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Friday, Sept. 4 event to recognize the independence
of Antioch College from the university
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Antioch
College revived
On Friday, Sept. 4, more than 350 Yellow Springs community
members attended the signing ceremony that transferred Antioch
College from Antioch University to the alumni group Antioch
College Continuation Corporation, or ACCC. The event took
place at the Livermore Street end of the lawn in front of
Main building.
The ceremony included remarks by Great Lakes Colleges Association
President Rick Detweiler, Antioch University Chancellor
Toni Murdock and Board Chair Art Zucker, and ACCC Chair
Lee Morgan and Chief Transition Officer Matthew Derr, who
is shown speaking in the photo. Antioch College faculty
emeritus Al Denman gave the invocation and benediction.
The event followed an 3 p.m.hour-long signing event between
Antioch University and ACCC officials and lawyers that finalized
the transfer. That event, which took place at university
offices in the Kettering building in Yellow Springs, culminated
a two-year alumni effort to re-open Antioch College, which
the university closed in July 2008, and to separate the
college from the university system. For the first time in
30 years, Antioch College is now an independent liberal
arts college.
For more information on the event, see the Sept. 10 Yellow
Springs News.
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