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Learn how others have made an impact through their acts of giving to Wabash College.
Originally Published Fall 2005
It seems to Jim Talley '78 that one of his favorite Wabash memories concerns "It Seems to Me That ... " "On Thursdays, during the"...
Originally Published Fall 2006
Home base is Columbus, Indiana, but Dr. Sherman Franz '59 is also a psychiatrist Down Under. In the last few years, Sherm and Jacqueline, his wife of 46 years, have...
Originally Published Winter 2006
John T. Banghart '58 founded businesses selling turf grass (sod) and growing nursery stock for landscape use. So he understands the importance of planting seeds...
Originally Published Spring 2007
When Dr. Mark Lapiere '92 initially visited Wabash, he was told he'd be only the second person in 25 years to pursue pre-veterinarian studies on campus. But Dr. Austin Brooks, who...
Originally Published Fall 2007
Oval Myers Jr. '58 jokes that he became involved in international agricultural work because "the West was already won and I was too old to go to...
Originally Published Spring 2008
The Wabash education of W. Dale Compton '49 drove his success as a Ford researcher and college professor. "Most men who graduate from Wabash would concur that"...
Originally Published Summer 2008
In 1947, Dr. Victor M. Powell was teaching at Dartmouth College when Wabash Dean Byron Trippet asked him to interview for a job as a speech instructor. In that postwar time...
Originally Published Fall 2008
Dr. Norm Armstrong '58 likes to joke about why he chose Wabash College. "I grew up in a family with eight children-all boys," said the plastic surgeon, who grew up near"...
Originally Published Spring 2009
Students at Oxford University in England get a six-week break between terms to write papers. Robert E. Armstrong '74 used his instead to travel all over...
Originally Published Summer 2009
When his high school football coach first mentioned Wabash College as a possibility for a college football career, Rensselaer's Addrian Frederick had never...
Originally Published Fall 2009
Growing up in Crawfordsville, Max Servies '58 knew all along where he wanted to attend college: Wabash. "I didn't have to go anywhere else"...
Originally Published Summer 2010
Paul A. Saxton '60 is grateful to Wabash for giving him a second chance at college. Saxton would later go on to a successful business career, retiring as chairman and CEO of...
Originally Published Fall 2010
For more than two decades Susan Veatch Cantrell honored Wabash men and their families by telling their stories with her words: feature articles in Wabash Magazine, official citations and...
Originally Published Winter 2010
Retirement bored Jim Hutcheson '68. So he earned a nursing degree at Northern Michigan University and has worked in the renal care unit at OSF St. Francis Medical Center...
Originally Published Summer 2011
Dr. Melissa A. Butler was one of three female Wabash instructors when she began teaching political science in 1976. Some alumni complained that a woman shouldn't be...
Originally Published Fall 2011
Growing up in Chicago in the 1930s, Ruth Thomys remembers her brother Karl-Heinz Planitz with great fondness. "He was a wonderful brother who never minded a little sister"...
Originally Published Winter 2011
Looking back more than 15 years ago, Adam Miller '05 couldn't remember a time when his dad, David, wasn't there. It didn't matter how far the tournament was, or if there were slim...
Originally Published Spring 2012
The Wabash College community was dealt a tremendous blow when Bill Placher '70 died in December 2008. A celebrated student, master teacher, and accomplished scholar...
Originally Published Summer 2012
While still in high school, Eric "Rick" Cavanaugh '76 and his parents were assured by Bob Mitchum H '59 that Wabash College was a good investment. Rick proved them right. "I wanted to be"...
Originally Published Fall 2012
Sarah (Sally) Gustafson's son told her, "Mom, if you don't write grandfather's history, no one will." That story-which is to be a book entitled...
Originally Published Summer 2013
As the son of a minister who traveled to rural areas, Thomas Leroy Houk Jr. '62 grew up in small farm communities in northwest Indiana. "Clergy make a decision to follow their calling in lieu of"...
