Club Scene

What would Kenyon be without student clubs? Here’s a glimpse of what students are doing outside of class these days.

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Kale smoothies, gluten-free pasta…

… and yes, organ meats, too. Here’s the latest news from the Peirce Hall servery, where sustainability coexists with creative cuisine.

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This Funny Thing Called Love

Happy Valentine’s Day, dear reader. The Bulletin celebrates the season of roses, chocolate and cut-out hearts with a look at the world’s favorite emotion.

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Also In This Edition

Old Kenyon lights up purple against an indigo night sky on the evening of Inauguration to formally welcome Kenyon’s nineteenth president, Sean Decatur.

Arts & Culture

Funny Girl

An aspiring actress, comedian and writer keeps the campus laughing.

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Alumni News

Click on the Music

Where do international studies and Spanish fluency lead? For Anne Pomeroy ’07, to a producer’s post…

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Alumni News

The Guitar Writer

The music, the history, the gear—Dave Hunter ’84 writes about the world of electric guitars.

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Kenyon in Quotes

“We writers know that good dialogue is precious. Especially the kind that you can’t-no-way-not-a-chance make up on your own.”
- Jennifer Gooch Hummer ’87, in a blog at Sanfranciscobookreview.com

General Kenyon

Treasures in Glass

Professor of Humanities Timothy Shutt reflects on the values in the Old English epic "Beowulf."

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Athletes for Equality

Students formed the group Kenyon College Athletes for Equality, aimed at ending discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered athletes. The group’s first project was a video promoting Kenyon athletics as a safe zone. The video racked up almost 3,000 hits within days of its release.

Margin of Error

80 
Percentage of Kenyon students who are pro-choice.

60 
Percentage of Kenyon students who drink coffee.

72 
Percentage of Kenyon students who have used a rotary-dial telephone.

Missing Words

The Kenyon Review invited the campus to create “erasure poems” in conjunction with the 2013 literary festival, which featured poet Carl Phillips.
You “write” an erasure poem by artfully removing words from an existing poem. Challenge: turn the Odyssey into a haiku.

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
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David N. Sharlin, Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, retired on June 30 from his position as medical director of the Mercer County, New Jersey, program for children with handicaps, which he helped found. “I reconnected with Robert F. Neff, Alan S. Loxterman, Robert W. Chapin Jr. and Richard A. Dickey at our 50th reunion, but somehow have lost touch with them and would love to reconnect. Hopefully they will read this and respond (dnsharlin@verizon.net).”

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Brooks Jackson, Iowa City, Iowa, stepped down as the dean of medicine for the University of Iowa Health Care System, and before that dean of medicine at the University of Minnesota, and before that chair of pathology at Johns Hopkins. “I will continue my research full time and see patients in my specialty of transfusion medicine,” he explained. “I still have a number of projects in Uganda, China, Brazil and, more recently, Zambia, so I will be busy traveling and on a lot of video calls. But I should have more time for running, creative writing, music composition and seeing our three sons and my wife of 37 years.”

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Steven C. Durning, Holliston, Massachusetts, reports, “On Sept. 23, a group of us gathered at a daylong event graciously hosted by Thomas A. Lucas and his wife, Shari, at their home 40 miles north of New York City. Most came from far away. Our guiding spirit was Kevin J. Martin, who suggested that we give ‘Tom Talks,’ which some of us did. We caught up with each other, ate and drank, remembered, processed once again what Mark C. Fox ’76 meant to us, sang along to Peter H. Frank’s guitar, and contem-plated our approaching 50th Reunion. Many thanks to all for making the effort, including Alice Cornwell Straus, Brad Foote, Murray J. Smith and Janet Byrne Smith ’76, Karen Mesberg and Scott M. Univer ’73, Matthew S. Mees, Michael C. Davis, Arthur M. Marx and Pamela A. Martin-Diaz.”

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