Archives: November, 2007

Howard W. Hewitt – The Indiana Quality of Life Grant from Lilly Endowment has provided internships for Wabash students, trips around the state to learn more about Hoosier history and culture, and brought […]

Read More - Quality of Life Grant Extends Into/Beyond Classroom

American Society’s obsession with sports, or specifically Professor of Mathmatics Mike Axtel’s obsession, was the focus of Thursday’s Chapel Talk. Hear the full Podcast of Axtel’s talk here. Axtel, mixing readings with […]

Read More - Axtel Talks About Obsession with Sports

Jim Amidon — Now that Black Friday and the post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy have passed, the turkey and noodles and turkey potpie are gone, what’s next before the holidays? Thinking about a trip […]

Read More - Got Weekend Plans?

Steve Charles—Proofing the upcoming issue of Wabash Magazine, I was re-reading a story I wrote a couple months ago about Steve Hunt ’76 and his daughter, Leslie. The article begins with Leslie’s […]

Read More - Soul Mates

Jim Amidon — The students, faculty, and staff of Wabash College have an enormous reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving week. This week we are thankful that a handful of visionary leaders […]

Read More - Why I Am Thankful

Steve Charles—I knew Mary Lou Mielke mostly for her gentle hospitality the several times I visited the Mielke’s home to work with her husband, Professsor Emeritus Paul Mielke, on photo spreads for […]

Read More - A Well-Centered Tone

As a professor who’s spent 30-plus years on campus, a graduate and respected scholar, Bill Placher can look at Wabash now and its history and offer interesting perspectives. Placher ‘70 delivered the […]

Read More - Founders’ Week: Placher Looks Back to 1907

Steve Charles—Filmmaker Ted Steeg ’52 spent his first years after Wabash in Greenwich Village, sharing an apartment with screenwriter Dan Wakefield and immersing himself in the “alternative society” of the New York […]

Read More - A Way of Life

Jim Amidon — The Monon Bell rings in Greencastle this morning, the result of the DePauw Tigers’ stirring 24-21, last-second victory over the Wabash Little Giants in Saturday’s 114th Monon Bell Classic. […]

Read More - A Classic Bell-Ringer

Little Giant football Coach Chris Creighton had a big Chapel Talk crowd on its feet Thursday morning ready to storm down 231 to keep possession of the Monon Bell. In what has […]

Read More - Chapel Talk Fires Up Community for Bell Game

Howard W. Hewitt – Jim Amidon doesn’t hand out a lot of “assignments” as our boss. It’s just not his style. But when he does it’s usually something really important like a […]

Read More - Marveling in the Beauty All Around Us