[Alumni-chat] Fwd: Meeting tomorrow 7PM/ Parade and potluck this Friday!

[Steven Duffy]

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		Wednesday, October 03, 2007 8:29:25 PM
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From:		Judith Wolert-Maldonado <juju70 at msn.com>
Subject:	Meeting tomorrow 7PM/ Parade and potluck this Friday!


(Please forward widely.  Thank you.)

Hello all,

This is a reminder for our weekly meeting for our Yellow Springs Ad-Hoc
Group to Keep Antioch College Open.  The meeting is tomorrow, October 4th
at 7 PM at the Coretta Scott King Center.  

On tomorrow's agenda (agenda is always open to other brief additions
and/or announcements):

1. Come and hear/read the updated draft of the Community Referendum
written by Antioch College students, before it gets voted on by the
Antioch College community on Monday.  Since I cannot send it via email
yet, the best place to hear it in its entirety is at tomorrow's meeting.

2. Updates from other stakeholder groups, namely from the union staff.

3. Sign up to host an Antioch College alum in your home during the weekend
of October 26, the weekend of the very important Antioch University Board
of Trustees Meeting.  It looks like we will need many, many hosts, as all
of the campus rooms have filled up.  I will have with me a list of alums
seeking Yellow Springs hosts.  If you cannot attend tomorrow's meeting,
and can be a host, please reply to this email identifying yourself as such
so that I can add you to my host list and match you with a visiting alum. 
Also, please specify if you have or do not have pets in your home.

4. Sign and banner making for this Friday's parade for Antioch College's
Founder's Day.  
We will also be painting a banner for the Coretta Scott King Center.


Great!  Now please get your noisemakers, musical instruments, signs,
colorful outfits and Antioch College t-shirts ready, because you and yours
are invited to participate in a parade this Friday, alongside students,
faculty, staff, alumni and fellow Yellow Springs and Miami Valley
residents to show the world that we are proud of our community and the
college that helped to shape it.  Bring your children and grandchildren.
Tell your neighbors.  Tell your local shopkeepers. There will be media
present, so let's show them a good time.  If you've never had the chance
or guts to march in a parade, now's the time!  

We will line up at the Antioch College stoop at 4 PM this Friday (October
5, 2007) to march by 4:15 PM,
cross over Livermore Street, down Xenia Avenue (we do have a parade
permit) and turn down Corry Street to come back to the Student Union stoop
at Antioch College.
The parade's end will continue into a carnival at the stoop. 
Our neighbor and Antioch College alum, Jim Rose, will give a speech as
Horace Mann, to kick off the 
carnival events, including a giant birthday cake for Antioch College, for
all to eat.

One last thing:  Due to the college's budget difficulties, the community
dinner that was advertised for Founder's Day, will not happen unless we
can each bring something to share with all.  The students will be able to
eat in the cafeteria throughout the carnival.
As for the rest of us, in the truest sense of community, let us partake in
a community potluck together, during the carnival, at the picnic tables at
the stoop.   If each of us can bring something to share, there will be
something for everyone.  I will make sure to bring enough plates,
utensils, napkins and cups.

Best wishes to all,

Judy aka "juju"

Judith Wolert-Maldonado
juju70 at msn.com
(937)767-0118, home

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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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