"In this issue you’ll read about alumni and students whose lives converged with fascinating cultures, inspiring individuals, and challenging moments in history in ways I think you’ll find surprising."

Magazine
Summer/Fall 2002

From the Editor

Steve Charles
Editor
charless@wabash.edu

I’m an unabashed enthusiast for “Bass Lines,” Wabash professor Greg Huebner’s latest series of paintings. The confluence of art and jazz is intriguing, but what attracts me most is the vibrancy of the work, as if the artist threw his heart into the paint the way a jazz player jumps into improvisation, to lose and then find himself again. I think Greg re-discovered the playfulness and joy of his art on these canvases.

They remind me of the energy I felt when I accompanied 15 Wabash students and professors Dan Rogers and Rick Warner and Wabash trustee David Orr ’57 to Chiapas, Mexico last spring, where we encountered the living descendants of the Maya people.

They remind me of my own amazement when Kyle Nickel ’03 showed me his photographs from Crawfordsville’s “biker bar,” and shared on paper the insights he gleaned from listening to stories there.

They remind me of the pleasure I found when I was given General Earl Johnson’s stories about driving Charles Lindbergh around Guam on a Christmas Day in 1948.

In this issue you’ll read about alumni and students whose lives converged with fascinating cultures, inspiring individuals, and challenging moments in history in ways I think you’ll find surprising.

So I knew when I first saw Greg’s paintings in June that we had our cover for this issue. They remind me of that sense of anticipation that fills the air when classes start each August and make the work we do here among the most hopeful there is.

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