a face-to-face meeting. The professional experience of most Board members is in corporate or legal settings and I believe that this, from the beginning, has created more problems than solutions in our efforts to ensure a future in which both the University and the College would survive and thrive. For more information, you can read the article in the Yellow Springs News included under item #3 below, that summarizes the termination of negotiation. There is lots more information at _www.antiochians.org_ (http://www.antiochians.org/) , antiochfaculty.org, and theantiochpapers.org (this last is the "deep throat" site the University's attorneys are trying to shut down. It includes a link to the deposition I gave last week, which if you're interested is at <_http://antiochfaculty.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/0327trep.pdf_ (http://antiochfaculty.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/0327trep.pdf) > ). A special Board of Trustees meeting has been scheduled for Monday, April 7. The Yellow Springs Village Council is also to meet that evening. If you would like to add your voice to the rational call for the Board and ACCC to meet, here are two things you can do. 1. Email the Board of Trustees. Include your name and connection to (or knowledge of) the College and/or Yellow Spring Ohio. I would prefer you not to include my email message to you above but at this point it may not really matter. Here are our emails: _aschappell@lilly.com_ (mailto:aschappell@lilly.com) , _azucker@nc.rr.com_ (mailto:azucker@nc.rr.com) , _bedfob@yahoo.com_ (mailto:bedfob@yahoo.com) , _dbfraser@resprofs.com_ (mailto:dbfraser@resprofs.com) , _df@carnegie.org_ (mailto:df@carnegie.org) , _everette.freeman@asurams.edu_ (mailto:everette.freeman@asurams.edu) , _guernsey@adelphia.net_ (mailto:guernsey@adelphia.net) , _Halmary80@aol.com_ (mailto:Halmary80@aol.com) , _hcoleman@geneseeinv.com_ (mailto:hcoleman@geneseeinv.com) , _janetmmorgan@yahoo.com_ (mailto:janetmmorgan@yahoo.com) , _JCKasch@aol.com_ (mailto:JCKasch@aol.com) , _kfriedman@friedmanrubinwhite.com_ (mailto:kfriedman@friedmanrubinwhite.com) , _ljlo@west.net_ (mailto:ljlo@west.net) , _Msweetwood@aol.com_ (mailto:Msweetwood@aol.com) , _ncrow@penberg.com_ (mailto:ncrow@penberg.com) , _nielslyster@msn.com_ (mailto:nielslyster@msn.com) , _ptreich@uiuc.edu_ (mailto:ptreich@uiuc.edu) , _rharris@cswg.com_ (mailto:rharris@cswg.com) , _sherwood@sglawoffice.com_ (mailto:sherwood@sglawoffice.com) , _smerriman@vzphmlaw.com_ (mailto:smerriman@vzphmlaw.com) , _stone@metsci.com_ (mailto:stone@metsci.com) 2. Sign the petition circulating in Yellow Springs before Monday April 7. Read the petition, then click on the link to _YS4AC@antiochians.org_ (mailto:YS4AC@antiochians.org) . From: Migiwa Orimo <_migiwaorimo@earthlink.net_ (mailto:migiwaorimo@earthlink.net) > Date: April 4, 2008 10:35:21 PM EDT To: _YS4AC@Antiochians.org_ (mailto:YS4AC@Antiochians.org) Subject: Petition: Face to face meeting ******************************************************** PLEASE SIGN by giving your full name to _YS4AC@antiochians.org_ (mailto:YS4AC@antiochians.org) ******************************************************** PETITION CALLING FOR A.U. TRUSTEES TO MEET WITH ANTIOCH COLLEGE CONTINUATION CORP. BOARD We heartily concur with the March 29th statement by Art Zucker, Chairman of Antioch University Board of Trustees, in which he recognized "the importance of Antioch College not only to the nation at large but also to the economic health and vitality of the historic village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and to the dedicated faculty and students and staff and alumni who have championed Antioch College throughout its storied history and to the present day." We support the resolution of the college's Alumni Association calling for the trustees of the university to meet as soon as possible with board members of the Antioch College Continuation Corporation. We believe that a face-to-face meeting is the only means available by which the two boards can resume negotiations and reach an agreement that will save the college. Mr. Zucker noted that in the complex negotiations agreement remained to be reached on only two items and "that every day of delay is a day lost towards reaching the goal sought in common by all parties." We agree that immediate action is required and we urge that the Antioch University Board of Trustees convene with all possible speed a meeting with the board members of the Antioch College Continuation Corporation. ******************************************************** PLEASE SIGN by giving your full name to _YS4AC@antiochians.org_ (mailto:YS4AC@antiochians.org) ******************************************************** This petition is being circulated by Yellow Springs for Antioch College [YS4AC], a group of villagers and area alumni who are working to save the college. Petitions available April 4 through 7, 2008, at 5:00 PM. Names of signers will be presented to Village Council at its 4/7/08 meeting, and will appear in YS News April 10th edition. Sponsored by _YS4AC@Antiochians.org_ (mailto:YS4AC@Antiochians.org) ***************** 3. Yellow Springs News article, Thursday, April 3, 2008. Negotiations between ACCC and university come to a halt By Diane Chiddister Negotiations between Antioch University and the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or ACCC, came to an end Friday, March 28, when the university did not respond to the deadline set by ACCC for a response to its final offer to purchase the college. ACCC offers $10 million for 10 seats on the board While the ACCC has taken its proposal of $6 million in cash and $6.2 million within five years off the table, there is still another proposal for the Antioch University trustees to consider, according to ACCC co-chair Eric Bates on Sunday. The group has offered the university $10 million in cash in return for 10 seats on the university's 19-member board of trustees. "This arrangement would have eliminated the immediate need for a costly and complex transfer of the College's assets," Bates said in the press statement released Friday. "In addition to ensuring continuous and uninterrupted operation of the College, it would have created a truly philanthropic board for the University - one that would have contributed significantly more than the current trustees have reportedly given this past year." The nine members of the ACCC include six former university trustees. The group has contributed $9 million of its own money to the effort to transfer ownership of the college. In contrast, according to Bates, the current university trustees have given less than $25,000 to the college in the current fiscal year. The deadline had been noon on that day, according to ACCC co-chair Eric Bates. Bates said the deadline was set because the university negotiating team seemed to be stalling and that for the college to continue operations next year, a deal had to be made immediately. "This is a sad day not only for Antioch, but for all those who care about progressive education in this country," Bates, who took part in the negotiations, said in an ACCC statement released Friday. "Presented with an opportunity to both fulfill its fiduciary responsibility and preserve the College's historic mission, Antioch University chose instead to pursue a path that raises serious questions about its educational values and financial competence." The two groups had been negotiating for four months toward the goal of transferring ownership of the college from the university to the ACCC, a group of former trustees and major donors. In a statement released by the university on Friday, university spokesperson Lynda Sirk stated that while the two sides had reached agreement on the purchase price of $12.2 million, there were two sticking points: first, the university did not accept the ACCC's offer to pay half that amount up front and half within five years because the ACCC did not adequately secure the debt, and second, the question of who would own WYSO Public Radio. "Despite our major concessions, ACCC has been unwilling to meet our needs to have the consideration paid entirely in cash at closing," Board Treasurer Bruce Bedford said in the university's statement. According to Bedford, the installment payment "would likely not be acceptable to the University's creditors which must ratify the terms of any deal." According to Murdock in a Dayton Daily News article Saturday, the university has significant bond debt on the new Antioch University McGregor building, as well as buildings in Seattle and New Hampshire. In an interview Sunday, Bates said, "The issue of security isn't really the issue. It's a smokescreen." During negotiations the ACCC asked the university negotiating team if the ACCC offer would be adequate if the university's creditors agreed to the offer, and the university team said no, according to Bates, a former university trustee who is the deputy managing editor of Rolling Stone magazine. Overall, he said, "throughout the process the university negotiating team seemed far more interested in inventing obstacles than finding solutions," he said. "If they wanted the college to succeed, this deal would have made that happen." The university negotiating team is composed of Antioch University Chancellor Toni Murdock, Chief Financial Officer Tom Faecke and two university attorneys. For the ACCC, Bates, David Goodman and ACCC attorneys did the negotiating. Murdock, Bedford and University Board President Art Zucker did not respond to requests for interviews for this article. Alumni staff locked out In a swift and angry response Friday to the breakdown of the negotiations, Antioch College alumni, working through the College Revival Fund, released a statement Friday praising the efforts of the ACCC and denouncing the university's negotiating team. "The suspicion that the University Board of Trustees was negotiating in bad faith and not interested in saving the College has, unfortunately, been confirmed," Ellen Borgersen, acting president of the CRF, stated. "Over the past four months, the Antioch College Continuation Corporation labored mightily to put together an offer that would be a win-win solution for the university and the