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MENDELSOHN's education at Brooklyn Technical High School and Antioch were centered around science in general, biology in particular. He also did graduate work in biology at Harvard, but says, "From the beginning, one of the attractive questions was the role of science in society--the relation of knowledge to its uses...
...classmates at Antioch was Coretta Scott--later to become Mrs. Martin Luther King. With her and other Antioch students, Mendelsohn worked for the still-young civil rights movement and tried his hand at local organizing for the labor movement. Upon graduation, he was uncertain whether he should work for organized labor or go to Harvard. "In 1953, the labor movement was under severe strain from the McCarthy people," Mendelsohn says now. "I made a commitment to myself then, to work towards those goals I saw for society... I hoped that it would never mean having to leave university life...
Also, there is a highly regarded therapeutic community of recovered drug users; a credit union; a community assistance co-operative for Spanish speaking people; a brilliantly innovative community studies program through Communitas College, also in the neighborhood; volunteer work by Antioch law school students, also in the neighborhood, and a growing feeling that when you say hello to someone on the streets that the greeting has new and neighborly meaning...
...members of Otrabanda-Sweenie excepted-are all in their mid-20s, former drama students at Antioch College under the tutelage of Flemish Playwright and Director Tone Brulin. When Brulin moved from Antioch to the Caribbean island of Curasao, a group of his devoted students joined him, and in 1971 they formed Otrabanda (named for the black residential quarter of Curasao-known as "the other side"). After returning to the U.S., the company employed Brulin's brash, blunt, highly physical and often noisy techniques mainly on tours to colleges and universities. "We played to very elite audiences," says Otrabandist David...
Working in the backyard of a retired Antioch drama professor, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, the Otrabandists assembled a raft by strapping flooring and two-by-fours to twelve 50-gallon drums donated by a local company. They added a canoe to trail behind for occasional jaunts to shore, then trucked the whole caboodle to St. Louis and launched The River Raft Revue-"at the world's most popular price: free!!" (The National Endowment grant of $15,000 is enough to cover expenses and possibly provide $25 per week in salary for each actor...