Winter in China: An American Life,\u00a0<\/em>which tells the story of Crawfordsville native Robert Winter\u2019s nearly 60 years living in China during its most tumultuous years.<\/p>\n\u201cToday, we honor, cherish, and embrace the outsider\u2019s perspective you brought to us,\u201d Estell told Stern from the Chapel lecturn. \u201cIt\u2019s a vantage point that brought other worlds to thousands of Wabash students.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim H\u201950 and Susie Smith H\u201975 sent four sons to Wabash, but their service to Wabash goes much farther. The president of HC Industries, Jim graduated with a degree in engineering, but he also embraced the liberal arts education he saw at Wabash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe study of the liberal arts gives students today an opportunity to confront the questions about what they really believe,\u201d Jim has said. \u201cIt also gives them skillsets in writing, in thinking things through, and having an opportunity to debate those questions with other students and faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Smiths are community leaders and recently established a scholarship to support Wabash men in the College\u2019s dual degree engineering program with Purdue University because they \u201care convinced that a liberal arts education brings immeasurable value to a person entering engineering fields.”<\/p>\n
\u201cYou model for younger generations what it means to be service-minded citizens, and this community is stronger and more robust because of your love and dedication,\u201d said Estell.<\/p>\n
Dudley Burgess \u201964 was honored with the Frank W. Misch Alumni Service Award for “his love of and service to Wabash in a way that provides a model for all Wabash men to follow.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have given so selflessly to Wabash for half a century and never asked for anything in return,\u201d said Estell. \u201cToday, however, the National Association of Wabash Men is proud to place you in the spotlight for all that you mean to your alma mater.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ray Jovanovich \u201984 earned the Fredrick J. Urbaska Civic Service Award for his philanthropic work in the Philippines following last year\u2019s Typhoon Haiyan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin days, you and your friends procured and distributed more than \u00bd ton of relief goods in Leyte Province and established The Yolanda Project Foundation, helping to establish a field clinic and pharmacy, continuing aid as government food and aid efforts ceased,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>said Estell.\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>You make your alma mater proud, even as you cause us to reflect and reconsider our own priorities in this difficult world.\u201d<\/p>\nJames Dimos \u201983 was honored with the Clarence Jackson Career Service Award for representing the highest ideals of the College in his legal practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cAttorneys around Indianapolis refer to you as someone who provides \u2018wise counsel to counselors,\u2019\u201d said Estell. \u201cYou\u2019ve also found\u00a0pro-bono<\/em>\u00a0work for those living on society\u2019s edges equally invigorating, changing lives with a deft touch and healthy dose of compassion.\u201d<\/p>\nJeremy Bird \u201900, the National Field Director for Barack Obama in 2012 who used cutting-edge analytics to deliver victory to the incumbent President, received the Jeremy R. Wright Young Alumnus Award.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe motivation for your work is people, not numbers,\u201d said Estell, who recalled an article describing how Bird grew up in a trailer park with working parents who struggled to make ends meet\u2014a childhood Bird now uses as inspiration to \u201cgo to work everyday to fight for kids like that, who watch their parents work hard but still remain one problem away from catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour struggle has improved the lives of millions,\u201d Estell said. \u201cAnd it has been a wonder to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
An entrepreneur who has shared his expertise, connections, and home with dozens of Wabash students, Martin Brown \u201906 was honored with the Alumni Career Services Award.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost since the day you graduated from Wabash you have been a resource for our Schroeder Center for Career Development,\u201d said Estell. \u201cYou have advised students by email, phone, and in person, and you have shared with the men of Wabash your soaring entrepreneurial spirit. You give back in ways that truly and directly benefit our students.\u201d<\/p>\n
A teacher in Houston, TX who used crowd-funding efforts to bring four of his students to campus last year, Jeffrey Soller \u201912 was one of two men earning the Wabash Alumni Admissions Fellow Award.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour outstanding teaching skills honed in Teach for America clearly made an impression on those young men, because all four of them applied to the College,\u201d Estell said. \u201cIt has become clear to this Association that there is no end to your passion for Wabash or to the amount of creativity you are willing to pump into your efforts to ‘spread the fame of her honored name.'”<\/p>\n
Also teaching in Texas, Oscar Torres \u201901 was honored as an Alumni Admissions Fellow for becoming a virtual extension of the College\u2019s Admissions staff in McAllen, TX.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince you became a teacher and coach at Pharr San Juan Alamo Memorial High School, Wabash has received 6 to 10 applications from Memorial students every year,\u201d Estell said. \u201cIt\u2019s a long way from the Rio Grande Valley to Sugar Creek\u20141,418 miles, to be precise\u2014but that hasn\u2019t prevented you from chaperoning groups of 15-20 students on visit programs here at the College.\u201d<\/p>\n
Concluding the ceremony, which serves as the fall meeting of the NAWM, Estell thanked those attending and led them in a final round of applause for the honorees.<\/p>\n
\u201cHomecoming allows us to pause and to celebrate the special bonds of the Wabash family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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