Features
A House Reborn
With the new House of Black Culture scheduled to welcome its first residents in spring semester, we look back at the origins of the Butler A. Jones house and the sanctuary it provided then and now.
1968 vs. 2018
For his 50th reunion in May, novelist and columnist Richard North Patterson ’68 presented an examination of some of the common themes of division and discord spanning the decades.
Going Global
A photo essay by Mark Schmitter ’12 of a few of the travel-learning experiences had by OWU students this summer, with visits to Northern Ireland, Paris, England, and Italy.
The Medals in the Attic
After spending decades in a Delaware home’s crawl space, World War I pins and rank bars belonging to an OWU family were returned thanks to a curious alumnus.
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Departments
Leader’s Letter
Looking Back in Gratitude on a Decade at OWU
Letters
From the JAYwalk
Stefanie Niles, Ed.D., Named Vice President for Enrollment and Communications
Summer Bridge Program Helps New Students with Transition to College Life and Learning
First-Year Students to Be Introduced to ‘Strengths’
Boren Awards Support Study in Croatia and Tanzania
Alumni Network Encourages Bishop Connection
Motivational Speaker Lisa Luckett to Deliver WOW Keynote
New Provider Expands Campus Dining Options
Gifts and Gratitude
SLU: Sloan Family Creates Permanent Home at OWU
Promise Scholarship: Investing in an Individual Student’s Future
Bishop Battles
Ohio Wesleyan Student Scores with Utah Jazz Gaming Team
Monnett Club
Columbus Monnett Club Celebrates 100 Years
Comfort Zones
Taimur Iftikhar ’20 – Day on the JAY
OWU Timescapes
Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign
Faculty Notes
OWU Legacies
Alumni Happenings
Alumni Awards
2018 Award Winners: Outstanding Alumni Honored
Class Notes
Tribute: Richard D. Gordin ’52
Alumni Profiles
Treni ’12 Drops Second Album, ‘Alphabet City’
The Final Word
The Only Way to Be a Great Dancer – by Paul Schimmel ’62, Ph.D.
The Class of 2018 got creative with their mortar boards at OWU’s Commencement this year.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Guillo Gutierrez ’18 takes a turn down the Clifton rock slide near an observatory in Bristol, England. As described by The Guardian “this natural slide is nothing more than a sloping band of rock polished to shiny slipperiness by decades of dedicated bottoms.” Guillo is cheered on by classmates in the travel-learning course “Space Exploration: Past, Present and Future,” taught by professor of physics and astronomy Robert Harmon, (from left): Zoey Rosenthal ’18, Julia Anne Caple ’20, Haley Talbot-Wendlandt ’18, Dexter Allen ’21, Alec Martin ’19, Gracie Clevenger ’21, Emily Ehrhart ’20, and Sami Bates ’20. The group visited England and Germany in May and toured European Space Agency facilities and other European observatories. (Photo by Reilly Wright ’20)