By now you’ve probably all heard about our visit from the winds of hurricane Ike.  They blew through Ohio on Sunday the 14th of September with gusts over 78 miles per hour uprooting tree’s, making missiles out of black walnuts, peeling back the roof of my 150 year old garage, and knocking out power to almost 2million Ohio residents.  Since that time we have ambled back in to the office from our dark homes to the office where power was restored on Wednesday 9/17.  Gradually, one by one, reporting a return to modern living.  Risa and Cheri were first, then Pam, then me, yesterday was Duffy’s day, and then there is Fred.  Day 10 and still no power for Fred. You wouldn’t know it to see him, Fred, ever patient, making coffee on his grill before coming in for a day of work with us.  Seven down one to go.

Normally I would say friends, romans and countrywomyn but this time let’s try…

Hello fifties’ bohemians, sixties’ hippies, seventies’ radicals, eighties’ business oriented types, nineties’ nihilists and the new team working millenisls—all you different Antiochians…

If you read Laura Fathauer’s link you will see that , well, in Yellow Springs, folks do community building non-stop……and that is what makes us a treasure.

Last night about fifteen of us Antiochians..which included faculty, alums, staff and last year’s CM, Chelsea, went out to celebrate Chelsea’s 23 rd berfday.. Good lord..she is old! Chelsea is an example of how awesome even the last crop of Antiochians can be….so smart and articulate that it is humbling.

We went to a Vietnamese restaurant in Dayton..Little saigon..in a repurposed taco Bell. Of course when you get fifteen Antioch types in one place there is quite the conversation. Of course everyone compared everything and we started off by analyzing our respective orientations and graduations.

and then went on to talk about what people really remember many many moons later. Then one of the faculty started sharing her interests in nonstop which was a course on Suburbia. So the talk was of all the themed suburbia movies people collectively knew or liked….or disliked. and novels as well.

As we were delivered Vietnamese vermicelli ( I thought that combination of words to be odd), springrolls and the like, the conversation drifted to teaching styles and even at one point Ellen Borgersen talked about what it was like to be a Dean or Faculty at Stanford Law School and when faculty really know if you are “grasping it.”

The talk continued on after desert in the parking lot while the sky started turning fiery July red.

Be sure to have your own local Antioch moment with peers and colleagues. (Find your local chapter) Although last night once folks got into the term deconstruction they occasionally were over my head so my energy went to the beef and snow peas.

Anyhow..looking for stimulation? the answer could be right near you with a chapter event… If you want to reconnect give me an email holla buffaloduffy@gmail.com and we will find you a deconstruction expert and maybe some Vietnamese vermicelli?

Much love to all and I would love to network with old and new friends. Your chapter, remember, can help our next chapter.

Duffy ‘77

from YSO

where it is oh so green this year

and the corn IS as high as an elephant’s eye.

This is Duffy…. In a past life I must have a professional yenta… because I just love to have folks meet each other.

All you folks throughout the decades must know …. folks at Antioch have bonded in ways other college students do not. We really rock….

Instead of fraternities we have had entities such as Maples (Volunteer fire department) and in more recent decades people have bonded by

common interests….Science Interest Groups, Womyn’s center, People of Color Groups (TWA< BAMN and Unidad) and the most whimsical one and popular

The Red Haired Support Group (so popular that people were “dying” to get in”.)

In you want to be involved in the ultimate Antioch interest or support group remember that your Alumni Association wants you to bond with each other.

Antiochians of varying vintages can learn much from each other and have fun.

If you want tp reconnect with your colleagues you can check Chapters out at Antiochians.org/ or you can feel free to bug or pester me to find you the connection. It would make the yenta in me very happy.

I would love to help you reconnect….contact me buffaloduffy@gmail.com YOU can be instrumental in having fun at an alumni chapter and help create

another chapter for Scott Sander’s way in the future revised ed. of Antioch an episodic history.

Yours from a tranquil and beautiful Yellow Springs.

went to the Horace Mann Statue in the Glen last night. …someone has painted Horace’s shoes red. Just too outrageously fashionable….

