Alexandra (Roland) Armstrong: We welcomed our sweet daughter Marais in September 2022. Big brother, Lochlan (2 years) has had mixed feelings about it but has mostly adjusted well!
Diana (Ruskin) Black: Having spent the past several years as the Academic Engagement Librarian at Mary Baldwin University, Dave Black just accepted a faculty position at James Madison University. He will serve as the Digital Preservation Specialist for the Furious Flower Black Poetry Center. Diana has been working since last summer as an instructor at Silver Line Theatre Exchange, teaching kids acting and improv. Together with five colleagues, she created and performed a benefit cabaret to fund scholarship money for local high schoolers seeking summer enrichment programs in the performing arts. They raised over $12K for the cause, booking a host of upcoming gigs under their new moniker: Shenandoah Cabaret.
Thomas Boucher: I'd like to send my best wishes to the class of 2009. I hope you're all doing well. I've been in Redding, CA for 8 years. My wife and I are busy taking care of two young kids and an old house.
Eric Dunn: Eric was married to his now husband, Donovan Dyson, in August 2022. In November 2022, they adopted their dog - Rubus, named after a delicious Zinfandel wine. He and his husband purchased a home outside of Washington, DC where they plan on making many happy memories together.
Priscilla Erickson: I had a very Kenyon experience this fall when I traveled to Maine to visit several friends including Jenny (Howard) McKee. The night before my trip, I realized that I had forgotten to book a rental car. It was a holiday weekend during peak fall foliage, so there were no rental cars available in the entire state. However, Kenyon friends to the rescue: Yana (Forney) Davis ’07 was able to hook me up with her neighbor's extra car. I was amazed at the kindness of a complete stranger to loan out their car, and grateful for my network of Kenyon friends to help me out in a pinch!
Austin Faught: My wife and I welcomed our second child, a daughter, into the family this past fall. We will be moving back to Central Ohio this spring where I took a position at The Ohio State University. I’m looking forward to helping the Department of Radiation Oncology open up their new proton therapy center.
Alexandra Lastowski: Andrew Hoagland and Alex welcomed their second child in December - a baby boy named William Michael Lastowski Hoagland (say that 3x fast). Alex and her former new apartment roommates, Karen Thompson, Meghan McClincy, and Emma Mueller, have been texting up a storm in excitement for Emma’s debut book, At Sea!
Nick Lyons: I recently traveled to Los Angeles for President’s Day Weekend to see my fellow ’09 classmate Max Reisman. We were lucky enough to meet up with a few more Kenyon Alum at the Dresden (Swingers Bar). As a recently divorced individual, my advice to everyone is find someone who looks at you the way Drew Miller ’10 looks at Adam Toltzis ’10. Great to see Kenyon people everywhere!
Elizabeth (Gottschalk) Miller: Tim ’08 and Elizabeth are still living in south Florida, where it's still way too hot pretty much all the time. Elizabeth was recently promoted and is now running a library, so y'all can just go ahead and start calling her Imperator. Tim is still a professor at FAU and currently attempting and largely failing to detect which students' papers have been written by AI. All three kids are thrilled to be back in school now that even the youngest is vaccinated, although not as thrilled as mom and dad are to have them out of the house once in a while.
Linda Pear: Dan Takacs and Linda are trying to juggle three kids and a dog while also running a small Montessori school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Matt Peck: Matt still resides in the Roscoe Village area of his sweet home, Chicago. In March, he celebrated his first anniversary working for the sports media company CHGO. In January, he went to Paris to cover a Bulls game there. In between the "work" stuff, he and his colleagues had time to see some sights, eat great food and drink all the wine. Trip of a lifetime!
Justin Cox and Johanna Ralsten-Cox welcomed a son, Charles Whitman Cox, on December 17, 2022.
Anna (Williams) Yonge: I got married on November 19, 2022 to Jason Yonge. In attendance at the wedding were fellow '09 classmates Carolyn Barer, David Black, Diana (Ruskin) Black, Grace Lee, and Christina (Kucher) Penderghest.
