Farm Folk

Set aside the stereotype of the farmer as a man wearing overalls and a straw hat, perched atop a tractor by a cornfield. More than ever, farming attracts a varied lot — including a number of Kenyon alumni.

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Plate & Palette

Delving into the history of design and material culture, a journalist-scholar discovers the humble dinner dish as an object of art.

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Creating the Campus

After a decade of intense construction, Kenyon’s master plan gets a remodel of its own.

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Also In This Edition

The night before classes started in August, a 500-foot table covered with white linens was set up along Middle Path for a picnic of locally grown and sourced foods for students, faculty, staff and the Knox County community.

Ascension Hall overlooks Middle Path as autumn leaves begin to fall.

Student Life

Tactile Education

With BrailleNote and some creative help, a sight-impaired student makes the most of Kenyon.

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Alumni News

Bookend Love

Kenyon couple champion mysteries and authors at their Ann Arbor bookstore.

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Ice Escapade

With a little help from the Lords football team, President Sean Decatur answered an Ice Bucket Challenge from Adam Weinberg, the president of Denison University. The challenge, a viral phenomenon launched to raise money for research into ALS, required a reply within 24 hours, a challenge to three others, and a shower of ice water. The Lords broke from their first practice at McBride Field to oblige the president with a blast of ice water—followed by full-throated cheers.

Alumni News

Flight Time

Katharine Sears '95 finds satisfaction specializing in airplane weapons and sensor systems.

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Treasures in Glass

For the College’s limited edition book on the literary windows of the Great Hall in Peirce Hall, Professor of English Jennifer Clarvoe wrote about “Song of the Open Road,” Walt Whitman’s celebration of American character and freedom.

Armed with Confidence

Lords football coach Chris Monfiletto took a .500 record into his third season: "Our only expectation for our team is that we approach each day armed with the confidence of having used adversity as an opportunity for improvement. If we can empower the leaders on the team to hold themselves accountable for recognizing these growth factors, then our small successes will snowball and enable our players to do some special things."

Hip to be Square

Math ruled at the Independence Day parade in Gambier.

Professor of Math Judy Holdener marshaled a dozen Summer Science Scholars, who created a balloon sculpture of a Sierpinski tetrahedron, a three-dimensional fractal. Holdener has for years hoped to enter a “float” in the parade, and this year was spurred on by math major Robin Belton ’16.

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’04

“After 16 years of teaching history and music in Maryland, my wife, Alli, and I have opened a bookstore bar in Ellicott City called Backwater Books. While I miss teaching alongside fellow alums Samuel W. Farmer ’05 and Benjamin S. Farmer ’05, the bookstore is a new and challenging adventure.”

— Matthew O. Krist
’91

Julie K. Roth updates, “Both our kids have launched, and both are now at University of Michigan — happy mama. I continue to work for the city of Ann Arbor’s Office of Sustainability and Innovations, now as energy manager, working to move the city to community-wide carbon neutrality by 2030. Any free time I find is usually on the tennis court.”

’88

G. Stephen McCrocklin, Louisville, Kentucky, had a fun year of travel. “I met Tim Holmes in San Rafael, California, last September; David P. Diggdon in Seattle in July; Sophia R. Heller in New York in August; and in September Paul C. Bingaman and Sonya (Kane) Bingaman ’89, who live near Meersburg, Germany. Of course we took in Oktoberfest. Sure is fun having classmates all around the globe! Andrew G. McCabe, I’m coming for you next in D.C.! Check out my online company that teaches reading to kids grades 3–8 at WeTeachReading.com!”

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