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AUDIO RECORDING OF THE 7/27 NYC CHAPTER MEETING:
http://listen.antiochians.org/2009/07/28/ny-alumni-chapter-meeting-072709

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MONDAY July 27
7:15 – 10pm
273 Bowery
University Settlement at the Houston Street Center
2nd Floor, Classroom #1

*** PLEASE BE PUNCTUAL ***
~ we can arrive no earlier than 7pm and must cleaned up and gone by 10pm ~

http://tinyurl.com/7-27-nyc – view the invitation on Facebook

The boards of Antioch University and the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (ACCC) have unanimously voted in favor of a set of definitive agreements for the creation of an independent Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, including the transfer of the campus and endowment.

Lee Morgan ‘66, Chair of the ACCC Transition Task Force, Matthew Derr ‘89, Chief Transition Officer for the ACCC and Aimee Maruyama ‘96, Director of Alumni Relations, will be in NYC to celebrate with us, give us details and field questions.

Please pass along to all NYC area alums you know.

We’ll pass the hat to help offset the cost of renting the meeting space.

It would be helpful to all if everyone read these articles before coming to the meeting:
YS NEWS ARTICLE ABOUT TRANSITION
http://www.ysnews.com/stories/2009/07/070909_antioch.html
GLCA PRESS RELEASE
http://www.glca.org/?news=169

Getting to the meeting by subway:
F,V – 2 Av/Lower East Side
B,D,F,V – Broadway/Lafayette
6 – Bleecker Stree
R,W – Prince Street
J,M,Z – Bowery

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

THE FIGHTING SOUL OF ANTIOCH COLLEGE:
ART AND ACTIVISM TO SAVE A BASTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

“Greetings from Antioch College – The Postcard Show”

November 3 thru December 31, 2007 at Casa Frela Gallery in Harlem, NYC

Opening night gala November 3rd at 5:00pm
To view photos from the Opening Night Click Here

Battling societal Goliaths is standard practice for Antioch College students, but their current struggle with the Antioch University Chancellor and Board of Trustees is their biggest challenge yet. Rejecting the June 2007 announcement by the Board to close the 155 year-old institution next year, alumni and friends have already raised over $12 million in gifts and pledges to keep the College open, maintain faculty tenure and re-establish independent governance for the College. Nearly 40 new alumni chapters have been formed and antiochians.org is a ceaselessly active online information and connectivity resource pertaining to this crisis. The Casa Frela exhibit is a major fundraising and awareness-building event to support the continuance of Antioch College. It will feature works by many Antiochians and an ongoing program schedule will maintain and build the vitality of the exhibit over the course of its run at Casa Frela.

Antioch College is a private, residential, liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. From its inception in 1852, racial and sexual equality, independent study and independent thinking were integral parts of the College. Antioch was the first U.S. college to designate a woman as full professor, and in 1863, instituted the policy that no applicant was to be rejected on the basis of race. It has always been a wellspring of social consciousness and civil rights, with an educational approach blending practical work experience with classroom learning and participatory community governance.

“Antioch students learn that it’s not enough to have a great career, material wealth and a fulfilling family life. We are also called to serve, to share, to give and to do what we can to lift up the lives of others. No other college emphasizes this challenge so strongly. That’s what makes Antioch so special.” ~ Coretta Scott King ‘51

“There is no college or university in the country that makes a more profound difference in a young person’s life or that creates more effective adults.”
~ from ‘Colleges That Change Lives’

http://casafrela.gourdom.com/gallery/antioch