[Alumni-chat] Antiochiana/ Elbert Hubbard

[Sonia Jaffe Robbins]

That's interesting about Eleanor Roosevelt. I'm in the midst of 
reading J.D. Dawson's memoir of his Antioch career, broken up briefly 
by a stint working for Arthur Morgan when Morgan ran the beginning of 
the TVA. It seems FDR invited Morgan to be head of the TVA board, and 
he had heard of Morgan, according to Dawson, because Eleanor read 
"Antioch Notes" and passed them on to FDR. Morgan, according to 
Clark's "Distinctive College," did a terrific job of proselytizing 
for Antioch in the '20s, which must be how the New Yorkers for 
Antioch Committee came about.

>   Eleanor Roosevet headed the "New Yorkers For Antioch Committee" in 
>the 1920's even before her husband became NY state governor in 1928. 
>The Roosevelts actually drove to Antioch College Ohio for a visit in 
>1931 when FDR was still NY governor to look it over.
>   
>   MORE Antiochiana about Eleanor Roosevelt and Antioch College 
>(according to the 1975 Antioch calendar I have!):
>   
>   On July 11, 1944, Eleanor Roosevelt visited and spoke at Antioch 
>College, Ohio.
>   
>   She stated then, during her Antioch visit, "We've taught history 
>the way we would like it to be, rather than the way it really is!" 
>   
>   This gal could have been a terrific Antioch undergrad, given the 
>chance (she never atended school or had group education, ever.  All 
>her education came from private tutors!).
>

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Sonia Jaffe Robbins
Antioch College, '60-'62, '64
sjr5 at nyu.edu		srobbins at reedbusiness.com
http://www.neww.org.pl       http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting

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