Young Alumni to Watch

These rising Kenyon achievers are proof that the future is in good hands.

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Getting to Zero

A student-driven initiative aims for campus carbon neutrality within decades.

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Freedom School

Inspired by a call to "get proximate," students help lead a teach-in at the site of an infamous lynching.

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Also In This Edition

Jessica Ferrer '17 puts the finishing touches on a piece constructed with window screen and sewing pins before Open Studio Night, where senior art majors open their studios to campus visitors.

Woo Jeon '18 and Jordan Glassman '17 celebrate Jeon's goal against the Trinity University Tigers in the third-round action of the NCAA Division III men's soccer tournament.

"I started collecting water from the place I visited .... each was from a distinct and separate location and had a markedly different makeup." — Katie Lovins '17, who creates photographic negatives from evaporated ocean water.

Kenyon in Quotes

"Hopelessness is the enemy of justice. Your hopefulness is necessary." — "Just Mercy" author Bryan Stevenson, speaking in Rosse Hall

Highlights from a record-breaking season

20-3-0

For the Lords soccer team, a remarkable run ended in the NCAA Division III tournament’s quarterfinal round. The Lords defeated their first three tournament opponents (Maryville, Lynchburg and Trinity) by a combined 9-1 score, but a heart-wrenching, double-overtime 1-0 loss to Tufts University capped the campaign.

The team went 20-3-0 and established the program’s single-season record for wins. Goalkeeper Sam Clougher ’17 was named an Academic All-American and finished his career as Kenyon’s all-time leader in shutouts (45).

3,251

John Rinka ’70 was inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of the inaugural class. Rinka was a three-time All-American who scored a Kenyon-record 3,251 career points. During his four-year career, he averaged 32.9 points per game, a mark that still ranks sixth all-time among all NCAA players.

72-30

The Ladies field hockey team captured its fourth conference tournament title and registered a 2-1 win at Elizabethtown College in the NCAA tournament before being eliminated by No. 2-ranked Salisbury University. Fifth-year head coach Jacque DeMarco became the program’s all-time leader in wins with a 72-30 record.

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’81

Wendy A. MacLeod’s newest play, “Posterity,” winner of the Sue Winge Playwriting Award, was produced in Philadelphia at Villanova Theatre in November by the graduate acting students, directed by Ed Sobel.

’07

Lisa A. Hamer recently left full-time criminal defense law and joined Fair and Just Prosecution as a research and policy associate, where she works to encourage reform-minded prosecutors and edit and compile amicus briefs. She and her husband, Ifeanyi, welcomed a son, Ambrose Obiora Hamer Okeke, in August.

’94

Katherine Farnham updates, “I am a senior architectural historian at AECOM, where I’m part of a team designing ADA improvements to Amtrak stations nationwide. Outside of work, but very similar to work, I’m vice-chair of my township’s historical commission. I am also president of the Skycastle French Hounds basset pack and spend a lot of time training and hunting around Chester County, Pennsylvania, with our 16 Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen hounds — a rare-in-the-U.S. dog breed that won the 2023 Westminster Kennel Club dog show. My son Ned is a senior in high school, and my husband and I are almost empty-nesters. My daughter Helen is a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh, which has given me multiple opportunities to see Amy Katz Leaman and her family.”

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