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Wabash Valley College currently fields five varsity athletics squads, one of which, the men's basketball team, won a NJCAA national championship in 2001 and featured two future NBA players. Fifty years ago, however, the school's athletics programs were more humble. In the 1963 edition of The Oubache, Wabash Valley College yearbook, the men's basketball team is followed a page later by what appears to be the only other organized athletic endeavor at the school, bowling. Pictures of bowlers appear repeatedly in the yearbook, and it seems to have been a popular activity at the school.

Recently, my 10 year old nephew showed me his book report in the form of a board game, which made me think about how dry adult education tends to feel in comparison to some of the fun ways children learn. However, recent research indicates that creative play encourages learning, even for adults. We tend to view children as not-quite-formed adults who need coddling. Flipping this belief, Kets de Vries (2012) argues that “better and more respective teaching would follow if … [instructors] thought of adults as atrophied children” (p. 18).

In this special guest feature, a voice from the past muses on time, beauty, and Fight Club in the context of Bentley’s snowflake photography.

 

 

 

 

 

In a time when the United States Postal Service has publicly discussed cutting hours and stopping Saturday mail in order to curb spending and make up budget deficiencies, when postal mail is considered "snail mail" and a last resort in communication, it is refreshing to read these letters between an affianced couple in the late 1800s.