About This Issue

Our Mayfield Home

With the centennial of Strub Hall, we knew we’d be thinking about “home” a lot this year. In spite of its imposing facade, this beloved building has been described by generations of students and alums as their second home. But the dramatic events of this spring that affected the entire world quickly forced our students and teachers into remote learning and away from our campus.

Now we’ve come to think about “home” in new ways. Home can allow transformative journeys without leaving a single room. Home can adapt with technology, collapsing the distance between people and places in arenas we never anticipated. Home can be expansive and inclusive, embracing new ways to champion, support and empower everyone.

There has been a palpable longing inside our community to return to our Bellefontaine home. But we’ve also learned that, even when we are physically apart, our community remains strong. Home is both a place, and something bigger than that place. Our Mayfield home is a port to launch from, a set of sensibilities that shape our experiences in everything we do and everywhere we go, ultimately making us more at home in the world.

ON THE COVER: Celebrating the centennial of Strub Hall in the age of COVID-19—six feet apart.