Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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some of us did, and found it empty. We take the shapeless mass of information that we have picked up to the shop and there we hammer it into an education that is decidedly rough in spots, but it is full of meaning to us because we made it. Oh, wonderful things happen herel Great dreams are dreamed recklessly, glittering brainstorms are organized into clear thought. Lovely theories are cut to pieces by sharp tongues. Tales of co-op jobs, of Germany, of China, are gleefully recounted. The faults of the world in general and of our col- lege world in particular are discussed with the intensity pecu- liar to people who still believe something can be done about it. The Blaze grew out of this, and so did various campaigns for the betterment of Antioch, such as the one for community government. You must be finding it a little hard to believe by this time. I wish I could make you see it as clearly as I saw it yes- terday afternoon, with the backdoor open to the spring air and the sun coming Warm through the windows. Four of us were working there on the Blaze, very gay because of the spring and the radio's delightful music. Once I laid down the proof I was reading to walk to the back door and watch the village horseshoe game. When I turned back to the shop and to the three people with whom I shared the strong bonds of honest friendship and common dreams, I realized for one brilliant moment all-that the low room held: its careless lack of convention, its clear thought, its good music and rich laughter, its generous enthusiasm and vibrant life. 85

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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

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' 1 Iohn Walmsley, Claymont, Deldware Helen Celinda White, Bath, Nea! York Marsden Whinford, H ope Valley, Rhode Island Margaret Ruth Worden, East Cleveland, Ohio Mary Elizabeth Gould, Yellow Springs, Ohio