Freshmen Service and Downtown Welcome
Freshmen Clayton Randolph and Quentin Watson help spread fresh gravel on the Sugar Creek Trail west of Crawfordsville.
Ian Sunde and Adam Alexander assist the Crawfordsville Parks and Recreation Department.
Sam Mattingly sweeps extra gravel off to the side of the trail.
Fabian House unloads gravel from the truck.
Michael Watson shovels gravel off the truck.
Men from the Class of 2016 helped put new plywood walls up on the Vanity Theater stage
Professor Mike Abbott's tutorial students moved set pieces through narrow hallways in anticipation of the Vanity Theater's production of NOISES OFF.
More set pieces for NOISES OFF.
Vanity Theater Board Member Matt Mayberry drives in screws while the Class of 2016 does the heavy lifting.
It took a half-dozen people to put up 12-foot walls.
Only Wabash men could have hauled a hulking file cabinet up the narrow steps and hallways of the Vanity Theater.
Students at the Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church did yard work, among other things.
Main Street President John Dantzig welcomes the Class of 2016 downtown.
John Dantzig and Main Street, thanks to First Lady Chris White, rolled out the red carpet for the freshmen.
Wabash President Pat White also welcomed the students downtown and encouraged them to embrace their new hometown.
Students at downtown's Marie Canine Plaza
President White
President White
Crawfordsville Mayor (and Wabash alumnus) Todd Barton took part in Wednesday's downtown welcome.
Mayor Barton was surrounded by 260 members of the Class of 2016.
Keaton Becher is co-chairman of the orientation leaders
Chris White chats with John Dantzig at the Main Street reception downtown.
After community service and the welcome, students fanned out to dine at local restaurants.