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
’57

Ronald E. Kendrick, Columbus, Ohio, recollects, “When I first arrived on campus in 1953, the place looked deserted — I was a month early, for football, and trying out for quarterback. Head coach Bill Stiles played me some my freshman year. I remember being carted off the field in Wooster one Saturday when a bunch of opponents clobbered me and knocked me out as I was returning a kick-off. My football career lasted only one year, but I did start on the basketball team for four years and the baseball team for three years. I missed my senior year in baseball after I married the lady who enjoyed many dance weekends at Kenyon while she attended Ohio Wesleyan. … We are still married after 66 years and live together by some quirk of good fortune.”

’75

Emily Crom Lyons, Darien, Connecticut, announces, “Renee (Brandt) Peck and I are celebrating our seventh decade with a trip by jet around the world. Bucket-list trip for us both, with world highlights around the globe. Bon voyage!”

’04

Sarah Walsh is now the lower school librarian of Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, a school that is chock-full of alumni folks!” she reports: “Anita T. Havas ’73
(admissions); Jennifer Houston ’92 (fifth grade) and husband W. Erling Houston ’92; Lara Cooke Morford ’94 (admissions), wife of Zachary B. Morford ’94; Faith E. Darling ’01 (dean of faculty) and husband Alexander J. “Sasha” Lourie ’00; George N. Kambanis ’02 and his wife, Kristelle (learning specialist); Elizabeth P. “Liz” Martinich ’02 (lower school counselor) and husband Jeremy A. Martinich; and Taryn L. Kittel ’14 (STEM director)!”

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