Archives: September, 2017

Associate Professor of German Greg Redding’s article on Indiana’s Shades State Park has earned the 2017 Jacob P. Dunn Award from the Indiana Historical Society. “The Shades of Death: Joseph W. Frisz […]

Read More - Redding’s Article on State Park Earns Top Honors

Late last spring Richard Paige interviewed Associate Professor Michele Pittard, this year’s winner of the College’s highest honor for faculty—the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award. Some moments from their conversation: You were […]

Read More - “A Stance of Caring”

“The Appalachian Trail was beautiful, evil, demanding but forgiving. It taught us the importance of individuality, luck and determination. The best lesson, however, was the value of each person who hiked it, […]

Read More - Silence on the Trail

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science Goodrich Hall 105 Ten minutes before the end of his last class before retirement, Professor Bob Foote was teaching a bunch of non-math majors about […]

Read More - Bookshelves: Professor Bob Foote

by Christina Egbert When Professor Jennifer Abbott spoke about Delon Pettiford ’17 at the Senior Rhetoric Dinner last spring, she said she will always remember how special he was. Contrary to many people on […]

Read More - A Wabash Man, A Family Man

An excerpt from the 37th Annual LaFollette Lecture by Robert Royalty Twenty-five years to the week before I left for England to walk Hadrian’s Wall, my father committed suicide in his car […]

Read More - Moving Forward

by David Blix ’70   I first met Richard Bowen when he came to campus to interview for a sabbatical replacement position in the College’s Department of Music. As a professor of […]

Read More - “Music in His Soul”

The theater department pulled out all the stops celebrating Professor Dwight Watson’s 36 years of teaching, directing, writing, and even acting at Wabash. Students, alumni, and professors produced two films, recited lines […]

Read More - “The Kind of Man I Always Wanted to Be”

WM asked alumni, “How do you take care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally? Walking for the Future Jesse Owens said, “If we walk long enough and talk long enough, we […]

Read More - How Do You Take Care of Yourself?

by Scott Dreher ’82   The FAA report reads, “Pilot error.” The small white airplane with blue call letters and red trim approached Runway 14 from the west. But the flight plan […]

Read More - Standing on the Sidelines

An excerpt from the sermon for the 179th Baccalaureate Service. by Rev. Elizabeth Manning   Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr. is an African American preacher in his 80’s who labored with Rev. Dr. […]

Read More - New Songs, New Harmonies

How do you take care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally? I practice the ancient, sacred art of beekeeping. I have 12 hives in my apiary on my small hobby farm […]

Read More - The Big Question: Rev. Libby Manning