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Dear Ladies & Lords: For anyone who loves skipping ahead to the juicy parts of a story as much

as I do, then editing our Class Notes is a dream come true. Our own life narratives are taking fantastic twists, turns and delightful digressions, and Ive got a front-row seat. Who would have thought at least three of us 1995ers would be raisingchickens? Was that an elective class I slept through? Weve also got a chess club coach, a yoga instructor, a wood-working whiz and enough awesome authors to fill the old bookstore (Jack Finefrock-era). If youve read the new Alumni Bulletin, you know that Andrei Massenkoff is the reigning world champion pinball wizard. A scholarly set of us is following in our professors footsteps by becoming educatorswith publications and smarter students to prove it. And a happy, if sleep-deprived, cohort is busily chasing future Kenyonians around the backyard. Reading though this crop of class notes has been inspiring to me. If theres a defining characteristic of our class, its that we approach life with optimism, creativity, humor and determination. Philander would be so proud. Campus Security would be so relieved. Its been wonderful to hear from so many of youthanks for sending your updates. And the rest of you: Were dying of curiosity here. Help me help you give your Kenyon fans news they can really use! Ill report on it in my fall letter. As your new class agent, Id like to thank Beau Bierhaus, Nicole (Dennis) Forziati and Colleen Canning for paving the way with years of hard work and great cheer. And Id like to point you to our class Facebook page: facebook.com/groups/kenyoncollege1995/. Please use this modern-day VAX like one big ALL-STU message: Share spontaneous news, post pictures, check in with old friends, plan mini-reunions, order a Bluebeard from the Cove or plan a yomping party at the Danville bridge. And now, some updates from our alma mater: Share the pride. Show the pride is this springs themeand there are countless reasons to be proud of Kenyon, where students, faculty, and alumni continue to do amazing things. In the sharing department: Over the past few years, Kenyon has become a top producer of Fulbright Fellowship winners. Kenyon students also consistently win Goldwater Scholarships, the countrys premier undergraduate award in the sciences. And Kenyon is a leader among small colleges whose seniors are admitted into Teach for America. Faculty members are earning recognition, too. Biologist Wade Powell recently received a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for research on dioxin pollution. Victor Rodrguez-Nez of the Spanish faculty won Spains prestigious Rincon de la Victoria International Poetry Prize. And amazing alumni? Youve heard about best-selling authors John Green 00 and Ransom Riggs 01, Oscar winner Oorlagh George 02, and actor-filmmaker Josh Radnor 96. But all you need to do is read the Alumni Bulletin or explore www.kenyon.edu to see how our Kenyon education enriches us in illustrious and unexpected ways. These Kenyon success stories bring me to the showing department: Lets show our pride and celebrate our connection to Kenyon in a way that makes a real difference for students now and in the

future. Thats by making a gift to the Kenyon Fund by June 30. If you havent already, please give, at any level. What matters most is that you participate. Now I know youve heard it beforethat giving even a little is the most important thing. Guess what? Its true! Giving is an act that reaffirms. And when we give together, it reaffirms the connection we share, which began a million years ago (aka the 1990s, cue the Samples) and continues to this day. Giving is like hugging Middle Path, just a lot less gravelly. Have a spectacular summer and lets be in touch this fall! George Stone 1995 Class Agent georgewstone@gmail.com

1995 KENYON CLASS NOTES Rachel Balkcom artfully reports I live in Denver with my partner Ian and my dog, three chickens, and lots of vegetables growing in cold frames and little hoop houses. My entire family relocated here from Chicago, so I get to see the parents and sister each week. I'm still trying to reform education, which this past year brought me to work at City Year. I'm a brown belt (black expected sometime this year, we hope) in Ninjutsu and do a lot of fiction writing. And camping. I still try to Do Art but usually fail. Atieno Bird is flying high these days. I was Jennifer Atieno Fisher, have since dropped the Jennifer and changed the Fisher and am Atieno Bird; married to Shawn Bird. We have an almost-two year old towheaded daughter, Samia Luisa, and a boy due at the end of summer. We enjoy living in the Brookland neighborhood in DC; bought a Victorian for the riotously blooming yard and love it, even when we cannot use the yard (all summer; mosquitos.) Shawn works for INR at the State Dept. and I work over the phone or in occasional evening classes as a relationship coach and write trashy ebooks under a pseudonym. And of course the