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Curating a Future

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

 The Smithsonian. MOMA. The Whitney. That list includes just a few of the many museums and institutions where Kenyon students are working as interns this summer after working as Gund Gallery associates. “Without the experience at the Gund Gallery, there’s no way I would have gained some of the skills I needed to work at a larger institution,” said Emily Sussman ’15 of London, England, who is now an intern at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Sussman’s work in the curatorial department…

Grounded in Tradition

By Sean Decatur

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

About this photo: Middle Path looking south from Bexley Hall, ca. 1875.  Photo by Baker Studios in Columbus Last week saw the beginning of construction for the restoration of Middle Path, a project long in planning and discussion. I have written and spoken several times over the course of my first year at Kenyon about the importance of Middle Path; in fact, this was one of the themes echoed in my inauguration comments. The sight of Middle Path is indeed very moving – the long, continuous stretch…

Shifting into Gear

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

The first year that Pelotonia came to Kenyon, Chris Shea ’87 took to the Facebook page of a group of alumni from the 1980s to spread the news. “I sort of floated it on that page,” said Shea, a Columbus, Ohio, lawyer. There was, he said, a “pretty instant, positive response that it was a pretty good idea to form the peloton.” And, thus, “Chasing Philander” was born. Coined by John Platt ’88, the peloton — named after, of course, College founder Philander Chase — consists of a group of alumni who…

In Good Health

Student Life From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Patrick Gilligan, director of counseling services, stared out the large windows that bathe his new white office in light. Considering how the students he counsels may react to the outside distractions of his new office, Gilligan said, with a chuckle, “I might just point the chairs out, and just say, ‘OK, we’re not going to look at each other. Let’s just look outside and talk.’” The next time students visit the Cox Health and Counseling Center, now on Scott Lane, they will be greeted with state-of-the-art…

Testing New Waters

Athletics From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Previously thought of as just a “cool idea,” participation in international competition has evolved into reality for Maria Zarka ’16, two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) diving champion. Parlaying her athletic success and ancestry, Zarka landed a spot on the Tongan national team that will soon head to Glasgow, Scotland, and compete in the Commonwealth Games. “When I was younger, my parents always talked about me representing Tonga for international meets, but I had never taken…

Write, Edit, Review

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Twelve high school students clutching their brand-new notebooks filed into the oak-paneled room in Ascension Hall three weeks ago for the first day of the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. Midway through the morning class, after various writing exercises, Liz Forman ’73, a longtime college administrator who has led Kenyon Review workshops for close to two decades, turned to “Readings for Writers,” a collection of poems and prose published in the Review — including works by such luminaries as…

Deep Roots

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

The 55 new trees that will line the restored part of Middle Path from Brooklyn Street north to Bexley Hall will arrive in the spring. Forty-seven distressed trees were taken down this week as part of the Middle Path restoration plan that will bring stabilized gravel to Kenyon’s iconic central artery. The Norway maples came down in response to a 2011 assessment survey by arborists at Davey Tree that showed them to be unhealthy. “The ones that were there had real trouble growing because of road salt…

Kenyon Mourns Galbraith Crump

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Galbraith “Gal” Crump, a member of the English faculty for 25 years and a former editor of the Kenyon Review, died on Saturday, July 12, at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 84. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1929, Galbraith Miller Crump was one of two children of artists Alice Miller Crump and William Leslie Crump. Gal and his sister, Joan Leslie Crump, grew up in Cranford, New Jersey, where their mother became known for her portraits and their father produced covers for Boys Life…

Making the Cut

Arts & Culture From The Kenyon Review - 10 years ago

Why We Chose It On “Forty Days in the Desert,” by R.T. Jamison (Click here to read an excerpt of the story.) “Why we chose it” is, perhaps, a disingenuous title for this essay series. The only person who ultimately chooses the work that is published in The Kenyon Review and KROnline is our editor, David Lynn. The rest of us, from student readers to contributing editors to fiction and poetry editors, simply pass submissions along for consideration. We decide whether a story or a poem has moved us…

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