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142 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 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 S C O T T the early ’70s and lived in Marysville with my Antioch roommate Helen Ryan, and in New Antioch when I taught languages at Wilmington College.This time it was I who rode off into the sunset and I joined a tour of China which had just opened to visitors and spent three weeks thrilled to be seeing everything from the Great Wall to the Peking Opera and the streets of Shanghai. On the way back I stopped inTokyo and de- cided to stay in Japan. In 1977, I found a job in Tokyo with the Japanese Peace Corps (Japan Cooperation Volunteers, or JOCV). I married Masahiro Shintani, a friend from days at Waseda. We moved with JOCV to Nagano and were able to rent a huge old farm- house in the country and became teachers and gardeners. The inten- sive English taught to the JOCV stu- dents allowed them to teach in a va- riety of Asian and African countries. Masahiro and I traveled to Kenya for a month to visit students on-site and later to India where we met old work camp friends and got to visit Kerala and the community started by Arthur Morgan. After losing my dream job at JOCV I was able to find work at Nanzan Jr.College in Nagoya and began years of commuting by bus from Nagano to Nagoya.When that grew to be too much travel we moved toToyahashi and I worked for Aichi University up through the ’80s when I happened to meet Setsuko Tsuji sitting on my parents’ back porch having just taken a Japanese bath. She was just developing the Kyoto Seika/Antioch exchange and I was eager to return to Ohio to be near my parents.Things just seemed to work out. At first living in Yellow Springs and working at Antioch there was quite a bit of culture shock. It felt that I had just erased 30 years of my life and I was again an Antioch stu- dent and having to readjust to be- ing American. Although the original year in Japan (1963) was hard, it was exciting and the language was new and the host family supportive and the program excellent. There was support. The reentry shock was in- side and invisible.What happened to Scott-sensei? How could I be right back where I had started? It took a while to find my sealegs but the ex- change allowed me to have the best of both worlds while I adjusted. These days I am single with three pets. Mom is still alive and doing well at 97.* She needs hear- ing aids and has compromised sight from macular degeneration. But she is a fighter and keeps walking daily, rides an indoor bike when the weather is bad she reads and picks up after my brother who has taken on cooking for her.We have a good setup with a lot of support. Life is good and watching the college rising from the dead is won- derful. I live next to the golf course and am thrilled to have the farm next door.The solar panels make me feel that we really are working on the environment. The Wellness Center is where I swim and exercise daily as well as walking my dog and cat on the golf course. It is a comfort to be retired and doing things that are pleasant and positive. *Dorothy “Dot” L. Scott died Nov. 4, 2015, in Yellow Springs after a short ill- ness, just shy of her 98th birthday. Some of Sherraid’s artwork.