Originally Published Fall 2013
Carol Dyer's husband, Mr. Robert "Bob" R. Dyer '37, was one of seven men in Carol's family who graced the halls and classrooms of Wabash between 1867 and 1937. These men included Carol's great-grandfather...
Originally Published Summer 2014
I visited with Don Kerner '62 just a few years ago, as he was helping rally his classmates to pull off their 50th reunion. He'd called me and invited me to join him for lunch, where among...
Originally Published Fall 2014
The Wabash response to a friend's small gift stirred Robert "Bob" Schwab '56 to begin donating regularly more than 50 years ago-a tradition that recently led Bob and his wife, Martha, to establish...
Originally Published Winter 2014
Ross Faires (Wabash '58) and James Baker (DePauw '53) maintained a special relationship. Their lives initially became intertwined as colleagues at Arvin Industries of Columbus, Indiana, where their...
Originally Published Spring 2015
Victor R. Lindquist '54 had to take a slight detour between high school and college, working for three years to save enough money to attend Wabash on scholarship. That and...
Originally Published Fall 2015
Dr. E. Ray Knight '69, grateful for the scholarships that enabled him to attend Wabash and then go on to medical school, recently decided to donate half of the proceeds from the sale...
Originally Published Spring 2016
Dr. Stan Vogel '66 started a stream of family members who have attended Wabash College, and he is currently receiving a stream of income from a gift of real estate that will...
Originally Published Fall 2016
Dr. Gary Dillon believes in the value of hard work, which is why he and his wife Ann are establishing a scholarship for Wabash students who have demonstrated their work ethic-and funding it with a blended gift from his IRA that includes...
Originally Published Summer 2017
Jim Cumming '61 has six grandchildren and wants to help all of them pay for their college educations. He's doing it through a gift to Wabash College, which he credits for launching his career...
Originally Published Fall 2017
Cathy Long tells the story of how whenever her late husband Skip and his father would get together, the two Wabash men would serenade the family with their alma mater's fight song...
Originally Published Summer 2018
When an investment expert like Fred Ruebeck '61 recommends the IRA charitable rollover and charitable gift annuities-two types of gifts he has made to Wabash College-donors listen. Fred was director...
Originally Published Fall 2018
John Burrell '69 chose Wabash over Notre Dame because of the welcoming way that his tour of Wabash was conducted-and he has never regretted the decision. Now he...
Originally Published Spring 2019
Esteemed Indianapolis cardiologist Dr. Martin R. See '74 read his own CT scan in June of 2017 and diagnosed himself with liver cancer caused by a melanoma skin lesion...
Originally Published Fall 2019
Planned Giving: Oest Honors W. Norwood Brigance with Speaker Series
Jack Oest is quick to point out that, when it came time for him to start
planning his estate...
Originally Published Fall 2020
One newspaper route, two spontaneous conversations, and a ticket to a new life. Bob Kellogg '55 was raised in Columbia City, Indiana, by his grandparents; though...
Originally Published Spring 2021
In the 1970s, there were few students who looked like Joseph Mims '76 at Wabash College. Having grown up in a segregated school system until high school...
Originally Published Winter 2022
On September 11, 2001, as I was leaving the Detroit Country Club after meeting with an alum for breakfast that morning, I walked past the security office around 9:30 am at the front entrance and I noticed two...
Originally Published Spring 2022
There was something special about Wabash College that made Jim Dimos '83 light up every time he returned to campus.
Originally Published Fall 2022
Though both Harry '65 and Christine Phillips have roots in eastern Pennsylvania, Christine had moved to Colorado as a child, and they didn't meet...
Originally Published Fall 2023
Through the Mike & Ann McGinley Family Scholarship, the McGinley family honors their Wabash past while protecting Wabash's future, ensuring that Mike and Ann McGinley's devotion to their children's educations will be paid forward indefinitely.