College, as well as for the community and for everyone who believes in what Antioch stands for." The CRF called for alumni to support the efforts of Nonstop Antioch, the effort of current college faculty and students to keep the college going off-campus if necessary. "The community, while saddened, is undaunted, committed and most of all, passionate about Antioch and its future. Nonstop Antioch is just that - Antioch College for our time and Antioch College for all time," she wrote. College alumni had raised more than $18 million to keep the college open since the trustees announced in June that Antioch would close in July, 2008. At the last meeting of the alumni board, the board committed $1 million of that amount toward Nonstop Antioch. On Tuesday, the Antioch College Alumni Board called on the trustees to meet in person with the ACCC. Although the ACCC has requested such a meeting and several board members have also sought the opportunity, the entire board has never met with the ACCC. (See Borgersen letter, page 4.) In another alumni-related action, at about 4 p.m. on Friday, Antioch College Department of Institutional Advancement employees were told to leave their offices and not return, after which the locks to the department's building, Weston Hall, were changed. According to alumni associate director Aimee Maruyama, who was one of the employees, they were stunned by the action, which took place during a going away party for a colleague. "If they were securing the office from outsiders, that's one thing. But we're employees," Maruyama said on Monday. The group of five employees, including all of the college's fund raisers, were told to go to the office of Antioch College Chief Operating Officer Andrzej Bloch, who told them they were no longer needed because the negotiations had broken down. According to Maruyama, Bloch said the decision had been made by the board of trustees. However, on Monday, he stated that he had made the decision and that he had never said otherwise. Following the meeting with Bloch, the employees were escorted back to Weston Hall, where they were given a short time to pick up their things, under the eye of a university administrator. Then a locksmith changed the locks and they were told not to return to work, according to Maruyama. "We need to secure the building. It is full of records," Bloch said on Monday in explanation of the action. "The point is, we need to reorganize the Office of Institutional Advancement as soon as possible." The employees were placed on administrative leave and will be paid through the end of their contracts June 30, he said. According to Antioch College Communications Director Lynda Sirk, there was nothing unusual about locking the department's staff out of their offices when their services were no longer needed. "That's fairly standard business practice," she said. "The office is closed. We are no longer raising money." Sticking points The ACCC's final offer was to pay the university $12.2 million in total, with $6 million upfront and $6.2 million over the next five years. The ACCC provided adequate financial security for the $6.2 million, Bates said, including securing the loan with the college's mortgage, and also with an agreement to turn over to the university all college assets if the ACCC plan fell through. "We in fact were fully prepared in terms of security," Bates said, describing the two proposals as "both financially reasonable and legally enforceable." The ACCC did not offer the full $12.2 million up front because the group didn't have it, according to Bates. While the alumni board raised more than $18 million in the past eight months, most of that money is restricted in its use for college operations, not for paying the university, he said. Beyond that, according to Bates, the group seeks to make Antioch College viable, and "every dime the university wanted for itself is a dime not available to the college at the time of its greatest need." But securing the debt with the college's mortgage is not reasonable, Sirk said this week, because if the ACCC defaults, the university would have to put the college up for sale "on the sheriff's auction block," and would not do so. Besides money, the second sticking point in negotiations regarded the ownership of WYSO. While the university negotiating team intitially said that all assets that the college had had before the creation of the university system would stay with the college, according to Bates, and WYSO clearly fit that category, the university later said it wanted WYSO. In response, the ACCC offered two options: either the university could have Antioch Education Abroad or WYSO, both long-term college assets, but not both. In response, the university requested that it keep AEA and that WYSO be jointly operated by both the college and the university, with the college providing operating costs. The ACCC agreed, Bates said. "We immediately accepted that," he said. "We thought it was a creative solution." However, according to Bates, several days later the university team retracted that proposal and stated that it wanted complete ownership of both