TTHHEE PPAARREENNTTSS PPOOSSTT A Newsletter for Parents

March 2008

2007-2008 Academic Calendar Spring Semester April 25 Classes end Apr. 28-May 3 Final exams May 11 Commencement

Future Dates

Homecoming Commencement Family Day October 4, 2008 May 11, 2008 October 25, 2008 September 26, 2009 May 17, 2009 October 10, 2009 May 16, 2010

For those of you that like to plan ahead, here’s the link to the complete 4-Year Academic Calendar http://www.wabash.edu/academics/docs/4yrcalendar.pdf as well as the link to view the Parents Handbook in case you need more information about Wabash http://www.wabash.edu/alumni/parents.

When planning a visit to Crawfordsville visit the Montgomery County Visitors and Convention Bureau website at http://www.crawfordsville.org/

Campus News and Events What’s Happening on Campus? Visit the College Calendar: http://www.wabash.edu/calendar/ and/or http://www.wabash.edu/calendar/announcements.cfm

Student News

Dear Parents, Family, and Special Friends of Wabash Students:

Wabash students are hard at work completing projects and writing papers, and final exams loom just weeks away. The Wabash Women organization is once again offering you an opportunity to let your son or your favorite Wabash friend know that you are thinking of him.

For $10.00 you can surprise a Little Giant with a Study Care Bag filled with goodies, along with your encouraging words of support as he prepares for final exams. The bags will be delivered to the living units on Friday afternoon, April 25, 2008, and will then be distributed by the RA or members of the fraternity. Each Study Care Bag contains snack items such as chips, crackers, cookies, candy, a packaged drink, and other goodies, as well as your message (on the form below or in a note of your own).

The monies raised are used to…Wabash Women donated $2,700 to a fund administered by the Dean of Students for Wabash students' personal needs and emergencies, $300 to Lew Wallace Study for educational programs for the children of Crawfordsville, $500 to Well Baby Clinic, and $500 to Youth Service Bureau for family services. With the monies from the Study Care Bag Project we hope to continue to help as we have in the past.

Please send: (1) your check/money order for $10.00 made payable to Wabash College; (2) the form below, filled out with your message; and mail your check and completed form BEFORE April 11, 2008 to:

Study Care Bag Project Attn: Sherry Ross Wabash College P.O. Box 352 Crawfordsville, IN 47933-0352 Thank you, W A B A S H W O M E N S T U D E N T S T U D Y B A G P R O J E C T C O M M I T T E E 765-361-6310 phone

------PLEASE RETURN THIS BOTTOM SECTION with your check

(Print student's full name)

(Print Residence Hall and room number, OR Fraternity name, OR apt. address)

MESSAGE FROM ______: ______

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From the Archives Jesse Harper and the by Beth Swift

Football today is a much different game than it was at the turn of the 20th century. Among the innovations to the game was the development and refinement of the forward pass. Two new books highlight the huge part that Wabash football played in this innovation. They are Notre Dame and the Game that Changed Football: How Jesse Harper Made the Forward Pass a Weapon and a Legend by Frank Maggio and Forward Pass: the Play That Saved Football by Phillip L. Brooks. Both authors attribute the rise of forward pass to Jesse Harper, Wabash coach from 1909 until 1913 when he left to coach at Notre Dame.

Coach Harper brought the forward pass and Notre Dame football to national prominence in the Notre Dame vs. Army game of 1913. Harper perfected the pass at Wabash and took it with him to Notre Dame where his team, with Knute Rockne as captain, used the pass to defeat the much larger Army team. Reporters took note and the game received wide coverage as this New York Times article of November 1, 1913 shows, “WEST POINT, N.Y.-The Notre Dame eleven swept the Army off its feet on the Plains this afternoon and buried the soldiers under a 35-to-13 score. The Westerners flashed the most sensational football that has been seen in the East this year, baffling the Cadets with a style of open play and a perfectly developed forward pass which carried the victors down the field 30 yards at a clip. Football men marveled at this startling display of open football. Bill Roper, former head coach at Princeton, who was one of the officials of the game, said that he had always believed that such playing was possible under the new rules but that he had never seen the forward pass developed to such a state of perfection.”

