[Alumni-chat] Why Aren't the Students Using the Library?

[lwollin]

Interesting. I don't remember anyone wearing spike heels when I was
there. Everyone was wearing sandals or bare feet.  I only wore heels
in the city, and not high ones at that.  But I was a B div kinda girl.
Maybe the A-divers wore heels!
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Subject: Re: [Alumni-chat] Why Aren't the Students Using the Library?


>
> In a message dated 10/9/2007 8:42:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> duffy at antioch-college.edu writes:
>
> Not only  did you fifties' children smoke....you wore spike high 
> heels......
>
> Under the carpet by the circ desk at the library the tiles  had many tiny
> half moon marks wedged into the tiles.
>
> I used to ask  Joe and Bruce Thomas.    What's all those marks in the 
> tile?
> They  said "High heel marks from spike heels"
>
> I found that incredible...since  most folks in the later sixties wore
> sandals or boots or nothing...on their  feet
>
>
>
> Well, my particular generation probably did wear spikes on co-op,  but 
> never
> on campus -- not us.  We bought one pair of Keds when we  left for 
> Antioch,
> and for the next five years we mended them with medical  adhesive tape and
> sometimes odd lengths of string, in the interests of keeping  the Ohio Mud 
> out of
> our shoes and toes.  But the idea was to graduate in  the same shoes you 
> had
> when you entered, even though not much was left of the  original pair.  If
> anything we made virtually no impact on the environment,  we were very 
> cheap, we
> didn't offer much business to the shoe repair trade, we  bought American. 
> And
> we were only half children of Eisenhower.   During my first Quarter, (now
> precisely 50 years ago) we spent hours on front  campus in the middle of 
> the night
> looking for Sputnik, (and sat around in Birch  Common Room listening to 
> Ollie
> Loud and a few others describe the science  involved in putting it up 
> there.)
> Because Ellie Holmes lived in  Green that quarter, we also had joint
> Green-Randall hall meetings where Ellie  led us through the history of 
> litigation and
> decisions that led up to the  confrontation at Little Rock that forced Ike 
> to
> send in the Airborne  Troops.  Given that the media is busy memorializing
> these two events -- I  have an odd feeling about the fact that they left 
> out the
> third fact that in  September, 1957, I also started a degree program at a 
> very
> healthy Antioch  College.  Cost about 1200 per year for everything,
> especially if you  economized on shoes.  And oh yea, you could buy 
> cigarettes in the
> bookstore  for about five dollars a carton.
>
> As for Beer -- in those days Green County was dry except for 3.2 --  
> meaning
> if you wanted anything stronger or had a taste for wine, you had to go to
> Springfield.  Of course you could get the 3.2 at the Tavern or Coms, if 
> you  were
> over 18, but even in Springfield you had to be 21.  If I remember you 
> could
> get a pitcher that served six for under a dollar at the Tavern.  I  don't
> remember the brands, but for those of us who eventually did AEA and 
> returned,
> going to Springfield for German or Danish Beer was a big deal.   We cooled 
> it in
> winter on the window sills or inside the screens of dorm  windows.  No 
> such
> thing as a dorm fridge in those days.  For those of  us who went AEA in 
> Denmark,
> we had been exposed to a culture where cigarettes  were highly taxed, but
> cigars were not -- so women smoked cigars.  We  introduced the idea at 
> Antioch
> when we returned.  There was some sort of  crazy rule against smoking 
> cigars in
> the library -- but it was OK in the  Inn.  It was also fine to smoke pipes 
> in
> both the Library and the  Inn.  The bookstore had a quite elaborate 
> selection
> of tobacco for pipe  smokers.  And it was only in my last year that there 
> was
> a rumor that  someone had brought some pot to campus -- I never was around 
> any
> being  consumed.
>
>
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