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| Alum Lives a Frank Lloyd
Wright Dream |
by Anne C. Paine | photos by John
Seyfried
May 12, 2003 |
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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 |
by Anne C. Paine | photos by John Seyfried
April 21, 2003 |
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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 campusshe's
a Class of 1977 graduate in art historyshe'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 |
by Anne C. Paine | photos by Rebecca
Lammons '06
March 24, 2003 |
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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 |
by ANNE C. PAINE | photos by Al Fuchs
March 14, 2003 |
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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 |
by ANNE C. PAINE | photos by Al Fuchs
January 31, 2003 |
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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 |
by ANNE C. PAINE | photos by Al Fuchs
January 6, 2003 |
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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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