WYSO and AEA. The university team appeared to regard the WYSO license as a valuable asset that the university could then sell, according to Bates. Board not unanimous According to the university press statement on Friday, the board met Wednesday, March 26, to consider the ACCC's last proposal. However, "after hours of deliberation and debate" according to the statement, "the board concluded unanimously that some of the terms of the proposal created unacceptable risk to the University and could not be accepted. The plan was not viable." But Trustee Paula Treichler stated this week that she thought the document to which she signed her name was a letter from Murdock and Zucker to the ACCC stating that the two groups were very close, and only two items of disagreement remained. She meant to be signing a letter of encouragement to the group, she said, and was surprised to see the action presented in the press sta tement as one dismissing the ACCC's proposal. "The intent was to send a signal to the ACCC that we were well disposed to their proposal," Treichler said. "That was my intent in allowing my name to be used." The statement that the trustees' vote against the ACCC proposal was unanimous is misleading, according to Treichler. "There is not total unanimity on the board," she said. "Many of us are eager to have this work." Part of the difficulty in the trustees reaching an agreement with the ACCC is what she perceives as the trustees' lack of information, according to Treichler. "I feel strongly that a face-to-face meeting with the ACCC would have been productive rather than their only meeting with a negotiating team that had specific interests," she said. "The control over communication has not been constructive. Sources of information to the trustees have been extremely limited." While the ACCC requested a face-to-face meeting with the board in February, that request was denied. According to Murdock at the time, the ACCC had already agreed to a process that involved meeting only with the university's negotiating team, so that meeting with the whole board would mean changing the rules. According to Bates at the time, the ACCC never agreed that it would not meet with the board. Show me the money If the university negotiating team truly wanted to strike a deal with the ACCC, it would have had a more reasonable starting position, according to Bates. Instead, initially, the university negotiating team asked the ACCC to pay $54 million to purchase the college. But the difference between that amount and the board's final agreement to accept $12.2 million instead indicates that the university did want to make a deal, Sirk said this week. However, the university asking such a high price caused negotiations to stall for far too long during a time when each day mattered to the college's ability to remain open, according to Bates, who said the university negotiating team presented the $54 million amount to the trustees at their February meeting. "We lost nearly a month of critical time," he said. Included in that proposal was the demand that the college pay the university $22 million to receive its $22 million endowment of restricted funds, according to Bates. According to Sirk this week, $54 million was the opening price because that amount is considered the fair market value of the college. Getting the most money possible for the college, regardless of the effects on the college's ability to survive, seemed the university negotiating team's goal, Bates said. "Throughout this process, they have attempted to profit off the college's difficulties," he said. During the course of negotiations, the ACCC team asked what the university would do with the college if no agreement was reached, according to Bates. "They said they intended to leverage the college's assets," he said. "They believed the college has assets that they could sell." The university negotiating team members also said they were considering requesting that the Ohio Attorney General allow the university to use the college's endowment fund of about $22 million should the college fail, he said. Not on eBay after all On Saturday, March 29, the university trustees released a second statement, calling on all parties to help resolve the negotiations. "Recognizing that every day of delay is a day lost towards reaching the goal sought in common by all parties, the Board is prepared and willing to negotiate at any time with any party to the end of assuring a vigorous, progressive residential liberal arts college while at the same time protecting the viability and vitality of the University," the press release stated. However, the press release apparently contributed to confusion about the college's fate that led to a Dayton Daily News front page article on March 30 that implied the college was for sale to anyone with $12.2 million, information that was conveyed to a national audience in a small New York Times article on April 1. "That remark was taken out of context. It was very misleading," Sirk said this week. "The intent of the board's release on Saturday was to offer support to the ACCC to make this deal happen," Sirk