[Alumni-chat] For Immediate Release: Antioch College Founder's Day Events

[Judith Wolert-Maldonado]

Contacts:
Chelsea Martens
Community Manager
Antioch College
(937) 769-1050
cmartens at antioch-college.edu

Judith Wolert-Maldonado
Antioch College alumna
(937) 767-0118
juju70 at msn.com


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


October 2, 2007 - Yellow Springs, Ohio - The Antioch College community of students, faculty, 
staff and alumni, are collaborating with the residents of Yellow Springs and the greater Miami Valley area
to celebrate the college's Founder's Day on Friday, October 5, 2007.
Horace Mann, a Massachusets-born abolitionist and education reformer, was the college's first president 
from 1853 until his death in 1859. Mann's quote and college motto "Be Ashamed to Die Until You Have 
Won Some Victory for Humanity." continues to be recited by graduates at the end of each Antioch College commencement ceremony.

The Antioch College community invites all Yellow Springs and Miami Valley residents to participate 
in the Founder's Day events, and to march alongside one another in a 4 PM parade to celebrate Antioch College.

Final parade preparation, including sign-making, will take place at the next meeting of the 
Yellow Springs Ad-Hoc Group to Keep Antioch College Open. The entire community is invited to 
the meeting, which is on Thursday, October 4, at 7 PM, at the Coretta Scott King Center on 
the Antioch College Campus.

Founder's day events include:

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - James M. Malarkey, Ph.D, Professor of Humanities at Antioch University McGregor
will give a talk on the history and impact of Antioch College. The presentation will take place in the Antioch Inn (next to the Antioch College cafeteria).

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM - Bring your own t-shirt to silk-screen in a silk-screening workshop at the Silk Screen Room in Pennell House (Antioch College campus).

4:00 PM - Line up at the steps of the Antioch College Student Union building for the Founder's Day Parade.

4:15 PM - The parade starts from the Student Union steps and continues to cross Livermore Street, march down Xenia Avenue, turn onto Corry Street to return to the Student Union steps.

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - A community dinner, a carnival, a speech by "Horace Mann", a giant birthday cake and karaoke singing will take place at the steps of the Student Union.
(Carnival events will take place in the the Antioch College Gym in the case of rain.)

8:00 PM - Cabaret Horace, a traditional Antioch College event in which community members perform
songs, skits and display other theatrical talents, will take place at the Antioch College Theater Building.

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