An Abundance of Awesome

With four best-selling novels, a popular YouTube channel and a cult following, John Green '00 H'16 is ready to turn his commercial success into a lifelong career in writing.

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Sing Along

The songs change, but Kenyon's deeply rooted singing culture continues to thrive and build bonds - voice to voice, generation to generation.

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A Listening Ear

As record numbers of students seek psychological help, Kenyon's counseling center expands its reach.

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Also In This Edition

Ten years on, the Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC) remains among the most spectacular and best-equipped in all of NCAA Division III athletics.

Matti Freiberg ’16 and Haleh Kanani ’16 (center) take in the sights and sounds of Summer Sendoff, a music festival that marks the end of the academic year.

Middle Path in the summer of 1972, submitted by Kenyon's first grounds manager, Stephen Christy '71.

Maria Zarka ’16 made a splash at Commencement by sporting colorful leis over her gown. The most decorated diver in Kenyon history, Zarka, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, was an eight-time All-American, a four-time NCAA national champion and the 2014 NCAA Division III Diver of the Year.

General Kenyon

Fair and Equitable

A blog about Title IX at Kenyon raised concern and brought focus to College policy and procedure.

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General Kenyon

Shop Talk

The two winners of the 2016 Trustee Teaching Awards answer questions about their craft.

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General Kenyon

Earth First

President Decatur has signed a pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Kenyon in Quotes

"I must continue to have contact with people and surroundings genuinely different than my own."
— Daniel Garcia-Archundia '17 after he spent a semester in Chile, in a column in the Portland (Oregon) Tribune urging the exploration of other cultures.

Snapshots of Kenyon Life

A Treasure from Kenyon's Archives

The writing is faint but the sentiment clear. This delicately woven paper heart and an accompanying poem on embossed stationery were apparently tokens of engagement, sent by David Bates Douglass to his future wife, Ann E. Ellicott. No date appears, but the couple were married in 1815, not long after Douglass, a distinguished War of 1812 veteran, started teaching at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Douglass would go on to become a prominent civil engineer, and in 1841 he would arrive in Gambier as Kenyon’s third president.

Hot Shot

Patrick Shevelson ’16 finished his Lords lacrosse career as a four-year starter who ranks in the program’s top five for goalkeeper saves and in the top 10 for save percentage and goals-against average. He was a four-time All-North Coast Athletic Conference honoree and a two-time team defensive most valuable player. Patrick looks back on his lacrosse days and says, "I developed a stronger work ethic, I became a more responsible person and I honed my leadership ability."

Visions

"Untitled," charcoal pencils, charcoal pastels by Addison Wright '18.

About her art, Wright says, "I love the experience of being inside a dream because you never try to make sense of the peculiar things that are unfolding around you ... Logic never shatters the illusion. There's something to be said about resigning yourself to the strangeness of things. Only then can you appreciate the world for its many complexities and mysteries and accept that some questions come without answers."

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’08

W. Neil Johnston updates, “My wife and I are settling in nicely to the Philly suburb of Springfield. I also started a new position at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, helping students get their startup ventures off the ground.”

’04

Adam G. Lazarus sends word that his fifth nonfiction book, “Wingmen,” about the friendship of baseball legend Ted Williams and senator/astronaut John Glenn, released in August, has been reviewed or featured in Booklist/ALA, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, the New York Post and the Boston Globe. “My wife, Sarah, twin boys (now 10), and fellow alums like John T. “Tom” Giberson, Kristofer D. Cheney ’02, Michael J. Ferzoco, and Jessica (Russell) Murphy and Ryan M. Murphy prefer to hear me talk about something else,” he observes. “I was glad to see Jennifer A. (Judson) Vastola, our 2004 Reunion committee member, attend one of my book signings in Alexandria, Virginia, last month.”

’21

A. Shaikh completed an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. “When I’m not writing, I’m working part time as a paralegal helping Afghan refugees at a local nonprofit here in Michigan.”

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