How Kenyon Worked for Us
Kenyon is an inspiring, invigorating place to call home for four years, and it has brought out the best in my own children.
Kenyon is an inspiring, invigorating place to call home for four years, and it has brought out the best in my own children.
Kenyon doesn’t seem to me to be a bubble of any kind, but instead a place that is openly grappling with the big questions: those of racial awareness and social justice, sexism and violence.
Upending our vague assumptions is one of the best reasons to go to college, of course, so as their mother, I’m glad for both our kids that there is a Greek presence at Kenyon. You know it’s the right college when you realize you have become part of something bigger than yourself and that you do things there you couldn’t do anywhere else.
It’s never too early to begin talking about how to show respect for others and expect it for ourselves.
Wall Street Journal columnist Ralph Gardner Jr. P’11 '16 writes about saying goodbye to Kenyon’s campus after the graduation of his daughter, Gracie Gardner ‘16.