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Kenyon College (/ ˈ k ɛ n j ə n / KEN-yən) is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1824 by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase . It is the oldest private institution of higher education in the state of Ohio and enrolls approximately 1,800 undergraduate students.
Here follows a list of notable people associated with Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.This list includes the college's notable alumni, organized by their fields of endeavor, in addition to notable members of its faculty and a complete chronological list of the presidents of the college.
Richard Salomon, 1915. Richard Georg Salomon (22 April 1884, Berlin, Germany – 3 February 1966, Mount Vernon, Ohio) was an historian of eastern European medieval history and historian of the Episcopal Church in the United States, who taught at the University of Hamburg in Germany and at Kenyon College and its Episcopal Church seminary Bexley Hall in Ohio USA.
After graduating in the Class of 1960 from Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, Illinois, he earned his bachelor's degree in history in 1964 from Kenyon College, where he was inspired by Charles Ritcheson and Richard G. Salomon. [4]
Gordon Keith Chalmers (7 February 1904 in Waukesha, Wisconsin – 8 May 1956 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was a scholar of seventeenth-century English thought and letters, president of Rockford College and Kenyon College, and a national leader in American higher education.
Philander Chase was the founder and first president of Bexley Hall and Kenyon College, and later became Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church. Bexley Hall was an Episcopal seminary from 1824 until April 27, 2013, when it federated with Seabury-Western Theological Seminary as Bexley Hall Seabury-Western Theological Seminary Federation, also known as Bexley Seabury.
Harvard University Cambridge University Robert Allen Oden Jr. ( / oʊ ˈ d iː n / ; born September 11, 1946) [ 1 ] was the president of Kenyon College from 1995 to 2002, [ 2 ] and president of Carleton College from 2002 to 2010. [ 3 ]
He completed his D.Phil. degree at Oxford University in 1943 with his thesis on "English book-reviewing, 1749-1800". He taught at Bates College and Harvard University. He was serving as president of Education for Freedom, Inc., in New York City, when he was invited to join the Kenyon English Department in 1946. He became the James H. Dempsey ...