classic potty training and keeping-house adventures apply, with a heavy twist of Home Depot (my second home) because Shawn is a renovating maniac, taking a nice house and making it gorgeous. Weekends, we often travel to my native Harrisonburg, VA, or our straw bale cabin on the Greenbrier (for rent!) or his brother's at Smith Mountain Lake, or jaunt to Sandy Point State Park (45 mins!) David Bouman is a seasoned diplomat who represents the citizens of the United States of America in sensitive international situations. [Edit note: That sentence is not a typo.] My wife Leah Fickes and I just spent two weeks in Kauai for R&R. Awesome. Now we're passing through Seattle for a couple days to catch up with Shelly (Baker) Butler (Kenyon 1996), Neil Butler, Shannon Wilkinson, Laura Baker (Kenyon 1998) and the Pacific Northwest. Then we're headed back to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The good news is we're expecting in May our second blessing...another year of marriage without having a baby! God bless all the baby-making Kenyon folks out there. Other good news is that after almost nine years overseas with the U.S. Department of State, I decided to come back stateside to kiss bum and push paper at headquarters/mothership/Main State. We should be in DC around October for at least two years. Looking forward to reconnecting and running with the Class Agent again. Please don't write about ANYTHING I did before I got married. [Edit note: The Class Agent accepts the offer to go running but is seeking legal counsel on the proposed non-disclosure agreement.]

Kate Brauer-Bell is deeply entrenched in suburban awesomeness and loving every minute of it. My son George, now 7, convinced me to start a Chess Club at his school this year, so these days you can find me every Wednesday afternoon coaching chess to 30 second graders at Indian Hill Primary School in Cincinnati. It's become quite the institution, and I've committed to expanding the program and will be coaching chess to first through third grade at the elementary and primary schools. Anyone who knew me well at Kenyon can likely surmise that I am not much of a chess player. I wish I had those mad Dave Putz chess skills, but alas, I spend most meetings asking George to coach me on strategy. How I ended up with a math genius for a son is beyond me--I went to Kenyon so that I wouldn't have to take math. (Didn't everyone?). Chris and I have been married nine years now, and I can honestly say every year has been better than the year before. In addition to George, we have our daughter Franny, who is six, and our youngest son CJ, now 4. All three of them are just amazing little human beings and I couldn't be happier or prouder than I am with each of them. I am fortunate enough to have built a successful freelance writing career, and can work from home while still enjoying the chaos three kids can create. These days the vast majority of my work centers around brand development and product naming. You can find my work in malls and grocery stores across America. I never did win a Pulitzer, but I'm happy to report that Random House recently released the eBook edition of The Long-Distance Relationship Survival Guide for Kindle and Nook, so now you can carry it with you on your long-distance romantic adventures. Rhett Brymer has always been a classy guy. This fall, hell move from teaching high school science classes to lecturing business students as a university professor. I've been doing penance in Texas, getting my Ph.D. at Texas A&M after stints as a high school science teacher, a business and education masters student, and seven years as a corporate change consultant. Thankfully, the end of the tunnel is rapidly approaching, and in fall, I'll be moving back to the motherland....Ohio! I've accepted a position as the John Mee Assistant Professor of Strategic Management in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University. Say that five times fast. Very psyched about the opportunity and the great institution I'm joining. If that isn't enough of a game changer, I'm also engaged to Amanda Bentley (Texas A&M, '07), who is working on her Ph.D. in Environmental Science at the University of Idaho. Wedding in early 2013. Rhett reports that Drew Miller recently moved to the Washington, DC, area and that Andrew Stuebner is knocking it out of the park in Bangor, Maine. Emily Carifa would like to clarify one thing: No vomiting babies here...just sassy, back-talking, dramatic girls (ages 6,7,10)....no for real...they are great (most of the time). In between parenting tasks here in NJ, I spend my time raising eight hens, two dogs and a fish. I am also doing some freelance research for an old boss in the Executive Search Business. Lastly, I am a Distributor for an amazing product called Juice Plus+...a whole food fruit and vegetable supplement that has managed to rid my seven year old of her migraines and vertigo, as well as keep us very healthy ALL winter long. Go to my link if interested (www.juiceplus.com/nsa/content/Home.soa?site=ec77420). Life