My youngest son was a pole vaulter, and there was a point in his trajectory at which he seemed to defy gravity. “You should see yourself,” I would say. “You were flying!” […]
Archives: October, 2006
Howard W. Hewitt – This is an update on our three-day photo shoot. Today, Wednesday, we’re back in classrooms again shooting professors and students. In just a day and a half we’ve […]
Jim Amidon — My friend and colleague, Joy Castro, a professor in the English Department at Wabash, gave the 27th Annual LaFollette Lecture in the humanities Friday afternoon. Being selected to give […]
Howard W. Hewitt – When one of our own takes the stage for a Thursday Chapel Talk we’re all there for support. Brent Harris made the Public Affairs staff proud Thursday when the […]
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Steve Charles—On a cold, windy spring day in 2003 I was visiting Professor Scott Feller’s farm when I noticed an odd-looking contraption with cranks and buckets in the laboratory-clean ‘tack room’ of […]
Wabash College is fond of its traditions — really fond of its traditions Homecoming is nearly a century-old Wabash tradition. It was the idea of the late Jasper Cragwall, a professor who […]
Change the eggs and cooking utensils to acid solutions and beakers, and this photo from the Delt house kitchen could be a chemistry lab. But that’s history professor (and former professional chef) […]
Steve Charles—So this pug wearing a dress walks onto campus with a Scotty wearing a rented tux. "What’s the news hook?" my colleague Howard Hewitt asks, uncharacteristically skeptical. "Howard, the dog is […]
Steve Charles—The Purdue Boilermakers got their name from Wabash. The Glee Club used to have its own Queen Contest. The annual Class Fight (thankfully, a lost tradition) was covered by The New […]
