To the Visionaries and Volunteers

Sooner or later, if both Mann’s and Morgan’s visions worked as they had hoped, the town and the College were bound to become one. Antiochians would get involved in the Village and eventually stay and marry Village residents. Then their children would grow up knowing both and perhaps even attend the College to start a second generation of collaboration.

Antioch students of today do venture into town to seek part-time jobs at local businesses where they might work behind the deli counter at Current Cuisine or sell brightly colored toys at Mr. Fub’s Party. They get co-op jobs in the Village where they might earn college credit working for Miami Township as an Emergency Medical Technician or writing for the Yellow Springs News as a liaison between Yellow Springs and the College. Students fulfill hours for their Community Responsibility Scholarships at Corner Books on Dayton Street and at the Friends Care Center on Herman Street. They can be found shopping at the Organic Grocery, chatting at the Emporium, and dancing at the local pubs. Many Antioch graduates of today stay in Yellow Springs, choosing to start their post-college lives in town. An equal number of villagers can be found on campus walking their dogs, using the gym facilities, working in the library or attending one of the many events that occur on campus in any given semester.

It’s impossible to detail the complete and interwoven histories of Antioch and Yellow Springs in one issue of the Antiochian, but it is not impossible to acknowledge its importance and the moments when the intersection has resulted in great things. The simultaneous celebrations of Antioch’s sesquicentennial year and the Village’s bicentennial year will further these connections.

“It’s different people living around each other, coming together and sharing a meal. Things happen,” Anna Hogarty observed. “The mission of Horace Mann that was revitalized by Arthur Morgan forces Antioch students to have a world view that filters into Yellow Springs and shows us we are all connected.”

Historical collections from Antioch College have been added to the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook, available at www.ohio memory.org. The Ohio Memory Project, which is administered by the Ohio Historical Society, was begun in June 2000.

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