WABASH COLLEGE

'Wabash College' is a small private liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Along with Hampden-Sydney College, Deep Springs College, and Morehouse College, Wabash is one of the only four remaining mainstream all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.
Wabash College is listed in Loren Pope's ''Colleges That Change Lives''.

History

Wabash College was founded in 1832 by a number of men including several Dartmouth College graduates.
It was originally called "The Wabash Teachers Seminary and Manual Labor College". In the early days a large number of students, deficient in credits, were required to attend the "Preparatory School" of Wabash.^[1]
Caleb Mills, the first faculty member, would later come to be known as the father of the Indiana public education system and would work throughout his life to improve education in the Mississippi Valley area. Patterning it after the liberal arts colleges of New England, they resolved "that the institution be at first a classical and English high school, rising into a college as soon as the wants of the country demand." After declaring the site at which they were standing would be the location of the new school, they knelt in the snow and conducted a dedication service. Although Mills, like many of the founders, was a Presbyterian minister, they were committed that Wabash should be independent and non-sectarian.
Elihu Baldwin was the first President of Wabash from 1835 until 1840. He came from a New York City church and accepted the Presidency even though he knew that Wabash was threatened with bankruptcy. He met the challenge and gave thorough study to the "liberal arts program" at Wabash. After his death, he was succeeded by Charles White, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and the brother-in-law of Edmund O. Hovey, a professor at the college.^[2]
Joseph F. Tuttle, after whom Tuttle Grade School in Crawfordsville was named in 1906, (and Tuttle Middle School in 1960), became President of Wabash College in 1862 and served for 30 years. "He was an eloquent preacher, a sound administrator and an astute handler of public relations." Joseph Tuttle, together with his administrators, worked to improve relations in Crawfordsville between "Town and Gown".^[3]

Academics and Mission

"Founded in 1832, Wabash College is an independent and selective liberal arts college for men with an enrollment of 850 students. Its mission is excellence in teaching and learning within a community built on close and caring relationships among students, faculty, and staff." This mission manifests itself in the College's motto: 'Wabash College educates men to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.'
"Wabash offers qualified young men a superior education, fostering, in particular, independent intellectual inquiry, critical thought, and clear written and oral expression. The College educates its students broadly in the traditional curriculum of the liberal arts while also requiring them to pursue concentrated study in one or more disciplines. Wabash emphasizes [its] manifold but shared cultural heritage. [Wabash] students come from diverse economic, social, and cultural backgrounds; the College helps these students engage these differences and live humanely with them. Wabash also challenges its students to appreciate the changing nature of the global society and prepares them for the responsibilities of leadership and service in it.
"The College carries out its mission in a residential setting in which students take personal and group responsibility for their actions. Wabash provides for its students an unusually informal, egalitarian, and participatory environment which encourages young men to adopt a life of intellectual and creative growth, self-awareness, and physical activity. The College seeks to cultivate qualities of character and leadership in students by developing not only their analytical skills, but also sensitivity to values, and judgment and compassion required of citizens living in a difficult and uncertain world. We expect a Wabash education to bring joy in the life of the mind, to reveal the pleasures in the details of common experience, and to affirm the necessity for and rewards in helping others." [2]

Endowment

A substantial endowment places Wabash amongst the top 120 colleges and universities in the nation, and on a per-student basis, amongst the top 25. This endowment drives a generous scholarship program. The benefactors that have funded this endowment include the pharmaceutical industrialist Eli Lilly, the company he founded, and his heirs. The school's library is named after Lilly.

