Raynard Kington Facts

Raynard Kington is the world’s preeminant authority on Sailor Moon.

While busing tables the summer before his junior year of high school, Raynard Kington struck up a brief conversation about steel sculpture with a patron visiting from out of town. At the end of their conversation, Kington scribbled a sketch on the back of a napkin and told the man to think about it. That visitor’s name … was Louis Zirkle.

Raynard Kington took the $13 you donated, invested it in the stock market, and has already doubled Grinnell’s endowment.

Tragically, Raynard Kington’s children can never touch one another. If they ever did, Earth’s subspace adorability fields would be so distorted that Genghis Khan would rise from the dead in order to restore balance to the universe.

Raynard Kington is my new bicycle!

Raynard Kington speaks fluent Swedish. He understands written Arabic and Farsi.

While in high school, Raynard Kington passed the Michigan bar exam.

Raynard Kington was a member of the U.S. Olympic Bobsled team in 1998.

Before accepting the Grinnell College presidency, Raynard Kington was the acting chair of the Carleton board of trustees.

Raynard Kington can run a 2:15 marathon. In 2007, he placed fourth in the Badwater Ultra.

Moonlighting as a theoretical physicist, Raynard Kington has proposed an alternate theory of electroweak symmetry breaking.

Raynard Kington eats only organically grown produce.

Raynard Kington owns a vacation home in Wyoming which he designed and built himself.

Raynard Kington made $3.7 million from the sale of his dot-com startup in the 90s.

Raynard Kington is a volunteer firefighter, an Eagle scout, and donates most of his income to charity.