Young Alumni to Watch

These rising Kenyon achievers are proof that the future is in good hands.

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Getting to Zero

A student-driven initiative aims for campus carbon neutrality within decades.

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Freedom School

Inspired by a call to "get proximate," students help lead a teach-in at the site of an infamous lynching.

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Also In This Edition

Jessica Ferrer '17 puts the finishing touches on a piece constructed with window screen and sewing pins before Open Studio Night, where senior art majors open their studios to campus visitors.

Woo Jeon '18 and Jordan Glassman '17 celebrate Jeon's goal against the Trinity University Tigers in the third-round action of the NCAA Division III men's soccer tournament.

"I started collecting water from the place I visited .... each was from a distinct and separate location and had a markedly different makeup." — Katie Lovins '17, who creates photographic negatives from evaporated ocean water.

Kenyon in Quotes

"Hopelessness is the enemy of justice. Your hopefulness is necessary." — "Just Mercy" author Bryan Stevenson, speaking in Rosse Hall

Highlights from a record-breaking season

20-3-0

For the Lords soccer team, a remarkable run ended in the NCAA Division III tournament’s quarterfinal round. The Lords defeated their first three tournament opponents (Maryville, Lynchburg and Trinity) by a combined 9-1 score, but a heart-wrenching, double-overtime 1-0 loss to Tufts University capped the campaign.

The team went 20-3-0 and established the program’s single-season record for wins. Goalkeeper Sam Clougher ’17 was named an Academic All-American and finished his career as Kenyon’s all-time leader in shutouts (45).

3,251

John Rinka ’70 was inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of the inaugural class. Rinka was a three-time All-American who scored a Kenyon-record 3,251 career points. During his four-year career, he averaged 32.9 points per game, a mark that still ranks sixth all-time among all NCAA players.

72-30

The Ladies field hockey team captured its fourth conference tournament title and registered a 2-1 win at Elizabethtown College in the NCAA tournament before being eliminated by No. 2-ranked Salisbury University. Fifth-year head coach Jacque DeMarco became the program’s all-time leader in wins with a 72-30 record.

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’13

Rowan M. Kurtz updates, “I completed my M.B.A. at NYU this past spring and am now working as an investment banker. The group I joined is focused on the energy transition and is ironically located in Houston.”

’73

“Great to see classmates at our 50th this spring! I even stayed on campus, which brought back a lot of great memories. Up here in Michigan, I’m a substitute teacher three days a week and still volunteering at the Sloan Museum in Flint on Thursdays. I have even subbed in kindergarten and first grade.”

— Jeffrey L. Bennett
’17

Andrew T. Meeker updates, “After working on animation for Marvel and DC — most recent film releases being ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ and ‘Blue Beetle’ — I moved on to a full-time motion capture animator role at Rockstar Games in New York! I now live on Long Island by the beach, have connected with a few fellow Kenyon and SCAD classmates, and can’t get enough of rooftop sites in the city.”

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