Jim Amidon — About a week ago, Chris and I took our daughter to “meet the teacher” night at her new school. With system-wide reorganization fully implemented, we shifted from Hose to […]
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Jim Amidon — When I was a kid, we would officially celebrate the end of summer on Labor Day. Public pools were open one more day, school would start on Tuesday, and […]
Jim Amidon — I got a voice mail last Tuesday afternoon from Dean Reynolds, Wabash Class of 1970. Dean is a fairly active alumnus who has returned to campus on many occasions […]
Jim Amidon — I wasn’t born in Indiana, but I’ve spent most of my life as a Hoosier. And through my various travels with Wabash College, I always felt like I knew […]
Jim Amidon — A dozen men from Wabash College began their Diversity Day presentations at Hose School last Thursday with a simple question: “Do any of you know what the word diversity […]
Jim Amidon — The phone rang last Friday morning and in my haste to answer it, I knocked over a freshly filled cup of coffee. The resulting splash covered my entire desk, […]
Jim Amidon — At Wabash we celebrate just about everything. We celebrate the accomplishments of our scholars, athletes, and artists. We threw a birthday party for Center Hall last week on the […]
Jim Amidon — One of the really neat parts of my job at Wabash College is to share good news about the people and programs that make the College unique. Usually I […]
Jim Amidon — Like most people, I have bad days; days when the creative engine doesn’t fire, when I type responses to critical emails I never send, and struggle to put a […]
Jim Amidon — Former United States Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke on the campus of Wabash College last Thursday evening. A crowd of over 700 people listened to him recount the days […]
Jim Amidon — My public affairs colleagues Steve Charles and Howard Hewitt are having a tough time starting their engines this morning. That’s because they flew in from the West Coast last […]
Jim Amidon — Over the course of my career at Wabash College, I’ve been fortunate to meet some legendary Little Giants — men for whom buildings, programs, even streets have been named. […]
Jim Amidon — Because Wabash College has a reputation for hiring coaches who are as strong on ethics as they are with X’s and O’s, athletics will always play a critical role […]
Jim Amidon — More than a week has gone by since Pat White was inaugurated as the 15th president at Wabash College. That’s enough time to reflect on the entirety of the […]
Jim Amidon — Tradition. That’s the one word most often used to describe Wabash College by anyone who has attended the College, worked for the College, or in any way come into […]
Jim Amidon —The second semester at Wabash College is well underway. The students began to return to campus about two weeks ago, though seniors had been back studying for comprehensive examinations long […]
Jim Amidon — I sat in my Kane House office last Friday watching out my window as students at the Beta House next door packed up their cars for semester break. For […]
Jim Amidon — Students at Wabash College awake this this week with the daunting prospect of a week’s worth of late nights and early mornings ahead of them. The fall semester classes […]