THE ANTIOCH RECORD

A Short History Of The Sunrise Shopping Center

By Scott Sanders

When Hugh Taylor Birch (Antioch class of 1869) died in 1943, he was already one of the College’s greatest benefactors. He had given Antioch its picturesque glen in 1929, naming it in memory of his beloved daughter, Helen Birch Bartlett. But even in death he wasn’t done, for in his will was stipulated another gift of land to his alma mater: over 200 acres of his Ft. Lauderdale, Florida estate. A good portion of the tract was prime oceanfront land between the Atlantic coast and a canal called the Intracoastal Waterway, but most of it was a mangrove swamp west of the canal and along the Middle River unusable by the utilitarian standards of the postwar era. Algo Henderson (college president 1933-48) wrote in his memoir Skyhooks that he sought the advice of Joseph P. Day, a New York real estate magnate and friend of Antioch whose son had attended in the 1920s. Day conceived of a plan to develop the 80 acres on the ocean and build apartment houses, the leases from which would provide a steady long-term income. Day would use his position on the board of Met Life Insurance to secure the massive loans required for construction, the repayment of which he projected would easily be covered by the lease income and paid off within 30 years. But when Joe Day died in 1944, the dream of using other people’s money to develop Antioch’s Florida property died with him.

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CG Goes To NY – The Record – November 7, 2001

By Chad Johnston, Dietrich Delrieu-Schulze, Tim Noble

Four of us drove to Manhattan for an uncertain chance at speaking with the Executive Committee of the Antioch Board of Trustees. We went in an attempt to represent aspects of the College that too easily disappear from consideration when numbers relating to finances become the primary focus of sweeping changes. Essentially, we wanted to present faces and flesh alongside the proposal and the process that produced it.

CG Goes To NY – The Record – November 7, 2001.pdf

Highlights:

“Cuts on this scale are simply not viable without sacrificing the integrity of the College as a Liberal Arts school.” – page 1

“We will be set back 15 years of progress with cuts as extreme as those proposed for the next two and a half years. “ – page 2

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