is good and busy! Mike Costanzo sportily pinged back to say I live in Memphis, Tennessee with my wife Morgan and two young boys Mac (2) and Cash (newborn). I do all the stuff it says in my signatureDirector of Middle School Sports, Director of Physical Education and Head Varsity Lacrosse Coach at Lausanne Collegiate Schooland I don't get paid much to do it. Hope you are doing well. John Cunningham is feeling preeeteeeyyy kinddddd and reports that Things are niiiiiiiiiiice up here in the Buohstin area. Still overseeing the financial affairs of families/small businesses and enjoying what I do. Carisa and I just bought a house in the quaint/historic seaside town of Marblehead (north of town) and are very happy with adding space and a wee bit of land to our lives. Address is 12 Pond St, Marblehead, MA 01945. While I'm at it my e-mail is jhcjhc12@hotmail.com. Hope all are well, and our door is always open for classmates now that we have a place to put you. Cunningham occasionally swings through DC to see Button/King/Oliver, but I never see my BFF Lisa (Bolton) Hooper when down there, which speaks to my programmatic limitations.

Alex Dashe is on a lifelong Quest for Justice, but his econ and philosophy credits come in handy as wellespecially with a full house. He reports: I happily welcomed my third child, daughter Rafaela (Rafi), on March 17, 2012. Her older sister Gabriela (Gaby), who is almost two, and brother Max, who is 11, are thrilled and love to watch her coo, poop, pee, and sleep. My wife Alejandra and I are pretty tired from all of the chaos of three children, especially with most of them sleeping in bed with us every night! Alex has enjoyed following Kenyon friends on Facebook and is doing great in his job as a healthcare administrator with two Minnesota healthcare organizations, working to help control healthcare costs in this country. Alex and Alejandra also are very engaged with their local shul, and in fighting the gay marriage amendment on the ballot in Minnesota this fall. Jesse Dougherty is burning the candle at both ends, and around the world. Over the last seven years, there have been only two nights that my wife, Rebecca (Harper, class of 1996) and I have had all three kids sleep through the night. Through that haze, I remain the head of upper school and assistant head of school for international studies at Friends Select in Philadelphia. My first title means I got to go to my 13th prom this spring and my second title has allowed me to travel to Nicaragua and to China to learn about different educational settings and create partnerships with other schools. Hope you are all well. Mike Epstein is nailing itliterally. Mary Mason (Kenyon) continues to tolerate me well enough to stay my beautiful bride and we are living happily, if on-and-off healthily, in Cincinnati. I am making a living as the Director of Business Continuity for Convergys Corporation, which means I get little sleep keeping an eye on operations for 75,000 employees around the globe, but Mary helps out by keeping an eye on U.S. Geological Survey and National Weather Service websites for me, watching for disasters around the globe. Earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, pandemics, winter weatherlocust invasions: it's what I do. I'm kinda the companys Break Glass In Case of Emergency guy. For fun I do a bit of woodworking in what is most likely the craziest basement woodshop east of anywhere. Nicole (Dennis) Forziati is working at lightning speedperhaps all her efforts on behalf of Kenyon helped hone her super powers? Certainly the poets of Gambier left their magical mark. Nicole offers her latest verse: Daughter Emily, 4, growing like a weed. French, soccer, and Dora is all she needs. Paul and I working a ton. Must plan a trip to get some one on one. Year went real fast. Moved back to Ohio. Having a blast. Tom Herbst is putting his Kenyon degree, and extracurricular exploits, to good use. You can write: Tom Herbst is still pretending to be more important than he really is. [Edit note: He is actually important.] Living in the pretentious-sounding Hastings-on-Hudson NY, Tom has two daughters (one and six) who have the ability to manipulate and exploit him mercilessly and with almost no effort. Tom currently works in marketing for a beer, wine and spirits company, which is about the only functional application of what he learned from his years in Gambier. Elisa (Bolton) Hooper has been blessed by the warm glow of motherhoodeven if it sometimes feels a bit more like one big blur. "My husband Tom and I welcomed little Tommy to the family in January and are still living in Washington, DC. We are the typical new parents, learning as we go. I now claim myself to be an expert diaper changer, well, aside from the one fiasco in a USAir flight during turbulence with an itty-bitty changing table...need I say more? I'm in my fifth year at Marriott International embracing the work/mom thing and look forward to seeing more Kenyon folks before the summer-swamp kicks in!"

