Lincoln Bleveans: Meredith '90 and I have relocated to the little town of Half Moon Bay, just over the hill from Silicon Valley, for my job running sustainability, utilities, and infrastructure for Stanford University. Empty nesters at last, with Annie (18) just starting her freshman year at UC Santa Cruz (Go Slugs!). Will (24) is at U. of Virginia Law and Jamie (21) is a senior at U. of Redlands in SoCal.

Kyla Carlson: I just returned from a weekend on Gambier Island, where my main focus was attending Alumni Council meetings. As always, I connected with so many fabulous people across generations. Yes, generations. The highlight of my weekend (aside from tequila shots at the VI), was attending a “networking” session with students and alums. My insecurities lead me to wonder what I have to offer in terms of career advice. But speaking with the students, I learned that I do have plenty to offer, and was reminded how terrifying it is to be graduating from college and figuring out what’s next. When I told these students that it’s ok not to know, and it’s ok to change your mind, I could literally see their shoulders relax and a wave of relief sweep over their faces. Of course, my mommy instincts kicked in and I wanted to hug all of the students and make them soup. Instead, I did my best to listen to their hopes and fears, share a little about my life path, connect them with alums, and urge them to attend reunions. Honestly, talking with these students filled me up as much as frolicking at the VI! It was also awesome to see my daughter, Shea ‘25! When not on campus, I’m happily living life in Kirkland, WA with my husband and son. I love my job with the King County Library System, and I see my BFF Abbe Jacobson as often as I can! Hope to see YOU sometime sooner rather than later as well!!

Tracy Cordon (Krug): Following my passion as an ADHD advocate. Follow me on Insta @peanutbutterandpositivity if interested!

Ann Minner: I recently stepped out from my 24 year home in the public library world to become the Director of the Talking Book Program with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. If someone in your life is visually impaired or has a reading disability, look to your state library for free resources that will bring reading back into their lives. These programs are amazing!

Andy Albrecht: Hello from Cleveland!  We recently moved into a townhome after renting for almost two years. We’ve really loved living in the near-west side of Cleveland and decided to make it permanent (at least for a while).  It’s the typical modern-vertical build but has both a basement and a fourth floor deck. We often question the sanity of moving into a 5-story house with no elevator but we have convinced ourselves it’ll keep us young doing all those stairs. Our oldest has moved back from Seattle while transitioning between careers. It’s nice having him home for a bit but he’ll be relocating again in the next month or so we’ll be back to just the two of us again. 

Andrea Bucey-Tikkanen: We are empty nesters! Son Henry graduated and employed, daughter Caroline is a sophomore at Denison. I love them dearly, but am so digging the footloose and fancy freedom!  My hubby and I embraced nest emptiness (& the whacky real estate market), sold the family home in Hudson, OH and bought a condo in neighboring Aurora. It is NOT a 55-and-older community (good Gawd, we would soon qualify!), but we did bring the median age down a skoch!  The only down side? No yard signs! Where can I hang all my rebellious blue signs?  

Susie Bloom Hudgins: For the first time in eight years, I am not sending a child to Kenyon which is bittersweet.  While I loved having Houlder ’18 and Dell ’22 find their spot on the Hill, I am glad to just revel in our reprobate status.  I continue teaching students with dyslexia and executive function challenges in Richmond, Virginia.  I work with students in grades 7 - college.  I had the pleasure of visiting Christine Seyfried Church in Scottsdale as well as Melissa Thorn Tierney, Brenda Burman, and Pete Groustra in Boston.  Pete and I waited together to hood our ’22 graduates, a truly special moment. I had a wonderful trip to Ohio connecting with Kelly Stanton Fordon, Heather Lee Rue, Larisa Lockwood Alpaugh, Lopa Purohit Kolluri, Dede Alexander-McCormack, and Andi Moore Cohen. Staying connected to Kenyon friends is always fun! Cheers and I look forward to seeing you for our reunion in 2024!

Chris Toft: Nicole ‘92 and I are well, with one daughter in college and another finishing her senior year of high school. I’m enjoying an interesting, energizing and slightly exhausting 2022.  Why is it that when professional change happens, all your side interests start to blossom as well? In March, after 9 years working in healthcare administration at a large community teaching hospital, I moved over to higher education again to take a position as VP of Institutional Advancement at Adler University, a graduate school of psychology, publicly policy and leadership programs with a strong social justice bent.  Adler is headquartered in Chicago, and, in addition to an online campus, also has a campus in Vancouver, British Columbia.  It’s been a great fit for me, and I really enjoy the challenge of launching our second ever fundraising campaign and reviving the alumni association.

