Explore how shared curiosity leads to direction in the summer 2025 Wooster magazine
A tradition beginning in 1988, the I.S. Monday Parade at The College of Wooster celebrates the shared elation that comes after the completion of Independent Study, a work of scholarship that empowers students to ask questions in their field and become leaders of character and influence. The summer 2025 issue of Wooster magazine demonstrates the transition from students united in the pursuit of knowledge to leaders awakened by understanding and prepared to act.
I.S. projects featured include the story behind the birth of a 1970s music genre, a look at the connection between surgery recovery times and gender inequality, a tag-and-release study of black squirrels on campus, and a statistical analysis breaking down the ripple effects of wildfires on communities. Additionally, four archaeology seniors found I.S. topics connected to their shared research journey in Guatemala.
Empowered by their Wooster experience to explore new ideas, ask questions with an open mind, and launch innovative solutions, graduates become leaders and decision-makers in their careers. Alumni Sarah Wilds ’97, CEO of augmentative and alternative device company PRC-Saltillo; Donald Dennis ’86, executive vice president and community development director at Huntington National Bank in Columbus; and Don Allman ’74, a top executive in the outdoor advertising industry; share what leadership means to them and how Wooster helped prepare them to be leaders in their fields.
Oak Grove includes “Mentoring Matchup” with Paul Edmiston, Theron L. Peterson and Dorothy R. Peterson Professor of Chemistry, and Bruna Jatoba ’27, chemistry major. Head Softball Coach Victoria Rumph takes readers inside her field office. In “Fulfilling Promises,” see how the Fern Valley Field Station, given by Betty Crooks Wilkin ’64 and David Wilkin, emeritus professor of French, has supported creative and unique research opportunities for students from a variety of majors. In addition to class notes, Tartan Ties features an author profile with an English graduate and realist fiction writer, and “Scot Volunteer” with Alumni Board President Angie Triplett ’06.
The summer 2025 issue of Wooster magazine is available online here, and past issues of the magazine are available in the Open Works repository.
Posted in Homepage Featured, News on June 18, 2025.