Jenna (Cameron) Juday wins the multitasking award. I am busy managing two kids (Kaila - 6, Jevan (rhymes with heaven) - 3), a husband who runs his own business (analogoutfitters.comif you're into vintage and custom guitar/audio gear, etc., then you should check him out), and my own life. I am currently in nursing school. I just got started but my intention is to become a nurse practitioner. It feels awesome to do school when I really know what I am going to do with it! I am also still a yoga teacher and massage therapist. So, I like all things alternative when it comes to healthcare. But I find great irony in returning to the subjects that were my original (and dropped) major at Kenyon. At least this time I didn't have to dissect a cat. So, I have the vomiting children - less cute the older they get. Now they talk back. And now I get things like, "Mom, my listening ears ran out of batteries." My daughter reminds me daily that I like assertiveness in adults so I should find a way to value it in a 6yr old. In the last month I had my first art opening (some paintings...) and ran my first half marathon. No intentions of ever running a full marathonmy reconstructed knee would not approve. Life is crazy but full of good stuff. Hope all is well with you. Heather Knape is up to her elbows in dirt, urban agriculture, CSAs, healthy lunches, delicious cooking, and the best booksand blogging about it. Im still in San Francisco, but working in Berkeley while my husband commutesfrequently by bicycle to Cupertino (thats 60 miles each way! He is crazy). The kids will both be in elementary school next year, and Im getting excited for the summer fog. Heather tells the editor that You can put whatever you want in the class letter about me, as long as its complimentary and doesn't mention the words xxxx or xxxxxx. She was excited to make a DC tour last fall for Jill Pollacks spirited wedding. The Class Notes editor refers green-minded readers to Heathers fabulous gardening blog: eatingdirt.typepad.com. Marc Lacuesta is hitting all the high notes these days. I'm still in Nashville, producing, engineering and singing on records, just like everyone else in Nashville. If anyone out there with kids bought the Veggie Tales album with the vegetables singing hits from the 1980's, I did that. I mainly work on pop and country, but I also am currently working with a bunch of artists in the Christian music industry like Francesca Battistelli, Chris August, Sidewalk Prophets, Jason Castro and Group One Crew, all of whom are releasing records on the Word label this year. I got to work with Bebe and Cece Winans over Christmas, which was great. I had a couple of albums up for awards, but didn't win anything. I am also producing a few Pop and Americana artists, and it takes me around the country, and occasionally the world, which I am grateful for. I write songs with a co-writer in Los Angeles named Alfa Garcia, and we write under the name The Idle Hours. We're releasing a few songs this year, and hoping to put an EP out by the end of the summer. It's Indie pop but pretty accessible, and I'm pretty proud of it. I'll keep people posted whenever new tunes come up. Kokosingers reunion is this year, so I get to go back to the Hill and sing with all the guys. I'm really looking forward to it. I should also mention that I recorded the latest Kenyon College Chamber Singers album, which should be released this year as well. And one more Kenyon thing: A song I recorded and produced with Kenyon student group Colla Voce is in Josh Radnor's ('96) movie, Liberal Arts. It plays over the end credits and it's called I Want A Kenyon Man. It's hilarious. Still not married, but I spend my free time searching for a woman who can handle the life of someone in the music business, and convincing my parents that I am not gay. If anyone visits Nashville, please look me up and we will tie one on. Pack your drinking shoes. Nancy (Johnson) Lapke is doing the class of 1995 proud as one of our outstanding educators. I am finishing up my 14th year teaching with Cincinnati Public Schools. I teach students who have multiple disabilities, she writes from Union, Kentucky. I have two children, Evan Louie, who is 6 1/2. He loves sports, watching and playing football and baseball. And I have a daughter, Erin Judith, who just turned three.

