Big Bash Reunion Weekend 2022 - Album 1
Big Bash 2022 celebrates reunions with class years ending in 2 and 7, but alumni from other classes and friends of the College attended the weekend-long event.
Alumni were sure to sign the Alumni Register, which is important for each reunion class as it competes for the Big Bash attendance awards.
Alumni were sure to sign the Alumni Register, which is important for each reunion class as it competes for the Big Bash attendance awards.
Big Bash weekend features a variety of activities including campus tours, colloquia sessions, great meals and spur-of-the-moment mini-reunions.
Big Bash weekend features a variety of activities including campus tours, colloquia sessions, great meals and spur-of-the-moment mini-reunions.
Big Bash weekend features a variety of activities including campus tours, colloquia sessions, great meals and spur-of-the-moment mini-reunions.
More than 350 guests, with class years spanning eight decades, were planning to return to campus for Big Bash.
Assistant Director of Engagement Deanna Duncan was excited to meet and greet alumni.
Director of Alumni and Parent Relations Steve Hoffman ’85 welcomes alumni and friends of the College to campus for Big Bash Weekend.
Alumni couldn’t resist ringing the Monon Bell in the Allen Center.
Alumni and guests took advantage of the beautiful weather and participated in campus tours led by the Sons of Wabash.
Alumni and guests took advantage of the beautiful weather and participated in campus tours led by the Sons of Wabash.
Big Bash activities included the annual alumni/faculty/staff symposium, titled “Wally Salutes: A Symposium on the Military and the Liberal Arts.” The presentations featured alumni, faculty, or staff and demonstrated the breadth and depth of the liberal arts on the topic of the military.
Tom McShane ’72 presented his symposium titled, “American Military Ethics in an Era of Pandemic and Social Upheaval.” McShane was a first-round draft choice of the U.S. Army. He served in Berlin, Germany, until his discharge in 1974. After graduating from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1977, he returned to active duty as an Army JAG Officer in 1978, retiring as Colonel in 2006.
“Wally Salutes” symposium is presented through a partnership of the National Association of Wabash Men and the Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men.
Alumni listened and engaged closely with speakers of the “Wally Salutes: A Symposium on the Military and the Liberal Arts.”
Big Bash weekend brought lots of spur-of-the-moment mini-reunions.
Alumni and guests listened and engaged closely with speakers of the “Wally Salutes: A Symposium on the Military and the Liberal Arts.”
History Professor Stephen Morillo presented “Teaching Leadership via the Liberal Arts: Wabash vs. West Point.” In 2019-20 Morillo taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as the Charles Boal Ewing Chair of Military History. He taught the same seminar, “War and Conflict of the Middle Ages: A Global Perspective,” at both institutions. Morillo presented Big Bash alumni and guests a head-to-head comparison of Wallies and Cadets, and of the two institutions.
Alumni listened and engaged closely with speakers of the “Wally Salutes: A Symposium on the Military and the Liberal Arts.”
Mark Lee ’85 presented “On Leadership: Does Liberal Arts produce better leaders?” Colonel Lee has over 29 years of active-duty service, including deployments in support of four campaigns: Operation Just Cause, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom.
Friends of the College listened and engaged closely with speakers of the “Wally Salutes: A Symposium on the Military and the Liberal Arts.”
Chemistry Professor Wally Novak presented “Chemistry of War: Poisons, explosives and medicines, oh my!” Novak served six years in the Missouri Army National Guard in missile repair and has taught biochemistry at Wabash for the last 13 years.
Alumni and guests listened and engaged closely with speakers of the “Wally Salutes: A Symposium on the Military and the Liberal Arts.”