| Kenyon Class of 1960 Fall Class Letter
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| Dear gentlemen,
The College knows you look forward to this letter to learn about what’s happened in your fellow alumni’s lives; we’re also excited to share some of the news from the Hill this year:
This semester, 12 members of the Class of 2026 were able to enroll as the direct result of donor support for the Kenyon Access Initiative (KAI), a vital scholarship effort to increase access for low-income students. We’re only just getting started and aim to enroll 50 students each year through KAI, in addition to other robust financial aid. This additional diversity in backgrounds and lived experiences will further enrich daily life on campus.
Chalmers Library in the West Quad has quickly become a hub for connections throughout the day and night. Its neighbor Lowell House, home to admissions and financial aid and named for Pulitzer Prize winning poet Robert T.S. Lowell IV ’40, is also now open. Oden Hall, future home to social sciences and named for former president Robert Oden, will open for instruction next year. The 261-space underground parking garage for visitors and employees is already helping to ease congestion in the Village without disrupting the beauty of Gambier we all remember so fondly.
In other news, the Music Department is celebrating its 75th year. Alumni Council is developing an updated version of the Kenyon songbook (Kenyon has a songbook!) which will be viewable online soon and distributed at Reunion Weekend during the all-class sing. If you haven’t saved the date yet for Reunion Weekend, remember that all alumni are welcome to attend May 26-28.
I hope you’re now feeling wistful about our own time at Kenyon. I invite you to turn that nostalgia into action with a gift to help make all this possible! Gifts to the Kenyon Fund can be directed toward enrolling the next high-achieving group of students through the Kenyon Access Initiative, broader scholarships and financial aid efforts, athletics, one of the College’s many green centers and more. Please consider making your alma mater and today’s Kenyon students a philanthropic priority this year by giving online at gift.kenyon.edu.
I hope you’ve enjoyed hearing the news from the College this fall. I have certainly enjoyed (as always) hearing from those of you who submitted class notes for this letter (see below). I encourage folks who haven’t updated us with one recently to consider submitting a quick life update for the next batch of notes in the spring.
Thank you! Terry Dunnavant
Kenyon College
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| Reunited and it feels so Kenyon
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Reunion Weekend 2023
will take place in Gambier May 26 - 28
Along with special programming for the 50th Reunion class on May 25, we’ll be celebrating milestone reunions for classes that end with 3 and 8, as well as K80s, Peeps and Chamber Singers.
All alumni are invited to return to the Hill for Reunion Weekend, especially those celebrating a reunion beyond their 50th. Registration details will be emailed in early 2023. If you think we may not have your most current info, please share your up-to-date email and phone number with us at updateinfo@kenyon.edu. (We can’t invite you if we can’t reach you!)
We are so excited to reunite with you! See you soon.
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| Upcoming Events for Alumni
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| Save the date for these upcoming events for alumni taking place online and on the Hill.
- The Center for American Democracy's Midterm Elections Panel
Hear from alumni experts at this free, virtual event Tuesday, Jan. 10 from 7-8 p.m. ET.
- Spring Giving Challenge
Our annual 36-hour online giving challenge will take place Wednesday, April 26 – Thursday, April 27.
- Reunion Weekend
All alumni are invited to join us on the Hill May 26-28.
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George Grella: Quite honestly, I wish I had something interesting and/or entertaining to submit. I remain happily retired after many years as a professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Rochester. I am a widower with three children and six grandchildren. I am, so far at least, still vertical, more or less compos mentis, reasonably presentable, spend most of my time reading, writing, gardening, going to movies, playing tennis when I can. For more than 35 years I was the film critic for a local weekly alternative newspaper here in Rochester, as well as serving the same role for our local NPR station. I continue to write about film and other subjects, and now and then contribute to a blog I have maintained for several years.
David Gury: I have taken on a new normal. A week ago, I had an ablation to check my a-fib. Seems to have worked. Now we are attacking my lung infection. A fib feeds the infection, so with that out of the way, able to move on to get the lungs better. Spent the last week in hospital working on this. Now on 24 hour days with oxygen and some new meds and seem to be doing very well.
Brent Scudder: I have been storm chasing in Tornado Alley for the last five years. Last Spring, I was staying at a motel in the eastern part of Wichita, Kansas. All indicators for a tornado that day lay in southeastern Nebraska. I raced up there only to find that a large tornado hit Andover, Kansas which was only six miles from my morning motel in Wichita.
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Kenyon is grateful to the following donors for their generous support of the College, including the Kenyon Fund, during the 2021-22 fiscal year. An asterisk (*) indicates a donor is a member of the Henry J. Abraham Society for loyal and consecutive giving. An obelisk (†) indicates an individual who is deceased.
1960
Annual Fund Total: $73,620
Class Participation: 55.10%
Presidents Society
Donors of $50,000 or more
Edwin H. Eaton Jr. P'89 H'03*
Robert G. Heasley P'83 '88 GP'16 '19*
Philander Chase Society
Donors of $10,000 to $24,999
Ritsuko Komaki Cox (widow of James D. Cox MD '60 H'97)
Michael O'Haire
Bexley Society
Donors of $2,500 to $9,999
David J. Gury P'89 GP'20*
Richard M. Lamport Jr.*
J. Bruce Overmier H'90*
David D. Taft H'00*
Kenyon Society
Donors of $1,000 to $2,499
The Rev. Michael M. Davis*
Wesley J. MacAdam*
John S. Muenter*
The Rev. Wilson K. Roane*
James V. Wilton
Kenyon Society
Donors of $1 to $999
Melvin J. Chavinson MD*
Henry B. Curtis*
Ross H. Gelbspan H'12
James E. Hawn*
Charles E. Kalstone MD*
Philip C. Levering*
The Rev. David O. McCoy P'87 '89 GP'17*
J. Duncan Muir*
Robert T. Ogawa
Richard M. Regnante MD*
George James Russell P'97*
Richard M. Schori*
Brent E. Scudder*
Herbert Van Arsdale II
Russell E. Van Hooser*
George Wharton Marriott Society
These alumni have included Kenyon in their estate plans or have made other planned gifts.
James D. Cox '60 * and Ritsuko Komaki
Michael M. Davis '60
Edwin H. Eaton Jr. '60 P'89
David J. Gury '60
Jonathan '60† and Joan Kleinbard
Richard M. Lamport Jr. '60
John S. Muenter '60
J. Duncan Muir '60
J. Bruce Overmier '60
William S. Reed '60
Richard M. Schori '60
Stephen H. '60† and Doris Spaeth
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