Student Government

The student government, referred to collectively as the Student Body of Wabash College, is comprised of executive and legislative branches.
The executive authority of the Student Body is vested in a President and Vice-President who chair the Senior Council and Student Senate, respectively. They are ''ex officio'', non-voting members of the branches that they do not chair. The President has broad powers of appointment over all Senate standing committees. The Vice-President possesses a tiebreaking vote in the Student Senate.
The Student Senate of Wabash College is the legislative authority, consisting of representatives from each residence hall and fraternity, four representatives from each of the three underclasses, and the chairmen of the Senate's standing committees. The body of approximately 32 voting members manages an annual budget of over $350,000.00, allocating funds and setting guidelines for recognized associations. The Senate also serves as a general student forum. The Senate's standing committees are the Audit and Finance Committee, the Board of Publications, and the Constitution, Bylaw, and Policy Review Committee. The duties of the first two committees are self-explanatory; the third serves as a non-partisan resource for drafting legislative proposals; it is also empowered to adjudicate constitutional disputes and is occasionally called upon to evaluate proposed legislation.
The Senior Council of Wabash College is a special quasi-legislative body comprising the presidents of certain student organizations and self-selected at-large members. The Senior Council is responsible for representing student concerns to the faculty and administration, as well as fostering campus unity and maintaining proper regard for college traditions.
The student government does not include a judicial branch. Power to interpret the Constitution of the Student Body of Wabash College is vested in the legislature; questions of interpretation are generally delegated to the Constitution, Bylaw, and Policy Review Committee.

Athletics

Wally Wabash, the college mascot.

The school's sports teams are called the Little Giants. They participate in the NCAA's Division III and in the North Coast Athletic Conference, where they are currently repeat (2005 and 2006) NCAC football champions. Every year since 1911, Wabash College plays rival DePauw University in the Monon Bell Classic. Wabash College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association. The rallying cheer of Wabash College athletics is "Wabash always fights." Wabash College competes in Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Tennis, Cross Country, Golf, Football, Soccer and Wrestling.

Alumni

Notable alumni include

★ Robert Allen, AT&T CEO (after whom the athletics and recreation center is named)

★ John C. Black, US Representative and Medal of Honor recipient

★ Dick Brams, inventor of the Happy Meal

★ John Coburn (Indiana), United States Representative from Indiana

★ General Charles Cruft, Civil War officer

★ Brigadier General Speed S. Fry, Civil War officer

★ Paul Gamble, VP Global Product Development at LexisNexis

★ Mitsuya Goto, Nissan International general manager

★ Dwight Green, Illinois governor and Capone prosecutor

★ Andrew Hamilton, US Representative

★ Will Hays, postmaster general and morality czar

★ Dean Jagger, Oscar-winning motion picture actor

★ Andrea James, LGBT rights activist and film producer

★ Goethe Link, innovative surgeon, accomplished aeronaut, co-founder of the Indiana University School of Medicine

★ David E. Kendall, President Clinton's attorney, known for a number of anti-death penalty cases

★ Ward Lambert, college basketball coach

★ Thomas Riley Marshall, twenty-eighth Vice-President of the United States (under Woodrow Wilson)

★ Joseph E. McDonald, US Representative and Senator

★ Pete Metzelaars, National Football League all-time leader in games played by a tight end and four time AFC Champion

★ Century Milstead, college football Hall of Famer

★ Thomas MacDonald Patterson, US Representative and Senator

★ Tom Ostrom, social psychologist

★ William Pittenger, US Representative

★ John Pope, Chicago alderman (10th ward)

★ William E. Ray, professor and chair of the French department at Reed College

★ Dean Reynolds, ABC News correspondent and son of ABC News anchor Frank Reynolds

★ N. Clay Robbins, President, Lilly Endowment Inc.

★ Todd Rokita, Indiana Secretary of State

★ Emery A. Rovenstine, pioneer in regional anesthesiology

★ Lawrence Sanders, American novelist

★ Allen Saunders, cartoonist

★ Dan Simmons, science-fiction author (who dedicated his novel 'Ilium' to the college)

