Campus News

The world-renowned expert on Eastern European cinema died on June 16, 2018 at age 82.

The Oberlin community is invited to attend a memorial service at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 6, at Fairchild Chapel in Bosworth Hall.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Oberlin parents and families since I received the sad news last week that Jonathan Demme, the brilliant film director, had passed away. Although Oberlin isn’t his alma mater, Jonathan really came to appreciate the College, Conservatory, and our community. His visits always seemed to energize him, and he became a stalwart supporter of our cinema studies program and the Apollo Outreach Initiative, which offers filmmaking classes to local school kids.

Emeritus Associate Professor of French Mathis Szykowski died July 1, 2016, at the age of 90.

Robert Henry Grimm, who taught in the philosophy department for 40 years, died March 27, 2016, at the age of 85.