Matthew Leaf has cultivated a thriving forest of young learners. Heather (Steiner) and I continue to live in western MA. I am an administrator at a 7-12 public charter school (www.fourriverscharter.org) I helped start almost 10 years ago. In the summers I take people on zip canopy tours because it lets me be outside all day. Heather loves her work as an Early Interventionist, in which she works with children under the age of three. Most of our free time is devoted to Evan (10) and Abby (8) and our chickens. Kfir Levy has a stack of law books in one hand and parenting tomes in the other. He writes, Anne (Doucette) and Kfir Levy are emotionally and physically exhausted just three months after welcoming their second child. Meanwhile, Noah Benjamin (18 months) and Oliver Robert (three months) are thriving. Noah (class of 2031) knows his letters at least as well as his mother and already counts much better than his father ever did. And Oliver (class of 2032) has a smile that beats all. Kfir is of counsel at the Washington DC law firm, Steptoe & Johnson. Anne is very happily retired from law. Hope all is well with you. Jennisen (McCardel) Lucas has been busy turning bright kids into passionate readers (and researchers, writers, thinkers, dreamers, poets, storytellers...) in Big Sky country. Cody, Wyoming, has had its ups and downs for us this year. I am in the process of looking for a new job (hoping the interview call comes in the next few days) because my position as a school librarian was cut due to budget constraints. In happier news, my husband and I have almost paid off our enormous credit card debt and started the paperwork-intensive process to adopt a baby. Stuart Luman strongly supports the idea of infusing a little humor into these annual shakedowns! [Edit note: Its not a shakedown if it feels good.] He writes, So Tina and I do have some news (no, not a baby...). We moved from Chicago to Sausalito, CA, about a month ago. I took up a new job (career change from journalism actually, working on an editorial project for IBM, I have no idea where this leads). Tina is finishing up her novel and looking for work. Shockingly life is quite sweet here in Sausalito, although we're trying to find a place in Berkeley to settle down for a while. You can catch up on Stuarts writing at www.stuartluman.com. Alexa D. O'Brien is a content strategist and information architect on the front lines of American democracy. Since January 2011, I have been covering the WikiLeaks release of U.S. State Department Cables, JTF memoranda known as the 'GTMO files', and revolutions across Egypt, Bahrain, Iran, and Yemen, and the legal proceedings of Bradley Manning, on trial for the largest leak in US History. I have interviewed a preeminent US foreign policy expert on the Cambodia cables, and published hours of interviews with former GTMO guards, detainees, defense lawyers, and human rights activists, as well as WikiLeaks media partners: Andy Worthington, a GTMO historian and author, and Atanas Tchobanov, the Balkanleaks' spokesman and co-editor of Bivol.bg. In February of 2011, I founded usdayofrage.org, where alongside friends, I pushed the edge of social media for the scalable digital organization of civil disobedience and non-violent protest. usdayofrage.org was key in the traditional and digital organization of the original September 17 action in 6 American cities, and built trusted networks that spread #occupywallstreet virally across the US. I am currently one of seven plaintiffs, including Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, and Daniel Ellsberg suing the US Government over the indefinite deftemtion clause of the NDAA (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/coming_to_a_gulag_near_you_20120402/). I gave testimony in Federal Court in March. I will be at Fort Meade in June to cover the next motion hearing in US v PFC Manning, and I will be appearing on a panel discussion on Julian Assange's new television show on RT at some point in the future. I would like to reassure my beloved teachers in the Poli Sci Department, that I did bring up Phaleas of Chalcedon. Jill Pollack is a brainy bureaucrat with the U.S. Commerce Department by day and a motorcycling soccer star by night. Shes also totally off the market, thanks to one good man. She writes: On October 1, 2011, I married Adrian Breeman at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD. With alumni cameos

