[Alumni-chat] "Lonely At The Top" Complete List Of Antioch Presidents: 1853 to 2008!

[YAZZ ALLEN]

Feb. 15, 08
   
  Hi from Yazz Allen '92 (Email: YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com):
   
  Belated Happy Valentine's Day to all you sweet Antiochians, especially past female Antioch girlfriends of mine who married other guys instead of me!  Good luck to all your husbands, ladies! The husbands will need all the luck they can get for sure!
   
  Here's a complete list of Antioch College presidents taken from the 2007 Antioch Alumni Directory (still available for purchase from Texas' PSI Publishing Co. for a price YOU can afford!   GET ONE! NOW!) from 1853 to present times (!).
   
  Unfortunately, incomplete because the list doesn't include "interim presidents" (Andre Bloch is the current one, and many others had that hard, demanding job over 155 years of Antioch history, including Barrett Hollister and Morris Keeton, famous Antioch staffers from the 20th century!). ANOTHER unmet neeed exists for a detailed book about "interim presidents" at Antioch....the Weston family suppled several during the 19th Century!  Interesting folks, all.  The whole subject of how to run an emergency presidency on no notice, and usually no resources or support from anytone is interesting.  An "Interim Presidents" book would be a great "how to" book for the likes of people like Andre Bloch and his successors!
  Might be a good morale booster.  The Interim guys were all saints...got the work but didn't get the glory or fame...probably didn't get the money, either!  The PAY both Antioch Presidents and also Interim Presidents got, one by one, should ALSO be reported...also the perks (and lack of perks!).
   
  A serious unmet need exists for a good (very thick and well indexed) history book solely about Antioch presidents....ALL of 'em!
   
  Robert Straker's HORACE MANN AND OTHERS (1963 Antioch Press) book profiles Horace Mann (so do all encyclopedias in the entire world!) and also Thomas Hill, Mann's successor who went from Antioch to the Harvard U. presidency, and Austin Craig, who followed Hill after the Civil War (and who taught GREEK at Antioch during Mann's watch in the 1850's!...My collateral ancestor, William Francis Allen, 1830-1889, ALSO taught Greek at Antioch...Latin, too in 1866-67...famous 19th century Antioch teacher in all the encyclopedias!)
   
  OK....here's ANTIOCH PRESIDENTS HALL OF FAME LIST (all entering Antioch College freshman and transfers should be required to recite this list out loud and write it out in longhand as a degree requirement!):
   
  In memoriam (Lest we forget!)..
   
  (NOTE: Large typeface names [4] were Antioch's greatest presidents, as guys like George Washington and Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan were the USA's greatest presidents...there ARE differing views about this, of course,  but I submit mine, and honor the challenges of others, Voltaire style!):
   
  1. HORACE MANN (1853 - 1859)
  2. Henry Hill (1859 - 1862)
  3. Austin Craig (1862 - 1866)  [Note:  Unclear description in 2007 alumni directory about Craig..I THINK 1862-66 is right, but maybe not!]
  4. Geroge Washington Hosmer (1866 - 1872)
  5. Edward Orton (1872 - 1873)  [Note: Orton was ALSO president of Ronald Reagan's Eureka College in Illinois...one of MANY ties to the Republican Party Antioch has!....An unmet need exists for a book titled "Antioch College And The USA Republican Party!"  Sure to be a best seller!]
  6. Samuel Carroll Derby (1876 - 1881)
  7. Orin J. Wait (1882 - 1883)
  8. Daniel Albright Long (1883 - 1899)
  9. William Allen Bell (1899 - 1902)
  9A. Samuel Francis Westen (1902 - 1906)..Had the title "Dean," not "President"
  10. SIMEON DAVIDSON FESS (1906 - 1917) (Elected to US Congress in 1913, became US Senator from Ohio 1920's-1930's...very important part of the Ohio Republicans behind Warren Harding presidency)
  10A. George Douglas Black (1917 - 1919) Had title "Acting President"
  10B. William Marcus Dawson (1919 - 1920) Had title "Acting President"
  11. ARTHUR ERNEST MORGAN (1920 - 1936) Last three years were "in absentia" due to founding and running the TVA for the USA govt. Founded Antioch co-op program. Stopped disasterous floods in Dayton OH area. Lived in YSO til his death in 1976 at age 97.  Antioch's tallest president, ever.  The Antioch equivalent to Abe Lincoln in many, many, many ways!
  12. Algo (aka Algernon) Donmeyer Henderson (1936 - 1947)
  13. Douglas McGregor [NOT "MACGregor!...spell it right!] (1948 - 1954)
  14. Samuel Brookner Gould (1954 - 1959)
  15. JAMES PAYSON DIXON (1959 - 1975)
  16. William M. (no full middle name given in 2007 Alumni Directory) Birenbaum (1876 - 1885)
  17. Alan E. (no full middle name given in 2007 Alumni Directory...a TRULY awful directory....editing and preparation stinks!) Guskin (1985 - 1994)
  18. James E. (again, no middle name given) Crowfoot (1994 - 1996)
  18A. Robert H. (again, no middle name given) Devine, Had "Acting President" title.
  19. Robert H. (again, no middle name given, but probably stands for "Heavenly") Devine (1998 - 2001)
  20. Joan Cole Straumanis (2002 - 2004)
  20A. Richard Jurasek (2004 - 2006) Had title "Acting President"
  21. Steven Lawry (2006 - 2007)
  21A. Andre Bloch (2007 - 2008) Had title "Acting President" [ Antioch's first Polish born and/or non-USA born President...ANOTHER "Antioch first!"]
   
  OK, folks!  THAT's the list.  Read it and weap!
   
  How about some books on these guys (and gal...let's have MORE gals as Antioch Prez, and ALSO, let's invite Joan Straumanis BACK to continue the good job she did during 2002 - 2004!)?
   
  ANTIOCHIANA should be ENDOWED with big money from mega-money Antioch alumni and benefactors, but given the ENTIRE OK Library building JUST for Antiochiana (build a bigger, better Antioch College Library and name it the Joe Calle "Don't Fall Down...THAT's The Key" Library).  Money should be provided JUST for the cranking out of Antioch history books, and books about the Antioch presidency, and those who dared to attempt it (and what they faced!) should be at the top of the list.
  
Warmest regards,
Yazz (David) Allen '92, 
  Son of David Roger ("the Geezer") Allen '66
   


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  I wish you warm and gentle sleep!  "Dear night...this world's defeat, the stop to busy fools, care's check and cure!  The day of spirits, my soul's calm retreat which none disturb!".....Henry Vaughn (1622 England - 1695 England)




       
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