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Alumni News:
Reunion
2002
Distinguished
Alumni Awards
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Celebration of the Alexanders
Antioch College Alumni Board Membership 2002-2003
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Distinguished Alumni Awards
By Fred Kraus
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| Three of this year's Antioch College Distinguished
Award recipients: Laura Jarrells Anderson '52, Joni Rabinowitz '64,
and Robert H. Devine '67. |
This year's Antioch College Distinguished Award recipients included
Arthur W. Lithgow '38, Robert H. Devine '67, Joni Rabinowitz '64,
and Laura Jarrells Anderson '52.
Arthur W. Lithgow, class of 1938, received the Rebecca
Rice Award. This award recognizes alumni who, by their actions, achievements
and leadership, have distinguished
themselves and their alma mater by excelling in their vocation or field of study.
Art's career focus has been on the teaching and directing of drama, particularly
Shakespearean drama.
Lithgow first began directing Shakespeare at Antioch
College in 1952, when he became the Founder and Artistic Director of
the Antioch Shakespeare Festival,
or "Shakespeare Under the Stars" as it came to be known. Within a
period of five years, this festival produced all of the works of Shakespeare
with one exception -- Henry VI, which Art later returned to produce. Lithgow
then expanded his scope to include other areas of Ohio, directing simultaneous
summer seasons in Toledo and at Antioch, later establishing the Great Lakes Shakespeare
Festival in Lakewood, OH. In 1961, he moved to New Jersey to become the Artistic
and Producing Director of the McCarter Theatre of Princeton University. He returned
to Antioch College to direct a summer Shakespeare festival in 1981. From 1982
to 1984, he taught at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.
Unfortunately, Lithgow's health prevented him
from attending Reunion 2002. Accepting his award for him at the Alumni
Awards dinner was Meredith Dallas,
Professor of Theater Emeritus of Antioch College.
Robert H. Devine, class of 1967, received the J.D. Dawson
Award, which recognizes
an individual's significant contribution to Antioch College. Bob is the
immediate former President of Antioch College. Bob is a longtime faculty member
in communications (1987-2001) and Director of Instructional Systems (1978-1981);
he also served as Associate Dean of Faculty and then Acting Vice President and
Dean of Faculty (1993-1995).
Bob served as president of the College from 1995 to
2001. As a professor and then administrator, he is known for engaging
the community in open dialogue around
community and campus issues. As President, he initiated the Community Responsibility
Scholarship, the largest scholarship program in the College's history.
Bob's presentation was titled "Antioch's
Hidden Curriculum:
Teachable Moments in the Caldron of Community Governance."
Bob continues at Antioch as College Professor teaching courses in leadership,
film history, media and social change and introductory classes in Cultural and
Interdisciplinary Studies.
Joni Rabinowitz, class of 1964, received the Horace
Mann Award. The award recognizes
alumni who have "won some victory for humanity," following Mann's
advice to the Antioch graduating class of 1859. The award is given to persons
whose personal or professional activities have had a profound effect on the present
or future human condition. Joni is Public Policy Advocate and Co-Director of
Just Harvest, an urban-community organizing group which focuses on access to
food for poor people in the inner city.
Rabinowitz and Just Harvest have pushed the Pittsburgh, PA, city government to
establish a coherent food and hunger policy, and have drawn needed attention
to the abandonment of urban neighborhoods by major grocery chains.
While at Antioch in the early 1960s, Joni was involved
in the Civil Rights movement (spending a co-op job doing voter registration
in Georgia in 1963 and fighting
the campus issues of Gegner's barbershop). She was also involved in the
emerging anti-war movement and the Antioch socialist discussion club.
Joni's presentation was titled "Hunger and
Poverty: Why do we have
it? What can we do about it?"
Laura Jarrells Anderson, class of 1952, received the
Arthur Morgan Award for
her contributions to her community -- in this instance, Berkeley, CA. The
Arthur Morgan Award recognizes alumni who have brought together members of their
community -- locally, nationally, or globally -- to work toward common
goals, thus exemplifying the concept of "community" as advocated
by Morgan. Laura is a retired Public Health Administrator, working her way through
the ranks in the Public Health system in Berkeley, CA, starting in 1969 and retiring
in 1997.
While there, Laura set up, planned and implemented a public health program in
a clinical setting. She was responsible for family planning, immunization, and
STD and AIDs programs.
And even though Laura retired in 1997, she's still working with community
leaders in grassroots organizations, especially in the women's health community,
including work with the Women's Health Leadership project in California.
Laura's presentation was titled "Women's Choices, Women's
Voices: A Journey into Sunrise."
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