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A Holiday Hallmark

Student Life From Kenyon News - 1 year ago

The weekend after classes ended, Kenyon community members were invited to exchange stress and busyness for a dose of 1940s nostalgia and a taste of the holiday spirit. The Horn Gallery was transformed into an old-time broadcast studio as Natalie Kane ’18, from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, directed a radio play adaptation of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Kane was first struck with the idea of bringing a radio play to the Hill when she saw a theater production of this same adaptation in New York City. …

Community Cooperation

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 1 year ago

Students who enrolled last spring in Women’s and Gender Studies 331 probably never expected to bounce on an exercise ball, meet with local community health groups or interview a fourth-grader for class. But that’s what happened after Associate Professor of Political Science Abbie Erler, who teaches "Gender, Power and Knowledge: Research Practices," decided to undertake an analysis of Knox County’s “Crunch Out Obesity” program. In past iterations of the biennial course, students completed a research…

Studio Sneak Peek

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 1 year ago

Senior studio art majors threw open the doors to their Horvitz Hall studios Friday, Dec. 9, from 5-7 p.m. for the Department of Art’s annual Open Studio event. The 19 studio art majors, in addition to one senior not majoring in studio art, gave visitors a rare look at their studios and works both finished and in progress. The yearly event is meant to give students experience in presenting their work as well as to prepare them for their final compositions, which are exhibited in the spring. “The…

Dancing Display

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 1 year ago

Kenyon dancers will present eight pieces ranging from the whimsical to the ominous in their Fall Dance Concert, held Dec. 8-10 at 8 p.m. in the Hill Theater.   Two projects by senior dance majors will be showcased at the concert. “Rooted,” a dance choreographed by Ian Edwards ’17, is an evocative duet that takes place within the confines of a stark set of branches, created by Kelsey Ewing ’16. A dance by Marc Ferraro ’17 conjures a sense of isolation as passersby intersect in an eerie outdoor autumnal…

Grants to Go Abroad

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 1 year ago

Jadah Jones ’18 and Maymuna Abdi ’18 recently were selected to receive a prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to help defray the costs of their overseas residencies. The Kenyon students were among 850 undergraduates nationwide earning up to $5,000 each for the spring 2017 term. Jones, an international studies major, will spend the spring semester in Botswana studying the politics, economics, public health, language and culture of southern Africa in an off-campus program offered…

The Traveler's Life

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 1 year ago

A wrong turn almost derailed George W. Stone ’95 from his dream of ­attending Kenyon — literally. Stone, who describes himself as “directionally challenged,” said that on the morning of his high school interview with an admissions officer at Kenyon, he woke up early in a Mount Vernon hotel, “groggy and preoccupied,” and drove all the way to Denison University, in Granville, instead of his intended destination of Gambier. “It’s amazing that I actually got into Kenyon,” he said with a laugh. “It…

12 Things We Learned During the Bell-A-Thon

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 1 year ago

The Church of the Holy Spirit’s bells rang 526 times to represent each donation to the Kenyon Fund during the College’s second Bell-A-Thon on Nov. 29. The Giving Tuesday event, which ran from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., raised $245,655 to support academics, athletics, scholarships and student life at Kenyon.  The livestreamed event also revealed some interesting tidbits about Kenyon and the people who call Gambier home. Here are 12 things we learned during the 12-hour broadcast: Assistant Swimming Coach…

Dancing for a Good Cause

By Natalie Kane '18

Student Life From Kenyon News - 1 year ago

Editor's note: Director of Housing and Residential Life Jill Engel-Hellman won the mirrorball trophy on Friday night, dancing with Richard Dennis '17. The event raised over $1,000 for the Winter Sanctuary. Since I wasn’t an athlete in high school, the Kenyon Athletic Center wasn’t a main selling point of Kenyon when I was a prospective student, despite its impressive facilities. Flash forward three years, and I’m there most days — almost always in heels. I was interested in joining the Ballroom…

Marvelous Music

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 1 year ago

The Kenyon College Chamber Singers and the Kenyon Community Choir, conducted by Professor of Music Ben Locke, will present a joint concert Saturday, Dec. 3, at 8 p.m. in Rosse Hall. The 112-voice community choir will sing works by Pavel Chesnokov, Gerald Cohen, Moses Hagan, George Frideric Handel and Joan Szymko. Violinist Alayne Wegner ’17 joins the choir for a setting of e.e. cumming’s poem “i carry your heart with me,” composed by Z. Randall Stroope. A centerpiece of the Chamber Singers program…

Phillips in Focus

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 1 year ago

The Roaring ’20s are back at Kenyon with a new exhibit at the Greenslade Special Collections and Archives in Olin Library. “Coles Phillips: Illustrator of the All-American Girl” features dozens of illustrations by Coles Phillips, a Kenyon student in the Class of 1905. Phillips is considered one of the defining artists of the “Golden Age of Illustration,” and he worked extensively for Good Housekeeping, the Saturday Evening Post and Life magazines. He was famous for introducing an art-deco style…

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