[Alumni-chat] treehuggers and all dat

[Steven Duffy]

Happy New Year to All.  Folks on the chat line and elsewhere. Friends,
romans, countrywomyn and J. David Coldren....

Please consider one of yer  New Year's resolutions to be that of staying
in touch and lending a hand to making us stronger.  We need so such help
and in many forms....
skillsets and dollar bills y'all.

Maybe with the help of the masses we can be one of the more hopeful
stories of the year for 2008 in the field of higher education.

Campus today is quiet and beautiful.    We had a five inch snowfall
yesterday so we are having a Currier And Ives moment.  Global warming
should hopefully kick back in by the weekend..
and then this pretty white stuff should be gone.    Since I commute from
Dayton I would prefer that it only snow on Saturdaze.

The drive here yesterday was a little frazzling and later in the day when
a visiting researcher said  " What a beautiful place you have here"...I
took the time to realize it.....

Many of us just take it all for granted.....letting the day's irritations
take over...or other irritations.

The visitor was doing a piece for an Ohio Art Journal about Bob
Whitmore....an art professor from back in da day and  a local......

BTW if  you were to visit and head to the Glen side of main building you
would find a flag flying..at half mast.....and unlike many more cotidian
places.....it is NOT the starz and stripes...

it is an azure blue flag with a blue , green and white earth on it.

Dunno why we fly it it instead of old glory..  Are we more worldly?    Is
it because we belong to the set of six colleges that make up the
eco-league?  Or is it because we are
treehuggers and peaceniks?     And I haven't figured out or asked why it
is flying half-mast.   Is it because of the College's current sub-optimal
condition or is it the world's
current sub-optimal condition?   Either way it works for me I guess.    It
makes me chortle.........

reminds of my first Antioch catalog...there was a picture of the Empire
State bldg and text about the world being our campus...as a New Yorker It
worked for me..I thought ...oh.. a few weeks
in Ohio and then I can return to NY.  And course..I did...my first co-op
was at the New York Times.

and after that I went on co-op almost anywhere there was a palm
tree....and discovered NY was not the only place in the world. and then
set roots right cheer.

and btw that front campus flag is just like the one that many of the older
peaceniks wave at traffic passing by on Route 68.....most Saturday
afternoons.  
With large signs saying "Peace is patriotic"

back to that earth flag and greening topic...

I did do some of my Christmas shopping in YS..because I wanted to stay
outta the mall craziness......and YS seems a tad more sane that many
places.

Downt0wn across from the bank there is a new store  "living Green"  so I
stopped there and bought energy saving light bulbs and water aerators....
ah...gifts that keep
giving....at least as good as ties or old spice.

Next door to "Living green" is a "Fair Trade Store".   You hafta know that
many of the current slightly yuppy shops in YS from Living Green, to
Kismet, Ohio Sillver, The Winds  and
such have come from the college's culture.

Sprinter Term starts in about 12 days.......

I hope it to be a good one.  and not the only one........

Happy and Prosperopus New Year to all...and especially US.

and come visit and take a stroll by that blue flag on Front Campus.

Yours from a place where there are still many trees to hug.



Duffy '77

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