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This is a photo of Antioch College' Kettering Hall, their Science Building. I was a student there, from 1978 to 1982, when I graduated.
[I stand corrected... an Antioch person contacted me and refreshed my memory. While the building was, in fact, donated by kettering, he refused the attribution, saying: "This is a place for people to work, not a monument to anybody (or words to that effect.)]
Antioch is, as it ever has, going thru a management crisis.
The Idiots want to close the College, in favor of the "University," which IMHO, always sucked. The College needs to close the University, but that's a very long story.
Anyhow, I have no idea when this photo was taken. I inherited it from my Uncle, who taught there, but was fired for being "too tough." If anyone would care to take a guess as to the year / make / model of the automobile in the picture, please have at it :)
According to my resources, and attention to Rumor, this photo is 'rare to nonexistent.' When I attended the College, the roof was flat gravel, recessed well below the peak roof in the photo. Rumor has it that an experiment gone awry blew it off...
[I stand corrected here, too... in 1959, the attic caught fire (electrical?); when the building was repaired the former attic was turned into a fourth floor...]
If you don't know who Charles Kettering was, Wiki or Google on the name. He Invented the modern automotive ignition system, as well as the 'self starter; ie: the starter motor.'
[I stand corrected... an Antioch person contacted me and refreshed my memory. While the building was, in fact, donated by kettering, he refused the attribution, saying: "This is a place for people to work, not a monument to anybody (or words to that effect.)]
Antioch is, as it ever has, going thru a management crisis.
The Idiots want to close the College, in favor of the "University," which IMHO, always sucked. The College needs to close the University, but that's a very long story.
Anyhow, I have no idea when this photo was taken. I inherited it from my Uncle, who taught there, but was fired for being "too tough." If anyone would care to take a guess as to the year / make / model of the automobile in the picture, please have at it :)
According to my resources, and attention to Rumor, this photo is 'rare to nonexistent.' When I attended the College, the roof was flat gravel, recessed well below the peak roof in the photo. Rumor has it that an experiment gone awry blew it off...
[I stand corrected here, too... in 1959, the attic caught fire (electrical?); when the building was repaired the former attic was turned into a fourth floor...]
If you don't know who Charles Kettering was, Wiki or Google on the name. He Invented the modern automotive ignition system, as well as the 'self starter; ie: the starter motor.'
