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08.19.2010   Manifestations of Antioch Colleges past are usually recognizable to Antiochians, but not always. Olive Trader ‘13 married Carl Nybladh in 1918. She was a high school teacher in nearby Xenia; each year a deserving graduate of Xenia High School receives a scholarship that bears her name. The following is her account of an experience from her senior year that would not have happened to any Antiochian alive today.   › MORE

08.05.2010   Last month Antiochiana received a donation of Antioch School materials from Ruth Hameyer King ‘55, whose husband, Louis King ‘49, was director of the Antioch School and a longtime member of the Antioch College faculty. Kings had a long association with the College going back to 1860, when Louis’s great grandfather, James Elbridge Greer, enrolled in the Preparatory Program. Included in Ruth’s gift was a carte de visite, or “calling card,” of Greer’s Latin teacher, the Rev, Claudius Bradford, a Unitarian minister from Massachusetts who taught languages at Antioch College at the end of his life. The calling card, as it was called in the mid 19th century, was a photograph mounted on a business card.   › MORE

07.22.2010   There are critical moments in history where, if events went just a little bit differently then, the situation would be dramatically different now. There are several such instances in the history of Antioch College. Perhaps the most interesting one (with perhaps the greatest possibility for a dramatically different outcome) is how the college dispensed with the Florida lands it received from the estate of Hugh Taylor Birch, class of 1869. The story is best told by Algo Henderson, president of Antioch College 1936-1948, in his delightful autobiography Skyhooks: Riding the Crest of the Industrial Revolution, related in the form of letters to his grandchildren. In this installment he describes the exhilaration of land sales, opportunities gained and lost, and a rather ugly incident of ant-Semitism.   › MORE

06.24.2010   Antiochians are justifiably proud of the College’s standing among other institutions when it comes to producing graduates that go on to earn doctorates in their profession. This installment of “Songs” attempts to arm the reader with the required information so that facts will be straight when friends are impressed.   › MORE

06.07.2010   Alfred Hampton, class of 1888, was the first African-American graduate of Antioch College. This is the only known photograph of him as a student. Hampton became a Baptist minister, returning to Yellow Springs briefly in 1900-01 as minister of the First Baptist Church.   › MORE

03.04.2010   As part of the College’s centennial celebration of 1953-54, Alumni Office director Helen Tordt (class of 1933) collected the memories of Antiochians from vintages various and sundry. Many of those recollections made it into the files of Antiochiana under the curious heading: “Alumni Recollections.” Each and every one is a great read in some way or other, but none have the character and style of “Thirty Years Later” by Paul Stewart Harris, class of 1929.   › MORE

02.04.2010   It's great to be back in Antiochiana as your College Archivist. Now that Antioch College is back, donations have begun to flow into the archives once again now that independence has been achieved. Starting with the Alumni Reunion in October, several interesting gifts have been given to ...   › MORE