The Ins and Outs of Getting In

As college admissions adapts to an ever-shifting and increasingly competitive landscape, we break down what has changed — and what has stayed the same — about applying to Kenyon.

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Making Waves

Kenyon’s swimming and diving program is having a ripple effect far beyond Gambier through the swimmers who have gone on to become notable coaches at all levels.

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Art In Season

Craftsmanship and entrepreneurial acumen collide in the buzzworthy food prints of Anastasia Inciardi ’19.

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Also In This Edition

Visiting Instructor of Spanish Agnė Karosaitė takes in “Nancy Spero: Maypole: Take No Prisoners,” which is on view at the Buchwald-Wright Gallery through May 18. Photo by James DeCamp.

Students clothed in a mix of late-19th century fashion styles gather on the lawn in front of Ascension Hall for a game of baseball. Photo courtesy of the College Archives.

President Julie Kornfeld and her husband, Fred Silverman (right), mingled with the hundreds of alumni who returned to the Hill as Kenyon celebrated Homecoming in September. Football alumnus Alex Dowell ’10 (left), came back for the induction of Alby Coombs ’07 into the Athletics Hall of Fame. Photo by James DeCamp.

Alumni News

Connected by Kenyon

David Rose ’81 has introduced 21 Kenyon graduates to the financial industry. Meet four of his protégés…

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Kenyon in Quotes

“We need humanists conversant in AI who can critique and shape the future that AI may restructure. AI forces us to ask questions about what it means to be human.” — Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Scholar Katherine Elkins, delivering the 2023 Meredith Donovan Lecture at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles, in November

Arts & Culture

Book Shelf

Explore new releases from members of the Kenyon community.

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Lost and Found

On a college campus as lively as Kenyon’s, it’s only natural that some things should go missing — and on the flipside, be discovered in unexpected places. Here’s a highlight reel of the season’s lost and found, sourced from campus email lists.

Knitting. Possibly lost in transit from a Fiber Arts Club meeting, the yarn-deprived owner described the missing craft project as being housed in a special pouch. “With a sheep on it,” of course. 

A black kitten. Found wandering outside the bookstore on a cold November evening, the feline  was taken in by some students for the night. 

Invisalign retainers. A self-described “Tooth Cinderella” announced her discovery of the dental gear “still wet with your spit” on the path to Peirce Hall. If the correct owner didn’t come forward, the finder declared that she would “have no choice but to visit the dwelling of everyone in the kingdom and put them in the mouth of every eligible creature until I find the perfect fit.”

Make way for ducklings. A Hydro Flask water bottle, bedecked in “a plethora of stickers” that includes a flock of baby ducks, was misplaced in the library. The stickers are still at large, though there have been occasional reports of quacks in the stacks. 

A plastic possum. A slightly terrifying  marsupial figurine was last seen on north campus, somewhere between the first-year quad and the NCAs. “It’s actually so sentimental to me,” said the owner, offering reward money in exchange for information about the possum’s whereabouts. 

A jean jacket. Last seen outside Gund Commons. In the event of foul play, the jacket’s owner offered the thief a warning. “It may seem generic,” she wrote, “but I know what my jacket looks like and will not hesitate to catch whoever is wearing my jacket on campus.” The denim garment was quickly returned. 

—Carolyn Ten Eyck '18

Class Notes

Recent Class Notes
’92

Jenna J. Blum, Boston, is promoting her most recent book, “Woodrow on the Bench,” a memoir “about my beloved old black Lab.” She teaches, speaks, and is also “running my author interview company A Mighty Blaze, which puts authors with new books online so you can see your favorite writers in your living room without even having to put on pants! Recently, I interviewed Ann Patchett, Peter Heller and Andre Dubus. If you’re literarily minded, please visit the Blaze on all social platforms. Speaking of visiting, for two summers running I’ve hung out with Sharon Stochholm Wetzel, Jennifer (Bowman) Ryznar, Amy E. Haid and Megan Lewis-Schurter ’91 in beautiful Harbor Springs, Michigan, and in Colorado, where Meg and I went to a writing retreat in a nunnery! Our abiding connection continues to be a chief joy of my life.”

’15

Amelia Li finished her postdoc at Cornell and is now an assistant professor of sociology of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She has been enjoying her new role and the improved Asian grocery options in Lincoln. This past sum-mer, she celebrated her one-year wedding anniversary and went back home to China for the first time since COVID.

’74

Kevin Fitzgerald, Nahant, Massachusetts, informs, “In 2011, I was in a fire when a gasoline tanker tipped over on the highway. They say to add your age (60) to your percentage of third-degree burns (55) and that is your mortality rate. I am 115 percent dead, statistically. I am a third of the way through a chemotherapy program for B-cell lymphoma. If I am already statistically dead, I figure the cancer has nothing to work on. I want to be clear: I am not a glass-half-full person. I believe I was given a full pour, and it is up to me to make the most of it. (I don’t drink anymore, so that glass is iced tea.) God bless you for your friendship; if you are having troubles, mine are neither better nor worse than yours. We all survive based on the strength we are given by those around us. Treasure your loved ones as they treasure you.” Kevin is counsel to the Massachusetts House of Representatives Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security, where “the title is much bigger than the paycheck, but the work is fascinating.”

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