When we had this idea, I knew it would be up to Wabash students to make it work. I knew you guys could pull this off. Thank you for giving these students a true Wabash experience.
Andrew Pearcy ’12 (above) Evan Jordan demonstrates stepdancing to the college guys. (left) Terrence Butler ’96 returned to campus for Top 10 Visit Day and welcomed students from Urban Prep High School.
—David Kogan ’95, thanking members of the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies for teaming up with Wabash Director of Athletics Joe Haklin ’73 to bring middle-schoolers from KIPP College Prep in Indianapolis to Wabash for the day. Added KIPP Board President David Mann: “Many of these students have not heard much about college or going to college, so this age is not early for them. We want to start this now.”
This is a place that you can shape with your involvement here. Try to get a sense of what this College might mean to you. —Dean of the College Gary Phillips, talking with 17 students from Urban Prep High School in Chicago during a Top 10 Visit Day lunch meeting at the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies.
photo by Kim Johnson
Celebration of Student Research There was nothing this dramatic when I was a student here. I would have remembered if I had had to defend my research in front of a bunch of successful alumni from all around the world. —National Association of Wabash Men President Greg Castanias ’87, during this year’s 12th Annual Celebration of Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work.
Casey Wright ’12 explains his work to Trustee Fred Ruebeck ’61.
We found a way for this student to blossom and to bring back the Japanese language and studies courses into the Wabash context. It was an incredibly satisfying moment. —Professor and Modern Languages Chair Dan Rogers, following the senior oral comprehensive exam for Zach Lowry ’12—the first at Wabash to include a DePauw faculty member, Associate Professor Hiroko Chiba. Lowry took Japanese language classes at DePauw, studied in Japan for a semester, and completed a capstone project at Wabash to earn an area of concentration in Japanese Studies. Read more at WM Online.
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