Coach Jesse Harper had played for at Chicago and coached at before coming to Wabash in 1909. On campus it was the era of the “Little Giants” and football ruled. During the 1910 season Harper’s team went undefeated and even shut out all of their opponents. The season was cancelled due to the tragic death of Wabash football player and Crawfordsville resident, Ralph Lee “Sap” Wilson from a head injury he had received in the St. Louis game. On his hospital bed Ralph asked his father, “Did Wabash win?” The remaining games were cancelled and the question was engraved on his tombstone in Crawfordsville’s Oak Hill Cemetery. The impact of such a tragedy on the team and on the coach can not be underestimated. Today’s students still hear this story and it is clear that Sap Wilson has left an indelible mark on the psyche of the College. It is clear that the death of Wilson also left its mark on Harper as well. In this passage from Some Little Giants former Athletic Director Max Servies writes, “Coach Harper urged the Wabash administration to be content to schedule natural rivals as opposed to the professionalism of competing with major universities on a guarantee basis and at their disposal. He was also the forerunner of encouraging a sound intramural program for all Wabash students, a philosophy which has continued to this day.” Jesse Harper changed the world of football and brought Notre Dame football to the national level with the defeat of the formidable Army team. He left Notre Dame in 1918 to raise cattle in western and his former team captain, Knute Rockne, was named football coach.

Schroeder Career Center

Every month continues to bring more good news to our office as underclassmen commit to internships and seniors to jobs. The following seniors have accepted these positions/graduate schools:

Robert Brandt – Public Employees Retirement Fund – Indianapolis John Kasey – Milliman Healthcare Management – Seattle Greg Longo – PhD, Development & Biological Psychology – Virginia Polytechnic University Dave Johnston – PhD, Veterinary Medicine – Purdue University Brian Crum - L3 Communications - Reston, VA Ryan Nuppnau – Math Teacher/Baseball & Basketball Coach – North Montgomery HS

Internships for underclassmen include:

Patrick Murphy – Rain Forest Environmental Consulting – Quito, Equador Will Weber – History Research/Wabash College – Crawfordsville Jay Brouwer – Bovine Enamel Research/IU School of Dentistry – Indianapolis Michael Kaster – St. Vincent’s Hospital – Indianapolis Marcus Manges – Vector Marketing – Warsaw, IN Stephen Iles – Freight All Kinds – Denver, CO Jared Lange – Freight All Kinds – Denver, CO Ted Zimmer – WP Global Partners – Chicago Aaron Abell – Batesville Casket Company – Batesville, IN Mark Schults – Adorant Services Group – Chicago Kyle Greaves – John Hancock Financial Network – Nashville, TN Calvin Pohl – Smithsonian National Zoo – Washington, DC Michael Opieczonek – Eli Lilly & Company – Warsaw, Poland Steven Stambaugh – Wabash American Benefits – Indianapolis Krzysztof Wojciechowski – Centerfield Capital Partners – Indianapolis Blaine Cooper-Surma – Allegient Consulting – Indianapolis Nicholas Woehler – Liquor Mart – Boulder, CO Jay Horrey - Partners in Housing Development - Indianapolis, IN Trent Hagerty - Re-election Campaign - Governor Mitch Daniels - Indianapolis, IN Brent Kent - Office of Congressman Dan Burton (R) – IN - Washington, DC Sean Foster - Master of Musicology/Music History - Bowling Green State University Jesse Purvis - CYO Camp Rancho Framasa - Nashville, IN Jose Barriga - Liquor Mart - Boulder, CO Stephen Popovich - Adorant Services - Chicago, IL

*All campus intern positions will be announced in the next issue.

Spring Break ’08 was an exciting time for our office, as we escorted six students to Washington DC to participate in the Graham DC Externship Experience. Duncan Dam ’09, Jacob German ’11, Khondoker Haider ’10, Brad Jones ’10, Jason Simons ’08, and Robert Wade ’11, lived with three alumni for six days, and job-shadowed another alumnus through the week. We explored the city together on our last day, visiting both the Arlington National Cemetery and spending the afternoon at the Holocaust Museum, before wrapping up the week at Greg Castanias’s ’87 home for a final networking opportunity. This program is available to any student – regardless of class year. Please encourage your student to check in with our office if DC may be in their future.

We continue to stay busy and have added to our spring calendar with exciting events planned. Below lists the next big events we have through our office after Spring Break.

