IN MEMORY OF ANTIOCH FACULTY
WALTER F. ANDERSON, Professor
of Music from 1946 - 1968, died peacefully in 2003.
Anderson was a music professor, concert pianist and composer
who was director of music programs at the National Endowment
for the Arts for a decade and retired as special assistant
to the NEA chairman.
Walter F. Anderson, Professor of Music
from 1946 - 1968 Anderson's appointment as head of Antioch's music department
in 1946 was heralded as pioneering when he was said to be
the first black person named to chair a department outside
of the nation's historically black colleges.
Over the years, he composed works for orchestra, chorus
and string quartet. Among them was "Concerto for Harmonica
and Orchestra," commissioned by John Sebastian for a
performance with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Anyone who would like to make a contribution in memory of
Walter could send a check to the Development Office of Antioch
College. The contribution should indicate that it is to be
used by the Walter F. Anderson Fund, which makes grants to
assist students in their music studies at the College or on
their co-op jobs. Information about each donation will be
sent to Walter's family.
Teacher, Musician, Leader, and Lover of Life: A Tribute
to Walter Anderson
By Dan Gottlieb '52
Antiochians of my generation benefited from Walter Anderson's
presence at Antioch in many ways. Everyone knew him as the
person who brought the joy of song to our campus. He made
students assembled for the annual class picture sing out with
the wave of his long arms, his bright smile and eyes, and
his laugh.
For those who studied with him or attended events he brought
to campus, his taste spanned popular, folk, and classical
genres. He informed us about them all. Still imprinted in
memory are his production of Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley
and the appearance of the Julliard Quartet of all six Bartok
quartets. Neither the quartet nor the musicians were famous
then; the rest is history.
In private lessons (piano) he coached the spirit of music,
not just the technique. He would imitate the sound vocally
to suggest how to play a passage. If you were tense at the
keyboard, he'd suddenly lift you up under the arms and shake
the stiffness out.
Amidst all the demands on him as teacher and campus music
don, Andy managed to compose vital American music and give
recitals. His playing of Bach at the organ was transfiguring.
All of this came from a man with the spirit of giving everything
he had in a completely unpretentious way - whether it was
teaching, performing, or just stirring a caldron on Apple
Butter-making day.
After renewing contact with him as he rose to national prominence
at the National Endowment of the Arts, I found those qualities
endured.
His passing brings sorrow, but Andy's love of life remains
an inspiration.
A tribute concert is scheduled at Reunion 2004 on Saturday,
June 26 at 8:00 PM.
HEINZ EULAU, former Antioch Professor
of Political Science, died January 18, 2004, of bone cancer
at his home on the campus of Stanford University, where he
was an emeritus professor. He was 88.
Heinz Eulau, former Antioch Professor
of Political Science Heinz Eulau was a path-breaking scholar in the field of
legislative research. He also specialized in the theory and
practice of political representation and electoral behavior.
Eulau was president of the American Political Science Association
from 1971 to 1972. In 1976, he helped found Legislative
Studies Quarterly, a journal published at the University
of Iowa. In a tribute, the journal noted Eulau's contributions
to the study and understanding of legislative institutions:
"He possessed an unequaled breadth of knowledge of the
field, of its connections to other specialties in political
science, and of its roots in history."
Eulau's major research projects included studies of American
state legislatures between 1955 and 1961 and Bay Area city
councils between 1963 and 1972, and a study of legislators'
attitudes toward higher education. The first two research
projects resulted in The Legislative
System (1962) and Labyrinths
of Democracy.
Eulau was born in Offenbach, Germany, in 1915. In 1934,
as the Nazi Party consolidated power, he was sent out of the
country to obtain an education, arriving in the United States
in 1935. Eulau earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees
in political science from the University of California-Berkeley
from 1937 to 1941.
During the war, Eulau worked at the US Department of Justice
as a propaganda analyst. From 1944 to 1947, he ventured into
journalism as an assistant editor at The New Republic in New
York but returned to academia as a faculty member at Antioch
College in Ohio. In 1957, Eulau came to the Bay Area as a
fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences. A year later, he joined the Stanford faculty.
A prolific writer, Eulau authored or co-authored many influential
books, including Class and Party in
the Eisenhower Years (1962); The
Behavioral Persuasion in Politics (1963); Lawyers
in Politics (1964); Political
Science (1969); Technology and
Civility (1977); The Politics
of Representation (1978); Politics,
Self and Society (1986) and Micro-Macro
Dilemmas in Political Science (1996). In 2001, he co-authored
an exhaustive, 550-page family history titled The
Mishpokhe from Eulau-Jilove.
