Gentlemen of '62 Wabash College

06/11/2017

Some photos from the Big Bash 55 reunion this month. Thanks to Brent for the photos - we are still looking good. A newsletter will be in the near future.

03/05/2017

With the start of spring training here in our Valley of the Sun, thoughts turn to this coming summer. Class of '62 can celebrate the 55 Big Bash this June. While I will be in Texas with family, are there members who wish to attend?

09/24/2016

Interesting question: Why do we call DePauw men Dannies?

Beth Swift (College Archivist) is hoping someone from this group can provide some help in answering this question. See the message below and reply with anything you might be able to add.

As the Archivist here at the College I get asked all sorts of questions. Most of the time I am lucky enough to be able to offer a good answer. Often, the answer is, “Let me look that up for you.” Rarely is the answer unknowable in any way. But recently I was asked the simplest question and I can’t find the answer anywhere. In hope that the answer is knowable, I am turning to the collective memory of generations of Wabash men.

The question is, “Why do we call DePauw men Dannies?” A very simple question and yet, the answer seems beyond the most in-depth research. The answer is with you, the men of Wabash. Here is what I have found, it appears that the first use of the term “Dannies” was in a Bachelor article of January 13, 1956. The writer, John Pence says in the fourth paragraph of a story reporting a Wabash loss to DPU, “By the end of the first 20 minutes of play, the “Dannies” had maintained their fourteen point lead with a halftime advantage of 50-36.” Prior to this January, 1956 story the men of DePauw had been regularly called kittens.

By the fall of 1957 the term was in full, regular use as a “Danny” flyer was prepared for the Monon Bell game. An editorial from the Bachelor says that 600 of these flyers were passed out on campus and another 300 left at DPU. (The Archives doesn’t have any of these flyers, if you have one we’d love to see it.)

02/04/2016

Princeton Review's Top Five Colleges in the nation for alumni Networks and Internships - Wabash College No. 5 on BOTH lists!

08/06/2015

Wabash College was once again named to Princeton Review's Best 380 Colleges ranking #3 "Easiest Campus to Get Around," #5 "Most Accessible Professors," #7 "Best College Theater," #11 "Best Athletic Facilities," "Best Career Services," and "Everyone Plays Intramural Sports," #15 "Lots of Greek Life," and #19 "Professors Get High Marks."

06/12/2015

With just days remaining - we need 12 more Gentlemen of '62 to commit giving to the Wabash Annual Fund drive. Wabash Always Fights.

04/16/2015

04/30/2014

Now is the time! Respond to: wabash.edu/430

03/15/2014

As Barb and I continued our search for an acceptable Chinese take out restaurant, we just walked out of one near our house and I hear this voice yell "Hey, is that a Wabash hat?" My response was, as always, "Yes it is!"

Here in a car was Mac Petty, Wabash golf coach and a couple of Wabash students who were in town playing golf in our wonderful southwest weather. We chatted for a moment, and then it was off to the course for them, and back home for us.

BTW - our search continues, that location rated about a 3.5 on our 5 point scale.

10/24/2013

The date is selected each fall to help students understand just how far Wabash scholarships go to provide a world-class education.

07/14/2013

A true Wabash man - part lawyer / part cheerleader for Wabash.

It's a legal office! It's a Wabash College gift shop! It's both!

06/01/2013

We wish Pat and Chris the best as they turn to a new page in their life.

A Big Bash record crowd turned out Friday night for the 2013 Big Bash Banquet to celebrate the 50th reunion of the Class of 1963 and to honor outgoing President and First Lady Pat and Chris White.