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Howard W. Hewitt (Bachelor Advisor)- “What’s special about this place,” asked Director of Public Affairs Jim Amidon, standing in the Bachelor office Thursday with a handful of students. “That’s what special,” replied […]

Read More - Padgett ’84 Provides ‘Special’ Day for Student Journalists

Steve Charles—Vic Powell H’55—Professor of Speech Emeritus, Dean of the College Emeritus, Acting President of the College Emeritus—will be 90 years old next Wednesday, November 25. The day before Thanksgiving. I discovered […]

Read More - Vic Powell at 90: “A Sense of Wonder”

Howard W. Hewitt – Every now and then photographers will be shooting an event – say a Monon Bell game – and find something with a photographer’s eye others might miss. The […]

Read More - Did DePauw Really Have Any Shot at Winning?

Jim Amidon — It was getting late Saturday afternoon at Blackstock Stadium in Greencastle. A back and forth football game between Wabash and DePauw was grinding to a conclusion. Boisterous fans on […]

Read More - Six Words Provide Epic Monon Moment

Jim Amidon — It’s Bell Week.   That’s how Wabash students refer to the week leading up to the Monon Bell Classic football game. It’s a circle-it-on-your-calendar kind of week, filled with all […]

Read More - It’s Bell Week

Howard W. Hewitt – The communications revolution gives everyone a chance to create community and share in ways a cell phone or even e-mail has never allowed. This morning (Nov. 7) Brent […]

Read More - Bring Social Media to Wabash Alums

Jim Amidon — Not long ago, I wrote about an innovative approach Physics Professor Martin Madsen is taking with an introductory physics course at Wabash College. The course is modeled after the Discovery […]

Read More - My Return to Mythbusters

Jim Amidon — I spent the weekend with Bill Placher.   Not literally, of course. I spent the weekend reading and re-reading the words of the legendary professor of religion and philosophy at […]

Read More - My Weekend with Bill Placher

Steve Charles—Last June, Professor Greg Redding ’88 ran a race of 100 miles up and down the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. He told me a little bit about it in the Allen […]

Read More - Running the Path Home

Howard W. Hewitt – One of the great things working on a college campus is how the place re-invents itself every year. Seniors graduate and 18-year-old freshmen arrive on campus. But there […]

Read More - Taking Fall Photos Never Gets Old

Steve Charles—I spent a gorgeous autumn afternoon this week with Jud Scott ’80, one of only two registered consulting arborists in Indiana and founder and CEO of Vine and Branch, Inc. in […]

Read More - Kicking the Leaves with Jud Scott ’80

Steve Charles—For the past four years of W.A.B.A.S.H. Days, I’ve scoured the list of projects and tried to find a “big one” to photograph and chronicle: The Evansville guys building a playground set […]

Read More - No Small Thing

Jim Amidon — I was working with the folks in the Wabash Annual Fund office last week to implement fund-raising strategies when I got to thinking about philanthropy.   In poring over some […]

Read More - Philanthropy is Alive and Well

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