<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Hello again,</font></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>We have a busy program of upcoming events for fundraising, learning, solidarity, and fun. You're invited.</div><div><br></div><div><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Nonstop Antioch</span></b> is requesting that all chapters hold <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">fundraisers May 1-5</span></b>. The Boston chapter is offering you a choice of three (save the dates! anyone who attends all three will receive a special prize!):</font></span></font></div><div><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span></font></div><div>On <b>Saturday, May 3, at 7:00 p.m.</b>, 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 (<a href="mailto:barbara@wordcourt.com">barbara@wordcourt.com</a>) to reserve a place or request more information.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman">On <b>Sunday, May 4, 12:30 to 5 p.m.</b> Niela Miller '57 will host a potluck brunch/lunch at the beautiful Nagog Woods Clubhouse in Acton. RSVP to Niela (<a href="mailto:nielam@comcast.net"><font color="#0018e8" style="color: #0018e8"><u>nielam@comcast.net</u></font></a> or 978-264-4565) to sign up for the event and tell her what dish you will bring.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; ">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 <a href="mailto:the3crystals@rcn.com">the3crystals@rcn.com</a>. </div></div><div><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br><div><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Other Boston chapter meetings and events</span></b> </font></span></font></div><div><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br>Chapter <b>planning meeting on Tuesday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m.</b>, 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.)<br></font></span></font></div><div><br></div>On <b>Wednesday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m.</b>, 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. </font></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> 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 <a href="mailto:the3crystals@rcn.com">the3crystals@rcn.com </a> if you want to help.<br><br> 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. <br><br><div><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">National events</span></b></font></span></font></div><div><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><br></b>Antioch College commencement will be on <b>Saturday, April 26,</b> in Yellow Springs. Alumni are more than welcome to attend. </font></span></font></div><div><font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br>The <b>Antioch College Reunion</b> will be held <b>Thursday, June 19, through Sunday, June 22</b>, 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.<br></font></span></font></div><br><br><br><br></font><br></span></font></div></body></html>