Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER AM writing tonight in the back office of the Book- 1 . . . - P .X 1 Wifi plate Shop. Ernie IS out in the shop running o i some copies of a zinc etching. Only we two and the J cat are here, and the shop is silent except for the thud of Ernie's press and the music of the radio. I call it silence for the sound of the presses and the radio is always here, like the smell of printer's ink. . . The shop is really a shed tacked on the back of an old Yellow Springs house. It is a long, low place, full of all the fascinating things printers use and per- meated With a sort of busy disorder. Erniels shop is full of activity, but it has none of the ugly tension common to Ameri- can industry. The people who wander in may be anyone or no one in the college world, but once they have strolled through the door of the shop they relax their steps and their little pro- tective mannerisms, and stand out clearly as persons, with odd but fascinating patterns of likes and dislikes-and most of them with a particular scheme for saving the world. This shop is a place one must learn to know as gradually as though one were making a friend. It has some of the busy serenity of a mother who realizes that few lives are richer than hers. You and I know that houses are homes if you live in them enough, and that homes are never forgotten. Certainly the Bookplate Shop will never be forgotteng we have done entirely too much living there. The Bookplate Shop is the back door to the college and we are the people who prefer it to the spacious entrance. Some of us could not make the adjustment to the duller, saner life of the rest of the school 5 33 TE

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Henry Iohn Peterson, Ir., Pipestone, Minnesota Charles Harold Pierce, Springfeld, Massachusetts Robertson Mears Pitcher, Pasadena, California Henry Barnes Platt, Norwalk, Connecticut William Chadwell Poland, Ir., Ocean Beach, California Herbert Hobbie Roosa, Bujalo, New Yorlq Mary Isabel Sanders, Monroe, Louisiana Lilian Eleanor Schueler, Baliimore, Maryland Mila Romayne Schwartzbach, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Richard Persons Townley Scott, Leonia, New jersey 82

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Catherine Loveclay Shaw, Brooklyn, New Yorlq Iames France Shaw, Dayton, Ohio Richard William Simons, West Plains, Missouri Ruth Gertrude Steidinger, Fairbary, Illinois Lewis Carr Stone, Sprizzgfeld, Massachusetts Carl Gustaf Alexis Swanson, Rochester, New Yor Harry O. Tenney, Ir., Alameda, California Olaf Tischer, Geneva, Switzerland Mary Frances Tossell, Norwalk, Ohio Roscoe Emerson Van Liew, Salt Lake City, Utah