I LOOK FORWARD TO ANY CONTACTS

Much love to all

Duffy ‘77

Hello from Sunny Yellow Springs.

I guess as we speak the next chapter in Antioch history is continuing to be written.  with thousands of authors..and hopefully , thousands of gifts..

Yesterday  on 716 Xenia Avenue, the Big Gray House where the Alumni Association has taken refuge… we had a moment of fun while we fun-draised.   I wrote the largest check I have ever have written and it was, of course, from my final library pay check.   So ironically I have become the equivalent of a Horace Mann Donor as I went out the door of the Big Olive (Kettering Library)…..after 39 years…… As a person who really has never made much more than 80 dollars a day and put 10 in every day for gas…this was a little taxing.  So I asked some friends to come and have an impromptu moment of giving with me.  With a few calls using the little red YS phonebook (which lists families and even their pet’s names with phone numbers btw) and with Judith Wolert-Maldonado’s ‘05 email blast to a group of supportive villagers we had a dozen folks turn out for a YS News photo op.    We surrounded Sheri with checks, pledge forms and folks waving dollar bills. That was a fun and fast 7,000 dollars.   I am glad folks came..I hate cameras..so their company made it easier.    and Wendy Ernst who works in the office was on the street trying to make us smile like babies in a stroller …

More folks might have come but it was a last minute thing and many folks were also at a meeting downtown at the Emporium (at the UNDERDOG Cafe) working on outreach and recruiting for the Non-stop Liberal Arts Institute.

BTW there is now a fledgling website for the Institute!!  and a group of two hundred supporters on Facebook…..and other viral marketing…

Yesterday I was a little more nutz than usual..wondering whether folks and the YS NEWS would get there. (many moons ago when Ruth Churchill in the Testing Office analyzed my psychological profile she clucked and said..”Oh boy, you have an innate high anxiety level”) Ruth knew everything and I would bet you folks from the 60’s and 70’s can vouch for her.   She and later Katy were true escerpts about Institutional Reasearch and Evaluation. They just called the Testing Office because they tested the crap outta you.

Folks did come and it was a great blue sky and low humidity day….but I did not want to photo op to happen until Al Denman got there……he as well as having been the college pastor and wonderful teacher , mentor and marathon runner was also the very first person to see that the College needed to  have a governance system that would totally know about and nurture just the college……he was the father of Indpendence..so it meant alot to me for him to be in the picture….and Bob Baldwin ‘57 as well.

Thanks to those folks who made the IPM dash Eric Miller, Evelyn Lamers, Anne Whitaker, Juan Gregorek, Nevin Mercede, Steve Bognar, Donna and Al Denman, Steve Bognar, Ken Huber (The one man picket line) , Judith Wolert-Maldonado,  Bob Baldwin….and if I forgot someone well, my neurons are sizzling!

Hopefully with our collective Antiochian imagination we can collectively concot some fun-draising events in multiple venues. Beach or park picnics, art galleries, restaurants, group trips to concerts.

In YSO next week we will be having funb at the Farmer;’s market and a giant Community Potluck…….Ice cream socials anyone.

If you want to write some of the next chapter and have fun think about CHAPTERS in your area and well….be serenditous and have fun. I hear that folks in New England will be having a Div Dance of Sorts.

Stay in touch and be sure to have fun. Non stop fundraising for non stop and all the folks and things that we love.

Crazy Duffy ‘77

P.S.   Be sure to pass some gatorade and B vitamins around….and maybe have a spahgetti dinner….some of the ways to train from that marathon.

Camus is quiet and clover studded today you can hear the birds singing but also the sounds of digital security camera installation and Stanley Steamer cleaning up stuff for AEA.

also windows cracked open on the 2nd floor of McGregor……..ventilation? who knows.

