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Daughters

Brent Harris

Dec 18, 2007

Steve Charles—“It might seem odd for a woman to claim such a kinship to a ‘school for men,’” University of Arkansas Professor Marta Collier writes in her essay “My Brothers for Life” […]

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A Filmmaker in the Liberal Arts Tradition

Brent Harris

Dec 10, 2007

Steve Charles—One of my greatest frustrations in trying to cover the lives of Wabash alumni for Wabash Magazine is that I just can’t keep up. Even with the help of class agents, […]

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Soul Mates

Brent Harris

Nov 25, 2007

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 […]

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A Well-Centered Tone

Brent Harris

Nov 16, 2007

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 […]

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A Way of Life

Brent Harris

Nov 12, 2007

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 […]

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“The years but make it holier”

Brent Harris

Oct 18, 2007

Steve Charles—The love story of General Lew Wallace and his future bride begins at a piano. A piano that, until yesterday, was right here on the Wabash campus. The exact ages and […]

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An Awful but Essential Lesson

Brent Harris

Aug 15, 2007

Steve Charles—Wabash junior Nathan Rutz gave up his usual summer job at the camp where his family vacations to spend a month in a ramshackle house with a group of other young […]

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The spirit of friendship

Brent Harris

Jul 08, 2007

Steve Charles—“There are two kinds of people in the world,” Wayne Hoover tells me as we sit in the Main Street Pub in Monticello, Illinois. I’ve driven here from Crawfordsville in an […]

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Cooking Up Magic

Brent Harris

Jul 02, 2007

Steve Charles—Dan is a middle-aged guy from Arkansas who lives in the old bank across the street from Fletcher’s of Atlanta, the culinary treasure where Fletcher Boyd ’72 is chef, owner, greeter, […]

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Killer bees and memories

Brent Harris

Jun 07, 2007

Steve Charles—Reading of Wayne Hoover’s moving tribute to a friend lost in the crash of Comair Flight 5191 (click here to read more), I was reminded of another alumnus on a two-wheeled, […]

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Commencement: A Father’s Perspective

Brent Harris

May 15, 2007

Steve Charles—Bill Cook ’66 is one of the finest teachers and scholars to have graduated from Wabash. (Scholar with a capital "S"—this photo of Bill was taken Sunday as he waited in […]

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Little Giant Faculty Take on the Marathon

Brent Harris

May 07, 2007

Steve Charles—Professor John Zimmerman stopped by my office Friday and asked me if I knew how many Wabash faculty and staff members were running in Indy’s 500 festival Mini-Marathon over the weekend. […]

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Restoring a piano, remembering a mentor

Brent Harris

May 01, 2007

Steve Charles—Last year, the first “half” of the gift of Jill and John Failey ’72 to Wabash—a new Steinway concert piano—was debuted in Salter Hall by world-renowned pianist Andreas Klein. The blend […]

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Joyful improvisation

Brent Harris

Apr 12, 2007

Steve Charles—It’s not every day that a jazz Hall of Famer hears college kids play and instantly asks them to sit in with his band. Especially not in Crawfordsville. But that’s what […]

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New Ways to See

Brent Harris

Apr 06, 2007

Steve Charles— “Listen: there was a goat’s head hanging by ropes in a tree.” That first line from her prize-winning poem “Song” was my introduction to the much-honored poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly. […]

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Sounds of Spring

Brent Harris

Mar 26, 2007

Steve Charles—I was walking back to Kane House after lunch today when I heard the high notes of an alto saxophone reverberating off the walls of the Schroeder Career Center and Professor […]

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A prayer for Susan

Brent Harris

Feb 28, 2007

Steve Charles—It’s alarming how illness can slowly drag those we love out of our sight, out of the essential role they play in our daily lives. A friend and co-worker misses work […]

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A musician’s master class

Brent Harris

Nov 15, 2006

The best thing about photographing yesterday’s violin master class was watching the sparks fly. That’s how Wabash Dean Gary Phillips describes teaching at its best: “When a faculty person who is an […]

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