 As soon as I began to settle in at the new job, I had a flurry of creative opportunities come my way that were all tempting, and I listened to my heart rather than my pragmatic time-management side. First was the chance to combine my love of theater with my career in fundraising by playing famous Chicago businessman and philanthropist Joy Morton in a new outdoor play, A Walk with Joy, to celebrate the centennial of the Morton Arboretum, which was his passion project. Doing a show outside and wearing a three-piece suit in 90-degree heat in July and August wasn’t always comfortable, but we had a great script and appreciative audiences, and portraying this Chicago icon, who was also the founder of Morton Salt, was a real pleasure.

Next was/is directing The Crucible for the small Chicago theater company where I’m a resident artist. They say that casting is 90% of the challenge, and I’m fortunate that we had great choices between our regular company members and new faces who auditioned. Rehearsals are going well, and I’m really enjoying working on this ever-relevant, classic play. We’re setting our production in 1953, when the work originally premiered amidst the context of the McCarthy hearings and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Directing for the first time since Kenyon is stretching me - in good ways.  I could see myself doing a lot more of this as I have time and definitely after I retire. Performances are the first three weekends in November at Edge of the Wood Theatre, for those in the Chicago area.

The final creative project is executive producing an independent scripted six-episode show called Famous Canadian Actors, which was created by a writer/director friend. Starting an LLC and raising money (mostly mine so far) to get a filmed project off the ground according to SAG/AFTRA rules is a completely new endeavor to me, but it’s deeply satisfying to see an idea go from script to location to digital footage. The show is a bit like The Odd Couple if it were directed by David Lynch. We film segments whenever schedules align and enough money is in place to cover costs. Organizing and budgeting a film project is also stretching me, and I’m grateful for the experienced folks that are line producing.

So, one done, one in process with finish line in sight, and one plugging along with finish uncertain. I love my “regular” job and each of my creative projects, but I hope that in future years I can organize my outside adventures so that they’re not right on top of each other.

Sarah Turgeon: I am in my 26th year (yikes!) at Amherst College which I'm quite sure officially makes me an "old fart." I've been enjoying teaching a new first-year seminar called "Books on the Brain" in which we read popular press books that make claims about brains (The Female Brain, The Teenage Brain, for example) and evaluate their use of the actual scientific literature to back up their claims. I am not enjoying chairing and other increasing administrative tasks - regularly wish I could have a good talk with my Dad about college politics!

We are empty nesting for real now as twins Alex '21 and Thomas (Trinity '21) have moved to Brooklyn and East Boston, respectively, to live with friends and begin their careers. Evan (Union '25) is still home for breaks, so we still get the regular dose of empty fridges and extra laundry, but we are adapting to the generally slower pace.

We did lose my Mom this Spring, as some may have read in the last bulletin. She had been living near us for the past 6 years, the last 4 in Memory Care. We were very fortunate that she was in a good place with staff who loved her and that she remained her cheerful self even as her disease progressed. We had a wonderful service here and will be having another celebration in Gambier in March, including a reprisal of the Friday Cafe as a benefit!

Pete Groustra: Like many of us, my wife Ellen and I are once again empty nesters.  This time feels more permanent since my son Ben (a Middlebury ’20 grad) moved out last summer and is now in Cambridge, MA and Sarah ’22, home for the summer, recently moved to Brooklyn with what seems to be half of her Kenyon graduating class. It’s been fun to see my kids start their careers—Ben in politics most recently working on the state Attorney General race and Sarah with her playwriting success. In Brooklyn, she is working three jobs to pay the bills but she is having fun with her friends and classmates as they actively pursue their career passions. In the class letter, I mentioned her play, Insertion, will be at the B. Street Theatre in Sacramento, CA from July 5th to August 13th next year. We plan to be there opening night, please join us if you are in and around Sacramento.

I’m still working at Boston University’s Information Services and Technology group working on major academic system projects.  It’s crazy that I have been at the University for 11 years but I have really enjoyed the work, the BU community, and the walking commute into the office.  

We have been able to see a few classmates recently.  Last fall Steve Eberhardt and his wife Linda hosted Jay Sears and his wife Lauren, Ellen, and I at their home in Albuquerque NM.  It was great to see everyone and we thoroughly enjoyed New Mexico, can’t wait to go back.  I know that Jay recently stopped by Pittsburgh PA on his way back from a trip Michigan’s U.P. and spent some time with Steve Mischler and Alex Maurer.  Alex is a recent empty nester, with his kids off to Tennessee and The Ohio State University and Steve has been working for CDC for a number of years. Steve travelled quite a bit during the pandemic working on COVID initiatives out west. I have also been keeping up with Mike Nauen as part of a long-standing perpetual group baseball e-mail and managed to catch-up with him in person last fall. Boston has been a travel destination for folks recently too. We caught up with Kristen (Bruno) McClusky when she and her daughter were doing a round of college visits. It was great seeing Brenda Burman on her two swings through Boston and great to catch up with Susie Bloom Hudgins at Melissa (Thorn) Tierney’s place in Scituate, MA.   

