Connected by the Kokosing

The “River of the Little Owls," and the communities found along it, have shaped much of Kenyon's sense of place.

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Grit on the Gridiron

Character takes top priority as the Lords work to turn around a football program that historically produces more losses than wins

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The Education of Tommy Vietor

How a boy from Boston waxed philosophical at Kenyon, hitched a ride to the White House with a hotshot senator and ended up as the voice in millions of ears across America.

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Also In This Edition

Biology major Katherine Crawford ’22 takes to the field to discover whether male and female birds have different flight abilities.

Kianna Scott-Winn '23 and Cajuan Harris '22, friends from New York City, enjoy a picturesque October day on Middle Path.

Kenyon in the World

When in Seattle

Traveling to Washington's largest city? Resident Abbe Jacobson '89 has some tips.

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Arts & Culture

'Children of God'

Stories by David Lynn '76 cross continents while navigating the dramas of inner life.

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Arts & Culture

Book Shelf

Explore new releases from members of the Kenyon community.

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Join the Kenyon Alumni Book Club

Get back to the third floor of Ascension or campus coffee shop state of mind by discussing today’s trending literary works.

The Kenyon Review and the Office of Alumni Engagement have joined forces to create an online forum just for Kenyon readers. A new selection will be voted on every few months, and participants will share reactions, critiques and insights in a moderated forum.

In honor of the 2019 Kenyon Review Literary Festival award winner, the inaugural selection was T.C. Boyle’s “The Relive Box and Other Stories.” The next selection will be “The Vexations” by Caitlin Horrocks ’02. Sign up today at bookclub.kenyon.edu.

Flashback: The Black Student Union

Organized in 1969 and formally recognized in 1970, the Black Student Union (BSU), which celebrated its 50th anniversary in September, addressed the need for support for the growing number of black students at Kenyon. In the 1974 Reveille, Geraldine Coleman Tucker ’74, the first woman president of the BSU, wrote, “The Black Student Union has become the central organ of the black students at Kenyon. It provides a forum in which we can exchange ideas and work toward the improvement of campus life for both present and future black students.”

Capturing the Campus Cat

After graduating, Anna Katherine Zibas ’19 missed seeing Moxie, Kenyon’s beloved, unofficial campus cat. So she “decided to make art out of him,”
she writes. “Here he is surveying his kingdom.” 

Postcards and prints of the illustration are now for sale at the Kenyon College Bookstore.

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’12

Ellen D. Blanchard moved back to northern Michigan and served as venue and volunteer coordinator for the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book. “For a three-day festival with 1,300 participants, I was in charge of the 200+ volunteers making 35 sessions happen at nine venues! We had 41 authors present, including the playwright Sarah Ruhl, who penned ‘Eurydice,’ a show that was part of the 2009 Kenyon season — and backstage is where I first met Margaret J. (Higby) Ericksen and Rob Fine. I was also in Ruhl’s ‘In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play’ in Ann Arbor in 2017. I got to meet her, and she signed my script!”

’15

Frances J. Alston, Washington, D.C., was married Oct. 21, with Isobel C. Rosenberg as maid of honor and Margaret L. “Greta” Greising ’16 a bridesmaid. “I teach fourth grade at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes in Alexandria, Virginia,” Frances writes. “Many D.C. Kenyon pals were in Cleveland this past summer to celebrate the marriage of former Zeta Madelyn K. Cook ’17! We stopped at Kenyon on the way, and it was wonderful to visit the VI and other old stomping grounds. It’s been a year of weddings, reunions and big life changes, but having my Kenyon friends has made it so much more fun and memorable!”

’66

“Gretchen and I are catching up on travel. In June we did a 23-day Med cruise that started in Barcelona, visited ports all the way to Jerusalem, and finished in Trieste. In September, we spent three weeks hiking in Scotland, first on the Fife Coastal Path near Edinburgh, and later on the Great Glen Way near Inverness. In December, we headed to Norway for a 15-day northern lights cruise that started in Bergen and ended in Oslo.”

— Richard T. Nolan, Red Lodge, Montana

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