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Kenyon Mourns Tom Lockard '67

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

J. Thomas “Tom” Lockard ’67, a 19-year member of the administration in the College Relations Division, died Saturday, May 2, 2015, at his home just outside Gambier. He was 70. Born on March 6, 1945, in Cleveland, Tom grew up in Westlake, Ohio, where he graduated from high school. At the College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in 1967, he was a member of the Kokosingers, a disc jockey for WKCO, and one of Kenyon’s first music majors. Tom worked as a buyer and manager for several…

For the Record

Student Life From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Student radio station WKCO-FM released a compilation album to capture the range of musicians at Kenyon this year, from singers who performed for the first time on campus to popular bands that play house parties. One band featured on the album is SPORTS, a pop-punk group that performs at parties and as an opener to paid, outside acts at the student-run Horn Gallery. The four band members said they liked the idea of chronicling this year’s campus music because they expect their band to break up shortly…

Meaningful Dance

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Kenyon dancers performing nine pieces in the spring dance concert will depict a homeless woman on the fringes of society and explore themes including memories, comfort zones and trust in relationships.  The dance department’s three 8 p.m. performances at Bolton Theater will take place Thursday, April 30; Friday, May 1; and Saturday, May 2. The concert will include a series of powerful, personal vignettes by 15 senior dancers created during an eight-day intensive guest residency at the Department…

Newly Tenured

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Four members of the Kenyon faculty were awarded tenure, or appointment without limit, by action of the Kenyon College Board of Trustees on April 25. These members of the faculty are promoted to associate professor from assistant professor, effective on July 1, and they include: Marie Snipes, assistant professor of mathematics B.S. Harvey Mudd College, M.S. and Ph.D. University of Michigan Marie Snipes joined the College in 2009. Her research interests lie in the field of geometric measure theory…

Back Home

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

It had been upward of half a century since they were students, but the laughter and smiles hadn’t changed much from memory and graduation photographs. Thirty-one alumni and their spouses gathered on campus in April to celebrate their post-50th reunion with tours of campus, lectures, a reception at Cromwell Cottage with President Sean Decatur and dinner at Peirce. The graduates have shaken hands with global figures, visited all corners of the earth and influenced countless minds and lives, yet conversations…

Netting the Title

Athletics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Kenyon College continued its near decade-long North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Tournament Championship victories with a 6-1 win over DePauw University Sunday afternoon at VandenBerg Courts. The Lords' tourney title was their ninth in a row and 18th overall. Unlike last year when the Lords had to rally after losing all three doubles flights, Kenyon took a 3-0 advantage against the Tigers in doubles competition. It started at No. 3 when Peter Hazlett '18 and Weston Noall '18 claimed an 8-5 win…

Setting a Course

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The Kenyon College Board of Trustees, in the final meeting chaired by Barry F. Schwartz ’70, set a course for the future of the College — unanimously supporting the Kenyon 2020 strategic plan, endorsing a new sexual misconduct policy, and authorizing the acquisition of the Buckeye Candy building in downtown Mount Vernon. Meeting in Gambier on April 23-24, the board celebrated the tenure of Schwartz, who was described by trustee Brackett B. Denniston III ’69 as “an intelligent and wise decision-maker…

Reflecting with Rhodes

By Lauren Eller '18

General Kenyon From The Collegian - 9 years ago

The senior class has spoken. Donald L. Rogan Professor of Religious Studies Royal Rhodes will be the Class of 2015’s speaker for its Baccalaureate ceremony, which will be livestreamed, Friday, May 15, at 1:30 p.m. on Samuel Mather lawn. The dean’s office contacted Rhodes and asked whether or not he would accept. “And I was totally delighted to. I think even before she was finished asking I was saying ‘Yes, yes, yes,’” he said. Rhodes last served as the Baccalaureate speaker in 2006. Rhodes explained…

Walls and Bridges

By Sean Decatur

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Walls have for centuries been powerful cultural and political symbols. In the great medieval cities and territories, walls stood for protection and were a constant reminder of the potential for danger. But they also provided a means for defining and representing difference between the people inside and the “other,” found outside. Much remains the same in contemporary times. Walls — from the Berlin Wall to the barrier built by the U.S. at the border with Mexico — divide and contain, protect and scar…

New Leadership

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Professor of Mathematics Carol Schumacher jokes that there might have been some arm-twisting involved in getting her to run for the faculty chair position, but she was actually eager to serve. In July, Schumacher takes the reins from Jamie Keller, associate professor of chemistry, who will be wrapping up three years as chair. Joan Slonczewski, the Robert A. Oden, Jr. Professor of Biology, will serve as faculty secretary. The faculty chair serves on the Faculty Executive Committee, known as EXEC…

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