Business is Blooming

A conversation with Mailchimp colleagues Michael Mitchell '03 and Lain Shakespeare '05.

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Good Eating Since 1947

The history of the Village Inn, Gambier's iconic restaurant and gathering place.

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How to Have a Conversation

Kenyon alumni and faculty explore how to become better communicators.

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Also In This Edition

A glimpse into the recording studio for WKCO 91.9 FM, Kenyon College Radio, in Farr Hall. WKCO first entered the airwaves as WKCG in 1946.

Kenyon College Rugby Club (KCRC) members Sadie Richards ’24, Christiane Betfarhad ’26 and Erin Gallagher ’25 go for the ball during practice. KCRC, now a gender-inclusive group, was founded in 1981 as a women’s team.

Audrey Baker ‘25 and her father, Patrick Baker, relax outside Rosse Hall while waiting for the pep band to perform during Family Weekend, in October.

Alumni News

One of Us

Pilot Maria Zarka '16 and her mother recently made aviation history on a first-of-its-kind flight.

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Science & Technology

Saving the Swallows

Bryn Savidge ’24 created an interactive coloring book to help kids learn about barn swallows.

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Kenyon in Quotes

"I have often said about death: It’s the one thing that defines us. That struggle to fight it is misplaced. Why not live life the best you can so that when this thing that we all have comes our way, it is not an enemy, but, in fact, can actually be a friend?”

—Ted Walch ’63 in an Aug. 29 interview with NBC’s Today show. Walch died on Sept. 8 at the age of 80. An obituary will run in the next issue of this magazine.

Lost & Found

As leaves change color and start to drop along Middle Path, objects have a tendency to go missing. Thankfully, the campus listservs are there to provide a listening ear for those who have misplaced an item or two (and, on occasion, use it to reconnect the item with its owner). Here are some of this season’s finest lost (and found). 

Homemade pep band T-shirts.
After being labored over in preparation for a Friday afternoon Nerf war on south campus, the garments disappeared from the Watson common room, but were found in time for the foam battle in question. 

A professor’s wedding ring.
Thought to have slipped off its owner’s finger while teaching in the Cheever Room in Finn House, the “simple but broad yellow band” was soon found and returned to its rightful place.

A Beats headphone case at half-occupancy, “with one beat inside.” 
The owner reportedly dropped the Beat (and its case) somewhere on  south campus.

A dark blue newsie hat. 
Initials embroidered on the inside rim, last seen on Middle Path or in the Black Box theater. 

A sentimental pocket knife.
Last seen in Mather or McBride by a member of the maintenance team doing some much-needed restroom repair.

A bicycle, found abandoned 
at the intersection of Gaskin Ave. and New Gambier Rd. To get it back, its owner must call the email sender’s husband and describe the model, before embarking on the long, painful journey of earning back the bike’s trust. 

—Carolyn Ten Eyck '18

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’87

Edwin Christian Schoenleb Jr. updates, “My family and I escaped the cold Midwest and returned to my hometown of Phoenix in 2018, where I work at North Valley Christian Academy as the head of school. It’s great to finally be done with Covid and see explosive growth. Our daughter Megan graduated from Templeton Honors College at Eastern University and completed student teaching in December with plans to teach English at a Lutheran school.”

’75

Matthew S. Mees, Braintree, Massachusetts, reports, “Dividing my time between casting concrete counter-tops, maintaining a small greenhouse and charting the quotidian of 18th century Boston and Newport. Current enthusiasms are levering heavy slabs; lunar planting; French/First Nation captive narratives. I find that I pay much closer attention to the weather and stars than I used to.”

’01

Emily W. Andersen, Hingham, Massachusetts, updates, “After serving as a law clerk for nearly three years in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston, I’m planning to re-enter law-firm life this fall. I’ve been lucky enough to clerk for three amazing federal judges and love working ‘behind the scenes’ at the courthouse. Aside from work, I’ve been keeping busy writing a series set in a London bookshop. I recently found representation with a literary agent, and the next step is to find a publisher. I’m very excited to finally push my longtime passion for writing back into reality and am keeping fingers crossed to see my books in print someday soon.”

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