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The Artists Are Present

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Kenyon welcomes a number of accomplished artists and designers to campus this fall as part of the Mesaros Visiting Artist lecture series, made possible by the Mesaros Art Fund. Established through a generous gift from Paul and Laura Mesaros, the fund enhances the College’s art program through guest lectures, visiting artists and teachers, and special exhibitions. This year’s lecture series highlights varieties of design, from public art commissions to book and information design. “We decided as…

Prized Teacher

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Professor Miriam Dean-Otting ’74, a cornerstone of Kenyon’s Department of Religious Studies, has been named the second Donald L. Rogan Professor of Religious Studies. The professorship, established in 2001 through a generous gift from Caroline “Coty” Sidnam ’74 and Myer Berlow ’72, honors the late Kenyon chaplain and professor emeritus of religious studies Donald Rogan. It supports a distinguished faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies, with preference given to those who share Rogan…

Remembering Paul Newman

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 6 years ago

Note: This profile was originally published in the Winter 2009 issue of the Alumni Bulletin. We republish it now on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of Paul Newman ’49 H’61. The outpouring of tributes stands as testimony, if we ever needed it, that right to the end Paul Newman ’49 maintained a towering stature in the eyes of the world. That he belonged to the world, there is no doubt. Yet before he made his way in the world, he was one of us. Before he was ever paid a dime to…

Saudade of “September”

By Sean Decatur

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

On Saturday night, I was walking on Middle Path when a car passed on Gaskin Avenue — windows down, full of students, a familiar horn section blasting. The initial song break kicked in, and everyone in the car started singing: “Do you remember?” Though I’m certain no one could hear me, I answered, “the 21st night of September…” A crisp fall night, a beautiful sunset, the music of Earth, Wind and Fire playing off in the distance; what more could a college president ask? As anyone who has been to a…

Community Canvas

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Kenyon students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to come together for a community art project Saturday, Sept. 29, when Social Board, the Office of Student Engagement, the Department of Studio Art and the Office of Communications co-hosted Fall Fest and Paint-the-Wall Day. The all-day painting party was the first step in transforming the approximately 575-foot-long, 12-foot-high West Quad construction barrier into a public canvas that will evolve during the two-year construction of the new…

Kenyon Remembers Beatrice Mayer

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Beatrice “Buddy” Cummings Mayer P’71 H’87, trustee emerita at Kenyon, passed away on Sept. 15, 2018. Ninety-seven years old at the time of her death, she was a resident of Chicago and Delray Beach, Florida. “I feel honored to have had the opportunity to get to know Buddy, a wonderful leader, philanthropist and advocate,” said Kenyon president Sean Decatur. “At the age of 97, she still spoke with excitement and joy about art, especially the work of artists she had met and collected over the years…

Class Divide

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Why is America’s class divide worsening, and what can we do to limit inequality? Philosopher and author Matthew Stewart will share his insights in a lecture Monday, Sept. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gund Gallery’s Community Foundation Theater. In his work, Stewart draws on his background as a management consultant to make complex philosophical arguments accessible to a broader audience. His evening lecture, titled “Aristocracy and Its Discontents: America’s Class Problem and What to Do About It,” is…

Dedicated to Teaching

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

An English teacher and mother of five is the namesake of Kenyon’s new English classroom building. On Saturday, Oct. 13, Keithley House will be dedicated in honor of Kenyon parent Marilee Keithley Roche. “My mom was a wonderful role model,” said Daniel Matthew Voorhees ’95, a member of Kenyon’s Board of Trustees. “She is much of the reason that I came to Kenyon, because she instilled in me the importance of the written word in my life.” The dedication ceremony will be part of the public launch…

Ready to Roll

Student Life From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

“Kenyon teaches you a lot of things you don’t realize that you’re learning while you’re learning them: how to collaborate, how to think innovatively and analyze things, how to become a member of a community,” said Masen Colucci ’19. “Maybe it’s magic.” Colucci, a film major and English minor, applied that magic in his summer internship at New York Magazine this summer. The publication invited Colucci back for a second stint shooting and editing videos in New York City. “I arrived at my internship…

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