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Alum Lives a Frank Lloyd Wright Dream
Living in the Weltzheimer/Johnson House, a structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and owned by the College, was the opportunity of her life, and Ireta Kraal made it happen from start to finish.

An aspiring architect, Kraal majored in visual arts with a concentration in architecture. She studied the house, a late example of Wright's Usonian style, in her architectural history courses. The more she learned, the deeper her appreciation for Wright's work became.
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Katherine Solender's Mission: Art for All
Katie Solender must truly love her alma mater. She just keeps coming back. It makes you wonder why.

In the 26 years since she first left campus—she's a Class of 1977 graduate in art history—she's returned to Oberlin numerous times to work on committees related to the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) and the current capital campaign. In her most recent comeback in February, she finally became an employee, joining the AMAM staff as acting director.
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Oberlin's Honor Code Weathers Changing Times in Country and on Campus
Maintaining a tradition that stretches back nearly a century, Oberlin College adopted a revised honor code last year. In this age of Enron, it's appropriate to ask the question: Are honor codes simply quaint relics of more innocent times past?
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Bonner Scholars Program Celebrates 10 Years and 112 Graduations
This year is a special one for the Bonner Scholars Program at Oberlin College: it's celebrating 10 years of success. In the decade since the program was established here, 112 of the 125 students who enrolled as "Bonners" have graduated. That's nearly 90 percent, a remarkable achievement.

Oberlin administrators are pleased with these statistics, but they're not surprised in the least.
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AMAM Curator Looks to the Past for a Novel Way to Exhibit
When Stephen D. Borys became curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) last fall, he brought a fresh eye for the collection and some age-old ideas on how best to display it.

Inspired by the 18-foot-high galleries in the AMAM's main floor, and fresh from a curatorship at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, where he was responsible for 18 European and American galleries, Borys embarked on his exhibition mission.

His goals? "To flatter the art as well as the Cass Gilbert architectural spaces, which are beaux-arts galleries, and to increase the number of works installed," he said.
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Oberlin's First Volcanologist Seeks Answers to Eruptive Questions
Assistant Professor of Geology Jonathan Castro found his fascination for volcanoes in a most unlikely place: a freshman speech course at Humboldt State University.

To fulfill a class assignment, the young geology major presented a talk on the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the Caribbean island of Martiniqu
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