Barbara (Lee) Johnson ’73, Doretha Smallwood ’73 (now Leftwood) and and Glory Wolfe (now Shuler) '73, the first black women to study at Kenyon, arrive on campus. Many students choose to complete the English major with an emphasis in creative writing. The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics. At the core of this fiscal winning streak is responsibility, discipline, a commitment to keeping Kenyon strong — and also the Kenyon Fund. Obstetric anesthesiologist McCallum R. Hoyt ’76 H’95 is appointed to a one-year term as president of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. She is succeeded by Sean Michael Decatur, Kenyon’s 19th — and first African-American — president. students serve as first readers for thousands of submissions to the Kenyon Review each year. Cornelia “Buffy” Ireland Hallinan ’76 becomes the first Kenyon alumna to be elected chair of the College’s board of trustees. Read stories about the impact Kenyon women have had on the Hill and in their fields. Poet Adrienne Rich gives a reading on campus. Fiber artist, quiltmaker, hand dyer and surface designer Debra S. Lunn ’73 P’98 H’05 creates a quilt, “Counterpoint,” that, according to a biography on the Lunn Fabrics website, becomes the first and only piece in Quilt National ’79 that was made of hand-dyed fabrics. Here you'll receive information about the school and information on their Men's Swimming program like who to contact about recruiting, names of past alumni, what scholarship opportunities are presented and how to begin the recruiting process. With the May 6 issue of the Collegian, Liesel Friedrich and Denise Largent, both of the Class of 1973, become the first women editors of the newspaper.". Kenyon is one of the nation's finest liberal arts colleges, where 1,700 curious and intellectually ambitious students delight in the act of learning and exploring big questions together. Dhanani, the State Department’s director of the Office of Regional and Security Affairs in the Bureau of African Affairs, later withdraws her nomination for personal reasons. Kenyon College, a national liberal arts college an hour northeast of Columbus, Ohio, seeks a talented videographer to join an award-winning communications team. In her inaugural address, she invites everyone to take part in "this endless odyssey of education," and thereby to increase "Kenyon's capacity to act in and transform our world.". Kenyon’s student portal, MyBanner, becomes more inclusive for students of all gender identities. All three came to the College as transfer students in 1969. There is a shuttle but it only goes to Mount Vernon. Read with appreciation, write with clarity and grace, and explore the world through the lens of literature. Kenyon College's Instagram or Flickr account for photos More than 17,616 Kenyon alumni, parents and friends have supported the campaign. More than 17,918 Kenyon alumni, parents and friends have supported the campaign. The Obama administration honors two alumnae for their change-making work. In 2012, she delivers Kenyon’s Commencement address on race in America. Lean'tin Bracks ’94 H’08 publishes her first book, “Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora: History Language and Identity.”. Kenyon appoints its first woman president, S. Georgia Nugent, a former dean at Princeton University and a member of Princeton’s Class of 1973 — its first fully coeducational class. In January, Kim Stapleton ’74 (now Smith) is “activated” as a member of Psi Upsilon, becoming the first woman to join a Kenyon fraternity. Kenyon College's LinkedIn profile for business and academic networking. In the January-February Collegian, the editors ask, “Is it not high time that Kenyon offered the same advantages to women which for more than sixty years she has been offering to men?”. From the time of Kenyon’s founding, women played a role in the College’s growth as a liberal arts institution. Thus the short life of the Coordinate College for Women comes to an end, perhaps as intended from the beginning. From Feb. 5-7, the Kenyon College Dramatic Club presents a rock-musical version of Aristophanes’s “Lysistrata,” with Mia Halton ’73 in the title role. On May 13, Roberta Teale Swartz Chalmers, poet, professor, widow of President Gordon Keith Chalmers, and often unacknowledged co-founder of the Kenyon Review, dies at her home in Newton, Massachusetts, at the age of 89. Video from Kenyon College. Video interviews from the project are available on Vimeo. Twitter. "We are beginning with a positive outlook," co-organizer Lauren Rosenbloom ’78 tells a Collegian reporter. “Shapes of Their Thoughts: Reflections of Culture Contact in Northwest Coast Indian Art,” by Victoria Wyatt ’77 H’15, a historian, teacher expert in Native American art and culture, is published. The Hon. Jean Dunbar ’73 becomes the first Kenyon woman to be awarded a Danforth Scholarship for graduate study. President Barack Obama nominates career diplomat Katherine Simonds Dhanani ’81 H’16 as the first U.S. ambassador to Somalia in more than 23 years. “Pleasurable” doesn’t seem like a word that would apply to the harrowing story of a mother who kills her child rather than allow her to be enslaved. Center for Innovative Pedagogy Contact Analyze stellar essays that combine literary and scientific merit and learn to present scientific information in highly readable form. Kathleen O’Malley ’79 H’95 to U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Also on May 27, U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm addresses the class, becoming the first African-American woman to deliver the Commencement address at Kenyon and to receive an honorary doctorate from the College. Robin L. Bennett ’81 H’09 is elected president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors. Julia F. Johnson ’73 H'99, becomes Banc One’s first female senior vice president, as well as the first female member of the exclusive Columbus Club. “I think that being a woman contributed to my wanting to improve the child care situation," President Nugent later tells the Bulletin. The official Baseball page for the Kenyon College Lords. Joan P. Grimm, who later became one of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood by the Episcopal Church (1977), begins a two-year tenure as Kenyon’s associate chaplain. Vicki Barker ’78 H’96 is hired to host the BBC World Service's morning world news program for U.S. listeners, “World Update.” She later produces a four-part radio documentary, "The Changing Face of Global Power," which introduces the world to the concept of the "BRICs" — Brazil, Russia, India and China as rising powers. YouTube. The Kenyon experience is inextricably linked to the beauty of the College's location. Kenyon College's Facebook page for social networking . In September, students return to a campus that no longer provides maid service in student rooms, requiring Kenyon men to make their own beds — in the words of President F. Edward Lund — “just like the boys at Harvard and Yale.”. Kenyon has balanced its budget for forty-eight years in a row. Kenyon thrives on the lively and diverse minds that converge on our Hill. “We're not anti-Kenyon or anti-male, but pro-information, decision and choice." The headline read, “Male Tradition Broken: Coeds at Kenyon after 145 Years,” followed by: “A new look comes to Kenyon College today — girls.”. Kathleen O’Malley ’79 H’95 is the first Kenyon alumna to be the Commencement speaker — a milestone that coincides with the 25th anniversary of coeducation. Kathryn “Ryn” Edwards, Kenyon’s first out lesbian professor, joins the biology faculty as an assistant professor. 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