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Macy joins as Class Agent Jamie Griffith Macy '96 will be an agent for the Class of 1996 starting this fall. Macy joins Tom Magliery '96 as Cat Broadhead '96 departs from the position, partly due to her recent election to Alumni Council. While at Kenyon, Macy was an Honors history major and was a member of the Ladies' Tennis team. She has been an enthusiastic volunteer for Kenyon since graduation, including prospective student interviews, serving on the 5th Year Reunion Committee and currently acting as President of the San Francisco Regional Alumni Association. Macy lives in Mill Valley, California, where she has worked in internet ad sales since graduation, currently as the Northwest Account Manager for Forbes.com. She previously worked for Ziff Davis Media, Engage Media, and Andersen Consulting. Macy was married to Peter K. Macy in 2000 in Scotland. For more information on Jamie, see her directory entry. |
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| Kelly's 'Bushville' featured in spring Alumni Bulletin July 27, 2002 'Bushville: Life and Time in Amateur
Baseball,' by Jerry Kelly '96, is featured in the Books section of Last year, Kelly described the book as 'part memoir,
part personal survey of amateur baseball in 'Bushville,' published in 2001 by McFarland & Co.,
has been well-received, and was a finalist for Kelly lives in Gambier, and, in addition to writing,
develops web pages for AT&T Labs and other companies More information: |
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| Kincade to play with Navigators at Bowery, Knit's Tap Bar in August July 27, 2002 Andrew 'Dewey' Kincade '96 will perform in New York City with his alternative blues trio The Navigators at the Bowery Ballroom on August 8 and at Knit's Tap Bar on Saturdays in August. The Navigators will open for the 'Afrobeat/Texas funk septet' Topaz at the Bowery. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at Ticketweb.com. The band will be debuting new songs at the Knit's Tap Bar dates. Kincade has released two albums since graduating from Kenyon, 'who are the Navigators' in 1998 and 'Lost and Found' in 2001, both on the Snug Records label. Their 1998 debut album caused 'The Louisville Scene' to call them 'the most promising Louisville band in several years.' The Navigators also feature upright bassist Andrew Emer from Hollywood, CA, and drummer/singer Philem White from Ireland. After Kenyon, Kincade lived in his hometown of Louisville and Goshen, KY, before moving to New York City. The Navigators have regularly played at The Knitting Factory this past year. (Ed. note: the pictures on The Navigators' website were taken by Andrew Dailinger '96.) More information: |
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| Kenyon hires director of athletics Peter T.C. Smith, the director of athletics at Wesleyan College of Macon, Georgia, will replace Douglas Zipp, interim director of athletics, on August 1. Smith, 44, is a nationally-known swimming coach, having led Emory University to the national limelight before moving to Wesleyan. Smith was the 1992 NCAA DIII women's swim coach of the year, and was a collegiate swimmer himself at Eastern Michigan University. Part of Smith's duties will include the oversight of the completion and operation of Kenyon's new $60 million athletics and recreation facility, to be completed in 2005. For more, see this link: http://www.kenyon.edu/crc/pa/news/?news=0627smith |
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| Broadhead elected to Alumni Council Catherine L. Broadhead '96, class agent since graduation and chair of the Fifth Year Reunion Committee, was elected to the Alumni Council on the 2002 ballot. Also elected were Kevin Mills '92, Will Pilcher '51 and Tim Stautberg '85. David Knowlton '80 and Robert Scott '58 P'88 were elected Alumni Trustees. Broadhead joins Tana Barton '95 and appointee Scott Baker '94 as representatives of classes with which we overlapped ('93 to '99). Broadhead has also announced that she will resign as class agent in October. She was especially effective in her organization of the reunion and in fundraising. For example, by organizing a parents' challenge fund, Broadhead led the class to a record gift for a fifth reunion class gift and the Class of 1963 Cup for greatest percentage increase in giving over the previous year. Tom Magliery '96 will stay on as class agent, and will be looking for a co-agent this fall. Please email or call for details if you are interested (directory: Tom Magliery). Broadhead currently lives in Denver, Colorado, and works as a Gifted and Talented Resource Teacher at the Aurora Academy. Alumni Council members serve a nonrenewable 3-year term. |
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| College sends email to announce June 5 initiative to abate record-low
donor participation With participation at an all-time low of 39% in alumni giving, Kenyon has announced an initiative to increase participation to 50% over the next five years. On June 5, volunteers in in New York, Chicago and Cincinnati will "dial for donors," to aid this year's Kenyon Fund. Kenyon is specifically targeting previous donors who have not given this year. In fact, if every person who has donated to the college were to donate this year, participation would be at a remarkable 62%. You can help by giving to this year's Kenyon Fund before June 30, either by answering a mailed solicitation, pledging on June 5 when a volunteer calls, or going to http://gift.kenyon.edu. |
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| Kenyon receives $25 million gift; will build $60 million athletics,
recreational facility The Board of Trustees has approved a plan for the construction of a $60 million athletics facility to open in the fall of 2005. The 250,000+ square foot facility will replace both Wertheimer Fieldhouse and the Ernst Center. The buliding, which is being designed with the idea of openness, especially though the ample use of glass, will be the work of Graham Gund '63. Gund has also recently designed the chemistry, math and physics facilities, as well as the finance center. A week after announcing the new athletic facility, the college announced the receipt of its largest gift ever--indeed, one of the largest gifts by a living donor to any educational institution in history. The $25 million anonymous gift, shattering the Kenyon record set by the $10 million anonymous gift during the recently-completed Campaign for Kenyon, is directed for use in fitness, recreation and athletics. By comparison, the college endowment on June 30, 2001, was $136.5 million. More information: |
