Jim Amidon — Wabash College is a pretty neat and somewhat quirky place. It survives and thrives on traditions — like when President Pat White “rung in” the Class of 2013 with a […]
Steve Charles—We talk often about how immersion trips recharge and reshape our students’ lives, and rightly so. I’ve been on two of those trips and seen the changes. I’ve read accounts of […]
Howard Hewitt – Student leaders and athletes have returned to campus to prepare for the new school year. Along with that group is a solid core of Bachelor staffers on campus to […]
Jim Amidon — It’s a couple of days before the bulk of the Wabash freshmen arrive. About 75-80 upperclassmen are back on campus, cleaning up fraternity houses and straightening up residence halls in […]
Steve Charles—Readers of Wabash Magazine may remember singer/songwriter/pianist Leslie Hunt, who graced the cover of our “Daughters” issue in the fall of 2007. The daughter of Steve Hunt ’76 had been a […]
Steve Charles—Barry Tyler’s The First Tee of Hammond golf program for inner city youth changes lives. You see evidence of that even if you’re just visiting Lost Marsh Golf Course, the program’s home, […]
Steve Charles—During my favorite moment from this year’s Big Bash Reunion Weekend, five guys from the Class of 2004 were being videotaped in Lilly Library, telling stories from their days at Wabash […]
Steve Charles—About this time last week I was 30 miles out on Lake Michigan riding the bow of John Buford’s 27-foot Coronado sailboat, a hood-snapping northwest wind in my face as I […]
Steve Charles—The spring issue of Wabash Magazine came out last week, so I’m thinking of all the good stuff that didn’t make the cut. Here’s one. From David Krohne’ s Earth Day […]
Steve Charles—A colleague stopped me in the Kane House parking lot yesterday to tell me the latest edition of Wabash Magazine—“39 Under 39”—was not a good idea. That focusing on only 39 […]
Howard W. Hewitt – In all lines of work effort is sometimes underappreciated, if noticed at all. Bon Appetit employees put in some special effort Friday morning to benefit not just Wabash […]
Steve Charles—The journalist chases the story, the essayist the idea, the memoir writer the dissipating vapor of her life. But the poet loves the word. The logos. The “in the beginning was […]
Steve Charles—At the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis last Friday, I heard this inspiring thing. I was interviewing David Orr —not David Orr ’57, trustee emeritus, citizen of Crawfordsville and San Cristobal, Chiapas, […]
Howard W. Hewitt – Here in the rolling hills of southwest Indiana, an area of strong German heritage and lingering cultural traditions, there is a field of dreams. It was a field […]
Howard W. Hewitt – During the summer months our students are engaged in a wide variety of internships and jobs it’s hard to keep track of them all. Some of them are […]
Jim Amidon — Two years ago, the folks in the Wabash College Alumni Office thought they had hit the peak for Big Bash Reunion Weekend attendance. I remember talking with Tom Runge and […]
McAlister ’10 on campus to help with Big Bash Coverage Howard W. Hewitt – For the past three years we’ve brought one or two student journalists back to campus for Big Bash […]
Rich Blastic ’82 found himself in an interesting position at the start of the year. As a new member of the school board for the Calvary Christian School in Highland, Indiana, he […]
