[Alumni-chat] Re: [Alumni Board] treehuggers and all dat

[Michael Brower]

Hello, Duffy!!

Thank you so much for your New Year's greeting and your picturesque  
and picaresque (Not sure what that means but sounds good, at least to  
me) evoking for us foreigners reminders of the beauty of our beloved  
Antioch and YSO.  And for reminding us that both Antioch College and  
our planet earth are endangered and that their futures are surely  
intertwined in some magical ways.

And Happy New Year to you, too, and to all of us.  This year, 2008,  
will be the year of re-generation and rejuvenation and celebration!

Let it be so decreed, and let us make it happen!

We are ashamed to let Antioch die!  And We Shall Overcome!

-- Mike



On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Steven Duffy wrote:

> Happy New Year to All.  Folks on the chat line and elsewhere.  
> Friends, romans, countrywomyn and J. David Coldren....
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.....
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> Many of us just take it all for granted.....letting the day's  
> irritations take over...or other irritations.
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> 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......
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> 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.
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> 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.......
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> I hope it to be a good one.  and not the only one........
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> 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.
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> Duffy '77
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> Don't forget to visit Antiochians.org and the like
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