[Alumni-chat] Antiochiana! -- Folk Dancing At Antioch...a history!

[Sistersara at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/22/2007 11:16:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
sjr5 at nyu.edu writes:

In the  early '60s, there were a few of us who weren't folk dance 
aficionados.  There were also twist dances in the common room off 
North Hall every  Saturday (?) night. Those are some of my fondest 
memories. That's where I  first heard Ray Charles records. Boys from 
Wilberforce came, to dance and  pick up girls.

>   Antiochiana includes memorabilia about  folk dancing in past 
>decades at Antioch College, Ohio, popular from  the 1950's through 
>the 1970's (Antioch's so-called "Golden  Age").  Oddly, very little 
>information about folk dancing at  Antioch College, Ohio, is 
>available or part of the formal Antiochiana  Collection presently 
>located in the Kettering Library at Antioch in  YSO.
>



OK -- Idea for a small fundraiser -- what about finding some of the old  
records and getting them transferred to CD's or DVD, (someone will have to track  
licensing rights) and re-issue "Antiochians Dance".  I know there is film  of 
some of the dancing from both 59 and 61 done up as a documentary.  I  once had 
about three dozen of the records, but loaned them to a summer camp  program, 
and never saw them again.  Alumni Reunions in the early 90's  actually had 
folk dancing on Friday Night, and some of the original organizers  were brought 
in to provide the music and all.  
 
(by the way -- the lesson is if you have bought a book, and underlined it  
and made marginal notes and all, you NEVER loan out.  If you want to give a  
book away, fine.  If you think someone needs to read a book, buy an extra,  and 
do it as a gift.  Loaned books have a bad habit of never coming home  again.  
Of course if you bought a book, read a hundred pages or so, decided  it was 
stupid -- yep -- give it away.)



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