March 27: Federal Government Job Fair - Chicago April 4: Wine Tasting/Networking Event – a senior only event in wine education and how to work a cocktail hour. Mark Easley ’90, owner of Easley Winery in downtown Indianapolis, will present what wines go with different foods and how to make a solid impression when choosing wines at a business dinner. April 7: Real World, Part II – a senior only event discussing life outside of the Wabash College bubble. Susan Strayer, author of Right Job, Right Now will present on how to make a good first impression and starting the new job or graduate school on the right foot. April 8: Non-Profit/Idealist.org Career Fair April 16: Teacher Candidate Interview Day May 5-7: LSAT Bootcamp – a three day intensive workshop taught by alumni with a law background; prepares students to take the LSAT, a required test to enter law school. May 8: Finance/Consulting/Corporate Job Search Bootcamp – a one day workshop preparing students applying for positions or internships in these industries. These areas are highly competitive and to gain a position, students must start applying in the late summer/early fall. Wabash alumni will prep students on application procedures, interviewing, and a variety of options. May 9: Golf Outing – SENIORS ONLY

Underclassmen are strongly encouraged to get involved and active with our office as soon as possible. Please encourage your student to come see us!

The Career Services Staff:

Scott Crawford, Director Betsy Knott, Assistant Director Kyle Dunaway, Internship Coordinator Toni McKinney, Administrative Assistant Jill Rogers, Pre-Health Advisor Lu Hamilton, Alumni Career Officer and our 8 Peer Career Advisors

Admissions

Honor Scholarship Weekend has come and gone and left an exhausted Admissions staff in its wake. By our count, 335 students along with 149 parents took part in the event. If you take into account siblings of prospective students and other parents who may not have signed in on Friday, Wabash hosted over 500 guests. For a college of our size to accommodate a group of this size, we need all of the help we can get.

Several volunteers came to campus on Friday to welcome our guests. While prospective students got settled in with hosts, their parents joined us at our parents' reception. In conjunction with the reception, we hosted two 45-minute panels to give parents a chance to ask questions of current Wabash parents. Current Wabash parents served as our hosts at the reception and I'd like to recognize them.

Bill and Tammy Birch - parents of Bill '11 Nancy Coggins - mother of Tanner '11 Mark Ellis - father of Mark '08 Dennis and Julie Gallant - parents of Scott '08 Janet Griffin-Koehler - mother of Clay '08 Tracy Haddad - mother of Chandler Troy '08 Penny Leuck - mother of Jim '09 Jeff Line - father of Nathan '11 Connie Marzotto - mother of Nick '11 Brenda McClintic - mother of J.D. '11 Deborah Rushton - mother of Phil '08 and Matt '10

Referral Reminder

Most of this month’s updates centered on the recruitment of the Class of 2012, but we’ve already working on the classes of 2013, 2014, etc. If you find other young men who are Wabash material, refer them to the Admissions Office. You can refer a student online at www.wabash.edu/alumni/student/refer.

The Wabash College Annual Fund

Thank you to the more than 3,120 alumni, parents, and friends who have made a gift to the Wabash Annual Fund so far this fiscal year.

In March and April of each year, the Annual Giving Office coordinates the Senior Gift Campaign. Each year 65-70% of graduating seniors participate in the Senior Gift Campaign by making a monetary gift to the College. This type of commitment by the graduating class is an important indication that they benefited from their Wabash experiences and want to ensure that future generations are able to have similar opportunities. If you are a parent of a Wabash senior please encourage your son to participate in the 2008 Senior Gift Campaign.

If you have yet to make a gift to Wabash during the 2007-2008 fiscal year, then please consider making a gift online today at www.wabash.edu/alumni/egift or by calling 877-743-4545.

The 2007-2008 Annual Fund fiscal year runs through June 30, 2008.

2008 Indiana Wabash License Plates Parents and current students with vehicles registered in the State of Indiana are eligible to participate in the Indiana Wabash College license plate program with a gift of $25 or more to the Annual Fund. Visit www.wabash.edu/alumni/plates for more information.

Double or Triple the Value of your Annual Contribution You might be able to double or triple the value of your gift to Wabash if you or your spouse work for a company with a matching gift program. Use the online searchable database (www.wabash.edu/alumni/matching) to learn about companies with matching gift programs.

Please contact me (Michele Tatar) at [email protected] or 765-361-6369 with questions or comments.

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