{"id":3167,"date":"2016-12-28T20:11:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:31","slug":"touchstones-map-from-baxter-artifacts-from-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2016\/12\/28\/touchstones-map-from-baxter-artifacts-from-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Touchstones\u2014Map from Baxter, Artifacts from Many"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wabash President Frank Sparks<\/strong>\u2019 passport and the pocket watch that belonged to Professor Bill Placher<\/strong>\u2019s father are among the artifacts and souvenirs from the Wabash Archives and other contributors on this map that once hung in a Baxter Hall classroom.<\/p>\n

WM<\/em> Designer Becky Wendt<\/strong> re-discovered the map in a Baxter Hall closet (thanks to Division III Senior Administrative Assistant Pam Sacco<\/strong>), where dozens of old maps were stored after the recent renovation.<\/p>\n

Then she reached out to Archivist Beth Swift<\/strong> and others for items from the travels of members of the Wabash family.<\/p>\n

Here are those contributors and the pieces they provided for the story:<\/p>\n

Political Science Professor Ethan Hollander<\/strong> gave us coins and bills from his travels\u2014coins and dollars from Hong Kong, yuan from China, pesos from Cuba, sheckels from Israel, franks from France and a reichsmark from Germany (the latter two no longer in circulations.<\/p>\n

Ethan and Professor Dan Roger<\/strong>s led students on an immersion experience to Cuba in 2013.<\/p>\n

Economics Professor Christie Byun<\/strong> contributed tickets from museums in Egypt and a business card from a bookbinder there. You can read about one of her most interesting moments in that country in \u201cTake a Leap of Faith\u201d in this edition, and hear more at Wabash On My Mind<\/a>:\u00a0http:\/\/apple.co\/2i8IytN<\/p>\n

WM<\/em>\u00a0Editor Steve Charles provided coins and bills from Kenya, Mexico, and Bangladesh. The money from Kenya and Mexico was left over from covering Wabash immersion experiences in Chiapas in 2001 and\u00a0Africa in 2011<\/a>\u00a0(see photos here.<\/a>) Professors Bill Cook \u201966 and Rick Warner will return to Kenya with students this coming spring semester.<\/p>\n

Director of Communications and Marketing Kim Johnson contributed a rock from Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, which she acquired while covering Professor Byun\u2019s class and\u00a0immersion experience in that state<\/a>. Our top photographer, Kim also lent some old cameras, lenses, and a lens case from the Communications \u201carchives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archivist Beth Swift came back with the visual and historical highlights of the layout. Among the artifacts:<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u00a0Religion and Philosophy Professor Bill Placher\u2019s father\u2019s pocket watch, one of many pieces in the collection from the beloved professor\u2019s collection (check out Placher\u2019s parliament of owls the next time you visit the archives).<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 from the collection of Will Hays, Jr.<\/strong> \u201937, a Guide to Paris and postcards from a trip to California Will took when he was a boy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Passports that belonged to President Frank Sparks<\/strong> \u201956 and his wife, Abbie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Associate Director of Communications Richard Paige<\/strong> offered a few pens from hotels where he stayed covering the University of Arizona basketball team.\u00a0 Those travels include stops across the country and destinations like Australia and the Bahamas. Rich recalls some of the more memorable hotels and moments in a WM Online Exclusive.<\/p>\n

Videographer and Digital Content Editor Adam Phipps<\/strong> \u201911 offered his journal (written in Italian) from his study abroad in Italy and a ticket from train trip to Eastern Europe. Adam recalls that trip from Romanian castles to Auschwitz in this WM Online Exclusive.<\/p>\n

WM<\/em> Graphic Designer Becky Wendt included her mother\u2019s Eiffel Tower souvenir, which her brother acquired while photographing the monument for the lighting design company for which he worked.<\/p>\n

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