I had no idea that he was an alumni and benefactor of your college.
Yeah, he was a huge donor to the second most-recent capital campaign, back in the '90s, and I know he was a regular contributor for all kinds of things. He used to come back every few years and direct a student play, too.
He and Allison Janney of The West Wing are the two recentish celebrity grads we tend to pull out when talking about that sort of thing, but if you didn't go to Kenyon, it's unlikely you'd know. (We also can claim that other presidential election-stealer, Rutherford B. Hayes, and of course a slew of poets and writers--Robert Lowell, James Wright, E.L. Doctorow, Laura Hillenbrand, etc. etc. Mostly they all graduated in the 40s and 50s, I think, except for Hillenbrand.)
You should give Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid a try; it's a fabulous movie.
I will once grad school stops kicking my ass... :)
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Date: 2008-09-29 02:12 am (UTC)Yeah, he was a huge donor to the second most-recent capital campaign, back in the '90s, and I know he was a regular contributor for all kinds of things. He used to come back every few years and direct a student play, too.
He and Allison Janney of The West Wing are the two recentish celebrity grads we tend to pull out when talking about that sort of thing, but if you didn't go to Kenyon, it's unlikely you'd know. (We also can claim that other presidential election-stealer, Rutherford B. Hayes, and of course a slew of poets and writers--Robert Lowell, James Wright, E.L. Doctorow, Laura Hillenbrand, etc. etc. Mostly they all graduated in the 40s and 50s, I think, except for Hillenbrand.)
You should give Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid a try; it's a fabulous movie.
I will once grad school stops kicking my ass... :)