{"id":3962,"date":"2011-12-14T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2011-12-14T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:03:38","slug":"schmidt-and-barnette-have-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/12\/14\/schmidt-and-barnette-have-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt and Barnette have The Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wabash scored two at The Starkey Entrepreneurial Award ceremony last May.\u00a0 In addition to recognizing women entrepreneurs with awards, The Starkey Entrepreneurial Spirit Award is presented to one man and one woman who demonstrate the same courage and tenacity, but not necessarily as entrepreneurs themselves.\u00a0 The 2011 Spirit Award winners were:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/12\/tom-schmidt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3964\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/12\/tom-schmidt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Dr. Thomas Schmidt &#8217;78<\/strong>, Indiana&#8217;s first surgical breast oncologist, founder of the Breast Care Center of Indiana, and currently the medical director of St. Vincent Hospital&#8217;s breast program since 2003.\u00a0 Tom was biology major at Wabash and received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and completed a fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in 1988 before returning to Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/12\/charlene-barnette.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3966\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/12\/charlene-barnette.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/12\/charlene-barnette.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/12\/charlene-barnette-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><\/a>Charlene Barnette <\/strong>has dedicated her life to helping families and children as a speech and hearing therapist and working with many charities in Indianapolis, including the Family Support Center, The Children&#8217;s Museum of Indianapolis, and the Indiana Chapter for Prevention of Child Abuse amongst many causes.\u00a0 Her husband is Wabash Trustee Joe Barnette &#8217;61.\u00a0 Charlene is also a serious supporter of Wabash College:\u00a0 At the Class of 1961 50<sup>th<\/sup> reunion last June, she hosted 110 people at her\u00a0home on Saturday evening.\u00a0 Following a reception indoors, the group moved to a giant tent on the lawn just as a major thunderstorm moved through . . .<\/p>\n<p>The Starkey Awards are sponsored by Harrison &amp; Moberly LLP; Ms. Marti Starkey, Attorney; and <em>Indianapolis Woman <\/em>magazine.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/viewer.zmags.com\/publication\/16a8bb6c#\/16a8bb6c\/39\">Click here<\/a> to see the story as reported on page 40 in the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wabash scored two at The Starkey Entrepreneurial Award ceremony last May.\u00a0 In addition to recognizing women entrepreneurs with awards, The Starkey Entrepreneurial Spirit Award is presented to one man and one woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}