Daniel Crofts ’63, Professor of History at the College of New Jersey and a frequent contributor to the New York Times blog “Disunion,” delivered the symposium’s keynote address, Lincoln’s Plea for Peace: The Would-Be 13th Amendment and the Coming of the Civil War.
Read more about the symposium at WM Online.
Barnes said he first asked his students to trace the lives of Wabash men who served in the Civil War as a way of giving them research experience: “The library now has about 1,500 files on these 500-plus men. That is an enormous contribution from these many students to the archival collection of the College.” Here he talks with Ezra Ball ’96, whose research with Barnes led him to learn about three of his ancestors in the Civil War.
Daniel Crofts
Writer Keith Kehlbeck ’77, author of Gone to God, A Civil War Family’s Ultimate Sacrifice, drove from Michigan to attend the symposium.
Keith Kehlbeck
The National Association of Wabash Men honored its own and welcomed new members to the alumni ranks as part of Homecoming Weekend in September.
Laura and Jim Olberding H’99 accepted the award for their son.
FREDERICK A. HAASE ’71
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Alumni Admissions Fellow ➤ We feel
Fredrick J. Urbaska Civic Service Award ➤ Wabash celebrates your
confident that every single student who graduated from Culver since 1972 knows you and was influenced by you. We honor you today your commitment to recruiting young men who are right for Wabash.
lifetime dedication to strengthening the communities in which you live. You are proud of your community and have invested mightily in it, through your companies and through your boundless spirit of philanthropy.
D E B O R A H B UT L E R
➤ Professor Emeritus of Education Studies Deborah Butler was honored at the Celebrating Leadership Luncheon for her work building that department as Dean Gary Phillips announced the establishment of the Deborah A. Butler Fund for Education Studies.
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M A J. E T H A N A . OLBERDING ’99
Clarence A. Jackson Career Service Award ➤ Following your mother
Jeremy Robert Wright Young Alumnus Award ➤ You left a
Mary’s death from bladder cancer, you made it your life’s work to improve healthcare opportunities for cancer patients and their families. You founded Cancer Treatment Centers of America to be nurturing environments where the latest cancer-fighting treatments can be combined with nutrition, mind-body healing, and spiritual support to deliver what you lovingly refer to as the “Mother Standard of Care.”
promising professional career with Braun Consulting in order to serve your country in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Your commitment to building— not destroying—communities through the training of local leaders and police officers, and through personal conversations with citizens, modeled for your men the importance of sustaining positive relationships as a way forward to lasting peace.
Follow Wabash on Twitter ➤ Professor Butler with Education Studies Associate Director Marc Welch, J.T. Miller ’14, and Associate Professor of Education Studies Michele Pittard
http://twitter.com/WabNews
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