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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.