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!” […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Steve Charles—Since his arrival on campus, President Pat White has been encouraging members of the Wabash community to get to know one another better and to join in the "grand conversation" of […]
Audiences watching percussionist Syud Momtaz Ahmed ’07 perform at Wabash know the incredible focus, experimentation, and joy he brings to his music. Now the rest of the world is going to hear […]
Steve Charles—Just found out from political science professsor Melissa Butler that Tim Padgett ’84 was a featured expert on PBS’s Jim Lehrer News Hour in early August. The TIME Magazine Miami bureau […]
Steve Charles—Just watched Dr. Steve Judah ’72 being interviewed by Barbara Walters and company on ABC’s "The View." Wow! I wonder if there’s any speech class at Wabash (or in the world) […]
Steve Charles—I stopped by math professor Mike Axtell’s office last week to see how much he’s enjoyed working with the Department’s Algebra Institute students this summer ("a lot") and how the experience […]
Steve Charles—When Jim Czarniecki ’71 was editor of The Wabash yearbook his senior year, he did away with many of the cliches of the genre—what he called the "old gray coat-and-tie-and-stand-in-a line" […]
Steve Charles—Was out walking around campus yesterday trying out our new 85mm lens when I noticed two boys playing football on the lawn in front of the Wabash Chapel. Turned out to […]
Steve Charles—Even with all of our photographs and stories from practically every spot on campus during the Big Bash Reunion Weekend, we still missed many important moments. One such moment occurred in […]
In one of my favorites of Marc Hudson’s early poems, the Wabash English professor writes: "You will discover your vocation: You will write the history of rain… You will record the resurrections […]
Steve Charles—In November of last year, Indiana Solicitor General Tom Fisher ’91 flew in from Indianapolis to watch mentor and “big brother” Greg Castanias ’87 present oral arguments before the United States […]
Steve Charles—I was doing some research on a story for an upcoming issue of Wabash Magazine when I came across the website of Indianapolis attorney Mark Rutherford ’82—actually, the site he keeps […]
Have any species named after you? Jim Childress ’64 has four. The Hoosier native and marine physiologist has been studying the animals that surround hydrothermal vents since 1979. He has made 65 […]
