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"This is not my little thing anymore; it's kind of a lot of people's thing. It's just a blessing. I wrote my feelings about my children, and people are reading it in Lebanon. I'm kind of like, 'Go, little poem, go. Enjoy your travels.' "
— Kenyon Review contributor Maggie Smith, in a Columbus Dispatch article.

The Things They Packed

As they arrived on campus in August, we asked members of the Class of 2020 what they brought with them that they couldn't live without. Some went for the practical (a laundry basket) and some were more esoteric (a positive attitude). Some were artistic (a harp) and some were sentimental (a lucky ring). A frog named Froggy, a triceratops named Trikey and a bison named Bison are also among the unofficial residents occupying first-year dorms this year.

Snapshots of Kenyon Life

Treasures from Kenyon's Archives

The young face is all the more haunting because of where it appears — on an ID card and work permit for the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, in Lodz, German-occupied Poland, in 1943. Ita Marien Kaltman would perish in the ghetto, one of the millions of victims of Nazi brutality. This small remembrance of her life is part of the Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection, assembled by Michael D. Bulmash ’66 and on loan to the Kenyon library.

The collection includes more than 1,500 documents, postcards, letters, photographs and other artifacts and is available in the Greenslade Special Collections & Archives and online at digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash.

Record Breakers

During Homecoming weekend, five alumni and one coach were inducted into the 25th class of the Kenyon Athletic Association Hall of Fame. The class represents seven sports, nine NCAA team championships, 13 NCAA individual championships and 37 All-America awards.

Since its inception in 1987, the Hall of Fame has celebrated the accomplishments of more than 200 alumni and coaches. 

Happy Birthday, Gund Gallery

The Gund Gallery celebrated its fifth birthday Oct. 28. Here are some important numbers from the gallery’s first half-decade of life.

303 artists and artist collectives represented in Gund Gallery exhibits; 143 Gund Gallery Associates who have completed internships; 73,336 visitors to the Gund Gallery since opening in October 2011; 300+ free film screenings, lectures and special events presented by the Gund Gallery; 1,849 students who used the gallery for a class assignment, representing 105 class sessions from 16 academic departments and programs; Gabillions of PB&Js made during the Gund Gallery’s weekly lunchtime event.

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’93

Kevin C. Kropf writes, “Imagine my surprise when a Class of ’93 classmate showed up for a cam-pus visit with her son at the college where I work. Double the surprise to find out Tobey K. Cronnell and I have lived a scant five miles apart for the past seven years without either of us knowing it. It has been great catching up since then here in Springfield, Missouri. Also connected with Gregory D. Smith when he was in town for work in September. We talked about all the fun he missed at the Reunion. One more neat Kenyon encounter was meeting Gwyndolyn E. Harrison ’94 at a St. Louis Cardinals game last summer.”

’11

Liza W. Chabot, Durham, North Carolina, “spent several weeks in Oaxaca, Mexico, learn-ing from native artisans. The trip was inspiring and influential, enabling me to bring back a little piece of their collective, generational fiber knowledge to my own loom.” On Oct. 14, Liza welcomed Hannah B. Withers, Rose M. Proctor ’10, Brianna Parry, Katherine D. Kremer, Margaret P. Rodgers, and former professor Ivonne M. Garcia to Durham for her wedding to her partner of the past eight years.

’13

Adrian E. (Natale) Everett welcomed a daughter, Robin Everett, on July 15, 2023. Adrian is in the fourth year of her Ph.D. in anthropology, subfield archaeology, at Yale University and is preparing for a second season of excavation at a Maya site in Guatemala in the spring of 2024.

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