[Alumni-chat] Antiochiana! Jazz Piano at Antioch in Birch Hall Common Room in 1965!

[YAZZ ALLEN]

Sept. 24, 07
   
  Hi from Yazz (David Roger) Allen '66 (YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com)!
   
  Hi Jan Meltzer '69, and thank you for your kind message and inquiries.
   
  The 1969 Antioch College graduation was filmed?  How wonderful!  I've never seen that or heard about it.  Wonder if ANTIOCHIANA has the film (no video tape back then) of the 69 graduation, and/or the "changed" ANTIOCH ADVENTURE (1967) movie, now on video.
   
  "Near beer" is/was "3.2" beer which meant less alcohol.  Might have been an early version of "light beer," which became (still it) popular among the weight control people of the world, and others.
   
  Com's was founded in 1945 and was still alive an well in the 1970's when it employed then famous Antioch grads as waiters who didn't desire to leave Yellow Springs, Ohio and get a co-op job elsewhere after college graduation!  When did it clsoe?
   
  Steve Lippman was a great jazz piano player I hired to play jazz piano in the Birch Hall Common Room during Winter Quarter 1965 when I served as Antioch Community Government Asst. Manager for the Social Program (half time job I had along with a full time study load...great!). That same quarter Jose Feliciano performed in Kelly Hall (Main Building/ Antioch Hall) , and Dave Van Ronk did also later in the quarter.
   
  Robin Holske attended Antioch then, and played music for Div Dance of Winter 1965 in Birch Hall Common Room.  We had a big referendum about whether Div Dance should be continued, and students overwhelmingly signed petitions urging it be kept alive.  So..it went on!.
   
  Holske became a famous and noted (same thing?) jazz and band pianist in New England, and recently sent bio info to THE ANTIOCHIAN alumni publication stating he was active as a musician's union leader in New Hampshire or Vermont (those seem the same to me, but I don't live there!).
   
  Steve Lippman was in awe of Robin Holske, who was considered something of a jazz piano genius back in 1965.
   
  Best,
  Yazz (David Roger) Allen (YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com)


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