Friday’s events include:
• Fall Downtown Art Show from 6-9 p.m. The Crawfordsville Art League invites Wabash alumni and friends to a self-guided tour of a juried art exhibition of artists representing 18 Central Indiana counties.
• Art Exhibit, “Captured Wilderness: The Landscape Photography of William Henry Jackson, David Underwood, and David Taylor” continues in the Eric Dean Gallery in the Fine Arts Center. This exhibit features one of America’s finest landscape photographers. Jackson’s work, on loan from the Wabash College Archives, features photographs from the Hayden Expeditions of the 1870s that depict the rugged power of the American West. Hours on Friday and Saturday are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Wabash Theater presents The Man Who Came to Dinner. In this hilarious comedy classic, Kaufman and Hart focus on America’s national obsession with celebrity. Thanks to Sheridan Whiteside, famous critic, celebrity lecturer, radio personality, “intimate friend of the great and near great, and by many accounts, the world’s rudest man,” the holiday season at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Stanley of Mesalia, Ohio promises to be anything but an old-fashioned Christmas. A nasty spill on an icy porch during a winter lecture tour forces the formidable Mr. Whiteside to convalesce for the holidays in Middle America. His extended family of luminaries, mad visionaries, and assorted oddballs threatens the narrow provincial values and rectitude of the Stanley home. He physically overtakes the house, insinuates himself in family affairs, and becomes the occasion for a nightmarish Twelve Days of Christmas featuring ten-thousand cockroaches, a clutch of choir boys, four penguins, three celebrities, two convicts, an octopus, and an Egyptian mummy! The performance will take place in Ball Theater in the Fine Arts Center at 8 p.m. Tickets are free and can be picked up at the Fine Arts Center Box Office or by calling 361-6411 or email at boxoffice@wabash.edu. An encore performance will take place on Saturday evening at 8 p.m.
Saturday’s events include:
• Alumni reunions. Alumni from the classes of 1983, 1988, and 1993 celebrate their reunions on campus.
• The Homecoming Alumni Chapel at 11 a.m. in the College Chapel. Join the National Association of Wabash Men for a festive celebration of Wabash College and its honored graduates. A number of alumni awards will also be presented. In addition, two members of the Wabash College community, Mary Ann Salter and President Andrew Ford, will be named honorary alumni.
• The annual fraternity decorations will be on display all day. The fraternities will have floats, banners, and other homecoming ornamentation at their houses. Winners will be announced at halftime of the football game.
• The Homecoming Concert, featuring performances by the Wabash Glee Club, Wamidan (Wabash African Musicians, Instrumentalists, and Dancers), Brass Ensemble, and Jazz Band at 8 p.m. in Salter Concert Hall in Fine Arts Center, located on Grant Avenue. The Concert is free and open to the public.
Athletics play a major role in the Wabash Weekend. The Little Giants will participate in:
• Alumni Soccer Match: Alumni dust off their cleats in an annual match against the Wabash junior varsity squad at 10:30 a.m. at Mud Hollow Field. Admission is free.
• Wabash Soccer: The Varsity vs. Ohio Wesleyan University at Mud Hollow Field at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is free.
• The football game: The Little Giants, coached by Chris Creighton, will clash with the nationally ranked Wittenberg Tigers. The game will begin at 2 p.m. in the Byron P. Hollett Little Giant Stadium and features not only a good contest between the two schools, but also the fraternity pledge class cheer contest at halftime. Game tickets are $5 adults, $3 students, kids under 6 free. Available at the gates.
For further information about the weekend, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at 765-361-6396 or the Office of Alumni Affairs at 765-361-6369.