Depauw News

July 8, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - Richard Peck, the 1956 graduate of DePauw University who has been called "America's best living author for young adults," will serve on the faculty for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators 38th Annual Summer Conference.

July 6, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - "When he attended DePauw University in Indiana, he became the first anchor at the new media center," notes an Atlanta Journal-Constitution profile of Bret Baier, the anchor of FOX News Channel 's Special Report with Bret Baier .

Brothers Jerry and Ben Casabella stock shelves at Casabella's Fireworks store in Corydon in preparation for the Fourth of July.

At the 2008 Putnam County Community Foundation annual meeting held at the DePauw University Student Union Building on June 24, members of the foundation elected three new directors for the organization.

Five years ago today I posted my first entry to this space. About a half-hour later I posted a second time .

June 25, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - "Jeff McCall, an author and professor of mass communication at DePauw University in Indiana, tells Newsmax that Olbermann may have strayed too far from how Sanford's admitted infidelity affected his official responsibilities as governor of South Carolina," notes a story tonight.

June 18, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - In writing a column on media coverage of Sammy Sosa's alleged use of a performance enhancing-drug, the Atlantic 's James Warren "felt that there was only one move to make: call the world capital of journalistic ethics, namely Greencastle, Indiana.

The public is invited to join Historic Landmarks' Western Regional Office in Greencastle on July 10 for a moveable feast and annual meeting, offering tempting cuisine in historic sites.

The FYCDP is looking for help for help from the community to keep its programs available to the people of Putnam County.

June 16, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - DePauw University and the University of Notre Dame are cited as "Indiana schools in the top 10 among similar institutions" in a sidebar to an Indianapolis Star article this morning.

June 14, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - "She's a superior young educator," Barb Underwood, superintendent of Indiana's Carmel Clay Schools, says of Megan Klinginsmith, a 1999 DePauw University graduate who has been appointed principal of Carmel Elementary School.

June 12, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - "Television has tried to redefine" the traditional standards of what constitutes news in recent years, and that troubles Jeff McCall, professor of communication at DePauw University.

June 8, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - Shelby L. Evans, who would have been a DePauw University junior in the fall, passed away yesterday at her family's Carmel, Indiana home.

June 7, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - DePauw University has one of the highest graduation rates among America's institutions of higher education, according to a new, national report.

June 6, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - "At DePauw University in Greencastle, 70 graduating seniors applied to Teach For America," notes a story in this week's Indianapolis Business Journal .

This program has to meet the same criteria as the school lunch nutrition program has to meet but will offer more cold items due to the transportation of the food to the sites but occasionally will have pizza, hot dogs and hamburgers.

The DePauw Woodwind Quintet, from left, Anne B. Reynolds, Leonid Sirotkin, Robert Danforth, Kara M. Stolle and Randy Salman, performs tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Gobin United Methodist Church.

June 2, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - Two DePauw University School of Music professors -- Orcenith Smith, tuba and orchestra director, and Eric Edberg, cello -- will work with young string musicians in a special camp in Indianapolis.

A Louisville man was arrested Thursday for neglect of a dependent in a case that involved the death of his 17-month-old son.

DePauw students come from around the globe, but for nine months of the year, Greencastle is their home.