said. Apparently, the Tuesday posting on eBay of Antioch College for sale for $12.2 million was an April Fool's Day prank. The evidenciary hearing that had been scheduled for April 1 in the lawsuit brought by college faculty against Antioch University was postponed, according to Greene County Common Pleas Court officials. The confusion of the past week's actions contributed to that postponement, according to faculty member Peter Townsend, one of the faculty who filed the suit. The suit charges the trustees with mismanaging the college's finances and choosing to close the college when less drastic means were available for addressing its financial problems." = **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://w3.antioch.edu/pipermail/acbostonalums/attachments/20080407/e7ccd734/attachment.html From barbara at wordcourt.com Wed Apr 16 11:41:32 2008 From: barbara at wordcourt.com (Barbara Wallraff) Date: Wed Apr 16 11:41:37 2008 Subject: [Acbostonalums] (no subject) Message-ID: <58C1B159-DFC3-46CD-B23C-81712280AC10@wordcourt.com> Lynda, Frances, Eric, Nancy, and Aimee, May I ask you to please forward the following to all of the Trustees, the members of the ACCC, the Alumni Board, and the leaders of the other alumni chapters? Thank you. Regards, Barbara Wallraff On Sunday, April 13, the Boston Chapter of the Antioch Alumni Association passed the following resolution: We are deeply disappointed that to date the Antioch University Board of Trustees and the Antioch College Continuance Corporation (ACCC) have not reached an agreement that will permit the continuation of a residential college in Yellow Springs. We note with hope the agreement of the Trustees to meet in person with members of the ACCC. The Boston Chapter urgently requests that a neutral facilitator acceptable to both sides be utilized for this meeting. We are raising funds that will be contributed without preconditions to help reach a settlement. We further urge both the Board and the ACCC to approach this meeting in a spirit of good will and compromise -- and be ashamed to let Antioch College die. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://w3.antioch.edu/pipermail/acbostonalums/attachments/20080416/01ea8264/attachment.html From barbara at wordcourt.com Thu Apr 17 19:14:40 2008 From: barbara at wordcourt.com (Barbara Wallraff) Date: Thu Apr 17 19:14:51 2008 Subject: Fwd: [Acbostonalums] Fwd: Reminder! References: Message-ID: <10C80CA7-6D6B-42BF-864A-724FEBF5DBCC@wordcourt.com> Hello again, We have a busy program of upcoming events for fundraising, learning, solidarity, and fun. You're invited. Nonstop Antioch is requesting that all chapters hold fundraisers May 1-5. The Boston chapter is offering you a choice of three (save the dates! anyone who attends all three will receive a special prize!): On Saturday, May 3, at 7:00 p.m., I will be hosting the most posh dinner party I know how to give, at my house, 320 Dudley Street, Brookline. $100 per person -- it's a fundraiser! All proceeds will go to Nonstop Antioch! Please reply to me (barbara@wordcourt.com) to reserve a place or request more information. On Sunday, May 4, 12:30 to 5 p.m. Niela Miller '57 will host a potluck brunch/lunch at the beautiful Nagog Woods Clubhouse in Acton. RSVP to Niela (nielam@comcast.net or 978-264-4565) to sign up for the event and tell her what dish you will bring. That week Serena and Roy Crystal (both '72) will give a party at their house in Lexington, details to be announced. For more information, email the3crystals@rcn.com. Other Boston chapter meetings and events Chapter planning meeting on Tuesday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m., at the home of Masha Etkin '63, 10 Copley Street, Brookline. Among other things, we'll be getting ready for our May 14 event. Please let me know if you're coming, for the sake of having enough take-out food for dinner. (Be sure to mention any special food needs.) On Wednesday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m., at Dudley House, Harvard, a conversation with Richard Couto, the editor of the recent book ?Courses in Courage,? and our own Gordie Fellman, a contributor to the book, about the groundbreaking work of Antioch social scientists. A buffet dinner will be served. Roy Crystal, Everett Mendelsohn, Barbara Schram, Stan Morse, and anyone else interested will meet as a committee to plan an event in October or November on ?Reinventing Higher Education in the 21st Century?. We?ll explore efforts by colleges such as Goddard, Bard, and the College of the Atlantic to reinvigorate themselves to meet challenges, and perhaps how colleges in trouble have reconstituted themselves. We're going to see what happens with the ongoing Trustees-ACCC negotiation in an effort to make this event relevant and useful as part of the effort to keep Antioch College alive. Contact Roy at the3crystals@rcn.com if you want to help. Niela Miller is exploring the possibility of holding an Antioch alumni event in the ?Second Life? cyberspace, details to be announced. Please let Niela (contact info above) know if you can help her plan this. National events Antioch College commencement will be on Saturday, April 26, in Yellow Springs. Alumni are more than welcome to attend. The Antioch College Reunion will be held Thursday, June 19, through Sunday, June 22, with the work project taking place June 16-19. The Alumni Board is urging a huge turnout to show faith in our efforts to keep Antioch alive. