Since we did not have reservations at John Bryan Park for the weekend, we relocated to the Hilton in nearby Beavercreek. In retrospect, this was neither a convenient location nor an improvement over staying in the Navion. 
We had to check out the Yellow Springs street fair, which is HUGE and generally a lower price point than Northern California events. The village of Yellow Springs swells from 3500 inhabitants to more than 30,000!!
The reunion was a chance to catch up with some old friend and meet some new ones. Campus tour highlights were seeing the progress on the Art and Science Building (studios and labs side by side), the Wellness Center (formerly Curl Gym) with the much anticipated fabulous swimming pool, the farm (aww lambs!), and beautiful innovative green facilities arising from the years of benign and not so benign neglect.
The grand finale was the State of the College address by Mark Roosevelt at the Celebration Dinner. After a clever and hilarious video on the accreditation site visit (featuring confusion about Japanese, Javanese, and bad knees), a visit from Horace Mann (back from the dead as is the college), we were treated to the decision of the accreditation board that Antioch College had advanced to candidacy *and* had fast track status (2 years instead of 4).
Next year will be graduation for the first class of the new Antioch and the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King speech at Antioch. It will also be the critical point in the accreditation.
No pictures of the reunion events!
On the Go with John and Jessie 