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2012 Deans' Breakfast and Commencement Rehearsal

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Dean of Students Mike Raters ’85 welcomes seniors, faculty, staff, and alumni to this year's Deans' Breakfast. To seniors he said,'You are my ‘first class’ of students to lead as Dean through all four years of your Wabash experience, and you have persevered through a most challenging time in our College’s history; yet you have also led our alma mater to some of her greatest improvements and successes.'

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Faculty, staff, and seniors enjoy a final breakfast together on Saturday morning.

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Terry Fewell ’62: In what could become a new Commencement tradition, a member of this year’s 50th reunion class offered his perspective, half a century after his own graduation, on what it means to be a gentleman in the world.

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'The Gentleman’s Rule doesn’t define itself,' Fewell said. 'What it does imply is a lifetime code of conduct. It requires you to take 100 percent responsibility for your own decisions and your own actions. It is a terrible and powerful requirement.'

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Dean of the College Gary Phillips thanks Fewell for addressing the seniors.

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Tyler Wade (pictured) and Kevin McCarthy earned the Frank H. Sparks Award for All-Around Student Achievement, given to a senior who has done the most 'to promote the true spirit and purpose of Wabash College.'

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Tyler Wade and Dean Raters

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Dean of the College Gary Phillips presented Peter Gunderman with the John Maurice Butler Prize for Scholarship and Character. The Butler Prize is awarded to the senior "having the best standing in scholarship and character."

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The Butler Prize is awarded to the senior 'having the best standing in scholarship and character.'

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Dean of the College Gary Phillips urged seniors to continue to listen for 'the sound that called you into the College four years ago and now beckons you away as Wabash gentlemen, not just to a career of meaningful work but also to a vocation of highest responsibility, to be Wabash gentlemen.'

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Peter Gunderman talks with Professor Laura Wysocki and David Phillips.

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Sports Information Director Brent Harris congratulates Gunderman on his award.

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Professor of Religion David Blix, keeping safe a cowboy hat he bought for his nephew, joined the seniors for breakfast.

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Sheriff Blix says, 'You boys better head on to the Chapel for Commencement practice.'

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Dewayne Williams, Greg Huey, and Reggie Steele pose before entering the Chapel for practice.

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Glee Club Director Professor Richard Bowen

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Jordan Plohr, Peter Gunderman

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Commencement rehearsal begins.

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