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99 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K MACNAB ALEXANDER ‘SANDY’ THEN AND NOW 4 B.A. 4 M.A. Education, Antioch University,1974 FAMI LY 4 Wife, Judith Whitley 4 Children, Alexis, Duncan, Billy, Marjorie 4 Grandchild, Bess ADDRESS 4 1527 Wilder St., Evanston, IL 60610 4 Office: 900 Franklin St., Ste 604, Chicago, IL 60610 CONTACT 312 560-1470 or 800 708-2060 www.Alexandermacnab.com A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Husband of Judith Whitley Macnab and father of a blended family of four grown children:Alexis Macnab, Duncan Macnab, Billy Mitchell, Marjorie Mitchell Burke (Daniel Burke) and grandfather of Bess Burke. PRESIDENT: Alexander Macnab & Co., Chicago, 1994–present. Currently also an adjunct professor, Graduate School of Business and Nonprofit Management, North Park University, Chicago, teaching annual and major gifts for nonprofit organi- zations and planned giving for non- profit organizations FORMERLY: assistant vice presi- dent for development, St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, 1982–1994; Executive Director (and founder), Earn and Learn program, Evanston Public Schools, 1967–1982; assistant director, Office of Special Programs, University of Chicago, 1967–1972; graduate student, psychology and education, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1965–1967. A S A N A N T I O C H transfer stu- dent entering in the fall of 1962, I couldn’t have been happier,although a prominently displayed poster in Yellow Springs for a Ku Klux Klan rally in John Bryan State Park on the weekend I arrived was sobering. Undaunted and full of anticipation and hope, I settled into what was planned to be a history and politi- cal science major, intending a career in journalism following the path of both parents and an aunt. But, as it has happened to so many, the co-op program intervened, and after great paying jobs as the managing editor of the American Humanist Association’s Free Mind magazine, being hired and then re- hired by the iconic Marge Freed to work two stints in the Antioch College News Bureau, and a fun quarter in Dayton doing research on the effects of the area’s postsecond- ary educational offerings, I went to Battle Creek, Mich., in the dead of winter to be a teacher/counselor in a public school program for middle school children. Students came for a week and lived on a site that once housed a Kellogg family retreat to participate in a nature study curricu- lum. I loved it, discovered I was born to teach, and came back to Yellow Springs just 18 months from gradu- ation where I sought and earned a teaching certificate with plenty of encouragement and help from both academic and co-op advisors. Except for graduate studies at Northwestern University compliments of a National Defense Education Act Fellowship, I have been an educator/teacher ever since. My post-Antioch career began with a send-off at graduation from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who chal- lenged us all to work to become citi- zens of the world, end racial injus- tice, eliminate poverty, help pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and work not only to end the war in Vietnam but to end all wars.Those were the imperatives that many Antiochians were already working on and that had brought us together as a com- munity to address in large ways and small. I spent that first summer after graduation in Yellow Springs, work- ing as the PR Director at theAntioch Area Theatre where I met cast mem- bers from the Free SouthernTheater who later crashed for a while in my Chicago apartment. While I at- tended graduate school classes at Northwestern (mostly to avoid the draft and the Vietnam War) I had a summer camp counselor job with a War on Poverty program in Chicago where I met a charismatic inner-city basketball coach who recruited me to help him create a program to get public housing students ready to attend and stay in college. It was a chance meeting that began a long- term relationship with a program in which I taught, helped attract foundation support, and ultimately helped establish the program at the M A C N A B