David Jackson:  

mmitment to liberal arts makes Wabash College truly unique. Much of what I experienced at Wabash occurred through my involvement with the TKE House fraternity. Serving as president for three semesters was a challenging and exciting time for me. I also had the chance to travel while at Wabash and studied one semester overseas in Wales, UK. During that semester I had the opportunity to travel around Europe and even spent a week in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1986 with other American students who also were in Wales. It happened to be the same week as the Chernobyl nuclear accident which made the week more memorable than ever. We were never in any danger being some 500 miles from Chernobyl but we knew little about it during that entire week until the very end of our stay. Our families were worried about us and had no way to contact us or even know if we were safe. They knew more and got news 4 days earlier than we did. This trip to the Soviet Union and the entire semester abroad was undoubtedly the highlight of my college career. Workplace I have been with Alcoa CSI ever since graduating from Wabash. I was originally hired as a Production Supervisor trainee but after just two weeks switched to Information Technology (MIS at the time) and basically turned a hobby of computers into a career. I have been doing various things in IT for the past 15+ years and have loved most every bit of it. My expertise has been in programming, systems analysis, business analysis, data warehouse development and project management. I am currently involved with a global software implementation project that is just getting started.