{"id":1388,"date":"2026-01-01T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/?page_id=1388"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:52:15","slug":"alumni-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/alumni-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni-2017-18"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Phil 305 ‘Contemporary Philosophy.’ (Left to right<\/em>): Jon\/Jack Pace, Shelby Hanna, Connor ‘I don’t need sleep’ Eads, Alex ‘Gary’ Smith, Sam ‘The Sloth’ Melson, Jacob Clayton, and Nick Alphonso. The students are searching for the hole in Sam’s head; we did a new unit on the ontology of holes and absences.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phil 201 ‘Formal Logic.’ (Left to right<\/em>):\u00a0Khalil Johnson, Colin Myers, Alex ‘Spider\u00a0Monkey – I thought he was Gary’ Smith, Liesl, Joseph ‘Tate’ Socha,\u00a0Jack-Jon Pace, Brian Tarnai, Devin Daughterty, Shelby ‘I just want to\u00a0win the homework point total competition’ Hanna, Connor ‘Sunflower’\u00a0Eads, Robert Morris III, and Houston McDowell.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phil 210 ‘Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.’ (Left to right<\/em>):\u00a0Daniel Krohn, Dalton Hall, Thomas ‘The\u00a0Calvinist’ Rolf, Austin Obenshain, David McElrath, Kiefer Pfister,\u00a0Auberon ‘Green Bay won’t lose a game all ye… oops’ Crocker (seated), Thomas\u00a0Stauffer, Nick Alphonso, Connor ‘Waterboy’ Eads (in back with hat), Marcus Ayoub, and Neal Reynolds.<\/p>

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World in Flames participants Alex Abbott and Auberon Crocker taking a selfie while talking strategy and looking to make a deal in the game. WiF was competitive!\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phil 412\/413 Capstone: Contemporary Marxism and Socialism. (Left to Right<\/em>):\u00a0Alex ‘Gary’ Smith, Jacob ‘Never Angry’ Clayton, Kiefer\u00a0Pfister, Shelby Hanna, Sam Melson, Prof. Hight, Jon-Jack Pace, and\u00a0Austin Obenshain. Here we stand outside of Prof. Carilli’s Austrian Economics classroom where the students gave presentations to the economics students. Profs. Scheickart and Hudis were the capstone guest scholars.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Philosophy senior dinner 2018. (Left to right around the table<\/em>): Paula O’Buckley, Jon Pace, Prof. Wilson, Prof. Janowski, Kyle Gilbert, Sharon Koehler, Hight, and Sam Melson.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The first team to beat the ‘Escape Hampden-Sydney’ experience in the basement of Bortz Library. (Left to right<\/em>): Bjore Samard, Connor Evans, Shelby Hanna, and Connor Eads.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phil 302 ‘The Rationalists.’ (Left to right<\/em>):\u00a0Auberon ‘Greenbay will win next<\/em> year…’ Crocker, Nicholas Alphonso, Austin Obenshain, Sam Melson, Alex Smith, and Jon Pace. The first year of the ‘Packers will the Superbowl’ bet between Auberon and Hight… with a pan of brownies on the line. They were delicious.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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WCul102 ‘Western Culture II (1500-present).’ (Left to right<\/em>):\u00a0Jack Kimberly, Joel Williams, Nathaniel ‘spring allergies’\u00a0Lloyd (seated), Tyler LeFevre, Garrett ‘It’s ok to have a dad’ Ramsey,\u00a0David Waugh, Spencer Parrish, Jake Blankinship, Marcellus Wiggins, Jonas\u00a0Wood, and Riggs Jordan.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The theatre department sponsored a short film competition in the spring of 2018 and we decided to enter! The entire cast and crew was much larger–here are some who attended the awards night gala. For our short ‘Sidekicks’ we won best movie trailer (for student-faculty submissions)! (Left to right<\/em>): Maryska Connolly-Brown, Kevin ‘the Whiz’ Dunn, Geoff ‘thumbs up’ Lea, David McElrath, Paula O’Buckley, and Hight.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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