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[dl bahr]

Thank you for your words, David Apter.  
Any academic imagination, you care to share?

We have just returned from the first meeting of Minnesota Alumni.  Catherine Jordan presented the recent Alumni Board negotiations with Antioch University BoT and Administration--and the AB fund raising efforts and goals.  There is much work ahead.  Frank Adler also called for a strong academic vision and pulling on the academic expertise within the alumni community to begin development of a vision.  Drawing on the alumni expertise could also serve as a symbolic bridge between the "old' and "new" Antioch College.  Your name was mentioned as one such alumnus.   

There is a Vision forum on Antiochians.org.  You have to sign-up by going to forums.  Once you are logged in you can scroll down to Vision.  I hope to read more of your ideas in the near future.  What needs to be done first in this new start?

Lesley A Pownall Bahr
Minnesota

> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:45:26 -0400
> To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu
> From: david.apter at yale.edu
> Subject: [Alumni-chat] (no subject)
> 
> This reprieve brings temporary relief to those for whom Antioch 
> remains special. But if it is to be more than that and to restore 
> Antioch to something like its earlier luster, it will require a great 
> deal of academic imagination along with some hard thinking about what 
> to learn, how to learn it, and why what is to be learned should be 
> learned.  Otherwise it will do little good to simply keep the place 
> going.  I hope the powers take this moment for what it is, an 
> opportunity for a fresh look as well as a new start.  Properly done 
> my hunch is that there will be money out there for an exciting 
> program and lots of good will as well.  Good luck.
> 
> David E. Apter "50".
> 
> 
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