In April, Warren Rosenberg gave his final Chapel talk before retirement. In his remarks, Warren spoke about his experiences as a faculty member at Wabash, and ended with his recommendations for how we can continue to strengthen our support for excellent teaching at Wabash:

I want to thank Daniel Bowes and the Sphinx club for allowing me to take this final chapel talk spot of the year. I would have said thanks for inviting me, as I’ve done in my past three talks, when I was actually invited and, reluctantly agreed, reluctantly because, frankly, chapel talks are scary time drains. Scary for me and I know for others because look at this place. It’s big and feels like a church or synagogue, evoking one of the scariest days of my life, my bar mitzvah. (At least I don’t have to sing this one in Hebrew, a lucky break for you.) And a time drain because once you are slated to do it, you tend to think about it a lot, almost obsessively, because it feels like it matters. And it does for us, in this place. It’s one of the Wabash traditions that I was very glad to see return during my time here, and I thank the students for reviving it.

Yes, I invited myself to give this chapel talk because I wanted, in some public way, to say goodbye to Wabash after teaching here for the past 36 years. Continue reading →