Seventies

Evelyn DeMarco ’70 writes: “In May my daughter, Gay, thought I might enjoy moving into a Senior Center. I moved in May 8th and I must confess it is a lovely spot called The Gardens at Kentlands.

“While they have lots of activities, I still drive my car and run my errands.

“Gay lives not far away, where she has the company of Dorothy’s dog ‘Patina’ and three cats. She works at the library in Rockville, Maryland, so keeps busy.”

Evelyn’s new address is 217 Booth Street, Apartment 107A, Gaithersbug, MD 20878.

Judy Citrin ’72 recently shared this memory of the “golf course” now called Antioch Commons: “Around 1970 or so, at night a group of us used to trek out there because there was this eerie, dense fog – its own weather system. It was surreal, and we used to mess around with dressing up and play-acting. I think Danny Talpers ’72 was there?”

Peter Blaze Corcoran ’72 writes: “Still very much enjoying my new life in Florida. I have now completed five years at Florida Gulf Coast University as a Professor of Environmental Studies and Environmental Education. I also work as a Senior Fellow in Education for Sustainability at University Leaders for a Sustainable Future in Washington, D.C. I am privileged to serve as Senior Advisor to the Earth Charter Initiative. I am passionate about the Earth Charter – a peoples’ charter and a statement of ethical principles for sustainability. Friends are welcome on Sanibel Island.” Friends write: 3822 Coquina Drive, Sanibel Island, FL or e-mail: pcorcora@ fgcu.edu.

Justin Ferate ’72 was recently featured in the New York Times Metro. The article is about Ferate’s long-time success making a living giving tours of New York City. Ferate is a bus, boat, and walking-tour guide. Guiding tourists through the city in a bow tie, Ferate offers his patrons a unique, detailed and informed tour that is unlike the scripted tours often offered by most. He says his interest in being a tour guide began as a hobby while he was at Antioch, and after he graduated, he began to roam around the country but always gravitated back to giving tours.

Mr. Ferate, 53, lives in Manhattan but is a native of Washington State near Puget Sound where he grew up on a farm. Ferate considers himself a teacher, and says of New York, “The city is magical. It never runs out of stories.”

Bernie Wolf ’72 writes: “It was great to come out to Yellow Springs for my youngest daughter Stephanie’s graduation in April ’03. My first time back since summer of 1972! Glen Helen is still my favorite spot. Friends from the old days – Mills Hall, Swinnerton Hall, 777 Xenia Ave., the Boston experience, Camp Union, the Marching Band, etc. – are encouraged to write.” Friends write: 1784 Fairview Road, Glenmoore, PA 19343 or e-mail: BAWolf6899@aol.com.

Kristin Ohlson ’73 writes: “I have news! I’m a former Antioch student, now a freelance writer and sometime teacher in Cleveland. My news is that Hyperion Books is publishing my memoir, Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares, in August of 2003.

“I’m also the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council’s major fellowship for fiction for 2003-2004. One of my personal essays, ‘Faith in the Baby,’ will be included in Salon.com’s next anthology, also coming out late summer. I’m a California-born, Cleveland-based writer with articles published in the New York Times, Salon, Ms., O; the Oprah Magazine, Discover, New Scientist, Tin House, Food & Wine, Poets & Writers, Sojourners, and many regional publications, and fiction published in university presses (including a new story coming out in West Branch this fall).”

Patricia E. Marseglia ’74 e-mails: “I received medical disability retirement from Department of Army. Worked 24 years as budget analyst,16 at Headquarters, Pentagon. Currently doing historic preservation of a log home dating back to circa 1700. Establishing small family farm and practicing piano. At my time of graduation as a studio art major, I was a single mom who had returned to Antioch to complete my degree. I had started summer ’68. My name was Patricia Ferguson then. My one son graduated West Point, class ’00, and is married and stationed at Fort Hood, TX.” Friends e-mail: pemars@charter.net.

Richard Culp Robinson ’74 has joined Pact as chief of party for a new USAID-funded separated and abandoned children’s program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pact will be working with child-centered NGOs to develop community programs to meet the needs of child prostitutes and mothers, street children, displaced minors, demobilized child soldiers and laborers, and children orphaned by HIV/AIDS living in Lubumbashi, a city especially hard hit by prolonged civil conflict.

Richard most recently served as director of an MBA program for South Africa’s emerging business leaders at the University of Fort Hare, in the Eastern Cape. While at the University he authored a World Bank-funded feasibility study for the Congo looking at small and micro enterprise needs of demobilized child soldiers, street children, and HIV/AIDS orphans. He also served as principal investigator for the USAID-funded Disability Economic Empowerment Think Tank and ran management and human resource capacity building training programs for senior civil servants, NGO executives, and private sector managers as a senior Fulbright scholar. Prior to his work in Africa he spent several years in the persons with disability field in the US, teaching as a member of the faculty of the University of San Francisco’s McLaren School of Business and consulting with governments of the US, Canada, American Somoa, South Africa, and Madagascar.

Richard’s education includes an Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco in international organization and leadership, an M.Ed from the University of Massachusetts, an MBA from the University of Fort Hare, and attendance at Antioch. He speaks fluent French and has a conversational understanding of Swahili and Lingala. He is married to Rebecca Culp Robinson, a public health professional specializing in HIV/AIDS. They have three sons.

Marnie L. Black ’75 writes: “Graduated Seattle University Law School ’89. Work for Washington State Department of Ecology and International Association of Human Animal Interaction Organizations. Board Member of Delta Society (certification of therapy animals) and Tellington Touch Practitioner (bodywork on companion animals to improve physical and emotional problems.) I’m conducting research on stress in companion animals and would appreciate exchanging notes with any other classmate interested in the same topic. Richard, I’ve driven a Saab since last we met.”

