Published: September 28, 2022 Since January we have been exploring Kendal’s Values and Practices, which have guided the Kendal at Oberlin community since its inception in 1993. The  Kendal Values and Practices, developed by The Kendal Corporation and adopted by all Kendal affiliates, are outlined

Published: April 27, 2022   Kendal at Oberlin, and Kendal Corporation’s other affiliates are independent and not part of, or sponsored by any religious or social institution, but they were founded and continue to grow with intentional regard for the principles of the Religious Society of Friends

Published: November 29, 2021 The annual meeting of the Kendal at Oberlin Residents Association (KORA) took place a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, and the president’s report was full of items to be thankful for. “We have learned how to live in this COVID world,” Mary Behm told a packed house

with the family first. How Kendal at Oberlin Memorializes Residents In any given year about 20 Kendal residents die, and about half of the families request that Kendal hold a memorial service at the community.   “It can by anything but they’re always so full of information and joyous, it really

Community. They visited Kendal in May 2018 and by Thanksgiving had moved in.  “It was love at first sight,” Betsy says. Adds Larry, “We couldn’t find anything we didn’t like.” Downsizing: Think Small Rodent Unlike most people who spend a couple years or more on the Priority List before deciding to move

Published: May 22, 2021 Kendal at Oberlin residents share many values, including creativity, resiliency, love of learning and concern for others. So, when the pandemic hit, residents came up with many ways to combine all of them.  One of these efforts is a 30-minute video featuring four residents

years, and older clients are concerned about having fewer healthy years left to travel,” says Stephanie Papaioannou, a vice president at the luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent. Kendal at Oberlin is home to many men and women who enjoy traveling near and far, whether for adventure, leisure

prospect if you go on the merits.’ I was thrilled when she was nominated,” says Jonathan about the woman for whom he had clerked a decade earlier and who had become a good friend. Jonathan, now a CWRU professor emeritus, moved to Kendal at Oberlin this summer with his wife, Carol Conti-Entin. These past