[Alumni-chat] Memories Of Miriam Dickenson ("Ma Dick"),Antioch Registrar in the 1960's, now almost 100 years old! Best, Yazz (David) Allen '66

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From: "YAZZ ALLEN" <davidallenusa at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 11:38 AM
Subject: [Alumni-chat] Memories Of Miriam Dickenson ("Ma Dick"),Antioch 
Registrar in the 1960's,now almost 100 years old! Best, Yazz (David) Allen 
'66


> Jan. 13, 08
>
>  Hi from Yazz (David) Allen '66 (Email me at YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com):
>
>  I just learned from an Antioch alumnus friend living the YS Ohio area 
> that Miriam Dickenson, Antioch College Registrar Emerita, is still living 
> and is almost 100 years old!  Her "nickname" was "Ma Dick" and she 
> sometimes signed informal letters to students who wrote her with that 
> "title" which I think she enjoyed!
>
>  Ma Dick almost 100? WOW!  SHE was MY "Dean" when I entered Antioch in 
> 1962!  She always was the Dean for newly entered transfer students back 
> then.
>
> She'd invite us to her "over the garage" apt. packed (wall to wall) with 
> dectective novels she loved, read, and reviewed for THE ANTIOCH REVIEW 
> very skillfully!  She also served the most delicious chocolate brownies 
> and her trick was to use GIANT hunks of pecan nuts in the brownies....she 
> wouldn't make the hunks small, sooooooooo....the brownies were always much 
> bigger than average...also, she seemed to have used double portions of 
> actual (probably Baker's brand) chocolate rather than the usual cake/ 
> dough ingrediants for her brownies.
>
> After meetings she'd hold at her great off-campus "pad," the guys on my 
> hall (Caldwell Hall in Mills Dorm) would talk about those brownies for 
> days!
>
>  Ma Dick (aka "Miriam Dickenson") was a graduate of Marietta College, 
> Marietta, Ohio on the far side of the state, right next to West Virginis 
> (Parkersbury WVa was across the bridge from Marietta College) and the 
> gentry from Ohio traditionally sent kids to Marietta before going into the 
> family banking biz in places like Columbus and Cleveland....low profile, 
> very good school!
>
>  Ma Dick was (no doubt still is) one of the native Ohio types who staffed 
> Antioch for decades, common sense people much smarter and more creative 
> than prejudiced (agains Mid-Westerners!) east coast types like my ever 
> gave them credit for.  J. D. Dawson was another "hokey" Ohio type who ran 
> Antioch for decades....always had a small town Ohio hokey haircut and used 
> Ohio slang phrases while explaining to Antiochians how to survive the 
> messes kids would confront him (and Ma Dick!) with!
>
>  I hope Ma Dick lives ANOTHER 100 years, and the key may be to send her 
> gread brownies with big Pecan nut hunks and double chocolate portions!  Ma 
> Dick (Miriam Dickenson, Antioch College Registrar Emerita) is really one 
> of the saints of 20th Century Antioch College.
>
> Olympia Brown, Antioch Class of 1859, Antioch's most famous 19th century 
> feminist would have been proud of Ma Dick!  Two great Antioch ladies!
>
>
>  ----
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