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Keeping the Beat

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Fifty years after Jim Hecox ’69 helped start the Kokosingers, he still had a technical question during the group’s reunion rehearsal. “Do we sing ‘row,’ ‘rooh’ or ‘ruh’?” he asked. For their version of the Van Morrison classic “Moondance,” Joe Horning ’83 advised Hecox to emphasize “ROW-mance.” That may seem obvious, but the Kokosingers experiment with each syllable and chord in a song to produce lush and precise harmonies. Those harmonies filled Rosse Hall on Saturday, May 28, when more than…

Title Triumph

Athletics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Sam Geier ’16 and Tristan Kaye ’17 completed their remarkable run in the NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Doubles Championship with a pair of wins in the semifinals and final Saturday, May 28, at Kalamazoo College’s Stowe Stadium to capture the program's first-ever NCAA Doubles Championship national title. Kenyon's duo won over Stevens Institute of Technology 7-5, 6-3, and then defeated a strong Middlebury College side 7-6 (7-3), 6-1.   Against Stevens, Geier and Kaye raced out to a 5-2 lead in the…

Woollam House Dedicated

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

The new offices of the Philander Chase Conservancy were dedicated Thursday, May 26, in honor of John A. Woollam ’61 H ’08, a longtime trustee of the conservancy and a major donor of private support for it. The offices will be housed at 306 Gaskin Ave., just east of Bexley Hall, and will be joined by the offices of the Kokosing Nature Preserve and the Kenyon Institute in what is now called Woollam House. The three organizations had previously been housed in Eaton Center. Of the 5,300 acres that…

What Graduation Can Mean for Parents

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Editor’s note: Wall Street Journal columnist Ralph Gardner Jr. P’11 '16 recently wrote about saying goodbye to Kenyon’s campus after the graduation of his daughter, Gracie Gardner '16. An excerpt from his column is published below. Read his full Wall Street Journal column. Here’s a question all responsible teenagers should ask themselves when applying to college: Is this school some place where my parents would want to hang out? Or not, I suppose, depending on the quality of the relationship. I…

Kokosing Hello

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Campus buzzed with activity — and cicadas — this weekend as alumni returned to the Hill for Reunion Weekend. More than 1,300 people from 41 states and eight countries attended, according to Scott R. Baker ’94, associate vice president of alumni and parent engagement. This year’s event hosted classes ending in years one and six, from 1966 to 2011. The reunion also marked a milestone as the Kokosingers, Kenyon’s oldest a cappella group, celebrated their 50th anniversary, and the Peeps gathered for…

Return of the Cicadas

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

They look like mutant flies, sound like a chorus of power drills and are currently making their way up from underground after 17 years of hibernation. That’s right — the cicadas are making their regularly scheduled comeback. And just in time for Reunion Weekend.   Predicting the exact date that a swarm of cicadas will appear from the ground is tricky, but they have started to appear in Gambier. The temperature of the soil 8 inches underground must reach 64 degrees Fahrenheit. Then warm rain — or…

Flavorful Fiction

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

First novels rarely get the attention that Sweetbitter is enjoying as it launches this spring with a 10-city tour, glowing reviews and articles in an array of major magazines. But few novels, first or otherwise, are as extraordinary as Sweetbitter. Stephanie Danler ’06 (who was Stephanie Mannatt at Kenyon) has crafted a sensual coming-of-age story about a young woman’s first year in New York, where she works as a “back waiter” in a fine restaurant — as Danler herself did. In exquisite prose, Danler…

Wading In

By Sean Decatur

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

The following is a transcript of the remarks President Sean Decatur gave to members of the Class of 2016 at Kenyon’s 188th Commencement ceremony May 21, 2016.  As our ceremony comes to a close, I’d like to leave you with some thoughts and reflections on your Kenyon education. Before that, I’m going to take a detour to discuss one of my favorite spirituals, “Wade in the Water,” which features a simple but powerful chorus: Wade in the water Wade in the water, children  Wade in the water God is going…

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