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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.

Tree Form

Student artists recycle fallen trees into functional sculptures.

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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.

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
’04

Daniel S. Scharff moved to Santa Monica, California, and remains the CEO of Machu Picchu Energy, a maker of organic energy drinks. He notes that his drinks are “avail-able in the Midwest at Meijer, Fresh Thyme, Mustard Seed Market and select Jewel-Oscos, and nationwide via Amazon.”

’92

Paul A. Hamann, Vancouver, Washington, started his sixth year as an instructional coach. “As much as I miss having a classroom,” he offers, “I have to say that a day when I can help a teacher, especially a new one, is every bit as satisfying as the best day in the classroom. I’m as excited to do my job as I ever have been. Meanwhile, my two sons are now in high school and middle school, and my wife teaches social studies — it’s a ton of fun to work together!”

’14

Mary E. Defer joined the marketing and development department of Ideastream Public Media, home to north-eastern Ohio’s NPR news and information radio station. Over the summer, she created an installation of lumen prints for an immersive art event in Cleveland and taught a photography workshop at the Akron Art Museum.

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