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In a recent issue of Wabash Magazine, I saw a picture of Robert Harvey’s daughter. I regret that I never told Mr. Harvey how much I enjoyed his class and his reading of that Salinger story. It would please me if his daughter would see this memory and read what a lasting impression her father made on one 18-year old kid. Mr. Harvey’s love of literature, his teaching style, his authoritative bearing, his voice–all contributed to an enjoyable and entertaining semester of English and a lifelong love of books.
Read full article »Singing the sixth-century hymn “Be Thou My Vision” alongside flowers on the Salter Hall stage from the Ristine family, the Wabash Glee Club paid tribute at Saturday’s Homecoming Concert to Glee Club member and former Indiana Lieutenant Governor Dick Ristine ’41.
Glee Club Director Richard Bowen recalled Ristine’s singing on the same stage two years earlier during the 2007 Glee Club Reunion, and how the hymn sung in his honor Saturday night was so fitting Ristine’s life. The group had performed the piece two weeks ago at a memorial service for Ristine in the College Chapel
Read full article »Warren H. Ristine (Wabash class of 1871) was my great-grandfather. He lived for 60 years at 418 W. Wabash, now the site of the college center. His oldest daughter, Harriet H. Ristine, met another of Wabash’s brightest lights, Jesse Pierce, class of 1905 and member of the Little Giants’ first basketball team. Two years after his graduation, he and Ms. Ristine were married. Their older daughter, Martha Ristine Pierce, was my mother. She and Richard, affectionately known later in his life as “Pappa Dick,” were second cousins.
Read full article »Phillips couldn’t help but talk about his faculty mentor when he interviewed for his current position at Wabash. When he mentioned Vanauken during a session in Lovell Lecture Hall, several professors began murmuring among themselves.That’s when Phillips learned that Sheldon Vanauken, in addition to his degrees from Yale and Oxford, was also a son of Wabash, Class of 1938.
Read full article »It starts in the pioneer era…In 1823 Henry Ristine built the second log structure in this new town and it quickly became a gathering place. Ristine Tavern was where most of the business of this young community was discussed and then settled. An early court hearing even took place there. In fact a history of the young town is in many ways a history of the Ristines as they were in this area right from the first.
Read full article »As manager of the Wabash College bookstore for 35 years and longtime member of the Friends of Sugar Creek, Mike led recycling efforts on campus and supplied the community with books by nature writers and local naturalists. He took students paddling down his favorite waterway and could tell a story about practically every bend and ripple between Crawfordsville and Deer’s Mill.
Read full article »John P. Stout ’08 passed away Sunday, March 15, at St. Vincent Hospital in Frankfort. John suffered injuries in a car accident Feb. 23 near Frankfort.
Read full article »We were at the cemetery for some time looking around. Dad may not have known because much of what was known about the disaster was not declassified until 1959 and then it took another 38 years for the disaster to fully described in a book. Dad died in 1999 without reading the book.
Read full article »I read with great personal interest the story related by Phil Coons regarding his father’s experience during World War 2, especially his telling of the decimation of the 66th Infantry Division by the sinking of the Leopoldville on Christmas Eve, 1944. I have had a lifetime interest in the European Theater of World War 2 based on my own father’s experience as the commander of the 13th Field Hospital, which was the first to operate on the Normandy Beachhead and which then stayed in combat support of troops until VE Day.
Read full article »Yes, this is a war story, but not just another war story. In fact, this story is not really written by me. It is instead told through my father, Wabash Class of 1932 and member of the Greatest Generation. And truth be told, my father’s story is one that was written countless times by all those of the Greatest Generation who served selflessly in World War II. However, I see that generation through my father and hope that you will get an insightful glimpse of it too in the same way with this Wabash Story. He really was some Little Giant, and when you think of it, so were each and every one of his generation!
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