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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.
Philander Chase, founder of Kenyon College, Bishop of Ohio and Illinois; Sean M. Decatur, chemist and former president of Kenyon College [18] [19] John Green, author of The Fault in our Stars, YouTuber [20] Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States of America; Allison Janney, actress; P. F. Kluge, author of Biggest Elvis: A Novel
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.
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.
The Review was founded in 1939 [1] [2] by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959. The Review has published early works by generations of important writers, including Robert Penn Warren , Ford Madox Ford , Robert Lowell , Delmore Schwartz , Flannery O'Connor , and others.
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.
The first Kenyon College radio station, WKCO, was conceived and built in 1947 by returning war veterans who used their knowledge to plan and build all of the equipment themselves. The original transmitter was replaced in 1961 when Jonathan Katz (’62) designed and built an AM transmitter which was replaced two or three years later by a small ...