An Abundance of Awesome

With four best-selling novels, a popular YouTube channel and a cult following, John Green '00 H'16 is ready to turn his commercial success into a lifelong career in writing.

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Sing Along

The songs change, but Kenyon's deeply rooted singing culture continues to thrive and build bonds - voice to voice, generation to generation.

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A Listening Ear

As record numbers of students seek psychological help, Kenyon's counseling center expands its reach.

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Also In This Edition

Ten years on, the Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC) remains among the most spectacular and best-equipped in all of NCAA Division III athletics.

Matti Freiberg ’16 and Haleh Kanani ’16 (center) take in the sights and sounds of Summer Sendoff, a music festival that marks the end of the academic year.

Middle Path in the summer of 1972, submitted by Kenyon's first grounds manager, Stephen Christy '71.

Maria Zarka ’16 made a splash at Commencement by sporting colorful leis over her gown. The most decorated diver in Kenyon history, Zarka, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, was an eight-time All-American, a four-time NCAA national champion and the 2014 NCAA Division III Diver of the Year.

General Kenyon

Fair and Equitable

A blog about Title IX at Kenyon raised concern and brought focus to College policy and procedure.

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General Kenyon

Shop Talk

The two winners of the 2016 Trustee Teaching Awards answer questions about their craft.

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General Kenyon

Earth First

President Decatur has signed a pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Kenyon in Quotes

"I must continue to have contact with people and surroundings genuinely different than my own."
— Daniel Garcia-Archundia '17 after he spent a semester in Chile, in a column in the Portland (Oregon) Tribune urging the exploration of other cultures.

Snapshots of Kenyon Life

A Treasure from Kenyon's Archives

The writing is faint but the sentiment clear. This delicately woven paper heart and an accompanying poem on embossed stationery were apparently tokens of engagement, sent by David Bates Douglass to his future wife, Ann E. Ellicott. No date appears, but the couple were married in 1815, not long after Douglass, a distinguished War of 1812 veteran, started teaching at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Douglass would go on to become a prominent civil engineer, and in 1841 he would arrive in Gambier as Kenyon’s third president.

Hot Shot

Patrick Shevelson ’16 finished his Lords lacrosse career as a four-year starter who ranks in the program’s top five for goalkeeper saves and in the top 10 for save percentage and goals-against average. He was a four-time All-North Coast Athletic Conference honoree and a two-time team defensive most valuable player. Patrick looks back on his lacrosse days and says, "I developed a stronger work ethic, I became a more responsible person and I honed my leadership ability."

Visions

"Untitled," charcoal pencils, charcoal pastels by Addison Wright '18.

About her art, Wright says, "I love the experience of being inside a dream because you never try to make sense of the peculiar things that are unfolding around you ... Logic never shatters the illusion. There's something to be said about resigning yourself to the strangeness of things. Only then can you appreciate the world for its many complexities and mysteries and accept that some questions come without answers."

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’70

The Rev. John K. Morrell, River John, Nova Scotia, reflects, "The Kenyon experience was much more than classes, books, reports, and labs. We were also involved in sports and humanities, and, in my case, I became engrossed in theater. My freshman year I watched a Gilbert and Sullivan production and was enthused. For my sophomore and senior years, I appeared and sang in two productions. During my junior year abroad I sang in the Beirut College for Women's production of “Patience,” and at McGill University in Montreal, I appeared in three productions. With my retirement from full-time ministry at St. Mark’s Anglican Church in 2018, I became involved with the North Shore Players. Now preparing a world premiere of Gary L. Blackwood’s musical 'We’re All Bound to Go' and MCing our annual Christmas variety shows."

’12

Daniel P. Hall Riggins, Indianapolis, and his partner, Lauren, welcomed daughter Ayla Grace Hall-Riggins into the world on June 6.

’68

John D. Sinks, Arlington, Virginia, continues his genealogy hobby now that health conditions and the risk of COVID have ended his ballroom dancing. Newly accepted in the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia, he continues to be a member in the Jamestowne Society, Sons of the American Revolution, First Families of Kentucky and the Society of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina.

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