BTW Thanks to Nina Myatt , 53 and retired urator of Antiochiana and endless warrior for the Big Olive…she planted a flower bed of pretty pink and purple petunias in the Library flower bed.     and has been shelving trucks and moping as a volunteer.

other blood, sweat and tears award today for Bob Devine….who has given much money and time and been a lightning rod like many of us.

and Finally the factoid of the Day..a question asked by Kim-Jenna Jurriaans ‘08 who is working on a book, I believe with Megan Rosenfeld ‘69…. who was the first female Maples’ Fire Chief…. answer Lorka Munoz  ’88

Take care out there……..and whadabou that next “CHAPTER”?

Hello to all!

It is finally summer in Ohio.   Unlike many of the more recent years we have had the best rain at the right times so the corn IS an high as an elephant’s eye and the corn tassel rains have yet to come.   If corn is now a fuel crop Ohio may finally prosper.  It feels like there are walls of corn lining the highway on the way home to Dayton.  Actually pretty and  bucolic.

I am working for awhile with the CRF to assist alumni in various ways. For this interval I will be in the front office in the Big Gray Building at 716 Xenia Avenue…and in that office is also Fred Kraus. If you come to town……please stop by……you might get a big old hug…a snazzy non-stop tee-shirt( 100% cotton) and a pledge form even.

The faculty and townsfolk of Yellow Springs are working non-stop on the Non-stop Liberal Arts Institute.  Dennie Eagleson ‘71 is finishing up a DVD that will be a taste of this non stop frenzy by the faculty.  Of course Dennie is being meticulous so have a small amount of patience for the release. I am type A so all this makes me suffer..I will plant garden seeds and then go out in two days and holler at them “where are you?” are we there yet?

At this point 20 or so faculty will teach classes.  And depending on the future everything may simply melt into village for awhile. A lucky tourist might stroll into the UnderDog cafe and find a roundtable discussion or a powerpoint going on. These twenty I have known for decades and they will be a  promising seed core of faculty should we have that midsummer’s nights dream come true.

Some classes do seem like a dream….former Yellow Springs’ News Editor, Don Wallis and Photography Professor Dennie Eagleson will teach a photojournalism course which involve photography and the art of oral interviews.  Be sure to check out Don’s book about a poor rural Black town in Indiana.  ALL WE HAD WAS EACH OTHER. I tease Don by saying  ”Well, all  he have is Don Wallis!”  He is a passionate journalist…

And  non-stop things are definitely going to be findable in cyberspace very shortly.   For starts there is already a facebook Non-Stop group. and there other surprises coming.

Facebook is a great networking tool…not simply for the young….but well if you are YOUNG simply remember the sorta thing that Judge Judy might say…if you put something in cyberspace..it just might be out there forever and ever. Prudence anyone?

A large number of Villagers are resolute and still solidly behind the College’s legacy.  First Giant Community Day and Potluck is next week…I plan to bring a nice sweet organic carrot, raisin, pineapple salad and pledge forms.

If you are interested  in getting involved in an any alumni events out in the real world feel free to contact me and I will try to hook you up to other Antiochians. want to build a chapter or hang out at events with fun folks…? why not? Tomorrow iI will finally become the equivalent of a  Horace Mann Giver since I plan to donate a fair chunk of my final library paycheck to the Alumni ssociation (CRF) and the reasons for this is all of you.    I wish had 100 million to give…..

The richest thing in my life for the last thirty some years has been the thrill of watching folks arrive and work on their passions and dreams. with marvelous faculty as well. This has been a nurturing environment where people had the time to work on their dreams both here and in that outside world (aka co-op) I am grateful to have known so many and know without even hesitating that until the very end we had students who who so usual and wonderful… If you ever get me started I would hammer you with anecdotes…so many that even Katy Jako, the ultimate data hound would say uncle…and say maybe we have data.

YSO is wonderul vibrant, cosmic and sometimes a little irregular.  check it out.  Gotta go…but wanted to stay in touch.

another email contact for alumni who want to get involved in the “serendipitous”  is buffaloduffy@gmail.com  please give me a e-holler

A little love and a little “corn”..from Ohio…

Duffy ‘77 and the years since and well, there may even be the possibility of an unsanitzied blog at Antiochians.org but this will take awhile since this may be done by volunteers

(and thanks to them for all that 3AM work,  some of us have to hit the pillow after the 11PM news)