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unusual facts about Antioch College


Seth Horan

During this period, he widened the scope of his college circuit endeavors still further, including performances at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, Lewis & Clark College, Wayne State University, the University of Dallas, and Antioch College.


Brian Aker

After graduating with triple majors in environmental science, computing and mathematics, from Antioch College, Aker contributed to his first open source project, the 386BSD operating system.

Charles O. Paullin

Raised in Greene County, Ohio, Paullin attended Antioch College from 1890 to 1893, but before his graduation transferred for his final year at Union Christian College, Merom, where he took his bachelor of science degree in 1893.

Congregational Christian Churches

The Christians founded schools such as Ohio's Defiance College and Antioch College and North Carolina's Elon University; during the early 20th century, an academy and seminary for African-Americans operated in Franklinton, North Carolina.

David Hykes

Hykes was educated at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where he studied with avant-garde experimental filmmakers Tony Conrad and Paul Sharits, free jazz with the Cecil Taylor Unit, and contemporary, classical and medieval music with John Ronsheim and David Stock.

George Chapman Caldwell

Returning to the United States, in 1859 he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry at Columbia College, where he remained until 1860 when he was appointed professor of chemistry, botany, and physics at Antioch College.

George W. Comstock

He graduated from Antioch College in 1937 with honors in biology and chemistry and obtained his medical degree from Harvard in 1941.

Kathi Kamen Goldmark

Kathi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1971, a Masters degree from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1974, and a California teaching credential in 1974.


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Antioch University Midwest

Antioch College was also the first to offer courses in the methods of teaching, by College professor Rebecca Pennell- one of the College's ten original faculty members, and the first female college professor in the United States to have the same rank and pay as her male colleagues.

Arthur Morgan was president of Antioch College from 1920 to 1936, developing a curriculum in which students alternate on-campus study with off-campus work experience, furthering the Antioch tradition of developing the whole person through education and experiential learning.

Dayton International Peace Museum

Irwin Abrams, Professor Emeritus, Antioch College, authority on Nobel Peace Prize

E. Denise Simmons

She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a Master's degree in Psychotherapy from Antioch College.