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"Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate." Dante Alighieri
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
We are the Residence Scholars of Indiana University, who
attended IU between 1961 and 1974.
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AHAYWEH Brick at Nick's |
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AHAYWEH History
"AHAYWEH" is a name originated by Tom Cone (IU, 1959) as a nickname for the male Residence Scholars. It comes from the initials of the words on the gates of hell in Dante's Inferno.
(The origin of the logo is uncertain.) The Residence Scholarship program was created in 1951 to assist financially needy Indiana students (males and eventually females) of high academic standing. The program was housed in Trees
Center until 1965, males in Linden Hall and females in Pine, and later in Briscoe before being moved to its current location in 1968. (Official Description
of the Residence Scholar Program about 1960)
Trees Center was composed of surplus army barracks purchased by IU for $1 from the government.
The wooden buildings were IU's low rent district. (One story about them was that if the sprinkler system (for dousing fires) failed, they would burn down in 4 minutes. If the sprinklers worked, they would burn in 7 minutes.)
The site of Trees Center is now occupied by the School of Education.
Trees Center was a place most people lived because they couldn't afford better, and there was little reason for pretentiousness. Likewise, Residence Scholars
recognized this about themselves. They were needy guys who got good grades. Most were from working class backgrounds and were the first in their families to go to college. The group was usually among the academic leaders on campus,
but the atmosphere in the dorm was emphatically not "all work and no play". Boreasses (an old IU term for either 'philosophical' discussions or playing dirty tricks on your friends) were common. The "poor boys' fraternity"
and "a like-minded bunch of misfits" were some ways we described our group. AHAYWEH came to summarize these traits and the group spirit that went with them. This spirit continued even after leaving Upper Linden because financial need
was at that time still a requirement for admission to the program. The name AHAYWEH seems to have died out around 1970. Many of us still come to reunions and stay in contact to maintain and celebrate our bond.
--Larry Clunie
Our Reunions
Since 1987, our group has met in Bloomington, Indiana in June or
July, at Nick's English Hut on Kirkwood Avenue. The AHAYWEH reunions were the brainchild of Larry Clunie (class of '68). We are very grateful for Larry's dedicated
work to keep these events going.
Initially, the reunions were at five-year intervals, but we gradually moved to annual meetings. The early reunions through 2004 were documented by Rich Jarrell, who created a web page that contains much interesting material
about the AHAYWEHs. Rich passed away unexpectedly on December 28, 2013, and in tribute to him, the web page that originally was found on his York University faculty web page was moved to:
https://hoosierpewter.com/ahayweh/ahayweh.htm.
Testimonial to Rich Jarrell by Larry Clunie
Marti Jarrell's Foreword to Rich's book Educating the Neglected
Majority
There is also an AHAYWEH Facebook group page that we invite you to visit.
Ahayweh Webmaster: Gary Wiggins.
Updated 2/13/2021
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