Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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scott veale. LUCY BIXBY, richard schoenberger GUS PAUL john gillis. ROB JAFFE HOLLY SIMPSON and FRIENDS

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2 LORI SMITH

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contents: pago 1 in place of taking the proximate form of a TABLE OF CONTENTS we have assembled here a contingent and all together transitory 7 SIMULACRUM ot this essential but non-existent YEARBOOK DECODER, at this writing we have such a small Idea of what will 14 appear in this book it isn't FUNNY: PAGES, In tact are at present 21 blank and crying for PHOTOGRAPHS GALORE to fill »iem 28 our eoitor. conveniently absent from KENYON'S PASTORAL 35 CAMPUS When the REVEILLE will be distributed. 42 has spent SLEEPLESS NIGHTS IN PEIRCE TOWER trying to capture 49 a faintly cosmetic view of KENYON COLLEGE: PAST, PRESENT. AND FUTURE. in realization of the futility of this Illusory quest 56 ms reed has assembled the following list of POSSIBLE PAPER TOPICS for inclusion somewhere or other in this book; apologia Gentle Reader, we ask thy blessings and thy patience It has been our intention to present, simply and directly, without offense to Eye or Mind, the sum of our experience at this Institution ... all this work would have been In vain, utter vain. If not based on the firmest of Moral Foundations, which can be the only ultimate Justification for such an Enterprise Therefore we beg forgiveness for any unwont Frtvoaty. or Lapse Into Bad Taste, or Ribaldry that might have been left unattempted. For our Intentions have always been the best, and It Is not our fault that the very Nature of the Photographic Medium compels us to record Reality as It Really Happens, however gross or crass Believe us. we havo made every attempt to restrain the coarser olements among us. with their Mocking G bes and Cynical Attitudes (truthfully, we cannot understand why anyone would desire to disparage this great gift, this College Education, for which eternal Gratefulness is the only due); however, they are distinguished by their Perpetual Energy and Mischievousness, which make it quite a strain to keep up with their Wiles, besides, our Wit Is short We who are about to die salute you. The things which hurt, instruct. Benjamin Franklin you apprehensive reader. 60 havo a better idea in the IMAGINED PRESENT than we have 64 in the ACTUAL PAST about tho actual contents ot 67 THIS ANNIVERSARY ISSUE: as always (for tho past six years), you will find many pages crammed 70 with SENIOR SNAPS, revealing them as they wish posterity to remember them; an analogous section of not-atways-flattering photos of 77 FACUL TY. as if that were even conceivable; an unredeemabty saccharine section documenting Kenyon's 84 most blatant COMBOS including some ODD COUPLINGS: 91 an unexpiamable absence ot CONTACT SHEETS and relatively few 98 PHOTOBOOTH STRIPS: 105 not to mention the Kenyon tradition of FRATS; 112 and of course SPORTS; how could one forget — 119 the RYEBUCKS, al including pictures of the irresistable BOB SAMIT: 126 a photo-essay on Kenyon's successful first CASINO NIGHT, spoiled only by the Intrusion of MARAUDING THESPIANS; a careti y selected arrangement of Kenyon's variegated 133 EXTRACURRICULAR ORGANIZATIONS, inciudhg MATT WINKLERS COLLEGIAN. KEVIN MARTINS STUDENT COUNCIL. KEVIN MCDONALD'S KOKOSINGERS. MO JUDY WILLIAMS' WOMANSINGERS. JUDY RUBENSTEIN AND STEVE DURNING 'S CHASERS. THE DEKES' MUD TEAM. HOLLY REED'S REVEILLE M2 EDDY MAC'S V.I. (hate It Dean Edwards), and EVERYBODY'S AIRPLANE CLUB; no more than two glorious pages of living COLOR have been included, containing what one would expect to find on two glorious 155 pages ot living COLOR; 161 a theoretical section on the institution of the HOUSE SYSTEM AT KENYON COLLEGE; however, we ran into the same difficiAty covering this that we did covering the exhibition of 168 CONCEPTUAL ART - how do you document a concept? 175 reiativeiyi.ttio SOCIAL COMMENT; 182 an ambling affadavit filed on our ambling SECURITY FORCE; 189 and. as our RAISON D'ETRE, about 10% of this book will be 196 devoted to a SOCIAL HISTORY OF KENYON COLLEGE. 200 happy anniversary. Kenyon! 4