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| Radnor to take place of Jason Biggs in Broadway's 'The Graduate' Josh Radnor '96 will replace Jason Biggs as Benjamin Braddock in the hit Broadway version of 'The Graduate,' according to Scott Baker '94. Radnor will play opposite Kathleen Turner, who first made news in the London production of the play with her fearless nude and topless scenes. According to Radnor, "It is selling better than any play on Broadway." The show, also starring Alicia Silverstone, is playing at the Plymouth Theater on West 45th Street on an open-ended run. Radnor is contracted June 11 to August 18, while Biggs shoots a new Woody Allen film. Radnor recently appeared in a leading role (Dylan Hirsch) in the ABC series 'The Court,' starring Sally Field. However, the series was not picked up for next year. He also appeared in a recent episode of NBC's 'Law & Order' and 'Not Another Teen Movie,' directed by Joel Gallen of MTV. After Kenyon, Radnor attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and worked in regional and off-Broadway theater before his most recent work. Headlines at Broadway.com: http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=9397&CT=38 |
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| Krugman, Spivey to be featured in A&E special on marriage Todd Krugman '96 and Donna Spivey '95 will be featured in the A&E special 'Married in America' to air in June. The show, directed by Michael Apted ('7-Up' series, 'Gorillas in the Mist,' 'Coal Miner's Daughter'), follows the marriages of nine couples. Krugman lives and works in Manhattan (in advertising at Young and Rubicam), and married Spivey in September, 2001. He was also the Class of 1996 President senior year. Update May 25, 2002: A special, short version of 'Married in America' will premiere on A&E June 17 at 9 pm E/P. Krugman and Spivey do not appear in the shortened version, but are the last couple in the full version, to air June 20 at 8 pm E/P. Specifically, they will appear in the last hour, from 10 pm to 11 pm. A&E site: http://www.aande.com/tv/shows/married/index.html |
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| Matthew A. Winkler, Timothy B. Shutt to speak at 174th Commencement
Weekend Matthew A. Winkler '77, founder of Bloomberg News, will speak at this year's commencement on May 18, 2002. Winkler also serves as chair of the board of 'The Kenyon Review.' English professor Tim Shutt will deliver the Baccalaureate address on Friday. Additionally, the college is bestowing honorary degrees upon ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, author and religion professor Elaine Pagels, behavioral ecologist and entomologist Edward O. Wilson, retiring Professor of Physics Thomas Boardman Greenslade, Jr., the College’s president, Robert A. Oden Jr., and the dean of admissions and financial aid, John W. Anderson. Oden and Anderson are both departing Kenyon this summer. For more, see this link: http://www.kenyon.edu/crc/pa/news/?news=0429commencement |
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| Trustees appoint Presidential Search Committee The Board of Trustees has appointed a 15-member committee to search for the eighteenth president of the college. Board Chair Cornelia Ireland Hallinan '76 will serve as the chair of the committee, which is scheduled to recommend a candidate by March, 2003. Hallinan also chaired the 1995 seach committee that selected current president Robert Oden Jr. The committee consists of seven Trustees, three staff members, two faculty member, two students and Mary Kay Karzas '75, Alumni Council President. Tom Magliery '96 served on the 1995 committee that selected Oden as a student representative. For more, see this link: http://www.kenyon.edu/crc/pa/news/?news=0429search |
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| Big changes in Kenyon administration Seventeenth President Robert A. Oden Jr. has announced that he will leave the college in June, 2002, to accept the presidency of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The Board of Trustees has appointed provost and English professor Ronald A. Sharp as acting president, and associate provost and art professor Gregory Spaid '69 as acting provost. Professor of sociology Howard Sacks will join professor of psychology Sarah Murnen at the associate provost level, to fill the spot left by Spaid. At the spring meeting of the Board of Trustees, David Horvitz '74 was elected the next chair, to succeed Cornelia Ireland Hallinan '76. Hallinan was the first woman to chair the board, and will chair the search committee for the eighteenth president of the college. She also chaired the committee that selected President Robert Oden Jr. in 1995. Horvitz, a graduate of the Levin School of Law and chair and president of WLD Enterprises in Fort Lauderdale, was the chair of the recent Campaign for Kenyon. Dean of Admissions John Anderson has resigned to direct college counseling at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Anderson has been at Kenyon for 19 years, adding considerably to the diversity and competitiveness of Kenyon's applicants. John's wife Nancy is also leaving her position as associate director of the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations and Annual Funds. Kenyon is currently searching for a new dean of admissions. Additionally, Tom Stamp '73, the director of public affairs, will serve as the acting director of development for 15 months starting in April. The position was created by the departure of Doug Givens last year to lead the Philander Chase Corporation for land use and acquisition, resulting in promotion of Kimberly Klesner to vice-president of development. Shawn Presley, the director of media relations, will fill Stamp's position in the interim. More information: |
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| Frisby, Williams announce opening of Blue 7 Media in Chicago Chrisy Frisby '96 and Jeremy Williams '96 have announced that their company Blue 7 Media is open for business. Blue 7 Media, based in Chicago, specializes in digital video applications, including weddings, special events and studio work. Frisby recently worked as a mutual fund analyst for Morningstar, and Williams was an editor at PC Gamer magazine. For more, see the company link: http://www.blue7media.com/ |
