Gambier Cuisine

Good food on the Hill? Some say it's hard to find — but one writer says there's plenty to love.

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The Fight to Free Leo

When Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López '93 H'07 was imprisoned, a group of media-savvy Kenyon alumni sprang into action.

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The Art (and Industry) of Oversharing

Emily Gould '03 has blogged and tweeted her way to a literary career that reflects the allure and perils of sharing ... everything.

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Releasing the Jackalope

Kenyon's campus again stars as the setting for a feature film, this one by Karl Shefelman '80.

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Also In This Edition

Late afternoon light casts long shadows over the snow in front of Leonard Residence Hall.

"The Ballad of Bonnie Prince Chucky" by Wendy MacLeod '81, James Michael Playwright-in-Residence and professor of drama, makes its American premiere in the Bolton Theater in October.

Arts & Culture

Tree Form

Student artists recycle fallen trees into functional sculptures.

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Alumni News

Fulfilling a Dream

With the release of his first novel, Fred Waitzkin '66 crosses into storied world of fiction.

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Kenyon in Quotes

"The three tools you use in college admissions are prestige, financial aid and love." — Jennifer Delahunty, associate dean of admissions, in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Athletics

Patience and Pride

Suzanne Helfant has amassed more than 300 wins in her career coaching the Ladies basketball team.

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Snapshots of Kenyon Life

Treasures in Glass

Walden is a book written in layers: in addition to the practical narrative, we find moral, ethical, economic, and visionary registers as well. Thoreau worked his bean field (shown in the window) as much for figures of speech as for food. By the end of his account of laboring with a hoe, he has replaced beans and corn with the germs of virtue “sincerity, truth, simplicity, faith, innocence, and the like.” 

—Lewis Hyde, the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, in an excerpt from the College's limited edition book on the literary windows of Peirce's Great Hall. 

Title Town

The 2014 fall sports season will be inscribed in College history as one of the most prolific and memorable for Lords and Ladies athletics. The field hockey team, as well as the men's and women's soccer teams, produced College records, North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) titles, and a lengthy list of team and individual awards.

I Wear My Sunglasses at Night

Research in Antarctica beckoned Joan Slonczewski,
Robert A. Oden Jr. Professor of Biology, who spent five weeks in November and December at the bottom of the world. The Oden professorship helped pay for the trip with a small team of scientists, and Slonczewski studied how algae and protists (one-celled organisms) affect and are affected by climate change. She was far away but not out of touch: She chronicled the experience in her blog. Warned about falling on ice, she wrote, “My best training experience was Ohio ice storms and Middle Path.”

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
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Robert H. Scott, Joplin, Missouri, shared fond memories: “L. Mifflin ‘Miff’ Hayes and I both went to Duke Law. I went on active duty as an Air Force JAG officer, serving my last year in Thailand on the Mekong River during the Vietnam War. Returning to the U.S. to practice law, spent 11 years in Cincinnati before returning to my family home in Joplin as a partner in Roberts, Fleishaker, and Scott after a friend was appointed federal judge. Raising our young family outside the world of corporate practice is a decision I am glad we made, as we had time to enjoy our children growing up far more.” Robert has published 30 books, including eight novels, with the ninth out now (visit amazon.com/stores /author/B00G1OJNTS). “Sadly, I lost my wife of 43 years, Sandy, to cancer in 2009. But the children and grandchildren keep me busy.… While I will not likely make any reunions or the 200th celebrations, I wish all the very best.”

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Michael S. Epstein, Cincinnati, notes, “Wife Mary M. Mason and I spent a great long weekend with Timothy J. Barry and family early last summer. Had a really great time catching up! I don’t know how the rest of you are celebrating your 50th birthdays, but for mine, I got a tattoo. My first. One that commemorates the most important risk I ever took, kissing Mary for the first time. Of course that happened at Kenyon, and the great tie-in is the tattoo is the GPS coordinates of that fateful smooch, translated into Hebrew and in the form of a tree. In my work life, I deal with risk and response all day long; to this day, after nearly 1,000 incidents from hurricanes to security issues, none have scared me as much

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Andrew T. Meeker updates, “After working on animation for Marvel and DC — most recent film releases being ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ and ‘Blue Beetle’ — I moved on to a full-time motion capture animator role at Rockstar Games in New York! I now live on Long Island by the beach, have connected with a few fellow Kenyon and SCAD classmates, and can’t get enough of rooftop sites in the city.”

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