The alumni newsletter of Antioch College Fall 2004
The alumni newsletter of Antioch College Fall 2004
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Paul Baker Newman ’41 is pleased to announce the publication of his book Ambrose the Whale, a novel for children and adults. Award-winning author E. M. Schorb calls it “one of the most imaginative books since The Wizard of Oz. It’s in the tradition of Candide in its more serious aspects and in the tradition of Lewis Carroll in its more poetic ones.”
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| Cynthia Riggs ’53 is proud to announce that her fifth mystery, The Paperwhite Narcissus, has been accepted by St. Martin’s Minotaur for publication in 2005. Her first mystery, Deadly Nightshade, was published in 2001; The Cranefly Orchid Murders was published in 2002; The Cemetery Yew in 2003; and Jack in the Pulpit in 2004. The books are about 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull, who lives on Martha’s Vineyard. |
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Linda Friedman ’55, who writes under the name Linda Wolfe, has published a new book, The Murder of Dr. Chapman: The Legendary Trials of Lucretia Chapman and her Lover. A true tale of ambition, adultery, and murder in early 19 th century America, it is the story of the founder of one of the country’s first schools for girls, Lucretia Winslow Chapman, who in Bucks County in 1831 was accused of murdering her husband. The book has received glowing reviews in major newspapers across the country. |
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| Joyce Ann Edmondson ’56 recently published The Listening Tree—Fifty Grace-full Stories of Everyday Life, describing real-life experiences in an imaginative format. Antioch College is included in one of the stories. |
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| Richard M. Billow ’64 wishes to announce that his book, Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion, which was published in 2003, won the 2004 Alonso Prize of the American Group Psychotherapy Association for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Theory. |
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| Joel Schulman ’64 has just published two works of fiction. Who Shall Live traces the course of three days in the life of a Jewish undergraduate working construction in Long Island City in 1966, on a job that also employs a Nazi war criminal. The Start of Another Job, subtitled A Dozen Work Tales, tells of “carrot toppers and chief cooks and bottle washers, district attorneys and truck drivers, bright-eyed rookies and hollow-eyed veterans, all besotted with their own work”—an obvious tribute to the co-op experience. |
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Barbara Wallraff ’72 has published her second book, Your Own Words. She is a weekly columnist for the King Features Syndicate, writing the column “Word Court.” |
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| Martha Tod Dudman ’74 recently published Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning, a memoir about her experiences as a teenager and young adult, including at Antioch. (see page ____ for a full interview) |
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| Doug Goodkin ’74 has written Now’s the Time: Teaching Jazz to All Ages, a book unlike any other in the jazz library. He proposes that an introduction to jazz should be a part of every American child's compulsory education and then offers a practical approach for how to do it. Drawing from 29 years of teaching music to children and 15 years of teaching adult jazz courses in over 21 countries, this book is both eminently practical—there are 68 activities designed for children from three to fourteen years old and beyond—and theoretically intriguing—the basics of jazz history, aesthetics, musical elements and harmonic theory are presented in a manner understandable by all.
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| Jonathan Cohen ’75 has edited and/or authored several books recently. The Psychoanalytic Study of Lives Over Time: Clinical and Research Perspectives on Children Who Return to Treatment as Adults, co-edited with Bert Cohler, was published in 1999 by Academic Press. Educating Minds and Hearts: Social and Emotional Learning and the Passage Into Adolescence and Caring Classrooms / Intelligent Schools: The Social Emotional Education of Young Children, both published by Teachers’ College Press, received the American Library Association’s award for Best Academic Book in 1999 and 2001, respectively. Cohen also coauthored the New York State Department of Education’s Interpersonal Violence Prevention Guide: Stopping Youth Violence Before It Begins. |
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| Steven Cramer ’76 recently published a book of poems called Goodbye to the Orchard with Sarabande Books, Inc. Cramer’s fourth collection of poems is a winning combination of grace, eclectic intelligence, and dryly comic self-regard. Goodbye to the Orchard is a refreshing tonic to the claustrophobia of much contemporary poetry. Cramer takes subjects that are familiar at first glance and makes them oddly affecting, weirdly fresh. Icons of high and popular culture appear in unpredictable ways, so that as a whole Goodbye to the Orchard strikes an original tone—a curious, undeluded sweetness. No other poet sounds quite the same. |
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| Wes Tew ’80 is pleased to announce the publication of Temperature: Its Measurement and Control in Science and Industry, Volume 7, a hardbound conference proceedings for which he was a technical editor and contributing author. This is the seventh in a series of volumes, published once per decade, which serves as an archival journal on the subject of temperature metrology. The conference was held in Chicago in October 2002. |
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| Katie Singer ’82 recently published The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy—Naturally—and to Gauge Your Reproductive Health. With just a few minutes of daily attention, women who chart their fertility signals (the waking temperature and cervical fluid) can determine when intercourse can and can’t lead to pregnancy. If its rules are followed, Fertility Awareness is virtually as effective as the Pill in preventing pregnancy. This method has helped countless couples who want to conceive know the best time to try. Women who chart their fertility signals can also know whether they are ovulating; pregnant; or prone to poly-cystic ovarian syndrome, miscarriage, or thyroid problems. |
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S. Monique Craig ’87 has published a second novel, The Arachne Experiment, and a book of poetry, The Eye That Is Me, in the last year. She is also an accomplished artist and desktop publisher. Her work has been seen on numerous online art galleries, including Digital Consciousness, Espectro, Vlad Art Gallery, and Artists Worldwide, a site based in Marangaroo, Australia. |
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| Irwin Abrams recently co-authored the book Iraq War and its Consequences: Thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates and Eminent Scholars. Due to the diverse backgrounds of the laureates and scholars, the topics dealt with in the book range from the economic costs and burden of the war, US foreign policy, human rights issue in Iraq, role of the UN, rebuilding and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and the looting of archaeological artifacts from the Baghdad museum. For every copy of the book sold, funds will be donated to the American Friends Service Committee for its humanitarian relief efforts in Iraq. |
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