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He died several days later. [35][36] October 28, 1905. Stuart Lathrop Pierson. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Kenyon College. Gambier, Ohio. Hit by train. Pierson was killed while being initiated into a fraternity. He was sent to a railroad track as part of a hazing ceremony, and killed by an unscheduled train.
Occupation. Educator. Signature. Lorin Andrews (April 1, 1819 – September 26, 1861) was an educator and school reformer in Ohio. He co-founded the Ohio Teachers Association in 1848 and he was the president of Kenyon College from 1853-1861. He left the position to serve in the American Civil War, and died of typhus contracted in camp.
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.
Susan Georgia Nugent was the 20th president of Illinois Wesleyan University. She was president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio from 2003 to 2013, and interim president of the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio for the 2015-16 academic year. [ 1] She was succeeded at Kenyon by Sean M. Decatur, former dean of Arts and Sciences at Oberlin ...
John Rinka. John Rinka (born October 4, 1948) is an American former college basketball player best known for his high-scoring offensive ability and accurate jump shot while at Kenyon College from 1966 to 1970. [1] A 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) shooting guard, Rinka is in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) top ten in all-time scoring ...
US Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, class of 1834. Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, class of 1948. Academy Award -winning actor Paul Newman, class of 1949. Academy Award and Primetime Emmy Award -winning actress Allison Janney, class of 1982. Comedian Jonathan Winters, class of 1950.
Columbus, Ohio, United States. Occupation. educator, author. Nationality. American. Signature. Eli Todd Tappan (1824–1888) was an American educator, mathematician, author, lawyer and newspaper editor who served as president of Kenyon College, among other public distinctions. He was the son of Senator Benjamin Tappan and the father of author ...
Rhodes Scholarship, Bollingen Prize for Poetry, National Book Award. John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon College, he was the first editor ...