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Longtime employee was beloved by student workers and all who frequented the Wilder Hall club.

Forty-year employee led key library transitions, was active in numerous campus organizations.

Renowned scholar and teacher also made lasting contributions to campus culture over a career spanning 38 years.

Oberlin graduate and longtime faculty member remembered for penning the ode to Oberlin A Place on the Glacial Till.

His remarkable teaching career spanned from 1963 to 2017 and numbered thousands of students.

Educator, performer, and administrator helmed numerous major music schools.

The author of more than 30 books, writer and social activist bell hooks died December 15 after an extended illness. From 1988 to 1994 hooks was as an associate professor in English and women’s studies at Oberlin. Her book Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism was named one of the twenty most influential woman’s books by Publishers Weekly and she was named one of the most influential women of the past century, by TIME.

Carroll was instrumental in bringing the Peace and Conflict Studies Concentration to the college curriculum.

Joseph N. Palmieri, emeritus professor of physics, died Thursday, June 21, 2018. He was 85 years old.