Unpacking Title IX

Campus sexual assault is a nationwide problem with no easy solution. Kenyon is not immune.

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Reconstructing Rutherford B. Hayes

In the aftermath of this election season, it's worth taking a new look at Kenyon's very own U.S. president.

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Defending the Ultimate Other

Bruce Hardy counters the caricatures of Neanderthals by analyzing microscopic residues on stone tools - and making remarkable discoveries.

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Kenyon in Quotes

"This is not my little thing anymore; it's kind of a lot of people's thing. It's just a blessing. I wrote my feelings about my children, and people are reading it in Lebanon. I'm kind of like, 'Go, little poem, go. Enjoy your travels.' "
— Kenyon Review contributor Maggie Smith, in a Columbus Dispatch article.

The Things They Packed

As they arrived on campus in August, we asked members of the Class of 2020 what they brought with them that they couldn't live without. Some went for the practical (a laundry basket) and some were more esoteric (a positive attitude). Some were artistic (a harp) and some were sentimental (a lucky ring). A frog named Froggy, a triceratops named Trikey and a bison named Bison are also among the unofficial residents occupying first-year dorms this year.

Snapshots of Kenyon Life

Treasures from Kenyon's Archives

The young face is all the more haunting because of where it appears — on an ID card and work permit for the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, in Lodz, German-occupied Poland, in 1943. Ita Marien Kaltman would perish in the ghetto, one of the millions of victims of Nazi brutality. This small remembrance of her life is part of the Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection, assembled by Michael D. Bulmash ’66 and on loan to the Kenyon library.

The collection includes more than 1,500 documents, postcards, letters, photographs and other artifacts and is available in the Greenslade Special Collections & Archives and online at digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash.

Record Breakers

During Homecoming weekend, five alumni and one coach were inducted into the 25th class of the Kenyon Athletic Association Hall of Fame. The class represents seven sports, nine NCAA team championships, 13 NCAA individual championships and 37 All-America awards.

Since its inception in 1987, the Hall of Fame has celebrated the accomplishments of more than 200 alumni and coaches. 

Happy Birthday, Gund Gallery

The Gund Gallery celebrated its fifth birthday Oct. 28. Here are some important numbers from the gallery’s first half-decade of life.

303 artists and artist collectives represented in Gund Gallery exhibits; 143 Gund Gallery Associates who have completed internships; 73,336 visitors to the Gund Gallery since opening in October 2011; 300+ free film screenings, lectures and special events presented by the Gund Gallery; 1,849 students who used the gallery for a class assignment, representing 105 class sessions from 16 academic departments and programs; Gabillions of PB&Js made during the Gund Gallery’s weekly lunchtime event.

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’75

Pamela Cole Schneider informs, “My husband, Tim, and I continue to enjoy our home in central Florida (north of Orlando, south of Ocala and not The Villages). We are renovating a property we plan to flip, Tim is restoring a 1970s vintage Ford pickup truck, and I continue to work on dressage training with my Lusitano gelding. We had a fun and informative visit to London, Normandy, Paris, Krakow and Berlin on a WWII history tour sponsored by the Ohio State University history department. My daughter was married in mid-September, and we enjoyed a large festive celebration in the Finger Lakes region. After the wedding, Tim and I toured Lake Placid, New York; Stowe, Vermont; and the White Mountains in New Hampshire.”

’10

Forest D. “Juney” Shober, a teacher of high school physics and chemistry for the last six years, now teaches science at University High, “a brand-new synthesis of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga resources and the local public school system’s approachability,” he explains. “This opportunity has accelerated my career, and I am only slightly displaced from my family, allowing me to see them periodically. Truly a balanced equation.”

’96

Gerald “Jerry” Kelly reports, “Busy, enriching years in Gambier! My spouse, Lori, and I have farmed flowers at the Kenyon Farm and completed a bunch of projects here at our house, just off the north edge of campus. Lori owns a flower and wine shop in downtown Mount Vernon, and I’m retired from my tech and solar careers, still doing small-press publishing and writing a hitchhiking memoir. Since 2015, I’ve been teaching an environmental studies course with Professor Eric Holdener. Our students are designing clean energy systems that now adorn rooftops on the Village Inn and Village Market, Gund Commons, Hoehn-Saric House, the Kenyon Farm and a number of residences in and around the village.”

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