A midsummer’s night dream
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)
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