Eulau retired from Stanford in 1986 but remained academically
active.
In 1986, the American Political Science Association established
the Heinz Eulau Award, which was funded in part by Eulau's
former students to honor his contributions to political science.
In 2002, the Heinz Eulau Political Behavior Fellowship was
established on campus by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative
Study of Society.
In 1998, Eulau turned his sardonic wit to exposing the lighter
side of university life in The Politics
of Academic Culture: Foibles, Fables and Facts. The
book's epilogue is titled "De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum,
or Better Write Your Own Obituary Before It Is Too Late."
BARRETT "BARRY" HOLLISTER
'36 died Friday, February 6, 2004, just short of his
90th birthday.
He was hired as an Instructor at Antioch in 1937 and for
the next 30 years worked as a professor and an administrator.
As Professor of Political Science he relished teaching courses
in both local government and international relations. He served
on the staff of the work/study Co-op Program, as Dean of Students,
as Associate to the President under President Douglas McGregor,
and Director of International Education.
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As a political science professor Hollister befriended many
local officials in the Miami Valley. Along with his civicly
active brothers - Russell Hollister '35, a Greene County business
executive, and Nathaniel Hollister '37, a Dayton neurosurgeon
- the trio had a sustained influence on the region during
the1950s and 60s. In his later years, Barry was active with
the Dayton Council on World Affairs, serving on its Board
of Directors, and in the League of Women Voters, serving as
President of the Greene County chapter.
He was born on February 24, 1914, in Omaha, Nebraska. He
grew up in Irvington, Nebraska, and entered Antioch College
at age 16 in 1930. Barry graduated in 1936 and did graduate
study at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. His experience
as an Antioch student shaped his life-long commitment to community
government and resolving international conflicts.
Barry devoted his life to his family, to Antioch College
and a wide range of Quaker activities. He married Katherine
(Kay) Maxwell '37 in 1941. They raised their four children
locally, three of whom attended Antioch College. They spent
occasional periods elsewhere, but the strong magnet of Yellow
Springs always pulled them back. Yellow Springs was the focus
of their lives, their community and spiritual anchor.
Barry's extensive participation in Yellow Springs civic
affairs included four years on the School Board, of which
he was President for a period. He took great pride in having
served as drafting secretary of the Yellow Springs Charter
Commission in 1950. He imbued his children with his passion
for civic work and building community.
In recent years, he enjoyed discussing world problems and
local issues with the group of village residents he called
the "Board of Directors," who convened each morning
at a local coffee shop.
One of the generation of WW II pacifists, he devoted his
life to promoting world peace. During the war he worked for
the National Service Board of Religious Objectors and did
Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector. He was
an active Quaker since 1940, and served as clerk (chairman)
of the Friends General Conference, a national organization
of Quakers, from 1959 to 1969.
During two leaves of absence from Antioch he worked for
the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) to resolve and
prevent international conflicts. From 1954 to 1956, he directed
the AFSC's office in Geneva, Switzerland, organizing conferences
of diplomats from different sides of the Cold War. From 1961-63,
he directed the international affairs office of the AFSC in
Philadelphia. In 1969, he moved to New York City to direct
the Quaker United Nations Office, where he was a leader in
the large group of Non-Governmental Organizations that have
formal status with the UN. At Quaker House in New York, he
and Kay hosted over a thousand off the record meetings of
UN delegates and NGO representatives.
After retiring in 1978, he moved back to Yellow Springs
and was a volunteer leader in Quaker activities, serving on
the board of directors of the American Friends Service Committee,
Friends Committee on National Legislation and other groups.
He and Kay traveled abroad frequently, often to participate
in international Quaker gatherings. Over a fifty-year period,
Barry's passports show entry stamps for 30 countries in six
continents.
In lieu of flowers, people are invited to contribute to
the Chatterjee Fund for peace education activities at Antioch
College. Contact Development & Alumni Relations for more
information at 1.800.411.6780.
BURTON DAVID WECHSLER died January
19, 2004. He was a professor emeritus at American University's
law school and taught courses in constitutional law and the
federal court system.
Mr. Wechsler, a Washington resident, taught at American
for 20 years before retiring in 1998. Students voted him outstanding
teacher at the law school 13 times and the university's outstanding
teacher once. In his honor, the university started the Burton
Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition, a national
competition.
Early in his career, he practiced estate-planning law in
Gary, Indiana. He settled in the Washington area in 1973 and
taught at Antioch University Law School in Washington, where
he helped start one of the first law school unions in the
country.
He also wrote extensively in law journals, and at his death,
he was working on a book about the development of federal
court jurisdiction to enforce civil rights. 
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