Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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“Had I known there would lx women here my junior year, I never would have come here in the first place.” I’d rather have a date from Lake Erie, seriously, because then you don’t have to lx- bothered with her all week long - it’s less hassle. - from 1970 REVEILLE files from the Collegian, February 2. 1907 28 Octolxr 5, 1969

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Hill and Anne Wilson with Sam Montague, April 1946 “In general, the Kenyon man is con- servative in philosophy. He dresses, talks, and thinks conservatively. After thorough test and examina- tion, the Kenyon man usually agrees with the great writers and thinkers of the past. He has learned to proceed with caution and to keep always in mind the original verities of thought and behavior which have withstood the tests of time and ex- igence. He is tolerant of — and frequently agrees with — those who understand and admire modern art or music, hut he is slow to accept rash, new. world-shattering theories or discoveries which are arrived at impulsively.” from the 1953 REVEILLE “The Kenyon man is humble. He realizes the wisdom of social as well as intellectual humility. In academic life, and in private conversations with his friends, the Kenyon man is cautious in stating his opinions, careful that they are correct accord- ing to his understanding; and he states them frankly but with humil- ity. He is intelligent enough to un- derstand that his opinions can hardly Ik correct for all times and under all circumstances. As an im- portant eorrolary of his humility, the Kenyon man believes that there is somewhere a l eing greater than himself; he believes in God.” 1973 27

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 The Wing House, 1968. It was named after its first occupant. Professor Marcus Tullius Cicero Wing, who directed the building of the wings of Old Kenyon. He later built Reauing, the house on West Brooklyn Street now occupied by Pro- fessor Short. October 15. 1968 Women students were first brought to Kenyon through the agency of the Coordinate College for Women, which existed under the watchful eye of Dean Doris Crozier from 1969 to 1972. The new in- stitution was welcomed with open satiric arms by the student press, as the two cartoons at the left of the opposite page suggest. The lower one appeared on the cover of the Collegian spring dance humor issue of 1964, a tongue-in-cheek blurb for a mythical institution known as Chase College for Women which bore certain alarming resemblances to the projected Coordinate College. A number of the first entering freshmen were daughters of Kenyon alum- ni. and they posed for a poup photograph during an open house in the fall of 1969. The Wing House, built in 1834 and the home of some of Kenyon and Bexley's most distinguished faculty members, was demolished in 1968 to make way for Gund Commons. At the groundbreaking a ceremonial bottle of champagne, whose remains are still preserved in the College archives, was broken over the blade of a bulldozer bv President Capies; and the project was on. The Coordinate College’s last building was Dorm III; and Dean Crozier posed on top of it with Vice-President Lord and Pam Carmichael as soon as it reached its full height (and l efore the stairs did), looking, as it were, toward the future. The future, for the Coordinate College, turned out to lx very short indeed. On July 1. 1972, Kenyon College officially became the coeducational institution it is now. Vice-President Samuel S. Lord, Pam Carmichael '73. and Dean Doris Crozier. Spring 1971 29