★ Sheldon Vanauken, author and C.S. Lewis confidante

★ Major General Lew Wallace, author and statesman

★ Stephen H. Webb, professor and conservative theologian

★ Raymond E. Willis, US Senator

★ James Wilson (Indiana), United States Representative

★ John L. Wilson, US Representative and Senator

★ Max Wright, aka George Wright, TV & stage actor

Fraternities

The Greek system is a major presence at Wabash; between 60-65 percent of students are members of one of the campus' ten fraternities. Unlike virtually all other schools, all fraternity members--including pledges--live in the fraternity houses by default. While most Wabash fraternities allow juniors and seniors to live outside the house, the majority of Greek students live in their respective house all four years. This has led to the odd circumstance of a college with less than 1000 students being dotted with Greek houses of a size appropriate to campuses ten times Wabash's size.
Fraternity rush at Wabash begins before the academic year. During March, students accepted for the coming year are invited to the campus for Honor Scholar Weekend, during which they take a battery of exams and compete for scholarship money. The students are distributed among the ten fraternities, where they stay during their visit. In the evenings following the day's testing, the fraternities and the Independent Men's Association host a variety of parties and events open to all. Fraternities are allowed to offer bids to prospectives starting that weekend, and rush runs through summer until it concludes one week after school begins. Upon accepting a bid, the pledge is then housed in the corresponding fraternity house. As many pledges accept over the summer, it is quite possible for a freshman to never see the inside of a dorm room.

List of fraternities

★ ΒΘΠ

★ ΔΤΔ

★ ΚΣ

★ ΛΧΑ

★ ΦΔΘ

★ Fiji

★ ΦΚΨ

★ ΣΧ

★ ΘΔΧ

★ ΤΚΕ

Wabash in fiction and popular culture

Wabash College has, despite its small size, been referred to in several cultural contexts:
'Fiction'

★ The idea for the 1866 Centennial Exposition, the first official world's fair held in the United States, is credited to former Wabash Prof. John Campbell.

★ George Ade set his 1927 play, "The College Widow," on a fictionalized version of the Wabash College campus. (Ade, an alum of nearby Purdue, saw his play adapted as a 1930 movie, retitled ''Maybe It's Love''.)

★ Ernest Hemingway mentions the college in his work In Our Time Chapter IX, putting it among the ranks of Harvard and Columbia--possibly joking with friend Ezra Pound, who taught briefly at Wabash.

★ Kurt Vonnegut referenced Wabash and used a college alum as the basis for Dwayne Hoover in ''Breakfast of Champions''.

★ One of the protagonists of Dan Simmons' Hyperion is a professor of ethics at a fictionalized Wabash; other characters in Simmons' novels are based on people he knew while attending.

★ Wabash is also mentioned in The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth; the protagonist's family is shown around Washington DC by a guide who was a history lecturer at the college until losing his job in the Great Depression.
'Film and Television'

★ A scene in the sports movie ''Hoosiers'' finds the star player's guardian Myra Fleener (Barbara Hershey) telling coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) to stay away from Jimmy Chitwood, the player under her care, saying "He's a real special kid, and I have high hopes for him... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place."

★ Wabash's student radio station, WNDY, loaned its call letters to the fictional Chicago radio station featured in the 1992 Dolly Parton movie Straight Talk. Alluding to this, a studio engineer is wearing a Wabash sweatshirt in one scene.

★ The college's name appears on a fraternity's composite portrait in an episode of ''Drawn Together''.

On Wabash

★ "The poetry in the life of a college like Wabash is to be found in its history. It is to be found in the fact that once on this familiar campus and once in these well-known halls, students and teachers as real as ourselves worked and studied, argued and laughed and worshiped together, but are now gone, one generation vanishing after another, as surely as we shall shortly be gone. But if you listen, you can hear their songs and their cheers. As you look, you can see the torch which they handed down to us."
- Byron K. Trippet '30, Ninth President of Wabash College

References

★ Gronert, Theodore G., ''Sugar Creek Saga: A History and Development of Montgomery County'', Wabash College, 1958.

Notes

1. Gronert: pg 30-31, 107
2. Gronert: pg 66-67
3. Gronert: pg 205-206

External links

★ Official website

★ Official Athletics website

★ Campus map

★ The Bachelor Official College Newspaper

★ The Caveman Campus Humor Magazine

★ The Wabash Conservative Union News and Opinion Magazine

★ The Wabash Commentary Conservative Opinion Magazine

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