Archives: September, 2009

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 […]

Read More - The Difference Alumni Make: A Student’s Short List

  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 […]

Read More - Lawyers and Students Discuss the Future of the Law

Wabash senior Patrick McAlister has been editor of the Bachelor and an active campus leader. Friday night he sat at the Lawyer’s reunion dinner with David Kendall ’66 and wrote about the experience: […]

Read More - Sharing Dinner Table with A Legal Great

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 […]

Read More - Keon Gilbert ’01: Finding His Calling in Public Health

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 […]

Read More - Bench Painting Honors Hispanic Heritage Month

Jim Amidon — Twenty-five years ago, I took a physics class at Wabash College from Professor Vern Easterling. Vern was an excellent teacher — is an excellent teacher — but I way underperformed in […]

Read More - Video Cameras in Physics Class?

Howard W. Hewitt – Social media isn’t a new term. Blogging, Facebook, and social networking may be foreign to many people but the concept of individual journals dates back years. It’s just […]

Read More - Wabash Getting Up to Speed on New Media

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 […]

Read More - Running Wild

Howard W. Hewitt – The start of the school year means many things including selection of our student bloggers. It took awhile four years ago to convince everyone that it was a […]

Read More - Blogging Has Become An Important Voice

Kim Johnson – In our staff meeting Monday morning we were discussing the weeks events and what we would be able to cover. When Jim Amidon mentioned the group coming from FAESA […]

Read More - An Unexpected Day Should be Expected

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 […]

Read More - Visiting Thomas Hollowell ’00