{"id":1859,"date":"2016-02-23T22:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","slug":"martella-71-and-a-life-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2016\/02\/23\/martella-71-and-a-life-of-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Martella \u201971 and “A Life of Place”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhile at Wabash I pretty much learned who I was, where I fit in the world, and how I wanted to live my life. I have called that life \u2018a life of place\u2026'”<\/em><\/h4>\n

Tom Martella\u2019s Wabash education \u201cwas all about relationships\u2014seeking them, building them, and reaching beyond my easy or obvious set of friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Winter 2016<\/a> edition of Wabash Magazine<\/a>,<\/em> Martella \u201971 credits Professors John Fischer H\u201970 and David Hadley \u201976 with \u201cdescribing distant places with far different cultures, histories, and institutions from my own, and then encouraging me to think beyond a small town in the Midwest and who I was at the time.”<\/p>\n

\u201cLearning how to do something wasn\u2019t as important to me as learning how to live somewhere immersed in the lifeblood of a place,\u201d Martella says in the new edition’s From the Editor.\u00a0\u201cWhile at Wabash I pretty much learned who I was, where I fit in the world, and how I wanted to live my life. I have called that life \u2018a life of place,\u2019 since to me, where I lived has been much more important than what I did to make a living.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martella\u2019s notion of \u201ca life of place\u201d inspired the theme for the magazine\u2019s first issue of 2016, now appearing in mailboxes and available online. The edition includes stories about or by alumni, students, and faculty living their own lives of place around the globe. Closer to home, Evan West \u201999 writes about Wabash alumni in Indianapolis\u2019 booming craft beer industry, and the magazine explores how the College itself is living a life of place in its partnership with Mayor Todd Barton \u201900 and Crawfordsville, recently designated a Stellar Community. Featured on the cover is Insider Louisville<\/em> founder Tom Cottingham \u201982, while Jeff Been \u201981 talks about his transition from executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Louisville to retirement in the rural Delphi, IN of his youth.<\/p>\n

Prior to his 20-years as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, Martella himself lived a life of place in Greece, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to experience firsthand the cultures and histories of regions that so appealed to me in the classroom,\u201d he says. Rising through the ranks at the international technology and management-consulting firm to retire as principal, Martella also lived in Kuwait and Brazil and now resides in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn each place I strove to be an active part of a community, getting to know people in their moment of history\u2014 their perspectives, their cultures, their immediate and long-term motivations,\u201d Martella says. \u201cThe Wabash community created my understanding of the power of a true community, but it also created in me a desire to replicate such a community, such relationships, which would make my \u2018life of place\u2019 stimulating, supportive, and enjoyable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more\u00a0about Martella’s “life of place” in <\/em>From the Editor.<\/a><\/p>\n

Read a pdf of the print edition here: WM Winter 2016\u2014A Life of Place<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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