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://w3.antioch.edu/pipermail/acbostonalums/attachments/20080417/f9fb088e/attachment.html From barbara at wordcourt.com Mon Apr 21 20:12:18 2008 From: barbara at wordcourt.com (Barbara Wallraff) Date: Mon Apr 21 20:12:27 2008 Subject: [Acbostonalums] May Antioch alumni events Message-ID: <2C93BC91-6E04-49F1-8862-3B5AFF3848F4@wordcourt.com> You?re invited to these local Antioch College alumni events. It?s a great time of year to get out and get together. More important, fundraising for the College Revival Fund and Nonstop Antioch is urgent ? hence the flurry of activity. Join us at one or all! Posh Dinner Party, $100 per person (All proceeds will go to the College Revival Fund) Saturday, May 3, 7:00 p.m. 320 Dudley Street, Brookline Hosted by Barbara Wallraff ?72 RSVP to me (barbara@wordcourt.com) Potluck Brunch/Lunch and Silent Auction, $10 per person Sunday, May 4, 12:30 to 5 p.m. Nagog Woods Clubhouse, Acton ? a great place either to hang out and schmooze or to take a walk Hosted by Niela Miller ?57 RSVP to Niela (nielam@comcast.net or 978-264-4565) to sign up for the event, tell her what dish or beverage you will bring, and let her know if you have something (nice!) to contribute to the Silent Auction. Dinner Party and Photo Show, $50 per person Saturday, May 10, 7:00 p.m. 34 Grapevine Avenue, Lexington Hosted by Roy and Serena Crystal ?72 RSVP to Roy and Serena at the3crystals@rcn.com Roy?s professional landscape photos will be on display and available at a discounted price, with the proceeds above cost going to the College Revival Fund. Buffet dinner and a conversation with Richard Couto, editor of Courses in Courage, and our own Gordie Fellman, a contributor to the book, about the groundbreaking work of Antioch social scientists. Admission TBA. Wednesday, May 14, 6:30 p.m. Dudley House, Harvard University, Cambridge Hosted by Everett Mendelsohn ?53 RSVP to me (barbara@wordcourt.com) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://w3.antioch.edu/pipermail/acbostonalums/attachments/20080421/60847bae/attachment.html From barbara at wordcourt.com Mon Apr 21 21:01:30 2008 From: barbara at wordcourt.com (Barbara Wallraff) Date: Mon Apr 21 21:01:40 2008 Subject: [Acbostonalums] Sunday NY Times piece on Antioch Message-ID: <81C0D76D-7C84-41A0-BE5D-D427330E2918@wordcourt.com> Sorry -- forgot to share this with the previous. FYI. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/education/edlife/antioch.html? em&ex=1208923200&en=613f4d267061890a&ei=5087%0A -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://w3.antioch.edu/pipermail/acbostonalums/attachments/20080421/6252a58d/attachment.html From barbara at wordcourt.com Sun Apr 27 18:33:02 2008 From: barbara at wordcourt.com (Barbara Wallraff) Date: Sun Apr 27 18:33:08 2008 Subject: [Acbostonalums] Update and meeting Message-ID: <481D20C6-B68F-4757-A03D-FF4E669D4EF8@wordcourt.com> Hello, all, The Antioch University Trustees and the ACCC continue to negotiate about the future of the College even now, after the announced deadline for reaching agreement -- Commencement Day, which was yesterday -- has passed. The two groups are to talk tomorrow night (Monday), and evidently that conference is considered the new deadline. See the New York Chapter e-mail below for more info. The local alumni group meeting planned for this Tuesday, April 29, will therefore give us an opportunity to exchange the very latest -- possibly final -- news, talk over our individual responses to it, and decide what our group response should be. The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 Tuesday, at Masha Etkin's house, 10 Copley Street, Brookline. We'll share a take-out Chinese dinner and then get down to business. Please let me know -- or remind me! -- if you plan to come. Mike Brower has room in his car for three more people who are coming from or via Cambridge -- so e-mail him () ASAP if you'd like him to pick you up. Regards, Barbara > Susan Eklund-Leen reports that graduation was beautiful, even tho > they were stuck in Kelly Hall. "The student speakers were > passionate and respectful even though they were critical of the > BoT, Univ. Admin and Andrzej." The faculty speech by Jean Gregorek > will go on the faculty website next week. > > She reports that Monday at 3 p.m. the AC3 and the BoT have a > conference call. The new offer involves an additional 6 million for > the university campuses because the BoT thought AC3 would only care > about the College. (Well -- gee!) > She says: "If we get bad news, watch for a news release to hit > about the faculty and CRF starting a new college in YSO." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://w3.antioch.edu/pipermail/acbostonalums/attachments/20080427/8e42a0a8/attachment.html