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118 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 M U S K A 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 MUSKA SUSAN HARTMAN May 22, 1965 Yellow Springs, Ohio “Wedding Cake Custom.” THEN AND NOW 4 B.A. French 4 J.D., University of Toledo FAMI LY 4 Husband, Nicholas 4 Son, Samuel ADDRESS 4 534 Nesslewood Ave. Toledo OH 43610 CONTACT 419 246-1249 freshveggies@bex.net A N T I O C H C O L L E G E WA S five jam-packed years studying/travel- ing/working and falling in love— with nature, beauty, learning, life, France, and of course, Nick. Met at 18 in Chicago (I working onAntioch co-op at Museum of Science and Industry as guide, Nick on co-op at UPS as assistant night manager). I had co-ops in Chicago;Washington, D.C.; Gan Yavneh, Israel; and near Paris. I studied in Besançon, France and Guanajuato, Mexico, as part of my Antioch adventure. We married a few weeks before graduation, in the Glen in Yellow Springs and repeated vows for family and friends at Collingwood Avenue Temple in Toledo, Ohio, following graduation).Then off on next adven- ture—graduate school at University of California, Santa Barbara, Nick in contemporary American poetry, I in medieval French literature and linguistics. After master’s degrees, we spent a summer living in Paris and the academic year in Bordeaux, where I taught at the Université de Bordeaux through the University of California; back to UCSB for three more years of Ph.D. work.We took our Ph.D. exams during the height of the strikes/riots/fires/campus shutdown in protest of the war and became ABDs, but then as the years wore on and real life challenges in- tervened, neither of us finished our dissertations. But we produced Sam, much more enduring and amusing than any thesis, and still satisfying to this day! Sam was born in Billings,Mt., in 1971 where I was teaching French at Eastern Montana College (see be- low) and Nick was a“faculty wife”at home with Sam,writing his disserta- tion. I then became a “faculty wife” while from 1972–74 Nick taught at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., an all-male bastion.All the other wives had been faculty in their own right before their husbands landed atWabash, and as you might imagine at the height of the consciousness raising movement we raised a few consciences including our own. In 1974 I turned from college teaching to student again, this time in law. Had we stayed at Wabash, I would have been classmates with Dan and Marilyn Quayle at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis. But we could not stay; our consciousness raising had in- cluded our husbands, and we suc- cessfully converted the faculty from all-male. Unfortunately for Nick and me, the first woman at Wabash was hired for the position Nick held as a sabbatical replacement for two years. Contrast this with the more typical consciousness then rampant on our American campuses: in June 1971 I was “un-hired” by an east- ern “liberal” arts college from what would have been my first college teaching position when they learned I was pregnant. In August 1971 after I was hired as an assistant professor of French at EMU, the other profes- sor of French, a man, learned that his junior colleague-to-be was a woman (jamais!), seven months pregnant (pas possible) and spoke French flu- ently (mon dieu).He quit two weeks before the start of the term, leaving me as the French department. I had five separate preparations each of the three quarters that year, in addition to creating and running a French language lab and nursing Sam during the first term. I had been looking for a clinical law school (i.e., supervised hands-on lawyering much like medical train- ing).To my surprise, I learned there were only two outstanding clinical programs in the country—Antioch School of Law in D.C., and the University of Toledo. Already armed with a good liberal perspective but not having much of the “tradi- tional”world view, I decided against Antioch. But could we go back to Toledo where I had grown up, after having lived in so many wonderful places over the previous 14 years?