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A Letter for P.O. Box 1824

By Ethan Bradley ’20

Student Life From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

At Kenyon, everyone picks up their mail from the Gambier post office — flagpole outside, Depression-era lobby, brass key for your mailbox, the whole nine yards. Purely by coincidence, my P.O. Box was #1824 — a special number in Kenyon lore, as that’s the year our college was founded. As a graduating senior, I wanted to take a moment to pass on some advice to the next student who will get postcards, letters, absentee ballots, care packages and certainly a fair bit of junk mail in that box. To the…

Thoughts on the Aftermath of Recent Events

By Sean Decatur

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

I have been president of Kenyon for seven years now, and I have lost count of the number of community messages or events mourning the loss of Black lives to police or vigilante violence. We’ve had faculty panels, marches, candlelight vigils. I’ve written letters and blog posts. We’ve had guest speakers and group readings. Yet this summer the tragedy continues to mount: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd. And while I watched the video of Mr. Floyd’s life being senselessly and brutally extinguished…

Kenyon Mourns Kay Locke

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

View a performance of “Kokosing Farewell” created by several decades of Chamber Singers alumni in honor of Kay Locke.  Kathleen “Kay” Locke, wife of Professor of Music Benjamin R. Locke and longtime member of the Kenyon and Gambier communities, died on May 26, 2020. A resident of the Ohio Eastern Star Home in Mount Vernon, where she had been treated for Parkinson’s disease, she was 81.  Born Kathleen Ruth Crawford, Kay was a native of Xenia, Ohio. She was a graduate of the University of Toledo…

‘A Great Transition’

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

The following is the prepared text of the address delivered by Assistant Professor of Sociology Austin Johnson during a Senior Celebration of the Class of 2020, presented via video on May 29, 2020. Members of the Class of 2020 voted to select Johnson as their Baccalaureate speaker. Watch video of the speech here at 15:03. Lords, Ladies and Non-Binary Nobility of the Class of 2020: Congratulations, and thank you for inviting me here today. I am honored that y’all saw fit to select me to deliver…

Five Questions With Samie Kim Falvey ’96

Student Life From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

For my final contribution to Quintessential Kenyon, I wanted to reflect on the bitter-sweetness of celebrating and honoring Kenyon’s first Asian American woman Commencement speaker, television executive Samie Kim Falvey ’96. Though the 192nd Commencement celebrating the Class of 2020 has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic,  I sat down with Samie, virtually, for an enriching conversation on the various motifs and facets of one’s Kenyon experience. Though I missed out on celebrating my Kenyon…

Leaving Their Marks

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

As Kenyon celebrates 50 years of women at the College, three women have recently made significant gifts to name key spaces in the new Gordon Keith Chalmers Library. Construction on the West Quad project has continued during the remote semester, with an opening scheduled for the spring of 2021.  Each woman’s gift holds a personal connection to the space they elected to name. In recognition of a planned estate gift from Betty Lou Hawbaker — with an estimated value of $10 million — the largest space…

50 Years of Kenyon Women: Rachel Berger ’11

Kenyon Women From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

To celebrate 50 years of coeducation at Kenyon, we’re profiling three dozen of Kenyon alumnae during the 2019-20 academic year. These women, merely a small sample of the thousands of female graduates who have earned Kenyon degrees since 1969, will discuss their undergraduate experiences and how their education in Gambier prepared them for their lives and careers. The 35th alumna in our series is Rachel Berger ’11. A political science major at Kenyon, Berger is originally from Mansfield, Ohio, and…

Crash Course in Remote Learning

Far From Kokosing From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

As an academic year like no other comes to a close, we spoke to faculty about the techniques they used to take a Kenyon education out of Gambier and into the world.  Professor of Dance Balinda Craig-Quijada For her “Intermediate Modern Dance” class, Craig-Quijada borrowed an idea from dance-filmmaker Mitchell Rose, who adapted the “exquisite corpse” method often used to compose collective written stories into an “exquisite dance corps.” She instructed her dance students to film themselves at home…

Healthy Democracy

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

COVID-19 began to spread in the U.S. as many states prepared to hold primary elections. Some states, fearing the spread of disease at crowded polling places, made emergency changes regarding how their citizens would exercise the right to vote, alarming those who feared democracy to be in danger. Other states proceeded according to plan, potentially putting voters’ lives at risk. How can we safeguard both public health and the health of our democracy during a global pandemic? In the United States…

Ready to Serve

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

In her role as Kenyon’s associate director of institutional research, Ann Palcisco ’01 spends her days assessing the College’s programs and academic departments, surveying members of the Kenyon community, and providing information to Kenyon’s leaders to support data-driven decisions. But when she heard that the Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit science and technology development company based in Ohio, was developing a Critical Care Decontamination System (CCDS) to help allay the shortage…

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