Algeo D. Casul ’75 writes: “My life is in beautiful Bodega, California. I am lucky to remain in touch with many, many Antiochians still winning victories for humanity. For the past 20 years, I have been employed by the State Agency providing vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities. Love my job but ready for my next co-op and spending more time reminiscing with old Antioch friends. I recently celebrated my 21st wedding anniversary to my wife Mela. Our son just turned 17.” Friends write: PO Box 10, Bodega, California 94922-0010 or e-mail acasul@earthlink.net.

Jonathan Cohen ’75 writes: “I am still living and learning in New York City. I have dramatically reduced my psychotherapy and psychoanalytic practice to become even more involved with our work at the Center for Social and Emotional Education: consulting to schools, State Departments of Education and education ministries abroad. Fun and incredibly meaningful work! Stacy and I can’t quite believe that our son, Gabriel, is about to apply to college. Zoe (age 11) is also a terrific learner! I feel very lucky. I would love to hear from old friends and those of you interested in youth development / risk-prevention work.”

Friends write: 300 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024 or e-mail: jonathancohen@csee.net.

Chris Houchins (Smock) ’75, Tina Simcich ’75, Susan Smolik (Scarborough) ’75, and Barbara Gemmill Herren ’75 had an amazing reunion on Lopez Island, Washington in July to celebrate their 50th year of being the most awesome women Antioch has ever cranked out. Chris is a psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado. Tina is doing public administration in Olympia,

Washington; Susan is a Human Resource consultant in the Bay Area; and Barbara travels the world doing amazing work for a private agency devoted to community-based agriculture. (She works out of Kenya). We had some great reminiscing and decided that our Antioch Adventure made us sisters for life. Any friends can contact us through smocklings@aol.com.

Jody Rosenbloom '78 writes: "So far, 2003 has been a good year as we settled into our sixth year in Western Massachusetts. Husband, Joel Kaminsky earned tenure in the Department of Religion and Biblical Literature at Smith College. I received one of four 2003 Harold Grinspoon Awards for Excellence in Jewish Education in Western Massachusetts. The recently published The Ultimate Jewish Teacher's Handbook (edited by Nechama Skolnik Moskowitz and published by ARE: Denver) includes a chapter I wrote on the Teacher/Principal Relationship. New household member, Heftzibah, our Aussie herding pup is zealously embracing adolescence and our spare time is spent in the garden!"

Alan Siege ’78 e-mails: “Last December 7th I became the father of twins, Mia Ella and Jakob William Shonbrun-Siege. They join my daughter, Carly Hannah, who turns six in August. On other fronts, I’m operating my own company – Small Business Management Consulting – where I work with non-profit companies and small for-profit businesses, helping them realize their revenue goals. I’ll be completing an MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies at Pace University next June. And finally, I’m very pleased to be able to write that I also work as a professional storyteller, performing at schools, libraries and other venues for children and grownups.” Friends write: 436 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 or e-mail: alan.siege@verizon.net.

Gordon Foer ’79 writes: “I have been living in Rhode Island for almost 15 years now! I’ve been married 11, my son is turning six – no wonder I’m balding. After five years working on international coastal projects with University of Rhode Island, being a stay-at-home dad, having a small internet used book business and being actively involved in town issues, I am now teaching Spanish at several private schools, to kids age two years to 11, and am considering returning to school for teaching certification. Hope to hear from someone! Gordon Foer, earthlink.net, 7 Country Dr., Charlestown, RI, 02813. grfoer@earthlink.net.”

Andrew Goutman ’79 recently sent in a paper titled “Horace Mann’s Last Struggle: The Founding of Antioch College.” He wrote the paper for a class at Temple University pursuant to a Master’s in education. The paper received an “A.”

The following is an excerpt from the opening pages: “The old national road out west through Pennsylvania and Ohio is all highway now. Eisenhower’s great interstate initiative saw to it that cars would encounter no traffic lights, no small towns, no foot on the brake. Today, travelers seeking the ‘Harvard of the West’ would confront miles of soy and cornfields, cloverleaves leading to boilerplate rest stops, lurking state police cars and countless examples of twentieth century Americana. Count on a day’s car travel to Yellow Springs, Ohio from most points east.

“How would it have been for Horace Mann in September of 1853, traveling west from Massachusetts, the excitement over his future at Antioch College making conversation even livelier over the clatter of horseshoes? During a rugged trip spanning perhaps a week or more, what would he have seen? Perhaps the same soy and cornfields, definitely no cops in Smoky hats.

“Why would this politico from the Bay State, fresh from a four-year stint in Congress, 12 prior years as secretary of Massachusetts Board of Education, exulting in a big-time reputation as America’s Educator, Father of the Common School…why would he journey such difficult terrain to a destination not even on most maps?”

John Phelps ’79 “…now lives near Munich with wife, Rachel and daughters, Sonnet Rose, 5, and Hannah May, 3. Co-op fever persists with 12 of last 15 years overseas, including long stays in Hong Kong, Brazil, California, and now Europe. Still working on HM’s challenge and work every day to make businesses more human and more successful. Meanwhile we help support the wonderful Wellness Community and other cancer causes since losing my brother, yet saving my father, from cancer. Love to hear from or see Antiochians and friends.” Friends write: An der Leitn 10, 82131, Gauting, Germany or e-mail: jp@repat.com.

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