Steve Charles—“In his ability to create complex characters and pair them with suspenseful situations, Simmons stands almost unmatched among his contemporaries.” That’s the last sentence from Publisher’s Weekly’s starred review of Black […]
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Steve Charles—Even if Dr. Fahmeed Hyder’s accomplishments hadn’t grabbed my attention, the classes he chose to visit during his return to Wabash would have. Since when does a former chemistry major spend […]
Steve Charles—I was editing the upcoming issue of Wabash Magazine with its focus on men’s health and all I could think about was Garrison Keillor. The author, humorist, and host of A […]
Steve Charles—In the Allen Center locker room today I heard Steve Hoffman ’85 and professors David Polley and Tobey Herzog talking about oral comps [the oral comprehensive exams required of all Wabash […]
Steve Charles—Just got back from a talk about last year’s summer study in Ecuador program—12 students and four faculty members who spent two weeks teaching English as a second language to high […]
Steve Charles—Vic Powell H’55—Professor of Speech Emeritus, Dean of the College Emeritus, Acting President of the College Emeritus—will be 90 years old next Wednesday, November 25. The day before Thanksgiving. I discovered […]
Steve Charles—Last June, Professor Greg Redding ’88 ran a race of 100 miles up and down the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. He told me a little bit about it in the Allen […]
Steve Charles—I spent a gorgeous autumn afternoon this week with Jud Scott ’80, one of only two registered consulting arborists in Indiana and founder and CEO of Vine and Branch, Inc. in […]
Steve Charles—For the past four years of W.A.B.A.S.H. Days, I’ve scoured the list of projects and tried to find a “big one” to photograph and chronicle: The Evansville guys building a playground set […]
Steve Charles—Senior Will Hoffman’s speech at Saturday’s Celebrating Leadership Luncheon got straight to the point about how essential giving by alumni, parents, friends, faculty, and staff is to every student who attends […]
Steve Charles—I was talking with a campus visitor Saturday morning and mentioned that I was on my way to photograph the 2009 Wabash College Lawyer’s Reunion, and that the turnout had […]
Steve Charles—Keon Gilbert ’01 was three weeks into classes for his doctorate in public health at the University of Pittsburgh in 2004 when he experienced… well, it’s better the way he tells […]
Steve Charles—Not even a week after The Bachelor published a front page article about the tradition of painting the Senior Bench, that landmark received the most artful treatment I’ve seen on it […]
Steve Charles—I was interviewing Professor Greg Redding ’88 this week about running his first 100-miler over the summer—the Bighorn Mountain Wild and Scenic Trail Run. One hundred miles of being pushed to his […]
Steve Charles—The biographical blurb on the back of Thomas Hollowell’s new book Allah’s Garden says he grew up in tiny Gessie, Indiana, population 94. That’s not exactly true. Thomas’s house is just north […]
Steve Charles—We talk often about how immersion trips recharge and reshape our students’ lives, and rightly so. I’ve been on two of those trips and seen the changes. I’ve read accounts of […]
Steve Charles—Readers of Wabash Magazine may remember singer/songwriter/pianist Leslie Hunt, who graced the cover of our “Daughters” issue in the fall of 2007. The daughter of Steve Hunt ’76 had been a […]
Steve Charles—Barry Tyler’s The First Tee of Hammond golf program for inner city youth changes lives. You see evidence of that even if you’re just visiting Lost Marsh Golf Course, the program’s home, […]