Notes

Avi Lank ’71 (Antioch College, BA) was interviewed on WUWM 89.7, Milwaukee’s NPR station. Lank was an award-winning reporter and columnist at the Milwaukee Sentinel and Journal Sentinel for more than 35 years and is the co-author of The Man Who Painted the Universe, the story of a planetarium in the north woods of Wisconsin,…

Jane Flint ’71 (Antioch College, BA) published two poems, “Cure,” and “Unconditional,” in Carbon Culture Review, an online literary journal.

Julia Reichert ’70 (Antioch College, BA) and Steve Bognar are Academy Award-nominated Yellow Springs filmmakers. Their latest documentary about Fuyao Glass America will soon be available for streaming. The film will be shown on Netflix under a partnership between the streaming video company and former President Barack Obama’s and Michelle Obama’s company Higher Ground Productions.

Michael Jacobson-Hardy ’67 (Antioch College, BA) published Walking with Thoreau, which shows the “universe unfolding” in a series of 33 photographs of New England nature, positioned alongside the text of Henry David Thoreau.

Joan A. Steitz ’63 (Antioch College, BA) received the 2018 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. The award honors Steitz “for four decades of leadership in biomedical science, including her discoveries in RNA biology and her service as a mentor to women in science.” The Lasker is…

Eleanor Holmes Norton ’60 (Antioch College, BA) introduced a bill (the Washington, D.C. Admission Act H.R. 51) in January, 2019 to make the District of Columbia the 51st state. Norton, a democratic congresswoman (D-DC), received a special statement of support from Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, in addition to a record of 155 original…