{"id":4570,"date":"2012-05-22T09:43:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2012-05-22T09:43:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:43:22","slug":"character-counts-at-wabash-and-in-crawfordsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2012\/05\/22\/character-counts-at-wabash-and-in-crawfordsville\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARACTER COUNTS! at Wabash and in Crawfordsville"},"content":{"rendered":"

As reported\u00a0by the Journal Review<\/em>, Wabash was well represented at the eighth annual Champions of Character Awards Breakfast <\/strong>hosted by CHARACTER COUNTS! in Montgomery County on May 17.\u00a0 The master of ceremonies for the event was Jim Amidon \u201987<\/strong>, Director of Communications and Marketing at Wabash.\u00a0 Mike Raters \u201985<\/strong>, Dean of Students at Wabash, is a board of directors member of CHARACTER COUNTS!<\/p>\n

Steve Hoffman \u201985<\/strong> was one of four adults who received an award.\u00a0 Steve is a senior major gifts officer in the office of college advancement at Wabash College.\u00a0 He is the president of the board of directors at the Boys & Girls Club of Montgomery County.\u00a0 \u201cFor so many years many of us thought little about the Boys & Girls Club because it just kept doing its job, quietly \u2014 allowing kids to have a place to go to make friends, build relationships with adults, and participate in sports, games, and academic tutoring,\u201d Amidon said. \u201cBut in these economically challenging times we\u2019re both reminded of the importance of the club and the difficulty of raising funds to do its life-changing work. Never before have we needed the Club as much as we do today, and never before have the challenges to sustaining it been so great.\u00a0 You are passionate and dedicated; you help create opportunities for character development and leadership through sports and you model for our kids all six of the pillars of Character Counts.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Colten Craigin ’13<\/strong> fit into both the adult and youth Champion of Character categories.\u00a0 \u201cThe Dean of Students\u2019 office at Wabash College nominated you for this award because of the high level of respect everyone in that office has for you,\u201d Amidon told Craigin. \u201cAs a rising Wabash senior you have demonstrated leadership and character, but we realize that the Six Pillars of Character at Wabash are talked about differently,\u201d Amidon said. \u201cTo be specific, character is defined at Wabash through the Gentleman\u2019s Rule \u2014 the student is expected to conduct himself, at all times, both on and off the campus, as a gentleman and responsible citizen. You do that in your leadership of the Inter-Fraternity Council. You have contributed well to discussions and ideas generated by the Dean’s Presidents Council and you are a stalwart example of the importance of taking responsibility \u2014 seriously and with integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuttle Middle School teacher Carol Myhre<\/strong>, wife of Paul Myhre, who is Associate Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, was one of two teachers who launched a very successful after-school program, \u201cAfter the Bell\u201d, this past school year. \u00a0The program served almost 350 Tuttle students, providing a safe and nurturing place for students to go \u2014 a place where they feel comfortable and confident \u2014 a place where they belong.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Steve, Colten, and Carol!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As reported\u00a0by the Journal Review, Wabash was well represented at the eighth annual Champions of Character Awards Breakfast hosted by CHARACTER COUNTS! in Montgomery County on May 17.\u00a0 The master of ceremonies […]<\/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-4570","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\/4570","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=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}