NYC Antioch College Community Chapter presents
“SCRAPPY UNDERDOG WINES THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE”
– a wine tasting event to benefit the College Revival Fund –

WHEN: Friday, September 19th, 2008
7:00 – 9:30 pm
LOCATION: Bob Rock Studio
873 Broadway
NY, NY 10003
(west side of the street just above East 18th Street)
COST: $150.00 per person

An invitation to all alumni, friends and future friends of Antioch College:

Please join us for an evening of wine tasting to benefit the College Revival Fund during the “Nonstop Rocks” national fundraising weekend. Antioch College alum David Ramm will be leading the tasting in a beautiful and spacious photography studio, located in a fully accessible building near Union Square.

We will taste eight wines from around the world, many of them from organically or biodynamically farmed vineyards, all of them from people unwilling to bow to the wine world’s prevailing wisdom. Released into a market that demands sameness and quietly forgives manipulation, these handcrafted wines offer brilliant specificity, distilling the place, time, people, and traditions that produced them into approachable, compelling wines for everyday meals and special occasions.

Experienced wine tasters will discover little-heralded and often underpriced wineries and wine regions, while people with limited formal tasting experience will be given an unusual but well-grounded starting point for a lifetime’s exploration.

ABOUT DAVID RAMM: Having first tasted wine in Yellow Springs at the home of music professor John Ronsheim, David went on to take Ronsheim’s Art, Wine, and the Five Senses course and from there set to working in the wine business in New York, Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina. He has taught dozens of wine appreciation classes for businesses and private groups and as an instructor in Duke University’s continuing education division. He is currently the editor-in-chief of AMS Press, a small, scrappy scholarly publishing company based in Brooklyn.

For anyone who had the privilege of being in one of John Ronsheim’s classes, you know the lasting impression he left on all of our lives. We will raise our glasses in his honor this evening.

In order to maintain the integrity of the experience we are limiting the tasting to 25 people.

RSVP required by Wednesday, September 18th, 2008

RSVP to antioch.nyc with complete address, email and phone contact information to reserve your space.
We cannot guarantee your RSVP without this information.
Payment can be made by check, credit card or cash.
We will follow-up with payment instructions and confirmation once you have RSVP’d
As this is a fundraising event, no refunds will be given unless the event itself is cancelled.

For more information on the College Revival Fund: www.antiochians.org

NYC Antioch College Community Chapter
September 15, 2008 — 7:00pm

Participants:
David Ramm, Nicole, Lynda White, Eric Miller (from CRF), Janet Goldner,  Aaron Gruenberg, Sarah Silliman, Jeff Wood, Susan Opotow,  Judy Church

ERIC MILLER presents – (major gifts officer for the CRF)
•    Here in NYC to meet with donors and prospects this week
•    Present for this meeting + will be at the wine tasting fundraiser
•    Was a co-op advisor for 10 years (1998-08)
•    Responsibilities=major gifts i.e. donors that can give large amounts

THE CRF NEEDS TO TELL ALUMNI THAT THE CHAPTERS EXIST — TARGETED MAILINGS NECESSARY FOR MAJOR AREAS LIKE NYC, LA, CHICAGO

OPEN DISCUSSION ON NECESSITY OF DOING MEDIA IN NYC
•    Counter the narrative that Antioch died – it’s not dead!
•    Antioch is not dead, it’s still moving, the story that we have members like Noreen Dresser, Communications, AC3, ACAA Legal, etc.  – Maybe this is the local story.  The story that we can write is that Antioch, a small college in Ohio produced this group of people.
*** We’re individuals in New York, and look what we’re doing!
*** And then there are those people in Yellow Springs, look at what they’re doing!

TELLING OUR STORY – THE NYC MEDIA PROJECT
•    Janet Goldner – art – send your thoughts to her about how Antioch is alive and active in NYC
•    She will be collecting ideas for the story, will put it together and then create an outline
•    DEADLINE IS 2 WEEKS FROM 9/15 FOR FIRST ROUND OF INPUT TO JANET

WINE TASTING – this Friday (19th) – invite your friends!

OPEN DISCUSSION ON CHAPTER BUILDING
•    How can we get more people involved in the Chapter?  Any member of NYC chat can access the list member emails to contact them and encourage participation
•    We may be able to get help with one mailing every six months from CRF

NOREEN DEAN DRESSER UPDATE ON THE BUILDINGS
•   October 1st committee, trying to get the heating on at 45 degrees to keep from freezing
•    Now that they’ve turned off all the heat, etc. drained the buildings, we have an issue
•    Noreen went to YS, interviewed a lot of people, spoke with the village,
•    Went to NH, participated as an observer in the facilities meeting, and listened to the fact that they were draining the buildings, etc.
•    Sharon Merriman – on the facilities committee for the University Board of Trustees – village of YS has been contacted and will be invited to tour the buildings – also cced Ohio Historical Society, National Historical Society – Merriman got very specific language to ask from Tom Faecke, to sign, to get full accountability from Tom – The letter requires full accountability
•    Tom Feake – Chief Financial Officer of the University
•    This makes it a public hearing, public files, with testimonials
•    Every BoT member that we can keep fully informed with factual information is to our advantage
•    Has there been any result for eminent domain for the Village?  It’s expensive and a long process.
•    Another alarming bit of news from Gerry Bello regarding fire alarms on campus.  Fire alarm ringing on Main Bldg did not send direct message to Fire Dept.  Where is the University and Task Force on this?

SUMMARY

•    Suggestion to CRF to post job titles online
•   BETTER AND MORE TIMELY COMMUNICATIONS FROM CRF (College Revival Fund) NEEDED.
•   Janet Goldner will begin to solicit ideas/contributions to the press release (story ideas are above) – Francine Horowitz
•    David Ramm – will send a personal note on the wine tasting – DONE
•    Jeff Wood – will resend the wine tasting email – DONE
•    Need to make a clear connection between this chapter and the CRF
•    Jeff Wood – will put facebook page up – make other people administrators to invite people on – DONE
•    Sarah Silliman will work on developing/consolidating lists (expanding new york alum and getting physical addresses)
•    Vanessa McDonnell said that she would work on being a link (communications) between NY Alum and Non-Stop
•    Noreen Dean Dresser is interested in generating a Non-Stop or Antioch wine (work w/David Ramm)

NEXT MEETING IS SET FOR OCTOBER 13, 2008 at Noreen Dean Dresser’s in Harlem.

MEETING ADJOURNED AT 10pm

** WE NEED A VOLUNTEER TO TAKE MINUTES **

249 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn NY 11211 — 7:00 pm

Directions (Map here > http://tinyurl.com/6z9q6w)
From Manhattan, take the L Train to Graham Avenue. Walk one block West on Metropolitan Avenue (back towards the city) to Manhattan Avenue. Turn left (south) on Manhattan Avenue and walk 3 blocks. We are on the corner of Powers St. Use the door under the stairs.  The building says ‘Neighborhood Women House’ on the outside.

We will meet in the basement meeting room.  There will be limited speaker-phone capability for those unable to attend.  We will make the call out.

Agenda priority:

1. Eric Miller – CRF Development Officer – CRF update, goals & comments
2. 9-19 fundraising event – wine tasting – invite your network!
3. Chapter building
4. NYC chapter business/functionality/process
5. other agenda items as called by members