Featured Founders

A continuing series of profiles of Kendal at Oberlin’s founding residents and staff members, celebrating our 20^th anniversary.

In connection with the celebration of Kendal’s 20th anniversary in 2013, we are pleased to publish here the texts of a series of interviews with residents and staff who have been here from the beginning or “from mud,” as this group likes to say. The interviews were conducted by Donna Baznik and were posted in two-week rotations in the display case next to the Admissions and Marketing office. The interviews are also included in the 20th anniversary “memory book” that has been assembled by Jane Eddy.

Interviews are presented here in the order in which they appeared. To see the full text of an interview, click on the names shown below.

Gretchen & Ken Roose, Founding Residents

Ed & Ruth Schwaegerle, Founding Residents

Mary Frances (“Frampie”) Ailey, Founding Resident

Becky Butler, Founding Staff Member

Ramie Ybarra, Founding Staff Member

Molly Anderson, Founding Resident

Janet Hutchison, Founding Resident

Bev Zimmerman, Founding Staff Member

Norma Daffin, Founding Resident

Judy Miller, Founding Staff Member

Torie Young, Founding Resident