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GU I D E to Y E L L OW S P R I NG S | 2O22 – 2O23 75 cabinet minister, and a first -class lawyer, not meeting with sympathy, took depar - ture in disgust.” Another female student, writing of President Mann, said “he expects perfect womanhood,” a state not always synony- mous with strong wills and rebellion. ▲ Olympia Brown, another 1861 graduate, became a leader in the women’s suffrage movement. ▲ Alice Griffith Carr, a 1914 graduate, joined the first contingent of American Red Cross nurses in WWI. ▲ Lucy Morgan, though not a graduate of Antioch College, played a pivotal role in the institution’s affairs. Hopkins Nurses Training School before joining the first contingent of American Red Cross nurses to see service in World War I. After the war, Carr worked for some years in Greece at the Near East Foundation, gaining international fame as a public health administra- tor. According to the Carr papers in the Wright State University archives, Carr was once reported by both Turkish and American papers as missing when she failed to return from a vacation. She arrived home safely shortly thereafter, baffled as to the fuss — she had simply hired two local men and camels for a leisurely trek across the Sahara. Antioch the land now known as Glen Helen: “Probably the most pictur - esque experience in my life was finding Hugh Taylor Birch. In February, 1929, my friend Sara Chambers and I decided we were too deep in ‘ruts.’ I bought a little two-door sedan, an Antioch student made it over so we could sleep in it, and off we went. “The college badly needed money, and Arthur was in California hunting finances. Just before I left for Florida, Fressa Inman called me in and told me a wealthy man who had all but graduated in 1869 and could help, but that the college had never been able to get the slightest response from him, and would I try?” The two women traveled to Fort Lauderdale, dared to drive right up to the front door of Mr. Birch’s seclusive mansion, and introduced themselves. Soon they were fast friends. Explained by A Yellow Springs-born Antioch graduate who attracted international acclaim was Alice Griffith Carr. The great aunt of vil - lagers Corinne Odiorne Pelzl, Eve Odiorne Sullivan and Ken Odiorne, Carr graduated from Antiuoch in 1914 and received training at Johns Although not a gradu- ate of the college herself, Lucy Morgan, wife of Arthur Morgan, fit right in with the school’s innovative and non - conformist atmosphere when she arrived in town in 1921. Her memoir, “Pioneering Days at Antioch,” published in 1947 by the Antioch Press, testified that she frequently played a pivotal role in Antioch affairs. This is Lucy Morgan’s account of her friendship with Hugh Taylor Birch, who later donated to Lucy Morgan: “As luck would have it, Sara Chambers and I are both truly interested in trees and plants, and neither of us is afraid of walking in wild places. That little fact probably won Mr. Birch for Antioch. He told us he knew no other woman who would so wander about with him.” ♦ *All images: Scott Sanders, Antiochiana, Antioch College. A full-service adoption agency working with birthparents and adoptive parents. Naomi Ewald, LSW, MSW Voice: 937-767-2466 Birthparents line: 800-643-3356 naomi@adoptionlink.org www.adoptionlink.org