[Alumni-chat] I miss the old ANTIOCHIAN newspaper tabloid format with hundreds of alumni "what's happening" reports!

[YAZZ ALLEN]

Jan. 15, 08
   
  Hi from Yazz (David) Allen '66 (Email me at YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com)!
   
  Thanks to Freda Bluestone (Birnbaum) '65 for the sad update regarding the passing of Jean Janis.  A great lady.
   
  Jean and Fran Lemcke had adjacent offices on the second floor of the Antioch Union, directly opposite the Community Government offices. It was interesting to learn the two later remained in contact after their professional years at Antioch.
   
  Jean Janis was only 75 when she died in 2002.  That's too young to die in today's world, I think.  So many in the present age live past 80 and 90.
   
  Freda Bluestone's mention of THE ANTIOCHIAN providing wonderful banner articles in detail about the passing of Antioch faculty and staffers as well as alumni reminded me of how terrific the old tabloid sized, newsprint ANTIOCHIAN Alumni Newspaper style publication was in the days before cyberspace arrived to change people's ideas about "what media is."
   
  I really do miss the old ANTIOCHIAN newspaper style publication of 15 or 20 years ago.
   
  It used to have many, many pages of one paragraph reports and statements from alumni ranging from the very oldest to the newest, recent grad types, and I spent many happy hours reading the newly arrived ANTIOCHIAN cover to cover.
   
  A lot of work must have gone into reprinting the "what I'm doing now" reports Antioch alumni and others sent to the publication.....sometimes ANTIOCHIAN issues would have literally hundreds of "quick paragraph" reports about alumni.
   
  I'd always check out "the 1960's alumni" section, and catch up with the adventures and disasters of people I knew personally.  In time, it was interesting for me to look at other generations of Antiochians, both the ones before and after mine in the 1960's.   The older grads reporting loss of spouses and retirement adventures,  the younger people reporting exotic jobs and travels, and new marriages and babies.
   
  What a circus Antioch always was, even in the alumni world as reported wonderfully by the newspaper tabloid format ANTIOCHIAN.  Never dull, always different and interesting.
   
  Best,
  Yazz (David) Allen '66


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