Please give a shout if you find yourself headed to the Boston area!

Read notes from the Class of 1990 and the Class of 1988. 

1989
Annual Fund Total: $148,410  
Class Participation: 31.70%

Presidents Society
Donors of $50,000 or more
Andrew S. Albrecht*
Michael A. Arbour*
Christopher K. Eaton*
Christopher P. Toft*

Philander Chase Society
Donors of $10,000 to $24,999
Kristin L. Schneider*
Jody M. van der Goes*

Bexley Society
Donors of $2,500 to $9,999
Deirdre J. Alexander*
Jeffrey S. Alpaugh*
Chandra Billiar Andersson*
Alexander G. Hetherington*
Richard C. Hoffman P'20*
Larisa Lockwood Alpaugh*
Joan O'Hanlon Curry*
Eleanor H. Seaman*
Mary E. B. Smith*

Kenyon Society
Donors of $1,000 to $2,499
Lisa Betson Resnik*
Amy Curtner Andrews*
Catherine C. Greenman*
Tracey C. Hummer*
Anne S. Jamison*
Benjamin W. Keenan*
Natalie W. Keenan*
Phoebe Lang 
Richard C. Mathes*
Peter Mitchell*
John W. Morris P'20*
Michelle Peerenboom Wood*
David N. Rath*
Theodore V. Wood III*

Kenyon Society
Donors of $1 to $999
Anonymous
Steven G. Bard*
Jennifer L. Barton 
Edward J. Beemiller*
Sonya K. Bingaman*
Nathaniel Buffum 
David C. Burdick*
Brenda W. Burman*
Margaret E. Carey*
Kyla K. Carlson P'25*
Christine S. Church 
Sharon U. Clinch 
Andrew D. Crabb*
Anna M. De Jesus*
Johanna R. Dickson*
Steven C. Eberhardt MD*
Scott H. Ehrlich P'26 
Stephanie S. Ehrlich 
Erin M. Finneran*
Sarah K. Flotten 
Elizabeth W. Garcia*
Grace Gardner Schoelkopf*
Richard D. Ginsburg*
Pamela Goodell*
Michelle Graves*
Ana P. Greavu 
Lawrence C. Grimm*
Pete A. Groustra P'22*
Walter J. Hajduk III 
Elizabeth A. Hansel*
Scott D. Hinckley 
Elizabeth A. Hines*
Kirsten Holzheimer Gail 
Susan Bloom Hudgins P'18 '22*
Wendy J. Issokson 
Abbe Jacobson*
Alec C. Jerome 
Pamela L. Kalish 
Therese Kelly Moskal*
Julia K. Kipka Enkema*
Heidi Lodish Steinert P'21*
Gordon G. Loveland P'17 '19 '22*
John R. Lytle Jr. 
Stephanie Ma 
Kevin L. Martin*
Alex Maurer*
Steven E. Mischler*
Peter V. Mogyordy 
Christopher P. Mooradian*
John W. Morris P'20
Martha T. Murphy 
Karen Neuger Nathan*
Jennifer L. Nix 
Angela Novak*
Lisa M. Parker Ernst P'17 '19 '22*
Jennifer L. Pearce*
Elizabeth Phipps Owen*
John A. Quigley P'16*
Kent M. Rambo*
David H. Richards*
Pamela R. Rivers 
Nancy C. Robbins*
Margaret Tuttle Robinson 
Heidi Rotheim*

Heather Lee Rue*
Taylor V. Ruggles*
Helen A. Scharff 
Elizabeth A. Schoetz*
Darryl L. Shankle*
The Rev. Marshall Keith Shelly 
Margaret Soforenko 
Michael B. Soforenko 
Silvio A. Spadavecchia 
Eric C. Steinert P'21*
Ann Stevens Hichak*
Holly Swank Kromer 
Brian K. Theil*
Melissa Thorn Tierney*
Sarah Turgeon P'21*
Corinne M. Weigand*
Andrea Wickham*
Eric A. Williams 
Susan F. Withers P'19*
Benjamin J. Wooster P'22*
Jamie Zahner 


George Wharton Marriott Society
These alumni have included Kenyon in their estate plans or have made other planned gifts.

Karen Neuger Nathan '89
John A. '89 P'16 and Susan L. '88 P'16 Quigley
Lisa Betson Resnik '89
Margaret Robinson '89
Taylor V. Ruggles '89
Andrea Bucey Tikkanen '89
Christopher P. Toft '89 and Nicole Dunn Toft '92

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