by Heather Knape, Jenny (Bolyard) Nelson, Rich Shrake, Alex Baker Shrake (1996), George Stone, DanMatt Voorhees, Catherine Sias (1996), and Margaret (Hamilton) Reeveswhose husband, Jon, officiated the ceremony. The museum's refurbished steam engines weren't the only flashy relics decorating the reception. It was wonderful to celebrate with many friends from the Hill. We hope to see all of you again soon! Dan Roush must have been inspired by Old Kenyon and the Pizza Hut apartments, because hes been creating architectural triumphs ever since. I've spent the better part of a decade designing custom homes for Chicago's super-rich, and recently got the notion that my family should live in just such a house. So we bought a dump in Oak Park and will gut and re-do it this summer. I realize now why these things are better left to the super rich. What little hair I have is ghost white and vanishing quickly. Fortunately, my wife (Laura Scholl, Lawrence '98) supports the idea, but with Gabriel Andrew turning two and his sibling due in August, we'll see how long that lasts. I trust you will carefully excerpt from this message to appropriately convey my awesomeness. [Edit note: Dan has been awesome since day one in Lewis Hall.] David Skinner aint talking smack. I have three kids and an excellent wife. I bike daily to my office at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where I am director of publications. And heres something new: This fall HarperCollins is publishing my book, The Story of Aint, which is about the huge controversy that surrounded the publication of Websters Third Unabridged, the so-called permissive dictionary, in 1961. Its a story about language and culture. Simon Winchester has kindly blurbed the book, saying: It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper. With his riveting account of the furious rows over the publication in the sixties of Webster's third edition, David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection. Is that too ridiculous for a class letter? That it happens to be true may not be an adequate defense. Natasha J. (Carrasco) Stillman has gone all Kiwi on usand it sounds like the perfect thing to do. Kia Ora! from Dunedin, New Zealand, where I have gone back to school this year at the University of Otagostudying electric bass guitar and German. I had forgotten how much work uni was, but I am loving every second of it. I have not given up writing Sci-Fi/Fantasy, but I do end up writing in the middle of the night now, just when I need sleep the most. Figures. There aren't enough hours in the day! Also, I find myself craving bacon and cheddar cheese pizza with sour cream in in the wee hours after parties. Even though there is absolutely NO hope of getting one delivered to me at 2 am. I simply haven't brought myself to make one, although I think I may have to at some point, just to introduce it to a new generation of students! I take this need to mean that I am officially in a student state of mind. I am also starting my own company (details forthcoming) with some friends. I barely have any time to think! Or is it that I don't have time to stop thinking...Anyway! If anyone finds themselves further down under than Down Under, don't hesitate to visit me! In my opinion, Dunedin is even more stunning that Wellington (where I spent the last 10 years here)! George Stone has become a shameless name-dropper. He reports to the Class Agent: Its hard to believe Ive been in DC for almost 14 years, and Ive still never been invited to a White House dinner. What gives? [Edit note: Who is this guy?] But at least I get to see a lot of my favorite people, like Big Daddy DanMatt Voorhees (who, along with his husband, Chris Dorobek, have a one-year-old son, Nick). Last spring, my partner Chris Farmer (Georgetown 1997) and I brunched with Teena Purohit and Valerie Hletko, along with Vals wife, Katie Wood (University of Oregon) and their two kids, Sabine and Lucille. I keep up with Margaret (Hamilton) Reeves, Lisa (Bolton) Hooper, Jill Pollack and Dave DeSchryver, among other DC Ladies and Lords. Last fall, Chris and I went to San Francisco and basically had a Peeps-style party with Paige (Herren) Olson, Julie (Hill) Barton, Heather Knape and Shelly Wharton Smith. Im a travel writer & editor for National Geographic Traveler and the restaurant reviewer for DC Magazine. So believe me when I say that Shannon Wilkinsons Seattle restaurant,

