How Women Came to Kenyon

Kenyon's first females graduated forty years ago. To mark the occasion, the Bulletin recalls how coeducation came about — from the fiscal crisis, to the clamor, to the uneven welcome on the Hill.

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The Making of Sean M. Decatur

Biochemist and Beatles aficionado, Kenyon's new president grew up with the lessons of learning.

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Linking Arms

An immensely complex transplant operation gives a soldier two new limbs. On the team that made it happen: a husband and wife, both Kenyon grads.

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Taste of Wilderness

Discovering Danville's famous raccoon dinner, a Kenyon student muses on socio-culinary boundaries and the people behind the slow cookers.

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Also In This Edition

Whether you go for escape, exercise or simple pleasure, it's hard to beat an outing on the Kokosing Gap Trail.

Middle Path is lovely in all seasons, but fall is its most glorious.

Student Life

A Shaping Voice

Students describe the impact made by two Trustee Teaching Excellence Award recipients.

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Alumni News

The Storyteller

From Bosnia to Iraq, Göran Hemberg ’63 uses storytelling in the service of peace and democracy

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Kenyon in Quotes

"It's been overwhelmingly positive for what we hoped to achieve." — Marco Saavedra '11, after his release from federal detention along the border with Mexico as part of the Dream 9 immigration-reform protest, in the New York Daily News

Arts & Culture

Viva la Vida

A photographer explains the genesis of a striking portrait and reflects on its resonance.

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Arts & Culture

Treasures in Glass

Professor Emeritus of History William B. Scott reflects on the Peirce Hall windows devoted to the Gettysburg…

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Classy Classmates

A U.S. presidential campaign intern, an anti-bullying activist, a private pilot, and several self-identified "nerdfighters" were among the 484 members of the Class of 2017 who joined the Kenyon community this fall.

Margin of Error

A somewhat scientific survey

88 — Percentage of Kenyon students who are on Facebook

15 — Percentage of Kenyon students who smoke

49 — Percentage of Kenyon students who think buying and wearing clothing made of animal fur is acceptable

Heavy Petting

In April, with exams looming and stress rising, community advisors hosted a petting zoo in front of Caples. Faculty and staff were invited to bring in their dogs and cats to help soothe the nerves of frazzled students and help those who missed their own pets. The scholars presumably got calmer, but we wonder whether the animals got any smarter.

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’15

Amelia Li finished her postdoc at Cornell and is now an assistant professor of sociology of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She has been enjoying her new role and the improved Asian grocery options in Lincoln. This past sum-mer, she celebrated her one-year wedding anniversary and went back home to China for the first time since COVID.

’17

Jennifer L. Wendler started a communications and membership role at NAMA, a trade association based in Rosslyn, Virginia. She’s been enjoying taking weekly walks with City Girls Who Walk DC, starting Dutch classes and striving to read 100 books this year. Jenna traveled to Italy in October for the exhibition opening of “The Jews, the Medici, and the Florentine Ghetto at the Palazzo Pitti,” for which she completed research while interning at the Medici Archive Project in 2021.

’80

Virginia Calhoun de Millan, Chiapas, Mexico, updates, “After 20 years of studying and teaching linguistics, first language acquisition vs. second language learning, and the neuroscience of language development in babies at the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, I’m having a ball watching all this happen in real time with my delightful 18-month-old grand-son Xun (Juan/John; in Mayan, Tsotsil). He now understands and responds to nearly every conversation around him, Spanish or English: pointing at the appropriate things or carrying out complex commands. His language production is a little slower: Mama, Dada and the sounds produced by dogs, cats, horses, owls, motor-cycles and blenders. As my daughter and son-in-law work full time, I get to be the Dictadora Vitalicia del Lenguaje.”

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