Thirty-one Wabash men gathered Tuesday at Sahm's Restaurant in Fishers (Hamilton County) for the first of what will be quarterly networking luncheons. 

Deadline is May 21, 2007.

Students in Professor Jeremy Hartnett's Classics class are back from their trip studying ancient Pompeii and Rome. Two new entries are posted.

On a beautiful first weekend in May, more than a dozen Wabash faculty and staff took to the streets in marathons and mini-marathons.

Wabash College will hold its 169th Commencement on Sunday, May 13. Baccalaureate will begin at 11 a.m. in the Chapel and Commencement, which includes the awarding of two honorary degrees, will take place at 2:30 p.m. on the College mall.

The Monon Bell Classic, one of America’s oldest and richest college football rivalries, will be nationally telecast on HDNet for the next three years. The three-year contract calls for HDNet, which has televised the 2003 and 2006 games, to broadcast the November 10, 2007 contest from Blackstock Stadium in Greencastle, as well as the 2008 and 2009 battles for the Bell.

An added extra at the 2007 Big Bash will be an art auction of paintings depicting many prominent makers of Wabash history.  The painting above, for example, features Dr. Willis Johnson, code name "god" by many of his students. Byron Trippet is featured in the thumbnail image on the alumni eNewsletter.

Fletcher's of Atlanta chef and owner Fletcher Boyd ’72 was the final presenter of a most successful year for the Wabash Cooking Club.

The Alumni and Parent Relations Office is working with alumni volunteers to organize Wabash golf outings this summer for alumni, parents, and friends of the College.  Several dates have been set and final details are being ironed out for some locations while other regions are still working to secure a date and course.

Watch for detailed postcards announcing each one in your area, but mark your calendar now and plan to participate in one or more of these fun events.

2007 Wabash Summer Golf Outing Schedule (as of April 26):

Sugar Creek Association of Wabash Men (Crawfordsville) - June 1 (Big Bash)
Northeastern Indiana Association (Fort Wayne) - July 12
IAWM (Indianapolis) Mitchum Crock - July 20
St. Joe Valley (South Bend) Association of Wabash Men - August 2
Evansville Association of Wabash Men - August 9
Wabash Club of Chicago - August 27
Lafayette Association of Wabash Men - July 26
Greater Cincinnati Association of Wabash Men - TBA
Northwest Indiana Association - TBA

Go to the online calendar for more details or contact the Alumni and Parent Relations Office.

1996 Wabash College graduate Roger Busch has been named the head cross country coach for the Little Giants. The two-time distance running All-American will assume his new duties on July 1.

Dallas, Tx. April 24, 2007. Despite severe thunderstorms and a couple of tornadoes, a great crowd turned out to welcome President and Mrs White to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Local alumni leaders Ray LaDriere ’78 and Dan Susie ‘68 co-hosted the evening. Of course, local area leader Dutch Friese ’48 would have been at the forefront, but Dutch was off cruising the world on yet another fun trip!

Wabash College is the nation’s sixth best value private college according to The Princeton Review. Each year the New York-based company compiles rankings of colleges across the country from surveys conducted during the previous school year.