OHIO's Sonic Landscape

Jean Hales Andersen, AB ’49, came to OHIO for a music degree. She soon found herself with an important job: to climb the tower in Cutler Hall and play “Alma Mater, Ohio” on its chimes via a keyboard-type instrument, fulfilling the sonic landscape on the Athens Campus. “I wanted to be an educated person. I wanted to know lots of things. And [OHIO] was the place where you went to get that,” she says.

Produced by Kelee Garrison Riesbeck, BSJ, CERT ’91, and Elizabeth Harper, BSJ ’19. Video by Clinton Amand, BSC ’12, MA ’18, and Max Catalano, BSVC ’20. Feature photograph by Susana Raab, MA ’10