[Alumni-chat] Antiochiana is good for you!

[Ann Frye]

> Too many times while I was a student there was some big  issue nearly 
> everyone got behind. However as soon as co-op came  around or the 
> summer, it vanished. Or worse the college did what  every they wanted 
> while the students were off campus.
>
I left in 1961, and never ceased to be appalled by Dr. Dixon's doing 
what HE wanted (or whoever was behind HIM) while you weren't looking.

My (then) husband and I were in Baltimore 1961 - 1965, when The Johns 
Hopkins University acquired The Peabody School of Music. In disgust I 
threw down the latest appeal from Antioch (printed on very expensive 
paper) and commented that Antioch (under Dixon) would have started up a 
competing school of music right across Charles Street from Peabody. 
Antioch had, after all,  just started up a branch campus of Law in 
Washington, D.C. -- a city with several venues for studying law already.

All of Antioch's money appeals were on expensive paper, then, with fancy 
enclosures. My father (B.A. Antioch 1934, still living, and a regular 
giver to Antioch until they lost track of him) said, at one point, "I 
guess they don't need MY money." He still gave.

So when I first discovered the Antiochsucks site, I had mixed emotions 
-- I didn't want more trashing of a school I loved. I was surprised that 
it wasn't a site devoted to trashing Antioch ... but it did give voice 
to a lot of fed up.

Full circle. I'd like to see apologies from the satellite schools that 
"borrowed" their grubstake from their mother, then snarled they couldn't 
afford to support their mother, but my wish list is long and probably 
unrealistic.

And I just sent off my first contribution to Antioch in a long time. One 
I couldn't, can't, afford, but then, how could I not afford. Just, 
PLEASE, make sure that Antioch College is NOT affiliated with this thing 
called Antioch University. Whatever it is.

Ann (56-61)