{"id":2481,"date":"2015-01-07T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2015-01-09T20:39:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T20:39:19","slug":"hey-wabash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2015\/01\/07\/hey-wabash\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hey, Wabash!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Paige<\/em> – We talk often of connections at Wabash, and I\u2019m still caught off guard at times at how the shared experience of being a Wabash man makes for seemingly instant friendships.<\/p>\n

I had lunch with Larry Haugh \u201966 and Jeff Callane \u201894 while spending New Year\u2019s in Burlington, Vt., and enjoyed an easygoing conversation that lasted more than 90 minutes over pizza not too far from the shores of Lake Champlain.<\/p>\n

Math majors each and Indiana natives, Haugh and Callane took slightly different routes to Burlington.<\/p>\n

Haugh, a Kappa Sig, is professor emeritus of statistics at the University of Vermont, having retired as department head in 2006. As he said, \u201cI loved every part of my job, but it had too many parts between the teaching, administration, and research. There were times when I needed more sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Larry Haugh (left) and Jeff Callane on St. Paul Street in Burlington, VT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Callane, a Sigma Chi, followed his other brother, James ’92, to Crawfordsville to play tennis for George Davis (\u201cHoly cow, there is a Callane who can volley,\u201d is what Davis is reported to have said upon seeing the younger Callane play for the first time). He\u2019s now an account executive for Aon, the global insurance and risk management provider.<\/p>\n

Separated by 28 years at Wabash, these two had never met, but you wouldn\u2019t know it by the warmth of the conversation. They talked over the top of each other, finished thoughts, cajoled, and laughed\u2026all the things that friends do when talking.<\/p>\n

Having two guys at the table gave me the opportunity to present the Wabash Q&A to multiple people for the first time. Their conversation is below. I hope their conversation reads as engagingly as it came off in real time.<\/p>\n

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Me:<\/strong> What\u2019s your favorite Wabash tradition?<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> Oh man, I\u2019d have to say\u2026<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> Definitely not the singing.<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> You mean Chapel Sing? It is the most ingrained.<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> That\u2019s emphasized at Big Bash. Do you ever go back? They recreate the Chapel Sing, so that\u2019s funny. Did they have the greased pole climb when you where there? Some of the traditions die out. Pan-Hel was a big tradition and party, so I assume that\u2019s still going strong. Fraternities and living units used to put a lot of work into that with decorations and inviting your dates to campus. It was a big weekend. Otherwise, it\u2019s just going back to the fraternity where I lived and seeing how that\u2019s changed.<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> Homecoming was always interesting, too.<\/p>\n

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Me:<\/strong> Life is full of successes and failures. To this point, what is your favorite mistake?<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> I hate these kinds of questions. I\u2019m a math major.<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> (laughs) Maybe I should have gone to class a bit more often.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0Me:<\/strong> If you could cook one meal, what would it be?<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> Any breakfast for me.<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> Hands down, it has to be Elsie Burgers. Elsie was our cook at the Sig house. Oh, the Elsie Burgers.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> If you could give your 10-year-old self a piece of advice, what would it be?<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> I do have an almost 10-year-old grandson and I would tell him to try a lot of different things and enjoy the trying of them. He\u2019s doing that pretty well now.<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> I would have to say, in the entire life sense, to be polite. Say \u201cplease and thank you\u201d. \u201cPlease\u201d and \u201cthank you\u201d go a long way. Do your best.<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> That\u2019s something we\u2019ve worked on quite a bit with our grandson.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> Do either of you have a personal credo, and if so, what is it?<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> Closest to that would be a saying that\u2019s been passed down in my family, \u201cBe yourself.\u201d It was on a big log that used to hang in my grandfather\u2019s cabin.<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> I remember one thing \u2013 this isn\u2019t mine \u2013 my first boss always said, \u201cHurry up and get it done, but take your time and do it right.\u201d The M.O. that I\u2019ve tried to live by my entire life works out like this: If you come in early, you\u2019re going to stay late. If you come in late, you are going to leave early.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> If in your dreams you could have created one great piece of art, what would it be?<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> I can only say what I like because I\u2019m not an artist. I\u2019ve always liked metal sculptures\u2026<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> Having the opportunity to study in Salzburg my junior year and getting a chance to go through museums in Germany, Paris, and Amsterdam, I can\u2019t say there is any one that stuck with me. You know, Bob Ross, the old landscape painter \u2013 a little tree likes to live here \u2013 I\u2019ve kind of tried a little oil on canvas. I\u2019m not very good. It would be a personal landscape.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are you doing in that picture?<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> Oh man, I\u2019ve got a huge grin, standing at the top of one of these mountains getting ready to ski down with my kids.<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> That\u2019s appropriate for me, too. I just love doing things with the family. Anything with the family is enjoyable.<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> A big smile. When you see a smile like that, it\u2019s infectious.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> If you could wish for one thing in your future, what would it be?<\/p>\n

LH:<\/strong> I\u2019ve been lucky to be healthy for this long, so I\u2019d like to see that continue\u2026to be able to actively travel.<\/p>\n

JC:<\/strong> With an almost 13-year-old and a 10-year-old, I really just want to see them happy and successful with whatever they choose to do. Maybe there is a Wabash future for my son, Jack.<\/p>\n

Speaking of connections, here is one more.<\/p>\n

Callane and his family first moved to Burlington about three years ago. He was wearing a Wabash sweatshirt to one of his son\u2019s tee-ball games when the coach approached him and asked about the sweatshirt. Callane wondered how the coach knew of Wabash. \u201cI work with a Wabash grad,\u201d was the reply.<\/p>\n

Sometime later, Callane was with his daughter, Neeve, at her sixth-grade open house at Colchester Middle School when someone shouted, \u201cHey, Wabash,\u201d as he passed by.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when he met John Upchurch \u201997, a teacher at the school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stopped cold in my tracks,\u201d Callane explained. \u201cI meet John and realize that we were on campus the same time, and got to talking about the Phi Delts and the Sigs. It really took us back to campus. I got chills just talking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Callane and Upchurch since have gotten together frequently for Monon Bell viewings and such.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad I not been wearing that sweatshirt, it might have taken a lot longer to make the connection,\u201d said Callane.<\/p>\n

To bring this connection full circle, Neeve is now a student in Upchurch\u2019s class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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