Little Water Cantina (littlewatercantina.com), will dazzle your palate! Chris and I are the proud parents of a Norwich terrier puppy named Chewbacca. He has already visited Kenyon, which he thinks is a magical land of stray pizza slices and fat squirrels. Katherine Terrell is making her professors proud. No vomiting baby (not this week, anyway). I'm about to submit my tenure file at Hamilton College, and I'm editing a book called The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300-1600 that will be published by Palgrave in the fall. In the meantime, I'm planning a busy summer that will include my 3-year old daughter Matilda's first transatlantic flight; we'll be spending three weeks in England, which will include a conference presentation in Leeds and a visit with Matilda's godmother Sarah Heidt (current Kenyon English prof) in Exeter. I'll have my 11th wedding anniversary with Thomas Knauer (1994) somewhere in there, although we haven't yet had a chance to celebrate our 10th! But everyone should check out his website: www.thomasknauersews.com. Oliver Turque writes to say that he is Between jobs, schools, and girlfriends. And why did you use Harvard University Press (whatever that is) and not The Kenyon Review in the vomiting baby example? [He refers to the editors clever request for news of both major import and minor significance from the 1995ers. Edit response: I shall re-up my subscription to The Kenyon Review!] Turque concludes: I hope all is well with you and the whole class! Katie (Knoll) Weaver is challenging the gender balance in the Capital and taking the show on the road to the Pacific Northwest. She reports: I am outnumbered by boys in my household! My husband and I welcomed our second son, Rylan Chase Weaver, in January. He was born a whopping 10lbs. 10oz., so will soon be catching up with his big brother, Logan, who just turned two. After all my post college years in Washington, DC, we are planning to move back to my home city of Seattle this summer. Grant Wiggins, who once loaned Allen Ginsberg a copy of Allen Ginsbergs Collected Poems in the middle of a reading at Rosse Hall (it was like a mid-1990s version of Inception), is now a visual artist making eyes throw up in Tempe, Arizona. Check out his modern paintings at wiggz.com. He reports: Take your protein pills and put your helmet on! With a Timex Ironman watch magnanimously furnished by the Class Agent, on Thursday, May 10, 2012 Grant "Mac Flecknoe" Wiggins recorded the following activities from his Tempe, Arizona home: Taking Meow out to the backyard for his daily explorations (0h:25m:45s; http://goo.gl/YIJjB), tending to his garden (0:18:17 overlapped the aforementioned 0:25:45; http://goo.gl/SAoeE), meditating (0:20:10), going for a quick jog (0:25:39), providing Internet content consulting services for a client (6:09:37; http://goo.gl/RTYoc), cooking and dining with his lovely wife Olivia (1:09:08), and putting the finishing touches on his newest nonrepresentational painting, tentatively titled Sun Land / Cloud Kingdom (4:08:20; http://goo.gl/k91yJ). The remainder of Grant's day was characterized by quotidian impedimenta. On the soundsystem were albums by YMCK, Aavikko, Neon Indian, and Toro Y Moi, as well as the voices of The Cleveland Indians Radio Network. The incense of choice was Evening Zen by Shoyeido (shoyeido.com). Botany 500 provided the wardrobe (http://goo.gl/a0qwp). Shoes by Jarman (http://goo.gl/ZNmcp). Do you like cats? Grant asks rhetorically, because we all know the answer. I just can't wait for the next episode of Dr. Oz. YES! YES! YES! On a scale of 10 to 10, please rate the interestingness of the above alumnus update and mail it to: Kenyon College Magic Amulet, PO Box 55555, Young America, MN 55368. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for a vacuum tube to arrive from the sky. Meredith Winters is teaching tomorrows leaders todaywithout the help of the VAX. I still live in Edgewater, Maryland. My husband, Karl, and I continue to renovate the house we bought four-and-a-half years ago. It was our five-year project, but I think we are going to need an extension on that. We're currently fixing up the backyard and we still lack a master bedroom. The good news is hopefully the yard will be done in time to enjoy the pool this summer. My daughter, Liesel, is four going on fourteen. We're

in so much trouble when she actually hits her teenage years. My son Max will be two in June. He is training to be a baseball player or quarterback throwing everything in sight. After eight years teaching third grade they finally decided I knew enough to be promoted to fourth. Our school was just rebuilt and now we have all the latest technology. It's funny to think back to our first year at Kenyon when email was just starting to catch on. Sarah Smiley Young is in a league of her own, swinging for the fences like a natural in a field of dreams in Kansas. My husband Chris and I welcomed our son Henry on June 14, 2011. I can't believe he's almost a year old already! Our 3.5-year-old, Alice, loves being a big sister. I live in my hometown of Kansas City, and am currently suffering through baseball season as a Royals fan. I work at a large medical association as a usability advocate. I put this in quotes because I don't know what it means, either.

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