[Alumni-chat] Antioch presidents

[Stephen L. Wasby]

And waited on tables in the Tea Room?
    Steve Wasby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barrie Grenell" <sercle at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Alumni Chat List'" <alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:14 AM
Subject: RE: [Alumni-chat] Antioch presidents


And Lowell Fess' son Tom, recently deceased, used to play piano at the
Little Art for silent films. He was also an occasional soldier or other
extra in the Shakespeare plays.

Barrie

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-----Original Message-----
From: Art Dole [mailto:aadole at roadrunner.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:28 PM
To: Antioch Alum Chat
Subject: Re: [Alumni-chat] Antioch presidents

On 2/13/08 5:14 AM, "YAZZ Allen" <davidrogerallen at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Thanks, Yazz, for bringing up Antioch President Simeon Fess and his son
Lowell.
My mother-in-law Margaret Welsh worked in Dr. Fess's Senate Office as a
co-op.
This experience led to a career as Congressional staffer. She often spoke of
Senator Fess with affection and with admiration for his intellect and
integrity.
He was a specialist in American history. Whether or not he can be blamed, he
left the presidency when the college had severe financial problems and only
a
handful  of students.

I rented an apartment from Lowell "Red" Fess when he was mayor of Yellow
Springs. We occasionally chatted about the state of the college. He was an
adamant McCarthyite who was highly critical of the new Antioch that was
being ruined by communists and pacifists--a nest of free lovers! I was too
polite to counter that his local Republican machine was probably corrupt and
involved with the numbers racket and arson.

Art Dole '46



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