Alumni & Parent Relations

Dustin Stohler ‘00 recently joined the Indianapolis law firm Keown and Kratz as a Litigation and Employment Attorney.

Dustin earned his JD from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 2003.

John Livengood ’69 received the Will Koch Award on May 8, recognizing his 24 years of service to Indiana’s travel, tourism and hospitality industries.   The Koch Award is the highest tourism honor bestowed by the lieutenant governor and the Indiana Office of Tourism Development (IOTD).

John is president of the Indiana Restaurant and Lodging Association, the Indiana Association of Beverage Retailers and the Indiana Hospitality and Tourism Foundation, and owns LMV Consulting.

Congratulations, John!

Jim Cooper ’81 is a partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP law in Houston.  Jim was honored by the Houston Bar Association with the prestigious President’s Award during the HBA’s Annual Dinner Meeting on May 16, based on his outstanding contribution to the local bar while serving as chair of the HBA Historical Committee.  This is the second time Jim has earned the President’s Award, having garnered the same honor in 2010 based on his service as co-chair of the HBA’s Professionalism Committee.

Jim earned his J.D. at Tulane University Law School in 1984.  Congratulations, Jim!

Josh Miracle ’11 has taught Social Studies at Westfield High School since graduating from Wabash in 2011.  Click here to see a short Q&A from the WHS web site.

Here is one:
Q.  What’s something your students might not know about you?
A.  I played football for Westfield High School’s current head coach, Jake Gilbert, while he was coaching at Wabash College!

Josh took advantage of  Wabash’s 9^th semester option, completing his semester of student teaching after graduating in May 2011.  Josh was a recipient of the “Outstanding Future Educator Award,” presented at the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education annual dinner.

Josh majored in History, but temporarily taught Economics and Computer Applications for his first assignment.   He commented on his Wabash preparation for teaching:  “Although I was never trained in business or entrepreneurship, thanks to Wabash, I was more than adequately prepared. My liberal arts education certainly allowed me to think on my feet, continue to learn, and tie my own content knowledge to lessons in both business and entrepreneurship.”

Photo courtesy of
Westfield High School

Dr. Ed Fox ’79  has been appointed to the Advisory Board of Directors for the Southern Illinois Bancorp, Inc., financial holding company for First Bank.

Ed is an Oncologist/Hematologist and Founder of Oncology Hematology Associates in Evansville, Ind. He earned his A.B. from Wabash College and M.D. from Case Western Reserve University.

Congratulations, Ed!

Hans Heintzelman ’94, a woodworker who restores old buildings in Muncie, IN, is featured in a documentary film about preservation of Muncie’s Old West End.  The film was produced by an immersive learning class from Ball State University.  It is one of two documentaries which will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17 at Muncie Civic Theatre.

Click here  to read more about the films and how to purchase tickets for the film showings.

From the online StarPress.com article:

“Heintzelman made news last year — when he won the Althea Stoeckel Historic Preservation Award for his restoration of a row of downtown commercial buildings — and again this year — when he was awarded a $44,218 downtown facade restoration grant.

“He and King are both college-educated, younger men who convey the message that the downtown and its adjacent residential neighborhoods, including Old West End, depend on each other for success.

“An art and religion graduate of Wabash College, Heintzelman works downtown in a group of High Street buildings he is restoring. He earns screen time in the documentary because he has done a lot of work restoring housing in the Old West End.”

Dr. John Walker ’91 is a Crawfordsville dentist.  He is also a baseball fan and pitched for Wabash baseball.  He is also a traveler.  In April he combined his love of baseball with a trip to Cuba through the Cuban Sports Ministry.

They played games with Cuban all-star teams in villages and in Havana.  They shared their equipment with the opposing teams, and gave away baseballs, bats, and gloves.  They also gave away soap and toothpaste, which is a limited luxury for the citizens of Cuba.  Click here to read the complete story in the Journal Review.

Next stop for Dr. Walker and his team: a doubleheader at San Quentin Prison in California – another story we’d like to hear about!